Mark Zuckerberg is expanding his secret compound of Hawaii. A part of it is located on top of a burial

As a child, Julian Ako would have visited his maternal great -grandfather’s house near the Pilaa beach in Kauai, in Hawaii, where he and his family would have collected edible mushrooms that grow on the trees of Kukui and collected algae and fish from the cliff.

For about a decade, that land belonged to the Meta Ceo Mark Zuckerberg, which is building a huge complex at an estimated cost that exceeds $ 300 million. Wired can now reveal that Zuckerberg’s property is on top of a burial site: Ako’s great -grandmother and his brother have been buried on earth.

After months of discussions with a representative of Zuckerberg, Ako was able to successfully obtain access to the property and identify and record the tombs with the Department of State of land and natural resources, although it was not able to identify remains of other ancestors, who believes it could be buried on the property. In a relationship shared with Wired, the state agency also confirmed “the probability (based on oral testimony) of further burial sites”. Visits to the Tombs of the Ako family are coordinated by the team at the Zuckerberg Ranch. Ako, which is located on the burial advice of the island of Oahu, worries what could happen if further burial sites were discovered, due to the extreme secrecy that surrounds the complex.

While the NDA are not unusual for the billionaire construction projects, the scope of the Zuckerberg complex has led to dozens of local workers who are prohibited to share what they are doing and for those who are working. “If all workers have signed these non -disclosure agreements, they have essentially sworn in silence,” says Ako. “If they discover Iwi—E Bones: It will be a challenge for this to become a public knowledge, because they are jeopardizing their work. “

As a question about these burials, the representative of Zuckerberg Brandi Hoffine Barr recognized that the property had been made aware of the family burial plot in 2015, that Hoffine Barr claims to have recovered and maintained. He adds that their workers are bound by regulations that require the reporting of IWI involuntary discoveries.

In the meantime, Zuckerberg has quietly expanded his imprint on the island with a huge purchase of new land, Wired can reveal. At the beginning of this year, Zuckerberg purchased 962 acres of Prime Ranchland with an LLC with a Hawaiian sound through the street compared to the existing complex, which a person close to the estimated sale costs more than $ 65 million. This purchase, previously not reported, will increase its Kauai invitations from about 1,400 to over 2,300 acres, positioning it among the major landowners of the state.

The development inside the Ranch continues, as Zuckerberg has spent millions by adding several new strange buildings to an already enormous mixture. Not far from the fishing point of Ako, Zuckerberg has commissioned three other important buildings on land previously purchased. According to the planning documents issued to Wired with a new request for public registers, they range from 7,820 to 11,152 square feet, in particular 10 times larger than average Home in Hawaii – and two should cost $ 3.5 and $ 4 million each.

These new buildings differ from the opulent houses on the other side of the ranch, with few fun services and only a dedicated common space, a wool larger than 1,300 square feet. Two of them seem designed to host as many bedrooms and possible bathrooms and present 16 of each of each other, lined up like a motel or boarding. As always, security is narrow – with every new property with cameras, keyboard blocks and movement detection devices. Hoffine Barr has described these new buildings as short -term guests for family, friends and staff.