“Suddenly I realize, there’s someone there.
Right in front of me.
Inches from my face.”
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Updated 1 year ago,January 16, 2024
Think twice before exploring an underground tunnel.
Suddenly I realize, theres someone there.
Right in front of me.
Inches from my face.
The atmosphere is set.
The moment you enter it, its like diving into water.
The tunnel is just high enough to work up a decent gait while hunched over.
They also seem to take one more step than you do when you stop.
The light quietly bobs closer when I realize there arent any footsteps accompanying it.
I poke my head around the corner just in time to see it disappear.
I hear no footsteps still.
I settle back and wait some more, when I realize I do hear some scuffling.
Breathing noises, but still very faint.
Suddenly I realize, theres someone there.
Right in front of me.
Inches from my face.
The breathing stops suddenly, whatever it is, is aware of me as well.
Whatever or whoever it is, were both holding our breath, both acutely aware of each other.
Im sitting there, unable to move, speak or breathe properly.
Sometime later still, I hear the familiar stomping of combat boots coming down the hallway from my left.
Out of curiosity, I ask who went in first.
No one, he went in first…
it was explained much later.
the first guy got lost down a dead-end side passage and the second girl passed him by.
She got nervous from the footsteps and removed her shoes.
She saw me poke my head from around the corner and dropped the match.
She passed me very slowly.
One of the later checkpoints said she was crying her eyes out.
SoreWristed
2.
I turn around to see Im standing under the docks by the Four Seasons and the Marriott Hotel.
I call my boss and tell him I got lost in the tunnels and need to get picked up.
300SuperMexicans
3.
A music box was playing in an underground tunnel.
Went exploring with a bunch of friends at the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.
While this is not underground in its entirety, portions of it are.
The buildings were left with hospital equipment, beds, books, patient files… literally everything.
Its eerie as if a zombie apocalypse occurred and everyone left.
It operated from 1864 to 1994.
The facility was self-sustaining, (i.e.
the patients farmed the land, and had all resources on campus.
Theres an underground web link, that was heavily blocked off with chains.
However, the main buildings were easily accessible.
But, the access ways to the underground were blocked off inside as well.
We were all promptly arrested before attempting to go into the tunnels.
Theres a lot of speculation about the tunnels still to this day.
The new owner said he was afraid of asbestos, and was fearing for our safety.
He was very grim, he agreed to drop charges if we never went back.
jake502120
4.
We stayed quiet and started hearing the laughter getting louder and more intense.
We panicked and lifted a manhole right above that opened up to a busy road street.
we never went back down again.
we were there for like half an hour.
we couldnt tell if it was coming from the entrance or from the deeper part of the tunnel.
we stayed quiet and started hearing the laughter getting louder and more intense.
One of my friends quickly went to the nearest manhole cover and started pushing up.
Buzzkill1591
5.
Was playing in the woods and tripped over something solid.
Found it was a cement circle, and realized it was an underground door.
Pull it up, and its a cold war era personal bomb shelter…that failed?
There was a giant crack in the roof, the floor was covered in slime.
But what was worse is the walls are covered in writings.
Thats it, fuck this.
I sprint up the door, and close it.
I dont want to know what the hell that was.
But I come back the next day… its burned out.
I didnt set a fire intentionally, and I didnt smell smoke leaving.
Secretly_psycho
6.
I walked into a fully naked man bathing under a leaking hot water pipe.
I work for the MTA in NYC.
The underground train system is the perfect place for homeless people to escape the elements.
I walked into a fully naked man bathing under a leaking hot water pipe.
That was pretty terrifying.
TSCHWEITZ
7.
Many years ago, I worked as a technical assistant at a coal mining company.
often thisd be a little away from other workers.
Probably just weird acoustics but fuck I hated those days.
renegade_donut
8.
He says with his headlamp theres something big up ahead.
Looks like an honest-to-God body.
My buddy and me spent many years crawling through sewer pipes.
One day we were out in the woods.
Me him and another friend.
We were deep in the woods.
We found some pipe sticking out of a hillside and agreed to explore it.
Well we crawl down this thing a good 600 feet or so, on our hands and knees.
At times it gets smaller and we are on our stomachs.
Anyways the room has 3 other super small pipes heading off into different directions.
Like slither on your stomach size.
We choose one and make our friend Z go first.
We go down about 300 feet and he shouts back that theres something in the way.
He thinks its a dead animal.
But since we are using weak headlamps he cant tell.
We coerce him to climb over it.
Hes freaking out saying shit is all over his clothes and he didnt know what it was.
I climb over this dark lump of refuse.
Feels like a body but not human.
I slide over this nasty shit almost puking.
My buddy behind me comes next.
Asking ourselves why we even do this shit in the first place.
We crawl another few hundred feet.
Z starts complaining about a horrible godawful stench ahead.
We cant for the life of him get him to continue.
He ends up throwing up.
We start throwing the idea around of gas of some sort.
He says with his headlamp theres something big up ahead.
Looks like an honest-to-God body.
We slide backwards quickly until we get to the manhole room.
We crawl out quickly.
We get into the daylight and investigate the shit stuck to our clothes from the thing we slid over.
We agree that it was probably a trapped animal.
Never go back ever again.
Name Withheld
9.
You inch along in complete darkness without being able to see your hand in front of your face.
My grandpa got lost in Mammoth Cave after he got back from WWII.
While my Grandpa was serving in the Pacific Theater the cave became a National Park.
Unfortunately, they went deeper and spent 17 hours in there before getting out.
But he said one of his friends kept saying we didnt survive that shit to die in here.
beechknoll
10.
The creepy old TV deep in the quarry.
Me and a few friends explored this abandoned quarry once.
It was definitely unsettling.
The whole quarry had a creepy vibe to it but the T.V.
was just really out of place.
I guess some of the miners had it running off a generator or something back in the day.
Hereis a pic for anyone interested.
It was pretty far in.
The main tunnel was almost a straight line.
We eventually lost sight of the exit when the main tunnel dipped down slightly.
wasnt all that far from where the entrance went out of sight.
A little past the T.V.
We figured that was our stopping point since the risk of rocks falling from the ceiling was pretty high.
We were literally in the heart of a mountain so I highly doubt T.V.
service would have reached it.
Youd think they would have left something behind since the T.V.
was abandoned but that area was empty from what we could tell.
That mine was just a strange place.
HaxtonSale
11.
The void beneath the cemetery.
I found a gigantic cement vault under the Arlington NationalCemetery.
It was super spooky and not on any map.
I crawled several storm drain pipes in Arlington National Cemetery for my job.
I cannot disclose what pipe at what manhole so I will be vague.
I was lowered 25 feet deep and crawled 40 feet upstream until I found the vertical connection.
It was massive considering the native earth around it.
It was a big room of nothing underneath the resting places of many people.
So far as I know the pipe was lined and completed.
Strange it will be.
Sealed for the future.
The void beneath the dead with no purpose.
Pipewrecker
12.
Eventually we got spit out into a bayou from a tunnel we had never even explored.
Houstonis crisscrossed with bayous because it a swamp that needs to be drained a lot.
There are these gigantic tunnels that lead to the bayous and collect water from the storm drains.
When we were kids, these were great to explore.
Wed make maps about how to get from one area to another using these tunnels.
Our hand drawn map was about halfway done.
This happened before but we were usually close to an exit.
The water got high enough that the current knocked us over.
Eventually we got spit out into a bayou from a tunnel we had never even explored.
voice_of_craisin
13.
I was in this sewer and there was a massive gust of wind.
One story that springs to mind was being in a storm drain inLondon.
I was in this sewer and there was a massive gust of wind.
We stomped up the tunnel and made our way out into a dry night.
winch25
14.
After a few seconds, a wake in the water was heading toward me.
The street-level floor was actually labeled as the fourth floor.
The floors below that had light from interior courtyards.
One day, we slipped through the window into the basement.
As were looking around, we find a stairway down.
We dont want to damage anything, but were intensely curious.
At this point, were 5 stories underground, and by design, nobody else knows that were here.
So, we carry on.
Im in the back, but my friend in the lead immediately and calmly says, Back up.
I wanted to take a look, so I went down the stairs.
After a few seconds, a wake in the water was heading toward me.
At that point, it was Up!
We decided that the tunnel would remain unexplored.
brokengoose
15.
I had this horrible vibe about being where I was.
This sketchy ass tunnelI found when I was working for a fire inspection company the past few summers.
We inspect all the schools in our district.
Never to return again.
mygeorgiscurious
16.
When I was 11 I moved from a small town (app.
15K) to a largish city (metro area 3+ million).
We didnt, but eventually he found his way out and I got in some trouble over that.
We thought it was hilarious when we could hear the big kids screaming and cursing.
(On a side note films such as The Matrix Reloaded and Mission Impossible had parts filmed here).
Anyway, this place was absolutely huge!
This is hard to explain but I will try my best.
Imagine having 2 thin metal catwalks on either side of huge metallic voids.
