Tunnel

I like the abestos tunnels at Danvers better, but these are pretty cool too.

This is really ~spooky~ looking. Do I detect some artwork on the walls?

This pic is soooooo cool. A+ to you, Motts!!!!

WOOOOO ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! F A B ! ! ! !

LOVE THIS SHOT!

There's a subway tunnel like this near where I work, where all the hobo's hang out. Apart from the fact it reeks of pee, it's really quite suitably spooky!

Looks a little bit too much like a catacomb... but a lovely shot in any case.

If it was cleaned up it would look like the body tunnel at Waverly Hills TB Sanitarium.

Hey, Amanda - my thoughts exactly! I've spent the morning at that website and a few others about Waverly Hills. Most interesting, huh? I lived about an hour and a half from Louisville in 1999 and 2000, and I never knew that was there or I would have visited. I was working in yet another facility in Indiana at the time that has since shut down and is now a Homeland Security training site.

[insert wry, bemused grin hereabouts]

Wowza! I just found some stories on Muscatatuck - it closed after I left, so I never saw these:

http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15817
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15942
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15837
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15832
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15845
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15818
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15886
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15861
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15929
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15943

Great shot Motts, it looks like there's a skylight near the end. Lynne, thanks for the links, very itneresting!

Lynne, that's a great set of links, and an interesting insight into the downside of de-institutionalisation. Shame it was taken over by the military... I wonder if there will be anything left for urban explorers when they've finished their exercises on the campus?

Thanks for the links.

I'm sure there will be a bunch of new stuff for those Urban Explorers like me that dig those weird "double-use" sites.

Oh, no! Don't be goin' there! They have real live terrorist training going on there and you might get shot! Honest to God! These Homeland Security people seem to be the most paranoid folks out there, so they will truly shoot you if you go there! Ix! Nix! No!

Good Gawd, I love me a tunnel.

One of the cops who cited me for trespassing and was about to tow my car said he is a long time resident of the neighborhood where Dixmont is located. He said that he knows somebody who used to work in the hospital and is very familiar with the tunnel system. He got a "tunnel tour" from this guy and said that the tunnels run all over under the entire complex. The officer also claims that the tunnels under the main building extend three stories underground and some exit down by the Ohio River. He also said that it is really dangerous to go down in those parts because if you weren't familiar with the tunnels, you would surely get lost.

I have to believe him about the tunnels going all the way down to the river banks because I know this same thing is true of the Cardello Electric site a bit farther down the river. The Cardello building is on the site of an old steel mill. The mill had a full underground conveyor system that carried raw materials into the mill. Barges on the river would dock at the mill's dock and be unloaded by cranes on the river bank and the materials were carried up by the underground conveyors into the mill buildings that are now long gone. I work for a local contractor and we did some work there about 2 years ago and I got to see some of what remains of that conveyor system.

These tunnels are crazy, when my friends and i went into them, i thought that it was gonna be a quick straight walk, next thing i know its dark, no one has a flash light, were inching forward using lighters and then finally we were lost. i dont know how many hours we were in there for...... in the beginnning there were broken records and plates glued to the wall forming some insane quotes or lyrics, i loved it. i wish i could go back

AMAZING!!!

Ohh This Reminds Me of That Low Budget Horror Film "Death Tunnel"

kinda looks like the Death Tunnel at Waverley Hills Kentucky !

sweetness

Lynne regarding your articles you posted some time ago:

"Denise Bottorff's new job in 1976 terrified her....But that new, green Dodge Aspen she longed for wasn't free" I had a green 1976 Dodge Aspen. If you want my opinion she should have picked a better motovational vehicle. I can say that it would not have inspired me to work in a mental institution.

I agree with the tunnels extending to the Ohio River. A facility of this size would have probably needed a LOT of supplies in it's early years, before it became self-sufficient, and as anyone who lives in the area would know, winter is a bad time to move anything, with the ice and snow, this combined with the location, I would say that they got a lot of supplies off the river, especially in the colder months.

First thing I theough of was U know when a person has been burned or in a bad accident and the eppidermis has been literally peeled away to reveal the your tissue that is umnprotected. That;s what I think of when I look at the celing

Motts, your pictures are so provoking emotionally. They're just gorgeous.

i love this view ;D

Perhaps this is a very ominous observation on my part but I can't help but speculate what these tunnels were used for. I have found that most of the time, tunnels such as these were used for the transport of bodies so that the other patients would not see the dead. Regardless of their use, they give off a very "dead feeling" to me. Sad.

My granparents have walked through those tunnels... They told me that they heard door's slaming and scream's... BUT there was noone there....... CREEPY

woops. There is the tunnell! Yea, That tunnel and no flashlight do not mix. We went down there and our flashlight went out. Shit. what way did we come in. We ended up comming out of a hole in the ground by the gym! creepy!

I HEARD THEY USE TOO DUMPED BODIES OUT THIS WAY

"They used two dumped bodies" or "they used to dump bodies"? Or mayhaps "they used to dump two used bodies, too"?????

great pictures

This is so scary! it would seem like a never ending tunnel! u only have one way to run.. u know??

Perhaps they were worried about the Russians and needed and escape route.....

Waverly state hospital death tunnel

Perfect place for one of those evil tunnel clowns to hide and jump out at you. Damn tunnel clowns. *cocks Glock semi-auto* Lol. Still it is a interesting picture.