The upper floor of the pharmacy was a speakeasy and brothel. We depend on ad revenue to craft and curate stories about the worlds hidden wonders. I am glad I went with your family owned company, and not some corporation. Don't remember last names but there was Rose,Dave,Roger,Jan and so on. Unforseen damages have been fixed immediately. Tom Laws, Back in the 50s there was a tunnel going from a parking lot to Leonards Department Store. "Due to the limited light, little can grow in the tunnel, except at the very ends. WE FOUND 2 ACESS POINTS BUT NEITHER WENT ANY WHERE BUT DOWN THEY LOOK LIKE THEY'VE BEEN FILLED IN PARTIALLY. Fucking funny I don't remember that but was at that show in 86! When I was going to Sequoia High School, the former principal once told me about a tunnel that supposedly exists under the school. I had a couple friends that lived down at Haggerty and Plymouth. Staff Directory; Student Directory; Related Institutions. I felt they were mistreated and made fun of. When I was there in the 60s & 70s at a U.S. military base in Asmara, many locals believed that there was a tunnel from Washington DC to the base which would allow a full-scale invasion. Man, I wish I went into this thing, I'm fascinated by stuff like this! If you were good once in a while the staff would take us to the vending machines in the main lobby when it was closed so we could get honeybuns and snacks, that was a big deal. These tunnels not only connected bars, but led to the Wabasha caves that had been carved out by the Mississippi River. People also used to tell that those underground passages were shut off at a later time, because when some excavations were being done, skeletons of unborn fetuses and small children were found. After some liquid courage, the men and one woman, took turns with a sledge hammer, knocking a hole in the wall. The legendary Purple Gang of Jailhouse Rock fame would hole up in the only hotel in town, The Doherty. They installed a tunnel between the hotel and the pharmacy across the street. Tonquish then attacked Macomb with a knife, but was driven off by another white man. The bond funding will pay for the removal or relocation of the remaining 11 buildings on the 332-acre site, now called Legacy Park. Fittingly, a few days before Halloween Northville Township officials announced the 11 creepy, graffiti-covered buildings and a tunnel remaining on the former site of the state psychiatric. Upon searching the house he was renting, police discovered a key to the campus subterranean system of heating tunnels that could be accessed from many of the university buildings, leading investigators to reason this was the key to his elusive disappearing act that had frustrated the community for so long. Some are confirmed, and others are just rumors, but its fascinating to read about what might be lurking just outside our view. The rumors are that more extreme cases were kept in isolation cells down. Kathy, Livonia, Good morning Ryan, I am here in sunny Texas working on another Wind Farm. I got to know those tunnels so well I would often enter the complex with NO FLASHLIGHT or matches, by myself, and walk back to the building 102 boiler room to enter day or night. Once got chased by security (think it was L&M Security at the time) into the nurses quarters and had to go from there to the main building with just a book of matches. Hello UnknownI was discharged the year before you were there and i was 13. Rhonda G., Detroit, Working with both Ryan McGlinch and the roofing team (led by Ed) was a real pleasure. They were our own way in for years, we kept our own defective lock that you could open up with ANY key on the tunnel doors way off in the woods. 1928-1932; Press Photos 1930-1982; Historic Photos . Northville Tunnels Northville Township Michigan 1974-1998 No Trespassing? I would recommend McClinch & Sons, just cover your things. To hide their shame, the Snells sealed the tunnel that led to the school and imprisoned their deformed children within it, where they eventually died, hidden away and unloved. "That was probably in the late-'20s, early-'30s. When I was young, some friends and I had been in the mouth of this last one, but didnt progress very deep into it. Ramon Carb-Dorca, Northville tunnels. I WANT EDGEWOOD CEREAL!!!! Knowing the demons lurking in the minds of our patients, I choose not to. The buildings that are now the high school and the gym were built during the Franklin D. Roosevelt, New Deal era. Discuss the Northville Tunnels (WCCDC) here. Claire, There are two bridges to get onto the Cape, the Sagamore Bridge and the Bourne Bridge. 2023 www.detroitnews.com. I also remember a few times when something crazy would happen at NSH and we would go into lockdown mode like the show OZ..I took classes in that greenhouse and learned about plant life. Karsten Johansson, For years there were rumors about a tunnel, a railroad tunnel, a mile or so down that connected Los Alamos National Lab, where Americas first atomic bombs were built, to Sandia National Lab, some 90ish miles as the crow flies South in Albuquerque. Tunnels that went underneath the northville psychiatric hospital and connected to out buildings. I also heard there used to be a bomb shelter under the bleachers of old Oxnard High School, but that it was filled with cement later. Hello, I was wondering what ever happened to the farm house my father rented from his boss was where I spent about 1 1/2 years. I am pretty sure you know this already but youre very lucky to have guys like Scott and Steve with your company. Not so much a legend, but a running joke of the seniors at the local high school. An eye-opening journey through the history, culture, and places of the culinary world. This civilization dates back to the early 1980's and the underground civilization is known as the "Mullet Heads", This is just rumor, but it is said, that if you walk those tunnels you can hear the faint sounds of Twisted Sister. they would use drugs, nurse Tovis would be called. But people still managed to get into them to film and graffiti them. Part of the tunnel was uncovered during recent road repairs so it was definitely real. It is the foundation of one of those former comfort stations. I heard about a bomb shelter in the woods. After another 30 minutes, it soon became evident that the only logical place the pipes could run to is, Northville Regional Psychiatric Hospital (NRPH), The Detroit Preservation Movement's Gettysburg, The "Lost" Neighborhood of Detroit (Part 2), The "Lost" Neighborhood of Detroit (Part 1). I was having problems because my father was a drunk and my mother believed what the elementary school told her that I was a problem child. I hope u are all in a better place and enjoying your life. The tunnels of this section were given romantic sounding street names like Beehive Place and Bacchus Street. This section of the tunnels made the news 30 years ago when one collapsed, taking a double-decker no. Once his crimes were made known, he took his own life before he could face justice. Northville Tunnels Play all The Kitchen Building Wayne County Training School Northville Tunnels 2.9K views15 years ago Hospital Building Northville Tunnels 3K views15 years ago Central. 2023 Atlas Obscura. Kelly Wells, There are two tunnels originating under the Vance Hotel. and D.C. who had already been there before) met up with the "guys" (our guy pals they practically lived there) at 7-11, grabbed a couple of boxes of matches w/ off the counter and off we went. I am very proud of the overall appearance of my home. However, they were a wild life preserve full of deer flies and mosquitoes and poison ivy, so few with good sense choose to venture far from the sun lit hospital grounds. I couldnt believe the difference! Awesome Inc. theme. all the tunnels connected to all the buildings,this was so you never had to go outside to get a body to the morgue. We were convinced the tunnel had not been used since the 1940s and our guess was confirmed, quietly, by city officials and told to seal the entrance. and it was a long ride to go up to Haggerty Rd. We were chased by staff once and once was enough. There was LOTS of sand but we burrowed through to find about three blocks worth. Shes really interesting, and worthy of a lookup on her own. He broke his pelvis. This went on for months causing the campus and city police considerable embarrassment due to their inability to get a handle on the increasingly brazen criminal. An account of the death of Tonquish was written by Melvin D. Osband in 1886, in the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collection. . A magnificent building, it had secret rooms befitting a Masonic building. Then there was my assigned doc,doctor Utec i hope I'm spelling his name right he was amazing he put me in cottage 3 after only 3 months on the ward.I hope he's still alive but i doubt it he was a little older then in the late 70s. I grew up with edge wood and to this day it was the best of times. A Shanghai Tunnel tour is a popular tourist attraction, but historians have a technical term for this idea: bullshit. He needed help, but really at home my dad beat him everyday, my grandma called him names, so any help he got was undone when he came home. Keep your comments Urban Exploration in the Travel category. The ground floor was bricked up so we climbed to the second floor windows and went in. Someday,the only solution will be another planet;but there is no other planet(in this solar system and galaxy);to bad Venus isn't just like Earth was 10,000 years ago. Tunnels that went underneath the northville psychiatric hospital and connected to out buildings. Can somebody who has an intimate knowledge of the tunnel system email me at fieldnotestoaninquiry@gmail.com. One person was found in the dead of winter down the road in a ditch filled with water with no coat or shoes, another came and sat in our front yard and asked for a glass of water (in summer) until my mom figured out that he was another escapee. While relatively innocuous, there was a dark side to this. Once my meeting was finished, i drove past the same area, and clear as day, in the middle of a field with no train tracks sat a railroad boxcar. The darkest, creepiest stretch of downtown Northville lies in the 100-year-old river-carrying tunnel beneath Northville Downs. A planned development of the Northville Downs property includes "daylighting" the waterway and complementing it with a riverwalk. They're goodforhumansproviding peoplewith certain functions and benefits as a societybut we're finally starting to realize we have the opportunity to go back and fix some of those problems. So. Some were naturally created, some accidentally as cities like Chattanooga raised the grade of their streets to avoid flooding. Thanks for all the beer some of you lightweights left behind!!! Once they're not able to see visually, they'll stop. John. Anyone remember Paul DiAnno walking down Commack Rd looking for Kentucky Fried Chiken? A Michigan State historic marker was erected on the site where this event happened on Wayne Road, just south of Joy. Some good info! For the first time since the Roaring '20s, there is more than a ray of hope that the covered river will be rejuvenated to its former self. John Wagner, 35, an electrician from Dearborn, Mich . I just cant imagine how all these things happened! Never wanted to be mistaken for a walkaway and returned to the hospital! The Finnish capital's city-within-a-city has a church, a hockey rink, and stockpiles of life-saving supplies. Amy Wagner, There is an old Masonic Temple (currently a school for hairstylists) that the Grateful Dead once played at that has a tunnel running from the basement to an adjacent building that is now a piercing studio. We found the beginnings of an old steam tunnel. We're probably a couple years out before the actual work starts. What makes the story particularly appealing is that its reported some of them have flooded, and its possible to go kayaking under the mountains. Great stuff everyone! Kristian, When attending the University of Montevallo there were stories of tunnels underneath the campus from when it was an all girls school. some have bin caved in and big caps on top of entrance in woods. In 2007 we were asked by the Northville Township Historical Society to give a presentation of the history of the school. Over the years, a combination of public and private efforts were made to raise the grade of the downtown streets, with the end result being a weird patchwork of subterranean tunnels and basements that bear the marks of the businesses that occupied them, back when they were street-level storefronts. The rumors are that more extreme cases were kept in isolation cells down there. You can rest that as a Velux factory-direct trained installer of sun tunnels that excellence is part of everything we do. "It would be very, very difficult because of environmental regulations in place," he said. i went to edgewood las sunday in search of the tunnels. 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McGlinch & Sons is a family-owned and operated business with over 100 years of experience in exterior home improvement in southeast Michigan. 0% Financing Available. A guy claims that he wandered into a cave-like hole, and was greeted by a furry animal with glowing eyes and sharp teeth. Roofing, Gutter, Siding, Stone, Windows, Doors, Skylights in Southeast Michigan! Cottage 1 was an Auto shop. He wouldn't take it though. Virginia M., West Bloomfield, Ryan, it was a pleasure to work with you and McGlinch and Sons. I had one friend who lived over on 7 mile rd. Board Threads Posts Last Post . You can still see the original cement slabs if you know where to look. None of us had ever seen this supposed entrance in the middle of the woods, only had heard about it. There was a power source building that ran off coal. There is an urban legend that a crocodile fled from a circus and lived for many years in this tunnel. We would go up the stairways to the roof elevator room and walk across a plank that was across the top of the elevator shaft, Then we climbed a ladder to the highest roof. Though residents of Whitmore Lake were opposed to their community being the site of a delinquent boys' facility, Maxey said there are too many institutions in Northville already. It ended up in Whitmore Lake, and was later named the Maxey Training School. I can tell you stories all day about being there as i was there longer than any inmate at the time, most people were there for 60-90 days max but i was there for 365 days, i never knew why, come to find out i had "good" insurance so i was held there as long as they could for the $$. Like Atlas Obscura and get our latest and greatest stories in your Facebook feed. It really hurts me to hear about these things. I've been all over and never saw that. Both are blocked off under the hotel. Rumor also has it that there are more such tunnels in the Old Town area. All rights reserved. to get to 7 mile to her house, anyway one day she had to be home at a certain time and we didnt have enough time to get there so we decided to cut back through the block to take a shortcut. Winner will be selected at random on 04/01/2023. Our efforts to address the demonic social forces that cause mental illness have devolved into technocratic emergency city managers and prisons filled with the mentally ill who are too dangerous to allow to aimlessly wander the streets. Mental health workers, emergency managers and technocratic fixes can't heal an unjust society. We want to hear your local stories about secret underground passagesreal or rumored. Jeff L. In my hometown there used to be a bunch of myths regarding Lucy Hicks Anderson, the Madam of Oxnard. She was a transgender woman from Kentucky that used to run a catering business and a speakeasy bordello before being sent to prison for accepting army spousal benefits as a transgender woman. 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