1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:19,120 Hey everyone, today we're going to continue with our Tartaria Explained series and in 2 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:24,120 this episode, we're going to talk about subterranean networks and underground cities that have 3 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:28,820 been removed from our history and suppressed through propaganda stories meant to hide this 4 00:00:28,820 --> 00:00:35,460 ancient civilization. One very famous example is the concept of underground railroads involving 5 00:00:35,460 --> 00:00:41,260 the slaves in America. The story has been used to hide the history of America and many of the 6 00:00:41,260 --> 00:00:46,140 cultures that actually inhabited these lands. They have suppressed the greatness of many of 7 00:00:46,140 --> 00:00:51,020 the aborigines of the lands and don't seem to want us to know that there were in fact many cultures 8 00:00:51,020 --> 00:00:56,440 and peoples in America far before Columbus. I want to give a shout out to Dane Calloway. 9 00:00:56,440 --> 00:01:01,940 He has some great work on this and even presents a case for Harriet Tubman not being a real person 10 00:01:01,940 --> 00:01:08,120 or but a fabrication by our new governments creating this false history. I just wanted 11 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:12,800 to give my perception on this and also add some more details from our research that can help 12 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:17,640 understand what's actually going on here. Now when it comes to underground tunnels in America, 13 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:24,540 I mean where do we start? There's so much to cover for just one video. There's also some suspicion 14 00:01:24,540 --> 00:01:29,960 about the above ground railroads as well as to whether or not these were truly created by the 15 00:01:29,960 --> 00:01:36,460 Chinese as the story goes. Many of these stories just seem to be a cover-up for these were already 16 00:01:36,460 --> 00:01:43,160 here when these new migrants came here. They most likely had to dig them up or fix them to get the 17 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:49,960 systems working again. But the story goes that these Chinese migrants had to build over 2,000 miles of 18 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:55,480 this Transcontinental Railroad through rugged terrain including mountains of solid granite. 19 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:00,360 I'm not sure if you've seen some of these mountains that they had to blow through but it does make 20 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:05,960 you wonder if they truly just did it with dynamite or was this part of some early civilization that 21 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:10,840 actually had the technology to cut through these mountains. The Transcontinental Railroad was built 22 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:17,320 in six years almost entirely by hand. Workers drove spikes into mountains, filled the holes with black powder, 23 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:23,320 and blasted through the rock inch by inch. Hand carts moved the drifts from cuts to fills. Bridges 24 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:28,920 including the 700 feet long and 120 feet in the air had to be constructed to forge streams. 25 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:35,800 Thousands of workers including Irish and German immigrants, former Union and Confederate soldiers, 26 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:40,680 freed slaves, and especially Chinese immigrants played a part in the construction as the mainstream 27 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:47,320 story goes. This whole project started after the fake civil war and we have a video on that if you 28 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:52,040 haven't seen it just yet but they want you to believe that they built this railroad by hand with 29 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:58,120 migrants in just six years. Many of the railroad builders viewed the Plains Indians as obstacles to 30 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:03,960 be removed. General William Tecumseh Sherman wrote in 1867, quote, 31 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:09,560 The more we can kill this year, the less we'll have to be killed the next year. For the more I see of 32 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:14,920 these Indians the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species 33 00:03:14,920 --> 00:03:21,240 of paupers. This to me seems like another cover-up as they wanted to destroy the remaining natives who 34 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:26,360 were most likely related to these ancient builders and they posed a threat to their new narrative, 35 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:33,000 so they had to be removed. Now supposedly these natives were in the Great Plains or what it was called in 36 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:39,960 its time, the Great American Desert. Major Stephen H. Long considered the area almost wholly unfit for 37 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:45,320 cultivation and of course uninhabitable by a people depending upon agriculture for their subsidence. 38 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:53,480 It was flat, treeless, and arid. Half a century later, the Great American Desert received a new name, 39 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:59,400 the Great Plains. This region consists of the area east of the Rockies and just west of the 100th 40 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:08,120 Meridian. The Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, a significant part of Texas and New Mexico, Colorado, 41 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:14,600 Wyoming, and Montana. Instead of being viewed as an obstacle to America's westward expansion, 42 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:19,320 the Plains were quickly transformed into America's bread basket and the site of many of the country's 43 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:26,040 richest mines. Yet, if it was unfit by civilization, then why did they need to kill the Indians who lived 44 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:31,640 there? Wouldn't they just die out? And also notice that this was the site for some of the most richest 45 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:37,400 mines in America. Maybe these were in fact ancient mines and they needed to destroy the natives who 46 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:43,400 were protecting them. If you haven't seen Tartaria Explained Part 3, make sure you check it out as it 47 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:48,200 explains how these ancient civilizations went through some great cataclysm and had to result to being 48 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:53,640 barbaric and savages, most likely because they had to retreat into the underground through many of these 49 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:59,720 mines and underground passages to survive. Perhaps the sun went missing for a couple years as mentioned 50 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:05,640 in many native legends. There's this idea of mud floods, that there were many high mountains that 51 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:12,200 were destroyed that had great lakes, and also that the land became like quicksand after earthquakes, 52 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:16,920 resulting in liquefaction, sinking many of these ancient buildings into the ground 53 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:22,680 and completely burying others. There were also many events perhaps plasmic in nature that caused 54 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:28,360 buildings to melt and petrify leaving no remains but many of the rock formations that we now know 55 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:35,160 of in the great midwest. These star forts from around the United States are not from the Civil War 56 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:40,520 but from an older time and many of them are actually buried into the ground. They could have been used 57 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:44,840 as a means of water irrigation and preventing cities from flooding during these times. 58 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:50,200 Now is there any evidence for these ancient tunnel systems? 59 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:56,040 Well, you have to keep in mind that this information has systematically been removed from our history 60 00:05:56,040 --> 00:06:01,320 because what would an ancient tunnel system imply? They don't want you to know that in almost every 61 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:05,640 major city there's an underground component to the city that has completely been built over. 62 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:11,720 These tunnel systems are all over the US and many of these have been taken by military in order to 63 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:17,240 create underground communication systems. Many say that these are actually what are responsible for the 64 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:22,920 the loud booms heard in many different locations. But what about ancient tunnels? Could the ancients 65 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:29,800 truly create subterranean networks? Many of us have heard of the slave underground railroads which, 66 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:34,360 supposedly from mainstream historians, had nothing to do with underground railroads. 67 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:40,680 The underground railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States 68 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:47,800 during the early to mid 19th century and used by enslaved African Americans to primarily escape into the free states 69 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:54,680 and Canada according to the mainstream narrative. Now, it's my understanding that this is just a propaganda 70 00:06:54,680 --> 00:07:00,520 event for two purposes. To continue the narrative that blacks were slaves in America and never were 71 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:07,000 nothing more. And this idea that the underground railroad is just a bunch of safe houses, nothing to do with 72 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:13,160 ancient railroad systems. Is it maybe because they don't want people to know about the ancient tunnel 73 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:18,840 system within the United States that served as a foundation for many cities, so they just treat 74 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:25,080 this like an old legend as if it was just a myth or metaphorical. They say that the underground railroads 75 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:29,800 had nothing to do with being underground and or with railroads, however, just like with many other 76 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:36,440 legends, the first settlers were well aware of these ancient tunnels. This is where the legends come from. 77 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:42,120 Yes, there were safe houses and certain routes set up, but there were also these underground passages 78 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:48,680 and railroads that these slaves took in order to leave their jobs. We have to understand that our 79 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:54,280 modern perception of the word slave has become distorted and that most of these individuals were 80 00:07:54,280 --> 00:08:00,280 actually a part of a work contract that they no longer wish to be a part of. So, they would try to 81 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:06,120 escape along these ancient underground tunnel passage systems that, at the time, were being used as a 82 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:12,760 railroad transportation system for goods. It also doesn't have to do with just black peoples. In a moment, 83 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:18,760 we will cover all the different civilizations that were in America during these times, but all races 84 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:27,240 here had these slave contracts, which were not slaves, but work contracts. They weren't slave owners, 85 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:33,640 but employers, regardless of their skin color. You see, the jobs that we have now in the modern day 86 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:40,760 are called at-will employment. Meaning, at any time we can just quit and say, you know, I'm not really feeling this 87 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:47,080 anymore and I'm just going to move on with my life. But back then, it wasn't really like that. These 88 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:52,920 contracts were much more binding and for longer periods of time. Once your contract expires, you would 89 00:08:52,920 --> 00:09:00,040 be freed or released from your contract and duties. Many neighborhoods today are in fact old world 90 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:06,280 neighborhoods from another age and are older than they really tell us. Including these so-called plantation 91 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:11,880 mansions that were known for housing slaves, were not only owned by many black natives of the land, 92 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:17,640 but had nothing to do with our modern conception of slavery. So the new world historians, what they 93 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:23,400 did was rewrite this as slavery, and conveniently made it so all the employers were of one race, 94 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:30,920 white, and all the employees were black, and they called them slaves. Now, this type of information 95 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:36,040 may be shocking for many of those who choose to hold on to their victimhood, but this is the only 96 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:40,440 way to be freed from the constrictions that have been laid upon us by the new government that wish 97 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:47,000 to keep us enslaved through identity crisis. Another good point for this is, where are the slave ships? 98 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:53,720 They literally only have one slave ship called the Clotilda found in Alabama and even that's up for 99 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:59,240 debate. They purposely try to set up these situations so that when they find these artifacts, 100 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:04,920 they tell the story that they want you to believe. Now, it's important to mention that since the 101 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:10,520 Tartaria phenomena has come out, and along with many of our other secret black history videos and 102 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:16,440 other channels promoting similar content, black supremacists have taken this concept to claim that 103 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:21,160 blacks were the only ones in America and that they were responsible for all the architecture around 104 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:27,400 the world and that whites are but a parasite or mutation who came out and caused genocide and 105 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:33,240 stole their culture and advancements in technology and spirituality. It's not only them, I mean, this 106 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:38,840 phenomena is happening with the white supremacists as well and the neo-nazis. The black supremacists 107 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:45,400 are just as bad as the white supremacists, and to be honest, we want no part of that. This video was 108 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:49,480 actually going to be part of this secret black history, but I think that we don't really want to 109 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:54,280 contribute to that anymore as we've seen several black supremacists on the channel comment some very 110 00:10:54,280 --> 00:11:01,960 harmful and dividing rhetoric that is just simply not true. Our intention was never to pander to any race, 111 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:06,600 if you go back and watch them, it was just to stop the current divide that we have now in the modern 112 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:12,120 day, to show that blacks have a connection with Ireland which most African Americans have no 113 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:16,760 knowledge of. The goal was always to unite and stop all the hate towards different races. 114 00:11:17,560 --> 00:11:24,280 Sure, I agree that blacks are aborigines to the Americas and the leftover continent of Mu, or as we know, 115 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:31,560 the island of California, but they were not, I repeat, were not the only ones in America at this time. 116 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:37,080 And it's the contribution of multiple races that is in fact responsible for the creation of what we 117 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:44,520 now know as Tartaria. Again, we don't want any part in the supremacy stuff of any race, so it's just 118 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:50,200 about time that people stop taking this information to suit their own bias and pushing their own racist 119 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:56,040 narratives to continue the divide that was originally created by the new elite, otherwise known as the 120 00:11:56,040 --> 00:12:01,880 Phoenician Venetians. Now from our research, there were three main civilizations in America that 121 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:09,480 contributed to the Tartarian outposts that were here in ancient times. One, the Moors or the remnants of 122 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:17,400 Mu, who came from California and the lands of the Pacific and those on the east coast of America that sailed in 123 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:23,240 with the inhabitants from Ireland, otherwise known as the Fomorians and the mixed-race Druids. 124 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:30,200 Two, the Irish or ancient Scythians who were white but also mixed as well, similar to the Moors who 125 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:35,800 came from Europe. These are told as the legends of the Vikings who first visited before Columbus. 126 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:41,320 This is also related to the stories of the Jews or the ancient Hebrews as recounted by the Mormons, 127 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:43,640 they just came from different areas from around the world. 128 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:51,320 Three, Far Easterners who came from Egypt, the Ottoman Empire, China, Japan, and other Pacific 129 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:57,400 Ring Islands. Many of these races were mixed as well, so it's hard to truly classify this based on 130 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:04,520 just race, as Tartaria was a global empire. What we call Native Americans today are just a 131 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:09,720 percentage of the natives that were already in America. They have been called Tartarians in some 132 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:15,320 text and that these races were created after some great cataclysm. We also have to understand how 133 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:20,840 Atlantis plays into this as well, because it is said that America was a part of this ancient Atlantis 134 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:26,680 and it has changed significantly over the ages. Aborigine is kind of not the right word to use 135 00:13:26,680 --> 00:13:32,520 for any of these types of people because these land masses change after every age, and after Atlantis 136 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:38,920 had flooded, other land masses rose, and so the people had flood all over. At first, there was nowhere to 137 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:44,920 inhabit in the west, so many of the inhabitants of Atlantis ventured out to the east. The Fomorians 138 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:50,120 had already done this before Atlantis flooded and were there when many of the Atlanteans began to 139 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:56,760 migrate into the lands of ancient Ibernia or Ireland and Spain. This is when the Tartaria Age began, 140 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:02,600 and they colonized all of the east continents, and the Druids, or those from ancient Ibernia, 141 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:07,320 who were a mixed culture, began spreading the ancient knowledge of Atlantis around the entire 142 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:13,400 world. They made their way back to the west in America, or ancient Atlantis, and began creating 143 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:18,680 early civilizations there composed of many different races, far before Columbus or the Spanish had ever 144 00:14:18,680 --> 00:14:24,280 came. In fact, these are actually told in the legends of the Spanish as we've gone over in Tartaria 145 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:31,080 Part 3. They're called the Legends or the Adventures of Esplandion, which talked about these times when the 146 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:39,080 Moors, the ancient Iberians or Irish, Spanish, and Ottoman empires were all in America or Terra Firma, 147 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:44,920 which were the remaining lands of Atlantis. Many of the buildings of Atlantis actually survived the flood 148 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:51,080 as well and were still intact in these lands of Terra Firma. As we have mentioned that at some point 149 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:57,800 there were cataclysms which caused mass death and or many to retreat into underground. But many of these 150 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:03,720 cities that we know today, like New York, San Francisco, Chicago, were all created by this 151 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:09,960 Tartarian civilization. And they're still being used to this day because we could not repeat the work 152 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:16,280 that they did so it was hijacked and that includes the railroads, old world architecture, and underground 153 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:22,600 tunnels. Many cities in fact have underground cities and tunnels as if they were built on even older 154 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:28,600 foundations. What's been hidden from the human race is that 200 to 300 years ago there was a 155 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:33,400 catastrophic event that left many of the buildings around the world buried up to 20 feet beneath the 156 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:38,600 ground. First let's begin with some of the most famous examples of these ancient cities and tunnels. 157 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:45,160 Under St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Necropolis at depths varying between 5 to 12 meters below 158 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:52,040 surface level, supposedly it is a pagan Christian burial ground with several medium-sized stone mausolea 159 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:58,120 and some other ruins which include a fractured piece of a large triumphal arch. We have all heard 160 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:04,520 about Derinkuyu in Turkey which is said to be almost 5,000 years old which is an 18-story underground 161 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:10,760 system. They're still not sure who built it and why but interestingly there are other melted stone 162 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:16,600 structures in the area so maybe they were avoiding some type of catastrophe and were forced to create a 163 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:25,320 society underground. In 1992, in the Chinese village of Longyu, a uniquely curious local named Wu Anai 164 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:30,440 pulled his money with his neighbors to buy a water pump and began siphoning out the pond in his village. 165 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:37,240 He discovered the first in a series of massive hand-carved caves, the origin of which is almost a 166 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:43,080 complete mystery. The Russian Kremlin, the largest surviving fortress in Europe, 167 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:49,320 it is associated with a number of secrets including underground tunnels, seems to be buried into the 168 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:56,120 ground quite a bit, secret chambers for hiding treasure, and supposedly, Ivan the Terrible's 169 00:16:56,120 --> 00:17:03,240 library that contains several ancient texts from the old world. The Paris Catacombs are another famous 170 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:08,360 example of underground cities and some have proposed that the bones are actually being used as a battery to 171 00:17:08,360 --> 00:17:13,720 generate power. Hidden beneath the streets and bridges of Edinburgh are several underground 172 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:19,320 closes and chambers. Closed off to the public for hundreds of years, these places remain frozen in 173 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:26,280 time, just waiting to be rediscovered. Today, some of them have been excavated and reopened. There are still 174 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:30,920 many parts that have not been opened to the public and it is commonly known that Edinburgh was built on an 175 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:38,520 ancient city. There are also underground tunnels all over Egypt, beneath the Sphinx, many lost tombs, 176 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:43,880 but most famously, the Labyrinths under Hawara, which is an ancient legendary temple 177 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:51,560 seem to contain 3,000 rooms full of hieroglyphs and paintings. Mount Tsurugi in Japan is steeped in mystery. 178 00:17:52,120 --> 00:17:58,040 According to one local legend, the mountain is actually a giant man-made pyramid and another legend 179 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:04,280 says that a hoard of King Solomon's secret treasure lies buried within. A giant snake believed to be 180 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:11,000 guarding the treasure has been sighted on many occasions. The caves of Hercules in Toledo, Spain 181 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:15,960 are surrounded by mysteries and legends. They summarize in a certain way that the underground 182 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:22,680 tradition of Toledo says that the place was carved by Tubau or Hercules the Egyptian and would be the 183 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:29,880 secret chair from which Hercules himself taught the occult sciences. Now, that's just the surface 184 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:35,880 level. I mean, you can find countless stories like this globally, but there are more that are not that 185 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:42,200 well known, especially in the United States today. It's a glimpse into a hidden world below downtown 186 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:47,080 Chattanooga. Good evening. I'm Natalie Jenoreski. And I'm Latricia Thomas. Stairways leading nowhere, 187 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:54,200 arched doorways that were once street level are some clues to downtown life before 1880. Stories and rumors 188 00:18:54,200 --> 00:19:00,040 still fly about underground Chattanooga. News Channel 9's Beth Newhoff gives us a rare look of what's really there. 189 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:08,600 Walk the streets of downtown Chattanooga today, and amid the shops and the restaurants, you'll see 190 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:15,720 evidence of the Chattanooga long forgotten. Mystery surrounds a Chattanooga that existed in the 1800s. 191 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:22,280 Torrential rains caused flooding, devastating downtown on a regular basis. The solution? Quietly 192 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:27,320 raised the town, leaving tales still told of the city that lies beneath. This would have been heading 193 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:32,840 down towards street level. Local history buffs Maury Nicely and Matt Magali take me underground to see 194 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:36,760 evidence of the original Chattanooga the public doesn't see. I think a lot of people think, okay, 195 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:40,440 what they did is they just bricked in all these things and threw a bunch of dirt in. This is what's 196 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:45,080 the most interesting part. I mean, look at the stonework. But official records of the plant are mostly 197 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:51,560 silent, according to Nicely. Decorative columns, beadboard ceilings, and arched doorways hinting at the past. 198 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:57,080 We heard about an amazing underground discovery in Leavenworth. We had to send a reporter to get some video. 199 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:02,360 KCTV 5's Saray Chin is live now with what she found underground. Saray? 200 00:20:02,360 --> 00:20:08,280 Well, Carolyn, you know, this is downtown Leavenworth, but below my feet, there's an 201 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:14,920 underneath underground mystery down here that not a lot of people know about or can tell us why it was created. 202 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:23,160 We take our descent to the incredible mysteries below. 203 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:26,600 It definitely does look, I mean, this is obviously a door. 204 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:33,240 It is dark and musty. We're going, going to go up here and you're going to be in another storefront. 205 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:40,120 It is a city perhaps long ago used for commerce. Windows, doors, and narrow paths lead you to the 206 00:20:40,120 --> 00:20:44,920 storefronts. They were stores of some type. We just don't know what they were selling, who was running them. 207 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:51,160 Jennifer Lemon serves as our tour guide. She works for a title company upstairs and gave us access to the underground. 208 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:55,720 We know that it was pretty secretive whatever it was that was down here because not too many 209 00:20:55,720 --> 00:21:01,640 people know anything about it. Above is downtown Leavenworth at 4th and Delaware. The underground 210 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:07,080 world stretches several city blocks and possibly beyond. Some speculate this was created in the 211 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:13,160 1800s. It could have been used during slavery or for fugitives. And then there are the myths and tall tales. 212 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:20,280 Good Monday afternoon. We're getting all ready for Halloween as we open the door on the haunted 213 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:26,680 Shanghai tunnel tour you can take in the Old Town part of Portland. Extremely popular this time of year. 214 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:31,880 We'll let you know, well, you see there, who you might and what you might see during a visit to the tunnels. 215 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:38,920 Burke Lee, in his book Death Valley Men Chapter, Old Gold, describes a conversation which he had 216 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:44,760 several years ago with a small group of Death Valley residents. The conversation had eventually 217 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:51,000 turned to the subject of Pai Hoot Indian legends. At one point two of the men, Jack and Bill, 218 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:56,360 describe their experience with an underground city which they claim to have discovered after one of 219 00:21:56,360 --> 00:22:02,360 them had fallen through the bottom of an old mine shaft near Wingate Pass. They found themselves in 220 00:22:02,360 --> 00:22:07,960 a natural underground cavern which they claim to have followed about twenty miles north into the heart 221 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:15,240 of the Panamint Mountains. To their amazement, they allegedly found themselves in an huge, ancient, 222 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:21,240 underground cavern city. They claimed that they discovered within the city several perfectly preserved 223 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:29,000 mummies, which wore thick arm bands, wielded gold spears, etc. The city had apparently been abandoned for ages, 224 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:35,400 except for the mummies, and the entire underground system looked very ancient. It was formerly lit, 225 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:41,240 they found out by accident, by an ingenious system of lights fed by subterranean gases. 226 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:47,560 They claimed to have seen a large, polished round table which looked as if it may have been part of 227 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:54,680 an ancient council chamber, giant statues of solid gold, stone vaults and drawers full of gold bars 228 00:22:54,680 --> 00:23:01,000 and gemstones of all kinds. In 1885 coal miners in a small city of Missouri were mining a shaft deep 229 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:06,760 within the earth, when all of a sudden they broke into a huge underground cavern. And the very shocked 230 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:12,120 and curious miners decided to go take a look, even though that they knew that it could be very dangerous. 231 00:23:12,120 --> 00:23:17,400 And what they found inside should have changed our history forever. That is of course if the reports 232 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:23,480 are true, and there are multiple sources. Now what they found inside was basically a huge, 233 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:29,560 wonderful, buried city. It was said to have incredible masonry, tons of artifacts, stone benches 234 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:35,560 all over the place, metal statues, a stone fountain that flowed with pure clean water that even had a 235 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:41,320 hint of lime in it. And lying beside this marvelous fountain were portions of a giant human skeleton 236 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:45,400 that was three times the size of a regular human. Recent years local leaders have made it a top 237 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:49,960 priority to keep our young professionals here. That's led to creation of more education and job 238 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:54,840 opportunities, as well as a revamped social scene. Tonight in a special report on Louisville's new 239 00:23:54,840 --> 00:24:00,120 nightlife, we also take an exclusive look back at its beginning in a time of gangsters, outlaws and a 240 00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:07,640 secret underground. Here's WLKY's Eric King. Now, you got to be careful going down these steps are 241 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:16,040 pretty steep, so just hold on. I would almost stake my life that Al Capone was here at least once or 242 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:23,320 twice. There was two doors. One of the doors led down and out to the street, and the other door led down 243 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:29,000 to the Raskeller, where he could run through the Raskeller and into the basement kitchen. He could 244 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:34,360 have taken the two series of tunnels and got away from the police. Many consider this the birthplace 245 00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:39,800 of nightlife for Louisville's elite. During the 1920s prohibition era, when alcohol and gambling were 246 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:55,720 illegal, this was the place to do it without getting caught. 247 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:09,660 They are under every house, run along every block, and 248 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,320 and cover a city of nearly a million people. 249 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:24,680 They're a world of hidden tunnels that few get to see right beneath your feet. 250 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,680 And we get to take you down there. 251 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:43,400 Our guide is someone who knows every inch of this labyrinth. 252 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:52,200 My name is Megan Abadie. I'm an assistant engineer for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission 253 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:57,080 Wastewater Enterprise. I'm part of the division of Wastewater Enterprise, which is called the 254 00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:02,520 Collection System Division. It's basically a euphemism for sewers. I crawl through a lot of sewer pipes. 255 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:05,240 That's basically my job. 256 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:10,360 This week in our Hidden Places series, we go to Indianapolis and with Halloween. On a lot of 257 00:26:10,360 --> 00:26:16,360 people's minds, the exploration of this hidden place certainly seems fitting. Catacombs are large 258 00:26:16,360 --> 00:26:21,640 underground systems traditionally used to bury the dead. They're most commonly found in Paris or Rome, 259 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:27,240 where millions of people are buried. But these elaborate underground systems can be found around 260 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:33,480 the world. My colleague Sarah Wittmeyer joins us now for the latest in our Hidden Places series. Sarah, 261 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:37,720 catacombs here in Indiana? Hard to believe, right, Joe? But yes, 262 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:45,000 thousands of people visit Indianapolis' city market each day. But I wonder how many know exactly what is 263 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:54,680 below their feet. Monday through Friday, around noon especially, the city market is a popular gathering 264 00:26:54,680 --> 00:27:00,520 place. People take their lunch breaks and walk here for a slice of pizza or a sandwich. Some sit 265 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:05,240 outside if it's nice and eat at one of the tables. Hundreds of thousands of people have sat on this 266 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:10,360 plaza, listened to live music, maybe enjoyed some lunch and some great conversation and have never 267 00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:16,920 known what's sitting below them. The entrance to the catacombs is hidden from public view and there's no 268 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:23,400 outside entrance. You go in through these doors and eventually a set of stairs leads down to the 269 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:32,040 basement. Quickly, the concrete floors are replaced by dirt. More than 140 columns create an underground 270 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:39,400 maze. This is unbelievable. It just keeps going. This space is actually the basement of Tomlinson Hall, 271 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:46,920 a four-story multi-use building constructed in the 1880s. For sporting events, it was like kind of having 272 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:54,040 your convention center with Lucas Oil, with the Field House, with the Circle Center Theater. Everything 273 00:27:54,040 --> 00:28:01,160 went on. It was a heavy building constructed out of brick and Indiana limestone. And this is the reason 274 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:06,440 why there's so many columns. What that does is it brings all the weight down from the building and 275 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:13,080 it distributes it throughout all these columns. The curved ceilings are called barrel vault ceilings and they 276 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:18,520 help distribute the building's weight to the columns. As you walk further into the tangle 277 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:25,320 of columns, you can't help but think about Indiana Jones. The catacombs he explored were beneath the 278 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:32,440 streets in Venice. Welcome back. It's part of Utah history that lives mostly through rumors. Yeah, 279 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:38,440 the existence of a seedy underground world buried beneath the streets of Ogden's historic district. Mike? 280 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:43,480 Yeah, Dave and Dini, the KSL investigators had to dig pretty deep for this story searching for proof 281 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:51,960 of secret tunnels. Welcome to O-Town, a city fast becoming known for high adventure and a vibrant 282 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:59,320 nightlife. But take it back about a hundred years or so. There was some open dens. And you'll find that 283 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:05,080 Ogden. All kinds of nefarious things that have gone on here in the last hundred years. Has quite a dark history. 284 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:13,160 From prostitution and prohibition. Welcome to the brothel. To drug smugglers and Al Capone. The rumor 285 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:19,080 is that Al Capone came into Ogden on the train, walked up 25th Street, said this is too rough of a 286 00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:25,320 town for me and turned around and went back on the train. One thing is certain, this is a town you did 287 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:31,400 not mess with. And if you believe the lore, what was happening above ground is only half the story. People 288 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:35,160 would come in and go out through the tunnels. 24th to 26th. The whole length of 25th Street. 289 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:39,000 Whether they were gambling guns or opium deaths. The opium. The alcohol. Sort of private things 290 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,520 went on here. And poisoned them, strangled them, killed them, and then they piled their bodies out 291 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:48,280 through the tunnels. The infamous tunnels of 25th Street. Now some say they went from Union Station 292 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:54,040 all the way to Ben Lohman Hotel, while others say they branched out all across the city, eventually 293 00:29:54,040 --> 00:30:01,960 leading to Ogden High. Below the sewers and subways of Chicago are over 60 miles of forgotten 19th and 294 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:08,840 20th century train tunnels. This mysterious labyrinth, once connecting the majority of the city's most 295 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:14,520 prominent buildings, has set in abandonment and disarray for the better part of a century. 296 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:23,160 One of the greatest BS stories of tunnels is the Washington DC underground tunnels. The story goes, 297 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:30,600 Harrison G. Dyer, a Smithsonian entomologist, bug collector, who supposedly, just for fun, 298 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:35,560 constructed a network of tunnels under his home in the prestigious DuPont Circle neighborhood. 299 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:42,040 When found in the 1920s, they were lined with high-end bricks on which were pasted old German 300 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:49,240 newspapers. This started a lot of rumors until Dyer fessed up to his hobby. Some of these tunnels have 301 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:54,920 been implicated in the Pizzagate controversy because the Elephantis family owns many of the properties 302 00:30:54,920 --> 00:31:02,520 directly above them. In Texas, while developing a $58 million Buffalo Bayou Park project in 2011, 303 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:08,920 the BBP discovered this important part of Houston history and transformed what once was a former 304 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:15,080 underground drinking water reservoir into a public space known as the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern. 305 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:19,880 They have kind of turned this into some type of projection art show which is kind of pretty cool, 306 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:25,640 but interestingly, they say that they rediscovered it and it also has a striking similarity to the 307 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:32,440 ancient Roman cisterns under Istanbul. I mean, this is the story for every city. I can't even fit 308 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:37,720 the amount of underground cities in the United States into one video. Many have been covered up, 309 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:43,160 or only a few remains are left like old train stations and tunnels that were supposedly just forgotten 310 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:49,320 about. Turns out that many of the underground tunnels were repurposed for troop quarters or 311 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:55,480 military training grounds. They're still making more tunnels to this day called DUMs or Deep 312 00:31:55,480 --> 00:32:01,400 Underground Military Bases. There are also many more legends as we have mentioned a couple, but 313 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:07,240 one that I find very interesting that we've brought up before is the Legend of the Ant Peoples from the Hopis. 314 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:13,480 This barren but beautiful landscape was the place where Hopi gods directed them to build a number 315 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:20,280 villages made up of pueblos what we today would call stone apartment complexes. Here the Hopi managed 316 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:26,680 to flourish by simply growing corn, beans, and squash with very little rainfall and almost no irrigation. 317 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:33,240 One of the most intriguing Hopi legends involves the Ant people, who were crucial to the survival of the 318 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:40,360 Hopi not just once but twice. The so-called First World, or World Age, was apparently destroyed by 319 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:46,280 fire possibly some sort of volcanism, asteroid strike, or coronal mass ejection from the sun. 320 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:54,600 The Second World was destroyed by Ice Age glaciers, or a pole shift. During these two global cataclysms, 321 00:32:54,600 --> 00:33:00,040 the virtuous members of the Hopi tribe were guided by an odd-shaped cloud during the day, and a moving 322 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:05,640 star at night that led them to the sky god named Sotoknang, who finally took them to the Ant people 323 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:13,160 in Hopi, Anusinam. The Ant people then escorted the Hopi into subterranean caves where they found refuge 324 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:19,640 and sustenance. In this legend the Ant people are portrayed as generous and industrious, giving the 325 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:24,760 Hopi food when supplies ran short and teaching them the merits of food storage. 326 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:30,200 There's so much to cover when it comes to subterranean networks, but hopefully this was 327 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:34,600 a good introduction to those who may be hesitant to believe that our cities could have been built 328 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:40,360 upon existing foundations or cities, or that many buildings could have been buried deliberately 329 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:46,040 or by cataclysm. These questions truly opened the door for us to explore whether or not there was 330 00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:51,560 any type of advanced civilization that has been erased from our history, perhaps to keep us ignorant of 331 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:59,320 past cataclysms. Regardless, all we can do is stay curious and hope that our minds may be unveiled. 332 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:06,600 Let go of everything you think to be true. Relax the mind and ask the question, 333 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:18,920 Do I truly understand what this reality is?