Post by Briney on Oct 18th, 2005 at 3:19am
After looking up some abandoned places on the net, and myself wanting to quench my spelunking thirst, the courageous roomates of Beaubien street decided to visit the old Red Run storm drains. We didnt know exactly where the entrance was, but google earth solved that in a jiffy.
We left the house at midnight and drove over to the location. We parked a block away and then jumped the fence and went in.
Here is the place in the daytime: (credit to www.forgottenmichigan.com)
But we went in in the darkness, armed with 2 flashlights. Hopefully there was no police or squatters inside. This is Shawn and myself in the main room, which was filled with dozens of pillars---Moria style.
There were several tunnels that branched off out of this room, so we chose one and went down it. The water was only a couple inches deep and not flowing too fast so it was all good.
After a few turns we came across a long tunnel that we couldnt see an ending for. It was pretty freaky. In here our voices seemed to be silenced by the thickness in the air. We could hear some slight reverberation, which only added to the spookiness.
No ending in site. We decided to go back to the main room cause we did get a late start. Upon a further look around we could see that the end of the room was nothing but tunnels, one of which was sealed off by a huge metal door. This thing was about 12 feet tall and insanely thick. Nazi symbols and others covered it and it was an imposing site. Sadly there was no pics of it.
Here is one shot of one of the endless tunnels:
Then it was just getting plain spooky and our flashlights were going dim. Time to head home.
We will be returning with better gear, flashlights and glowsticks. And Im going to bring my camera this time, and try some time exposure to get some good lighting.
Good times...
~BRiney
We left the house at midnight and drove over to the location. We parked a block away and then jumped the fence and went in.
Here is the place in the daytime: (credit to www.forgottenmichigan.com)
But we went in in the darkness, armed with 2 flashlights. Hopefully there was no police or squatters inside. This is Shawn and myself in the main room, which was filled with dozens of pillars---Moria style.
There were several tunnels that branched off out of this room, so we chose one and went down it. The water was only a couple inches deep and not flowing too fast so it was all good.
After a few turns we came across a long tunnel that we couldnt see an ending for. It was pretty freaky. In here our voices seemed to be silenced by the thickness in the air. We could hear some slight reverberation, which only added to the spookiness.
No ending in site. We decided to go back to the main room cause we did get a late start. Upon a further look around we could see that the end of the room was nothing but tunnels, one of which was sealed off by a huge metal door. This thing was about 12 feet tall and insanely thick. Nazi symbols and others covered it and it was an imposing site. Sadly there was no pics of it.
Here is one shot of one of the endless tunnels:
Then it was just getting plain spooky and our flashlights were going dim. Time to head home.
We will be returning with better gear, flashlights and glowsticks. And Im going to bring my camera this time, and try some time exposure to get some good lighting.
Good times...
~BRiney
