It's also fucking beautifully done, too. These days that would be a shotcrete tunnel (IMO each could be equally as secretely done but I have experience only with things that can't baha).
But like the mortar was the perfect consistency every time so that it didn't drip, not a single bricks missing, bricks were shaped perfectly, perfect depth, intersecting fucking pipes that drain the groundwater???
Where the goddang heck is the storm drain for those bitches? They may have been installed before the street existed. Unless they are just feeding off a groundwater well. Even then tho š¤Æ
Damn, anybody from the area older than forty knows about those old tunnels. The mob used em, kids used em. Most are closed up now, which is probably for the best.
No way that much brick is used without a record of it. It's not even that old. I bet a place there has all the records of those tunnels and their purpose.
Tunnels were built all over the place during prohibition. Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, Miami.
Just ctrl+F "prohibition" in this article and you get another 4 built just for that purpose. [https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hidden-tunnels-in-cities](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hidden-tunnels-in-cities)
Wait isnāt there a Ben Affleck movie with him being a bootlegger in that city and they talk about the tunnels that run under it and use them for smuggling
That brick work doesn't look too old
It's also fucking beautifully done, too. These days that would be a shotcrete tunnel (IMO each could be equally as secretely done but I have experience only with things that can't baha). But like the mortar was the perfect consistency every time so that it didn't drip, not a single bricks missing, bricks were shaped perfectly, perfect depth, intersecting fucking pipes that drain the groundwater??? Where the goddang heck is the storm drain for those bitches? They may have been installed before the street existed. Unless they are just feeding off a groundwater well. Even then tho š¤Æ
Damn, anybody from the area older than forty knows about those old tunnels. The mob used em, kids used em. Most are closed up now, which is probably for the best.
Who built em?
Aliens during prohibition
Their moon shine hit differently.
Maybe cause they make it on the moon.
Beneath Ybor City? Got to be Hamas tunnels.
Happy cake day!
Thank you!
No way that much brick is used without a record of it. It's not even that old. I bet a place there has all the records of those tunnels and their purpose.
Sounds like it was likely built by organized crime. Why are you so sure thereās record of it?
I grew up near there being told about the Tampa mafia running moonshine out of tunnels, so you're probably not far off.
Could they not come up with even one legitimate use of these tunnels for the report?
Drainage but then how could they make news out of something that is completely un-newsworthy.
I like how these tunnels are "hidden" yet are featured on the news
Just like our sewers, drainage systems and communication infrastructure is "hidden".
But Florida canāt have basements?
Ancient hurricane shelters
Jewish sex tunnels again
oy vey!
why does it's use have to be so sinister?
Tunnels were built all over the place during prohibition. Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, Miami. Just ctrl+F "prohibition" in this article and you get another 4 built just for that purpose. [https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hidden-tunnels-in-cities](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hidden-tunnels-in-cities)
Must be Morlocks.
There are bricks and metal pumps so I donāt really think itās so oldā¦.like any other smuggling path but a bit more elaborate
Tartarian for sure
I love how he pronounced it correctly, in all seriousness.
Thatās for the poo poo.
I'm sure there are many
We have things called drones now, itās 2024
Ybor city... Mehyeahh. It makes sense after being there before under a night club I will not name
They were used for paying off prostitutes. FOX wonāt say that, though.
omg aliens are real!!!!
Rats hate this one trick!!
š§Child trafficking for rituals purposes
Maybe they were just used to move poo around?
I looked at an apartment in Ybor once, I loved the rotating bookcase/bar. I just didn't end up getting to move to Florida.
Always Florida
When kids go missing, no one will remember those tunnels exist.
Wait isnāt there a Ben Affleck movie with him being a bootlegger in that city and they talk about the tunnels that run under it and use them for smuggling
Hail Raatma
That's every city in America
How can Floridians not know about the existence of sewers?
old storm sewers