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My neighbor's basement map was right about the tunnels, not crazy after all
So I used to think my neighbor Larry was just a paranoid guy who spent too much time on old city records, you know? He kept insisting there was a network of Prohibition era tunnels under our block in Cincinnati, not just the one under the brewery. Last week, while fixing a leaky pipe, a contractor accidentally broke through a bricked off passage about 8 feet from my foundation. It lined up exactly with Larry's hand drawn map from 3 years ago, down to the little iron grate he marked. The contractor said it was 40 feet long and definitely not on any current utility plans. Honestly, it makes me wonder how many other 'crazy' locals actually know their stuff. Has anyone else ever had a neighbor's wild theory check out like that?
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the_robert1mo ago
Hold on though, a hit on one map does not mean the whole thing is solid. Larry could have just drawn a ton of lines under every block and gotten lucky with one, that is how cold reading works. Plus "not on current utility plans" does not mean much since cities lose old records all the time, especially stuff from the 1920s. And a 40 foot passage 8 feet from your house could just be an old cistern or a forgotten sewer line from a demoed building.
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