Welcome to Paranormal Nightshift, where we dive into chilling and unexplained stories shared by fans. In this episode titled “The Tunnels,” we hear from a brave law enforcement officer working in America’s Most Haunted City, a place filled with mysterious tunnels running beneath its surface. These tunnels have a dark history, and most homeowners have locked up the doors to their basements to keep out any potential trouble lurking within.
Late one night, our protagonist receives a distress call about strange happenings in the tunnels. Despite feeling uneasy, duty calls, and the officer and their partner venture into the pitch-black labyrinth. The screams they hear send shivers down their spines, and they encounter an eerie presence that seems to be toying with them, alternating between cries for help and sinister laughter.
Frightened but resolute, they decide to retreat but find that the haunting cries are heard by everyone in the team who ventures into the tunnels afterward. Hours of searching yield no evidence, leaving them perplexed and shaken.
As the officer contemplates what to write in the report, they realize that they can’t reveal the truth about the paranormal encounter. Still, they know that the story will eventually leak out, putting the haunted city and its secret tunnels under the spotlight.
Despite the mysteries and dangers, the calls about the tunnels persist, and now, law enforcement never enters them without a group. The tunnels’ past association with the Spanish flu and government involvement in moving the departed fuels speculation, but the sinister activities remain elusive.
Join us for this spine-chilling tale and more on Paranormal Nightshift, as we explore the unexplained and supernatural. If you have your own haunting story, send it our way, and you might just receive a coveted Paranormal Nightshift sticker as a token of our appreciation. Happy listening!
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Welcome to Paranormal Night
Shift.
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Your fan story is told here.
You know, I get dozens of these
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stories every week, and some of
them you have to take with a
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grain of salt.
But the people who send me these
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stories from law enforcement,
well, they have everything to
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lose, because law enforcement is
just that.
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They’re supposed to be the
upholders of truth, a beacon of
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light in the otherwise Dark
World.
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So when they’re telling me their
paranormal story as well, we
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have to listen.
This story is entitled The
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Tunnels.
I’m a cop and I work in
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America’s most haunted city.
That’s right, tunnels.
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See, I work in America’s Most
haunted city.
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However, being law enforcement,
I can’t tell you where it is,
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but there’s tunnels that run all
throughout the city.
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In fact, most of the houses have
basements with doors that lead
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into the tunnels.
There’s one city street that has
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a citywide access tunnel.
And a couple years back, the
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city decided to lock it and make
sure nobody could go through.
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I had told for years, and
everybody has just boarded up.
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People are going to cut the lock
and go down there, and it’s
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going to be a law enforcement
nightmare.
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But I just work here, right?
Nobody listens.
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So yes, there’s lots of crime
that happens throughout the
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tunnels, and most homeowners
have made sure that all the
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doors in their basements has
been locked.
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But we get calls for it all the
time.
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It’s about 3:00 o’clock in the
morning.
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Dispatch gives us a call saying,
hey, somebody’s claiming that
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they’re hearing something in the
tunnels.
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We need somebody to go open the
lock and check it out.
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And of course, it’s my turn now.
I’ll be honest, the tunnels have
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always given me the creeps.
I don’t like going down there,
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but we pull up on site and sure
enough, it sounds like somebody
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is being murdered, screaming for
help coming from the tunnels.
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Now, when I tell you these
tunnels run through the city,
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they run through the city.
It’s like a maze that leads to
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nothingness.
Nobody knows where to go.
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There’s no map for it, and
there’s no light anymore either.
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Screams for help get louder and
louder, and I called for backup.
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But this is my job.
This is what I’m supposed to do.
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I’m going in now.
My partner, he didn’t have the
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same mentality I did, but the
screams are getting louder and
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louder and we have to go.
All I’m hearing is screams.
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It sounds like somebody, it’s
just being attacked and I have
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to help them.
I turn my flashlight on and
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we’re going in with our
flashlights on.
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We’re walking to maybe 300
yards.
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When the screaming gets louder
and louder, it’s right on top of
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it.
Whatever it is is right next to
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us, and then it stops.
No screaming at all.
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It’s gone quiet and our
flashlights are cutting out.
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My partner and I tell each other
to put our service weapons out.
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It’s too dark.
We’re not going to be able to
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see anything, and if we do, we
come across something.
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There’s a better chance that
we’ll end up hurting each other
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than we would anything else.
I pull my cell phone out now.
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I only have that with a cell
phone, flashlight light only.
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We continue to go further down
into the tunnels.
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Now we have to try to find our
way back and whatever else is
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going on.
Very familiar with the city.
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I grew up here, so ideally I
kind of know where we’re at and
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I know that we’re coming across
a five points where all the
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tunnels kind of meet in this
giant corridor.
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And the screaming starts again,
louder and louder.
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It starts again as we’re in this
wide open room with tunnels that
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just lead to the center of the
room.
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It’s loud, it’s definitely loud
and it’s right on top of us.
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Again, it sounds like somebody
is being destroyed, but then it
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gets really weird.
See, the screams turn into
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laughter.
That’s right.
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I know it’s so cliche and it
happens in every horror movie,
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but it sounds like somebody’s
laughing at us.
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It’s so dark we can’t see
anything.
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Honestly, it’s two grown men
holding hands in the middle of
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this room so that we know where
each other are.
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And then I feel something
grabbed my other hand.
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I understand that it is my job
to protect and serve, but it is
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GTFO time.
So we bolted.
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We’re just running hand in hand,
trying to get out of these
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tunnels.
We finally what feels like an
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hour of running.
I’m exhausted.
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We get back to where we came in
at.
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We got it figured out.
But now there’s so many other
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dispatchers and and cops.
Everybody’s there because they
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they hadn’t heard from us or
radio communication went out.
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As I’m standing outside, why
does a ghost trying to explain
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the situation to my patrol
Sergeant?
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We hear it again, screaming from
the tunnels, Judgment call time.
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And he says it’s time for all of
us to go in together.
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If something’s down there,
they’re all hearing it.
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We have to go in, look like
something out of a movie.
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We’re all tactical up.
We have squads walking the
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tunnels and everybody hears it.
Everybody hears it, but we’ve
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cleared the tunnels.
We’ve gone through everywhere.
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We have four teams walking these
tunnels.
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Nobody finds anything, but
everybody hears it.
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Our whole shift stayed in those
tunnels for six hours.
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That night we found nothing.
Everybody had different
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locations.
Everybody heard the same thing.
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At the end of shift, my
commanding officer was doing
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paperwork.
We there was nothing else we
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could do.
What do you write on this
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paperwork?
He said that we saw or that we
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heard a ghost.
Nobody’s going to believe us.
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Let’s just not talk about it.
While I can’t say it, it won’t
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take long for people to
understand where the most
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haunted city in America is and
where the tunnels are.
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We still hear calls all the
time.
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We get calls all the time, but
from here on out, we don’t go in
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unless there’s a group of us.
The tunnels were used during the
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Spanish flu as a way for the
government to move the departed
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around without having the public
see they’ve always been a big
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issue for crime and other
illegal activity, it’s always
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been an issue.
We know that things have
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happened down there.
We’ve reported to things
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happening down there, but it
sounds like even with the
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tunnels closed, the action
hadn’t stopped.
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Well brother, I love your story
and thank you for sharing.
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