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Springfield Tunnels
Posted by:
HollyHostile
()
Date: October 31, 2013 02:36AM
A few years ago during a conversation with an acquaintance, they said that if need be, they could disappear quickly into tunnels going under/through Springfield, and either emerge someplace else, or hide there for a time. At the time, I wrote it off as empty bragging, but when I mentioned it to a mutual friend, he confirmed that there are/were, in fact, a sizable amount of tunnels in that area that one could traverse.
I can only assume they did NOT mean sewage tunnels, as they didn't mention special footwear and don't seem like the type to get their 'kicks' poopy. They certainly could have both been pulling my leg, also.
Has anybody else gone through these tunnels or can confirm that they did, or still do exist?
I can only assume they did NOT mean sewage tunnels, as they didn't mention special footwear and don't seem like the type to get their 'kicks' poopy. They certainly could have both been pulling my leg, also.
Has anybody else gone through these tunnels or can confirm that they did, or still do exist?
Posted by:
chuckhoffmann
()
Date: October 31, 2013 03:46AM
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/14/2014 04:18PM by chuckhoffmann.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/14/2014 04:18PM by chuckhoffmann.
Re: Springfield Tunnels
Posted by:
HollyHostile
()
Date: October 31, 2013 09:39AM
Do you think it could have been the culverts? I can't say that I really know much about such things, are they long/wide enough to be what this blow-hard exaggerated so long ago? Maybe he meant this cave thing? There was certainly talk of following the tracks. <3 your sig.
Re: Springfield Tunnels
Posted by:
Ancient.Bruin
()
Date: October 31, 2013 09:54AM
chuckhoffmann Wrote:
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> HollyHostile Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > A few years ago during a conversation with an
> > acquaintance, they said that if need be, they
> > could disappear quickly into tunnels going
> > under/through Springfield, and either emerge
> > someplace else, or hide there for a time. At
> the
> > time, I wrote it off as empty bragging, but when
> I
> > mentioned it to a mutual friend, he confirmed
> that
> > there are/were, in fact, a sizable amount of
> > tunnels in that area that one could traverse.
> >
> > I can only assume they did NOT mean sewage
> > tunnels, as they didn't mention special
> footwear
> > and don't seem like the type to get their
> 'kicks'
> > poopy. They certainly could have both been
> pulling
> > my leg, also.
> >
> > Has anybody else gone through these tunnels or
> > can confirm that they did, or still do exist?
>
> It's possible he was discussing the (alleged) CIA
> bunker underneath the massive GSA warehouse on
> Loisdale Road, but more likely he was pulling your
> leg.
>
> I've lived in Springfield for 35 years and I've
> never heard of any tunnels, although there are a
> few fairly large drainage culverts, and there was
> a cave dug out across the railroad tracks over by
> the Interstate Van Lines building a few decades
> back.
I moved here in 74 and grew up in Kings Park. And I totally remember that cave by Interstate...
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> HollyHostile Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > A few years ago during a conversation with an
> > acquaintance, they said that if need be, they
> > could disappear quickly into tunnels going
> > under/through Springfield, and either emerge
> > someplace else, or hide there for a time. At
> the
> > time, I wrote it off as empty bragging, but when
> I
> > mentioned it to a mutual friend, he confirmed
> that
> > there are/were, in fact, a sizable amount of
> > tunnels in that area that one could traverse.
> >
> > I can only assume they did NOT mean sewage
> > tunnels, as they didn't mention special
> footwear
> > and don't seem like the type to get their
> 'kicks'
> > poopy. They certainly could have both been
> pulling
> > my leg, also.
> >
> > Has anybody else gone through these tunnels or
> > can confirm that they did, or still do exist?
>
> It's possible he was discussing the (alleged) CIA
> bunker underneath the massive GSA warehouse on
> Loisdale Road, but more likely he was pulling your
> leg.
>
> I've lived in Springfield for 35 years and I've
> never heard of any tunnels, although there are a
> few fairly large drainage culverts, and there was
> a cave dug out across the railroad tracks over by
> the Interstate Van Lines building a few decades
> back.
I moved here in 74 and grew up in Kings Park. And I totally remember that cave by Interstate...
Re: Springfield Tunnels
Posted by:
In 3, 2, 1...
()
Date: October 31, 2013 10:14AM
Get ready for the post about a local contractor killing illegals and hiding them in the tunnels.
Re: Springfield Tunnels
Posted by:
Mr GFR
()
Date: October 31, 2013 10:23AM
He was probably talking about the storm water drainage pipes. I do not know about Springfield for sure but there are some in Fairfax/Annandale area that an adult can almost stand up right and walk. These things are huge pipes and they go for some distance. I have been down in them once or twice. However I would not want to be in them when it was raining.
Re: Springfield Tunnels
Posted by:
Let's Play Cave Explorer
()
Date: October 31, 2013 10:25AM
chuckhoffmann Wrote:
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> I've lived in Springfield for 35 years and I've
> never heard of any tunnels, although there are a
> few fairly large drainage culverts, and there was
> a cave dug out across the railroad tracks over by
> the Interstate Van Lines building a few decades
> back.
Whoa, whoa, you mean the building by the intersection of Rolling and Burke? Tell me about it, please.
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> I've lived in Springfield for 35 years and I've
> never heard of any tunnels, although there are a
> few fairly large drainage culverts, and there was
> a cave dug out across the railroad tracks over by
> the Interstate Van Lines building a few decades
> back.
Whoa, whoa, you mean the building by the intersection of Rolling and Burke? Tell me about it, please.
Re: Springfield Tunnels
Posted by:
BB*X
()
Date: October 31, 2013 11:27AM
Been here my whole life and the only tunnels I know of are the drainage pipes in neighborhoods. For example, in Ravensworth Farms there is a huge pipe by one of the entrances to Accotink Park, we used to follow it all the time as kids and you could go from Ravenelle Ln. all the way up Quensberry and come out some place close to Ravensworth Shopping Center. Same thing over in Burke along the power lines behind Onion Patch.
Re: Springfield Tunnels
Posted by:
AND HERE IT IS.....
()
Date: October 31, 2013 12:34PM
A local contractor was using it as a dead body dumping ground after killing off day laborers. Instead of paying them, he would murder them at the end of the job and dump the bodies there.
Re: Springfield Tunnels
Posted by:
HollyHostile
()
Date: October 31, 2013 01:28PM
I found just the briefest mention of that in this thread, but no more. When did that happen?
http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/209032/page-2.html
http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/209032/page-2.html
Re: Springfield Tunnels
Posted by:
can you still get in there?
()
Date: October 31, 2013 04:10PM
If somebody dumped bodies there, it's probably got some bars on it now.
Posted by:
chuckhoffmann
()
Date: October 31, 2013 04:57PM
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/14/2014 04:20PM by chuckhoffmann.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/14/2014 04:20PM by chuckhoffmann.
Re: Springfield Tunnels
Posted by:
4mHmd
()
Date: October 31, 2013 06:45PM
When we were kids in the 60s in this general end of Fairfax County, there were drainage tunnels you could travel in. You could ride a bike through some of them. But they had rats and other icky things. Big rats.
Re: Springfield Tunnels
Posted by:
Mikeymike
()
Date: October 31, 2013 11:06PM
chuckhoffmann Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> HollyHostile Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > A few years ago during a conversation with an
> > acquaintance, they said that if need be, they
> > could disappear quickly into tunnels going
> > under/through Springfield, and either emerge
> > someplace else, or hide there for a time. At
> the
> > time, I wrote it off as empty bragging, but when
> I
> > mentioned it to a mutual friend, he confirmed
> that
> > there are/were, in fact, a sizable amount of
> > tunnels in that area that one could traverse.
> >
> > I can only assume they did NOT mean sewage
> > tunnels, as they didn't mention special
> footwear
> > and don't seem like the type to get their
> 'kicks'
> > poopy. They certainly could have both been
> pulling
> > my leg, also.
> >
> > Has anybody else gone through these tunnels or
> > can confirm that they did, or still do exist?
>
> It's possible he was discussing the (alleged) CIA
> bunker underneath the massive GSA warehouse on
> Loisdale Road, but more likely he was pulling your
> leg.
>
> I've lived in Springfield for 35 years and I've
> never heard of any tunnels, although there are a
> few fairly large drainage culverts, and there was
> a cave dug out across the railroad tracks over by
> the Interstate Van Lines building a few decades
> back.
Is this where all the uparmored SUVs are always parked? Wondered what was going on there.
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> HollyHostile Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > A few years ago during a conversation with an
> > acquaintance, they said that if need be, they
> > could disappear quickly into tunnels going
> > under/through Springfield, and either emerge
> > someplace else, or hide there for a time. At
> the
> > time, I wrote it off as empty bragging, but when
> I
> > mentioned it to a mutual friend, he confirmed
> that
> > there are/were, in fact, a sizable amount of
> > tunnels in that area that one could traverse.
> >
> > I can only assume they did NOT mean sewage
> > tunnels, as they didn't mention special
> footwear
> > and don't seem like the type to get their
> 'kicks'
> > poopy. They certainly could have both been
> pulling
> > my leg, also.
> >
> > Has anybody else gone through these tunnels or
> > can confirm that they did, or still do exist?
>
> It's possible he was discussing the (alleged) CIA
> bunker underneath the massive GSA warehouse on
> Loisdale Road, but more likely he was pulling your
> leg.
>
> I've lived in Springfield for 35 years and I've
> never heard of any tunnels, although there are a
> few fairly large drainage culverts, and there was
> a cave dug out across the railroad tracks over by
> the Interstate Van Lines building a few decades
> back.
Is this where all the uparmored SUVs are always parked? Wondered what was going on there.
Re: Springfield Tunnels
Posted by:
iLikeRats
()
Date: November 01, 2013 04:16AM
Annandale tunnels?? News to me! I'd love to travel these nasty, rat filled buggers!
Re: Springfield Tunnels
Posted by:
perth ct
()
Date: November 01, 2013 04:57AM
BB*X Wrote:
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> Been here my whole life and the only tunnels I
> know of are the drainage pipes in neighborhoods.
> For example, in Ravensworth Farms there is a huge
> pipe by one of the entrances to Accotink Park, we
> used to follow it all the time as kids and you
> could go from Ravenelle Ln. all the way up
> Quensberry and come out some place close to
> Ravensworth Shopping Center. Same thing over in
> Burke along the power lines behind Onion Patch.
Kings Park has several huge tunnels. Underneath Southampton drive between Durham ct and Thames st there are two tunnels that a grown man can walk through. Another one (for that same creek) starts near the bottom of the hill behind the end of perth ct, it goes under cromwell and victoria then comes up in kings park park. As a kid I crawled through the longer tunnel with two flashlights because I was afraid I would freak out if my flashlight failed in there.
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> Been here my whole life and the only tunnels I
> know of are the drainage pipes in neighborhoods.
> For example, in Ravensworth Farms there is a huge
> pipe by one of the entrances to Accotink Park, we
> used to follow it all the time as kids and you
> could go from Ravenelle Ln. all the way up
> Quensberry and come out some place close to
> Ravensworth Shopping Center. Same thing over in
> Burke along the power lines behind Onion Patch.
Kings Park has several huge tunnels. Underneath Southampton drive between Durham ct and Thames st there are two tunnels that a grown man can walk through. Another one (for that same creek) starts near the bottom of the hill behind the end of perth ct, it goes under cromwell and victoria then comes up in kings park park. As a kid I crawled through the longer tunnel with two flashlights because I was afraid I would freak out if my flashlight failed in there.