After the year 1837, some boys opened the graves and took from them the chief's gun, and some personal ornaments. "Certain things we do aren't good for the environment. ?,, yeah cause the cement filled tunnels are the only gigs they can get these days. The Snells were a prominent family in town and made significant financial contributions to the school from what I remember. I will have nothing but high praise to all that ask me about who did the job. Both are blocked off under the hotel. No they are not welded, but cemented over. But the real reason is that the director was a monster, responsible for the drug overdoses of several young teenage boys who he had groomed while they were hospitalized, and for the pregnancies of several hospitalized young women whose babies disappeared. 2023 Atlas Obscura. Whoa!! i never saw a straight jacket though and i was there for 1 full year. Apparently, it was also used as part of an initiation for the new principals who were made to run through the pitch black tunnel before assuming their new post. Seeing this made us travel on our way quickly and we NEVER took that shortcut again! The city engineers investigated and found that it was part of a tunnel system that were escape tunnels leading to a small hidden beach by the harbor. As many cities in the Midwest, the city produced electricity and as a byproduct, sold steam to downtown buildings. Winner will be selected at random on 04/01/2023. Michigan State Sanitarium; Northern Michigan Asylum; Northville Regional Psychiatric Hospital ; Plymouth State Home; Ypsilanti State Hospital ; Video Index ; Historic Photos. and it was a long ride to go up to Haggerty Rd. Awesome Inc. theme. "I estimate the biological community will come all the way back within 10 years. See. The fire department shut them down due to safety concerns and fire hazard. The small college town became obsessed with rumors about who the perpetrator was and why the incompetent police couldnt pin him down. I am very satisfied and happy with the final product! No doubt, my home is a testimonial to the great work McGlinch and Sons can and will do. They would get off the trolley car and go into the multi level store, where you could buy almost anything you needed. This went on for months causing the campus and city police considerable embarrassment due to their inability to get a handle on the increasingly brazen criminal. Back in the late 70''s my friends and I used to go into the main building. He was staying at the Deer Park Motor Inn while doing a Battle Zone show at Sundance. It looks like a new house with the Colonial Slate and Copper finish on the chimney! I will definitely recommend McGlinch and Sons to my colleauges at work, friends, family and to whomever else might ask. But the roof looks great; its the rest of the service that needs to be tweaked a little. After crossing what is now known as Tonquish Creek, Chief Tonquish and his men were captured. Knowing the demons lurking in the minds of our patients, I choose not to. I was a staff member at Hawthorn for almost three decades. We are impressed and satisfied with the final result. They were a series of catacombs and strange spaces that captured our imaginations as young art students. A number of large old mansions are located along the western bank of the river and it has been rumored that there are tunnels leading from some of those old homes basements beneath the river to the eastern side into the city. I was visiting a facility in the Southern end of the facility, South of where warheads had historically been stored. I am not sure about the finger tunnels, but the main feed tunnel from the power house to the hospital is sealed. It was said that a tunnel allowed the army of Aksum to travel eastward to conquer the city then called Bur (now the archaeological site called Metera). Skip Dahlgren, Underneath the LDS Temple in the middle of downtown Salt Lake City there are tunnels that spread out in all directions. It is because of trespassing that the history of this institutiuon was preserved. Claire, There are two bridges to get onto the Cape, the Sagamore Bridge and the Bourne Bridge. then security showed up anmd we had to run. Hello UnknownI was discharged the year before you were there and i was 13. Rummor has it that the tunnels are still there and if you go in them on the day, and time exactly when she went down you can still get into the building "she comes back from the dead." According to legend, the Snells also had a penchant for incest that led to several Snell children born with hideous physical deformities. As a child I found this very scary. A few of the staff were nice, don't remember there last names but there was bill,Kathy,gary,nora,jeff white guy with an late 70s afro.just to name a few. "You'll be able to see positive changes very, very quickly by the time they take out the tunnel," he revealed. "It would be very, very difficult because of environmental regulations in place," he said. Since it was covered in the 1920s to create property for what is now a horse racing venue, the once robust waterway has withered to its current sorry state. The rumors are that more extreme cases were kept in isolation cells down there. Northville Township The site of a former state psychiatric hospital in Northville Township will be cleared and redeveloped as an "active recreation site,"after township trusteesapproved a $12 million bond sale to fund the work, the township announced Tuesday. yo iownit must know you. Northville tunnels. As we cut through the woods on horseback we came upon this extremely high fenced yard with some people in it. This of course lead to many stories of crazy people running around in these tunnels and kids swearing they found ways into the tunnels to see the unknown. We had a part time Cook who made our meals fresh in the morning and prepped meals for lunch and dinner. The darkest, creepiest stretch of downtown Northville lies in the 100-year-old river-carrying tunnel beneath Northville Downs. All suggestions, ideas and help are welcome. Awesome Inc. theme. We left because our hair would stand up from static from the on coming storm (lucky for us we did). Could you imagine if the building was still standing what an great place for a horror film. Posted By: Harrry Re: Northville Tunnels. Share your stories, pictures and video. Many nights we'd go up, into the mid 80's after a night out at the bars, and scare the crap out of whoever was hanging out up there. There was a series of secret passageways between the newer tower building and the adjacent buildings. The Northville Tunnels forum slowly faded away and fell out of favor. I couldnt believe the difference! Staff could get their oil changed and brakes fixed, if they were willing to trust patients with their car. Produced by Dan Weisburd, the U.S. Kristian, When attending the University of Montevallo there were stories of tunnels underneath the campus from when it was an all girls school. Joe B again;heres an interesting site www.infiltration.org ,also type in google "underground bases and tunnels" for a lot of topics.Everybody wants to keep open space and preserve forests(I know I do;I don't want everything built up),but where do we put all these people? Today, due to budget cuts and privatization, Hawthorn has abandoned the cottages, closed the older wing of living areas, and provides special ed only for in-patients. and are grounds for membership suspension, no questions asked. "It won't be just a narrow river corridor. No purchase necessary. Everybody is in support of it. I didn't like being away from home but made the best of it. The hospital shut down in 2003. I instinctively knew the place was evil. I never told anyone after the shrink I was seeing there didn't believe me. Tunnels that went underneath the northville psychiatric hospital and connected to out buildings. Those doors were not locked. John. That will take you to the horse stables and a beautiful walking trail around a pond. It hissed at him Go away repeatedly. Kids would break in when I was a teenager and hangout in them. McGlinch & Sons can help you start enjoying the benefits of sun tunnels in no time. "The city asked the developer, Hunter Pasteur, to daylight the river as part of its development plans, and they agreed," said Nancy Darga, a former member of the Northville City Council and a longtime environment advocateand member of the Alliance of Rouge Communities. But people still managed to get into them to film and graffiti them. When I was there in the 60s & 70s at a U.S. military base in Asmara, many locals believed that there was a tunnel from Washington DC to the base which would allow a full-scale invasion. In that time we had a few people (escapees) that would come to the farm. Once they're not able to see visually, they'll stop. Anyone that grew up in with in 25 miles of Northville went here in the 80's and 90's. A gift from the leaders of 1920's Detroit. Request your FREE estimate today! I too remember those out buildings and they were creepy to say the least and at night outside of our window we could hear strange noises and one night we saw shadows outside our window. This past sunday night, a bunch of my friends and I went to old Northville sanitarium hospital grounds, and went into the tunnels. People were physically abused and sexually assaulted there. We were convinced the tunnel had not been used since the 1940s and our guess was confirmed, quietly, by city officials and told to seal the entrance. J. J. DeBenedictis, When I was going to Sequoia High School, the former principal once told me about a tunnel that supposedly exists under the school. One kid i remember well was a black kid named joe, he visited the QR atleast 2 to 3 times a week. Join us for a daily celebration of the worlds most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places. Contact reporter Ed Wright at eawright@hometownlife.com or 517-375-1113. Often, residents of cities dont even realize there are hidden subterranean spaces right beneath their feet. Presided by General Justo Rufino Barrios in the 19th century, who was against the Catholic Church, almost banned it from the country, pillaged its temples, brought Protestant pastors to the country and seized both treasures and properties from the church. If you cant get that, there is always the hot tub on the roof! BTW has anyone seen that "silo" mentioned by Banffspring? There are plans to possibly make a full blown mod for HL2 that will hopefully simulate what it would be like to be there. It's a lot like dams, which cause the same situation for fish. I never heard the woods between us and the adult hospital referred as the evil woods, but between the deer flies, mosquitoes, poison ivy, and wandering mental patients, we tended to avoid it. I got to know those tunnels so well I would often enter the complex with NO FLASHLIGHT or matches, by myself, and walk back to the building 102 boiler room to enter day or night. The truth is they DID exist, and were a very popular hangout with the exploring kids of the day. and the Q.Ri spent many nights in the QR naked and on camera. It was built in 1887 and due to the harsh winters in Wyoming, they built tunnels underground for the doctors and patients to move safe and warm from building to building. i watched as staff would pin people down and strip them and toss em in. I was a patient in 85-87 . "I think everybody involved in this is optimistic. It is the foundation of one of those former comfort stations. Rachel Woodward, I purchased the historic seven story Masonic Temple, built in 1925 in Grand Island. Thanks for all the beer some of you lightweights left behind!!! We would always recommend McGlinch and Sons Co. to any of our friends and neighbors. You can rest that as a Velux factory-direct trained installer of sun tunnels that excellence is part of everything we do. i was scared shitless. I would be very curious if some of the staff or some of the kids from 77 and 78 are still around? The legendary Purple Gang of Jailhouse Rock fame would hole up in the only hotel in town, The Doherty. Detroit, Work performed was quite good, although a few corrections were necessary because of some miscommunications between salesperson and his roofers. I was there from 1971-1974. The steam pipes had been removed. The bond funding will pay for the removal or relocation of the remaining 11 buildings on the 332-acre site, now called Legacy Park. I think the place was pretty cutting edge for psychiatric help when it opened and really is too bad we don't have treatment facilities for the mentally ill in Michigan any longer. I also heard there used to be a bomb shelter under the bleachers of old Oxnard High School, but that it was filled with cement later. I was fortunate enough to live in cottage 2. Ken Wagner, I lived for several years in Eritrea, when it was part of Ethiopia. They also had to replace a gutter, this took an addition 10 days to put up and they left the old gutter in my backyard. The site, at that time, had 20 buildings, including a water tower and a power plant. This is in regards to a recent missing person whose last known whereabouts likely to be in the vicinity of the preserve. Is it fake? No one really knows why the tunnel is there or what it was used for. After making our way through the tunnel, and out into the open air, we had to RUN into the main building because security was there and there was no way they were going in the building.once we were inside we were safe. I really would like you to pass along my gratitude to them on the great job they are doing. They could have communicated a little better. They're filled with dirt under the slabs. Activities incluede horse riding (use 8 mile entrance), biking and numerous walking trails. They shut down in the 80s, I believe, but were bought out by someone else, who continued using the trolley cars until they closed and then the trolley cars were parked and the tunnel was closed off. His prime choice was west of Northville at Whitmore Lake, but a site between Hawthorn Center and Northville State Hospital was also seriously consideredin other words, in the "Evil Woods." I don't remember any rats or bugsthen again, I was trying not to look down because whatever little vision you had ahead of you was well needed because there were huge pipes that you had to duck under and straddle over. Back when Portland, Oregon was one of the worlds most dangerous ports, its notorious Shanghai Tunnels were used to transport and sell slaves captured in the city above in a historic example of human trafficking. Thanks. We want to hear your local stories about secret underground passagesreal or rumored. There were 4 or 5 of us in one room. Everything has gone very smooth. Northville was where Detroit placed all of its institutional facilities for almost a century. There was never anything evil about the property, that is just how my friends and i always referred to the woods. we were all true soldiers of death. We did our best to exorcize the ill effects of society's demons in the lives of these children, but our sanctuary was just a hard fought temporary bubble of compassion that has been steadily shrinking in cynical despair for decades. Whites, lead by Major Macomb, caught the young man and his father at Tonquish Creek, near Nankin Mills. Urban Exploration in the Travel category. The Clean Water Act and Michigan environmental laws came into affect primarily in the 1970s.". Every weekday we compile our most wondrous stories and deliver them straight to you. All in all, I am very satisfied with the McGlinch Experience and would highly recommend them to anyone. I learned how to play basketball in the little gym and the big gym. This is how the terms, "Northville Tunnels" "Sheldon Tunnels" or simply "The Tunnels" became the source of more than two decades of urban legond and teenage right of passage. It was vacant then, I would guess about 1975? Cottage 1 was an Auto shop. i went through the tunnles feb 2008 flash lights of course i found a picture in one of the buildings of a dead man who died in the tunnle, THE DEER PARK "SOLDIERS OF DEATH"ARE NOW THE "SILLY OLD DELINQUENTS". That what Edgewood does it inspires you to dream. Macomb shot and killed him as he ran away. Austin Carpenter, I went to college at Northern Arizona University. Had I stumbled across the southern and of the legendary underground railroad? You can still see the original cement slabs if you know where to look. Thanks again! One day there was a small sinkhole that developed in the sidewalk in front of my aunts house. Rumor is Ted Bundy was the last prisoner to walk the tunnel. However, they were a wild life preserve full of deer flies and mosquitoes and poison ivy, so few with good sense choose to venture far from the sun lit hospital grounds. The grade school was torn down when I was in 6th grade and my family and I went exploring as the progress was made. You sent us stories of old bootlegger tunnels, forgotten service networks, insane asylum escape routes, and more than a few cases of steam tunnels lurking beneath the halls of academia. Sarah, Before Prohibition, the beer brewed in my hometown was stored in limestone caves tunneled into the side of a dry river bluff. DOES ANYBODY KNOW I SLEEP AND DREAM EDGEWOOD??? -Inmate #0403991, Well I work there now. The 4th floor was specifically for staff only it had a private bathroom and office that had large front facing windows to over see the grounds as we were permitted to go outside without staff with permissions. Northville Tunnels Play all The Kitchen Building Wayne County Training School Northville Tunnels 2.9K views15 years ago Hospital Building Northville Tunnels 3K views15 years ago Central. we all had small radios and we would all listen to Dr Ruth westimers "sexually Spleaking" where people would call in and ask funny sex questions and we would all be cracking up and staff would bust us for radios on after lights out. Don't remember last names but there was Rose,Dave,Roger,Jan and so on. This was keeping the house at 57 degrees, and if it wasnt freezing out. Can somebody who has an intimate knowledge of the tunnel system email me at fieldnotestoaninquiry@gmail.com. We spoke with about four companies for bids on our project (complete siding, shutters, gutters) and were very happy with our choice great company. Its the seniors duty to try and dupe the freshmen into asking for a pool pass for the pool that is rumored to be under the school. but no tunnels. I learned to swim here and received a lifeguard license. The tunnel, which stretches the length of four football fields, is . 0% Financing Available. Some are confirmed, and others are just rumors, but its fascinating to read about what might be lurking just outside our view. NOTE: Please make sure your comment is ON TOPIC. I am very proud of the overall appearance of my home. One room was designated phone room to make and recurve phone calls. Iownit - do you have any maps of the tunnels? What You Told Us About Your Hometowns Hidden Tunnels. They installed a tunnel between the hotel and the pharmacy across the street. McGlinch & Sons are ready to help you illuminate your home with superior sun tunnel installation. That whole area to the south was farmland and a dairy at one time. Steve Anderson, There is a bar/nightclub called The Speakeasy on Main Street at below street level, and behind the bar the tunnel starts and continues around behind the stage and supposedly under the streets to an old mansion a block or so away, and was supposedly used during prohibition. Never wanted to be mistaken for a walkaway and returned to the hospital! we found a fire hydrant in the middle of a field and a large excavated area with a drain or pipe in the center of it. I've been all over and never saw that. I went to school on campus in the main hospital which is locked down. 3rd floor houses all of our bedrooms. Our team provides custom design service, and each sun tunnel replacement service comes with a certified warranty. I remember hearing about the tunnel entrance in the woods. "There may be some macroinvertebrate, which are basically aquatic insects. I believe the children in the unlocked cottages were told the woods were evil so they would not wander and get lost. 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