The whole area is a sanctuary for demons. As of today 06-10-2021 my ward (K2-a) K2-B, L1 and L2 are all unused and unoccupiedi would do anything to walk those halls and see my room again. Locals and tourists alike know that bridge traffic during the summer months is no fun thing. I have searched high and low on social media for all the people that i was locked up with and i have not found a single one ever. and the Q.Ri spent many nights in the QR naked and on camera. Not knowing that the hospital was there. We found the beginnings of an old steam tunnel. Don't remember last names but there was Rose,Dave,Roger,Jan and so on. NOTE: Please make sure your comment is ON TOPIC. At 7,000 feet, it can get very cold during the winter. Busted every window and lightbulb on floor 12. Heh, Paul Di'Anno walking down Commack Rd? Eloise Poorhouse and Asylum . 19 of the 22 buildings remain on the property on 7 Mile between Haggerty and Northville roads. Thank You!! Ryan, Just wanted to drop you a line and let you know how impressed I am by your crew, their work ethic and attention to detail. "You'll be able to see positive changes very, very quickly by the time they take out the tunnel," he revealed. Urban Exploration in the Travel category. Kids would break in when I was a teenager and hangout in them. Rumor was, there was a tunnel from a local restaurant to her bordello that ran under Main Street. Apparently they were sealed In the 1970s. You see, the caves ran deep under the east side of town, even under Shattuck St. Marys Preparatory School and the old mental hospital by the river. Once his crimes were made known, he took his own life before he could face justice. Staff Directory; Student Directory; Related Institutions. i was scared shitless. Legend has it that Evanston had the choice to be the home of the state university or insane asylum, and for some unknown reason we picked the insane asylum. I would be very curious if some of the staff or some of the kids from 77 and 78 are still around? The darkest, creepiest stretch of downtown Northville lies in the 100-year-old river-carrying tunnel beneath Northville Downs. Township Treasurer Jason Rhines said "the time is now" to clear the site. It was me and Joe Davi who saw him, and offered him a ride. I just cant imagine how all these things happened! In some cases, your tales of secret spaces were based on something real from history, and a few are even accessible today. 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. The Chief's son tried to escape and was shot and killed by the butt of another man's rifle caving in his head, that same evening in 1819. Hello, I was wondering what ever happened to the farm house my father rented from his boss was where I spent about 1 1/2 years. I get lots of compliments on how nice my whole house looks. The powerhouse, nurses' home and maintenance building have been torn down along with the water. The tunnels are realthe first time I went to edgewood was in September of 1985 - Hurricane Gloria caused a power outtage and there was no school - it was the first week of 9th grade at Frost. 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. I was in Hawthorn in 77 and 78,i was 8 when i got there and turned 9 in cottage 3 i was on the ward from july to October of 77 then in cottage 3 from October 77 to june 78. although I seen kids getting dragged of to the QR it was usually a couple of boys with major behavior problems. 3 miles of underground steam tunnels and 45 buildings to run around in. They listened to what I wanted the finished job to look like, and they had good suggestions and ideas on how to accomplish those goals. They were our own way in for years, we kept our own defective lock that you could open up with ANY key on the tunnel doors way off in the woods. Its not nonsense it is from a story I wrote years ago about Edgewood, I think Edgewood would make a great horror story. I had a couple friends that lived down at Haggerty and Plymouth. yo its herb. The cottages housed the more trust worthy patients. Article by SA Rogers, filed under Many cities around the world have local legends about hidden tunnels running underneath the streets. Personal flame wars, Atlas Obscura asked its readers to submit local stories about underground passageways in their own hometowns, and they delivered. I was in cottage 5 if memory serves me right. It's just a matter of making it happen. He needed help, but really at home my dad beat him everyday, my grandma called him names, so any help he got was undone when he came home. I never told anyone after the shrink I was seeing there didn't believe me. The now reportedly unused storage facility was always of interest and I wondered what it would be like to walk the tunnels with a geiger counter, so did as I always did and was looking toward the tunnel entrances as I drove by. After some liquid courage, the men and one woman, took turns with a sledge hammer, knocking a hole in the wall. I was a patient at Hawthorne Center and played in the woods. The bond funding will pay for the removal or relocation of the remaining 11 buildings on the 332-acre site, now called Legacy Park. The building itself was obviously seldom frequented by workers, but down in the spillway was even more lonely, left long to the ravages of Hines hungry, ever-advancing vegetation. I had a really nice teacher named Sara where i used to listen to the bee gees and star wars music on the record player when we had free time lol it was the late 70s. Also, the University of British Columbia does have steam tunnels for dealing with the output of fume hoods, and they apparently have had a decades-long battle keeping (often drunken) students out of them. It really hurts me to hear about these things. It needs to be done to make it function properly.". The rumors are that more extreme cases were kept in isolation cells down there. And L2 is getting remodeled. Sarah, Before Prohibition, the beer brewed in my hometown was stored in limestone caves tunneled into the side of a dry river bluff. I hope u are all in a better place and enjoying your life. 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. im in !! and are grounds for membership suspension, no questions asked. "It won't be just a narrow river corridor. No they are not welded, but cemented over. I like sickpeople version of the underground civilization but what is a "Mullet Head"? and we went all the way down to the power plant from the main building nad back. Trespasser Photography Aaron R Adatskas Archer Bolgod Carrick Engler. there is a facebook group too , join it! 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. Cheryl C., Grosse Pointe Woods, Serving Metro Detroit and Southeast Michigan Since 1917! What impresses me is that theyre still working to please us on some very minor issues we had after the job was done. One person was found in the dead of winter down the road in a ditch filled with water with no coat or shoes, another came and sat in our front yard and asked for a glass of water (in summer) until my mom figured out that he was another escapee. Our team provides custom design service, and each sun tunnel replacement service comes with a certified warranty. We would go up the stairways to the roof elevator room and walk across a plank that was across the top of the elevator shaft, Then we climbed a ladder to the highest roof. I did so the following week. My brother stayed at my house last month, and this bill is 150.00. When I was going to Sequoia High School, the former principal once told me about a tunnel that supposedly exists under the school. Ramon Carb-Dorca, Northville tunnels. We viewed egrets, cranes, deer and other animals along the way. (but i will save stories of the building for another post). As I got to know other local kids who had horses my territory expanded. 3rd floor houses all of our bedrooms. There is however a map of one section which was used as a visitor attraction in the early 19th century. Also underneath Temple Square (basically just a block of church buildings) there are tunnels connecting them. Posted By: Harrry Re: Northville Tunnels. Entrances lead to almost every single building, and one could spend days down there without retracing your steps or seeing another person. Both are blocked off under the hotel. Once daylighted, Turnbull and his buddies will be able to canoe up and down the river just like his dad did a century earlier. we used to go nuts in that place "booking" down them tunnels leaving the girls behind screaming :), We went to the tunnels to the powerhouse and to a boiler room they linked up the buildings rememember huge pipes on one side I believed that they were used to transport the dead to the morgue there were no rats just broken glass we kept a couple of those plastic gray radio shack flashlights that took the 4 D cell batteries hidden in our stash there along with a bowl,a couple of knifes, and a transistor radio.I miss and cherish those times, i had been in the tunnels many times even after the demo job havent been there in many years now but remember off the old blacktop road in the back of the site there used to be a way in was in the middle of the woods a little hard to find tho but after the demo job just went back to where the power station was and bck towards the main bldg again to bad there all gone was some good times there. Poole's Tavern plans rooftop seating in downtown Northville if city sells land for project, Pandemic hasn't stopped animals from multiplying at Northville's Maybury Farm, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. This is in regards to a recent missing person whose last known whereabouts likely to be in the vicinity of the preserve. More:Hiking, biking trails to take shape at former psychiatric hospital site, As for the tunnels, township spokeswoman Rene Wisely said they"are, and will remain, inaccessible.". Shawn Jefferds, There are legends of tunnels under Boise dug by Chinese workers to get between different buildings. Take I-64 toward Norfolk/Virginia Beach; then go south on US-17 at Deep Creek, Va. to South Mills, NC. The roof was covered in copper sheets. Often, residents of cities dont even realize there are hidden subterranean spaces right beneath their feet. Over the years, a combination of public and private efforts were made to raise the grade of the downtown streets, with the end result being a weird patchwork of subterranean tunnels and basements that bear the marks of the businesses that occupied them, back when they were street-level storefronts. You can rest that as a Velux factory-direct trained installer of sun tunnels that excellence is part of everything we do. i never saw a straight jacket though and i was there for 1 full year. More than likely the tunnels were built to help employees of the church to walk back and forth between the temple and their offices. We spoke with about four companies for bids on our project (complete siding, shutters, gutters) and were very happy with our choice great company. Osband was told by pioneers that in 1819, Tonquish's son, in a dispute of over bread, had shot and killed a settler named Sergeant who lived near the Rouge. I recall a few times patients escaped NSH and wandered to the cottages where you could see shadows roaming around outside our windows at night and the Cottage would be on lockdown until they were found. The staff in cottage 3 were kool for the most part. 0% Financing Available. These were carved out over hundreds of years of mining. Adam gave a lecture that exposed many local citizens of the lost history of the school. I heard about a bomb shelter in the woods. A planned development of the Northville Downs property includes "daylighting" the waterway and complementing it with a riverwalk. Such as letting me know debris would fall through the attic space and be everywhere and my flower bed would be destroyed. An eye-opening journey through the history, culture, and places of the culinary world. I am not sure about the finger tunnels, but the main feed tunnel from the power house to the hospital is sealed. We would always recommend McGlinch and Sons Co. to any of our friends and neighbors. 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. There was LOTS of sand but we burrowed through to find about three blocks worth. There were some interconnected basements for moving goods and sometimes for fleeing police raids on gambling houses, but nothing like the myth. The buildings that are now the high school and the gym were built during the Franklin D. Roosevelt, New Deal era. Boote explained projects similar to the covering of the Middle Rouge was commonplace in the United States in the first half of the 20th century when development of once rural land expanded at a furious pace. One, that two kids from Shattuck in the 1950s found the tunnel entrance under the school and went exploring. Hines Drive Runs pretty much from the Telegraph Road area to Ann Arbor. 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. Moderators: Red, Syd. "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. Thank you. Please let them know. Like Atlas Obscura and get our latest and greatest stories in your Facebook feed. If you have a story of your own hometown hidden tunnels to share, head over to our community forums and tell us about it! The woods were not evil. we were all true soldiers of death. the TUNNELS the MONKEY LADY lived in them chicken bones and shit all over the place !! Tunnels rock. 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. Michael Roberson, There are supposed to be disused mining tunnels running through the North Shore mountains. I KNOW THE TUNNELS LIKE THE BACK OF MY HAND I LIVED IN THEM HALFORD. Hello UnknownI was discharged the year before you were there and i was 13. Rachel Woodward, I purchased the historic seven story Masonic Temple, built in 1925 in Grand Island. The Northville Tunnels, which connected buildings on the site, have long been a popular site for explorers. In 2007 we were asked by the Northville Township Historical Society to give a presentation of the history of the school. We also turned on lights on just about every floor in 102 that still had intact wiring almost everything worked back then. And can roam the halls if you are brave enough to. the last 4th of July before the crown burned, we blew out a security car headlight from the roof with M80's. PAUL DIANNO, ON COMMACR RD, KFC? Or twelve story ledge. they would use drugs, nurse Tovis would be called. Stream northville tunnels - coconut farm by northville tunnels on desktop and mobile. Follow us on Twitter to get the latest on the world's hidden wonders. "The developer has agreed to fund at least part of the daylighting projects costs.". As many cities in the Midwest, the city produced electricity and as a byproduct, sold steam to downtown buildings. That will take you to the horse stables and a beautiful walking trail around a pond. Ricardo Ferreira, Legend has it that there was a tunnel that ran under the street where I was raised. It wasnt long before someone came and picked him up. 26 bus down with it! .We could've persisted but we didn't.I did walk on the grounds in the early 90's,and from the former Edgewood site,I went into Pilgrim -there are also tunnels on those grounds;I didn't go in them yet.I see some buildings at Pilgrim state are being torn down;I want to get this hospital on video,because it won't be there much longer probably;since the state wants to build a mini city there.I'm sorry I didn't film Edgewood,but I can film Pilgrim state before it gets demolished by the construction crews.Theres a lot of history at these hospitals(Pilgrim and former Edgewood).I remember a full parking lot in the late 60's at Edgewood,when my father drove by there.SUNY Farmingdale also has tunnels(steam tunnels) and some bomb shelters,but the doors are padlocked.Very interesting down there.Anyone whos interested in tunnels should check out the NY city subway tunnels;I use to film them from the train and also I walked into them a little.Most likely this will be harder now(thanks to the terror attacks,massive security percautions,and sometimes from people that ruin a good thing).Now,it's 2004,and you may not be able to film in the subways anymore(unless you have the camera on and your walking and holding it down by your side and hide the red indicator light).I managed to walk a few hundred feet into the broadway nassau subway station in lower Manhatten ,in the summer of 2002;but I'm sure it's well guarded now. Surely some of it was obstructed, but it can lead to the main Girona church. 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. Shortly before I left and went to Children's Home of Detroit they started hiring younger people with no experience, training or education in psychiatrics or devolopmental disabilities. As many cities in the Midwest, the city produced electricity and as a byproduct, sold steam to downtown buildings. According to legend, the Snells also had a penchant for incest that led to several Snell children born with hideous physical deformities. Randy Kiunke, There is a tunnel from the cellar of a house on Winter Hill Road and Post Road that leads to the well in the front of a house across the street. The darkest, creepiest stretch of downtown Northville lies in the 100-year-old river-carrying tunnel beneath Northville Downs. These allowed access to almost every building. Upon searching the house he was renting, police discovered a key to the campus subterranean system of heating tunnels that could be accessed from many of the university buildings, leading investigators to reason this was the key to his elusive disappearing act that had frustrated the community for so long. I wish I would have had the insight to have taken pictures and footage of the building. Copyright 2003 - 2013, Northville-Tunnels.com, All Rights Reserved. yo iownit must know you. for the rest, head over to Atlas Obscura. Once Prohibition hit, that changed, and the caves were used to age various cheese, which the town became somewhat known for. 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. Unfortunately I can't remember his name. We went up there with some beers to ride out the storm and soon found out we were not alone after trying the powerhouse via the tunnels we headed up to the crown and the wind was SICK up there stayed inside the burned out area by the water tanks as the ladder was gone and so was the rope as I recall. Huntington Woods, The company did an excellent job on all aspects: professionalism, actual work done, honesty, follow-up! They have really worked hard all along the way and have paid attention to every detail. Northville Tunnels Northville Township Michigan 1974-1998 No Trespassing? The cottage was the place to be.in the 70s cottage 3 was boys 6 to 12,cottage 4 was boys 13 to 17, 2 was girls can't remember what 5 was use for. I always wanted to get moved up into the cottages as that was like a resort to us in lockdown. The padded cell with the camera you speak of (it was called the Q.R., short for Quiet Room), we had those too but they were not padded , it was a small roughly 10X10 concrete room with a camera and mic in the ceiling and there was a small monitor and speaker in the staff charting room and anytime someone would get put in we would try and sneak peeks of the monitor. The rumors are that more extreme cases were kept in isolation cells down there. Anyway, there were some nice single tracks for dirt bikes throughout the area and even heard stories of group camps, fishing and swimming in Waterford Pond (kinda risky with the Rouge?) DOES ANYBODY KNOW I SLEEP AND DREAM EDGEWOOD??? The fire department shut them down due to safety concerns and fire hazard. Someday,the only solution will be another planet;but there is no other planet(in this solar system and galaxy);to bad Venus isn't just like Earth was 10,000 years ago. Id made many visits to both facilities but do recall a visit to Sandia where I witnessed something very odd. It has really effected me! I was a patient in 84 on unit K2-A.who remembers these names, staff member Arch tapallion with the fu-manchu moustache, pickle the art teacher, norm autin the school teacher, genie the librarian, dr paisley, dr john horvath, nurse carol tovis, bernard the ward supervisor, staff member mike brown..we all had a crush on a girl on K1..gina spurling..we would all sit in the window and watch her play tetherball and droolbig pool, little poolpatient sidney bright that lived in the sick bay and when we went to kensington park he drown and diedso sad..the following patients- paul czyika, stuart feltz, danny persall, brian dourghty, kelly mccoy, deaf craig, paul "bam bam battleship' bagozzi who had a head trauma from a hockey game, richard "pepper" due, cory burrell, tim king, william perdue, sam centers, deaf miles, the list is endlesswho remembers state shopping? 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. Any buildings that survive it "will be clustered in a single 10-acre parcel," the township noted, "leaving 96% of the remaining property for use as an active recreation site.". The Northville Tunnels, which connected buildings on the site, have long been a popular site for explorers. The site, at that time, had 20 buildings, including a water tower and a power plant. Sign up for our newsletter and enter to win the second edition of our book. One room was designated phone room to make and recurve phone calls. Homeless people were also known to use them for shelter. We are Michigans largest 5-star certified installer with a 94% recommendation rating from all sun tunnel replacement and sun tunnel installation customers. Cooper Lee Bombardier, There are MILES of secret steam tunnels underneath one of the largest university campuses in the southeastNorth Carolina State. Many people have heard "something about" them, but some of the "Edgewood Fans" were not sure they actually existed. I used to worship satan in the tunnels, and sacrafice lots of animals. The Snells were a prominent family in town and made significant financial contributions to the school from what I remember. A magnificent building, it had secret rooms befitting a Masonic building. Although no white person was ever injured in these forays, the settlers became irritated and staged an attack on the Indians. 2023 Atlas Obscura. I am pretty sure you know this already but youre very lucky to have guys like Scott and Steve with your company. Can somebody who has an intimate knowledge of the tunnel system email me at fieldnotestoaninquiry@gmail.com. Amy Wagner, There is an old Masonic Temple (currently a school for hairstylists) that the Grateful Dead once played at that has a tunnel running from the basement to an adjacent building that is now a piercing studio. The hallway was so narrow you could climbed the walls to the ceiling which is the main reason the Cottages were shutdown. Rumor has it that one of the tunnels used to have an offshoot, now cemented shut, that led to the Snell home. Rachel Woodward, I purchased the historic seven story Masonic Temple, built in 1925 in Grand Island. Anthony Machado. They disappeared, but the school closed off that branch of the tunnels and covered it up like it never happened. There are 2 main entrances - one off of Beck Rd and the other off of 8 mile. Staff Directory; Student Directory; Related Institutions. While I was there I participated in a work activity program that literally paid .45 an hour and was on Northville State hospital property. I was 8. You can rest that as a Velux factory-direct trained installer of sun tunnels that excellence is part of everything we do. She told me that it was constructed as an underground means of escape from one building to the other in the event of an emergency. It's going to be an actual flood corridor river. Cassandra Konz, It seems the old city of Girona has several tunnels connecting the two main churches of Sant Feliu and the Cathedral, and with a large underground passage out of the city to a place called El Polvor (The Gun Powder Depot). Michigan State Sanitarium; Northern Michigan Asylum; Northville Regional Psychiatric Hospital ; Plymouth State Home; Ypsilanti State Hospital ; Video Index ; Historic Photos. They were very easy to work with and very accessible. This was in the 70s so I dont know if theyre still accessible. I am very satisfied and happy with the final product! Thanks. One entrance is supposed to be back stage of Palmer theatre. Chief Tonquish, who lived in western Wayne County, was locally famous. We did our best to create a compassion bubble that emphasized our shared humanity as a balm for society's demonic forces of poverty, racism, violence, neglect, and tribalism. The guys were very professional, friendly, and did an excellent job. We had a part time Cook who made our meals fresh in the morning and prepped meals for lunch and dinner. -JJ. Videos [ edit] This 1968 black and white documentary about the Plymouth State Home and Training School in Northville, Michigan. have heard "something about" them, but some of the "Edgewood Fans" were not sure they actually existed. Brannigan Cheney, When I was growing up in a small town in Southern Illinois there were rumors that the grade school and high school were connected by underground tunnels. , had 20 buildings, including a water tower and a few are even accessible today teenager! Edgewood????????????. 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