America's Largest Abandoned Subway - Cincinnati Subway Explored!
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In this episode of Forbidden Explorers, we enter the dark depths of the long abandoned Cincinnati Subway System. The construction of the subway was canceled in 1928 and not much has happened to it since then.
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The Proper People I've been watching for so long that I remember the mall and the bowling alley
The mega church and the property around it.
If only we could take a train through there...
The Proper People another great film lads, top notch... I do prefer the old intro music tho 👍
Dude, I need to go check that out...
When I was a kid back in the 50's, I use to play in those tunnels with my friends. We lived just a few blocks away from an entrance. As kids, we use to build a small fire and make believe we were camping the forest. Someone spotted the smoke and called the fire department. Many years later, as a fighter myself, I met a Captain who told me he went on several calls like that. I never told him it was me.
cruisin36 Shell how old are you now?
Bedran Bukebudrac probably around 80
I lived in Covington used to come here all the time my self!
Why'd you never tell him!
you afraid he will beat you up?
Im surprised how far people will go just to spray paint a wall. That's dedication.
we artists just tryna find a free canvas or wall homie lol
😂
My favorite are the ones that simply say "fuck u". Immense dedication to buy paint and break into an abandoned subway just for that.
@@HB-ps6rn Especially when like 10 people are ever going to see it (well, other than this video).
14:23 "Thanos"
As a Cincinnatian who’s spent they’re whole life dying of curiosity about the subway, this was so cool to see! As a city, we still lack decent infrastructure and I firmly feel it’s held us back as a city.
It's a shame you guys tore down those cool funiculars. They looked crazy!
No, DEMOCRATIC leadership has held back the city of Cincinnati...the police are way too lenient towards criminals and thugs who roam the streets.
Same. Trolley is ok but shoulda put it in the tubes
The entirety of Colerain Avenue hurts my soul
Only thing that held us back is 75 / 71 split… it completely divides the city that makes public transportation to downtown completely useless
Things not to do in a place like that:
Yell hello if you aren't ready for an answer
The minute I read this, he said hello
No I would say Marco
The absolutely scariest thing you could possibly hear in that tunnel is the echo of the sound of a new padlock banging up into that steel box and clicking shut in the distance behind you.
well you could call authorities
@@emanuelshamku141 From inside a tunnel?
@@willastle9623 So u think that the Phone signal ends, when you set foot into a tunnel ?
@@DieBlockRitter Generally mobiles have a tendency to lose signal underground, yes. I mean perhaps you could get a signal if you were right up against the entrance, although I'm not sure of that.
@@DieBlockRitter yes. Have you been been in a tunnel?
I always feel bad for the people that spend hours and hours everyday working on these big projects, only for it to later be canceled or demolished.
The NAIM in Mexico for example, pinche anciano loco de AMLO.
They likely aren’t passionate about said projects as long as they’re paid. There’s always a chance for them to be upset but I find it unlikely.
@@zem6300Yeah, I was a welder that made ducts, vents, platforms, railing, etc... for powerplants. As long as I got paid, I didn't care what happened to any of the projects we built.
The Kehwanna Coast they still get paid tho
So True. But if they could stop the ones higher up from sticking there hands into the money pot there could be some results from the labor force it took to create this. Also at one point on that pipe you will see crude oil which tell's me it is a fuel shipment line of some sort there are lines like this in every major city not just oil but air plane fuel that go's directly to the airports from the refineries, i done my research on it and was amazed at how many there were ! and the profit out ways any public transit by using just one subway tunnel for fuel shipment then it does by having all the tunnels in use for public transit there for it lays on the side of greed rather then purpose and that is were the shame lye's ! There is a old saying " THE BUCK STOPS HERE " .
“We knew our chances of getting in this way were slim.”
*opens door*
* surprised Pikachu face *
I'm surprised the city doesn't lock it up.
@@trr5291 government has become over swamped in bureaucracy I'm surprised roads get built.
I live a hundred yards from this entrance and always heard it wasn't even worth trying anymore.. even a few years ago
Haha My First thoughts!! It’s closed & locked...But suddenly was open for em that time!! Lmao
I'm a new railfan and this is blowing my mind that Cincinnati had subway infrastructure. Man if that was completed it could have really made a big difference.
would be more scared for crack junkies than actual ghost in that tunnel
Im surprised that they didnt find lots of syringes down there, unbelievable!
Absolutely!
Beware of hillbilly crack heads...
Cincinnati Guard here, easiest way I found to deal with crackheads and bum was to carry a pack of smokes and a couple singles on you. I would ask them to leave the areas i was guarding and tell them my work schedule, give them a couple of smokes and a single or two. During my work week I would never have to deal with them again until the next week. Show a little respect and you get alot. One of those bums actually saved my ass once. Had a party of a bunch of drunk college kids disturbing the tenants at the loft at shilitos. Told them they needed to leave when they started to try to surround me, cops showed up almost as if on cue and after a few arrests the situation was cleared. One of my regular bums came up to me to ask if I was ok. Middle aged black dude( dont care if its poltically correct or not). Turns out he was the one who went and got the police when he saw i was in trouble.He said I was one of the few people to give him the time of day and not be a judgemental prick. Gave him a 20 and the whole pack of smokes. But yeah, be polite, be calm, and karma will keep you cool.
Bad jubejube Great story, glad there are still nice people out there not judging others.
So just a fun fact, I lay pipe for a living, and At 6:20, as far as water mains go, they are actually in good shape. America’s pipelines are all 60 years old on average, in desperate need of repair. They are covered in plastic as an attempt of further protection. Laying that line through a subway would actually be far easier than digging it up and going through the ground, trying to navigate the pipe through the literally hundreds of other utilities such as gas mains, fiber optic, electric, Cox, and AT&T lines. . That is your basic CMLC concrete lines water main. You won’t hear any water running through them as they are fully pressurized and running at 100%. The only time you’ll hear anything is when you have space or air in the line, which will allow for water splashing or the “water hammer” effect. Typically the only time you see pipe that isn’t underground like that is when you would have the pipe crossing a bridge or across a river or stream.
Water lines and other utilities have to follow roads and highways, as roads will take the pipe anywhere the people are, just like the roads. Since they decided to run the water line through the subway, they would have had to install tons of pumps and sump holes, in order to drain the water if a pipe bursts. However, that appears to be a 24”-36” water main, and if it were to burst, that entire subway would be filled with water insanely fast, so multiple pumps would be necessary and tied into the city power grid, with a separate discharge pipeline, to carry the water to a lake or river.
justin Kassel my man 👨thanks for teaching me something 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Very interesting info! Thanks c:
@Billy Joel DAMMIIT
Do you Lay Pipes when you're not Playing Madison Square Garden ?
In other word, they would likely be overwhelmed by the water if the pipes burst. The big concrete block they came across is called a thrust block. Meant to keep the pipe stable at an change in direction ot potential thrust from the water pressure.
I am genuinely surprised you guys didnt run into anyone down there.
probably a few homeless people that hid from them, just wanting to be left alone
I'm pretty sure they did, just didn't notice
you can hear what appear to be very watered-down echoing screams at 9:40
The stations, found on the walls, are used by engineers and surveyors to measure distances along a path. 130+00 means 13,000 feet. The numbers kept dropping the deeper you went, so the concrete wall at the very end might have been station 0+00 = 0 feet. So that segment of subway tunnel would have been roughly 2.5 miles long.
Actually did the same exploring back in the early/mid '80's in this when I was in college. The gate was very flimsy back then. The water main was there. The fallout shelter was actually in pretty good shape and was still somewhat stocked. There wasn't the graffiti.
I was there in the 80's and You are straight up Lying!
@@billyray5232 There wasn't food. There was some toilet paper and seats. I can probably dig up some black and white pictures from the roll of film I took. It was probably ''82 or '83 when I was in there.
@@scottconn62 I would be actually very interested in that, would you mind sharing those precious pics with us, if you manage to find them?
So thats a fresh water line? I was wondering what it was
@@thetaterman7317, it is a water main, so itis fresh water.
Imagine being down there and you suddenly hear the subway surfers theme playing in the distance
Wouldn’t be the most creepy thing to happen as someone else being bored might have wandered in
Or the jaws theme. Off in the darkness but getting louder and closer....
this cracked me up
The Nostalgia....
BUH DUH BUH DUHBUHBUDUBU
Just imagine being stuck in the middle of that without flashlight, you have to really plan ahead of this type of exploration
I would have 4-5 lights with me. 1 would also have a head lamp.
13:33, just casually ignoring the message on the wall "Don't wake it up"
I think it was a reference from the movie it.
20:55 That's no Satanic ritual, that's a ritual to summon Stan, from accounting
Anon Ymous Stan is worse, once you summon him he’ll never shut up
That's as bad as a girl I saw online with a "I worship Satin" tattoo. I keep picturing rituals involving pictures of Elvis.
Anon, OMG! hahahahahahaha thanks for the candy.
KYLE DID YOU DO THIS? DID YOU SPAWN STAN TO BE YOUR SLAVE?
HAIL STAN!
It’s creepy to think that they probably unknowingly encountered individuals down there who just stayed quiet and motionless
Probably haha
I was just thinking the same thing!!!
Most of those folks generally want to be left alone. Not many of them tend to cause trouble but there's always a few that do.
I've seen squats, they have likely walked past a lot of people
It's possible they did encounter people, just edited it out, also to not show any faces
Man, seeing these out-of-towers run around OTR at night time is nerve-wracking
rough neighborhood?
@@jacquesdeburgo2878 if you've never been in a city ever it is. Not really too bad at all though long as you mind your business
Noooo doubt!
@@jacquesdeburgo2878 It's rough. I was bar hopping there a couple weeks ago and there was a drive by murder
@@jacquesdeburgo2878here is a reason why some people CC in OTR
Everybody gangsta until you hear the sounds of traction motors rumbling, a Wabco AA-2 horn blasts through the tunnels, echoing off the walls. Sparks appear in the distance, and a bright headlight shines through. Its here. You get out the way as a big maroon interurban car passes, with gold lettering "Cincinnati and Lake Erie". It vanishes before your eyes. The ghost of what could have been.
I appreciate you
@@shrubbert1756 thank you. The Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad was meant to enter Cincinnati via the subway. These plans never came through and the interurban closed in 1939.
Did subways even have horns like that?
@@sceu25 Wabco AA-2's were used on interurbans, and the Cincinnati and Lake Erie was planned to use the Subway, but never did.
No subways operated in the Cincinnati tunnels.
Also I don't know of any subway cars with Wabco AA-2s.
This was actually quite beautiful. I wish cities, towns, and governments would give guided, scheduled, LEGAL tours of these amazing pieces of our history. It's a shame that it's ignored, hidden, and forgotten. Kudos to you guys for bringing this to us.
Mike Z it’s a massive health hazard to even be in there
Seattle has a couple underground tours. A lot of buildings are connected by tunnels. Every couple years, the route changes because new owners don't want the tours going under their building.
Let It Reign how so?
Cincinnati used to but it became too hazardous
@@ethanrom22 One person gets a cut, gets an infection, gets dead, and eeryones getting sued.
I'm from Cincinnati and the subway was always a huge mystery to everyone that lived there. It's always crazy that you can still see some of the entrances from the highways and such. Such a shame they weren't able to finish it.
I live across the river. I always wondered what lies within the train stations because trains were a big thing back then.
The ground was too soft since it was so close to the river the houses above the tunnels we're falling apart from ground shifts
Alex Grubbs doubt it. Typical waste of infrastructure
That's the future of high speed rail in California as well after billions of taxpayer money will be drained into it. People should buy "Impact" a James Grider novel on Amazon so I can afford to change states.
I highly anticipate the days where we can have videos like this about stuff like space stations, asteroid mining outposts, abandoned research facilities on other planets, etc.
Abandoned stuff deep beneath the earth has a certain charm to me, and I think that giant abandoned stuff in space would have a different kind of charm.
I any case, I'll still have to wait quite some time....
Whoa, good imagination. This would be a cool concept for some kind of higher budget series.
I am amazed. Seriously, this vid is amazing.
My second wife's father is the source of my amazement, God rest his lovely soul.
He was an insurance inspector in the southwest corner of Ohio. I was an agent of an Ohio Valley power plant that dealt with insurance inspectors. From our first meeting we were able to enjoyably share both sides of the industrial insurance experience.
At our second or third meeting (his daughter and I lived on the other corner of the state) he began telling me about tunnels dug into the Cincy hills, back in the late 1920s, and that there were insurable reasons for him to inspect them. He did talk about some parts were previously used as CD (Civil Defense) shelters in the 1950s , maybe even into the 1960s. I recall him stating that some areas were used for storage, and other areas for reasons he did not explain.
In the vid, seeing the fiber optic assets there now, I understand. My former FIL, rest in peace mi amigo, was only telling me the truth. Insurance inspectors will insist on crawling into the depths of intestines to prove the insurability of any asset. My former FIL and all industrial insurance inspectors have my respect. Inspectors took me to places I'd rather not see again, and allowed me to make a great living doing so. The paperwork wasn't all that bad on top of the endless other duties; the company was happy and the insurers were happy.
I feel very honored to have heard my FIL's descriptions of Cincy's tunnel system, and of its alternative uses over time. Alas, my time with his daughter ended very quickly, and my interactions with her dad ended in kind. He was a very intelligent and understanding man, and that makes him wise.
Godspeed, Jim. I am absolutely certain that there is a report written by Jim in a file somewhere telling the insured to "immediately limit public access to subterranean assets."
This video is broadcastable quality. If you kids aren't making six figures in production yet, well, that ain't right, you're that good.
"Hail Stan"
Those poor worshippers summoned the wrong dude from Hell. They summoned Satan's derpy brother.
boredomskingdom What if Satan is Stan’s derpy brother
@@bodieohbo - what if there is no satan?
@@wp4866 what if there is no stan? 😮
@Weenie Hut Jr's - no, but i've been to san jose
@@wp4866 So you know the way then?
The pipes Artyom! The pipes, they sing!
THOTH classic game right there, incredibly difficult at times but thats part of what made it so great
if its hostile..... you kill it
The John classic novel i would say. The game is not that great
@@cm5988 blaspheme
Metro 2033 is the closest thing to a STALKER we will ever get
While not as good as shadow of cherno.... it comes damn close for a linear story focused game
It's one of the top 5 single player games in the last 10 years......
Come on man....
@@kainhall It might be closer to the classic STALKER novel and film adaptation but that doesn't mean it translates well into a video game. METRO 2033 as a video game is vastly inferior to the S.T.A.L.K.E.R video game series. One is a good game while the other is a cult phenomenon. Metro 2033 was fun but it's not a classic game.
As someone who used to roam those streets at night (back in a different life) there are many many reasons that is locked up and prevented from being entered. If you think it's rough down there in certain areas at night then you couldn't imagine what it would be like if those same folks were in an abandoned subway. I've been robbed downtown as well as many others. I've had my face busted up needing stitches multiple times unprovoked of course. I had my upper jaw broken, my maxilary my orbital socket broken teeth broken. I had 4 different facial fractures from an attempted robbery. I've been through some unimaginable things down there, some of which only me God and the devil know about. I will be taking those secrets to the grave. Thier are things that go on downtown that very few people know about. If you know, you know. Be careful. God bless
What do you mean "in a different life"?
You should have read the 2nd Amendment. It could have been a good friend in those terrible situations.
@@williamroark4760 Please use your gun to blow your brains out
You need to stop spanking it to Guns& Ammo centerfolds@@williamroark4760
@@sherripotasky2440He means when he used to be a mean street punk looking for trouble. If you are looking for trouble in Cincinnati, you will soon find it .
Everytime I come across something about the Cincinnati subway l just get pissed that it was never finished. Instead, I have the pleasure of dealing with the ever present road construction all around the city.
"At night, when we can be more bold in our search"
And then walks up to an open door and gets in
Urban exploration is a joke.
It's a good thing it was open though, looks like pretty much every other entrance was pretty well sealed
well, they are 'technically' trespassing, it would be a bad idea to even touch that door in broad daylight.
I live in cincinnati, I CANT BELIEVE THAT DOOR WAS UNLOCKED
I'm sure they'd lock it but that means they could lock someone in, so just to lock that one door they'd have to bring an explorer team and explore every inch... also phones wouldn't work so no communication.
Dark Nixon got a good phone plenty of distance ,so they say
I live here, too. I thought there were guided tours in the subway? Thats what I heard.
@@murp61 They used grow mushrooms in it for a bit in the 70's I think
murp61 the Cincinnati museum center does offer tours down there a couple of times a year. From what I’ve heard they are booked a couple of years in advance.
i guess it never came to mind that at any given time security/ police could come by and just lock that door you went into without realizing you were inside and then you'd be trapped.
I used to live in Cincinnati from the 1960's through the '80's, so I heard all kinds of things about the subway. But this is the first time I've ever seen the inside of the tunnels. Thanks a lot. One thing I heard more than once about the subways, other than they ran out of money before they they could finish them, was that the reason they were never open is because they found out before they could open it, that the tunnels were too narrow for the subway cars they were planning to use. In order to use the tunnels, they would have had to enlarge then first. Never found out if that was true.
I took this tour with friends around 1975 when I was about 15 years old. We had baseball bats with us! LOL One of our friends had been in there before and drove us down there. We parked in white castles or was it daily donuts? at 1 in the morning and walked across the street just like you did. Flimsy broken gate made it easy to get in. We walked the whole thing, the air was very stuffy. There was no graffiti and no trash. It felt like we were one of the few that had seen it then. There was metal drums and plastic liners for emergency that someone had put down there. The large pipe was there then. Everything was in so much better shape then. Duhh it was 45 years newer then.
yea then
Why its abandoned.
how could you get a light that lasted so many hours back in 75? kerosene lamp?
Kirby Zhang a flashlight ???
@@MRBlack01234 Because of the great depression or whatever its called. Just go back to the beginning. Every detail is there
Really need to go back and set up a train whistle and high powered light triggered by a motion detector
Bill Williams, more like Ghostbusters
Oh man, that would be a cruel prank. I kept imagining a situation where they see a ghost train come down the line and go through as they cower in fear and bewilderment.
Right after the “dont proceed further” grafiti lol
dick move... I like it
Binge watching older Proper people explores ❤
I actually use to live very near that entrance you guys took way back when I lived off central parkway. I never tried to go in but was always tempted to. This was awesome to see something literally in my own backyard.
Glad that this channel doesn't have titles like " Exploring Slenderman Subway at 3 am challenge"
I don't think anybody's done a "slenderman" video unironically in at least four years.
I think you know Moe Sargi! A lot of his titles are way over the top. He is entertaining but I think his haunted videos are fake.
@@matthewjames2100 .
They're too proper for that degenerate click bait 😂
Thrillhausen Alt, yeah we're over the age of 13....fuck you
13:34 - graffiti says “Don’t wake it up”. Either a great IT reference or a creepy-ass warning.
well I noticed for that door someone spray painted on to that dead end wall with the EXIT sign above it, the "IT" was a brighter color red than the rest of the word. I don't know much about IT though so I don't know if it's a reference either.
A warning to what? A monster? Come on pal, are you 5?
@@kingucrimson5383 it's a movie reference, are you dumb?
yessir! No shit, jackass. OP also said it might be a “creepy-ass warning”
@@kingucrimson5383 mate why are you so fucking pressed about it?
I've drove past this for years often wondered what it looked like. Thanks for doing this.
I think I said this before, but I'll say it again... you guys are great! Clear, clean, and simple video tours of very cool places I'd never know about or be able to get to. No fancy, goofy, childish attempts at superficial entertainment in your videos. Bravo! And THANKS!! I'm a starving writer, so I cannot sponsor you. Perhaps one day.
I've lived in Cincinnati my whole life, and I've never heard much about the Subway tunnels here. By the way, the markings that say "Sta. ## + ##" is a surveying thing. They use it for the wastewater and stormwater treatment systems, including culverts, bridges, manholes, and I guess subway systems. It's a way for the construction workers to ensure they line up the structure correctly, and it helps with locating things like manholes. Here is an example; I am currently working on a huge box culvert that will go up in Dayton, Ohio. The entire culvert is going to be like a mile long, and some of the precast pieces have different lengths on the one side than the other, so that a gradual radius can be achieved. Anyway they build the culvert in different stages, so this one is Phase B, Part 3. It begins at STA. 73 + 01.95 and I still have to determine where it will end. The number just means 7,301.95' but with just that number it's pretty much useless, but if you also know that with six precast pieces of box culvert (specific ones) that the next station should be STA. 73 + 38.08. My job is to figure this out using CAD. I know most people probably think this is boring, but I know people might be curious.
What if someone remember they forgot to look the door and came back to lock it while you were inside. That's the kind of shit I always worry about hah
Ya I was thinking that too. Then I thought that hey they could call the police. They would get into so much trouble but they would break them out of there.
that's why i always carry a handy pocket size cutting torch
I don't think whoever is in charge of that door cares enough
When we explore here we put a lock on the hatch so that the door cannot be closed. Also the hatches can be forced open with some grunt.
@@ppzzus that's a good idea 💡.
You should have brought one of those insanely powerful flashlights. Get a picture of the "depth" of the tunnel!
Imagine having to call 911 for an emergency down there and realizing you have Sprint
just gloss over the fact that the Satanic drawing Said "Hail STAN"
The commoners hail Satan, the rare few hail stan......haha
gruncle stan is back
nathan adams in Cincinnati they worship the evil Stan. The Stan is the son partial darkness represents the melancholy of the world. All Hail Stan.
Dear Slim, I wrote you but you still ain't calling....LMAO!!!!!!
Promoting the new Periphery album are we?
I’m glad this channel does proper titles and introductions and isn’t like “DONT WALK INTO AN ABANDONED SUBWAY AT 3AM (GONE WRONG!!!)”
KenzoTenma _ same
they dont have to clickbait cuz their content is actually good
"24 HR OVERNIGHT CHALLENGE IN ABANDONED SUBWAY ALMOST DIED"
Although we probably were in there filming for more hours than most "24hr overnight challenge" videos do...
If I see clickbait. I give you a thumbs down.
Saddest thing is; If they do those clickbait titles and thumbnails, their videos will get millions of views from small teenagers that dont care about great content, but only care about obnoxious “vloggers” screaming and having crazy hair styles.
You don't have to sneak in...just contact the city commissioner about how you're a youtube documentarian, sign some wavers and they'll likely provide you with an actual expert on the area.
Sidenote to the viewers: Don't ever take how things are filmed as if it's real. They may very well had done what I just said to do above, and they just film it as if they didn't.
Exactly. It’s very rare such a huge abandoned area would just be sitting open like that. The only reason it would be open is for maintenance. Definitely a fake video but still really interesting to watch
@@seadawn8559It's always locked, according to cops I know in the city. There are however other ways of getting in, so I've been told by those same cops.
Wow that was so much fun and so interesting!! I was born and raised in Cincinnati.. I always wanted to go check those out.. but never did.. I'm 52 now.. ty so very much for a most excellent tour! How neat to see it finally. God bless. Be safe 🙏
I am wondering why you didn't explore that tunnel when you were young 😑
For future reference in order to go in during the day at your leisure, just wear hard hats and orange vests and clip on ID looking name tags, and don't forget to bring clip boards to complete the " city worker " look. It's amazing what you can get away with if you just look official, don't ask me how I know.
Patrick T Sounds like you have experience at doing that.
And yet you will still be documented on entry. One way or another.
*cough* Ally Law *cough*
Reminds me of what one of my friends used to say. "Just act like you own the place, and no one will ever question it."
Um that is a fact of life Greg, if you look like you belong no one questions you.
Imagine if they went back to the entrance and it was locked
Very possible!
I was so worried it would happen!
That's what I thought. At that point you call the police and incriminate yourself...
dAnkruPt - That would be the stuff of nightmares!
Oh god, that could have happened actually. Because i don't think that door is open very often
Thanks for sharing. Watched this one for the second time whilst in lockdown. There is nothing more that screams FREEDOM than these urbex vids. :)
There are also remnants of a understreet network of tunnels that exisited when there were many many breweries in Cincinnati, one section I know ran under ELm Street, but who knows if it is still there. Business and breweries use the tunnels to move supplies and goods, avoiding the pedestrian, horse and early vehicle traffic.
Those tunnels are still there. The one under the vine and liberty intersection is accessible through a tour
There are all tunnels in hamilton Ohio also. Right under the masonic temple going to the court house
12:51, That random teal stuff in the middle is actually oxidation of copper. When copper oxidizes due to it “Rusting“, It produces a bluish green type of color. This is indication of copper breaking apart.
Looks like rusted stairs to me
Can’t believe you guys didn’t come across anyone else while down there!
Richard Barry especially in homeless drug ridden Ohio
Ya, all that graffiti is a sign that other people have been in there. Plus, it was unlocked. You'd expect there to be at least a couple of homeless people taking shelter there. Maybe if they came back in the rain there would be more people there.
@@mattbenz99 yeah i guess. It could be a long walk to get to and from the tunnel tho. You wont get much money begging in the tunnel lol
@@joshuanorris5860 That was priceless!!!!
They were all at work......
I went thru tunnels when I was a teenager. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane!!! Stay safe keep exploring
The Proper People This was Awesome, I have explored a whole lot when I was young but never anything Like This WOW Thank You Both!
What would be real scary is you just hear an echo of a train and people at the subway station, but nothing is there
Would be fun to record something from another subway system during peak times and play it back with wired/less speakers. :P
The body yeah the point is it would sound like a ghost train and ghosts. That makes it much creepier.
The body wow bro how did you figure that out
that thought scares me tremendously
Or they thought they were down there 4 hours, but it was actually 4 years.
19:05 The most polite graffiti artist ever.
Graffiti artists do that so it doesnt get painted over by the city cause they cant read the code. Its mainly a thing done when painting freight trains so the freight workers can read the numbers that indicate whats in the freights.
Lil Mayo Graffiti artists are surprisingly considerate with how they do their art
@@burgbass the good ones anyway lol
I saw one at a sign before a hike saying: "Bean '16. Stay safe!"
I lived near Cincy for 27 years and this video warms my heart. Thank you! 💖
I just found out that another Cincinnati subway tunnel was completed and probably still exists. This tunnel is in Norwood, running for about 3000 feet just south of Harris Ave. from an underground station at Montgomery Rd. to a portal that was visible on the property of the Zumbiel Box Co. Apparently, the portal "was covered up" when the plant was razed 10 years ago after Zumbiel moved.
The Office of Civil Defense was started by FDR in 1941. It became an agency of the United States Department of Defense from 1961-1964. It was abolished in 1979 and became FEMA. So that bottle is over 50 years old
Beware the Satanists are planning to use these forgotten tunnels as part of FEMA's plan to depopulate the world......
Sorry Sorry, I was temporarily possessed by Alex Jones.
Now that is funny.
I see you Found Our Hangout... You totally missed the Tunnel that takes you to the Labyrinth of Tunnels that was the old Cincinnati Sewer System..
location please
yo what?
Like in ghostbusters?
@BIlly Ray
where is that? I have explored the Cincinnati subway multiple times and have not seen that tunnel.
@@nicholasroberts2648 Take me with you 👊💯
Learning about this abandoned project blew my mind. Thanks for the visual exploration.
Thank you for exploring this piece of history. I found this intriguing and engaging at the same time. I really like these kinds of videos which survey abandoned places. Keep doing the great work.
The Exit Door graffiti very deep into this tunnel, is my favorite graffiti featured in this video.
And only the RoadRunner would have been able to use it. "Beep beep!"
Made me think of Beetlejuice
Mine was “Hail Stan”
gotta get out somehow
@XxunicornpotatoxX 22:55
As a native Cincinnatian, I was aware of the Cincy Subway, but no where else that I've seen so far, showed more than a little of what was there. Your exploration was very well done, thanks guys.
Important question, do you actually like Skyline Chile? As a Clevelander the times I've had it just tastes like it got something in there that shouldn't be.
Joshua Knapp yeah, I’m from Cinci and I don’t really like it. It tastes like nothing
Joshua Knapp I like Skyline but not Gold Star. It's not the best food but it reminds me of being a kid
@@joshuaknapp5966 We have a Skyline Chili down the street, love the cheese coneys. It's good, fast casual food.
Nice job guys. Very physical adventure you guys performed for our entertainment, much appreciated.
Great video. Lived in Cinci for about 16 years now and knew about the system but not in this detail. Such a shame it's been abandoned for so long. There was talk about trying to pick the project back up but ended in them adding street cars a few years ago. City's infrastructure is horrible so a subway would be a fantastic addition
Those deep clusters of graffiti are signs that there is (or was) another entrance nearby.
Holy fuck. Give this guy another cookie for being so fucking bright.
He should be nominated for a Nobel price. lol :p@@jrkillazz
As someone whose done graffiti for the past 10 years, thats not always true. Areas with alot of paint traffic are called yards, theres usually never an entrance directly to the yard its just an ideal spot to paint after walking for a long time. Also something alot of people dont understand is writers spend 6-10 hours in tunnels on one piece sometimes
It appears that maybe there is another explanation, but my thought was that there might be a way out of the tunnel nearby that might lead to something worth further exploration.
@@OPEK. Yea... Your stupid. There are people that are full of shit... Than there is you. The sun is waiting for you to stare at it. Don't keep it waiting.
Looks like Cincinnati would have finished the subway system after the depression ended! It would be a much welcomed transit system for the people of that city to use daily!! Tragic that it's just there in darkness.... unused.
@Weenie Hut Jr's I've been to Seattle, but not Mukilteo.
Elon will.
@@JerryDLTN By that time Mill Creek Expressway was under construction.
Just open it
Cincy was already going downhill, they decided to fund infrastructure like subway in another city which had much more potential: Chicago
This is probably the creepiest location I’ve seen you guys visit! The sounds, the darkness…wow😮
The build up from the water running down the walls reminds me of the New York City subway system.
The older New York City subway system lines have the sharp turns for the reason mentioned-it followed the street. The newer lines are tunnel-bored so they can make large radius turns.
New York City still has unused tunnels underground. The newest ones are under 2nd ave which were built in the ’70s. Recently, some of them opened for phase 1 of the 2nd ave subway, but other abandoned sections remain.
The grafitti gives a good clue how many other unauthorized visitors have been there.
No the graffiti is a sign of the deep state having secret gatherings there.... 21:09
Gary Cameron
unauthorized visitors? just parcs and recreations service, making it more colorful down here..
who own this? the people or the cops???
Ethan Steel depends on the type of graffiti being sprayed.
@@svenskpolitik4458 Actually true, since pretty much all govt today are satan-worshipping pedophile cultists.
Svensk politik, you think the richest people on the planet meet in some dank tunnel with no electricity? Wow you're a special kind of stupid! 👌
I live in Cincinnati and never knew it was that easy to get in. They do tours like once a year and the waiting list is insane. Awesome video!!
From what we've heard it's usually really difficult to get in. We just got really lucky that the door was unlocked when we were there. Either a worker forgot to seal it after being inside or somebody had cut the lock off recently and nobody had noticed yet.
There are 2 other entrances but they are super sketchy.
grandprismatic Where are they at?
I'm assuming there are two unsealed vent shafts you can enter through? What makes them sketchy?
The Proper People It used to be really easy to get in. Those doors you went through were built around 10 years ago and when they're locked it's impossible to get in. I feel like you had some kind of connection for those doors to be unlocked. I really don't believe you got lucky. But anyway super dope video. Thanks for exploring the coolest thing about Cincinnati.
These videos are so professional and well done. Should be a TV show at this point.
Amazing explore. Thanks for the video
I'd be scared to walk around in there honestly at least without like 5 other ppl... that's spooky as hell
The same goes for above ground in that area of Cincinnati...
Ryan Hoopes - lol. I was thinking that, if there was another exit, they could get out there and walk back to their vehicle above ground. Then I remembered its Cincinnati and they were probably safer in the tunnel.
Its dangerous cause people hurt people if they know Thiers no one around people are sick not all but the evil ones
and it would turn into a movie where all u die (of course just fake not for real doe)
Yeah me too !!!...I'd be gamed if there were about 10 of us with like two-way radios with someone on the outside who know where we are just in case !!!!
Missed oppurtunity to sing the halo theme.
bepe Lmao
I was just thinking that too, like the video of hales bar and marina where the guy sang the halo reach theme inside the dam
yeha if youre a raging fat virgin
Yar0nix I’m 99% sure the guy who sang that song gets soooooo much pussy thrown at him.
Yar0nix, you're just mad that you didn't think of that comment first
Another awesome adventure you guys have taken us on. Thank You.
I live outside the Dayton area and had heard about the large unfinished Cincinnati subway because the tunnel entrance you went into can be seen on interstate 75. Thanks for doing this very interesting video. I love to explore abandoned places but would never have the nerve to go in there and definitely wouldn't feel safe going the entire tunnel. Thanks for doing it! Awesome video!
By the way the notation you guys saw (STA 130+00) is what is called stationing in Construction, and is used for most "long" projects be they railroads, highways, sewers, etc.
It's used as a milepost which would allow referencing specific locations along the length of the project. The number before the plus indicates the hundreds of feet along the roadway centerline, the numbers after the plus are fractions of a 100'. Essentially Sta. 130+00 is 13000 feet from beginning and Sta. 40+23 would be 4023 feet. Difference between stationing and dimensions is that stationing always follows the curve of the road/track, while dimensions are typically Line of sight/straight shot distances.
Just figured this may come in handy, if you notice the stations going down, you can tell how long the tunnel will go on for.
Stay safe guys
What is the point of the plus if it's equivalent to just writing the same digits without the plus lol
@@dudewaldo4
Several reasons, mainly it's a surveying convenience thing.
When laying out a site they may have surveying stations (points with measured latitude/longitude or Northing/Easting and elevation above sea level) these points would be labelled as Station 1, 2, 3, etc...
for anywhere in between those locations, a point may be described as 20 feet from Station 12 (or STA 12+20).
Then for consistency the same notation will be used on construction drawings and on site markings.
@@dudewaldo4 The plus sign marks the exact station. The 41+00 lettering is about 2 feet wide, but the plus sign is much smaller. When they're measuring, the zero end of the tape is held in the middle of the plus mark.
@@kellerrobert80 I see, thanks!
@@dudewaldo4 In the old days they would use a 100 foot chain to measure lengths. So originally 130+00 would mean it was 130 lengths of 100 foot chain + 00 feet. Nowadays we have more sophisticated measuring tools but they kept the old style of writing out the length. Also the center of the + is where the 130 foot mark is, so the old system still makes a lot of sense to use.
I'm really surprised no homeless people live in that tunnel like they do in New York
J Shannon there a lot of homeless people in downtown Cincinnati
I live in this city and work here, we have a strong anti-homeless establishment laws that prevent the hobo camps and law enforcement destroys them/tells them to move along. Used to be all under the highways till recent years, now they are mostly scattered but a few downtown and lower price hill camps remain albeit hidden from public eyes.
I know they were all over in Indy Indiana. They must migrate.
They live in it, they're not the friendliest in Cincinnati either
@@deadmire1976 I remember reading the book "The Mole People" back in '93... even that book said that the homeless camps were being broken up in NYC's subways in the epilogue... and after 9/11 I'm sure there are zero. So, not surprised to see that they encountered no hobos.
SOOO Cool!Thank you for showing me that!
This was so awesome and cool to see!! Very creepy, but cool. You guys stay safe!
Cleveland has a abandoned subway system with the old cars still in it plus ticket booths.
Where??
Detroit and West 25th
Why don’t they reopen these old train systems and make big money
@@rainbowrailroadcrossing7798 Because of how much refitting those death trap tunnels would cost
That's not a subway. It's the lower deck of the Detroit-Superior bridge that an interurban and streetcar line used. There's only a replica front-end of a Cleveland Railway streetcar down there.
I don't know how everyone feels about it but I feel that the echos of the upper traffic is creepy down there in the abandoned subway. I don't think that I could do that with my wheelchair at all.
Going in with a wheelchair would be a little tricky, but with the help of a couple of mates it would be worth the experience even if it was only a short way in, it's one of those places where it's all about the eerie sensation and the hairs standing on the back of your neck.
@@Drpepper7916 True, a few good mates would be helpful. But I would probably have backed out the second I heard the echo of the traffic reverberating through the tunnel system, that would make the little hairs stand on the arms alone, ha ha ha.
I'd do it with you dude as in in a wheelchair too!
You guys are awesome. I am in a wheelchair and can't explore anymore so I enjoy watching your videos. Do you ever come across hostile people? Thanks for doing what you do.
I’m from and live in Cincinnati, love to see this!!! Thank you
I wish the city could rebuild and open these tunnels again one day! They might require smaller trains and more building but at least the infrastructure is already there. The city is fortunate they began building in simpler times because to do something like this to say, Dallas, would be difficult with how big the city has grown over the streets, land, etc.
When the depression hit they abandoned this project
In most US cities, that would be a high-end homeless tunnel.
I was surprised that this wasn't used as a homeless shelter.
But then again I think it's a tunnel used for trafficking like many tunnels.
I’m shocked it isn’t either. As someone who’s lives near hear there’s a lot of homeless people in the city
@@zoemorin1623 yeah, every single corner. Idk how you are around them, but i would always try to be respectful. I usually either leave them be or actually treat them like normal people if they begin talking to me. You can make their day just by engaging into a normal conversation with them.
@@natesenft5376 I like to talk to them too. One of our family friends used to work with the homeless and she always told us to just say hi and introduce yourself to a homeless person and ask them about their day because most times they just want to be noticed and respected.
@@zoemorin1623 right! I’m not even religious and i’ve held hands and prayed with homeless people. They can be some of the best people and are just going through a time of hardship. Glad to see there are good people like you in the world!
Thank you for sharing! You guys are pretty brave. I enjoyed the history part as well and was just sharing about this tunnel with some friends ❤
I was born in Cincinnati (long time ago) and always heard about the fallout shelter. Finally I get to see what’s really there! Thanks guys!
I used to like to do mini explores when I was in my 20s and 30s. Nothing like with you guys do, small abandoned houses and buildings. My crown jewel was an abandoned yacht turned restaurant. It had flooded out in the lower compartment and was still in the water. Now that I’m in my 40s I love to live vicariously through your videos and enjoy all the strange, creepy and cool places you both explore. I look forward to every video. Your channel rocks!
If anybody else from Cincy noticed the "Adriatico's Pizza" spray painted at the bottom of the final station, you're amazing.
Yeah it was a joke directed at me personally. I wrote a book on the subway in 2010, when I was working at Adriatico's. Some coworkers got down there and spray painted that to make fun of me the next time I came down there.
@Mike Fernandez That sounds interesting.
@Mike Fernandez That sounds really cool, actually. I love learning about stuff like this.
@@jmecklenborg I loved Adriatico's. We had one in Kent back when I attended Kent State.
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would you be happy is they do open metro service? less walking?
That was really fascinating! I'm very surprised how easy it was to get into and that there are no homeless encampments there.
great presentation, it's nice to see you guys on the video! keep up the good work!
'Go no further or DIE'
Followed shortly by
'Dont wake it up.'
YEah I'd be turnin around after that.
it was written on the walls
When does it say don't wake it up? I'm looking for it but can't find it.
13:29
I toured the abandoned subway in 1970 with some college buddies. We walked the whole tunnel it took almost 3 hours. The batteries in our flashlights died just as we exited.
R.J. Seifert imagine if it was when you where in the tunnel
I was born and raised in Cincy and there are SO many stories about that old subway.