Illinois man finds mysterious tunnel beneath his home
Illinois man finds mysterious tunnel beneath his home
We’re going underground in Alton, Illinois, into a tunnel that was just found.
“A lot of brick,” said Gary Machens, who discovered the tunnel. “Whatever they built this for, it took a lot of men and a lot of hours. You know, one guy didn’t do this.”
Machens first uncovered this tunnel when he discovered his sidewalk starting to slope.
“Had a problem here at the sidewalk and as we were doing some excavating and repacking of the rock here, we discovered this tunnel here,” he said. “According to historians here in the Alton area. This tunnel was put in here around 1840.”
When the West Alton farmer and his wife first moved into this home, he already knew of its history – dating back to the 1890s.
Machens believes the change in elevation from 1895 when this brick-lined street was put down covered the opening to this underground mystery.
“Why is it stair stepped like this?” Machens said. “Why is that in there? Do you see the offset in the brick? And if you look along this wall it turns that way a little bit. Look down along this wall.”
Whether for ice storage, a carriage, or part of the Underground Railroad, is anyone’s best guess.
“It’s unique, there are a few tunnels around the Alton area since we checked with the Landmark Historic Society,” Machen said. “It’s been used as an icehouse or root cellar or a lot of other options.
“It could have been used for the Underground Railroad. There’s no proof of that but there was a ferry here in the Alton area to the Missouri side and it’s possible it could have been used for that.”
Machens is open to the idea of opening the tunnel for tours if he can get the city or someone to help with logistics and cost.
For now, he has to fix his sidewalk and seal up the tunnel.
“Yes, three former mayors of Alton have lived in this house through the years,” Machens said. “I don’t know if any of them knew about this. The house was built in 1890, the tunnel is believed from 1840, so it was here for 50 years. What it was used for, I don’t know. We’ve got maps that go back to 1863 and this house was not there and there was not another house on this property here.”
Machens, a history lover, says he wants to preserve this past and current-day mystery in his life.
“So, it was at least 9 feet tall,” he said. “We’re standing on about a foot of dirt and it’s 9 feet wide and how far back it goes, we don’t know. We know it goes back 60 feet.”
More: https://fox2now.com/news/illinois/alton-man-discovers-mysterious-19th-century-era-tunnel-beneath-his-property/
They were not trying to turn that camera around…
Just go down there with a shovel one day and start parting that fill.
Somebody needs to tell these people that the "Underground Railroad" was not literally under the ground.
Shoulda kept quiet about it and made it a man-cave
Looks like it was constructed using forms then covered with soil. Look at the pressed mortar. Brickies or masons would have jointed if it was built while tunneling.
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tunnel
0:52 Around 18 Farty
Oh u believe that but people don’t believe the tunnels under grace land.ok then
Guy should have kept silent, fixed it up into a cool apartment, and hid a side chick down there 😜
Stop playing. Gtfoh!!
Dope grow opportunity up in smoke
Now I can get why Alton is the most haunted place in America
Use your heads, these are Freemason’s tunnels
1800s, bs…it’s much older…fake history
Best way to preserve it is to forget about it and leave it alone.
why advertise? now the government will force you to sell your house to them.
Hhhhmmm
We got a bunch of those in Savannah, Ga
Dude just a new basement
#mudflood
Not tunnel, it’s an old city that was buried in the last reset. Just ask the historians of Kansas City, Seattle, Cleveland, Miami, Dallas, Phoenix, or any other city on this planet. Every city was dug out to its most usable floor in the 17-1800s.Thats why every city has historic buildings with windows and doors going underground and steps going up to the next/first reusable floor. It’s exactly why the entrance into this "tunnel" shows arched stonework just under the wall, as it’s an old doorway or window lintel. We been lied to about our history across the planet.
MUD FLOOD. If you know, you know.
I want to know why so many buildings and tunnels were paved over. Its so many its insane
I’m confused as to whether people _actually believe_ the "underground railroad" was a physical, subterranean… "subway-like" train. 🤦♂️
Mudflood, Tartaria
18-farty
Need to go a whole lot deeper to find the big tunnels which are interconnected to the entire globe. People need to stop worrying about aliens & pay attention to what is under their feet.
Some will not be able to handle what is eventually disclosed & it will have to be because part of being Free means telling the Truth. Some refer to it as the inner earth or hollow earth For too long man has been moving further away from the Father & struggling through life never really understanding the Matrix is real. Take a moment & think of those loved ones that have moved on. Did they live the kind of life that the Father wanted for us? Or were they like most, living lives of quite desperation ?
Hiding slaves
Whats behind the sand mounds…both ends need unblocked….you are standing in a tunnel, of a once and partially still existing, starfort…which ALL have been constructed along waterways, and are present in partial or whole, under every major city in the world. Called Starforts, Bastions and Batteries, said to be made for cannons from 1700’s…all have these ancient arched red brick tunnels, and were buried or covered up by peaple or more likely, a flood.. and when originally created, were ancient pre-flood, Hydraulic Machines….is what I stongly lean toward in my reseach…it gets much deeper than this but, i digress
It’s a cellar for storage, I’d guess.
Wonder where the whole underground takes you to
My grandma and grandfather said that in Rockford Illinois there’s a LOT OF TUNLLES, which is crazy
Imagine finding someone living under your house like that.
That brickwork is actually in really good shape!
Its where the tunnel jews lurk
There’s tunnels all over, that’s where they live and do bad things. Celebs politicians
The Tartarians built and then the mudflood happened and then they rebuilt ontop of it and hid it …
El chapó at it again
It’s a coal chute, we had one in a house we rented Warrenton Virginia.
That tunnel probably was used for slaves or something
Underground railroad didn’t literally mean "underground" cmon now folks😮
At least he didn’t do it himself.
My brother lives in a building that’s a couple hundred years old, and his basement looks like this. Just a tiny bit wider, and painted in white completely. well, not very white anymore. It’s horrible because it’s incredibily moldy and he can’t get rid of it.
In the small city where he lives some house owner discovered a network of tunnels when he was digging out his basement. 250meters long, 3 meters below the ground, going underneath the city center. At the end of these tunnels there are just rooms. These tunnels were used for canons and small explosives against enemies. Apparently there’s a few more of these in this city.
Oh yeah this is in Europe tho, not US.
Antisemitic!!
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Yts are so ignorant lol they literally the the underground railroad is an underground tunnel system smh. This us what happens Florida.
Tunnels built in 1840? Uh, not a chance folks! There are tunnels under every city reaching all 4 corners of this earth! No exceptions. There are in fact HUGE old word buildings and even more massive structures that were utterly destroyed and definitely melted down like wax by unimaginable heat then buried and covered over by the melt during the utterly catastrophic worldwide X-Factor Event that occurred at the start of the 1800s that also reached all 4 corners of the earth. Followed by an immediate massive worldwide flood! The proof and evidence of the X-Factor event is in plain site everywhere on earth! Hidden by wicked, vile LIES!
Wonder if they ever removed that pile of dirt so we can know what is at the end of the tunnel
Good luck! I hope you’re able to reopen it.