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AreWeSure ago

You're completely misreading the article. The tunnels do not go to Rock Creek Park. That was a reported rumor that turned out to be false. Hence, the line "None of the above."

*Reports indicated that the tunnels were long and extensive *— that they may have reached as far as Rock Creek Park. Some electric lighting was discovered inside. For days, wild theories abounded. Was it a Confederate soldier hideout? A stop on the Underground Railroad? A liquor depot for bootleggers? A counterfeiter’s lair? Or maybe a secret laboratory for “Dr. Otto von Golph’s” experiments?

None of the above.

The tunnels were not long and extensive, they were measured in yards not miles. I don't know what your maps are intended to show, but the man did not build miles and miles of tunnels by himself. He basically built two tunnels under houses he lived in. The tunnels didn't extend much beyond his own property. They also both collapsed and each collapse made the Washington Papers. These are not existing and functioning tunnels.

You can see this book for more information. Moths, Myths, and Mosquitoes: The Eccentric Life of Harrison G. Dyar, Jr

waxdino ago

I think the none of the above clearly refers to the "wild theories," not the "reports."
Those tunnels collapsed in places, but were soild, made of brick and well built. What if that is when they were restored and reused? Tell the MSM to say they were "sealed with concrete" and never went anywhere anyway. But rumors of the day had him traveling traveling between two secret families... I really doubt we have all the information on these tunnels.

AreWeSure ago

Dude, the tunnels were never very long and didn't connect to anything. If they collapsed in places, they are unusuable.

What if? What if is just making up things. Which is fun, but don't call it evidence. What if they have a Star Trek transporter and could just beam themselves around the city.

This tunnel theory is bunk.

waxdino ago

It's fun to read the MSM, just believe it, and think I'm well informed, but don't call it knowing the whole story. Looking at those brick-lined tunnels, I find it hard to think that even partially collapsed, they couldn't shore them up and reuse them. And if they did, do you think the ap would do a story on it? Or say, "oh they're sealed, and weren't ever really much anyway"?
The theory may be bunk, but I can't discount it until more info is found. What happened between those old-timey stories and the 90s?