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Podge512 ago

From Laurel Canyon (I'm currently reading the late Dave McGowan's Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon and it seems that LC was an utter cesspit of paedophilia and child pornography, with an extensive tunnel network underneath the sprawling 'Log Cabin' where the hippie movement was created, not to mention numerous inexplicable house fires) to the McMartin Preschool to CPP, there seems to be a recurring theme of tunnels which would ostensibly serve no practical purpose, given the nature of the properties under which they lie.

Zzzmmm333 ago

Yep, recurring theme throughout all of this is the tunnels aka rail network.. I mean what a better place to have a station that a place like CPP where it wouldn't seem weird with a lot of people entering there or even "closed" for a private function. Looking at it all now it doesn't seem to add up that they would have actual rituals at a place like CPP or bucks, BUT it does add up that these places are stations and also provide the menu for the trip to those that are in-the-know and ask for the "special" menu.

3141592653 ago

Shanghai Tunnels right by Voodoo Doughnut....

letsdothis2 ago

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/or-shanghai/

The basements of many downtown bars and hotels were linked to the Willamette River waterfront through the tunnels, allowing supplies to be moved from ships docked there directly to basements for storage. Although many residents used to doubt it was true, the catacombs snaking beneath the city do in fact exist.

Since the mid-19th century, stories have been told about shanghai practices in Portland. Not only men but women, too were warned to take care against being drugged or kidnapped and hauled off for sale. Women were allegedly shanghaied for use as prostitutes rather than ship’s laborers. Although other ports along the West Coast including San Francisco are said to have been centers of shanghai activity, Portland’s underground tunnels are claimed to have made the practice much more manageable and wide-spread than in other areas.

According to those theories, victims were either drugged, kidnapped while intoxicated or simply knocked out, then dropped or dragged into the tunnels through trapdoors called deadfalls. Once in the tunnels, they were locked in specially designed prison cells and held captive until they were shipped off as slave laborers.

During Prohibition, it is said that bars moved their operations underground, as well, making it easier than ever for unsuspecting victims to be shanghaied. Some researchers estimate that as many as 1,500 people a year were shanghaied through Portland’s Underground.

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3141592653 ago

Thx for the info

Zzzmmm333 ago

Just found this while searching Shanghai Tunnels, same thing? Connected the wharf to the shops, bank etc via smuggling tunnels.. A wharf, how convenient!

3141592653 ago

Wow, good find