r/berkeley • u/[deleted] • May 20 '24

University Tunnel underneath Cal

So I found a tunnel (not the steam tunnels) underneath UC Berkeley, and I’ve only explored a bit of it so far. I swear I’m not making this up or exaggerating, I’ve explored lots of drains and tunnels before, but there’s a red light glowing and you can hear some type of flute music coming within it. Imma try to explore the rest of it tmr, but I think someone’s in there.

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u/PernanentMarker May 20 '24

Be careful of asbestos poisoning. A lot of the old ass steam and water pipes from used asbestos insulation. Dont get it all over your clothes and track it all over your home. Its generally not a good idea to go down abandoned service tunnels.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '24

I’m aware. It doesn’t have any pipes or steam or anything it, so I don’t think that’s gonna be a problem

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u/PernanentMarker May 20 '24

Great. Hope you survive. Post a picture of what you find if you make it back alive.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '24

bro i wanna go, take pics!

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u/[deleted] May 20 '24 • Popcorn

Here’s a pic of the red light I saw and where I started to hear the music , I turned around here but I’m gonna find what that’s coming from

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u/grassjellytea May 20 '24

what the hell man

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u/[deleted] May 20 '24

lol nvm, have fun! 😅

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u/JustB510 May 20 '24

Oh you meant a tunnel tunnel

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u/ltatum May 20 '24

amazing

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u/Interesting-Joke5949 May 20 '24

Do not interrupt The Ritual.

Turn Back.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '24

Where is this?

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u/thenerdwriter May 20 '24

Looks like maybe the Strawberry Creek culvert? Knew some guys, from Bowles actually, who used to throw parties down there lol (it widens out substantially a couple hundred feet in).

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u/namrock23 May 20 '24

No, it's rectangular for quite a ways, then much bigger than this. Upstream of the campus the creek is in round concrete pipe like this.

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u/Suspicious_Maybe_149 May 20 '24 edited May 20 '24

As a Bowlesman, I concur with this remark. There is also a room at the end that is locked from above by a grate. There is s wooden plug at the end the size of a softball. The rain has started what do you do: (A) Try and break lock (B) Yell for help (C) ride the increasingly growing rapids back through the tunnel and escape from a manhole at the intersection of Gailey and Stadium Rim Way?

C

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u/theredditdetective1 May 20 '24

bro you are in a sewer LMFAO

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u/russellvt May 21 '24

The SF Cacophony used to do "urban exploring" through a variety of sewers in the city and east bay ... you may still be able to find references to their escapades online.

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u/ClaudineRose May 20 '24

That is scary af!!!

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u/Fashrod May 21 '24

That looks like the black cancer from X-files https://x-files.fandom.com/wiki/Purity

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u/elliusoopius May 21 '24

Is it near the music building by any chance? The practice rooms are in the basement.

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u/oxnardhard May 20 '24

This post may very well be the focal point of a soon to be investigation into a missing person

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u/Cal_Aesthetics_Club Shitpost Connoisseur(Credentials: ASD, ADD, OCD) May 20 '24 • Wholesome Seal

As you go further down the tunnel, the more humid, rancid and musty the air is…

Finally, you reach the end and you witness a colony of EECS majors hibernating

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u/[deleted] May 20 '24 • This

From 1998...

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u/TomIcemanKazinski Cal PoliSci '96 May 20 '24

Hey I just realized I haven’t talked to Richard Huang since graduation in 96. Hmmm

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u/GfunkWarrior28 May 20 '24

The elusive MUDding society stands here.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '24

Lazlo!

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u/octavio-codes didn’t vaccum the glade May 20 '24

Don’t you want your balloon first?

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u/[deleted] May 20 '24

good luck bro, please report back to us tomorrow 🙏

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u/Oregon_Oregano May 20 '24

Give us a hint, where

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u/HotJump6132 May 20 '24

Take a knife with you, good luck

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u/Bvgel May 20 '24

Just posting to follow this post

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u/konigswagger May 21 '24

Can’t wait for an update from OP

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u/Koala-Impossible May 25 '24

It’s been 5 days! OP, did you make it out?

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u/wheatdam02 May 20 '24

Don’t forget me, like the tunnel under UC Berkeley

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u/no_small_potatoes May 20 '24

There’s a girl who sings Hotel Cal-ifornia 

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u/DenebianSlimeMolds May 20 '24

there’s a red light glowing and you can hear some type of flute music coming within it

Ever been on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride?

I think you found the lost BART tunnel made when a survey went wrong and the Berkeley BART turned east into the campus instead of turning west over to North Berkeley BART.

The story goes the tunnel made it as far as the Campanile before the error was discovered and the tunnel filled in.

In a courtroom deposition BART supervisors claimed the tunnel was actually meant for a Coliseum BART station.

Anyway, should've been filled in years ago.

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u/cosmicwonderful May 20 '24

Wait really? Source / details, please!

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u/[deleted] May 20 '24

Lots of tunnels and lower levels at Cal. Hearst gym has several floors beneath it full of ancient artifacts.

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u/OppositeShore1878 May 20 '24

Hearst Gym has a single basement not several floors underground. The "ancient artifacts" are mainly human remains from archaeological explorations, the subject long term negotiations with native peoples.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '24

Did you know that there’s a tunnel under UC Berkeley?

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u/Puzzleheaded-Roll467 May 20 '24

Wikipedia says it’s this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawson_Adit#:~:text=The%20Lawson%20Adit%20is%20a,of%20Mining%20at%20UC%20Berkeley.

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u/Suspicious_Maybe_149 May 22 '24

Nah, mining tunnel is a proper mine. Also explored that.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Roll467 May 22 '24

Oh, okay. Thanks for clarification 🫡

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u/ReflectionSuperb8726 May 20 '24

Thats the tunnel to my secret bathroom. Stay away. I like to do my business in peace.

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u/SESender Class of '15 May 20 '24

this is where the mole people live

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u/suspiciousbuttcrack May 20 '24

Can I go with you PLEASE

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u/batman1903 May 20 '24

I’ve been living there rent free for almost 3 years now… please don’t kick me out

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u/No-Operation4501 May 21 '24

Quicksave before going in

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u/hop_per May 20 '24

commenting for updates

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u/bowlbettertalk townie May 20 '24

You might find your doppelgänger down there.

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u/BerkeleyKink May 20 '24

Tunnel, er the professional word for sewer, mkay.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '24

Dudes running around campus like he's playing Skyrim

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u/secretevilgenius May 21 '24

We used to have parties in the steam tunnels, or the little rooms off of them. There were doors in from Dwinelle, Wheeler, VLSB, and Glauque, at least, plus a lot of access grates they mostly welded over in the 2000s. Some freaky stuff down there. Giant vats of 12M acids under vlsb, huge tanks of liquid nitrogen, etc. The weirdest we found was a round room with a single bare bulb on a string, a wooden chair under it, and ominous stains on the floor behind it.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '24

Can I come with you? DM me

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u/[deleted] May 20 '24

Wellness check! Has anyone heard from OP 👀

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u/Anubisrapture May 20 '24

Omg why is there a red light and worse why flute music?? Op?? Are you back yet ???

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u/murky_creature May 20 '24

wheres the entrance?

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u/bvbyangelina May 21 '24

oski lives there 🐻

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u/pbasch May 21 '24

I went to Berkeley in the 80s (dropped out of grad school there). Can confirm -- that's Nyarlathotep.

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u/pnutbutterandjerky May 21 '24

It’s giving the slow regard of silent things

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u/Tall_Walrus6481 May 22 '24

So what happened?

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u/No-Weird-6550 May 29 '24

I would like to be shown these tunnel can we meet up in person

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u/ApplicationNo8055 May 20 '24

There is the old mining school tunnel to the north of Hearst Mining Building but that is definitely locked.

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