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Jester
Location: Vancouver,B.C. Canada Gender: Male Total Likes: 21 likes
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| | | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 225 on 10/24/2005 4:12 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Do you know how many stories I've heard about tunnels here, or cultists there, and ghosts haunting here, and on and on and on... Now, in my experiences, the vast majority of such rumours are to put it bluntly, utter bullshit. A rumour begins, usually with some small basis in reality (example: there were natural caves somewhere, rumour starts about secret tunnels), which people hear, and propogate without any actual knowledge. The rumour grows as people expand upon it with (example cont'd: there are cultists in the tunnels, or the tunnels lead to a secret chamber), again, with no actual knowledge. As the stories continue to circulate, they continue to grow, and some people will believe them simply based on the fact that the rumour has circulated widely enough. This doesn't make it true. So many cities with rumours of uber secret tunnel networks, in the end, at best, turn out to be simply storm drains. The special chambers ? Don't usually exist. The Dunsmuir tunnel... Did you know that you could get in, if the giant magnets didn't stop you. Yes, giant magnets... they won't let you get in. I was told this by a guy down by the tunnel that *knew* all about it. He told me it, and he did know about the tunnel, more than most people seemed to, so it mjst be reliable info right ? Luckily the magnets weren't stopping me, just the large concrete barricade. If someone wants to, they can connect almost any collection of rumours and/or info in some way and show you a web of secrecy/conspiracy... but it doesn't make it true, though by repeating it and spreading it, you propogate the rumour based on nothing substantial, and in time, you will become one of the "sources" that some other believer touts as having known and or seen the rumour in question, though undoubtedly there will be no actual proof and the story he hears will have changed from what you had actually said.
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| anvil
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| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 234 on 11/4/2005 5:50 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | A tunnel from Vic High to the Tech Buildings - under the field????? I worked maintenance for SD #61 - which allowed me to thoroughly explore both sets of buildings - top to bottom, attic to the lowest basements - and I don't know what tunnel you're referring to. Unless I missed it. And no indoor swimming pool, either. No evidence of that in the building, and nothing documented in the published histories of the school that I've read. As for a tunnel from the site of Vic High (when were there barracks on that site?) to Clover Point - the tunnel would have be over 3 km long, dropping from an elevation of about 75 feet above sea level to sea level. Unlike Albert Head, Fort Rodd Hill, Finlayson Point and other strategic locations along the coastline of Greater Victoria, Clover Point did not have defensive gun emplacements (from what I can find out at this time). It was, however, the home to a rifle range at one point. As there was never a military installation of any size at Clover Point, and no barracks at Vic High, what would be the point of a tunnel between the two?
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| KublaKhan
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Total Likes: 207 likes
With Satan, it's always gimmie, gimmie.
| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 235 on 11/4/2005 5:53 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by anvil A tunnel from Vic High to the Tech Buildings - under the field????? I worked maintenance for SD #61 - which allowed me to thoroughly explore both sets of buildings - top to bottom, attic to the lowest basements - and I don't know what tunnel you're referring to. Unless I missed it. And no indoor swimming pool, either. No evidence of that in the building, and nothing documented in the published histories of the school that I've read. As for a tunnel from the site of Vic High (when were there barracks on that site?) to Clover Point - the tunnel would have be over 3 km long, dropping from an elevation of about 75 feet above sea level to sea level. Unlike Albert Head, Fort Rodd Hill, Finlayson Point and other strategic locations along the coastline of Greater Victoria, Clover Point did not have defensive gun emplacements (from what I can find out at this time). It was, however, the home to a rifle range at one point. As there was never a military installation of any size at Clover Point, and no barracks at Vic High, what would be the point of a tunnel between the two?
| Space ships. A tinfoil hat factory. A secret CIA prison. A long narrow race track for something racy. All of the above. None of the above. Some of the above.
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| Jesus
Location: Victoria, British Columbia Gender: Male Total Likes: 0 likes
| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 237 on 11/4/2005 7:25 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Actually, I have heard that the tunnel from the tinfoil hat factory leads all the way to the cia prison, but you can only access it from a coaster-sized manhole cover underneath the tigers head on the wall at the Bengal Lounge, which has since been boarded up by a nice sheet of mahogany the that Satanists who run the Douglas Hotel as a front for the hat factory donated back in 1924. You can bypass this manhole cover to get to the secret prison by way of an even lesser known UFO rental fleet, which since the beginning of this post, has had to relocate itself to the computer rooms in James Bay Coffee and Books due to increased demand for the rentals, and tourist traffic to see the prison. If any of you would like more information, please take the secret tunnel to my place in Fairfeild, the entrance to this tunnel is guarded by the dangerous Oak Bay elderly, and can be found in the used coffee grinds of any given Starbucks in the city
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| KublaKhan
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Total Likes: 207 likes
With Satan, it's always gimmie, gimmie.
| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 238 on 11/4/2005 9:24 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Jesus If any of you would like more information, please take the secret tunnel to my place in Fairfeild, the entrance to this tunnel is guarded by the dangerous Oak Bay elderly...
| I've had run-ins with this nefarious group. Don't let their walkers and Jerry-Davidson get away vehicles fool you: they're bad-ass muthafukkhas. I once got bumped out of the lottery ticket line-up by some silver-haired old gal. She quick-picked MY GODDAMNED TICKET. Like she needs the money. C'mon, Deary...you haven't much time left...let someone else win something for Christ's sake. I frightened the rest of these dangerous people away by shouting BINGO over and over and over again. Confused the shit out of them. I only mentioned the tinfoil hat factory as a possible explanation for this particular tunnel thing because I keep finding little squares of tinfoil that have some charred/burned sticky residue on one side and some kind of smeary coal-like grime on the other...which MUST be part of some experiment into anti-conductivity. Some twitchy kid told me that it's from cooking meth or coke or smack...whatever...TIN FOIL HAT FACTORY. That's my final answer. At least for the next five minutes.
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