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screamwriter
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| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 985 on 7/23/2006 1:35 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | (jpeterman Post by J PetermanWhat are you talking about. The book is packed full of great stuff...including interesting facts on Victoria as well as myths and rumours. | Well after that impassioned response anything I say will result in a flaming war. I just don't like the book for the reasons I layed out. I also said it had its use. BTW since you are mentioned on his Webb log is not your opinion sort of slanted? "But local UE folks have also done some serious exploring – especially the extraordinary "JPeterman" – and posted photos of their discoveries." - Mr Clockford Fair Question. No you are right I agree this is a public forum but it still has an aura of "shhhhh" around it as far as I have seen having read all this thread. So I don't see the need to add a link to this site that shows where people are going(exploring) and how to get there.(more or less) Its just asking for trouble. Like I said my opinion and only because I would hate for the keepers of the submarines to know we are on to them. And send more Satanists after us. :p re; fine. Nothing exiting just got caught in the cement factory after the media hype when my friend hit his head. They added extra security and we had not taken that into account. I think the point of my statement was perhaps less careful kids will discover this site. fuck them self’s up and cry mommy. Next thing you know the headline will be "Urban exploration" the biggest threat to our kids since meth " Anyways read the book, make up your own mind. Shameless promotion shit just makes me roll my eyes. Seriously though ask you’re friend if he is getting sued for any portion of the book cause I’m sure he is. Peterman you have a wife? How old are you?
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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 # 990 on 7/23/2006 4:37 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by screamwriter I just thought you look rather young to be married . But I will not ask anymore questions in to the nature of your true identity. First rule of fight club. Right? I could be profiling you for the local authorities. Or my Satanist friends Re: "You're friend" I was assuming you are in contact with Ron on a semi regular basis. If not no problem. I heard he upset someone because of the section in his book mentioning a shrine to Alistair Crowley in lower market square. peace -screamwriter
| Mind if I offer my $.02 on this issue? Tough shit...here it is anyway. The Monday thing went down something like this: Monday guy wanted to do a story on a mysterious spooky something or other to amp up a bit of slagging tourism biz for the city (tourism numbers are WAY low this season). He picks up the phone from his office and calls our author friend and, as he's asking questions, he types away, basically pasting quotes into a clever little page filler about Victoria's Mysterious Underground™, and then cites the author as an expert, and then claims to have called me for additional information. Our author friend says something like, "Hey...I'm just doing my thing. You might want to talk to the people over at UER...cuz they're shit is wired tight. And Monday guy responds with something like, "What's a UER?" And our author friends sez, "You gotta be shitting me." Something like that. Anyway, I received no such call. I wasn't contacted. I checked my phone log...and there's nadda there from Monday. Nothing. Where he got his information concerning me is more of a mystery than the tunnel story. Maybe he followed me around and made notes and/or wore a disguise (I vaguely recall stumbling home from my favourite pub one night where I had the distinct impression that I was being followed by a large balding man with big glasses and a wooden leg. Or maybe it was a small round man with lots of hair and an eye patch. Like I said...I stumbled home...so who knows...it could have been my shadow cast by streetlights). Now...our author friend, on the other hand, is a careful reporter of the Old School. He's basically a freelancer, so he must go out and actually find stories, research them and then write them. His gig isn't the sort of thing that an editor hands him on a Tuesday afternoon before deadline and says 'Write something on this not more than 500 words I need it in an hour' type shit that generally passes for 'journalism' these days. Whatever. The cat's out of the bag now, and my personal feeling on this matter is that it was going to happen sooner or later. Our author friend, being a professional, won't offer any incriminating information concerning UEing people, and certainly not anyone involved with the Under the Garden City project (it's beyond a 'thread' now...it's a project). Crockford is a Good Person in my books. I harbour no ill will toward the guy who did the Monday piece. In fact, if I ever meet him, I might thank him for generating additional hits for the thread.
| "The truth is knowable. But probably not, ever, incontrovertible." --Don DeLillo PICS |
| screamwriter
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| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 993 on 7/23/2006 6:19 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Our author friend, being a professional, won't offer any incriminating information concerning UEing people, and certainly not anyone involved with the Under the Garden City project (it's beyond a 'thread' now...it's a project). Crockford is a Good Person in my books. | Good enough for me. Just not a big fan of his book he might be a great guy but I though He used to be the head publisher for Monday. I’m confused are you saying YOU approached him to do a story about underground tunnels or you knew him before? Is there a documentary forthcoming as mentioned Where ARE the Satanists dammit? More questions then answers. Just the way I like it.
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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 # 994 on 7/23/2006 6:10 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by screamwriter Good enough for me. Just not a big fan of his book he might be a great guy but I though He used to be the head publisher for Monday. I’m confused are you saying YOU approached him to do a story about underground tunnels or you knew him before? Is there a documentary forthcoming as mentioned Where ARE the Satanists dammit? More questions then answers. Just the way I like it.
| Personal taste in literature aside... ...I met him through a mutual acquaintance a couple of years ago at a writer-type affair that featured chilled Pino Gris and cute little puffy things filled with crab meat. Ross and I drank beer. He's my kind of fella. There are shitloads of documentaries being produced in Victoria, and for that matter, Vancouver Island. It isn't a hard line to draw in connecting dots between two points re: tourism and quirky Victoria Tourist stuff. The Satanists are, from what I've been told, vacationing somewhere cold. My understanding is that they don't like heat, unless it's the metaphorical kind, or it involves ritual sex and sacrifice. They may be huddled together on an ice flow right now, planning their own March of the Penguins. Who knows?
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| "The truth is knowable. But probably not, ever, incontrovertible." --Don DeLillo PICS |
| 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 # 995 on 7/24/2006 5:13 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | So I'm out and about wandering through my beloved city, enjoying the blistering heat, the retina-burning sunlight and tourist shirts, and I'm with the team...some of it anyway...and I wander in to some old building while A. Lien adjusts his fanny pack and J Peterman plots cold revenge against a squad of sinister highschool athletes, and as I'm looking around admiring the old brickwork and general mise en scene of the place, a man pops up from behind the counter and says, "Good afternoon. How may I help you?" "Just curious, friend," I said. "It's an old building. I like old buildings." "It is indeed a very old building. One of the oldest in the city. You from out of town?" "In a round about sort of way. Every day offers new opportunities to learn something about Victoria." "Indeed it does." So I ask a few questions, and make careful mental notes and basically admire the lovely this and that and I say, "Any chance I could get a tour of this place?" And my new friend says, "Sure. Step right this way." As he begins, I hail Peterman and A. Lien and off we go. My new friend tells us that he's new to town. Over from Vancouver. He loves it here. "What's not to love," I say. He's pointing to a bunch of interesting things, commenting, smiling. "Old vault over there. And this here used to be a holding cell back in the day." We peer inside and sure enough it looks like a holding cell. Very small. Thick mortar layered between red brick like icing on a cake. Then he takes us downstairs. It's a clean space, well lit, and on the far wall is some kind of plastered-over thing that's a bit dodgy. "I don't know how old this plaster is, but it's getting a bit sandy in some places. The stone wall," he says pointing to what is obviously an old stone wall," (likely reclaimed ballast from some ship from the early days) "blocks off a tunnel that goes right up the street." "A tunnel?" "Yeah. There are tunnels all over the city. I was told by the previous tenent (of the building) that there are tunnels all over the city and this spot is one of the entrances." So I'm pondering this voluntary information, and I say something like, "How old is the wall?" "I dunno. I just moved here. But the person who formerly occupied this building told me the first day I walked in that this wall once opened up to a tunnel that went all the way down the street." And he points in the general direction of the street. "She told me that the person who owned it before her plastered over it because it creeped him out. She told me that that person took a walk through the tunnel and ended up getting lost, making turns into other tunnels and just ended up lost. He found his way out, but he got pretty scared." "Interesting," I said. Peterman is shaking with excitement. "Someone told me that there are still a few openings around town, but junkies have made shooting galleries out of them. Needles and bad shit and it's pretty sketchy. I wouldn't go in." And I find this just a little ironic, as the guy works around blood and needles all the time.
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| Local Hero
Location: In a fine pair of trousers Total Likes: 0 likes
| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 996 on 7/25/2006 9:41 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I think you folks are more likely than not somewhat insulated from the prying eyes of newspaper readers by the sheer size of this thread. I just read it all in one sitting (I don't even know how long it took, but it's 230 AM now), and if the size doesn't get them hopefully mavrix or the inside jokes about Jesus will. Thinking back to the start and the at times labourious, but interesting, discussion on stories, fact and reality, I didn't necessarily forsee the shifts and changes that occurred throughout. And I may just be tired but reading it all at once, I really notice contrasts like JP's first adventures in fibreglass to more successful exploring later on. From a broader perspective, I feel that this thread encapsulates a lot about what urban exploration has the ability to be. A city is a dynamic place, constantly becoming through the dialogue of its citizens with the physical spaces and places within the urban. This thread illustrates this tie to place from a temporal perspective, what with all the archival work and history lessons, and a more grounded one as you all actually muck about in a city's guts. Of course this dialogue is incomplete unless one takes social networks into account as well, because a city without people is something else entirely. Social connections have been made, both amongst the explorers and between them and the larger community. I found the inclusion of the homeless population as equal citizens and resources to be very interesting and enlightening. Heck, there were even a few debates about the NEED for photos and how much info about a site is too much. I was a little hesitant to post because there are only a few spots left before 999, and the culmination of the search. Of course given how I feel about the dynamism of cities I won't be too surprised/disappointed if this thing goes on for a little while yet. Hope that wasn't too wordy or lost. Looking forward to more, but for now methinks bed's the thing!
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| wallabazoo
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| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 997 on 7/26/2006 6:43 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Hi, speaking of readin the whole thread, I haven't, so I apologise if what I relate here's been told in some form or other already, but I thought it would be useful. I work at the Empress, often on the graveyard shift which means lots of free time to wander around the really vast and complex basements of the hotel, most of which are totally unused and basically abandoned. Some who read this may be going "we already know about the laundry tunnel," that's not what I'm on about. That tunnel was just for transporting laundry and just goes under Douglas st., the other end being the sealed door by the Budget rental place. Very little to it, doesn't connect to anything else-- talking to people who've worked at the empress for 30yrs or more, they all say it's not interesting at all, just a sealed stretch of tunnel several dozen yards long. But the basement is another story, many (most?) parts of which are part of the original 1908 building. When I say "vast" I mean it-- one huge dark room after another, weird crawlways leading to other huge rooms-- a LOT of spiders--it's unreal. I found a fountain drink bottle down there that's gotta be 70 years old. It extends well beyond the actual base area of the building as seen from outside, and one of the larger sealed sections extends all the way under belleville st. to the museum... Another note, One of the long term senior guys in my dept.-- guy in his 60s, lived here his whole life, worked at the empress since the '70s -- was telling me that an important entrance to the tunnels under the downtown core-- which he affirms absolutely do exist (he further claims to have stories about the city actively denying and covering them up, still need to hear)-- is under or near the old Masonic Lodge on douglas st, douglas and ? (can't remember, but it's the main st through present day china town)! I almost groaned when he told me that: like victoria tunnels don't already have enough mystery and intrigue surrounding them, now we have to get the masons involved too?! but he insisted it was the case and that he never went down there but remembers being told by friends who had (i know, again the firend-of-a-friend-said thing, whatever)the day it was finally sealed off, decades ago. Actually, rather than go on at length now, and cuz I do intend to read much of this really interesting thread, could I just ask if someone could confirm if the Empress basements have already been covered here (re: their relation to the tunnels and other rooms under the city)? If they have then no point repeating it, although I've by now got pretty extensive first-hand knowledge of them (with the obvious exception that I haven't been into the sealed-off areas since as far as I can see you'd need some serious equipment to get in there).... anyone? if not I've got some good stuff to relate. Should mention that, as an employee there, I have to be careful how I relate this info etc (yeh I have pics but will NOT post them online, only through email to people I've already talked to a fair bit) or else risk losing my job. Fairmont people are not to be f*&^ed with, trust me. I know the risk is fairly remote as long as I don't post photos online (but email's perhaps another matter...) and I don't say anything on here about how to get down there and where to find things, but still-- I like my job and want to keep it! Thanks.
| Bart: Um dad? Homer: Yea? Bart: What is the mind? Is it just a system of impulses or is it something tangible? Homer: Relax. What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind... Bart: Thanks dad... Homer: Goodnight, son. (The Simpsons.) |
| A. Lien
Location: Fantasy Island B.C. Gender: Male Total Likes: 17 likes
Abductees Anonymous all welcome
| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 998 on 7/26/2006 8:54 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Your information is most impressive wallabazoo, please continue to say whatever you are comfortable stating, without risking your job, or going so far as stencilling footprints and arrows to the access point Whether it's been discussed before, I do not believe is an issue on this thread. Repetition sometimes leads to clarification of details and new clues. Your posted info here is of the level that my spidey senses almost suspect a trap...sorry nothing personal. However the trusting part of my nature over rules, (such a sap!) but not quite... I mean really, your script has 'slasher flick' written all over it in big red letters. Ya know we're 'dying' to find some tunnels, so you use the best lure in town to bring us underground. Then you and your hooded co-workers are there with the hidden faces and sickles, yada yada, I mean really, it's been done. Chomps cigar, next... Okay, I'm kidding, got a little carried away, your descriptions were so exquisite, don't think I'll be falling back to sleep for a while. I will PM -private message- you promptly after this note hits cyberspace. Me thinks you are going to become very popular quite quickly. Would a vague photo or two really put you at risk? Better safe than not, I understand. There's been talk of the huge amount of pilings holding up the old girl, are any of these visible in the spaces you have been in? Please be very selective of who you share your info with. Reading this thread, especially the last ten pages or so, you will quickly be able to get a sense of the handful of explorers who are seriously interested, (despite perhaps some of our discussions), and who have been putting solid substantial time into searching for clues. We will treat you and your info discreetly, and with the highest respect. Perhaps you are the 'Mr. X' whose name I was recently given, as someone who "would know about the building" Certainly not everything known relating to the subject of this cult, (did I say cult?) pardon, 'thread' is posted here. I'm glad to have woken up at the stroke of midnight to find your post. Your quote: "I almost groaned when he told me that: like victoria tunnels don't already have enough mystery and intrigue surrounding them, now we have to get the masons involved too?" Ahh, who better though at building tunnels than the 'masons'? As I said a few pages back, and was used as a closing line in the more recent article, in the weekly alternative paper that names itself after one of the days of the week. I'm trying to remember which one, (snicker "The truth is down there". You have helped confirm this belief, a belief that does not waver in the face and words of non believers... Sincerely, A.
| My sister is Charlotte Light and Dark. Who am I? Farewell and thank you... "I was doing something that I thought could have some impact someday. In many ways, it's really these photographs that kept me going creatively." Dennis Hopper |
| 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 # 999 on 7/26/2006 5:08 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Werd. A. Lien is correct. Discretion is key. PM (or email) your pics to me. They're safe, as is your job. Trust me. The trick, as I see it, is to obtain a few crucial details from your fellow employee friend. Learn what you can from him, organize these details carefully, and check them out on your own. Or rally the likes of KublaKhan, J Peterman, Tanuki and A. Lien. We can meet almost any time, any day. Like most of what goes on around this story, the real gold comes NOT from office types, bureaucrats, city officials, etc. but from the working-end men and women who make the city tick. City workers, those whose tasks are located at the end of a shovel, are the people who have actually been inside many of the places Official Victoria claim do not exist. The guys I spoke with early on in my research worked for the city decades ago, long before the current administration paved the streets with denial. Their information is key, and their memories, though faded, make clear that something is absolutely and without fail beneath the streets. If they say 'vast underground tunnel system' I take it they mean something along the lines of a 'vast underground tunnel system,' and not a 'series of utilities tunnels that were built within the last 10 or 15 years.' Those working the hospitality schtick, the servers, maintenance crews, grounds keepers etc. have a far better knowledge/understanding of their respective places of work than the managers who pay them. My guess is that if you wear a $100 tie and sit in a $600 executive office chair (with lumbar support, no less), you haven't been into the sub basement of the hotel you claim to know so intimately. Thanks for your contribution, wallabazoo. Feel free to post what you will. Your efforts will be respected and valued.
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