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Videos showing groups of people entering NYC sewers at night baffle residents and investigators
AP ^ | 3 June 2026 | PHILIP MARCELO

Posted on 06/03/2026 1:51:54 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

Mole people? Crocodile catchers? Mario brothers? A series of bizarre sightings of people popping in and out of New York City’s vast subterranean sewer system has the city wondering what exactly is going on, with police now probing the underground mystery.

Some wore headlamps and carried what appeared to be shovels and other tools. One narrowly missed getting run over by a vehicle as they pulled themselves out of the ground.

“They look like they were looking for something important, like money, or for doing some type of hurting,” he said. “Ain’t no fun and games. I mean, seven grown adults going down there? Got to be something, man.”

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In my misspent youth, we used to kayak deep into the STORM sewers that emptied into the Des Plaines River... some went for miles.
1 posted on 06/03/2026 1:51:54 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers - CHUD


2 posted on 06/03/2026 1:54:30 PM PDT by Delta 21 (None of us are descendants of fearful men!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I crawled in the sewer drains when I was a youngster.


3 posted on 06/03/2026 1:55:42 PM PDT by kawhill (Dywedwch Wrthbym because + Add translation Welsh-English dictionary 'Tell Us')
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Copycats:

https://phoenixq.ca/sewer-tunnel-bank-robbery/


4 posted on 06/03/2026 1:56:31 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: House Atreides

Well, if they are trying to tunnel into the gold vaults to steal gold, they are in for an unpleasant surprise when all they find are the empty rooms.


5 posted on 06/03/2026 1:58:27 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: kawhill

And that’s what the Sewer Patrol should do, before something happens. Like a very large explosion,


6 posted on 06/03/2026 1:59:14 PM PDT by Ronald77 ( )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Do they look like teenage turtles at all?


7 posted on 06/03/2026 2:00:10 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Crimefighting....


8 posted on 06/03/2026 2:01:27 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: Delta 21

When the novel (May, 1895) and much later movie (1960) of the Time Machine came out, no one thought the human race would evolve (devolve) into prancing, sissified Eloi (our audiences at drag queen shows and trans events) and the vulgar Morlocks (our Dems, socialists, antifa, BLM and woke young people). It is happening. Two meeting each other: Rep. Al Green and Talarico.

https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=a82350b6429375af&udm=2&fbs=ADc_l-aN0CWEZBOHjofHoaMMDiKpaEWjvZ2Py1XXV8d8KvlI3p-ML-906rRL_m6h4jR-tdCH-vUIlZq9RzugLEcfjf51b4dfDKizXS4hTwRCZW2TydVcnv1RUVx0SX0axPgL6aA1y5lH4oIQTHc9n3as9K40uq1ucVlSq7hphXixGrVbAHaxl4xbaQRNq-TBoJwkyHSzWgD1m8zRB8KZ0lvZ8gcgw8mFAQ&q=image+morlocks+in+the+time+machine&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjdxP-5-uuUAxUev4kEHRJ6EsUQtKgLegQIFRAB&biw=1316&bih=621&dpr=1.21


9 posted on 06/03/2026 2:01:48 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

At my university, there were old, disused steam tunnels connecting all the older buildings on campus.

A small group of us explored them, and we even found an unlocked path into the University President’s office. At this point, we realized the nature of our trespassing, and possible consequences, so didn’t press our luck.

We weren’t the only ones. We found graffiti and beer cans / liquor bottles from as early as the 1940s down there.


10 posted on 06/03/2026 2:04:30 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: DUMBGRUNT

In the “Beauty and the Beast” TV show there was a whole kingdom under ground.


11 posted on 06/03/2026 2:04:50 PM PDT by madison10
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Investigators are baffled. They made up some lie; it was just people that lost something down manhole.


12 posted on 06/03/2026 2:07:19 PM PDT by roving
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Maybe they’re trying to get free cable. Utilities often share tunnel lines so they don’t have to dig new routes. Or they could be tapping phones.


13 posted on 06/03/2026 2:07:35 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Escape from New York



14 posted on 06/03/2026 2:08:42 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: frank ballenger

I gotta find me a copy of that!


15 posted on 06/03/2026 2:10:54 PM PDT by Delta 21 (None of us are descendants of fearful men!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Maybe there's a whole other city down there. You know, like when you go
on a cruise ship?
16 posted on 06/03/2026 2:13:02 PM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: madison10; FRiends
1987! I watched B & TB when I could. Linda Hamilton - of later 'Terminator' fame - and Ron Perlman - Loved him as Hell Boy!

Does anyone know what Ron Perlman actually LOOKS like? LOL!


17 posted on 06/03/2026 2:19:14 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

In NYC, inside or outside the sewer, how do you tell them apart?


18 posted on 06/03/2026 2:22:19 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Delta 21

If you mean the movie, the great 1960 one with effects crafted by George Pal had not one moment of the later CGI effects. All frame by frame motion as the first King Kong.
Has been one of my top favorite movies since I saw it at age 13.

The horrible and disrespectful remake in 2002 ruins everything and pushes climate change and Third World people in some sort of rain forest evolution. Bad.


19 posted on 06/03/2026 2:24:51 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: T.B. Yoits

Photo....

You won’t get my money, Mamdani. I am outta here.


20 posted on 06/03/2026 2:26:56 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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