Cthulhu tunnels discovered
BLDGBLOG reports on Mysterious Chinese Tunnels:
“Zimmerman claims that “mysterious” tunnels honeycombed the ground beneath the city of Tacoma, Washington…It’s like a geography purpose-built for H.P. Lovecraft, or something straight out of the work of Jeff VanderMeer: down in the foundations of your city is a mysterious network of rooms, excavated by another race, through which unidentified strangers move at night, threatening to abduct you.”
As Lovecraft documents in the The Case of Charles Dexter Ward and other stories:
Then there was the matter of the sounds beneath the earth. Reports of these things were harder to point down, but all the vague hints tallied in certain basic essentials…They might, of course, have come from the known cellar; but rumour insisted that there were deeper and more spreading crypts.
BLDGBLOG further reports:
Of course, there are also “Shanghai tunnels” beneath Portland, Oregon. “All along the Portland waterfront,” we read, “…’Shanghai Tunnels’ ran beneath the city, allowing a hidden world to exist…The catacombs, which ’snaked’ their way beneath the streets of what we now call Old Town, Skidmore Fountain, and Chinatown, helped to create an infamous history that became ‘cloaked’ in myth, superstition, and fear.”
