Twin Cities Urbex Club

There's an awful lot of smoke there for there to be no fire, but the devil's advocate in me says that if I found a scrapper's sawzall in a tunnel, I'd 100% leave with it. Of course, I wouldn't be in there at 9am. Also, that entire system is 2 basically straight walking height tunnels with 1 intersec...

Xcel employees later found that someone had dug through the ceiling of their sandstone tunnel and accessed a tunnel above theirs that contained wires belonging to another service provider. The damage was new and hadn’t been there when they left Monday night. :lol: That connection has been around si...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akmiFQZeHOc I still can't find any update on who the person was, how long they had been there, or what the cause of death was. I'm assuming it was a homeless person who went in on purpose and either randomly died down there or couldn't get back out again, but who knows.

I set this up in my practice space and found it to be a lot easier than ascending using a hand ascender and a foot loop with a progress capture device, but in the field on a 50' climb I found it was still really tiring to pull myself up. At first I thought there might have been some twisting of the ...

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/saint-paul-police-medical-examiner-investigating-death-of-man-in-underground-cave/89-c842e6d5-29ef-4a50-956d-b1064e764827 11/24/2023 Saint Paul police and medical examiner investigating death of man in underground cave SAINT PAUL, Minn. — Inside an undergrou...

Just wait until they find out 6th Street runs right under the Hennepin County Government Center.

The bit about the tunnel going under a railroad and a water treatment plant is a red herring. It's not like train tracks are protected in any way, you can just walk/drive right up to them. Nor is it like you can realistically sabotage a water treatment tunnel by walking through a storm drain tunnel ...

https://www.twincities.com/2022/12/06/urban-explorers-charged-with-trespassing-in-fridleys-sewer-system/ 12/6/2022 ‘Urban explorers’ charged with trespassing in Fridley’s sewer system Charges have been filed against 11 people who were arrested Monday night with trespassing in Fridley’s sewer system....

https://www.redlakenationnews.com/story/2022/02/15/news/man-found-dead-in-south-minneapolis-storm-drain-tunnel/104099.html 2/15/2022 Man found dead in south Minneapolis storm drain tunnel Jake Matlock's two sons grew up playing along Minnehaha Creek. On Feb. 6, with the creek bed frozen over, they d...

https://www.twincities.com/2021/08/30/man-who-died-after-being-swept-into-mississippi-river-in-st-paul-idd-as-20-year-old-from-little-canada/ 8/30/2021 Man who died after being swept into Mississippi River in St. Paul ID’d as 20-year-old from Little Canada A man found dead in the Mississippi River a...