By Steve Cichon
steve@buffalostories.com
@stevebuffalo
I get questions about purported secret tunnels around Buffalo constantly, like from the well-intentioned person who sent this email.
People are obsessed with tunnels. Tunnels from Prohibition. Tunnels from the Underground Railroad. Tunnels between neighbors houses.
No one has ever been in any of the tunnels they email about—or even seen evidence of their existence— but the rumors are hot and people want to believe them so bad. But we are humans, not moles.
There are very few tunnels— statically NO tunnels compared to the numbers of rumors.
Of course, there are tunnels. Lots and lots of tunnels. But SECRET tunnels? There are secret tunnels only on Scooby-Doo.
But people will still email me about tunnels, and I will still gently try to tell these emailers that there probably wasn’t a tunnel, and they won’t believe me, and the beat goes on.