These aren't the stories your mother told you.

No, these are the other stories.

Subhuman, written by Matt Butcher, performed by Persephone Rose.

Hello and welcome to the Subhuman podcast.

My name is Columbus and tonight I invite you to come exploring with me.

For any first-time listeners out there, this is how the show works.

I find historical sites with great stories and myths, places usually unknown to the layman,

and provide an on-the-scene audio commentary as I investigate the location in person.

I look down when others look up.

I travel underground to the hidden realms below human civilization.

I am subhuman.

Now if I still have your attention, let's begin.

Music Now if I still have your attention, let's begin. Beneath every great city is another,

a network of wiring and pipework,

of transportation and subterranean constructs long forgotten and built over.

If the city were a mighty oak, then the undercity would be its roots.

It is its reflection, or more aptly,

its shadow, in the shade of which a great many illegal and morally ambiguous acts are hidden

from the bright lights above ground. Down there, in the gloom, is where a person is to go, were they seeking

something a little less ordinary. Less ordinary is exactly what we at subhuman podcasts are seeking.

Given the great success of our Paris catacombs episode last year,

I've managed to reach out to the lesser-known London underground rave scene.

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