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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Classic: Clausland Mountain Tunnels

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Under the forests of Nyack, New York lays a series of dark and decrepit tunnels with militaristic roots but now attract graffiti artists and plenty of teen lore. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/claus-land-mountain-tunnels

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Under the forests of Nyak, New York lays a series of dark and decrepit tunnels.

0:14.9

Tunnels that according to generations of teens are home to satanic rituals, mafia

0:20.6

dumping grounds and portals into other dimensions.

0:30.0

I'm Dylan Therese and this is Alice Obsgera, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible

0:35.6

and wondrous places.

0:36.8

And today, I'm going down into the Klausland Mountain Tunnels in Nyak, New York.

0:42.6

It's a place I've been to before and for reasons that will become clear, a place I'm

0:46.7

not so certain I'll be going back to.

0:51.4

That's after this.

1:06.8

A terrifying experience, a very evil place, the scariest place I have ever been.

1:15.7

It's just some of what folks have written about the Klausland Mountain Tunnels over the

1:19.7

years.

1:20.7

The internet is full of stories, of trips to the tunnels where well exploring something

1:25.9

horrifying happens.

1:28.0

Though sometimes it's a story of a friend or a friend of a friend, but there are stories.

1:33.8

There are stories of spooky robed figures blocking the road, of a hiker finding a body dumped

1:39.3

in a garbage bag.

1:40.6

Or even explorers hearing a loud scream in the night that according to one online poster,

1:46.3

everyone agreed could have been the person's soul, believing their body.

1:51.6

Back in 2015, I found out about the Klausland Tunnels when they were suggested by Erisoff,

1:56.4

a member of Alice Obsgera's online community.

2:00.1

And they left a very specific detail that caught my interest.

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