Daniel Beckwitt, Secret Murder Tunnels in Bethesda

That Chapter Podcast

Mike Oh

True Crime

4.9 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Daniel Beckwitt was many things: A genius, a crypto millionaire, a hacker, but most of all he was paranoid. So paranoid he dug tunnels under his home in Bethesda, Maryland. Tunnels which would have devastating consequences for one young man. Send your scary stories to: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey you and welcome. My name is Mike. And it was on the 10th of September 2017 that a call went into Montgomery County Police.
0:14.0	At first it seemed like nothing that special or unusual. It was regarding a house fire. It was regarding a house fire in Bethesda,
0:21.4	Maryland. The initial calls were saying that one occupant of this home on Danbury Road had escaped
0:26.9	the burning home. But this guy who had made it out was saying that there was still somebody else
0:32.0	left inside. And frankly, at this point, folks, it wasn't looking good. The entire house was becoming engulfed in flames and smoke. They knew that they would soon be looking for a body in the burnt-out remains of this Maryland home.
1:04.0	But what they didn't know was that they would be finding something very strange and disturbing. Rob's a jet location.
1:13.6	How it is?
1:14.6	Fatal.
1:15.6	Don't put it on the air yet.
1:17.6	It'll just make media.
1:19.6	One or two?
1:20.6	One is getting transported and one fits out.
1:24.6	What about the status or the other one? What's the status of the other one?
1:29.3	Did I know?
1:30.3	Probably stable.
1:31.3	Yeah, probably.
1:33.3	Homicide, I don't know, we should probably let him.
1:36.3	Yeah.
1:37.3	Underneath that unassuming house on Danbury Road in Bethesda, Maryland,
1:42.3	was this extensive secret tunnel system that had
1:45.9	been years in the making.
1:48.8	All the result of one man's paranoia and fears about the end of the world.
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