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Bay Curious

Secret Tunnels Under San Francisco?

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9999 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

San Francisco is 49 square miles, but contains more than 1,000 miles of sewer mains, running under every block. Take a trip with Bay Curious reporter Carly Severn into the depths of the city, and discover an otherworldly cave that has reached legendary status with some urban explorers. VIDEO: Take A Trip Into San Francisco's Sewer System Web story: Tunnels Under San Francisco? Inside the Dark, Dangerous World of the Sewers Reported by Carly Severn. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Jessica Placzek, Suzie Racho and Rob Speight. Additional support from Julie Caine, Paul Lancour, Patricia Yollin, Vinnee Tong and Ethan Lindsey.

Transcript

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From K-QED.

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Around us all the time is the city that we know.

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The same stretch of sidewalk we walk on every day. The bus stop on on on the

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stop on the corner.

0:17.0

Our favorite restaurants, our neighborhood parks.

0:21.0

If you live anywhere long enough, you can think you've seen it all.

0:26.0

But what if, beneath the streets, there was another world.

0:35.0

A place that's so close to you all the time,

0:40.0

but you wouldn't even recognize it.

0:45.0

Since Bayreous launched, we received a bunch of questions about tunnels.

0:54.3

Listeners saying they've heard stories of secret passageways running under San Francisco.

1:00.3

So for our Halloween episode, we explore, do these tunnels exist?

1:05.0

I'm Olivia Allen Price and you're listening to Bay Curius.

1:09.0

Support for Bay Curious is brought to you by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company,

1:17.0

still family owned, operated, and argued over.

1:20.0

Explore their brews wherever fine beverages are sold and taste how trailblazing runs in the family.

1:27.0

Visit Sierra Nevada.com to find your new favorite beer today.

1:40.0

All right, those stories about hidden underground tunnel systems in the Bay Area, they're true.

1:42.0

The structure is absolutely amazing. It's also quite scary.

1:45.0

That voice you just heard was recorded deep under the streets of San Francisco and

1:51.6

it belongs to reporter Carly Severn. We set her to investigate

1:56.3

the secret world under the city. I want to take you underground with me, but let's start at the beginning.

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