My dad spent over 20 years as an officer with the Cambridge Massachusetts Police Department

and he told me about the tunnels that run under the city.

There were a few different names for them, the Harvard tunnels, the Cambridge catacombs,

the crimson catacombs.

There a well-kept secret shrouded in mystery.

Mention them and most people will assume you're talking about the subway tunnels and will

show little to no interest.

Discovered by settler Elliott James Smith in 1634 and later bought by Harvard when Smith

disappeared in 1641, nobody knows who built them or why.

They have spawned many legends over the centuries.

In 1775, a British soldier abandoned his outfit during the siege of Boston made his way into

Cambridge and hid in the tunnels.

Less than a day later, he emerged, wide eyed, babbling about a Latin-speaking child with

a child, black feet, who taunted him until he fled.

In 1827, Edgar Allan Poe ventured down there, more stationed in Boston and wrote of a pale

child who materialized out of black fog and changed form in front of his very eyes.

Despite few people knowing about their existence and technically being off limits to the public,

people still occasionally find them access point.

The most frequently used entrance slice in the basement of Memorial Hall, a high-fictorian

Gothic theatre at the north end of Harvard Yard.

In 1991, a four-year-old girl went missing from a home in the middle of the night.

There were no signs of a break-in and a bedroom window remained closed and locked.

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