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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

The Cincinnati Subway (Classic)

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

There are two miles of abandoned tunnels beneath the streets of Cincinnati, OH. A relic of an attempt to establish underground transportation in the city. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-cincinnati-subway-cincinnati-ohio

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello? I think it's strips.

0:07.0

I think it's strips.

0:09.0

S'n't'

0:11.0

It's so fucking freaky.

0:15.0

Check this out. I don't know if you can see it on camera, but the platform is actually sloping downwards this way.

0:22.5

Definitely. sloping downwards this way.

0:26.2

Definitely was not designed to be that way.

0:35.0

Beneath Cincinnati, there are two miles of abandoned tunnels. Tunnels that have been sitting there empty for nearly a century.

0:39.0

Hello?

0:42.0

But we still might not be alone.

0:45.4

It's a lot of subway tunnel down there.

0:47.2

We've barely got the fraction of it so far.

0:48.6

So I feel like we're due for a station.

0:51.6

This is a station right there.

0:52.6

There we go, right as I said that.

0:54.0

I'm Delantheress, and this is Atlas Obscura,

0:58.0

a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

1:02.0

Today, we're going down into those tunnels

1:05.4

to sort fact from fiction and find out the real story

1:10.1

of the infamous Cincinnati subway. That is after this. And am I right in thinking it's the largest abandoned subway system in the U.S?

1:35.0

Oh, I mean, there's no, there's nothing that compares to it.

1:38.0

That's Jake McLaughlinborg.

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