Hello?

I think it's drips.

S**t, freaky.

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

sloping downwards this way.

Definitely was not designed to be that way.

Beneath Cincinnati, there are two miles of abandoned tunnels.

Tunnels that have been sitting there empty for nearly a century.

Hello?

We still might not peel out.

It's a lot of subways.

It's not really dark.

I feel like we're due for a station right here.

I'm Dylan Thores, and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's

strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

Today, we're going down into those tunnels to sort fact from fiction

and find out the real story of the infamous Cincinnati subway.

That is after this.

Am I right in thinking it's the largest abandoned subway system in the U.S.?

Oh, I mean, there's nothing to compare us to it.

That's Jake McLeanborg.

He is a Cincinnati native who, a few years ago, wrote a book called

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