Solved Murders - True Crime Stories - Tunnels, Blades, and Shadows The Secrets We Leave Behind Never Truly Sleep #69

Episode Date: July 8, 2025

#horrorstories #reddithorrorstories #ScaryStories #creepypasta #horrortales #undergroundhorror #shadowsecrets #hauntedtunnels #darkblades #unsolvedmysteries  This story delves into the eerie network of abandoned tunnels beneath an old town, where sharp blades and restless shadows conceal long-forgotten secrets. As explorers uncover traces of past horrors, they realize the evil lurking there feeds on silence and fear. The past refuses to rest, and those who disturb it may never escape its grasp.  horrorstories, reddithorrorstories, scarystories, horrorstory, creepypasta, horrortales, hauntedtunnels, undergroundterror, shadowcreatures, darkblades, unsolvedhorrors, forgottensecrets, paranormalactivity, eerieencounters, abandonedplaces, restlessspirits, mysteriousdisappearances, urbanlegends, chillingstories, horroradventure

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He might not listen to me. But yeah, as good a time as any. Okay, I'll give it a go. If he ever takes those earphones out. Vaping is harmful to your child's health. Nicotine addiction can affect their concentration, sleep and moods. They're much more likely to smoke when they're older too. So take a deep breath and talk to them today.

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for a bit when one of the guys came running over, excited like a kid who found a frog in a pond. He claimed to have discovered a tiny castle in the woods. We laughed him off, told him it was probably just an old shack or the frost messing with his brain. I mean, come on, a castle. In the middle of nowhere. With no roads nearby. But he insisted, so curiosity got the better of us and we followed him through the trees and biting wind. Sure enough, he hadn't been lying. We found a weird, stone structure, two stories tall, maybe ten by fifteen feet across. It wasn't quite a castle, more like an old stone outbuilding or what Americans would probably

call a manor house. The hatch to the second floor was completely inaccessible, no ladder or stairs. The bottom floor, though, was filled with dried leaves, crumbled rock, and what looked like some old animal burrows. Someone joked it looked like a brothel for animals. Another guy said we should clear the leaves and see what's under there. So we started digging through the debris and found a piece of plywood covering a short stone staircase. Now we were definitely intrigued. Four of us grabbed our flashlights and went down into what turned out to be a small underground room. Down there, the air was thick with damp and mold. But we found some seriously

weird stuff. Ancient furniture. A child's rocking horse. An old bookcase that was half-rodded. Behind it, hidden under thick cobwebs, was a tunnel that snaked into the ground, deeper into the forest. It looked like something out of a horror movie. I'm a tall guy, and that tunnel would have made me crouch the whole way, so I wasn't too keen on going further. But one of the guys got all historical and said it was probably an escape tunnel. Horses would be kept in the room above, and if the lord of some nearby manner needed to run, he could flee through the tunnel and ride off into the forest. Problem was, there wasn't any known castle near us. The closest one I could think of was Goldhoff Castle, but that was miles and miles away. Something wasn't adding up.

We heard shouting from upstairs and ran back up. Two of the guys were having a heated argument. Turns out they'd found a large knife buried in the dirt, and one of them was drunk and acting wild. We checked around the room and discovered three more knives stuck blade down into the ground, all lined up around the perimeter. They were rusted, filthy, and old as hell. Another guy found a wooden box with a horse bridle and a switch used for whipping. Inside the same box. Yet another knife. Now, here's where things went sideways.

The drunk guy started ranting that we shouldn't touch anything. Said the knife had blood on it, old blood, and we'd wake up some angry ghost or curse if we took anything. He was half joking, half deadly serious. A few punches were thrown, tempers flared, and then the biggest guy in the group took the original knife and chucked it through the hatchway into the second floor, out of reach. Two guys still wanted to explore the tunnel, but most of us had had enough. We returned to camp. The two tunnel explorers came back later that night.

Said the tunnel had collapsed a ways in, about half a mile, and there was no going further. After that weekend, I barely stayed in contact with any of those guys. Life went on. Then in April 2017, I got a call from one of them. He sounded panicked. Told me the cops might be contacting me soon. I asked why, and he just said, you'll find out. That knife, the one we tossed upstairs and left behind, had somehow ended up over 300 miles away in Lithuania. It had been found on the side of a highway

where, a few weeks earlier, a 24-year-old Lithuanian girl had been murdered, her car stolen. The knife was tested for Prince, and three of us from that trip were identified. Soon, the police had all our names. I told the cops exactly what happened. I had no idea how the knife traveled that far or ended up at a crime scene. I gave them the names of the two guys who had stayed behind to explore the tunnel. But nothing ever officially tied the knife to the murder, and as far as I know, that's where the investigation ended.

Still, it eats at me. That knife was out of reach, thrown into a sealed room. So how the hell did it end up in another country, tied to a dead... There's so much rugby on Sports Extra from Sky. They've asked me to read the whole lad at the same speed I usually use for the legal bit at the end. Here goes. This winter sports extra is jam-packed with rugby.

For the first time, we've got every Champions Cup match exclusively live, plus action from the URC, the Challenge Cup, and much more. Thus the URC and all the best European rugby all in the same place. Get more exclusively live tournaments than ever before on Sports Extra. Jampack with rugby. Phew, that is a lot of rugby. Get Sports Extra on Sky for 15 euro a month for 12 months. Search Sports Extra.

New Sports Extra customers only. Stand-up pressing applies after 12 months for the terms applying. I've been thinking we need to talk to him about it. He might not listen to me. But yeah, as good a time as any. Okay, I'll give it a go. If he ever takes those earphones out. Vaping is harmful to your child's health.

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grandfather. I never met him. He died in prison back in the 90s when I was just a kid. But my great uncle, his brother, had stories. Wild ones. Said back in the 60s, they both lived in Nashville, Tennessee, not far from Fort Negley. It's a weird-looking old army base that, from above, resemble spurs on a boot. Back then, the interstate was being built, and the fort was pretty much abandoned. One night, they got drunk, bored, and decided to sneak into the fort. No flashlights, no plan, just two idiots wandering in the dark. They'd been there before during the day, but nighttime was a different beast. They slipped past what little security there was and started wandering around the stone walls, drinking from a flask and smoking. They weren't trying to be

sneaky. They were just messing around, not caring about the fact that they were trespassing on a place where God knows how many people had died. Eventually, my great-uncle went off to pee, and my grandfather decided to check out some tunnels on the south side. When the uncle came back, my grandfather was nowhere to be seen. He called out, no answer. Started to worry. What if he fell, or broke something? The nearest phone was a good ten-minute run away. In pitch black. Forget it. After ten minutes of pacing around and shouting, he had a bright idea. He yelled, cops are coming, at the top of his lung. From the shadows, my grandfather came sprinting out, yelling for him to run. They jumped the fence and booked it down the road.

Later, my grandfather explained he had been hearing footsteps, someone else moving in the fort with them. Thinking it was someone stalking them, he snuck into the dark to confront them. And he found someone, a stranger, just standing there. He tried to tackle the person, but then felt the cold barrel of a gun pressed against his neck. He never saw the person's face clearly, but he thought it might have been a woman, shorter, with long hair. She didn't say a word. Just kept him at gunpoint, silently, the whole time my uncle was searching for him. The moment he shouted about the cops, the woman, or whoever, panicked.

My grandfather heard the click of the gun as the hammer dropped. But no bang. Maybe the gun misfired. Maybe it wasn't loaded. Whatever the case, he struck the figure in the face, heard the gun clatter to the ground, and ran like hell. My uncle never saw or heard any of this. But he swears my grandfather was shaken to the core.

They never told the cops. Just chalked it up to one more insane night they somehow survived. And then there's the SS Airfield. This Old World War II cargo ship sits abandoned in Homebush Bay, Australia. After the war, it was decommissioned and left to rot in the harbor, waiting to be scrapped. But nature had other plans. Now, a full-blown forest of mangrove trees grows inside it, making it a floating jungle. Tourists love it.

Photographers are obsessed. It's this strange, hauntingly beautiful symbol of how nature reclaims everything in the end. So, of course, me and my buddies had to go see it. We paddled up to it in my friend's boat, cracked open a few beers, and just stared at the thing. We tossed a couple cans into the brush-like idiots, our way of leaving our mark. No one dared try to climb aboard.

Between the rust and thick vegetation, it was like trying to scale a metal porcupine. There's so much rugby on sports extra from Sky. They've asked me to read the whole lad at the same speed I usually use for the legal bit at the end. Here goes. This winter sports extra is jam-packed with rugby. For the first time we've put every Champions Cup

match exclusively live, plus action from the URC, the Challenge Cup, and much more. Thus the URC and all the best European rugby all in the same place. Get more exclusively live tournaments than ever before on Sports Extra. Jam packed with rugby. Phew, that is a lot of rugby. Get Sports Extra on Sky for 15 euro a month for 12 months. Search Sports Extra. New Sports Extra customers only.

Stand-up pricing applies after 12 months for the terms apply. I'm covered in trees. And that's where I'll leave it for now. Because sometimes the story isn't about the ending. It's about those moments when the forest goes quoth. quiet, when the air turns cold, when the past creeps in from under the floorboards or out of the shadows. Whether it's an ancient tunnel in Poland, a forgotten fort in Tennessee, or a rusted ship swallowed by mangroves, there's always something watching. Listening. Waiting.