Exploring San Francisco's Hidden Tunnels

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 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. This story first aired in 2019. Additional Reading: Exploring San Francisco's Hidden Tunnels (YouTube) Tunnels Under San Francisco? Inside the Dark, Dangerous World of the Sewers Read the transcript for this episode Sign up for our newsletter Enter our Sierra Nevada Brewing Company monthly trivia contest Your support makes KQED podcasts possible. You can show your love by going to https://kqed.org/donate/podcasts This story was reported by Carly Severn. The episode was also made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz, Tamuna Chkareuli, Jessica Placzek and Rob Speight. Additional support from Cesar Saldana, Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Maha Sanad, Jasmine Garnett, Carly Severn, Joshua Ling, Holly Kernan and the whole KQED family.

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0:00.0	From K-QED.
0:05.0	Around us all the time is the city that we know,
0:09.0	the same stretch of sidewalk we walk on every day. The bus stop on the corner, our favorite
0:15.7	restaurants, our neighborhood parks. If you live anywhere long enough you can think
0:21.8	you've seen it all. But what if? Beneath the streets, there
0:26.1	was another world. A place that's so close to you all the time, but you wouldn't even recognize it.
0:33.7	Hey everyone, Olivia Alan Price here.
0:39.3	Over the years we've been running Bay Curious, we've received a bunch of questions about tunnels.
0:45.0	Listeners who say they've heard stories of secret passageways running under San Francisco.
0:51.0	We aired an episode on the topic in 2019, but your questions
0:56.2	have kept on coming. So today we're going to revisit it and answer that question,
1:01.1	do these tunnels exist?
1:04.6	We'll get to it just after this. Support for Bay Curious
1:18.0	Bay Curious is brought to you by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company,
1:21.0	still family owned, operated, and argued over.
1:24.0	Explore their brews wherever fine beverages are sold and taste how trailblazing runs in the family.
1:30.0	Visit Sierra Nevada.com to find your new favorite beer today.
1:35.0	Those stories you may have heard about hidden underground tunnel systems in the Bay Area.
1:43.2	Yeah, they're true.
1:44.9	The structure is absolutely amazing.
1:47.4	It's also quite scary.
1:49.4	That voice you just heard was recorded deep
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