Nocturne asks, can you talk about the series of abandoned subway stations beneath Chicago

and the strange things that inhabited? The accounts from online forums are confusing to say the least.

Nocturne there are many surprising things beneath the city of Chicago. I'll focus on one item in particular,

something I personally find fascinating, but Phil doesn't get enough attention and that is the miniature model of the city.

Perhaps you've seen pictures of this before.

It appears to be nothing more than a well-crafted model of Chicago,

constructed from hobby store parts, buildings, streets, and trains.

Most folks don't even consider the miniature city as a supernatural manifestation.

But they're wrong.

The model city was first discovered beneath the green mills, a restaurant and Speakeasy frequented

by Al Capone back in the 20s. Late one night in 1928, machine gun Jack McGurn, part owner of the Speakeasy, and one of Capone's right-hand

men, used the secret tunnels beneath the green mills to evade police capture. A few blocks from his establishment he found a long wide table. It stood

in the middle of a sewer passage taking up almost the entire space. On the table was a replica of Chicago. But as he was actively

fleeing the law, McGurn had no time to examine the model further.

He tried to find the miniature Chicago a day later with others, but it was no longer down the

tunnel it escaped. People dismissed McGurn's sighting as a made-up story, and that was that.

Until, in 1948, when a Chicago Transit Authority worker named Brent Armstrong found the miniature

city in an unused freight tunnel downtown.

Brent Armstrong had two advantages over McGurn in that he had a flashlight with him, and

he'd never once even Jay walked, so no policeman were pursuing him.

Armstrong spent hours examining the miniature city

and made sketches in a notebook he carried.

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