https://www.instagram.com/p/BGR1xekwWzf/?taken-by=lloydkaufman
https://www.instagram.com/p/wXB8kwQW-V/?hl=en&taken-by=lloydkaufman
>https://www.redfin.com/WA/Steilacoom/10101-Morris-Blvd-98388/home/2357017
72 years ago, a man named William Zimmerman sat down to tell a story about “mysterious Chinese tunnels” to the U.S. government. That interview was conducted as part of the Federal Writers’ Project, and it can be read online in a series of typewritten documents hosted by the Library of Congress.
Zimmerman claims that “mysterious” tunnels honeycombed the ground beneath the city of Tacoma, Washington. These would soon become known as “Shanghai tunnels,” because city dwellers were allegedly kidnapped via these underground routes – which always led west to the docks – only to be shipped off to Shanghai, an impossibly other world across the ocean. There, they’d be sold into slavery.
The whole mysterious business reminds me of a passage from a letter Goethe wrote to Lavater:
Like a big city, our moral and political world is undermined with subterranean roads, cellars, and sewers, about whose connection and dwelling conditions nobody seems to reflect or think; but those who know something of this will find it much more understandable if here or there, now or then, the earth crumbles away, smoke rises out of a crack, and strange voices are heard.
https://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/tacoma_has_no_chinatown_why
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fox+Island,+WA+98333/@47.1993503,-122.6848808,11.83z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x5491abf3505897b9:0x7a531c28d0494abe!8m2!3d47.2502467!4d-122.6343134
>https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/01/us/atomic-craft-aground-off-washington-coast.html
An American nuclear-powered attack submarine ran aground off Fox Island near here late Friday and stayed stuck for 10 hours, until four Navy tugs pulled it free at high tide this morning.
The U.S.S. Sam Houston, a vessel of the Ethan Allen class, based at Pearl Harbor, was grounded around 6 P.M. near Carr Inlet, about 100 yards off the southeast end of the island, with the tide going out, said a Navy spokesman, Fred Watson, at the Trident nuclear submarine base at Bangor, Wash.
Trident nuclear submarine base at Bangor, Wash.
https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/facility/bangor.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Base_Kitsap