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Shirley Obitz
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Shanghai Tunnels Portland Underground
Michael P. Jones talks about the history of the Shanghai Tunnels. filmed By Shirley Obitz, Eliza Bone' and Jim Snyder
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Приєднався 14 вер 2013
It seems sad since this gentleman's passing the Shanghai Tunnels are now closed it was this gentleman's expertise and he cleared out most all of them with other volunteers so they're not doing those tours anymore and I wish I would have went if I would have known I wanted to see what was down there very fascinating
Gimme a break
“And this, THIS is a flip phone. The humans in Portland Oregon in the early 2000’s used these to text by number, they left these- directly in this overgrown landfill. Pretty cool, aye” LOL our legacy
Mudflood
come to Oklahoma... ik where an opening is
they'd kidnap hella Americans
The claims Portland being the first place, isn't possible. Astoria Oregon was founded 34 years before Portland. Astoria founded 1811, Portland founded 1845. The fur trade and later the fishing and cannery docks drew many to supply Shanghai prospects in their underground tunnels.
I really want to take a tour of it
So it was an opium den...
Haunted tour. That's why I never heard of it.
WELL IF YOU ARE SILLY ENOUGH FOR THAT I JUST DUG A FUNNEL HOLE IN SALEM OREGON WHERE WE HAVE THE HISTORICALLY INACCURATE SHANGHAI FUNNEL SPIDER. STOP WASTING MY TIME AND MONEY OREGON. COME ON BOLLYWOOD, OPEN FOLLYWOOD WITH RUSSIAN ACTRESSES PLAYING AMERICAN ROLES AND GIVE THESE BONEHEADS A RUN ON THEIR LAZY MONEY MAKING SKILLS. ua-cam.com/video/LlZydtG3xqI/v-deo.html
Anyone else here after watching the movie, "Pig"?
Thank u for the tour sir. I felt as tho I was there. So that's explains Shanghai abductions. Poor souls whoever got caught
I heard homeless people are down there now. Is that true?
Homeless are everywhere.
This is so funny haha I love it
I don't think there ever tell the truth cause sandy blvd has tunnels go by the pet store right next to the stripjoint all connected just happen to go the wrong place oh shit there a gate down here.
Astoria Shanghai is older then Portland. Just learned that a month ago.
Your correct.
Complete Bullshit! This guy is full of crap, that’s why his tours aren’t something that’s approved by the city like the one in Seattle. The type of people that get suckered by this guy are the type that believe in ghosts and fairies.
18:49 I like how he opened that creaky door all slow for dramatic effect.
SARA carico hung out at Nobys .loved michael jones..
I worked under hobos around 20 yrs ago doing some Hvac down there and some of the things that was happening to me I was afraid to tell anyone because I didn't want them to think I was crazy
Shawn McAdams ahat happened????
@Banditpsycho 503 well I still dont want people thinking im crazy.lol seriously though i went in to the job not knowing anything about the place or its history ... Everytime i would start drilling or cutting a hole someone would start tapping on my back as to get my attention . So i would stop drilling or turn off the saw and turn around or look behind to see what the person wanted and there wouldnt be anyone there.. My very first day on the job i went in to use the bathroom and im in the only bathroom Stahl and someone walked in to use the urinal ,i see there feet and lower part of legs walk by i hear them take a leak then wash their hands but they never came back past the stahl and door never opened to exit so i set there for a few minutes waiting for them to leave but they werent so i walk out of stahl expecting to see someone still in there and there was nobody .. i didnt understand it.. theres alot of other things that happened that had no explanation
@@mazzystar5342 the feet that walked past me in the bathroom was wearing shoes like you would see on people in the old days like late 1800s early 1900s ish when i broke through a wall underneath where the tunnels were there was a pile of old shoes and they were like the ones i seen walk past in the bathroom
Shawn McAdams ohhhh my that is👀👀FREAKY i believe u. ive had several paranormal experiences simce moving to portland. i think ghosts r actually demons. anything weird happen when u went home or after the job? they can linger
@@mazzystar5342 not that i recall but by the end of the week there or few days i refused to go down there by myself and refuse to ever go back there again. I truly thought i was going crazy.. Then a few months after working down there i was watchinga documentary on ten most haunted places in america and it showed Hobo's. I felt alot better that iwasnt going crazy.. it really messed with my head for a long time... I didnt believe in the paranormal before then.
I believe from the comments below that the tour guide has now departed this world. I actually said some not complimentary things about his story telling style and I should not have done so. I ask forgiveness for that. I also would suggest that people stay far away from haunted places. They can possibly harm you in ways you don't know. #prayingforPortland
QUESTION EVERYTHING sex trafficking in the tunnels and drug trade in the tunnels that arent part of thetour. all stores and shops connected to one another and tunnesl
The tunnels were NOT used in drug or sex trafficking. They were not interconnecting either. They were used to make bringing in supplies easier for merchants and restaurant owners. There is no recognized or respected history that confirms any of the "Lotus tunnels" were used for "shanghaiing." Also, haunted places in and of themselves will not harm anyone.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
Ask Mike about the Bum Bank he started and that seemed to disappear...where did the cash end up?
Michael Jones, known as "Poncho" at Nate Creek Camp, Outdoor School, fall session. Mike Jones was well known for fake little stories about "history" that never happened. Mike Jones was also known for Sunday night, "nite hikes" with girl-only cabin groups---often getting lost. He was a camp Drama-Queen and not held in anything near respect by fellow staff members.
a acces under pearl is burned. the pump station on waterfront might have access.
used to be access from 2nd and burnside under the old xray cafe
I've done the tour. Plus I've worked in them as a fire sprinkler fitter... so cool and interesting..
No one ever could have been shanghaied in Portland. Even today ships take at least 2 days to get to Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River from Portland. With riverbanks on each side the whole way within swimming distance. Now the tunnels in Astoria on the other hand were in fact "Shanghai" tunnels. There's oodles of evidence from the man sized cages that still exist to trap doors and slides and many entrances and exits to the waterfront. Anything remotely interesting about Portland was stolen from somewhere else.
Finally the truth about the "tunnels" I live in vancouver wa and decided to do the tour. Very misleading. The stories this man tells are all fabricated and baseless. Ghost adventures made this place look like something but then again everything on tv is. Fake.
Two days to go to Astoria by ship, maybe a sailing ship. Steam or other powered make it in hours.
The columbia is 14 Miles wide at Astoria, get the fuck outta here if you think you could even swim across it
Just got the tour from Michael today, and he made it so interesting and is an amazing person! Highly recommend this tour! 😊
Fact check Poncho's little fantasies
Those bars were for another perpose then a holding cell
Exactly the same were used in Chinese prisons, why would they be in a tiny cell other than for someone to breathe?
They should redue the arch way on the door ways
Fuck you.
Now antifa ruining Portland
As opposed to the people that were kidnapping each other?
Yes and I suppose today it's much worse, isn't it? It's an organized terrorist group with handlers. They - the handlers, I mean - have global aims, our cities are just points along the way to be conquered in order to overthrow the entire country. Not that the handlers care about that, or any of the philosophies of Antifa, or BLM, who they are also handling - they just want their NWO. ALL OF THESE PEOPLE ARE JUST PAWNS BEING USED BY THE BIGGEST SLAVER OF ALL. But they are ASLEEP. Thinkin they WOKE. DECEIVED WITHIN DECEPTION, so the rabbit holes go... What can I do, just myself? I can pray for them because they are LOST thinking they've found the way through hatred and destruction. There is One Way to Truth and Life and True Freedom: Jesus.
Chapo Guzman built better tunnels
He got life.......⌚
Straight crimpen fools from day one...Portland Stand Up!!!!🦇🦇
I’ve met this guy he’s amazing
@Ominous Cloud Poncho make up much of his own story
Historians, including police historians don't support his claim that Shanghaiing happened in Porland via the underground tunnels. I'd be interested to know who his sources are. I'm writing a book The Lost Restaurants of Portland, and The Lotus Cafe will be featured, and I plan on writing a bit about this aspect of the myths of Shanghaiing via the tunnels under the Lotus. Apparently, there is little evidence to corroborate his claims. Sources, please?
Check Mike's history, from his drama days at Outdoor School in the early 70's, to his Transient Bank, that went kaflooey, to lawsuit and blocking highway construction on hwy 26 near wemme, to a suit against Lewis and Clark College...he's grubbed with the best of them
I thought the lotus cafe moved to 82nd?
@@ElfNorthwest I hadn’t heard that. But either way, the original location has closed, which is why it will be included in my book. It was there for over 90 years…
@6:00 he goes into the tunnel
You are amazing
THE DESIGN ON THOSE BEAMS IS KNOWN AS CLOUD LIFT
notice he said the tour was "for adults (awkward pause) and Children... ?" these tunnels are still in use... follow the donut
stumptacular so u think he was involved?
Great video and excellent videographer!
Ha ha!
Why don't u tell people that you only take them around the block it's not even the beginning
Wow this guy is fuckin boring, and who the fuck Is he talking to a ghost or a wall and what's up with the hair, is he one of those guys that gets stuck in the decade they had the most fun, for this dude its 1975
It only took 48 hours to break someone's spirit!?! That's sad
Tony Condor can you imagine being down there with no food, water, light, people to talk to or a place to do your business? It sounds so awful 😞
In some cases, he said it even took 8 hours......
@@applepieholic Mike is a drama type money grubber
When is "the book" coming out, or is "the man" still suppressing it? Why does the tunnel in the tour run *away* from the river instead of towards it?
you got his number
I've known MIchael P. Jones for years, and assisted with countless tours down in the Shanghai Tunnels. He is great at telling stories and about the history that occurred down there. Michael also let me do audio (mostly) and visual paranormal investigation work in the tunnels, with some amazing results. There is so much paranormal phenomenon going on down there that I have experienced personally, as well as stories that others who know nothing about it's haunted past have come forward to witness and tell. Altogether, this lends credibility to the paranormal activity that exists. People have come out of the tours early because something would happen that would scare them to the point that they had to leave. Men and women both are not immune, and sight, smell, hearing and physical contact are all possible down there as I have witnessed firsthand.
What are his sources? Oregon historians claim that shanghaiing didn't occur via the underground tunnels.
Mike Jones was our camp-drama queen at MESD Outdoor School-Nate Creek . AKA "Poncho", had many little emotionally ending stories, and most staff were ready to pinch their noses and walk away.
"For adults and children, most been on the tour Over "13" times, we always changing, always restoring new sessions " I know you telling the true, it never ended, it continue to happen today.
Over 13 times? Who even think about that number?
V Toria ilr what do u think it meant
14:57 Portland is one of the biggest places for white slavery? What does that even mean?
"White slavery" was an euphemism for kidnaping women for forced prostitution.
That's odd because I heard it was bigger in Washington.
It's big everywhere. There are more victims of human trafficking today than at any other point in history. I think it's strange if by "white slavery" he ment human trafficking cuz it happens to all manner of people.
#pizzagate & #doughnut gate
human trafficking
Yes, there was Shanghaiing but this storyteller does not know his history. His holding cells are obviously made up and couldn't hold anyone. How about that flimsy trapdoor that would not drop. For real information on this subject go to the Oregon Historical Society. He does a disservice to an interesting topic.
The trap door does work though?? It definitely dropped and scared the shit out of everyone
Trap door was hella scary
You know this guy's M.O. He also started The Transient Bank, in old town (bumtown)---seems it suddenly disappeared, some say the money got lost.
Zak has asthma