this tour is amazing. Michael is a spectacular story teller. I learned so much about the under belly heritage is Portland. I've lived here for two years, and this tour that starts at hobos bar was definitely the coolest thing I've seen in Oregon yet! Add I've seen the aeronautics museum, my. Hood, the coast etc. U can feel the tour guide michaels love for preserving history and his lovely city of Portland in his tale. It's inexpensive and immensely educational firm of entertainment. I will be going back soon! 5/5 stars!
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
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.
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.
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.
My Daughter and I just visited Portland Oregon and enjoyed the show were We stayed at the Benson Hotel with Chip Coffee and then We took this underground tour and I urge everyone to take this tour and You won't be unsatisfied ! Major paranormal activity down there so if You want a great chance to experience paranormal activity then this underground tour of the shanghai tunnels is a must do on You're list of things to do in beautiful old town Portland Oregon! TWO THUMBS UP ! ! Andy & Heather :
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
@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.
“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
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.
"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.
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.
Thanks for posting this video. I have heard about the Hobo's tour but never been on it. I have read up a little on the supposed "Shanghai Tunnels" and do not believe they were real, but this tour looks like it could be fun in a "haunted house" sort of way. Here is a pretty good blog post by a local historian that makes some good points about why Portland's notorious (and very real) Shanghaiing happened above the ground: portlandwaterfront.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-last-word-on-shanghai-tunnels.html
Poncho has quite a repertoire of little emotional ending stories. You should have seen him lay it on at campfire. thank god he was only a one session blunder at Outdoor School , back in the early 1970s
i thought that the tour was bogus and hella lame!! supposedly the tunnels go all under the whole city and more.. but this tour only goes under one half a city block, i was like weres the rest of the tour...we visited four rooms and the speaker takes 30. mins in each room just to drag the tour out longer..its lame
You have experienced Mike (AKA "Poncho")--he did the fake little drama stories for only one fall session at Nate Creek Outdoor School. Smarmy. He preferred to work with mostly girl student groups (audiences). the boys wouldn't take him seriously...the staff had little use for his bs.
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.
Michael may be a very good storyteller, but that is what he is doing, telling a fictional story. There is very little history in this tour. If you are interested in the true hidden history of Portland and Shanghaiing you should check out this site www.weirdportland.blogspot.com
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.
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.
There's a large satanic ring of the downtown business owner running kids doing torture, rape, murder, and all kinds of fucked up shit. There are children down there and it's connected to pizza gate. It's going on right now. Children are being tortured in that tunnel as I speak this message into my phone .. this is huge, and connected to the elite. It looks like this is their West Coast supply of children.
this tour is amazing. Michael is a spectacular story teller. I learned so much about the under belly heritage is Portland. I've lived here for two years, and this tour that starts at hobos bar was definitely the coolest thing I've seen in Oregon yet! Add I've seen the aeronautics museum, my. Hood, the coast etc. U can feel the tour guide michaels love for preserving history and his lovely city of Portland in his tale. It's inexpensive and immensely educational firm of entertainment. I will be going back soon! 5/5 stars!
Fake stories all of Mike's life
@6:00 he goes into the tunnel
You are amazing
18:49 I like how he opened that creaky door all slow for dramatic effect.
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
used to be access from 2nd and burnside under the old xray cafe
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
Ask Mike about the Bum Bank he started and that seemed to disappear...where did the cash end up?
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.
THE DESIGN ON THOSE BEAMS IS KNOWN AS CLOUD LIFT
I really want to take a tour of it
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.
I've done the tour. Plus I've worked in them as a fire sprinkler fitter... so cool and interesting..
My Daughter and I just visited Portland Oregon and enjoyed the show were We stayed at the Benson Hotel with Chip Coffee and then We took this underground tour and I urge everyone to take this tour and You won't be unsatisfied ! Major paranormal activity down there so if You want a great chance to experience paranormal activity then this underground tour of the shanghai tunnels is a must do on You're list of things to do in beautiful old town Portland Oregon! TWO THUMBS UP ! ! Andy & Heather :
LARRY ANDREW KOERTJE how do you get there ?
@@cyrussmith9468 by dint of mental illness
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.
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?
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
“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
Astoria Shanghai is older then Portland. Just learned that a month ago.
Your correct.
SARA carico hung out at Nobys .loved michael jones..
Thank u for the tour sir. I felt as tho I was there. So that's explains Shanghai abductions. Poor souls whoever got caught
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acces under pearl is burned. the pump station on waterfront might have access.
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.
Great video and excellent videographer!
Ha ha!
"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.
This is so funny haha I love it
come to Oklahoma... ik where an opening is
Over 13 times? Who even think about that number?
V Toria ilr what do u think it meant
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?
I had a friend who was just bought and sold. I don't know what to do now :(
Jessie James call the police ?
bruh moment
Ask Mike to give him back, he's probably done being used as Mike's story-prop
Kerlows Cruisn I did they have done nothing over a year ago he’s still there
Kirk Steen your not funny asshole
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
I’ve met this guy he’s amazing
@Ominous Cloud Poncho make up much of his own story
Haunted tour. That's why I never heard of it.
Thanks for posting this video. I have heard about the Hobo's tour but never been on it. I have read up a little on the supposed "Shanghai Tunnels" and do not believe they were real, but this tour looks like it could be fun in a "haunted house" sort of way. Here is a pretty good blog post by a local historian that makes some good points about why Portland's notorious (and very real) Shanghaiing happened above the ground: portlandwaterfront.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-last-word-on-shanghai-tunnels.html
taurinecat JUST NOT HAPPENED, BUT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.
Yup
@@vtoria2759 no
Poncho has quite a repertoire of little emotional ending stories. You should have seen him lay it on at campfire. thank god he was only a one session blunder at Outdoor School , back in the early 1970s
i thought that the tour was bogus and hella lame!! supposedly the tunnels go all under the whole city and more.. but this tour only goes under one half a city block, i was like weres the rest of the tour...we visited four rooms and the speaker takes 30. mins in each room just to drag the tour out longer..its lame
I found it so powerful. I think you need to check your conscience
You think it is lame because they go into detail?
You saved me a trip
You have experienced Mike (AKA "Poncho")--he did the fake little drama stories for only one fall session at Nate Creek Outdoor School. Smarmy. He preferred to work with mostly girl student groups (audiences). the boys wouldn't take him seriously...the staff had little use for his bs.
@@auroraborealis675 Mike is lame because the stories are pure drama...ask Mike about his bum bank and how it folded...where's the cash?
Why don't u tell people that you only take them around the block it's not even the beginning
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.
I heard homeless people are down there now. Is that true?
Homeless are everywhere.
Anyone else here after watching the movie, "Pig"?
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
Michael may be a very good storyteller, but that is what he is doing, telling a fictional story. There is very little history in this tour. If you are interested in the true hidden history of Portland and Shanghaiing you should check out this site www.weirdportland.blogspot.com
I've been shanghai(ed)!!!!
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.
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.
They should redue the arch way on the door ways
Fuck you.
Chapo Guzman built better tunnels
He got life.......⌚
Gimme a break
this feels really bogus
It's not bogus. All the NW people know about it.
miyubail Yeah, and know that is happening right now. People are been trafficked right and left in Portland.
There's a large satanic ring of the downtown business owner running kids doing torture, rape, murder, and all kinds of fucked up shit. There are children down there and it's connected to pizza gate. It's going on right now. Children are being tortured in that tunnel as I speak this message into my phone .. this is huge, and connected to the elite. It looks like this is their West Coast supply of children.
That's why the bullshit tour doesn't show anything it only goes so far. Those tunnels go all the way to the coast from what I've heard
How do you even get in there???
So it was an opium den...
you can't see this anymore.