Shanghai Tunnels

About Shanghai Tunnels

Portland’s coastal location established it as a shipping hub and port of call for sailors during the 1800s. This eventually led to unsuspecting men and women being kidnapped from bars or hotels, shipped to the Orient, and impressed into slave labor or prostitution, also known as Shanghaiing. Portland was notorious for this practice thanks to a series of labyrinthine underground tunnels that run beneath the city streets, which were used by the Shanghaiiers as a safe way to capture and transfer victims to the harbor without being seen. Today, the tunnels are said to be haunted by the ghosts of the people who were kidnapped.

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