Nebraska’s Underground
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Location: Kinsley, Nebraska is in Kinsley, Kansas, there is NO – Kinsley, Nebraska
Location: University of Nebraska, Omaha Nebraska
Functions: Unknown
Levels: Multi-Level
Tunnels to: Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska?
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Location: Red Willow Co. near McCook Nebraska
Functions: Unknown
Levels: Unknown
Tunnels to: Unknown
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Location: Offutt Air Force Base Nebraska
Functions: Advanced weapons design and construction
Levels: 5 – 7 levels
Tunnels to: University of Nebraska?
Notes: During the Cold War it was the underground command center for the Strategic Air Command. George Bush flew there for protection on Air Force One during the 9/11 attacks
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Location: Ponca Nebraska
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Tunnels to: Unknown
Notes: “The so-called Ponca Cave…has been given considerable space in the Nebraska press. There were a few columns about it in the Lincoln Sunday STAR of July 5, 1925, under the heading ‘Ponca Residents Recall Discovery of Cave of Prehistoric Beasts and Plants.’
The authors were Harry I. Peterson and William Huse, the latter the historian of Dixon County of which Ponca is the county seat. Their tall tale was repeated in the Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star, March 28, 1948., twenty-three years later.
“Ponca is in northeast Nebraska, near where the Missouri River rounds the corner bordering South Dakota and Iowa. About 1915 fossil remains such as shark teeth and turtle shells were uncovered there, and a large fossil fish, now in a Chicago museum, was blasted from the bluffs along the river. Local legends and tales seem to have started up after this event; Messrs Huse and Peterson’s tale is the tallest.
They associated their story with no specific site at Ponca but claimed that it had been lost. Their yarn tells of vast caverns, prehistoric skeletons, and gigantic fossilized animals beneath the northern part of Dixon County. It narrates the marvelous subterranean travels of ‘…Professor Jeremiah Perrigoue, who liked geology and liked to dig along the bluffs for fossils, minerals, and petrifications.’
In 1876, Perrigoue found a great hole or an abandoned mine shaft 85 feet deep. He went through a fissure in the rock about 150 yards, then turned sharply to the left. Below him he saw to his amazement a gigantic cavern, a room supported by enormous trees reaching to 300 feet, their leaves turned into a canopy of stone. In this ancient forest, he found petrified worms, a gigantic bird, terrible reptiles, a pterodactyl, deinotherium megatherium, plesiosaur, ichthyosaurus, and palaeotherium
Some of these creatures seemed to have been engaged in a death struggle before their demise. Other features of the great cavern were a subterranean river and waterfall. “Perrigoue penetrated more than two miles from the entrance and spent more than two days before retracing his steps.
Finally, ‘Near the entrance where he had enlarged the fissure, he encountered the dread fire-damp, and to his utter horror, he saw the gauze of his miner’s lamp had taken fire and was shooting up flames. In desperation, he tried to extinguish them and finding it impossible he hurled the lamp far from him and scrambled up the shaft. He had barely reached the upper world before a terrible explosion heaved the ground, the shaft disappeared and this extraordinary sarcophagus was eternally sealed.’”
Source: pages 23-24 of Louis Pound’s book “NEBRASKA FOLKLORE”
Location: Nebraska
Functions: Unknown
Levels: Unknown
Tunnels to: Unknown
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