So I heard a rumor about steam tunnels running under the entire main campus. Apparently there is an entrance near the library and also in Syme Hall? Can anyone confirm this rumor? And if so, how do you get down there?

11/20/2008 11:09:34 AM

i can...i've been in most of them

11/20/2008 11:10:09 AM

All I know is I was freezing one morning, crossed over a grill in the ground, and went, Aaaaahhhhhhh...

11/20/2008 11:10:50 AM

you get down there by breaking the law and trespassing, also breaking some locks, and will inevitably get caught as they have simple cheap sensors to detect you and figure out when end you will be emerging... not a good idea....

they do exist



[Edited on November 20, 2008 at 11:11 AM. Reason : good luck]

11/20/2008 11:11:03 AM

There's also a pool on top of Harrelson

11/20/2008 11:11:19 AM

a hot tub yes

[Edited on November 20, 2008 at 11:12 AM. Reason : ]

11/20/2008 11:12:01 AM

i went a few times while i was a student - got caught once because one of the guys with us tripped a silent alarm on one of the doors entering a building

you'll still be able to see ZIDIK spray painted down there in a few places - but uhhhhh it wasn't me - someone else must have done it in my honor maybe

11/20/2008 11:13:32 AM

there used to be a midget maintenance worker that occasionally accessed the steam via that little door in the free expression tunnel- saw him on my way to class sometimes. i don't know if he still works there though (this was '01-'05)

11/20/2008 11:14:01 AM

There's probably some old threads about this in the lounge

Maybe have gotten purged though

11/20/2008 11:19:21 AM

i never got a chance to go down there but i have always wanted too

i bet those kooky kids that played D&D down there in the 80s got into some ill shit

seems like a good place to film a porno

11/20/2008 11:19:26 AM

I was about to say lets do drugs and go play D&D down there!!!1

11/20/2008 11:20:58 AM

11/20/2008 11:24:31 AM

there are definitely a few threads about this.


i would also have liked to explore these, would make for a cool adventure.

11/20/2008 11:27:28 AM

There is one door in the basement of Syme that I have never been in and never saw open. It is on the south side right by where that image shows the tunnel being. However, since I left I know they renovated the basement and there is now a hallway that has been closed off in that location.

11/20/2008 11:27:42 AM

http://goodnightraleigh.com/2008/10/the-steam-tunnels-of-ncsu-part-1/
http://goodnightraleigh.com/2008/10/the-steam-tunnels-of-ncsu-part-2/

11/20/2008 11:29:57 AM

i too, have been in these tunnels. legally though

11/20/2008 11:31:40 AM

i heard a couple of wolfwebbers have explored the steam tunnels without getting caught

11/20/2008 11:33:31 AM

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"This was an important gathering place for a branch of the Masters Of Deception, made up of cyberpunks and hackers in the late 1980’s that hasn’t been documented."

11/20/2008 11:36:05 AM

I have pictures somewhere from when construction was going on a few years ago and it was opened up between the C Store and the tunnel. The elevated garden thing right there has a gate to go down which was wide open and blocked off from sight by some particle board walls so we wandered them for a bit. It was neat.

11/20/2008 11:38:37 AM

hahahaha masters of deception

gay

11/20/2008 11:38:55 AM

I went through there my sophomore year. There was an entrance near some construction that apparently wasn't alarmed, because I got in and out without getting caught. There were two exits, one with a really long ladder and one past that.

I took the ladder. It was awesome.

11/20/2008 11:40:59 AM

Tha undeground SMELLroad

11/20/2008 11:43:02 AM

iswydt

11/20/2008 11:44:51 AM

Some say that Paul Cousins roams the tunnels at night.

11/20/2008 11:45:46 AM

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"i heard a couple of wolfwebbers have explored the steam tunnels without getting caught"

and who was trying to pussy out, wilso?

11/20/2008 11:51:37 AM

I made my way down there the week before halloween. 'Twas fun.

11/20/2008 11:57:13 AM

that'd be sweet to go down there without getting in trouble

11/20/2008 12:06:34 PM

They keep you out of them because they're considered confined spaces and actually have some chemicals in the air that could do serious harm to your body. But if you don't care about the health risks, it'd be fun until you get caught.

11/20/2008 12:07:44 PM

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"and who was trying to pussy out, wilso?"

what the fuck are you talking about? i wasn't even around when you guys did it

11/20/2008 12:23:52 PM

ugh

i have some kind of claustrophobia

exploring those would not be fun

11/20/2008 12:26:03 PM

first time i went in a boiler at work this past summer i kinda got this claustrophobic feeling going through the access door. it's about a 20" diameter circle. if you start feeling stuck, you're instinct tells you to try harder, which is the opposite of what you need to do. kinda weird the first time, but i got used to it.

11/20/2008 12:29:14 PM

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"ou get down there by breaking the law and trespassing, also breaking some locks, and will inevitably get caught as they have simple cheap sensors to detect you and figure out when end you will be emerging... not a good idea.... they do exist"

this is the douche-baggin-est answer possible

11/20/2008 12:30:16 PM

from one of my times down there back in 2002

11/20/2008 12:33:12 PM

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"They keep you out of them because they're considered confined spaces and actually have some chemicals in the air that could do serious harm to your body. But if you don't care about the health risks, it'd be fun until you get caught."

This could explain the events proceeding after my junior year.

11/20/2008 12:34:43 PM

I spent a couple of hours down there sophomore year. I got in through the little hut that used to be across from Reynolds. I lived in Syme and yes, there is an "entrance" there, but it is impossible to get into. The main one exits into a couple of buildings, but those doors are rigged with silent alarms.

We had a lot of fun exploring, and didn't get caught. Main thing is that it's hotter than hell down there, bring a bottle of water or something to avoid the temptation to go into a building and use the water fountain.

And, in general, be aware that going down there is illegal, you can get caught, and it will suck if you do.

11/20/2008 12:49:20 PM

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"you can get caught, and it will suck if you do."

maybe it's different now - but we got caught the first time down there by student conduct and got nothing but a slap on the wrist - we had to meet with one of the people in SC (not cousins) and she told us to not go down there again and we had to sign some paper saying we wouldn't - then left

after that we knew how to not get caught so all of our subsequent visits were longer and didn't involve SC

11/20/2008 12:51:08 PM

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"what the fuck are you talking about? i wasn't even around when you guys did it"

oh yea, it was Jere. could have sworn you went with us.

11/20/2008 1:10:33 PM