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Afton Tunnels: The Grant That Buried Them Alive A rusted latch, an unlocked grate, and a dare led two students into the forgotten tunnels beneath Afton Community College. What they found was not a ghost, but a terrified man trapped by a hidden clause in a grant, mouthing a chilling warning through frosted glass. What secret has kept him underground for over thirty years? In this episode, we uncover the suppressed account of two students who stumbled upon a secret beneath their college campus. Their discovery reveals a story of a man imprisoned by a bureaucratic detail and the unsettling truth about the pulsing walls and grinding sounds that haunt the Afton tunnels. Person: Unnamed college student (narrator) Location: Afton Community College Event: Discovery of tunnels and trapped man Date: Late October Status: Account suppressed by school board - Two students, a skeptic and a rationalist, entered the tunnels on a dare after a night class. - The tunnels were lit by dim orange bulbs, with pipes running in every direction. - A slow, deep expansion and contraction pulsed through the walls of the tunnels. - They found an elderly man in a maintenance uniform, trapped behind a door, mouthing "It's perfectly safe." - A low grinding sound, distant and irregular, began to move closer from deeper in the tunnel system. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: OBOMEDIA presents real horror stories a scary story podcast for the late night hours. Every episode is horror narration done right: true scary stories and horror stories based on true events, told from the first chilling minute. Expect disturbing true stories, disturbing horror stories and dark true horror stories drawn from real testimonies. Some nights bring camping horror stories, forest horror stories and road horror stories; others bring home alone horror stories, haunted stories, eerie stories, strange stories and unsettling tales true creepy stories and creepy encounters that never made the news. Press play on our late night horror stories and late night scary stories, from storytime horror to a full horror stories compilation or scary stories compilation real scary stories, scary stories based on true events, and dark stories to keep the lights on. © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network, who owns and is solely responsible for this content. All rights reserved. Reproduction or commercial use without the creator's written permission is prohibited. Business: [redacted].