{"id":368,"slug":"ellinwood-underground-ellinwood-kansas","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Ellinwood is the under — the 'German' that's the built, the 'sidewalks' that's the tunnels. The 'coal chutes' is the origin — the 'wagons' that's the dumped, the 'basements' that's the connected. The 'barber' is the shop — the 'Jung' that's the '87, the 'teeth' that's the pulled.","The 'drummers' is the rooms — the 'sample' that's the displayed, the 'salesmen' that's the slept. The 'Prohibition' is the hidden — the 'saloon' that's the Wolf Hotel, the 'two blocks' that's the under. Ellinwood is the filled — the '1970s' that's the concrete, the 'Dierhof' that's the saved.","The file keeps Ellinwood: the German tunnels, the coal-chute origin, the drummer rooms, and the saved basements.","Ellinwood Underground is the archive's Kansas file — the town beneath."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Ellinwood Underground is the archive's Kansas file — the buried Main Street.","A tunnel keeps its shops — the file's suggestion being that Ellinwood's hold is the below: the 'German' that's the built, the 'drummers' that's the sold, and the 'filled' that's the almost."]}],"name":"Ellinwood Underground","aliases":["Ellinwood Tunnels","Ellinwood Underground City"],"type":"TUNNELS","type_label":"Tunnels","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","roads"],"desc":"Tunnels associated with documented cultural history.","full_desc":"Ellinwood Underground is a tunnels in Ellinwood, Kansas. Tunnels associated with documented cultural history. Preserved underground storefronts include Jung’s barber shop and Drake’s harness shop, both opened in 1887. Reported lore and claims include: The operator records apparitions of a girl and cowboy and alleged entities Gertrude Neil and Tom Drake.","address":"2 North Main Street","city":"Ellinwood","county":null,"state":"Kansas","postal":"67526","region":"Midwest","lat":38.35735,"lon":-98.583847,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":"https://www.ellinwoodunderground.com/","phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Current authorized tour complex includes spaces beneath multiple buildings; the Wolf Hotel above ground is a distinct building. Operator death narratives lack cited records and are not promoted to factual history. Staged October scare events are distinct from alleged encounters.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":66.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.8,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":288,"type":"APPARITION","description":"The operator records apparitions of a girl and cowboy and alleged entities Gertrude Neil and Tom Drake. Ellinwood Underground's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. It's a reported experience — real to the people who had it, unresolved for everyone else. Sources including 'Paranormal History' keep the claim in circulation. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.","evidence":"REPORTED_EXPERIENCE","evidence_label":"Reported experience","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.7,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Paranormal History","url":"https://www.ellinwoodunderground.com/paranormal","publisher":"Ellinwood Underground City Foundation","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Preserved underground storefronts include Jung’s barber shop and Drake’s harness shop, both opened in 1887. Ellinwood Underground's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. Media accounts document it — reported history rather than legend. The detail is preserved in 'Ellinwood Underground City Foundation'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Ellinwood Underground City Foundation","url":"https://www.ellinwoodunderground.com/","publisher":"Ellinwood Underground City Foundation","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"admission_fee":"Full tour adults $15; ages 5–10 $7.50; under 5 free per foundation.","tour_availability":"Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.; foundation also lists third Sunday 2 p.m.","ghost_tours":"Paranormal tours advertised.","overnight_investigation_availability":"Operator advertises 3-hour, 6-hour and overnight paranormal options Friday/Saturday.","reservation_requirement":"Required; check-in at Ellinwood Emporium.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-14T10:36:19+00:00","source":{"name":"Ellinwood Underground City Foundation","url":"https://www.ellinwoodunderground.com/","publisher":"Ellinwood Underground City Foundation","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Ellinwood Underground City Foundation","url":"https://www.ellinwoodunderground.com/","publisher":"Ellinwood Underground City Foundation","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2},{"name":"Paranormal History","url":"https://www.ellinwoodunderground.com/paranormal","publisher":"Ellinwood Underground City Foundation","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2},{"name":"Underground Tunnel Tours","url":"https://www.historicwolfhotel.com/underground-tours","publisher":"Historic Wolf Hotel","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":3}}