Subterranean Dwellers

Welcome back to The Border!
	Quick Links	Announcements
	\| Home \| Member's Blogs \| \| Enter Chat Room \| \| Today's active topics \|	You can also see and join us at: TPB's YouTube Channel ~ Click to Register TPB's MySpace Page and Visit MonsterVisionTV MonsterVisionTV on YouTube

TPB's Quote of the Day!

We hope you enjoy your visit.

You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free.

Join our community!

If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Subterranean Dwellers
Topic Started: Aug 24 2008, 10:52 PM (127 Views)
XNavyGunner	Aug 24 2008, 10:52 PM Post #1
Gunner Posts: 11,183 Group: Global Moderators Member #89 Joined: Sep 5 2006 Gender Male	As a child I was always peeping from the stairs at the latest horror movie my mum and dad had hired. One such shocker was the 1972 Brit-flick 'Deathline', also known as 'Raw Meat', which concerned the horrific rumour that a race of cannibals were existing under the streets of London, and their acts of carnage taken out on all manner of victims such as tramps, drunks, city workers and pets. Author Michael Goss looked into the legend on several occasions and concluded that although primal or neglected humans may not be loitering in the underground, belief in such dwellers was indeed once rife. The sewers and disused tunnels beneath the capital are a world away from the hustle and bustle of the city. As tourists flock to commercialism, workers rush to their towering blocks of business, and shoppers scuttle like rats to their next retail high, below their feet is alleged to exist a seedy, brutal world beyond the imagination of mundanity. As Goss stated with regards to whispers of underground dwellers, "They are not representatives of the desperate, homeless poor, nor are they thrill-seeking interlopers indulging in the frisson that comes from being where they are not supposed to be... the London subterraneans are real troglodytes, born and bred down below and seldom if ever coming to the surface." Of course, these secretive souls, who feed on the food we don't want as well as animals such as mice and rats, and as eerie murmurs have it, the occasional human victim, have never been sighted. Is that because they exist as mere urban legend, or because the London above them is completely oblivious to their existence? No-one knows exactly when the rumours began to circulate with reference to these underbelly prowlers. What we do know however is that such 'people' are known to roam the sewers, the London Underground, railway tunnels and just about any black hole they can find to shelter and conceal themselves. They have their own guttural language, they are known to be aggressive when encountered... even though legend states no-one has seen them, but such ideas tweak at our fears, because we know that despite travelling on ghastly, claustrophobic tubes, we are not folk accustomed to the dark, dingy confines of London, or indeed any other city's grimy underside, and that's where these cultural dreads always hide, and sometimes... but only sometimes... they crawl like vermin into the backs of our minds and cause panic, until once again they sink below, where we first created them. Source



rhyknow	Aug 25 2008, 03:21 AM Post #2
Reincarnation of Bubba Posts: 941 Group: Members Member #41 Joined: Jun 30 2006 Gender Male Age Group 18 and under.	I remember seeing the film Creep a few years ago and I know it scared the hell outta me. it's always been an interesting little concept, that of subterranean dwellers. In theory, I suppose it's possible, but I wonder how they'd survive down there; I mean the Underground isn't exactly the safest place in the world, is it?
	"L'essentiel, c'est de jouer au Karaoke" Jaco Pastorius : December 1st, 1951 - September 21st, 1987. R.I.P to the greatest electric bassist ever. “Don’t hate the media, become the media.” - Jello Biafra


LarryOldtimer	Aug 25 2008, 02:31 PM Post #3
The man!! Posts: 1,112 Group: Members Member #16 Joined: Jun 5 2006 Gender Male	The "above ground" isn't at all safe.



XNavyGunner	Aug 25 2008, 08:33 PM Post #4
Gunner Posts: 11,183 Group: Global Moderators Member #89 Joined: Sep 5 2006 Gender Male	rhyknow Aug 25 2008, 03:21 AM I remember seeing the film Creep a few years ago and I know it scared the hell outta me. it's always been an interesting little concept, that of subterranean dwellers. In theory, I suppose it's possible, but I wonder how they'd survive down there; I mean the Underground isn't exactly the safest place in the world, is it? Life will find a way to exist anywhere. What may be inhospitable to us, can be home to other "people". For example, you or I would perish in the Amazon or the Sahara, yet there are people who thrive there. It's all what you're used to.



Isis	Sep 6 2008, 02:54 AM Post #5
The Goddess of Darkness & Desire Posts: 9,385 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: May 21 2006 Gender Female Age Group 40's Country - USA Quotation - A weak body leads to a weak mind and a weak mind leads to a weak soul!!!!	If you have seen the History Channel's show Underground, it make's more sense..There are some really cool place's hided away by time..
	Isis, The Goddess of Desire & Darkness. In The Darkness, We Find The Light. This is a Drama Free Zone..!


1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous)


« Previous Topic · Urban Legends · Next Topic »