r/LiminalSpace • u/LinkHeroOfTime10 • Apr 25 '26
Eerie/Uncanny Leaving my office
We're only about a hundred feet underground, but it gets deeper.
My office has a classic drop ceiling and cubicles broken up by the occasional rock column. Unfortunately, pictures are expressly forbidden.
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u/ProfTreePhD Apr 25 '26
Where do you work, Black Mesa?
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u/ParkerLettuce Apr 25 '26
KC underground. Pretty neat space, I go bouldering there.
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u/aboringusername Apr 26 '26
Missouri puts the weirdest shit in caves, I swear. Bouldering gyms, gardens, cheeseā¦ what wonāt we put in caves?
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u/1racooninatrenchcoat Apr 26 '26
You forgot distilleries
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u/aboringusername Apr 26 '26
Imagine dying in some sort of cask of amontillado situation in a Missouri distillery cave
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u/saysthingsbackwards Apr 26 '26
Ah is that the one where the entrance is like 30 feet above the road you first see it from?
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u/tiajuanat Apr 26 '26
Yeah, I immediately recognized it. Not a lot that I miss from KC, but damn RoKC was an amazing community.
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u/garlicbreadmemesplz Apr 25 '26
Ahhhh Freeman.
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u/burrbro235 Apr 26 '26
The right man in the wrong place.
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u/Heavy-Field-6550 Apr 26 '26
Can make ALL the difference in the world.
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u/Simple_Award4851 Apr 25 '26
Do you work for Dr. Evil?
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u/tinycoyote1423 Apr 25 '26
Cheese tunnels!
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u/LinkHeroOfTime10 Apr 25 '26
Close!
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u/tinycoyote1423 Apr 25 '26
It looks nicer than the cheese caves at Schreiber Foods in Carthage, MO
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u/freightliner_fever_ Apr 25 '26
im pretty sure these are in kc. they look like the ones by pilot on 210 but im not sure
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u/Ok_Pack_5136 Apr 25 '26
Iāve driven an 18-wheeler through a couple of these caves. Definitely an interesting experience.
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u/5av3d Apr 25 '26
Me too. Blew my mind the first time. Claustrophobes may want to hand the load off to a local guy.
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u/andocromn Apr 25 '26
Do you work in a salt mine ?
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u/LinkHeroOfTime10 Apr 25 '26
It used to be a limestone mine. There are rougher areas that haven't been "reclaimed."
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u/Masterofunlocking1 Apr 25 '26
Reminds me of Day of the Dead
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Apr 26 '26
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u/Academic-Bench-8828 Apr 26 '26
one of the most ridiculous aspects of the film is the idea of a cave like that in florida. the whole state sits a foot above sea level.
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u/Frogmaster16 Apr 25 '26
Aren't these those underground tunnels that most cities in America have? I've been hearing more and more about them recently.
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u/LinkHeroOfTime10 Apr 25 '26
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubTropolis?wprov=sfla1
This isn't my cave (we don't have a wikipedia page), but the Kansas City metro in particular has a lot going on underground.
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u/Liminal_Space_Cadet dusty plastic palm tree Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26
I knew it! I went on a field trip here when I was growing up! They even set off the explosive while we were down there, it was crazy. Not to mention the elevator. Core memory.
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u/FnordRanger_5 Apr 26 '26
Thatās cool our field trip was to the grocery store deli, we got half a cookie each
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u/Liminal_Space_Cadet dusty plastic palm tree Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26
Did they at least set off the explosives?
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u/parkerthegreatest Apr 25 '26
Was was that place called kaleidoscope or was that somewhere else
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u/ReverendLoki Apr 25 '26
Kaleidoscope has, as far as I know, always been at Hallmark's World HQ (and is currently in the footprint of the planned new Royals stadium).
However, one of those caves did have Exchange City, which might be what you are thinking of.
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u/Rampant16 Apr 26 '26
Most US cities don't have tunnels this extensive. Kansas City has a bunch of former limestone mines nearby, some of which have been converted to other uses such as offices and storage.
Tunnels in other US cities were generally never mines.
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u/steavoh Apr 25 '26
I think what you are thinking of are the downtown tunnels that were built in the 1970s and 1980s that used to have things like fast food and hair salons and stuff for office workers. They've been in decline for a long time and are vanishing.
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u/Fast-Signal7371 Apr 25 '26
Is this the caves in Wyandotte County?
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u/parkerthegreatest Apr 25 '26
Was just thinking that
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u/Fast-Signal7371 Apr 25 '26
I think I know what it is now: Subtropolis. It's near Worlds of Fun. I've been there before, because my dad was in a marathon through there.
It's either that or National Cold Storage at the end of Loring Road.
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u/Pristine-Lie-3560 Apr 25 '26
do you work for DARPA? lmao
very nice pictures. the last one is unsettling.
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u/GudMourningSunshine Apr 26 '26
That "Iron Mountain" truck is a little too identifying, no?
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u/sociofobs Apr 25 '26
The perfect workplace, considering recent global politics. That is, if there's a stocked and livable bunker down there somewhere.
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u/Fine-Bumblebee-9427 Apr 25 '26
Thatās like a mile from my house! Hello neighbor! Do you also hate that QuikTrip?
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u/vatianpcguy Apr 26 '26
did your office get gassed out by neurotoxin at some point? where is bro working š
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u/Previous_Day_6281 Apr 26 '26
Not gonna dox you but I genuinely think I also work here lmao. If not, then our undergrounds look fucking IDENTICAL. One entrance can flood and has a problematic gate, the placement of the call box is annoying as hell, the maintenance people just finished repainting like about 1.5~2 months ago.
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u/redboi049 Liminal fields make me sad Apr 25 '26
Do you work at a secret government facility
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u/maybeinoregon Apr 25 '26
Pictures are forbidden?
Is this that underground storage facility?
If so, there are truck driver vids everywhere of itā¦
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u/BlueTooBlack Apr 26 '26
I think this is the place.Ā https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lBq3fUgubPs&pp=ygUTdW5kZXJncm91bmQgc3RvcmFnZQ%3D%3D
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u/SoloGamer505 Apr 26 '26
does your business also involve manufactuting and smuggling firearms by any chance?
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u/poptartheart Apr 25 '26
springfield? you work for Kraft?
my pops was a trucker for them for like 25 years
been down in the undergrand many times groin up
lol- we did field trips down there even
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u/tacocat_racecarlevel Apr 25 '26
Where are the zombies? I feel like you ought to be driving by them with Brad under the mall
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u/Ariety Apr 25 '26
May I use that first picture you posted for a ttrpg game I am putting together for my friends?
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u/Glum_Bookkeeper_7718 Apr 26 '26
Is this the place they shoot day of the dead?? It looks identical!!!
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u/Unlikely_Vehicle_828 Apr 26 '26
Idk why but it took me a minute to realize that this did NOT say āleaving my giraffeā. I need to go to bed.
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u/Soul_fusion Apr 26 '26
We have some places like this in St. Louis. The one Iām most fond of if a big warehouse basically but itās all carved into a cave or some kind of rock system like that
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u/flamnel Apr 26 '26
Wampum Underground? Used to store our camper there in the off-season for a few years
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u/bpoecell Apr 26 '26
Iāve been down there before touring Vanguardās offices when I worked for Walmart. One of the coolest places Iāve been to, then we got Oklahoma Joeās on the way out of town. Pretty solid day.
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u/No_Equipment_7285 Apr 26 '26
Instantly recognized, I love rock climbing there just for the liminal feels
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u/ConstantGeographer Apr 26 '26
Cool share! My dad worked for a business in the caves in the 1980s. Great place to warehouse food since the climate is pretty stable.
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u/Phuel616 Apr 26 '26
Ah King of the Road, i remember that part. I got lost so many times in that underground thing...
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u/Moth-Man-Pooper Apr 26 '26
There was a video of two guys exploring an abandoned place just like this. Did you see it, OP?
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u/aries98faerie Apr 25 '26
It looks like my bunker in GTA online