A Mysterious Call About Downtown El Paso’s Secret Tunnels
It started with a phone call I wasn’t expecting. My friend, a local paranormal investigator who’s asked to stay anonymous for their own protection, told me they’d seen something strange downtown. Strange, even by their standards. A group of people, cloaked in red, walking silently through the streets in the middle of the night.
At first, they brushed it off as another batch of night owls or urban weirdos. El Paso has its fair share of both. But then another friend reached out, someone who’d seen the same group enter a random downtown building and never come back out.
That same friend kept watch for several nights. Some nights, the group went in but never came out. Other nights, they came out but never went in. It didn’t make sense until my investigator friend realized what might be happening: they were using the old basement tunnels that supposedly snake beneath downtown El Paso.
Exploring the Hidden Basements Beneath Downtown El Paso
Most people think the basements under downtown are sealed up, forgotten, or just too dangerous to bother with. But my investigator friend has been down there. They’ve seen what’s left, tunnels that connect one building to another, some wide enough to stand in, others barely crawl spaces.
When they called me, they said it was time to shine a light on it. I’ll admit, this sounded like exactly the kind of wild story that gets clicks. But something in their voice told me it was more than ghost stories or folklore, so I agreed.
Maybe it’s a group of artists prepping for a secret event. Maybe it’s a bunch of urban explorers, or kids playing a live-action Dungeons and Dragons campaign. But if it was something darker, I wanted to find out.
Late-Night Stakeout in Downtown El Paso
A weekend ago, we met near Texas and Florence around 1 a.m., one of the “active” doors this group supposedly uses. The plan was simple: park, wait, watch…