My scary tunnel experience

Exploring the creepiest tunnel on campus to avoid the bite of winter

Ebunoluwa Akinbo, staff

The tunnel beneath the agriculture building is one of the scariest tunnels on campus. The first time I walked through the tunnel, I was on a quest to avoid frostbite. I had frostbite during my first winter in Winnipeg, and I had promised my fingers that they would never experience that again.

I ran into the agriculture building as bus 672 dropped me off. I wasn’t ready to walk in the minus 40 degree weather after already being outside for 20 minutes waiting to catch my bus.

As soon as I entered the building, I asked a lady in the hallway if she knew the way to the tunnel. She said, “there is no tunnel in this building.”

I knew I had heard of a tunnel in this building, though, and eventually I found my way there. As I walked through the tunnel, the whistling noise from the large white metal pipes came with a ring at intervals which felt weird to my ears. I was the only one in the tunnel at 10 a.m., and I could hear my footsteps echoing. I noticed the cracked walls and floors, and the multitude of cobwebs. I began to imagine the variety of spiders I might find.

As soon as I got out of the tunnel, I told my fingers that I wasn’t sure about the promise of preventing frostbite if it meant being in such a spooky place. I crossed to the engineering building and when I entered the regular tunnel, I immediately felt like I was just discovering civilization. editor@themanitoban.com