4 Insane Things People Just Found Underground

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A Soccer Stadium Delays Its Construction Because of a Secret Massive Bomb Shelter

Construction crews breaking ground for the San Jose Earthquakes' new soccer arena got a little more trouble than expected when shifting a 6-inch concrete foundation place revealed a massive network of forgotten bomb shelters under their work site. In all, they found over 70 vaults, seriously delaying work and presumably causing many of the workers to contemplate the futility of war.

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Somewhere, Geraldo Rivera is enjoying some priapism.

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London Has a Ball of Fat the Size of a Bus in Its Sewer System

When Kingston-area residents called officials to complain that their toilets and drains weren't emptying properly, the intrepid poo-spelunkers of London sprung into action. Once deep in the fecal catacombs, they found the kind of terror that your nightmares just aren't imaginative enough to generate -- a bus-size 15-ton wad of congealed sewer fat.

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Enjoy the salad you're now undoubtedly going to have for lunch.

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A Centuries-Old Grave Site Was Found in a Jersey Woman's Backyard

In an apparent attempt to make the unknown darkness below our feet even more terrifying, society has for centuries been sticking our dead people down there. Even worse, our record keeping regarding the dearly departed isn't always top notch, which Angela Posey found out the hard way when she discovered a 113-year-old tombstone hanging out in the backyard of her home.

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We figured people from Jersey would be used to stumbling across surprise corpses by now.

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A Small Town

When Moscow police recently raided an area underneath a city street, they uncovered a little surprise: an entire small society beneath the city, packed to the gills with residents and activity. Apparently when the famous and immigrant-friendly Cherkizovsky Market closed down, its patrons decided to keep the party going downstairs by carving enough room out of the ground to house over 200 residents in some crazy mole person sweatshop.

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"We were getting an Orange Julius next week."

Police found more than just homes down there, though. The residents decided to do the underground sub-city thing in style and had a movie theater, a bar, and a cafe. Hell, there was even a working casino down there, patronized by the kind of person for whom living in a hastily constructed underground slum just wasn't risky enough.