La Engaña Tunnel

Kantabrien · Spain · Tunnel

Locals say the voices echo out of the mountain's mouths at night — the prisoners who bored the tunnel never saw a train pass through it.

Locals have long told of voices echoing out of the tunnel mouths at night, and the darkness inside has made La Engaña a favourite destination for hunters of recorded voice phenomena. By the derelict station at Yera, Cantabria's eeriest tunnel mouth gapes toward the valley — almost seven kilometres straight into the mountain, without a single point of light at the far end.

The tunnel was bored from 1942 largely by republican political prisoners under the Franco regime, working in inhuman conditions inside the rock; several lost their lives in collapses and blasting. The Santander–Mediterráneo railway was never completed. The tunnel was finished in 1961 — and abandoned before a single train had passed through it.

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Where is La Engaña Tunnel located?

La Engaña Tunnel is in Kantabrien, Spain.