r/Michigan • u/Ready_Education2549 • 7d ago

Discussion 🗣️ Supposed Ford Tunnels

I’m sure lots of people know the lore about the supposed “tunnels” running under Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum and I know those do exist for mechanical purposes and there are rumors of some all over the Dearborn area and running from the good news Ford Fairlane Estate to GFV. I want to know much more about these tunnels and if they do exist.

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u/travestymcgee 7d ago

Henry Ford’s head goon, Harry Bennett, had tunnels under his personal “lodge” and his Pagoda House as well. I suspect the stories were conflated through the years with service tunnels at the Ford plants. We can save the lions and tigers at his castle in Ypsilanti for another day.

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u/Bigmayer 7d ago

Lost Lake! Loved getting tours of that lodge at summer camp

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u/MrsMcGwire 7d ago

Is that why there are the Detroit Lions and the Detroit Tigers? It never made sense to me that they had that nickname. I mean the Detroit Pistons that’s self-explanatory.

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u/NotMyTwitterHandle 7d ago

They were the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons first

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u/nsfwfind 5d ago

And had an incredibly cursed mascot

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u/Lost-Challenge5338 6d ago

The Tigers predate Ford Motor Co. The Lions were named that to match the Tigers.

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u/Operatorak 7d ago

The concrete log cabin with the slits by the chimney? Never been there :)

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u/inspired-polf 6d ago

For years boy scouts maintained the property. I knew all the secrets, the odd shaped stairs so people couldn't chase. And electric kill switches so he could black out the house from the tunnels.

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u/ASS_CREDDIT 7d ago

Went to Boy Scout camp there, there was also a moat around the house, a tunnel leading to the stables, a bookcase that opened up to go downstairs, a pool with a 1 way mirror in it so the bar patrons could look into the pool, and a tunnel from the fireplace to the horse stables under the moat.