The Rocking Chair in Maren Tunnel: Whose Name Echoed Inside?
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The Rocking Chair in Maren Tunnel: Whose Name Echoed Inside?
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A rocking chair moved two inches forward and back inside Maren Tunnel Tunnel at 7:55 AM on January 9, 2011, with no wind, no vehicles, and no one nearby - and an archivist later found a margin note from 1926 tied to a name connected to that bore. What name might have been spoken inside the tunnel, aloud to no one, eighty-three years after a man vanished into a sealed void?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the first maintenance reports in October 2009 through Debra Parker’s eleven-minute sighting and the records that point back to a 1928 pour and a coroner’s inquest. How did maintenance logs, a vanished laborer, and a sealed concrete floor converge on the same name?
Date: January 9, 2011
Time: 7:55 AM
Location: Maren Tunnel Tunnel, north portal, mile marker 7.4
Case: rocking chair moving in roadway; no witness nearby
Event: drainage crew broke through 1928 floor pour in fall 2009
- Debra Parker watched the rocking chair move for eleven minutes before calling dispatcher then 9-1-1.
- The chair rocked two inches forward and two inches back in the center of the southbound lane, forty feet inside the north portal.
- Gail Barnes experienced a low-frequency vibration from October 2009, sat for four minutes in the tunnel one night, then avoided it and drove five miles out of her way.
- Between October 2009 and January 2011, Al Pruett filed seven incident reports noting a repositioned work lamp, a facedown surveying reflector twice, and a radio voice saying an unrecognized name.
- A 1928 concrete pour sealed a natural void containing "debris of organic origin" where laborer Thomas Veal fell and whose body was not recovered.
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