Inside the creepy abandoned Victorian tunnels under a bustling city that were locked up for 70 years

A CHILLING new video has explored the abandoned tunnels under a major city. The ghostly sights are like something from a horror movie.

Creepy tunnels under a bustling city

A CHILLING new video has explored the abandoned tunnels underneath bustling Manchester.

The eerie footage, shot by urban explorer Paul Powers, reveals the expansive subterranean network of the Victoria Arches.

It’s pretty dark down here.

Rundown toilets and kilometres of ghostly corridors are all shown in the creepy torchlit film.

The Victoria Arches were built in 1838 as part of a new industrial area on the River Irwell’s embankment, and the structure grew to contain shops and even a canal for tourist boat trips.

It’s easy to get lost.

But in the 1930s these were closed down, leaving a desolate space that was later used as a World War II air raid shelter.

Explorer Paul Powers freaks himself out.

In the 1970s a tube station was dug up in the underground labyrinth, but it never saw the light of day after plans were ditched for being too costly.

The tunnels are now closed to the public, and are entirely abandoned, save for the occasional brave explorer.

Time for a loo break.

Keith Warrender, an author, explained to the Manchester Evening News that some of the tunnels “go back to the times of the religious persecution where people of the Catholic faith had routes in and out of the city”.

Lots of storage space here.

The Victoria Arches aren’t the only weird structure in Manchester: Pomona Docks, which used to be a bustling industrial port, is now a desolate and empty island in the middle of the River Irwell.

This story was originally published in The Sun.