Tiktoker Digging A Tunnel System Under Her House 

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Hey Danny! To answer your questions of “is this safe/legal?” The answer is absolutely fucking not.

WHY are tunnels so popular rn??? tunnel girl, the tunnels in new york, the tunnel system i just installed under my neighbourhood that leads to my danny gonzalez shrine, like wtf who is controlling our brains

"i cut corners so my structure collapsed" SENT MEEEEEE LIKE THAT IS CATASTROPHIC AND SHE IS SO CHILL

Fun fact: in Canada, engineers are given a metal ring when they graduate. It originates from a bridge that fell and killed people in 1907 due to the engineers taking risks. At first, the ring were made from the metal left of the fallen bridge. The goal is to remind engineer of the importance of thinking this through and being careful. It’s supposed to tell them what can happen if they cut corners.

Using ghosts to distract from the very illegal and mysterious tunnel is very Scooby Doo villain core

I didn't think her tunneling was a big deal...until I learned she's doing it in a suburban area and not in the middle of a huge piece of land she owned.

Kala has also had flooding and at least one electrical fire, which she had to film for TikTok before extinguishing. Kala has also been a menace to all of her neighbors, most of whom are migrant families with precarious immigration status. The only reason we know about how disruptive this garbage has been for the neighbors was from investigative journalist Aura Bogado's reporting. Imagine dealing with Kala's meth-head project but being too scared to report it under threat of DEPORTATION.

I've never seen someone so calm and yet so completely removed from reality at the same time

also her being concerned about ghostly encounters when she should be terrified about her house falling through is fucking hilarious

My tunnel lady experience was seeing one tiktok from her, going "huh" and scrolling away, and then 3 months later seeing a dozen tiktoks from geologists begging her to stop before she collapses her neighbor's house or lets a pocket of arsenic seep into the water supply for the entire DC metro area

was literally just thinking "this seems super dangerous and probably illegal but idk, i'm a computer dev" right before the fact that she's a computer engineer was revealed. suddenly i feel the urge to dig out a basement under my house.

As someone living in Germany I find her tunnel digging so funny, cause every few years an entire area in Germany needs to be cleared because construction workers dug down and found some WW2 bomb that needs to be diffused. Some friends that work in construction say that basically no one wants to dig in Germany anymore, cause if you find a bomb, you have to pay to get it diffused, and that tends to cost a lot. I can image in France, England or Poland it might be similar.

This whole thing could be SUCH a cool horror story. Like, the main character rents a room in this woman's house and finds out that the owner is digging a tunnel under the house, and slowly realizes that something down there is urging her to do it. Could be so cool if she wasn't actively endangering her neighborhood.

I love how she's doing/talking about the most insane shit ever but sounds so nonchalant it's like she's sleepwalking - it's genuinely so funny

she’s like “why is everything going wrong” it’s like girl, your digging a tunnel under your house… that’s what’s going wrong.

she really said "ferb i know what we're gonna do today!"

As a low-voltage electrician and having a physics degree, electricity is basically magic. Electrons have no reason for doing the shit they be doing

There's an old saying. "safety regulations are written in blood." If she kept going, she would've figured that out the hard way.

Kala is the kind of person in a comedy horror movie that is so nonchalant that they should be dead already but somehow manages to survive every brush with death.

Also under ethical concerns: in a few of her videos she has mentioned and briefly shown a "helper" but not provided much details. So not only is she putting her own life at risk but also whoever the other person is (and we don't know how involved they are, how aware they are, or how knowledgeable they are on engineering)

As a Structural Engineer this is crazy and extremely dangerous. The city needs to shut this down before the whole neighborhood fucking sinks 😭

Her casually falling and just cutting it midways acting like nothing happened is genuinely the funniest shit i've ever seen

Why is no one talking about goblin dannys delivery of "be kind with your words" that took me the fuck out i haven't stopped laughing for like 10 minutes

the fact that it all happened like 30 min from DC is what makes it even more insane. girl you are in suburbia, why are you doing minecraft

Wtf? I thought she lived in the middle of nowhere and I was just like "Do your thing, girl. Probably get yourself 💀, but live your life...or don't." Had no clue she was just free balling this in the 'burbs, 10ft from someone else's house.

Next thing we know she's going to lure her worst enemy down with the promise of a cask of rare wine and use those rocks to seal him in

I love how she kinda glosses over the fact that there's RADIATION under her house (which yes, is very normal depending on where you live, most places that have basements require a radon pump to prevent it building up in the structure) and then she talks about her house being haunted like.... I'm not a radiation expert but is there a vague possibility that those two could be connected?

The funniest part about watching this video is seeing a recommended video from a similar creator about how dumb Airup is right in the side bar.

The craziest part is that basements are SUFFICIENT storm shelters and she already has a basement? 😭😭

this is like the engineer version of a normal person representing themselves as their own lawyer in court

I love that in Tik Tok you can find people cooking, memes, first hand footage of an individual actively destroying the structural foundation of an entire city, and podcast clips.

She’s a modern day Sara Winchester. Constant building to get away from spirits

"I'm sorry, goblin?!" "I forgive you" Was a real sleeper bit

As a licensed civil engineer, this is a nightmare to hear about. Even if her "tunnel" is only below her floor slab, she is undermining the stability of surrounding structures by removing the earth. This is why a thing called shoring is used when excavating. Basement walls can blow out when earth is removed from it for a long time.

"I do not fear death because i have no reason to live." Goblin Danny 100% dug the tunnel for this purpose

11:10 listen bro, i’m an electrical engineering major and let me tell you, that is literally magic. I work with imaginary numbers paired with integrations to figure out the change of current due to inductors. It’s… it’s literally imaginary numbers making the math work… it’s actually magic.

“suburban mining” is such a funny concept

The fact that she's a computer engineer actually stands out to me because shes not the first one to have a weird obsession with tunneling. Seymour Cray the "father of supercomputing" is noted to have dug a tunnel under his home where so called elves would bring him solutions to the problems he was working on in his research.

She’s like a spiritual successor to Sarah Winchester. But, at least the Winchester Mystery Mansion is structurally sound and has a steady supply of oxygen

She needs a medical diagnosis. This is obsessive behavior. The lack of planning and care for this project is so negligent.

She can't get too greedy. If she digs too deep, she may awaken the Balrog of Morgoth

For some reason I wanted this video to be an hour long. The lore is going deeper than her hole and I'm here for this exclusive coverage

"Be kind with your words, please...🥺"

I love Danny’s commitment to the goblin bit lol I’m imagining him taking the paint off his face after filming in complete silence

Her tripping and then acting like everything is fine was hilarious

"Sorry.. goblin?!" "I forgive you." That really got me 😅

I watch a channel called Fascinating Horror and through it I have learned that there is nothing more dangerous than someone who says, “I don’t need a professional I can figure this out on my own.”

Someone introduce this woman to minecraft before she tunnels into cthulhu's man cave.

So she’s allowed to do this in her suburban neighborhood but I was forced to take down my treehouse?

Ok, the radiation under the house, previous occupant acquiring mental issues of some kind, and all her roomates/renters hearing voices and hallucinations? THAT'S RADON!!!!!! The tunnel here isn't the issue, it's the RADON LEAK

My parakeet loves your channel. Whenever i play your videos when im around my bird he starts singing and chirping. 😂

I’m at 15:00 and am 99% sure this article was written by AI, and Danny somehow hasn’t noticed

I think it's a little disingenuous of her to keep defending her actions by saying she's an engineer, when she's not the relevant kind of engineer. It's like, a doctor of theology setting up a clinic and giving medical advice.

As a software engineer, i can confirm that under *_no circumstances_* should we be allowed to dig tunnels underneath a suburban neighbourhood

In general, a renovation can help with a haunted room if issues such as gas leaks, mold, bad or very old wiring, and/or anything that makes really high pitched noise get found and addressed. The software engineer who thinks science is magic might not be equipped to fix a haunting, but a professional renovator could totally do it.

She sounds like the kind of person to be found in one those tv episodes where rocks fall down in the entrance of a cave and paw patrol has to save her

The fact that shes pumping out water means shes lowering the water table. That is REALLY bad. Like potentially catastrophic settling of the ground in the area or even sinkholes. If youre building a tunnel like this, you have to seal it on all sides as you go, not just the sides with concrete blocks. Draining the water will destroy the local environment.

"admitted to a psychiatric hospital twice for insanity" you want me to be scared of a room decorated by a mentally ill person? I sleep in one of those every night

22:00 i like to imagine she just was already possessed and that was her spirit trying to break free

Ghosts actually hate when you spruce up the place and will leave when the room has a fresh look

“All men are born with this innate desire to burrow into the earth and hide from God” is a crazy line, Danny casually dropping bangers

@Danny-Gonzalez at 8:22 it could in fact be radon gas coming from the ground. You usually protect your basements with an insulation layer, so it does not enter your house, if it's located in an area where the risk of radon sources is high. In Germany, we have layers for water proofing that also work against radon.

Girl is gonna tunnel her way into Barbarian if she’s not careful 💀

"ethics" was about how the people in the neighborhood around her were endangered by her weakening the stone (ignoring geologists and real engineers all the while) releasing harmful dust from mining into the air, potentially poisoning the water supply, and theyd feel the ground shake and hear noises all hours of the night. The kicker is that the people her neighborhood were mostly immigrants and were worried they'd be deported or punished if they drew attention from the law to their concerns- meaning nobody called about the noise or shaking. Edit: the reporter who contacted her neighbors also noted that a lot of them didn't speak English, so either way they couldn't call to report it.

Why is she sharing this on tik tok? If I was building a hydrogen bomb (I am not) I wouldn't tell ANYONE because it's illegal and against article 18 U.S. Code § 2332a, not that I am informed or anything, because I am not building a hydrogen bomb, so I don't need to know.

8:42 the reason why there is more radiation underground is because radioactive material can be found anywhere and the deeper you dig the more concentraded the radioactive material gets

danny this is so random but like i’ve got fibromyalgia and when i get flare ups i need to watch things that calm me down to keep me sane, and your videos do that. please keep watching bad movies and insane shit on tiktok i need someone to get angry at to distract myself from my agonising existence 😍😍

I’m a soil vapor and air purity chemist. Radiation increases you go deeper because of natural radon deposits decaying and making their way into basements. Vapor is pulled into deep spaces from soil as warm air travels up. This is why air filtration is a must in basements!

This reads beat-for-beat like a lovecraftian horror novel. A normal person buys a house despite the fact that they are being told not to look in a specific room unless she buys the property. She looks inside the bedroom and initially it seems pretty unremarkable. But slowly, she becomes obsessed with the room. Like, she just can’t help but develop this inexplicable fixation on the basement bedroom. Then she just feels like she needs to go deeper. She doesn’t really even know why, she just NEEDS to go deeper into the earth. She tells everyone she’s just making a storm shelter, just to try and cover herself, but she just gets progressively more desperate to dig deeper, even when she finds things down there that she knows are dangerous. She ignores obvious radiation poisoning, she ignores the possibility of carbon monoxide poisoning, she even ignores the concerns of the people around her who are worried she’ll end up inadvertently harming the community in her quest to dig deeper, deeper, even deeper still. She discovers horrible secrets about the house and its former inhabitants, finding artifacts that indicate the troubled histories of the people who came before her, but she dismisses these discoveries as if they were wholly unrelated to her goals. They do absolutely nothing to sway her, nothing can shake her from this obsession. She just. Keeps. Digging. Whatever she’s looking for, it’s beyond human curiosity. Something is pulling her down into the abyss, something that is a genuine threat to the people living here, and she just can’t help but seek it out. At this rate she’s gonna find a cosmic horror down there and feed herself to it, so it can have the strength to free itself and start destroying everything it touches. This woman is going to sacrifice herself to a chained elder god and let it loose. Edit: Holy shit this blew up! For those wondering, I actually AM an author, yes. I just haven’t fully plunged into writing horror yet, and I’m mainly focusing on a different project right now.

We finally see the effects of children raised on Minecraft. How many more of these tunnels are there that we just aren’t yet aware of?

9:30 THIS IS FR WHAT 3008 IS LIKE 😭

Her mining elevator collapsing because she cut corners is just reminding me of the opening scenes of There Will Be Blood. She's lucky to still be alive, honestly.

Her face while she tripped in the context of what she was talking about is genuinely the scariest thing ive laid eyes on this week

this whole tunnel under the house thing feels like a phineas and ferb episode

My assumption is that the ‘madness’ and the hallucination of her guests are a direct result to the RADIATION under the house… Which she almost definitely made worse by exposing random rock that would have been under there too….

In case y’all weren’t aware, one of the main problems here is that most of her neighbors had no idea this was going on, just feeling intense rumbling and hearing very loud noises. Many of them are undocumented immigrants, and have expressed that they were too afraid to report her to authorities even though it was interfering with their livelihood for fear of being deported. She’s putting her entire neighborhood, most of whom are much more vulnerable than her, at great risk without their consent, which is really quite disturbing. There was a report on it recently in the Washington Post, and the podcast Endless Thread has a good episode talking to the advocate who initially found this issue.

Also, i feel like the hallucinations from the haunted room could be explained by her tunneling under the house. It's gotta be some sort of poisoning

Imagine someone finds this in like 1000 years time and it ends up on one of those “top 10 scariest things found in people’s homes” videos.

Why is no one talking about how Danny had to paint his face for the masterpiece of a skit? 😭

She is the real DIGTOK!!!! she's clearly looking for diamonds and will come within 1 metre of them before giving up but really its a deep metaphor about relationships

Goblin Danny saying "be kind with your words please" was so unnecessarily funny

“You’re no match for my Batgun” the skits are never not top tier 😂😂

I notice that sometimes engineers think that because they know a lot about a very challenging field they think that they're qualified to do everything. Mining is so challenging and dangerous, she knows so little about it that she doesn't even know she knows nothing. The peak of the Dunning-Kruger curve

As a real estate broker, my home buyers normally test for radon during the home inspection contingency timeframe. Radon is a tasteless and odorless radioactive gas that naturally occurs and escapes from rock. If it is in a high enough concentration, the home seller will need to install a radon mitigation system that pulls the gas out of the home using a fan and ventilation tubes. It seems that the more this young lady digs, the more she is exposing herself to radon, which could lead to lung cancer. I hope she installs some sort of ventilation pipes to pull that gas out of her tunnel.

As someone who works in construction, her "for shits and giggles" approach to her pet project makes me want to cry.

Mental health comes in all shapes and forms. This is one of those forms.

I would be so pissed if I were her neighbor. She has no idea what type of structural damage she's causing to not only her own property, but to her neighbor's property.

Goblin Danny is one of the funniest bits I've ever seen and "Im sorry, goblin?" "You are forgiven" is phenomenal

10:39 when they up ur dose of adderall

The fact that the videos don’t start with her getting the ground below her house analyzed and approved for further construction is already a huge 🚩🚩

As a civil/structural EIT (engineer in training), I cannot even wrap my mind around the boldness it takes to dig a tunnel under your home...with no permit and no proper safety precautions...and no construction knowledge or experience...without even speaking to a licensed structural engineer...and sharing the entire illegal activity publicly online... If this is all true, I don't know how she's still alive

She's speedrunning Minecraft in real life. Wait until Kurtis hears about this.

next tiktok is just gonna be her discovering an old man in there with his supernatural books, using there abilities to hide from the manifestations of fear and the all seeing eye of those above his subterranean hideout

This is honestly the funniest video Danny’s posted this year. Not that the rest aren’t funny, this one is just hilarious.

This girl is speed running the Victorian era with all the radium and lead she’s probanly huffing and puffing from that old house on top of the ghost thats 100% possessing her. 😭

14:53 My uncle actually had the urge to dig. As my mom tells it, he was a teenager at the time and having some kind of angry episode he couldn't come down from. An adult gave him a shovel and told him to go outside and dig, so he did. By the end of the day he wasn't angry anymore, but he still kept digging, for days, until he'd dug a swimming pool sized hole in the yard. Then he filled it in, and never dug a hole again.

9:50 Jason Todd lmao

I absolutely love your sense of humor. I always find myself chuckling while watching your videos. This is going to make me sound like a very serious person, but I am not one to laugh at just anything. There is an extremely specific type of humor that gets me laughing and you sir, are hilarious to me.

The moral of this story - Never buy a jack hammer for someone as a present until after they see a psychologist.