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A TikTok by the name of Kala built Tunnels.
While other homeowners envision installing an in-ground pool or updating their kitchen to the newest design, TikTok user “Tunnel Girl” imagines having a storm shelter hidden deep under her suburban Virginia house.
“Tunnel Girl,” also known as Kala (her last name is unknown), claimed that since August 2022, she has been digging a tunnel beneath her house. In videos uploaded to TikTok, Kala stated that she has been working on the project primarily on her own.
Her tunnel is thirty feet (about 9.1 meters) long, with a main chamber located 22 feet (about 6.7 meters) below the surface of her house. Kala also created a ventilation system for her tunnel.
Kala even constructed a mine cart that works perfectly to move big boulders and rubble out of her hole.
In October 2022, she posted a series of TikTok videos documenting her initiative. Since then, Kala has accumulated around 547,300 accounts as followers, and her funny mining movies have received tens of millions of views.
Kala provided a one-year update on her “underground tunnel system” in September 2023. She described how she first cut a hole in her subbasement wall, constructed a working elevator to remove materials and trash from her mine, and then stacked concrete blocks to create the tunnel leading outside. Kala…
