What's hiding under Venice Beach? The Forbidden Underworld

🌏 Get exclusive NordVPN deal here ➵ https://NordVPN.com/voyagerhq It’s risk free with Nord’s 30 day money-back guarantee!✌ Today, we explore a forgotten city buried beneath the California coast, where canals were cut, filled, and paved into streets, red cars once sprinted to the pier, and a maze of basements, service corridors, and speakeasies thrived beneath the boardwalk. From ancient shoreline villages at Ballona to the Del Monte’s hidden jazz rooms, from pier pilings to the engineered tides of Marina del Rey, this journey uncovers the people, places, and systems that shaped Venice. Often overlooked, but still beneath our feet if we know where to look. In This Video: 🔹 The buried canals that became streets, and how today’s curves trace the waterline 🔹 How Pacific Electric’s “ghost rails” shaped Venice and where to spot them now 🔹 The boardwalk underworld: basements, service corridors, and the Del Monte speakeasy 🔹 How Ballona Creek and Marina del Rey rewired tides, sand, and the shoreline’s daily rhythm 🔹 Why understanding what’s beneath Venice matters today (liquefaction, methane, and tsunami risk) Timecodes: 0:00 Venice’s Hidden History 1:10 Ancient Shoreline & Ballona Wetlands 2:58 Venice Founded: Waterways Cut 5:05 The Turning Point: From Canals to Hidden Systems 8:07 Ghost Rails Resurface 9:35 Under the Boardwalk 11:29 30 Feet and Beyond 13:19 Oil Grid Beneath the Beach 15:14 Marina del Rey: Rewriting the Tides 16:23 Faults, Quakes & Tsunami Risk ---------------------------------------------------------------- Credits: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AjNArPMPdULBWvuqy-9vpruBqQR5d5vYdY4Dy0qlJZU/edit?usp=sharing For any copyright inquiries, please contact us at: 📧 [email protected] Copyright © 2025 - All rights reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- About: In this video, Armando from Voyager uncovers the lost layers buried beneath Venice Beach’s modern streets and boardwalk. From filled-in canals, ghost