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+  From: "Architexturez." <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+  Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 12:11:19 +0530
The rumours that haunt the endless tunnels beneath the capital are as pungent as the air that fills them. In the latest of his Night Haunts journals, Sukhdev Sandhu braves the real London underground

It begins, as nights in London often do, with a rumour. Or rather: a grim promise. I had been told by a friend of a friend about giant hairballs clogging the sewers under the streets of the capital. Over the years, strands of hair moulted by millions of commuters had built up so that, lacquered by grease and dirt, they formed huge, knotted boulders that were swelling all the time.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/07/08/ftsewers08.xml&page=1


nightJam: http://www.nightjam.org.uk/
nightHaunts: http://www.nighthaunts.org.uk/

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