Location Seed: The Kanorado Bypass Anomaly.

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The Kanorado Bypass Anomaly

This anomaly exists just east of Kanorado, Kansas, virtually on the border of Colorado.  If someone is driving on I-70 East, they will find an unmarked turnoff that leads to a desultory rest stop. There is always a police car on the site, which is always there to keep people out of what appears to be a storage facility. Authorized personnel will find that the facility hides a ramp to an underground two-lane tunnel.  Anyone who drives through that absolutely straight, ten-mile tunnel will find themselves in an identical fake storage facility – on I-80 West, just past Ogallala, Nebraska.  Just to make it clear: the two towns are roughly one hundred miles apart.

This has been an enduring mystery for government researchers since 1971, which was when a team doing road repair stumbled across the Kanorado Bypass Anomaly.  There’s no explanation for this, no hint of how this was done, no clue as to who did it – and absolutely no indication as to why the Anomaly is linking two small towns in the Midwest. It doesn’t seem to be harming anything, at least directly. There’s no reports of madness, people have been experimenting with the anomaly for decades without ill effect, nobody’s even reported a general feeling of unease – but the phenomenon still drives physicists nuts (just not in a clinical way).

Exploration of the tunnel itself offers no clues (researchers are wary of being too intrusive in their studies).  The road surface is paved, there’s adequate lighting, and there is even a ventilation system, although nobody’s ever been able to trace the vents to the outside world.  All attempts to dig down from the outside to where the tunnel should be have gotten no results. And there isn’t a single item in the tunnel that can be traced back to its original manufacturer. In short: the Kanorado Bypass Anomaly is a bona fide Mystery, with a capital M.

Unfortunately, it’s a Mystery that doesn’t seem to have any kind of value, so there’s some discussion going on right now as to whether or not just to shut the whole investigation down. It’s not that the federal government objects to studying weird things; it’s that nobody can figure out any purpose that the Anomaly serves besides being a constant irritation to scientists. And that’s why the team has been sent; if there was ever a time for the US government to come up with a even sleazy rationalization for keeping an underperforming facility open and researched, well, it would be now.