TikTok ‘Tunnel Girl’: All the dirt on woman who built 30-ft. tunnel under home

Some homeowners dream of building an in-ground pool or renovating their kitchen in the latest style — but TikTok‘s “Tunnel Girl” dreams of a storm shelter buried deep beneath her suburban Virginia home.

“Tunnel Girl,” who goes by Kala — no last name has not been disclosed — said she’s been excavating a tunnel under her home since August 2022. In videos posted to TikTok, Kala has said she’s been undertaking the project mostly on her own.

Her tunnel, which has its own ventilation system (also built by Kala), is 30 feet long (about 9.1 metres) with a main chamber that lies 22 feet (nearly 6.7 metres) below the surface of her home.

Kala even built a fully functioning mine cart to transfer heavy rock and debris out from her tunnel.

She began documenting her project in a series of TikTok videos starting in October 2022. Kala has since amassed a following of more than 547,300 accounts, and has garnered tens of millions of views on her quirky mining videos.

In September 2023, Kala shared a one-year update on her “underground tunnel system.” She detailed how she first carved a hole into the wall of her subbasement, then went on to build a functioning elevator to lift material and debris from her mine, and laid concrete blocks to establish the entrance tunnel. At one point, Kala said she had to make a sump basin to pump away groundwater from a spring she encountered.

“There is still a lot of work to do, but I am having a blast, and enjoying sharing this project with you,” Kala told her followers in the one-year update.

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For anyone wondering what Kala plans to do with all the excess rock and debris she’s been mining,