Okay, okie, here is the answer you are craving. No, I have not YET been inside one of the tunnels but that will probably change within the next two weeks as local people have been great about responding to the newspaper article of 2008 where I spoke about this tunnel network. I know where one entrance is that almost no one else knows about but am having some trouble contacting the property owner so I cannot go into it without that person's permission. I am in the process of setting an appointment with another person who said he/she will show me another entrance at a place where I knew one was at but I didn't have access. I know where one entrance was discovered a few years ago when they were tearing down an old building near our courthouse square. A man's front loader fell into it. The powers that be filled this entrance in with 3 truckloads of cement. Henry Ford, Jr., the grgrandson of Brownwood's Henry Ford, had been in another of the network's entrances when he was a young man. Another entrance was in Henry Ford's Coggin, Ford and Martin Bank building. By the way, Henry Ford Jr. was about my age when he began seriously researching his grgrandfather and the KGC. In the 1990's, while getting very close to solving the mysteries of his grgrandfather and the KGC, Henry Jr. received a death threat from a man. By noon the day after receiving the death threat, Henry Ford Jr. was dead!
So, there you have it, the "easy" answer. Problem is, as anyone can clearly see, nothing related to the KGC in Brownwood is easy. The reason I will first give the story to the Brownwood Bulletin is because I feel my first obligation is to the people of Brown County, Texas because, after all, it is THEIR history. My next obligation is to the members of our Bloody Bill Anderson Mystery group who have spent thousands of hours researching these important historical topics over the past 4 and a half years.
And, no, I am not blaming anyone for not offering to take on this project. I learned long ago that if you want something done right, do it yourself. In addition to having many local citizens who have offered their assistance, I also have a network of experts I can call upon to help in specialized areas.
~Texas Jay