# 71 teenage girls emerge from manhole in Nyack, NY **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 17, 2026, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/71-teenage-girls-emerge-from-manhole-in-nyack-ny/1030982 "2026-06-17T22:27:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2026, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/71-teenage-girls-emerge-from-manhole-in-nyack-ny/1030982/1 "2026-06-17T22:27:33Z")
Has anyone else heard this story? I did, and then it kinda sorta disappeared which has me wondering even more about what might really be going on. I mean, 71 girls on a school field trip makes sense, but it’s not normal for girls that age to go exploring tunnels, especially en masse like that, and while the footage here is fuzzied, it appears they were clean. Any NYC residents wish to comment further? > **[Dozens of girls emerge from drain after wandering into tunnel on school trip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dgVOsC4Ejg%2F)** > > Dozens of young girls unexpectedly emerged from a drain in the patio of a Rockland County restaurant Wednesday after taking an unauthorized trek underground.... ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2026, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/71-teenage-girls-emerge-from-manhole-in-nyack-ny/1030982/2 "2026-06-17T22:42:35Z")
If you google 71 girls manhole you get lots of hits. Here’s a Reddit thread: https://embed.reddit.com/r/Rockland/comments/1u73xdi/curious_on_rrockland_members_thoughts_on_the_71/?embed=true&ref_source=embed&ref=share ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2026, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/71-teenage-girls-emerge-from-manhole-in-nyack-ny/1030982/3 "2026-06-17T22:45:05Z")
Were there any slightly deficient Islamic martyrs nearby? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2026, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/71-teenage-girls-emerge-from-manhole-in-nyack-ny/1030982/4 "2026-06-17T22:47:01Z")
I agree with this guy, there’s no trafficking going on, HERE, but it’s still a very puzzling story. > **[No, 71 Girls Weren't Found in a Trafficking Tunnel. Here's What Happened](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QslJfNfGacY%2F)** > > A viral video claimed 71 girls were found in an underground tunnel with no adults, sparking fears of a trafficking operation under New York City. The real st... ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2026, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/71-teenage-girls-emerge-from-manhole-in-nyack-ny/1030982/5 "2026-06-17T22:47:53Z")
I get the feeling somebody just made a shitload of money on a prediction market. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2026, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/71-teenage-girls-emerge-from-manhole-in-nyack-ny/1030982/6 "2026-06-17T22:54:35Z")
TL : DR - it sounds like people who live in the area weren’t surprised about this. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/71-teenage-girls-emerge-from-manhole-in-nyack-ny/1030982/7 "2026-06-18T00:50:16Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > , but it’s still a very puzzling story. I don’t get what’s puzzling about it? Bunch of kids find a tunnel on a field trip, explore it, and climb up a ladder which ends up behind a restaurant. It’s weird, but what more needs to be explained? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/71-teenage-girls-emerge-from-manhole-in-nyack-ny/1030982/8 "2026-06-18T01:26:14Z")
Well, either the adults who were guiding the field trip just let them do it, or there weren’t any adults guiding it. Either one implies that something went wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/71-teenage-girls-emerge-from-manhole-in-nyack-ny/1030982/9 "2026-06-18T01:53:39Z")
Anyone got a non-Youtube link to this story? Text, preferably? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/71-teenage-girls-emerge-from-manhole-in-nyack-ny/1030982/10 "2026-06-18T02:02:37Z")
One of those girls must be a powerful alpha to convince 70 girls to follow her that far into a dark tunnel. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/71-teenage-girls-emerge-from-manhole-in-nyack-ny/1030982/11 "2026-06-18T02:04:43Z")
CBS NY covered it. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/71-teenage-girls-emerge-from-manhole-in-nyack-ny/1030982/12 "2026-06-18T02:05:31Z")
Nyack in Rockland County is not in NYC. It’s an outer suburb of NYC, over an hour to Manhattan. There are several towns with large populations of Orthodox Jews, easily recognized by the girls’ longer skirts and the boys’ prayer curls. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/71-teenage-girls-emerge-from-manhole-in-nyack-ny/1030982/13 "2026-06-18T02:05:38Z")
71 is an awfully precise number for such a vaguely covered story. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/71-teenage-girls-emerge-from-manhole-in-nyack-ny/1030982/14 "2026-06-18T02:07:34Z")
Here are 2 written, non-video sources: [Over 70 Schoolgirls Helped Out From Underground Tunnels After Getting Lost In Rockland: Report](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/over-70-schoolgirls-helped-out-from-underground-tunnels-after-getting-lost-in-rockland-report/ar-AA25kWWD?ocid=BingNewsSerp) [Jewish schoolgirls get lost in NY creek tunnel; antisemitism ensues online | The Times of Israel](https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-jewish-schoolgirls-get-lost-in-ny-creek-tunnel-antisemitism-ensues-online/) Regarding the antisemitism, I’ve heard people who live there complain about the Orthodox groups not fitting in with “suburban quality of life”, not paying taxes, running overcrowded unregulated schools. Apart from that, I don’t know much about the situation and have no idea whether the complaints are at all valid. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/71-teenage-girls-emerge-from-manhole-in-nyack-ny/1030982/15 "2026-06-18T02:34:35Z")
I just have the _Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt_ theme in my head. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/71-teenage-girls-emerge-from-manhole-in-nyack-ny/1030982/16 "2026-06-18T03:55:15Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > I don’t get what’s puzzling about it? Bunch of kids find a tunnel on a field trip, explore it, and climb up a ladder which ends up behind a restaurant. It happens every day, if you’re a gopher. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/71-teenage-girls-emerge-from-manhole-in-nyack-ny/1030982/17 "2026-06-18T04:06:09Z")
> [@gkster](#): > > Regarding the antisemitism, I’ve heard people who live there complain about the Orthodox groups not fitting in with “suburban quality of life”, not paying taxes, running overcrowded unregulated schools. Seems that online conspiracy theorists and bigots were consumed by fears of Jewish girls emerging from a sewer. 🤪 > **[Jewish schoolgirls lost way in tunnel, faced antisemitic comments online |...](https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-899183)** > > The girls, students from the Toras Emachu school in Monsey, New York, had been visiting Nyack Memorial Park on a school trip. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/71-teenage-girls-emerge-from-manhole-in-nyack-ny/1030982/18 "2026-06-18T04:06:30Z")
Here’s one, also from CBS News. > **[Dozens of girls emerge from drain after wandering into tunnel while on school...](https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nyack-girls-wander-into-drainage-tunnel/)** > > Dozens of young girls unexpectedly emerged from a drain in the patio of a Rockland County restaurant Wednesday after taking an unauthorized trek underground. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/71-teenage-girls-emerge-from-manhole-in-nyack-ny/1030982/19 "2026-06-18T04:07:36Z")
The same kind of thing would likely have happened if the kids were from a Christian or Muslim private school, from those angles as well. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/71-teenage-girls-emerge-from-manhole-in-nyack-ny/1030982/20 "2026-06-18T05:20:34Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Any NYC residents wish to comment further? Nyack is not in New York City. You should probably have a mod fix your title. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/71-teenage-girls-emerge-from-manhole-in-nyack-ny/1030982.md?page=2)