WORLAND — More than 30 years ago, teenagers were warned away from downtown Worland’s “Bar Row” with the ominous words, “Don’t be here after dark, there are people down there!”

The warning was not about physical beings, but about the ghostly visitors who for years had haunted the tunnels beneath the town's historic "Bar Row."

The row of businesses lining Main Street were once a trio of saloons dating back to 1906. Beneath these buildings are tunnels believed by many to have been dug during Prohibition. The newspapers of the time would report on bootlegging and moonshine only occasionally, preferring to turn a blind eye to the new industry of smuggling booze that existed beneath their feet.

In 1919, as Prohibition became law across America, saloons officially closed their doors in Worland

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