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The Mole people, is a term, used to refer to homeless people living under large cities, in abandoned subways, railroad, flood, and sewage tunnels, and heating shafts. These people are also sometimes referred to as "tunnel people", or "tunnel dwellers".

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Urban fokelore

While it is generally accepted that some homeless people in large cities make use of abandoned underground structures for shelter, urban legends persist that make stronger assertions. These include claims that "mole people" have formed small, ordered societies similar to tribes, numbering up to hundreds, living underground, year-round. It has also been suggested that they have developed their own cultural traits, and even have electricity, by illegal hook-up. The subject has attracted some attention from sociologists, but is highly controversial, due to a lack of evidence.

Jennifer Toth's 1993 book, 'The Mole People:Life In The Tunnels Beneath New York City', written while she was an intern at the Los Angeles Times, was promoted as a true account of travels in the tunnels, and interviews with tunnel dwellers. The book helped canonize the image of the mole people as an ordered society, living literally under peoples feet. However, few claims in her book have been verified, and it includes inaccurate geographical information, numerous factual errors, and an apparent reliance on largely unproven statements.

Cities

Other journalists have focused on the underground homeless in New York City as well. Photographer, Margaret Morton made the photo book, 'The Tunnel', film maker, Marc Singer made the documentary,'Dark Days', and anthropologist, Teun Voeten wrote, 'Tunnel People'. Media accounts have reported "mole people", living underneath other cities as well. In the Las Vegas Valley, it is estimated about 1000 homeless people find shelter in the storm drains underneath the city for protection from extreme temperatures that exceed 46 degrees C. while dropping below 1 degree C. in winter. Most of the inhabitants are turned away from the limited charities in Las Vegas, and find shelter in the industrial infrastructure of the Las Vegas Strip, similar to most cities. The Las Vegas Channel 8 News sent their Eyewitness News I-Team with Matt O'Brien, the local author, who spent nearly five years exploring beneath the city to write the book, 'Beneath the Neon'.

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