Voices In The Tunnels - 48 minute documentary - trailer

[SirChocolateHobo]

Anybody find it completely ironic that she made a documentary about mole people and she has a big mole on her face?

[Gmancrap]

Rich white kids from yale with fancy cameras and sound equipment bought with their parents money. Gee, how cool...

Anyhow, besides that good movie.

[skateremo22]

shes got a pretty big mole on her face LAWL

[daveevegas]

if this economy keeps going like this will all be mole people

[MacGovernor]

You know how so called "Mole people " survive? They wait for tourists to come down there to discover, while they're doing that the Moles come up with their tricky traps. Then they slaugh them and make 'em a nice dinner for the remaining week.

[TicTacz1234]

They are a bit unsafe walking on the lines like that but meh no one got hurt i guess.

[vanvanbluz]

The morlocks and the eloy.

[mud2skipper]

Having the text in the picture was distracting. Also it seems as though the story ends without and end. I would have liked to see more.

[GoodEvenings]

I am a mole person. And I approve of this film.

[zakipad]

There just homeless people living in abandoned tunnels.

[SileoSomnus]

Awesome film im currently reading the book Jennifer toth wrote. i find it to be very interesting and also sad since the way of living for this people is just to hard, to see people living in places that are filled with rat's,disease and dead body's.

[jillmconner]

Does anyone else think its really funny that the woman who wrote "Mole People" has a giant mole? Brilliant.

[hayd92]

Great film, very interesting

[TheFoxandTheRabbit]

she fled before she wrote it. ( Toth ) Great book. And I get how they can stay there. I had a great fear of outside, people, being looked at. But I choose to get help. Had I not had a Daughter, I may be there.

[TheFoxandTheRabbit]

she was threatened BEFORE she wrote it. By some one who thought she saw him do some thing, but she did not. Read the book !

[will888hawes]

any body notice the sane smith at 4.33??? fuck he was the ultimate!!!!

[romka4567]

lol i bet the mole people are like hey did you know there people above us --crazy stuff but it's just bums idk why all the hype is there. What can they be complex about sure they might know tunnels and all their exits, entrances-- but that's not complex.

[crypter27]

I talked to a former homeless guy from Newyork,who lived in some of those tunnels & he told me about the mole people,he to told me that you got your'e drunks and druggies. Who live are in the higher levels,near the surface they just use it as place to crash. And then you have the mole people,they live so deep down & rarely ever come to the surface & they are armed!

[crypter27]

@crypter27 With all sorts of weapons some even guns,they have machete's spears crossbows bows & slingstots along with knives,he told me there places that the druggies and drunks. Don't go,those who have dissapear and allot of them or either transit cops or wonderers,some times even the top level homeless from what hes telling me. 

[crypter27]

@crypter27 They have borders,they protect with their own security team & they will use deady force! They have their own laws & religion.

[logik316]

@crypter27

So how exactly do these "deep down" mole people survive? They would have to come to the surface fairly frequently to work, beg, borrow, or steal (that is, if they want to eat). Or perhaps they shake down the upper level homeless for a portion of their loot? Maybe they grow mushrooms in the dark underground dampness? Bah, I say the lower levels are just a myth. Jennifer Toth is a Hungarian, and as a Hungarian myself I can tell you that those people are *very* good at spinning a story.

[crypter27]

@logik316 There highly organised,water wouldn't be hard to find & insects can be used as a food source along with rats as for every thing else they probably have contacts on the surface. Along with storing away supplies! You'd be surprised at what people can accomplish when they work together!

[logik316]

@crypter27

How long can anybody last on New York City cockroaches and rat shishkebab? I've seen them myself running along the tracks, and I've seen some seriously huge rats down there that could support a few tenacious people here and there, but no way are we talking about supporting an entire underground city. It's about time we give up this silly myth. The homeless need our help, they don't have some mythical place to go in the center of the earth.

[cnemi2112]

@logik316 : watch the documentary "dark days." it's no myth. they come up to dumpster dive for food.

[TheSkylur44]

@logik316 A "Myth?" You need to go there and descend a few levels under the subway tunnels and see for yourself. Then come back and tell us all about it being a "myth."

[logik316]

@TheSkylur44

What levels under the subway tunnels? Jennifer Toth wrote a nice story about her "mole people", but come on. Why would any city bother building tunnels beneath a subway, gas/steam/water lines, or sewer, which are the lowest underground structures a city could possibly need?

[TheSkylur44]

@logik316 Jennifer Toth did not examine the thousands of miles of lines and abandoned tunnels either, her forcus was on the people not the geography. Since 1904 levels have been built then abandoned due in part to either flooding, a frequent occurrence, or budget restraints, but there are, it is estimated, some 30 levels below the existing tunnels in use today. The first short stretch was made in 1869.

[flipadiddle]

@TheSkylur44 jennifer toth faked basically everything in her book. there was an in depth analysis of her book done by an nyc subway expert. in this analysis, the expert concluded that a huge amount of the stories told by toth had to have been false due to the completely impossible shit she said about the tunnels. i would link to it, but i can't in a post for some reason.

[flipadiddle]

@TheSkylur44 also, there are not an estimated 30 levels! where did you even get that. that's just plain ol' false.

[rtwow]

@TheSkylur44 THERE IS ONLY AROUND 15 !!!!!

[BADSYNE]

theres soooooo much more that hasnt been documented.

[streetfightspdx]

"DARK DAYS" by Marc Singer is a great documentary that came out long before this.....It was released in association with the Sundance Channel...He actually was friends with people living down there and spent long periods of time filming it.....It is a great Film....This looks like a quick documentary done in a few days, but it still looks great, I'd love to see the full movie.......I'll have to try to find it.

[studio7ny]

Actually, "Dark Days" was released in 2000. our original cut "In Search of the Mole People" was also released in Feb of 2000. Mark Singer shot a spectacular film in the Freedom Tunnel with NY homeless. Our project is a TV reportage and it took us over two years to find a community of the underground dwellers in abandoned tunnels beneath NYC. I am a HUGE fan of DARK DAYS. But these two films, while both focusing on subterranean communities, are vastly different.

Regrads,

Vic David

[streetfightspdx]

@studio7ny

I'll be hunting this DVD down soon, it looks great, Dark Days is one of my favorite documentaries and I love gritty documentaries and stuff on homeless people..I love exploring abandoned forbidden places, when I lived in Baltimore me and my friends loved to explore the ruins and abandoned buildings and decay...I love that show "Cities of the Underworld" and underground subterranean stuff...There is some water tunnels in Portland, Oregon that go for miles and miles that I've explored.

[Paratroper09]

Bullshit again :))))))))

[bestjonbon]

Fabulous!

[WonderBreadx3]

I LOVE THIS!

[Moxormog]

Bullshit.

[Audiodump]

@Moxormog

Not really, it's true. Not "mole people" persay but large communities of homeless people, some of which are surprisingly complex and sophisticated.

[queenzlink247]

this is like ghostbusters II

[XxCarnageX1120]

you people need to see "darkdays"

[2freaky88]

its in part because back in the hay day of graffiti the artists would just treat the tracks as play grounds playing chicken and not giving enough attention meaning casualtys and even fatalities so they beefed up the laws in that respect in this film you can actually see a smith sane dub although you can never tell if they are authentic and he i am led to believe he died of electrocution on the tracks so you see

[PeterBaker]

you idiot sane got pushed off a bridge

[2freaky88]

i found that out like the next day i meant to go back and change it sorry but its still speculation that he was pushed some say he jumped others that he slipped unless you were their you wont know

[mercdriver]

Scooter boy, lol

[2freaky88]

yo as i said murk not my fault your dad was an abusive prick

[mercdriver]

Idiot, lol

[studio7ny]

it is a real documentary! Not a single person acted in this film.

[nattt23]

I'd love to live in a tunnel.

[escort7263]

That was crap, you actually see more of the tunnels in main stream media. Theres no selling docos with kind of 5th grade teaser, i have no faith in the rest of the show.

[ezking76]

Where are the mole people? The clip has five minutes of reporters and researchers talking about them, but no actual mole people. Thoroughly disappointing....

[lovee5846]

Ive been in this tunnel back when i used to do grafitti.Very loud noise coming from behind some door kind of scares the shat out of you

[jackinla8]

hobos have always lived underground --

in the subways, under bridges, bushes,

caves...so what's with all the mystery and

drama? lol!!!

[07hesky07]

hell YEAH!! i would live in the tunnels..i wonder if they ever fond anyone..i'm too cheap to buy the movie haha

[RiverBirch1967]

So the people living there are just homeless people?

[517laz]

thats freakin me out man

[HeadNtheClouds]

How far off the main track do the tunnels go & do any other maintenance workers go down there. There has to be another access to get down there for the workers!

[k3vin187]

@HeadNtheClouds not sure what you mean by main tracks. There are subways underneath most of Manhattan and think of the abandoned ones as ones that are no longer in use next to or part of the lines. There aren't maintenance workers because they aren't maintained.

[HeadNtheClouds]

yeah, I mean the ones that aren't in use , secret rooms etc. you know , Places that were used in the past, or built & never realy got used. Seems pretty scary down there!

[machippy]

worse video so far from u guys sorry had to give it a 1 star for no info was really shown

[jonriley]

A nice introduction, but tease us with something.

[solarisgalrocks]

it's true. There are "mole people", but in their defense, they're just people who are homeless living beneath the city. Some of them made bad decisions, others lost their home and simply found a community.

[onimotoko]

funny how they don't actually show anybody.

[slLLyhumans]

Not gonna find much but homeless people .

They dont have magic powers , although some might be really high on drugs ....big deal .

[Audiodump]

If you read the book you find out that they have some surprisingly complex societies down there. It's interesting that these homeless people would go into the abandoned sections and try to emulate life on the surface, to a point.

[SourGrey]

Man, i remember many storys of taggers getting hit by the trains, and they never knew, nobody stoped or even seen them. Its loud in there. and you have to be quick and know the Times... dont lean away far enough the train creates a drag and a vaccum that sucks you toward it. Scary.

[whisperlilly]

when is this going to be available for full length viewing on your website. I am subscribing. I would really like to know. Keep up the great work. I love this better than tv. I live in the USA and they have nothing that interests me.

[truthspeaker969]

I live in Europe and it´s the same here lol

[truslayer123]

idiot

[waditdo1]

I'm pretty sure you have to buy the full length documentaries for outlandish prices

[Smalley123]

5 bucks

hey its cheaper then a big mac

[samuelmichaud]

100$

but you can pay per view, for about 2$

[dbloodline]

sadly i think all they will find down there is bums....

[saintfletcher]

Just fascinating. I just knew they'd be people down there. It makes sense. I can't say I'm surprised. How they live undetected is a mystery. Amazing. 5* Blessings +^+^+

[truthspeaker969]

wanna watch, where is the movie ?

[samuelmichaud]

website, pay to watch

[truthspeaker969]

sucks

[saintfletcher]

Maybe I could cantact the Sydney Film Festival if they are interested in doing a viewing. It's not really mainstream. Or maybe SBS (PBS US). But the film's distributers might be already doing this. The audience will not be mainly be a bunch of rich people who can pay to download or buy the film, that is the irony. The distributers should be aware of that. Blessings +^+^+

[WKaliber1]

privately

[Laartu]

shit this look soooo interesting! i cant remember the last time i was so enthralled in such a short time.

[ubuibiok]

not available yet, just the clip as of 12 Feb 09

[Bioloser]

I want to see more!

[wufwufwufwuf]

no way