do sewer people really exist ?

Question

And is there any proof ?

Answer 1

no only rats

Answer 2

Yes... and no. There are not terrible mutated sewer people like the movie C.H.U.D. from the '80's, but apparently there are people living out their lives underground in some major american cities. I remember a report on a news magazine about people who had moved into the mass of tunnels underneith NYC. They had squatted in the tunnels, tapped into old but still active electric lines and outlets for power and were living quite comfortably.

The people that were down there all had different reasons. Some were vagrant and homeless, some lived an anarchist lifestyle and saw the way they were living as a statement, others were runaways just trying to survive off the grid and underground.

It makes sense that so called sewer people exist in almost every major American city. There are hundreds of people who have just chosen to not live the typical American way of life and they are searching out an alternative way of life. If they did not live underground in cities and lived in rural America they would likely be living off the land in the national and state parks.

Also consider that there are hundreds, if not thousands of miles of abandoned access tunnels, transit tunnels, old utility tunnels, abandoned aqueducts, under most cities that have been left alone and never filled in or dismantled. It is a very logical conclusion that these people are out there living their lives out of sight and for the most part out of mind.

I can't remember the news show that featured the underground dwellers, but the sites below touches on it.

Answer 3

Mole People is a term used to refer to the indefinite number of homeless people who live under New York City in abandoned subway tunnels. Estimates of the number of individuals living in this way are hard to obtain, but a 1989 survey suggested they numbered around 5,000. According to an unconfirmed report by a "sewer rat" (New York CIty sewer worker) entire families may exist in the drainage system under the city.

While it is generally accepted that some homeless people in large cities do indeed make use of accessible, 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 of people. It has also been suggested that these have developed their own cultural traits and even have electricity by illegal hook-up. The subject has attracted some attention from sociologists but is a highly controversial subject due to a lack of concrete evidence.

In science fiction, horror, or comic books, the mole people or mole men are an inhuman race or group of mutated humans who have adapted physical traits for survival underground. These traits often include strong arms and claws to dig with, blindness or eyes that are very sensitive to light, ability to see in the dark, vibration sense, and mole features: baldness, protruding eyes, and hairless wrinkled skin.

Answer 4

I have heard and I do not have first hand experience, that there are `sewer people` in some North American cities, I think it was Chicago and somewhere else at least (memory fading fast, old age y`know) and also in Ulan Bator in Mongolia. As someone said above, they are poor, usually children and down there it is warm.
It would be nice to hear from anyone with first hand experience.

Answer 5

Iv never seen one but iv never been down a sewer either. our sewer system barely works. i dont think people could survive in it. in some countries homeless people do take shelter in sewers. i suppose its warmer than the street. iv def heard about it before

Answer 6

Depends on what you define as a sewer and what you define as a sewer person...
If you mean people living in cavernous underground sewers beneath large cities...Then no....None....

Answer 7

Yes, on Ewan McGregor's 'Long Way Round' bike trip with Charley Borman they met up with some children who lived underground and kept warm sleeping by the hot water pipes. They were introduced to the kids by UNICEF, who are abandoned by their parents who canot afford to look after them. Can't remember which country it was though, some Eastern block country I think?

Answer 8

yes I'm a sewer person it's nice down here but it's kinda dark tho but i get free electric and and all the water i can drink it;s great

Answer 9

They do exist and the proof is....Cherie Blair, that smile is obviously a product of some kind of mutation

Answer 10

No. Not at all. Never look for them. In fact never ask anyone else this question. Let the whole thing out of your mind. Forget it.
Don't come down my pipe.

Answer 11

yeah there was a great article about them in Marie-Claire the other month. I think they were about Russian kids. They sleep there because it's warmer than the streets.