Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-14
Mole Men
Wh06G0CCrazu In
The Dark


lures from ancient mine deep in the heart of the
old Pizarro country of Peru into which their fore
fathers had fled centuries to their bucherng
conquerors has started scientific expedition to learn
whether st others cropping their lives in the
darkness underground.
Lamapampo officials just a group seven
engineers accompanied by nine arieroes equipped with
powerful searchlights to the depths of the
mine for any clues.
Gibbering and blind from BIRTH these four men are
believed to be the survivors of strange flight from perse
ction and slavery 400 years ago They discovered
accidentally by prospectors who looking for
veins of pay dirt in the abandoned Inca gold workings
Rigid investigation by Lamapampo authorities
the fact that the mole men" spoke ancient almost
extinct tribal tongue had never
ventured into the light Of the
Now the rescued pitifuly beg to be
the world of darkness from which they unwingly
pucked because they find their
pitfalls unwelcome, strange and sad
Weeks spent piecing together the story of the
underworld sojournngs of the strange who barely
escaped with their lives encounerng the prospectors
Only the quick thinking of the engineers leader kept the
mpulsive trigger fingers of his companions sending
highpowered bullets into the mole men" in the belief
that they monsters.
These ambled toward aimlessly. i seemed"
Eduado Escheverria told authorities Several party
reached for their guns But 1 stopped them fash
lights picked up their weird outlines almost 200 below
the old shaft entrance At that time they 20
yards away might have been anything had my men
stand perfectly STILL and waited closer
Soon apparent that they certainly part
But it strange that the rays of flashlights
seem to concern them at all. Madre mia! of my
said They're human moles!
1
knew they blind. But in the darkness the mine
they apparently needed eyes They nstncvey avoided
the walls There stumbling They carried canes
staffs Their walk had shuffing but con-
fdent motion
There deep in the bowels of the earth con-
by giant blind mole men, Who were thew?
What they actually? These the questions which
caused us to take them prisoners for upper world
vestigaton"
scheverria told of the silent battle in the cavernous
pit The mole men" fought and clawed their attackers
with vengeance but finally securely
bound with strong The prospecors carried them
into the light won the aid OF Indians living in the vicinity
and finally brought the gbbering captves Lmapampo
Kindly physicians first their wounds in the
local hospital and brought hot food But mole
spurned potatoes ahd demanded insects
and worms instead. Only when provided with a diet
would they break their self-imposed
The doctors astonished first by the peculiar
hair of the mole men which at first glance seemed
ribbon-like appendages surrounding the end of moes
muzze But this they learned, only a series of
matted hair horns protdng grotesquely from
heads like % points of star
The fngernas of the mole men" long and hard
like the giant claws used by the rodents to
at phenomenal rate under the ground
Scholarly interpreters learned that the men" had
always Underground had no need for
eyes. They born blind had been their parents
The story of the strange goes back to the time
when the conqueror Pzarro slaughtered the
conquest of Peru Many members of the tribe
fled his bloody followers to remote parts of South America
Limapampo citizens believe that the four men now
held captivity descendants of these refugees
who hid in the old mine and stayed there years
Their offspring, generation after generation. lived on
people underground afraid forth TO
if Pizarro still in power Many children were born
and the years spent underground brought universal
blindness 1t is suspected that even' the first Settlers in
the mine may have finally lost their sight completely
If blind mole women eventually found the deep
home and the whole blind population is finally brought to
the surface, Lmapampo officials determined to keep
them above ground with their mates in spite home
sick prisoners pathetic pleas to be allowed 60 back to
their subterranean home
Science is also interested in finding out whether any
future offspring born above ground will the world
sghtess or have normal vision.