The Hackney Mole Man
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- Опубликовано: 6 авг 2020
- In 2006, a network of tunnels were discovered beneath a house in Hackney, London. This discovery initiated a wave of public concern and media attention revolving around a lone figure, known locally as 'the Mole Man'.
i worked on stamford road doing house refirbishments at the time right opposite his house and remember seeing mole-man all the time. he was very odd. i didnt know he was digging tunnels though. thanks for covering this story.
A friend of mine said he met the mole man once - apparently he was surprisingly charming and down to earth
pun not intended
Ba dum Ching!
@@byiouj8709 still funny lmao
Your story is full of holes
Get out!!
I'm really sad to see that you stopped making videos. This was awesome
You’ll be happy to know he started making videos again!
It’s been a long time. I hope you come back the world needs more night time stories
Beautifully narrated, well done.
Fucking legend.. I remember his creation very well.
Your use of Rusty Lake music is something a man of culture would do. Lol. But seriously your narration is top tier, and you know how to set a great mood. Vastly underrated channel.
How interesting! Contrary to some comments, the Freudian & primordial angle at the end gives the story depth and an additional layer worth thinking about, rounding up this little gem.
Can’t get enough of this channel, please keep it up. Great work, thanks
Thank you for making this!
this was great, thank you for making this.
What a fascinating, charming little documentary. Thank you so much.
This is the first RUclips channel I've ever subscribed to. Thanks for digging into the substrate of our culture and history and locating such compelling narratives.
IRL Steve from minecraft.
I'm incredibly curious to know what his wife and daughter had to say about him.
Or even what became of them.
I think they had a 2 up 2 down in the basement
I have watched all of your videos now, and my goodness. You are one fantastic historian! As one to another, bravo! Great work!
Great video, very entertaining and informative! Keep it up!
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Cool video, nice job, thanks for putting it together!
Thanks for the great and informative video. I pass this house quite regularly and I had heard about the Mole Man but had never put the two together.
your videos are amazing!
An absolutely brilliant video
Thanks for this.
Where did he put all the dirt? Just disposing of that must have been an endeavor in itself.
According to a news article, after he was evicted the council removed 40 tonnes of excavated material from his backyard. www.theguardian.com/society/2006/aug/08/communities.uknews
@@AsherIsbrucker That sounds like a mound that would be larger than his house, yet we don't see it.
@@jtgdyt2 imagine him filling his pockets with the dirt and ditching it slowly a pocketful at a time in the local park, Shawshank redemption style
I guess he dug another hole and put it in there
It actually is a fascinating thing to think about. He did have space in his house but it must have taken a ton of effort to juggle the puzzle pieces of this digging process.. I'm kind of baffled how he didn't pile up a huge pile of dirt, etc..
Favorite movie of Lyttle: Shawshank Redemption.
This was awesome. I just subscribed. In a way I really understand the urge to want to just dig, create, explore. It can be a hobby sorta like rock hunting or metal detecting. I don't vibe with parts of his personality but I'm still very interested and curious about all of this. I wish the city would have documented in detail everything before just filling it up with cement. I'm surprised it took so long for the city to be able to stop him. Especially with all the events that happened that impacted the surrounding area around his house. Did they ever find out what happened to his wife and daughter? Regardless keep up the great work 👍🏻
What a narration 👌🏻👌🏻 loved it.. Like a story ❤️ thank you so much.. Tell me what is there now as in 2021? If one will go there to see.. can we visit?
Damn wish this channel was still going!
I agree.
Perhaps this channel was a covid lockdown project?
fascinating how a video on an individual developed into an interesting narrative of the mind. well done
The Freudian theory is tosh, otherwise a most interesting posting.
great mini documentary
He’s was my nan and grandads neighbour.she said he was nice.
I think it’s so interesting that this is just A Thing that happens to people. Any hobby tunnelists that I have ever met or heard of always start digging for a very practical reason (like making a cellar) and then just… can’t stop.
One can only wonder his affinity to the great escape movie…
And of course his efforts to get rid of the excavated earth.
Where did he put all the dirt ?? :-)
Nowhere
Great story well told, although using footage of London in the 70s for 2006 was a little odd
Did you not pay attention to the video? He read accounts from students who lived in the house in the 70’s and 80’s. So the footage is wholly relevant.
Some people have this curiosity and urge to explore that has just gone wrong. Instead of becoming a scientist who digs for information they end up digging tunnels. But I believe it's the same mindset.
Beautiful.
The fact that he isnt called The Mole Man of Mortimer Road,,,
At first I thought this sounded like “schizoid personality disorder” but the Freudian explanation jumps out after the journalist’s odd encounter.
Holy. Fucking. Shit.
This is AMAZING!!! The very first thing I’ve seen by LNS and I only just discovered you. I hope like hell there are many more to come than the few I see….
what about Williamson the Mole man of Liverpool
Property is expensive in London.
Sad, strange, fascinating. Seems like once Lyttle lost his ikigai, he ran out of life and died
Similar to Mr Trebus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Trebus
“The Incompetent Hackney Mole Man.”
I`m buying a shovel and pick.
I choose a Mole Man over a Rat Boy any day.
Story felt incomplete, should have included an overhead drawing of his property line and the tunnel lengths.
I don't think any of this info is publicly available unfortunately (as far as I know)
"That has no place for strange eccentrics like the Mole Man" -- thanks for that comment. He was racist and misogynistic, as well as displaying aggressive behaviour, but you're still apologising for him. Plus, he could easily have caused death or deaths.
Couldn’t agree more
How many mole men exist undiscovered because they know how to structurally brace their work
"He was Irish" the soup was probably something silly like lamb intestine
No one saw this guy bringing out the earth in his trouser pockets and scattering it? Did you see what I did there? Did you?
5:52 Nearly the similar happend at munich 20th Sept. 1994.About 1 Km from me.A bus fell through the road-surface in a washed-out hole cause of construction-fault during constructions for a new subway 3 deads. Maybe in London they heard about it and were alarmed all the more by this mole-mans damages. Lets calculate: He dug about 100 cubic-meter in 40 years. Or 100.000 liter in about 15.000 days or avarage 6 liter(or 15 Kg) a day.Seems he didn´t overwork himself ;-) Just imagine he dug about 60Kg,which he could have disposed just discreet than he could have dug a 400m long tunnel with 1 Q-meter cross-sectionMay be long enough for the next bank or jewelery ;-) Btw. : No bronce-statue of this man yet? :🤣
What a beautiful take on this poor misunderstood man. ❤
Happy mole day!
*The chemical mole lol
Sounds like the council murdered him with the stress of 300.000 bill and stopping him from being him.
Not much footage of the tunnels
Wow indeed I had dream a few nights ago about being in a movie theater audience in Iran and being given by mistake a device which changed what was on the screen when I accidentally bumped it... Anyway, very inappropriate stuff for Iranians appeared and the audience had to be given refunds etc - wild stuff not sure why this reminded me of the dream but forbidden dangerous stuff from various perspectives etc I guess...
I love the shocking surprise of some rich white woman showing up to take photographs of this artiste I mean the guy is not an artist let’s be real here and then he tries to…well you know 😅 and she has the gall To act surprised 😂😂😂😂😂😂 what did you think he was gonna do lady make you a three course meal in a tuxedo and then ask you to go to dance at the fucking discotheque later 😂😂😂😂
Nice video, except I don't think it is right to include the part about Freudian analysis of his tunnels. Those types of theories are not very scientifically valid, and it is unfair to make baseless speculations about someone
Freud is only taught to you as a joke so you can see how wrong he was, lmao using freudian psychosexual theory
I don't believe Karen Russo's story.
My theory stands: everything wrong in this world comes down to sexual frustration.