Man-bat: a man spent 32 years old, digging desert Bashny.Net

And useless tunnel dug two kilometers long, which will not vedёtGde something in the Mojave Desert near El Paso have a strange tunnel passing through the 2087 meters of solid rock. What strange tunnel that does not lead to anything special. There it is only for one reason: an eccentric man named Henry Uilyami "Burro" Schmidt (also known as "man-mole") really wanted to tunnel appeared there.



Although he spent his life in '32, alone punching tunnel through solid rock, he never anybody about it did not. Asked about his strange endeavor, he said that it was "the shortest way." Where exactly - no one knows.



Schmidt has migrated in the California desert from Rhode Island in the late 19th century, trying to improve health. His tunnel he allegedly began digging in 1902, not far from the place he rented for mining development. He dug using pickaxes and sledgehammers, hand drills and explosives, and the rubble from the tunnel carried away in a wheelbarrow. From time to time he even carrying him on his back. Then he found a tunnel rails and shaft trolley and began removing rubble with its help.



Most of the people living in the area, it is believed that the man was just crazy. He lived alone and had a reputation as a miser, as patched his clothes using the burlap and shoes repaired by a sheet of tin cans. Many times he was seriously injured in the explosions of their own, because he was too thrifty to use a long fuse.



There was a time when local calling him "Freak Schmidt", and later he himself took the name «Burro» (eng. Donkey).



To this day, the tunnel "Burro Schmidt '- big mystery, who decided to visit it. Everyone who was there, ready to vouch for the fact that Schmidt knew what he was doing. No special knowledge for the job he did not have, but the accuracy of his work is not in doubt. Nevertheless, the question remains: why is someone to dig a tunnel to nowhere?

When a man fanatically perform some seemingly pointless task is, of course, it raises a lot of questions. When Schmidt dug rumors of rich ore deposits and gold mine, which he allegedly developed in the tunnel. But none of these versions have not been confirmed. Several people have investigated earth Schmidt and his work, but alas, he did not leave a single record of the reasons for their actions.

via factroom.ru