Truthplease5 | 45 points | Nov 13 2016 17:13:42

http://www.e-torch.org/2011/06/hidden-tunnels-bugs-and-biagamy-a-strange-and-true-d-c-story/

http://reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/kg5i3/so_apparently_some_eccentric_scientist_at_the/

• Quotes articles: Washington Post: 5/19/1917 , 3/4/1942 , 9/26/1924, 9/27/1924

• "Reports indicated that the tunnels were long and extensive—that they may have reached as far as Rock Creek Park. "

• "Some electric lighting was discovered inside."

• "was it a Confederate soldier hideout? A stop on the Underground Railroad? A liquor depot for bootleggers? A counterfeiter’s lair? Or maybe a secret laboratory for “Dr. Otto von Golph’s” experiments?"

• "The Smithsonian Institution’s mosquito-expert entomologist, Harrison G. Dyar, let the public spectacle go on for a couple of days before admitting to city newspapers that he himself had dug the tunnels from about 1906 until 1916..."

• Washington Star (newspaper)

• "property he had owned at 1510 21st Street. When he moved to 804 B Street, SW (now Independence Ave.), his digging habit continued..."

• "marriage to Zella Peabody ended in 1915 amid charges of bigamy, and he was dismissed from the U.S. Department of Agriculture

• "became known that in 1906 Dyar, using the alias Wilfred Allen, had married Wellesca Pollock, an educator and ardent disciple of the Bahá’í faith. They had three sons, whom Dyar legally adopted after he and Allen married legally in 1921. He became active in the Bahá’í faith, a movement that accepts the divine inspiration of all religions and seeks to reconcile science with religion."

• "Dyar edited Reality, an independent Bahá’í journal, from 1922 until his death in 1929, but his unorthodox opinions, voiced in the magazine, were rejected by mainstream Bahá’ís.

• " Dyar published a fascinating series of short stories in the journal replaying central themes in his life–including bigamy."

• Allen v. Allen, 193 P. 539.)

• "Where did the German newspapers dated from 1917 and 1918 come from? What about the liquor bottles?"

• "Maybe during the early days of WWI, someone read the little news blurb about Harry Wardman’s discovery, and bootleggers or German spies actually did move in for a while."

• "The Pelham Courts of Dupont Circle are long gone, and the property now houses the Hotel Palomar. Apparently, the tunnels there have been sealed off in concrete. The property where Mr. Dyar lived in Southwest is now home to the Federal Aviation Administration. No one seems to know what was done with that labyrinth."

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