Strange tunnels lead under water …
In the Peruvian Andes, the famous Spanish captain Francisco Pizarro (1475-1541) discovered underground galleries on the Inca mountain Huascaran, at an altitude of 6,768 meters. The entrance to them was blocked by huge stone slabs. The Spaniards assumed that behind them a food warehouse. It was only in 1971 that cavers first entered the Inca grottoes.
The cavers went underground near the Peruvian town of Otutsko. At a depth of 62 meters, a discouraging discovery awaited them: their way was blocked by a sealed door consisting of two giant stone doors 8 m high, 5 m wide and 2.5 m thick. However, the efforts of four people were enough to open them. The giant shutters rested on spherical stones, constantly watered with water from a nearby source, and therefore easily rotated.
On the other side of the doors, a deep tunnel opens, capable of making one turn pale with the envy of modern builders of underground utilities. The underground gallery descends steeply - the angle of inclination reaches 14 ° - parallel to the slope. The floor is tiled with stone slabs, often damp but completely non-slip. And when you overcome today an underground tunnel several hundred kilometers long to its very end, which is 25m above sea level, how not to pay tribute to people that in the XIV-XV centuries. delivered valuables on it, saving them from the greed of Pizarro and the Viceroy of Spain!
At the end of the underground galleries of Guanapé - the so-called island off the Peruvian coast, where the tunnel is said to lead - the ocean rustles. In the gloomy depths of the mountain, the corridor rises and falls many times, and suddenly a dull rumble is heard, similar to the impact of the surf on the rocks. Jet-black water splashes in the spotlights. It is undoubtedly sea water. The tunnel ends under the coastline. Somewhere under water its continuation goes … but where it goes is a mystery
In any case, no trace of the tunnel was found on Guanapa Island. It is not known where this underground path, paved by unknown ancient builders, leads further.
And it could hardly have been the Incas: the quality and difficulty of work here, according to experts, is quite comparable, for example, with the laying of a tunnel under the English Channel. The Incas did not have the knowledge, the capabilities, or the technology for this …