The mole men are real!
A bizarre video released on Saturday reveals the moment a baseball-cap-clad tunnel dweller emerges from a subway grate to rudely toss a smoking road flare at a trendy West Village restaurant.
In the video, the deranged denizen of the deep surfaces from an MTA emergency exit leading into the city’s bowels — and then tosses the flare at the chic hotspot Bar Pitti on Sixth Avenue near Bleecker Street.
Customers scatter before the gutter monster quickly slithers down an emergency subway exit, which leads to an abandoned train station, experts said.
“There are a lot of people living near the Bleecker Street subway . . . It’s a lot of runaways and war veterans who are mentally ill or have too much pride to go into shelters,” said Jennifer Toth, author of “The Mole People: Life In the Tunnels Beneath New York City.”
She added, “Many mole people want independence and shun the “topside” world . . . Some live in communities and others live on their own in that area.”
The mole man’s rabbit-hole features a 10-foot submerged staircase that veers west to four nearby train tracks — which should not be accessible to the public — leading to the 1, 6, A or C trains, MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz said.
MTA workers on Saturday locked the grate entrance, which requires a wrench to be opened from the top, saying “an alarm should sound.”
A metal gate at the bottom of the staircase was left open, apparently accessed from below. The MTA had no clue how the man got into that part of the underground. “It’s not accessible to the public,” Ortiz said.
The flare-tosser is roughly 20 years old with blond wavy hair and was last seen wearing black gloves and a baseball cap, according to police sources.