This is one heck of a rabbit hole, (pun?) making for interesting reading off the beaten path of our usual missing and murdered. http://ift.tt/2ewnH2r Somewhere in the wilds of Washington State is a bizarre geographic anomaly that locals believe may well be a gateway into another dimension. While the legend of the Devil’s Hole allegedly goes back for decades… if not centuries… the public at large did not become aware of the phenomenon until 1997, when legendary radio host and paranormal enthusiast, Art Bell, invited a man named Mel Waters to be interviewed on his globally syndicated radio program Coast to Coast AM. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DEVIL’S HOLE: For decades residents from the Manastash Ridge region have talked about one of the most unusual aspects of the sprawling landscape that haloed their hometown. Hidden nearby, on a densely forested parcel of private property, was a seemingly bottomless well that was surrounded by an aura of mystery and danger. This unfathomably deep pit was said to be about 9-feet in diameter and was shored up with hand placed bricks to a depth of nearly 15-feet until it gave way to earthen walls. The hole had been known to locals for generations — and to Native Americans before them — and had been used as an unofficial dumping ground for everything from defunct refrigerators to old tires and television tubes to livestock and pet carcasses. What disturbed those who utilized this illegal dumping ground most was the fact that no matter how heavy the object being discarded may have been, those that tossed it into the void never heard it hit bottom. This led some of the more supernaturally inclined in the region to dub the place the “Devil’s Hole,” and rumors quickly spread that this never-ending crater tunneled a direct trajectory to Hades, making it, in effect, a highway to hell. Mel goes on to find another Devil's Hole in Nevada, telling of bizarre experiments and strange phenomena surrounding it. MEL WATERS FINDS A SECOND HOLE: Waters took it upon himself to research other mystery holes throughout the world and managed to discover another strange pit — alleged to be on public land in Nevada — that was similar in size and reputation to the Devil’s Hole, which he had, for a brief period, owned. Waters made the pilgrimage to Nevada and once there he purportedly continued his research into these anomalous openings. It seems that Waters was able to make friends with the local Basque people in the area and they took him to the sacred hole, which he described as also being about 9-feet in diameter, but unlike the Devil’s Hole this round aperture had a solid metallic “collar” sticking out of the ground around the lip of the gap. This notched collar was evidently man made (or at least intelligently designed) and rose about 2-feet above the pit. You'll need to use the link to read about what happened to a sheep they lowered into the hole..... The link has great reading and Googling brings up even more. It's fascinating to those who are interested in this kind of mystery. I enjoyed reading about it, and will be doing a lot more reading on it. But the question must be asked, What do you think? Is this just folklore? Do such holes exist or is was this whole tale just one man's fantastic story?
Submitted October 24, 2016 at 11:13AM by Starrtraxx http://ift.tt/2eJtG1w UnresolvedMysteries
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