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The "Well to Hell" is a putative borehole in Russia which was
purportedly drilled so deep that it broke throughinto hell, or at
least close to it. This urban legend has been circulating on the
Internet since at least 1997. It is firstattested in English as a
1989 broadcast by Trinity Broadcasting Network.
Contents
1 Legend and basis2 Propagation
2.1 TBN involvement3 Alternate versions4 See also5
References
Legend and basis
The legend holds that a team of Russian scientists purportedly
led by someone named "Mr. Azzacov" in anunnamed place in Siberia
had drilled a hole that was nine miles (14.5 km) deep before
breaking through to a cavityIntrigued by this unexpected discovery,
they lowered an extremely heat tolerant microphone, along with
othersensory equipment, into the well. The temperature deep within
was 2,000 F (1,100 C) heat from a chamberof fire from which
(purportedly) the tormented screams of the damned could be heard.
The recording, however,
was later revealed to havebeen a cleverly remixed portion of the
soundtrack of the 1972 movieBaron Blood, wivarious effects
added.
The Soviet Union had, in fact, drilled a hole nearly eight miles
deep, the Kola Superdeep Borehole, located not inSiberia but on the
Kola Peninsula, which shares borders with Norway and Finland. Upon
completing the borehole
in 1989, some interesting geological anomalies were found,
although they reported no supernatural encounters. [1]
Temperatures reached 180 C (360 F), making deeper drilling
prohibitively expensive.
Propagation
United States tabloids soon ran the story, and sound
filesrecordings of those alleged supplications from thedamnedbegan
appearing on various sites across the Internet. The supermarket
tabloid Weekly World News mahave made the first American report on
the so-called Well to Hell.
TBN involvement
The story eventually made its way to the American Trinity
Broadcasting Network (TBN), which broadcast it on thnetwork,
claiming it to be "proof" of the literal existence of Hell.
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ge Rendalen, a Norwegian teacher, heard the story on TBN while
visiting the United States. Disgusted with wha
he perceived to be mass gullibility, Rendalen decided to augment
the tale at TBN's expense.[2]
Rendalen wrote to the network, originally claiming that he
disbelieved the tale but, upon his return to Norway,
supposedly read a "factual account" of the story.[1] According
to Rendalen, the "story" claimed not only that thecursed well was
real, but that a bat-like apparition (a common pictorial
representation of demons, such as in
Michaelangelo's The Torment of Saint Anthony) had risen out of
it before blazing a trail across the Russian sky.[
To perpetuate his hoax, Rendalen deliberately mistranslated a
trivial Norwegian article about a local buildinginspector into the
"story", and submitted both the original Norwegian article and the
English "translation" to TBN.Rendalen also included his real name,
phone number, and address, as well as those of a pastor friend who
knew
about the hoax and had agreed to expose it to anyone who called
seeking verification.[2]
However, TBN did nothing to verify Rendalen's claims, and aired
the story as proof of the validity of the original
story.[1]
Alternate versions
Since its publicity, many alternate versions of the story of the
Well to Hell have been published. In 1992, the UStabloid Weekly
World News published an alternative version of the story, which was
set in Alaska where 13
miners were killed after Satan came roaring out of Hell.[1][3]
Other alternative stories included an alleged story
where Jacques Cousteau quit diving after hearing "screams of
people in pain" underwater.[citation needed]
Additionally, another story told of one of Cousteau's men
fainting in terror after hearing screaming voices in a trenc
in the Bermuda Triangle.[citation needed]
The basis of the urban myth/hoax, was turned into the
'philosophical chiller' movieNine Miles Down in 2009
bywriter/director Anthony Waller, which deals with the penchant of
the human mind towards believing superstitionover science.
See also
Derweze (Door to hell)Mel's Hole
References
1. ^ abcd Snopes.com debunks
(http://www.snopes.com/religion/wellhell.htm)
2. ^ abc Interview with ge Rendalen by Rich Buhler
(http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/d/drilltohellfacts.htm3. ^
"Oil Drill Opens Hole Into Hell"
(http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/3060/oil-drill-opens-hole-into-hell/).
Weekly World News. Retrieved 2012-08-19.
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