Punxi · F
A man calling himself Mel Waters phoned into the late-night radio show hosted by Art Bell on Coast to Coast AM in the late 1990s.
The story, in short:
Mel claimed he owned land in Ellensburg, Washington and on his property he'd discovered a perfectly circular hole.
He said it had no measurable bottom...people supposedly lowered hundreds (even thousands) of feet of line without hitting anything.
Mel's Hole.
Then it got written off as a hoax....to where is became urban legend.
Not the only group certainly as it's well documented but while in college I traveled with others to Ellensburg, WA and with GPS got kinda close to the property...
That is now fenced off as inaccessible government land.
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The story, in short:
Mel claimed he owned land in Ellensburg, Washington and on his property he'd discovered a perfectly circular hole.
He said it had no measurable bottom...people supposedly lowered hundreds (even thousands) of feet of line without hitting anything.
Mel's Hole.
Then it got written off as a hoax....to where is became urban legend.
Not the only group certainly as it's well documented but while in college I traveled with others to Ellensburg, WA and with GPS got kinda close to the property...
That is now fenced off as inaccessible government land.
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Northwest · M
@Punxi
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I hope you didn't pay for your "excursion".
42% of Kittitas County is Federally managed. The largest chunks are off limits to the public and you lose your cell coverage if you get close, as it should because the DOW conducts training for all branches. If you travel along 90 or 82, you have a 100% chance or hitting military convoys, equipped like they're going to war and live ammunition could be heard at times.
As the food, most of the "good" places, get 4 stars. Domino's gets 4.5 stars. 🤣🤣
Guess we were directed to a fenced in area Federally posted for nothing perhaps.
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I hope you didn't pay for your "excursion".
42% of Kittitas County is Federally managed. The largest chunks are off limits to the public and you lose your cell coverage if you get close, as it should because the DOW conducts training for all branches. If you travel along 90 or 82, you have a 100% chance or hitting military convoys, equipped like they're going to war and live ammunition could be heard at times.
As the food, most of the "good" places, get 4 stars. Domino's gets 4.5 stars. 🤣🤣
Northwest · M
@Punxi
It's part of the tourism industry now. I've had a blast doing river rafting in the area, where the Yakima river moves at a lazy pace, or down 90 on the Skykomish where the water moves at a much faster rate (season about to start, when temperatures get above freezing.
No one can run an 80,000 feet line below ground, without running into some major physics limitations. And for the record, NO ONE has been to point to exactly where Mel's Hole is located.
Up the road, if you go 82 and connect to 84, you will get to another massive federal land called the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. That's where we produced the fissile material used in the bomb that we dropped on Nagasaki. You don't want to trespass there either. If the thing goes active, it will punch a hole through the center of the planet.
Had a blast.
It's part of the tourism industry now. I've had a blast doing river rafting in the area, where the Yakima river moves at a lazy pace, or down 90 on the Skykomish where the water moves at a much faster rate (season about to start, when temperatures get above freezing.
No one can run an 80,000 feet line below ground, without running into some major physics limitations. And for the record, NO ONE has been to point to exactly where Mel's Hole is located.
Up the road, if you go 82 and connect to 84, you will get to another massive federal land called the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. That's where we produced the fissile material used in the bomb that we dropped on Nagasaki. You don't want to trespass there either. If the thing goes active, it will punch a hole through the center of the planet.
Northwest · M
I always have on me a lead-lined YETI Sidekick Dry Waterproof Bag, just for this kind of occasion. Oh, and lead-lined gloves so I wouldn't have to worry about the logistics.
If a crowd approaches, I will toss it in a river, and when everyone leave, I can come back and retrieve it.
If a crowd approaches, I will toss it in a river, and when everyone leave, I can come back and retrieve it.
JSul3 · 70-79
Watch the '36 Universal studios sci fi film The Invisible Ray.
A scientist notes a fragment from Andromeda that has fallen to Earth in a remote area of Africa.
He tracks down the location and secures a chunk of it. He deems it Radium X.
During his task of gathering the fragment, he becomes poisoned.
I'll stop here and for those who are curious, you can go watch the film.
Fans of the Universal studios monster movies are familiar with it.
It was the third teaming of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.
A scientist notes a fragment from Andromeda that has fallen to Earth in a remote area of Africa.
He tracks down the location and secures a chunk of it. He deems it Radium X.
During his task of gathering the fragment, he becomes poisoned.
I'll stop here and for those who are curious, you can go watch the film.
Fans of the Universal studios monster movies are familiar with it.
It was the third teaming of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.
MayorOfCrushtown · M
done seen too many tv shows where the person calls the authorities to tell them what they found......
and then they ask did anyone else see this........ person says nope, then they get shot by the feds.
too many xfiles type tv shows and movies for me. LOL
and then they ask did anyone else see this........ person says nope, then they get shot by the feds.
too many xfiles type tv shows and movies for me. LOL
beetlebumdont · 26-30, F
Dude ive just seen a video about fireball spotted in europe
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Tastyfrzz · 61-69, M
After they explode the inner fragments are actually very cold.