Russian Mystery Hole?

somebody mentioned in the Chinese blackout thread about a hole in Russia that's supposed to be scary scary

anyway Snopes says nothing to it (of course)

www.snopes.com...

If, in the course of your online browsing, you were to run into an ad with impressive pictures of massive mines and cool looking fossils that advertises an article titled “Deepest Hole on Earth Permanently Sealed After Finding 2 Billion Year Old Fossil,” you might think that this item represents a recent event, that it involves impressive looking open-pit mines, and that cool pictures of fossils are the result of the dig. You could be forgiven, as well, if you assumed that there was some sort of link between the fossils and the sealing of this hole. None of those assumptions would be true.

I'm still researching this

there are also mystery holes appearing in Siberia

www.cnn.com...

Scientists are not sure exactly how the huge hole, which is at least the ninth spotted in the region since 2013, formed. Initial theories floated when the first crater was discovered near an oil and gas field in the Yamal Peninsula in northwest Siberia included a meteorite impact, a UFO landing and the collapse of a secret underground military storage facility.
While scientists now believe the giant hole is linked to an explosive buildup of methane gas -- which could be an unsettling result of warming temperatures in the region -- there is still a lot the researchers don't know.

a reply to: ElGoobero

Could they be referencing the hell hole where supposedly they dug so deep they heard screams? If that's what they are referencing then that was debunked. I am curious about that story from the same thread as well!

story about 'well to hell' hoax

this one mentions the screaming

www.urbo.com...

Some of the geologists had apparently seen a Satanic apparition rise from the hole. The network quoted a man named Mr. Nummedal:

“What really unnerved the Soviets, apart from the voice recordings, was the appearance that same night of a fountainhead of luminous gas shooting up from the drill site, and out of the midst of this incandescent cloud pillar a brilliant being with bat wings revealed itself with the words (in Russian): ‘I have conquered,’ emblazoned against the dark Siberian sky.”

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the story continues

“Characteristic of many urban legends, this story was alleged to have occurred in an obscure part of the world where it would be virtually impossible to track down the facts,” Buhler wrote on his blog. And once the story got started, people began quoting one another’s newsletters to validate their own. This is the stuff of which tabloid newspapers are made.”

no joy

a reply to: ElGoobero

Its all fun and games, till somebody fall into one..




I recently read about one in an Arabian country that was supposed to be bottomless. They just went down there to the bottom for the first time ever. I think it was over 300 feet deep, and they found water falls, all kinds of beetles, and snakes in there. There were also several dead animal carcasses down in the bottom. They didnt find any Devils down there though

One of the posters also mentioned a YouTube video but I haven't found it yet. As long as we are on stories about holes there is another dubious story called Mel's hole supposedly a bottomless pit in the southwest that the government got involved with!

a reply to: misterE12

Is that the one they were using as a garbage dump?

I thought there was another that they found a bunch of old cars down in it.

a reply to: misterE12

When you mention places like that you should post a link or two about it.

Just sayin'

a reply to: visitedbythem
Yeah the guy was just tossing trash and stuff down it! The story was on coast to coast I think it's been awhile, but I forget how the government got involved.

Sorry still new to links here you go!

en.m.wikipedia.org...

Sounds like the deepest hole ever drilled, it's in Russia, they got pretty deep, but could not go further, due to the heat melting the drill heads.

Now there are a lot of sinkholes happening as well, those they think, are due to frozen gas deposits evaporating.

what brings me down the rabbit hole is how they manage to drill 12 km deep. How the drill doesnt collapse from a weight of 12 km of steel rods is a mystery for me.At least until I kill 2-3 hours on zucking youtube watching stuff about it. How is it still straight? It has to behave like a couple of meters long hair.

a reply to: ElGoobero

Here is the story mentioned in the Chinese blackout thread about the Russian hole!

www.abovetopsecret.com...

originally posted by: misterE12
a reply to: ElGoobero

Here is the story mentioned in the Chinese blackout thread about the Russian hole!

www.abovetopsecret.com...

Yes, it is my 2013 thread...The Black Hole in Russia

And yes, this is the "hole" I was referring to in that thread.

The mystery remains unsolved, although the efforts to conceal this place have clearly advanced significantly.

I think you speak of the deepest bore hole ever drilled. No mystery nor secret. Not very large either and it has since been capped off. I remember reading about it and Americans had started to drill a bore hole of their own when the Russians begin to do the same. The Americans stopped first and the Russians were able to get deeper.

If I remember right, they both collaborated with each other. Exactly what the aim was other than develop new drilling techniques and equipment I am unsure. I believe they wanted core samples from as deep as they could find from the earths crust.

It went from 1973 to 1983. They took 1984 off and continued from 1985 to 1995 and it was officially closed. At 7 miles and change it was the deepest hole ever but has since been surpassed by an oil well in Saudi. It’s only 9 inches in diameter so I don’t think any exploration will ever occur. It doesn’t seem to be hidden either but in a remote area near the border with Norway, it has a big concrete monument like structure over it.

a reply to: ElGoobero

I love the story of the deepest hole on earth and the screams apparently they heard from the bottom.

What is also amazing is the advanced engineering that was required to get this deep.

I thought the deepest hole was over on the corner of Van Buren and Central in downtown Phoenix. JK couldnt resist.

a reply to: ElGoobero

When I was a little kid in 1961 my aunt came to visit from Germany. She told me a scary story about a deep hole like that. Mom says that story was from post WW2, early 50s.

There's a lot of stories like that floating around. One I heard about was a well a town sealed up after some shenanigans.

We have what amounts to a large pond near my neck of the woods in which the bottom has never been found. It’s right next to a large lake where the first off shore oil rig was established. The pond has eaten at least one modern oil rig which is why they were looking for the bottom as they wanted to salvage it.

Lots of oil and my guess is it just sunk into an oil hole and continues to sink beyond reach. Swampy land with lots of water and mysterious stories abound

a reply to: visitedbythem

Classic Coast to Coast episode

a reply to: Superecho2021

Yeah, Kola Superdeep was quite a project. Some interesting history that I'm kind of close to.

The first depth records were set in Oklahoma. What's interesting is that when you read about the history of Kola Superdeep, it appears like the well hole in Oklahoma was first, and then Kola Superdeep was next. But that's not the way it happened, and you can find the proof in who assisted the Russians with Kola Superdeep. What happened in reality was, the Bertha-Rogers hole in OK hit -31,440 in 1979. Then in late 1979 or 1980 two holes in Wyoming hit 35,000 feet deep, but they weren't going for records; they were going for natural gas. I worked on one of those rigs. I want to say it was Stryker-135 (can't remember exactly now). Only THEN, in 1982, with the assistance of the University of Wyoming, did Kola Superdeep break the records set in Wyoming. I grew up in Wyoming.

People can say what they want about Halliburton Corporation, but I watched them set up the biggest fracking operation in the World on that rig in Wyoming. There were pump trucks lined up 200 wide and 4 deep. There were drilling mud and water trucks lined up as far as the eye could see. The pressures at the "Christmas Tree" (the wellhead) were unprecedented. No one had ever done anything like that before. Tuboscope and Smith seismo trucks were on the perimeter 25 miles away from the well site and they measured seismographic movements that far away. The Earth moved that day! They said it couldn't be done. I watched it happen.

There is enough natural gas, capped off, in Wyoming to supply the entire planet for a millennia. Oil is easier though. So those thousands of wells will remain capped until natural gas becomes a thing in the western hemisphere. To this day, many of those wells produce more cubic feet in one "minute" than other wells produce in a "year".