The "Well to Hell" is a borehole located in the Murmansk Oblast, Russia (Soviet Union at the time) which was purportedly drilled so deep that it broke through to hell. This urban legend has been circulating on the Internet since at least 1997. It is first attested in English as a 1989 broadcast by Trinity Broadcasting Network, which had picked up the story from Finnish newspaper reports.
The legend holds that the Russians had drilled a hole that ...
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The "Well to Hell" is a borehole located in the Murmansk Oblast, Russia (Soviet Union at the time) which was purportedly drilled so deep that it broke through to hell. This urban legend has been circulating on the Internet since at least 1997. It is first attested in English as a 1989 broadcast by Trinity Broadcasting Network, which had picked up the story from Finnish newspaper reports.
The legend holds that the Russians had drilled a hole that was nine miles (14.5 km) deep before breaking through to a cavity. Intrigued by this unexpected discovery, they lowered an extremely heat tolerant microphone, along with other sensory equipment, into the well. The temperature deep within was a 2,000 °F (1,100 °C) — heat from a chamber of fire from which sounds of screaming human voices could be heard.
The Soviet government had, in fact, drilled a hole almost eight miles deep in Kola (the Kola Superdeep Borehole), which reached 12,262 m (40,230 ft) in 1989, and found some interesting geological...
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