The Great Mystery of Mel’s Hole: 80,000 Feet Deep?

[@decodingtheunknown2373]

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[@GuZ76]

The sponsor looked at all the possible youtube channels and said: hey let's choose this channel.. this will be totally plausible and common sense 😆

[@twiztid_gamer]

The image of this guy lowering an 80k ft cable down like a 300 ft hole & the cable just piling up at the bottom, while he's standing at the top like "oh my God, this hole is bottomless" is absolutely hilarious. PS: A Simon travel vlog channel starting with the investigation of this castle outside of Prague would go hard!

[@aw9307]

I sent this to my friend named Mel asking if she knew so many people were curious and if she could clarify if it’s 80,000 feet deep.

[@ConjureNoonSloth]

Let me know when she responds (͠≖ ͜ʖ͠≖)

[@mUtH4Fr3AkEr]

Mel mel mel mel mel

[@duncanglen3452]

She sounds fun Kinda

[@selectorspinnaz6254]

This is fkn savags😂

[@mUtH4Fr3AkEr]

@@aw9307 id like to hear the echo of what your friend had to day

[@Morbius907]

You should do a show about Art Bell. Some how Art was able to ride the edge between belief and skeptic when talking to his guest. I would often tune in just to try to figure out weather or not Art believed what the guest was saying.

[@darkstarr984]

I know, he was so shockingly nice about absolutely anything, even the most blatantly ridiculous idea.

[@DellaScott-t6c]

Definitely should do a show on Art Bell

[@jebhuzyak7526]

Yes!!! I agree. Please. Do Art Bell and the Coast to Coast phenomena. You have a platform here that is perfect, and I bet a third of the content you already have has already been through Art Bells sphere of delivery.

[@lucyst8]

OVER AN HOUR?! A DANNY script?! While I'm frantically trying to make Christmas happen as the only adult in rhe house?! YES PLEASE 🙌

[@matselm]

Well it is a hole video, gotta get that sweet watch time.

[@jeffdroog]

If this was a priority for you,then I'd suggest you have NO adults in your house lol

[@khall3131]

I also listened to this while making my Christmas preparations as the only adult in the house. Granted, I am the only **person** in the house, but it still counts. 😂

[@Vlaakster]

As someone from this area, I deeply enjoyed hearing Simon’s pronunciations 😂 Also, RIP Art

[@AndyKnudsen]

You have to remember that back in the day in the middle of the night there wasn't much to listen to on the radio. I remember long drives at night where my choices were either Coast to Coast AM, a staticky Country station, or local news. Art would let any crazy on but would often ask good questions that would have given the guest a chance to prove their story if it was really. Hint, they never had proof.

[@Chellistan]

Loved me some Coast back in the day.

[@NoToAllOfThat]

Art Bell was a legend! I used to listen to him late at night when I had to drive for hours. His show was so fun to listen to.

[@FriendlyNeighborhoodNitpicker]

Simon, I don’t think you realize how monumental it is for a five hour radio show that airs five nights a week, at night, to get 10 million listeners routinely. That is way different than a 20 minute or one hour KZbin video getting 10 million views. The level of dedication that people have to have to Listen to the radio, at night, for several hours in a row, is a whole different thing. Of course a lot of them were truckers doing overnight runs, but radio is a very different medium than modern social media. If you didn’t grow up with it it may not be possible to understand why that’s a big deal. Although, from your experiments with 24 hour broadcasts, you may realize that getting 10 million views on a multiple hour KZbin video is not trivial either.

[@ryanhorton607]

There are many things I've learned he doesn't realize lol and his money helps keep him from caring 😅

[@cotati76]

I grew up and continue to be a huge fan of radio and theater of the mind. It’s a dying art.

[@ryanhorton607]

@cotati76 it's why no one reads anymore too

[@OlyChickenGuy]

Not only everything you just mentioned, but trying to reign in and keep those listeners between 10pm-3am.

[@moonflower9403]

Miss Art Bell , it was a total experience for sure. I definitely don’t think Simon gets certain things sometimes and just doesn’t care to. If he just gave it that little extra he could. And did something about that dreadful background music

[@jasterthefathyena1843]

"Let the devil deal with the nuclear waste" ......and thats he we get Nuclear Satans. Do you want Nuclear Satans? .....Actually, yes, I do. I bet Nuclear Satans would be a helluva thrash metal band \M/

[@massminer2343]

Fuck nuclear satans would be a kickass metal band 🤘🤘

[@Lngbrdninjamasta]

🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

Mel's Hole use to have its own website. Now, it just has an Only Fans.

[@Johnny_Kanuk]

Way back when I drove nights I would listen to Coast to Coast AM. It was one hell of a show. Loved it. Some of the people had some great stories.

[@lordofelectrons4513]

A story that gets more and more mental with every passing minute. Waiting with bated breath to hear that the Loch Ness monster and Elvis are some how involved in all this.

[@kjsalomonsen9299]

I live about 50-70 miles north of Ellensburg and I know there were and are people who are digging for gold and for the Ellensburg Blue gemstone. But, I've never heard of a hole or a cave this deep ever.

[@jeffdroog]

You could have just said you haven't heard of this story lol No one needed,or asked for your own personal,and unrelated story lol Get out.

[@JohnBickner]

​@@jeffdroogYou could just say you're a Ruski troll bot and leave the details to others.

[@kjsalomonsen9299]

@@jeffdroog Well, aren't we friendly, Let me explain it to you there are holes all over Ellensburg and in the hills where I live. An uneducated person could get hurt from just going for a walk, for instance you could fall into an old mine shaft or a miner could shoot you. I wish I was joking but that gemstone I mentioned is one of the rarest in the world and as far as I know there is no 80,000 ft. hole somewhere around Ellensburg. Just a little education for anyone who doesn't live here. lol

[@NateEngle]

The only bottomless thing I'm aware of in Ellensburg is the curiosity of Prof Nick Zentner in the CWU geology department.

[@JessicaMcCauley-u3d]

I’m a bit of east of you. The place name butcher mess lol

[@willmfrank]

I'm convinced that the tale of Mel's Hole is inspired in part by "The Worm" by David H. Keller and "The Colour Out of Space" by H.P. Lovecraft.

[@HotrodPainter-bd9xx]

I'm convinced that Mel has smoked just a bit too much of his "medicable herb".

[@tairad9474]

I remember my older sister really enjoying Art Bell's show. Not because she believed, but because the narratives were captivating.

[@TheKampfschaf]

Fear the crabcat! 🦀🐈 Even the one i feed that got stuck inside Mel's hole 🎵

[@alexpage8965]

Stray Why Files comment on a DTU video… checks out.

[@TG-wf6ln]

found HF, how's Gertie?

[@TheKampfschaf]

@TG-wf6ln Well and dancing ^^

[@GunmadMadman]

Danny should write a Houska castle script that Simon can record on location.

[@willmfrank]

And maybe invite Dave and Alex over from Australia to do a Drunken Ghost Hunt there.

[@bose5160]

I have many fond memories of falling asleep on Friday nights listening to Simon…

[@laurenelizabeth8948]

5:41 Simon, that’s how you get the radioactive planet that the SGC needed in order to dial the Stargate’s 9th chevron, get aboard the Destiny, and kick off SGU!

[@smstnitc]

I giggle every time Simon says "Mel's hole" 😂

[@Chellistan]

I’m having Doctor Who flashbacks from the 70s: Inferno with Jon Pertwee 😂😂

[@MaesterTori]

50 km? That's what, an hour drove tops? In Ontario, that's just a trip to the shops.

[@MrKutamoz]

i switch the km to miles to see how far the castle was and laughed at the distance being so short and simon saying its kinda far

[@BirloCB]

Hear me out: DTU idea: “conspiracies received in Simons inbox”

[@willmfrank]

Simon: "Just before we begin, I'd like to tell you about a new channel I'm launching: 'Simon Whistler's Tales from the Inbox.'" -- I mean...that would not surprise me -- or any of us, really -- at all.

[@adenkyramud5005]

I mean... it would work as a DTU but honestly it would be a much better fit for brain blaze with the more unhinged simon clone.

[@adenkyramud5005]

Or maybe just a blaze giving an overview and then a whole series debunking them on DTU

[@seanbarraclough2484]

Coast To Coast, a great listen actually

[@zarasbazaar]

That's part of the plot of the book The Lovely Bones: the killer dumps the body in a deep sinkhole where all the locals dump their trash. The burning ice that causes the end of the world is something directly out of a Kurt Vonnegut novel Cat's Cradle.

[@khall3131]

I believe The Lovely Bones was written after the Mel's Hole story was invented, but the Vonnegut story definitely predates it and I'd bet a dollar that's where "Mel" got the idea for that bit of the story.

[@danielthemangrande]

europeans thinking 49 kilometers is a long time when i'm like, that is literally less than a 2 hour round trip.

[@kingofhearts3185]

I'm in Canada, that's laughable to me. I wish friends and family were that close.

[@jackvos8047]

80,000 inches sounds closer to the truth as that puts it on par with the deepest caves in the world.

[@135forte]

Pretty sure the seal thing is pulled from a myth about deformed cows that speak prophecy then die sortly after birth.

[@barazo1011]

9:40 Business Blaze being really nothing about Business... lol! Love ya, Simon!

[@bobsaghit1250]

WA native here. Kittitas is pronounced Kitt eh tas

[@matthewhaywood7815]

Have him try to say sequim for more fun

[@HoundMonkey]

The best part is that Simon truly does not care and I'm here for it. We have a lot of cities with native names up here and it's funny as hell listening to him just wing it.

[@ladygrndr9424]

I just said all the words he mispronounced right a beat behind him. Made me feel better.

[@ejtappan1802]

As someone who once lived in Washington, I mentally corrected him every time, lol. I wonder how well he would do with Puyallop. 😅

[@martinbrophy6898]

Simon a fisherman of sorts means you like fishing but you always blank (dont catch) fish

[@johnblount4102]

I lived in that area of Washington St. in the late 70's and early 80's, and dirt-biked all over that area...Indeed, there were holes that seemed "bottomless", however I soon found out what they were on May 18th, 1980....Mount St Helens erupted, and Steam and Sulfuric Gases vented out of them, they are Volcanic Fumaroles...

[@ladygrndr9424]

Mt. St. Helens is hundreds of miles from Ellensburg. I know geologically that is not that far, and so if they showed activity that far away, that is crazy!

[@bodan1196]

80 000 feet of fishing line... would weigh what; 230 kg / 500 pounds? Most fishing lines would in other words break from its own 80 000 feet weight.

[@scottlangley5596]

Did you actually look into this, or are you just going with your feelings here?

[@jenniferhof9448]

When Simon says that 49 km away isn't "super close," but it would be between 45-60 minutes to drive the 30 miles there. Ah, Brits with their different perspectives on distance.

[@solleytara]

The part of he story Mel is telling around the48-52min time stamp mark completely sounds like a bad acid trip. WOW

[@Stichting_NoFa-p]

I was so hoping you would do a video on this.

[@gedscouserable]

Can we lure James Corden there? Let gravity do the rest.

[@magnemoe1]

20:00 its an meme about an guy who cat got missing for many days, then he spot it and take it home, couple of days later his cat come home. He now has two identical cats. (Yes probably an guy with two very similar looking cats but fun)

[@BogWitch8440]

Mel's Hole is a classic. Even as a skeptic I love late night paranormal call-in shows- they're wild. Also, Art Bell was a Legend.

[@Gojocular]

I’m 100% on board 😂 put everything we don’t want here in the hole and forget about it 😂

[@camdenharper7244]

49km? I have to drive that far to go grocery shopping. No, it's not that far

[@SaraAllred-nd7ye]

Yay. Art Bell vibes 😍

[@blindbear]

FYI you cant make a rope or line longer than about 800 meters -- it will just snap. Its a problem for elevator cables in super tall buildings. If you make it stronger then you make it heavier and it will snap, Make it lighter and you make it weaker and it will snap... thats why space elevators talk about carbon nano tubes and other space age material in their construction. It's possible that now days there are some materials that would exceed the 800m limit but I'm gonna bet that Mel's fishing line would not have been made of anything special.

[@LemurDreamer87]

Placing the sponsor right after Simon saying he should "just get on with it" was comedy gold.

[@zogar8526]

If we could open a hole to the center of the earth, dumbing our nuclear waste would not cause any problems. Even if we threw every last bit of radioactive material that could be mined from the entirety of the earth's crust down there, it wouldn't even get to a fraction of a percent of what is already there.

[@burningchrome70]

Lots of Art Bell listeners here. It makes me happy to remember those late nights.

[@olencone4005]

The Kola Superdeep Borehole reached just over 40,000 feet (edit: 40,230 feet/12,262 meters), but they had to stop drilling because the pressure was forcibly filling in the hole and the temperature of the rocks was around 370°F (190°C). Between that high temperature and the plasticity of the rock, it became far more effort to drill deeper than the project was capable of sustaining with their budget. So yeah, I have some serious doubts about that 80,000 feet estimate, especially since all that was used was fishing line and a sinker.

[@finney0001]

Yeah I think Simon was having a Simon moment when he said send all the waste to the centre of the earth without realising that there may be one or two minor difficulties with that 😂

[@paulhurley1670]

I should call Mel

[@ItsHyomoto]

Yup, government shows up and we've reached the end of the story. I will never understand how you can tell a story where the options were: government disappears you *or* pays you 200k. If disappearing you was in the cards, then that would be the solution taken. They wouldn't be like, "Hey, just hush up about the hole, ya hear and we'll pay you good and proper!" The story is literally the government and military showed up on his land, unannounced: yeah, like Waco, right? That's the story you know, David Koresh went out to get his newspaper and found the FBI poking around his weapons cellar. Conspiracy people get your shit together.

[@SaraWorleyEcho]

Danny is hinting at what will happen if he escapes the basement

[@jessicamarino7448]

The music editing in these videos is literally everything to me. Kudos.

[@Jared-91]

I remember hearing the original broadcast on Art Bell's radio show. I didn't believe it, but I sure enjoyed it.

[@ladygrndr9424]

I went to the University in Ellensburg and never heard of this. There is a very unique kind of agate found in the area, and geologically it is pretty interesting, so this doesn't really surprise me. I'll ask my friend who studied geology there if they know anything about it...ironically her name is Mel.

[@antiisocial]

I used to listen to Coast To Coast with Art Bell when I was in high school. We, or at least I, had less choices back then. I also listened to Dr Demento radio show as well. Lol.

[@qboz2123]

Don't forget that Ellensburg is where Central Washington University as well so, coming from a life long washingtonian this hole thing is made up lol😂😂

[@Bacon_and_Busch]

Yakima got the fair, so we win. And yes, the hole is made up.

[@C_Owl]

You somehow discredit and then credit Art Bell within the same sentence. He's a legend

[@jenniferlindsey2015]

Love Danny! Thanks for the great scripts!

[@Sean-ne3gx]

Lifesavers are what we in the US call polos (I don't know for sure they're the same candy, but they look the same) they come in fruit and various mint flavors.

[@elizabethbrickland681]

Do a video on coast to coast radio, please.

[@mUtH4Fr3AkEr]

If anyone owned a bottomless hole, we'd be on nuquelar power ever since😅

[@geoffreese6374]

Man, I miss Art Bell

[@crazypedia1717]

7:48 simon says so! 😂

[@EmilyGamerGirl]

A judge stopped the onion/infowars purchase. Idiotic.

[@ejtappan1802]

Clearly His Honor has no sense of humor!

[@Artak091]

Read the title and had a flashback to a horrible date experience 😂

[@darandeyoe]

Wait wait, here's a new one to spread. Mels hole and the castle hole are connected 😂 opposite sides of the earth. Lol

[@TheCiroth]

The last time I was this early, Simon didn't have a beard

[@alexneff]

He was born with a beard like Chuck Norris

[@HoundMonkey]

OMG wow! This is soooo funny, like it's almost as funny as the first 300 times this has been posted on his videos...

[@asmongold2028]

Riveting tale chap, can we hear it again

[@DanzoTheManzo13]

😂😂😂

[@ajdean2974]

I feel proud of myself for immediately calling that the show mentioned was Coast to Coast 😅

[@quinnzykir]

You gotta pay the troll toll to get into that Mels Hole

[@DaveSlate-q9x]

Mel's Hole is a well known urban legend. It came from a call in on the show Coast To Coast with Art Bell.

[@1newme425]

I've always wanted to become a wombat farmer, hang on, I mean chuck a wombat on the Barbie :)

[@Baldevi]

The Radio Show where the guy talked about UFOs was Art Bell's Coast to Coast Show. A very entertaining chap, Art was. His "Roswell Rods" Era was especially nutters. This phenomena turned out to be insects flying about and being filmed at the perfect speed and lighting to make moths and such appear to be a long fluttering tube. A photographic artifact in the long run. Oopsie! Bob Lazar had no comment about this one. I am so curious and DELIGHTED that Kevin has researched Mel's Hole, that thing is a goldmine for Paranormal and Bizarre Phenomena Creators on the Interwebs! Finding FACTS about it has been a struggle, so thank you Kevin, for doing the research for me, for all of us!

[@SpiritoftheRadio2112]

Lmfao I’m so damn immature every time I read “Mel’s Hole” in the comments or hear it I start giggling 😂😂😂

[@richards3648]

This is definitely the inspiration behind the Bottomless Pit episode of Gravity Falls

[@DMTrance87]

7:25 Grass huh? At the bottom of a huge hole that gets ZERO sunlight? Made me chuckle... Stay woke Fact Boi🤣

[@aslurmyfrog]

Kit-ih(like the I in "sick")-tass (sounds like "glass") Or kit-uh-tass, depending on who you ask.

[@JessicaMcCauley-u3d]

I live just a little down from here. The way Simon is pronouncing the locations is making my teeth hurt. Now I know how others feel.

[@willcool713]

Using an alternate universe as the dumping ground for the byproducts of power generation was the plot of an Asimov book. If I recall right, we were the last universe in a long chain of exchanges and were presumed to be passing our byproducts along to another universe, who then also would do the same to maintain their universe's balance of primal forces. We were too stupid to figure that out, though, until the Sun started to swell, because we were changing the local gravitational constant, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces, and it threatened to destroy our reality entirely.

[@kdhoude]

Used to love listening to Art Bell. Coast to Coast AM

[@MrUnderachiever1995]

"Take the money and go live in Australia, the weather is great". I live in Perth and I call bullshit. Christmas eve? Meant to be 44°c. Christmas day? 25°c. Weather's fucked. Love from down under Simon and crew! ❤️

[@AuntieEmm]

Send nuclear waste to a legitimate afterworld hell - that sounds brilliant and totally not how mutated demon monsters take over the world! Lol Mel's Hole is one of my favorite stories 😂

[@WernerKaffl]

Yes you're right. The fishing line adds to the weight with every meter that goes in. This means, the line will not stop going in even if the end hits the ground. Everyone who ever did big game fishing in deep water will know that 🙂 ... Can you post what they have been smoking? I want that too...

[@jasonjuneau2948]

Did you mean Art Bell? I dont think he CONSTANTLY talked about UFOs but that subject came up on his show but he had guests on that talked about everything from ufos to these things called rods. Ah yeah, there you go! I used to get arts show on the a.m band from a station out of spokane. It came on at midnight and my friend and i would drive around listening.

[@feanacar]

Art was the best. ❤❤❤

[@Bubbaist]

Mel’s hole is a real place on Google Maps, south east of Seattle.

[@aceundead4750]

The line would develop slack if the weight had hit the bottom when testing the depth, if no slack then bottom hasnt been reached. Also to measure that deep Mel would've needed over 533 individual standard spools of fishing line as one spool holds about 150 ft of line, an unreasonable number of spools unless you sell fishing gear.

[@PabodiesGameChannel]

Am I the only one who thought of Nik Kershaw's The Riddle when he said "near a tree by a rive"?

[@dustindickens3142]

Art bell? Was it called Dreamland with art bell?

[@Macilnar0Anquietas]

Just how deep can a natural cave system can go? I imagine that there is a practical limit but how far down is that?

[@healthiswealth1452]

A few feet

[@emmakertesz1184]

Can never be too early to decode the unknown

[@JustGaming117]

MEL'S HOLE!!! Let's go!

[@BlackNewty]

This story is about as believable as one of Kevin’s personal experiences!

[@jakoblaban429]

I heard the broadcast and am still convinced that was actually the Radio host, impersonator and comic Phil Hendrie either pranking Art or they were having a laugh together. (Funny enough Phil sounds so much like Art that he does a rather convincin impersonation of Art Bell himself.)😄 I encourage everyone to listen to some sound bits and tell me if you agree or can at least entertain the possibility 🙂

[@DrSuperKamiGuru]

I hold the world record for most shiny Pokemon caught in my living room.

[@sweiland75]

Some popular paranormal ghost hunting channel should invite Simon on a ghost hunting trip. Then we will learn just how certain he is that ghosts exist.

[@DenethordeSade.90]

*dont exist.

[@HoundMonkey]

Never gonna happen, he is too intelligent to fall for that nonsense.

[@BlackNewty]

Dude has kids and he has real friends so he could keep it in house and get it done but won’t because he has better things to do. Like stump for tRump.

[@devonstarmann205]

Shoutout to WhyFiles for bringing me onto this story first ❤ had to sew Simon's take too

[@Crioten]

Don't get into a deep dive 😂 -starfishes love you guys

[@Someone-z8r]

Before I even began...Thanks Danny! and Thank you generic looking fact boy.

[@SedatedandRestrained]

Fun fact; if the hole were 25 miles deep the atmospheric pressure at the bottom would exceed 300,000psi causing the oxygen and nitrogen in the air to liquefy and possibly solidify or form new compounds. You would need to go 5000 miles deep in Jupiter's atmosphere to reach similar pressures.