Mel's Hole

Do it JUMP JUMP JUMP, and report back in the name of science

You don't have to jump, USE A ROPE OR BUNGY down. By the way nice call.

You're not the only one.

gotta find it first...

if it's all a figment of Mel's active imagination, I wonder where he came up with the idea? When I was a kid, I used to watch a TV program called Night Gallery hosted by Rod Serling (Twilight Zone host/creator as well) and there was an episode where a farmer/red neck type guy found this hole while out hunting or something like that and there were wierd noises and mist coming out of it as well as an eerie glow (would probably be pretty cheesy if I saw it today). And my memory fails me here but I think his dog fell in or something so they lowered a guy down in the hole and something crazy happened but I can't remember what? ....anyway that's what I think of everytime I hear this story...

every episode started with the host in a Night Gallery full of paintings, he would stop at one, and then the show would be about the painting-

Night Gallery

it's funny I can't find that particular episode?

maybe the "Big Suprise"? I dunno...maybe it was another show?
hmmmmmm....

....Melanie, from my Columbia U. days!
Now THAT was a legend! SNAPPA!

But seriously, wasn't this a highlighted episode from the XFiles as well? They covered the renew or rebirth angle on it too.

[Edited on 31-12-2003 by Bout Time]

It's been some years since this has been discussed. What is going on with the story these days?

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This is one of the stories from a movie called Encounter With the Unknown, hosted by Rod Serling. It came out around the same time as the various Bigfoot/UFO documentaries in the 70's.

I'm from Oregon, but no I am not jumping, and I have never heard anything about it. I have heard of the Vortex though. Never been.

There is a place in Eastern Oregon called hole in the ground and crack in the ground or something like that as well, my husband tells me.

Mel sent George Noory an e-mail last night during his interview with Red Elk. There checking the authenticity of it and possibly setting up an interview. Stay tuned, I guess

In my opinion I think it is a fanciful tall tale. If there was any heed to it there would be a military hard shell around it.

Just doesn't add up as an incredible anomaly.

I believe the military did come in and take over. Paid off ole Mel and sent him packin. The old interviews with Art were some good night time entertainment, to say the least. Real or not it was very good radio in the middle of the night.

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I remember that show.The way I remember it,they lowered a guy down the hole on a rope and when they pulled him up he was insane.

I have no clue where this was suppose to happen or the name of the show.Wow,that was a LONG time ago!


As for Mels hole,I haven't heard anything on that in ages.Interesting thread.

It was coast to coast am with at the time Art Bell. Bell juiced this story for everything he could get out of it.

As far as I know, Mel has been on the show twice talking about the hole. It's an absolutly riviting tale. I heard them both on youtube.

The first time, he talked about the hole it was used by the locals as a dump, but it never filled. the urban myth was that it was bottomsless. eventually curiosity got the best of him and he set out to find out how deep it was. He got 4 coils of fishing cord, attached a wieght to the end and didn't hit the bottom.

The thing about the dog was that it died. got chucked down the hole and was seen again a few times in the wilderness, but it didn't come back.

The scond time mel talked, it was so much more developed. So many things were talked about, I can't remember them all.

The second time he talked about a second hole (cos the govt' had siezed the first). Some natives showed him the hole. He talked about how if he dropped something on the rim it did not make a sound. Also that it irradiated heat without light. And that when they put a pale of ice cubes down they came up on fire but didn't melt, but it got crazier after that. He talked about how some of the cubes were taken away by one of his mate to be used in his cabin as an eternal cooking fire in his stove. Talked about if the kettle was boiling then the steam would be drawn to the ice. Eventually the stove fell through the floor and into the ground several feet. It continued to sink slowly as time went on and eventually all the moisture came out of the wood in the shake and the whole thing caved. The govt' siezed the site, later, and had to used 3 cranes to pull out the stove and ice.

And it wasn't a man that they let down in the second hole but a sheep. Apparently every animal feared this hole so they needed to knock the sheep out. once they started lowering it down it came to and started shrieking (he was losing his cool at this point in the interview). It stoped making noise after a while and they brought it up. It was dead, they later cut it open and found that it had been cooked from the inside. THATS when the seal thing comes into the story.


BTW the russian hole to hell + recording was a hoax.

i was listening to a popular radio show and herd a lot of things about mels hole and i also herd the goverment took over the property and they even blocked out the satalite so u couldnt take pictures frome space . As for mel i never herd about it again it was like he disapeared frome the spot light. Whatever the hole is id like to see for myself what the hole is realy all about