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Mel became so curious about his hole you can even
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say a whole obsession was born Jesus. So he started
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to experiment with this whole, trying to answer the burning,
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itching questions. How deep is it? Is it wet inside?
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Was it clogged up with decades of waste? Or was
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something paranormal happening to all the junk inside? All that
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junkin is trump.
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Mel was a simple man. He liked throwing shit in
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a hole.
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Hi, Caitlin, Hi Cassie, Hi, creepy people, Hello, this is
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PNW Hanson homicides. Today we're going to be talking about
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a hole, but not just any old hole. This here
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is Mel's hole. Shut up. Yes, So who is Mel?
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And what is so dang special about it? Whole? Oh,
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all right, you're gonna learn. February twenty first, nineteen ninety seven,
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a self described Willie Nelson doppelganger named Mel Waters faxed
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a radio talk show fax He faxed it was nineteen
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ninety seven. Yeah, I don't remember when faxes stopped being
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a thing.
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I mean, not nearly long enough ago.
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Yeah.
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I feel like I'm having a bit of a panic attack.
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Responds to my complex PTSD related to literally being tortured
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in office environments faxing machines.
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They still do faxing, right, I mean it's still possible. Yeah,
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it's still a thing. Why would you not just email? Yeah?
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I don't know.
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Tangent.
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It happens around here, it does.
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This was late night show for anything paranormal and or
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conspiracy theories called Coast to Coast with Art Bell. Okay,
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I don't know if you've heard of it.
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I haven't.
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Apparently it's a pretty popular It was on AM radio.
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It was a pretty popular show, yea. And people would
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call in with their I don't want to say crazy
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stories because that makes me sound judgy, but like kind
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of like the stuff I talk about on yeah show,
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just kind of wild stuff. Yeah. You know. Art was
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so intrigued by Mel's deep story that he got him
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on the phone to talk about it on air.
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Oh my goodness.
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Five phone interviews over the course of five years detailed
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a bewildering tale with many peaks and pits. Get ready
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for a lot of whole references. Great, a whole lot
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of whole references. Mel tells of his property in the
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Nastache just west of Ellensburg, Washington. Ooh, do you know Ellensburg. Yeah, oh,
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I know. This is in central Washington, a little over
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one hundred miles southeast of Seattle. On this land is
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a hole that reminds me of that song there's a
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hole on a log? What is it?
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Oh?
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God, you know that. I know the song that I
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keeps going with, the yeah frog on the log and
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the hole in the frog. Yeah.
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No, it's I literally like you could have a gun
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to my head right now, and I don't think I
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could recite that one, but I know exactly what you're
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talking about.
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Someone send us a video of them singing that song
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so we know how it goes. That would be creaked anyway.
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So Mel had owned this land for a few years.
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He didn't specifically say how long, and the previous owners
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told Mel that the hole had been there since they
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moved onto the land about thirty to forty years ago.
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It's an old hole. It's an old hole, but they
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didn't know how long it had been on the property
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before that. So there's no record of like the previous owners, well,
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there might be a record, but we don't know about it.
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I just don't have that information exactly. Well, that's really old.
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That's going back quite a way. That would be hard
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to track down totally.
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The gaping hole is nine feet nine inches in diameter.
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It is. That's a bunch of nines too.
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Nine.
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It had a steel door covering the top for safety.
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You know. Well, yeah, it is a gaping hole. Anyone
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could just fall in. It's like a hot dog down
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a hallway. Around the hole's rim is a three point
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five feet wide retaining wall made of stone that extends
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about fifteen feet down into the hole. Below that there's
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some visible soil and rock, and beyond that is dark,
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black nothingness. Okay, do we.
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Know how deep this hole is? I'm assuming you're.
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Gonna get there. Yeah, we're going to get there.
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I really this is one of my biggest fears.
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It's just some.
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Listen, it sounds stupid when you say it like that. No,
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but just like something like that where it's I guess
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maybe this is possibly occurring naturally, but think about that
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you're going to fall down into this or I mean,
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they've taken safety precautions, but.
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Yeah, how scary. It's a little scary. There is actually
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like a fear of holes thing. I can't remember what
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it's called. Maybe we can google it. Real quick. But
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it was on a season of American Horror Story.
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Oh my god, this is hilarious. What is it, Cassie.
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I'll look up a pronunciation guide, but the name of
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this literally signals exactly what my fear is with this
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trip a phobia does.
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Fall into a hole? Of phobia? Clumsy bitch of phobia.
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No one let Caitlin near this hole? Okay, seriously, tripophobia.
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Okay, listen, it's always going to be tripaphobia for me. Okay,
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we're settled on that sounds better.
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Yeah, I can cuh. A few locals have always discarded
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things into the abyss.
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I know, guys, no, like, what are we going to
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do with this trash?
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I guess we're gonna throw it down the hole? Okay,
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so things from regular old trash tires, even cow carcasses
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have been thrown into the hole. What in the fuck?
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Okay, Now, I definitely have tripophobia because can you imagine
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if you did fall into that hole?
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What's down there? Narnar exactly, Mel himself said he tossed
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a refrigerator down the hole, and he was quite surprised
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when he didn't hear it crash at the bottom. Mela,
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he was just curious where the bottom one was. He
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was like, if I throw this fridge down, I'm definitely
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gonna hear something. But he didn't hear anything good.
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I don't know. Maybe start testing your theories with something
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either biodegradable or maybe something small like a bouncy ball,
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but you wouldn't hear that. He went zero to fridge.
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He wanted to hear where the bottom was. It's actually
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it's worse. He did say. He threw TV tubes down there,
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which is apparently really really really bad, very toxic. We
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need to have a little chat. I just really wanted
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to hear something crash, and he never did. He eventually
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started to wonder why the heck his hole never got
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filled up. I mean, there was so much trash going
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into it for who knows how long you would think
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it would fill up. Yeah, but I mean it's pretty deep,
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it's pretty wide. Yeah, it's gursy. He yelled into the
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seemingly bottomless hole, but he got no answering echoes in return.
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You're horn it.
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Yeah, well that is interesting because it makes me wonder, like,
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how deep does a hole have to be for you
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not to hear an echo?
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Yeah, that's kind of crazy. He also shined a flashlight
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down the hole, and he said it just disappeared into blackness.
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He could never see the end. The light beam never
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touched the bottom. He didn't see any water, nothing. I
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just feel like this is how every horror movie begins,
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Like somebody who's just a little too curious. Definitely, that
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is a very good way to put this. Oh, for
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fuck's sake, Mel became so curious about his whole you
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can even say a whole obsession was born Jesus. So
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he started to experiment with this whole, trying to answer
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the burning, itching questions. How deep is it? Is it
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wet inside? Was it clogged up with decades of waste?
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Or was something paranormal happening to all the junk inside?
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All that junkin is trunk.
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Mel was a simple man. He liked throwing shit in
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a hole.
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Starting to tackle some of these big questions, he turned
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to his experience as a shark fisherman. What, yeah, he's
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a shark fisherman. Is that a thing? Apparently? Mel says
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it is?
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Okay, Mel, listen, do people really sharkfish?
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Like? Is that a thing?
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I don't I don't know.
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I didn't google it. I didn't go into it. Not
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that important to the.
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Story, probably not, But you know what, I'm horrified on
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behalf of my shark lover brother.
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Yeah, did you should like, should I have said trigger warning?
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You're like, just to be clear, this trigger warning is
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being issued for yeah, a singular listener.
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Also, did anyone catch my tackle reference? Because fishing, I said,
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he started to tackle some of these big questions. You
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love how I have to point it out, like just
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in case no one gets it?
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Like, well, it definitely went straight overhead for me. Look
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at my reference, everybody and laugh. Okay, I think and laugh.
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He remembered an old trick from his shark fishing days
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involving life savers candy. So Mel attached the candy to
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some fishing line that he had on hand because you know,
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he was a shark fisherman, and he inserted it into
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his hole. Then, after letting out an entire reel of
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fishing line, which was fifteen hundred feet, he reeled it
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back up to see if it had dissolved, meaning there
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would be water down there. The Brave Lifesaver never felt
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as though it hit anything on its journey into the unknown,
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and it came back out completely dry and intact, so
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he didn't hit water after fifteen hundred feet. Well, okay,
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I think I need to look up where the water
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table is in that area, and then I might have questions.
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Yeah, I'm not sure that's not something I looked into. Well, yeah,
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that would be pretty I dug for this episode, but
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I dug in different spots. Yeah I say that. Yeah,
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Like now I dug different holes.
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Oh boy, oh boy.
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So next, Mel sent the fishing line down with a
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one pound weight and was determined to find the bottom.
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So obviously you'd want to wait down the line, so
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it's not just like blowing in the wind or whatever
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down there. When he'd come to the end of his
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line again fifteen hundred feet for each school, he'd tie
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on another spool, and so on and so forth, until
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eighty thousand feet of line had been lowered and still
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had not reached the bottom. That's about fifteen miles.
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Okay, So, like, does the other end come out like
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in China.
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Or who knows, what's the diameter of the earth. I
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don't know that that was literally exactly google it. Oh
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my god, what's the diameter of the earth. I don't
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like this answer, the Earth is actually flat. There is
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no diameter.
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I mean correct. Obviously, Historically I have been satisfied with
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any answer that the National Geographic Society offers me. I
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don't like this. I'd like them to check again. Can
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you double check your work please, that'd be great.
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Okay.
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So Earth's core is the very hot, very dense center
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of our planet. The ball shaped core lies beneath the cool,
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brittle crust and the solid or the mostly solid mantle.
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The core is found about twenty nine hundred kilometers or
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eighteen hundred miles below Earth's surface. Oh and has a
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radius of about thirty four one hundred eighty five kilometers
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or twenty one sixty five for miles.
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Okay, so we're like at feet right now.
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But I didn't. I saw the eighteen and I got
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roll scared. I was like mel is throat shit into
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the core of our planet. And I feel like that
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would explain a lot.
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But maybe you might be you never know, or do
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we find out at the end. I'm not going to
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tell you yet. So also, in all of this research,
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I learned something new that I didn't know before, which
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maybe I'm naive, But there are people out there that
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think the Earth is hollow. Come again, there are people
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hollow but think the Earth is hollow? Are are they?
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They're different than the flat earthers. They are different than
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the flat earthers.
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So do they think it's a sphere but it's hollow?
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They think it's hollow, and I haven't looked into it.
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I might do a little more because it's really weird
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to me, but I think they think like creatures live
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in the hollow Earth. Anyway, moving on, fun fact for you.
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The deepest known part of the Earth is the Mariana