Another Dimension? Time Portal? Another Planet? What's at the Bottom of Mel's Hole?

[Music]. on melwater's property in the manastash. Ridge West of Ellensburg Washington. there's a hole in the ground that looks. like a well but it's not a well like the. owners of the property before him Mel. used the hole as a trash dump his. neighbors used it too garbage broken. appliances old tires everything went. into the hole after a while Mel started. to wonder why doesn't it fill up and. then he started to notice other strange. things about the hole his dogs wouldn't. go near it it caused His Radio to pick.

up strange signals and it didn't seem to. have a bottom Mel's curiosity became an. obsession let's see if we can get to the. bottom of Mel's hole. foreign. Pitt nine feet nine inches in diameter. there's a stone retaining wall built. around it that goes down about 15 feet. after that the hole extends down into. darkness well not only did Mel Waters. and his wife dump everything in the hole. but so did his neighbors and this has.

been going on for a long time for years. before Mel even moved in Mel's neighbors. said they couldn't remember a time when. the hole wasn't there so why can't you. hear objects hitting the bottom why. can't you hear your own Echo Mel set out. to determine exactly how far down this. hole goes an avid fisherman Mel had. spools a fishing line on hand so he. attached a one pound weight to the line. and sent it down the hole it went 4 500. feet the full length of the Reel and. didn't hit bottom he reeled the line up. attached a roll of Lifesavers and set it.

all the way down again Mel wanted to see. if there was water at the bottom and if. there was the Lifesavers would come up. dissolved but they came up dry and Mel. had more spools of fishing line each one. five thousand feet he attached another. spool now down almost ten thousand feet. and still no bottom spool after spool of. fishing line went down the hole he could. not reach the Bottom by the time Mel ran. out of line he was eighty thousand feet. down over 15 miles and still no bottom. while experimenting Mel noticed that his.

dogs wouldn't come anywhere near the. hole even when forced the dogs would dig. their feet in there were no animals of. any kind near the hole no Wildlife no. insects birds even flew around it and. since the hull was known to his. neighbors Mel asked around if anyone. noticed their dogs feeling uneasy by the. hole they all said yes then one of his. neighbors said speaking of dogs not too. long ago his dog died so he threw its. body into the hole. a few days later that dog came back.

after Mel's neighbor threw his dead dog. into the hole why. why I don't know you can't bury it I. really I really don't know sometimes. humans are very disappointing they. certainly can be anyway a couple of days. after disposing of his dog's body down. the hole he saw it running through a. wooded area near the property that he. knew it was his dog because it was. wearing the same collar but for some. reason the dog didn't come when he. called the dog acted like he didn't know.

his owner at all oh maybe it's a version. of his dog From Another Dimension well. that's definitely a theory as the weird. stories piled up and the fishing line. kept going down Mel was at a loss he was. out of his depth. right Mel needed help figuring out. exactly what this hole was and in 1997. there's only one place to discuss the. strange and mysterious and be taken. seriously Coast to Coast AM with Art. Bell from the high desert and the Great.

American southwest by visual good. evening and or a good morning wherever. you may be across this great land of. ours Coast to Coast was on hundreds of. stations around the world and had 10. million listeners if anyone could help. Mel it was Art Bell and his audience Mel. sent art a message on February 21st 1997. art called him and Mel's Hall became. known to the world over the course of. several shows Mel Waters would reveal. more and more details about the. mysterious hole the good news is Mel was. getting really good advice from people. all around the world like use a laser to.

measure or use radar to check the. distance the bad news is now millions of. people knew about this hole and from. Clues given by Mel on the radio you can. get a pretty good idea of where it was. the day after the first broadcast. Mel was returning to his property but. the entrance was blocked the government. yep the U.S military was now aware of. the hole and they wanted it all to. themselves.

[Music]. uh after the show on Friday night it. went out there and uh and uh noticed uh. there were some some helicopter activity. around the property. those further helicopter activity the. next day. uh and so I figured that uh clearly. somebody out there listens to your. program all right Mill said that the. hole could affect things in the.

environment around it animals avoided it. but plants seem to grow extremely well. radios acted weird if Mel brought a. radio near the hole the signal would get. very staticky and then start picking up. broadcasts from somewhere else one day. His Radio started picking up what he. describes as old time music. so he goes to change the channel and. tunes into a baseball game. 's first baseman. [Applause]. until he learns the game was played in.

1967. 30 years ago Art's first call with. Mel goes on for about an hour and then. they wrap up Mel is staying in. Ellensburg for a couple of days and had. made the call from there when Mel Waters. returned from town the access road to. his property was blocked by armed. military personnel and there was. evidence that heavy machinery had been. brought in Mel was told there was a. plane crash on the property but there. was no report of a crash no fire no. smoke still Mel was told he couldn't. access the property until the crash was.

completely investigated when Mel asked. to speak to the person in charge a man. in civilian clothes told him that the. land was not necessarily his anymore and. it would be very easy to find a drug lab. on the property if he didn't leave Mel. threatened to go to the Press. The Man In Charge Man in Black the man. in Black told him go ahead and talk. nobody would believe it but Art Bell and. his audience would believe it and a few. days later art called Mel for an update. Mel said that a neighbor saw a dark beam.

coming out of the hole and up through. the clouds darker than anything he'd. ever seen now Mel admitted he didn't see. this himself but Art Bell and several. callers said that this part of. Washington has a lot of UFO sightings. disappearances and other Paranormal. Activity callers had their own theories. maybe the hole was sitting on a Ley line. and there was a portal to another. dimension or it was a portal through. time and that's why everything thrown. into it disappeared maybe somewhere in. an alternate reality there's a big pile.

of garbage old appliances and dead. animals just piling up who knows one. caller thought this could be a tunnel to. the hollow Earth oh like a subway for. lizard people. something like that there were a lot of. theories and since Bell couldn't access. his property anymore he talked to other. locals trying to get more information an. elderly neighbor said that many years. ago there was a series of stone columns. around the hole inch right but without. the cross beams which are called lintels. lentils lentils what I say.

someone from the audience reminded Mel. that calling into the show is a big. mistake because obviously the government. is listening so the show ends and Mel. agrees to come back for an update on the. day Mel is scheduled to reappear he's a. no-show and not picking up his phone. maybe my audience is not aware but a.

television crew. went up to Ellensburg after we did the. last program. and uh researched this and I'll be. doggone they didn't find the hole but. they did find uh near the area where you. were talking about a lot of military. Blueprints and all kinds of uh. information that would indicate military. in fact had been there or was there oh. they would have probably seen a lot of. yellow gear tread marks in the ground. it would be three years before Mel.

resurfaces he said he was offered three. million dollars a year to Lisa's. property to somebody but the deal was. sign a non-disclosure agreement leave. the country immediately and never come. back so Mel takes the deal and he lives. in Australia for two years but he's. missing his family and decides to come. back to the States for a visit not spot. it wasn't Mel was warned not to do this. but he does it anyway and during this. time he gets in touch with Art Bell and. agrees to come on the radio but he never.

shows up Mel said on the day he was. supposed to to come on he was on a bus. to visit his nephew and on the bus there. was some kind of altercation and the. police were called all the passengers. are questioned and put on a different. bus then no blacks out. and the next thing he remembers is that. he's in San Francisco and 12 days have. passed Mel woke up in an alley his. wallet and keys were missing he realizes.

his arm hurts he rolls up his sleeve and. there are needle holes and tape marks. from an IV and as he becomes more Lucid. he tastes blood in his mouth his back. teeth are missing Mel never makes it. back to the property there was legal. action taken against him for illegal. construction power lines septic tanks. paved roads of course he didn't build. these the government had occupied the. property for two years still Mel lost to. everything and a day or two after. calling into art show his bank account.

was emptied now to be fair plenty of. people are calling in saying that this. is all a hoax but Art Bell is the master. hoax or not it's a great story so he. lets Mel continue but art does say that. a TV crew was in the area looking for. the hole they didn't find it but they. did find evidence of a lot of military. activity and the no-fly zone has been. mysteriously expanded to cover the area. in fact Terra server which was a mapping. site before Google Earth showed that the. whole area was blacked out and this was.

confirmed skeptical callers said that. Mel could have found the blacked out. part of the map and pretended his. property was there the problem with that. is Terra server launched six months. after Mel made the first phone call he. couldn't have known soon we learned that. a Native American tribe had contacted. Mel and asked him if he wanted to come. to Nevada and help them research. research what another bottomless hole. [Music]. foreign.

they took you to it they took me there I. was I was not I did not go all the way. up at all but there was conversations. between uh the Native Americans and The. Basque and the blah blah blah and it. basically uh. uh agreed that you know everything was. as it should be that I wasn't you know. from CNN or the FBI or CIA right. whatever uh and so I went there and uh. uh I got to see the hole now what's.

there. the second hole wasn't located on the. Indian Reservation where they lived it. was actually on public land that was. used by Basques the baskar and ethnic. group that comes from a small region. between France and Spain The Basque. settled a couple of areas in the United. States including Nevada in the mid-1800s. they were using this land to herd sheep. they told Mal that the hole was there. for as long as their people were so at. least 200 years and they consider the. hole and the land around it sacred this.

hole was just over nine feet wide just. like Mel's but where Mel's hole had a. stone retaining wall of a few feet the. second hole had a metal collar and metal. lining down as far as the eye can see. and this hole was warm to the touch you. could feel heat all around it and the. metal wouldn't make any sound or vibrate. at all Mel accidentally dropped a tool. on the metal collar and the impact was. completely silent so Mel and The Basque. begin their experiments the first test.

was they lowered a bucket of ice down. into the hole about a thousand feet and. they kept some ice at the surface as a. control when the surface ice was melted. they brought the bucket back up that ice. didn't melt at all and even stranger the. ice was no longer cold to the touch and. it wasn't wet the ice felt like large. pieces of salt so they tried to melt the. ice over an open flame it didn't melt. did it nope it caught fire not only that. it continued to burn for months so they.

continued sending different amounts of. ice down the hole about two-thirds of. the time it melted normally but one. third of the time it was transformed at. this point one of the braver Basque. volunteered to go down the hole himself. what is he nuts yeah everyone agrees. that's not a good idea so they decided. to send down a sheep a sheep oh what. happened to the Sheep. oh no. [Music].

well I just felt I was in the presence. of something extraordinary something. Beyond extraordinary something like in. that category of having a religious. thing there this was just such a. stunning thing to witness the Sheep did. not want to go in the hole the closer it. got the more it tried to kick its way. out of its crate they lowered the crate. down the hole to one thousand feet at. that point it stopped moving they felt a. humming sensation they left the Sheep. down there for 30 minutes and then.

brought it back up there was no movement. the crate was unchanged and the Sheep. looked fine but it was dead The Basque. being Shepherds knew how to butcher a. sheep so they brought it to a table for. a quick autopsy oh fuck right now what. are they doing the first thing that they. noticed is that the Sheep looked like it. was cooked from the inside and taking up. almost the entire cavity of the Sheep's. body was what Mel described as a giant. tumor then the tumor starts moving what.

oh. this is intense then they cut the tumor. open no inside the tumor is what Mel. describes as. fetal seal wait wait did you just say a. fetal seal yeah like a baby seal it was. attached to the tumor by an umbilical. cord but this seal-like creature had the. eyes of a human they watched the. creature for a while as it crawled to. the end of the table and Mel felt like. it wanted to get back to the hole so he.

picked it up and set it near the edge of. course the creature was slimy and Mel. said that the fluid had the smell of. ozone so the men studied the creature. and it seemed to study the men for about. two hours then the seal creature gave. them a final look and jumped in the hole. now before Mel went to Nevada he was. diagnosed with Advanced esophageal. cancer he had only six months to live. but after this experience Mel was. cancer-free he thinks he was cured by.

the magic seal. yep Mel felt like he had a Transcendent. experience he was completely changed. after this and just then the radio show. runs out of time no. [Music]. no. across from me over here. is the actual roadway into Mel's hole. don't go up that road up their ways his. offense but uh you get across that fence.

here in that deep bunch of trouble it. might be that you simply disappear. period a few months later Mel returned. to Coast to Coast something crazy. happened with that bucket of ice. remember one of the basks took the. burning ice to his cabin to keep warm he. had it in a stove it burned for months. and it was pulling all the moisture out. of the air the air in the cabin was. always dry the owner's skin was always. dry he was constantly thirsty when. boiling water the steam would be pulled.

into the stove one day the stove crashed. through the floor and into the ground. under the cabin but it was still warm so. he patched up the floor and used the. hole for warmth a couple of weeks later. he's returning home and his entire cabin. has collapsed and turned to dust he. moves in with his brother for a while a. month later he comes back to the cabin. and sees that the stove is now five feet. underground and the hole made by the. stove was perfectly smooth it was making. a new baby bottomless hole it was and.

they couldn't get the stove back up it. took a giant crane to finally get the. stove out of the hole and at this point. the Basque said they were sometimes. visited by The Entity that they. discovered in the hole the magic seal. yes the magic seal. they felt it was a benevolent presence. and considered the whole experience to. be very spiritual there are now brightly. colored birds circling the hole birds. that seem to be immune to bullets that's. how they respond to a spiritual. experience shoot the birds I guess.

freaking bisque The Basque even believe. the magic seal is communicating with. them over the radio using a system of. beeps and clicks as language which they. can understand the creature warns the. bask that the ice is dangerous and can't. fall into the wrong hands and would lead. to the destruction of the planet art. asks if there is a recording of this. language there is the Basque recorded. everything for the next hour a few more. theories are considered and art finally.

gets Mel to agree to come back on the. show but this time he would bring the. recording photos video and everything he. can get his hands on Mel agrees to go. back to Nevada and gather all the. evidence he hangs up and the show ends. Mel is never heard from again he doesn't. respond to Art's calls and eventually. the line is disconnected so after five. years the story of Mel's hole finally. comes to an end but it left so many. questions. [Music].

there are a lot of Art Bell highlights. and Mel's hole is right near the top so. how much of the story can we confirm. first the location of the hole Terra. server did black out that part of. Washington but on Google Earth it showed. back up but if the military really had. taken over the property they would have. covered up the hole people have been. searching for it for years and of the. many locations I found there was one. that was really compelling this is the. Google Map. someone actually went to the location to.

see what was there these are the. pictures. during one of his phone calls Mel said. there were two old buildings on the. property and one of them eventually. collapsed under snow this fits the. description pretty well and also on the. property is this yep a hole about nine. feet wide with a stone retaining wall. exactly how Mel described now this. caused quite a stir online but the hole. turned out to be an old well and. definitely had a bottom if you search. the internet you'll find a lot of people.

claiming they found Mel's home they. haven't it's never been found at least. not yet as for Mel he's a complicated. character there's no record of a male or. Melvin Waters living in the area but. some have claimed he was using a. pseudonym to protect his identity that. makes sense now something that really. hurts The credibility of the story is. the lack of pictures in every call Art. asks for photographs but sometimes Mel. just doesn't think to take a picture he. forgets which is ridiculous another time.

he says cameras don't work near the hole. because of interference or he does have. pictures and recordings but they're not. handy so he'll send them when he can but. in Mel's defense he never plugs anything. even if this is a hoax he could have. made a fortune selling T-shirts books. phony photographs anything people would. buy that stuff just because it's cool I. would buy a Mel's whole t-shirt I went. to Mel's hole and all I got was this. magic seal fetus yeah that part of the. story was pretty wild and that's a.

common argument that Mel's story got. crazier and crazier and eventually he. just couldn't keep up with it so he. bailed on the hoax but he was pretty. consistent with the facts over five. years and Art Bell tried many many times. to trip him up and he couldn't do it now. the hole itself just isn't geologically. possible a whole many miles deep would. be unstable and collapse in on itself. unless it was a bottomless hole to. another dimension right unless it's that. but I don't think we'll ever know Mel's. hole has many Believers but I don't.

think art Bello is one of them but art. was an Entertainer and this is the type. of story that his listeners loved it's a. legend that people still talk about 30. years later but for me in this channel. this was a master class on how to. present an urban legend let the story. breathe but still challenge the. specifics explore the mystery but keep. it grounded be critical but. compassionate I try to approach topics. this way but very few others do a. channel that tells mysterious stories. without giving all the facts we'll get.

more clicks and it will get more. subscribers but that's a shame because. it's dishonest and you deserve better we. all do. foreign. thank you so much for hanging out with. me today my name is AJ that's hecklefish. this has been the y-files if you had fun. or learned anything do me a favor and. like subscribe comment and share today's. story was a request from you and if. you'd like to suggest a video go to the. yfiles.com tips special thanks to our.

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