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StOneD.aS.FuK
04-16-2006, 04:00 AM
A geological group who drilled a hole about 14.4 kilometers deep in the crust of the earth are saying that they heard human screams. Screams have been heard from the condemned souls from earth's deepest hole. Terrified scientists are afraid they have let loose the evil powers of hell up to the earth's surface.

today my bro showed me a recording as the mic went into the hole, it was played on an american radio station and as the mic went deeper into the earth you could hear a world of pain and screams. i thought nahh this is bullshit, but im starting to think it could be true. what if hell is below us? is it pretty logical as humans have never explored into the center of the earth and never will cause the conditions ar unbarable for humans.
also if there is a hell, where else would it be? heaven above, hell below.
as in below our own feet.......hear it for yourself, even scientists have been convinced. this is what the media dont want to to know!



We could hardly believe our own ears. We heard a human voice, screaming in pain. Even though one voice was discernible, we could hear thousands, perhaps millions, in the background, of suffering souls screaming. After this ghastly discovery, about half of the scientists quit because of fear. Hopefully, that which is down there will stay there,' Dr Azzacov added.



"As a communist I donâ??t believe in heaven or the Bible but as a scientist I now believe in hell," said Dr. Azzacove.


listen for yourself what the scientists have discovered...
http://amightywind.com/hell/audiofilelinks.htm

also cheak this out
http://amightywind.com/hell/testimonies.htm

type in hells hole in yahoo for more info

once you have, tell me what you think.

AcidFreak
04-16-2006, 04:06 AM
There's no way that could be true. Among many other things to be said, if hell were directly under our feet, wouldn't that mean heaven would be directly over our heads? We've explored space to a certain point, and heaven's nowhere to be found.

Its a Plant
04-16-2006, 04:06 AM
Wow, that is fucked up. That build-up to the broadcast was insane. I liked that guy's voice for some reason, too. I couldn't hear much, but a few spine-tingling screams caught my attention. Other than that, it sounded like a really busy mall, only in this case, a mall full of torture and pain?

I might have to rethink my beliefs on heaven / hell. Maybe not.

StOneD.aS.FuK
04-16-2006, 04:13 AM
im convinced, because thats JUST what i heard when a "demon" screamed into my ear while i was lying on my bed 3 nights after i really pissed off this evil spirit while using the oujia board. (ive explained this in the oujia board thread) it sounded just like that. looks like im doomed...

thebathroom
04-16-2006, 04:16 AM
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I'm sitting alone in the dark. I dunno if I wanna listen to that

slipknotpsycho
04-16-2006, 04:19 AM
i listened to it, that's absolutely nothing a 12 year old with a few minutes to spare and a recording of any busy place couldn't have done... if there really was people, tortured souls down there, dont' you think we would of had some more un-disputable proof, other then some recording? i mean come on seriously... this is the perfect christian cover-up... scientists too scared to go back down, tempatures too high to withstand, human or otherwise (sent a machine down there to back up or destroy the 'proof' and it would just be melted) this is exactly what i thought it was at first... just another way christians can re-assure themselves they haven't been lied to over all these years, becuase there is absolutely no way to prove or dis-prove any of it...

how anyone can be disturbed by that, just goes right over my head... i've seen 'footage of alien ships' that were made over 30-40 years ago, where you could even see string holding up this 'ship', and even that was more belieable then this..

Its a Plant
04-16-2006, 04:40 AM
I think I have to agree with that, slip. People are going to twist and turn this into exactly what they are looking for: more answers confirming that their faith isn't just a hoax.

slipknotpsycho
04-16-2006, 04:43 AM
i must say, i did go into it with an open mind (i had my doubts but i kept an open mind, and the guy talking did sound convincing if nothing else) but when i heard these supposed tortued souls, i was everything but convinced and terrified... i atleast expected something that sounded more 'real' ...

bedake
04-16-2006, 04:52 AM
.....Listen to some terrorcore music... or industrial hardcore its scary

LIP
04-16-2006, 11:29 AM
There's no way that could be true. Among many other things to be said, if hell were directly under our feet, wouldn't that mean heaven would be directly over our heads? We've explored space to a certain point, and heaven's nowhere to be found.

Even though i dont belive in heaven or hell, Heaven could ever easily be up there, its never ending, so we have only explored the smallest bit...

graph
04-16-2006, 11:42 AM
Hey, I was just reading about this on snopes...

http://www.snopes.com/religion/wellhell.htm

Though it's impossible to pinpoint when the news story about a well in Russia transformed into a story about scientists breaking into Hell or who was responsible for that transformation, we do know that in 1989 the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) aired a "Scientists Discover Hell" story and placed the event as happening in the Kola Peninsula. A Norwegian schoolteacher visiting California heard that broadcast and took the story back to Norway with him. He then mailed it to a Christian magazine in Finland. In the form of a letter from a reader, it reached a Finnish missionaries newsletter. From there it returned to the United States, reaching both the TBN people and other evangelists who then claimed they had gotten it from a respected Finnish scientific journal.


Call be GraphMan, the Urban Legends Debunker!

Wesley Pipes
04-16-2006, 03:20 PM
A geological group who drilled a hole about 14.4 kilometers deep in the crust of the earth are saying that they heard human screams. Screams have been heard from the condemned souls from earth's deepest hole. Terrified scientists are afraid they have let loose the evil powers of hell up to the earth's surface.

today my bro showed me a recording as the mic went into the hole, it was played on an american radio station and as the mic went deeper into the earth you could hear a world of pain and screams. i thought nahh this is bullshit, but im starting to think it could be true. what if hell is below us? is it pretty logical as humans have never explored into the center of the earth and never will cause the conditions ar unbarable for humans.
also if there is a hell, where else would it be? heaven above, hell below.
as in below our own feet.......hear it for yourself, even scientists have been convinced. this is what the media dont want to to know!








listen for yourself what the scientists have discovered...
http://amightywind.com/hell/audiofilelinks.htm

also cheak this out
http://amightywind.com/hell/testimonies.htm

type in hells hole in yahoo for more info

once you have, tell me what you think.
sounds like it would be a damn good movie lol

slipknotpsycho
04-16-2006, 03:28 PM
sounds like it would be a damn good movie lol
lol now that you mention it, it does sound like one of those made-for-tv 2 in the morning movies....

Wesley Pipes
04-16-2006, 03:39 PM
lol now that you mention it, it does sound like one of those made-for-tv 2 in the morning movies....
lol yeah good stuff lol :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :D :D :D :D :stoned:

Az.
04-16-2006, 05:03 PM
Even though i dont belive in heaven or hell, Heaven could ever easily be up there, its never ending, so we have only explored the smallest bit...

i just thought.....if it is never ending.....we havent actually explored any of it!
hahaha

halo
04-16-2006, 08:07 PM
That's a hoax. If you listen to it you can tell that its the same voices over and over again overlayed and stuff. Just some fancy computer editing.

Oneironaut
04-16-2006, 08:32 PM
Obviously it's crap. What kind of loving god would make a place like hell? A benevolent god running a torture camp in the center of the Earth where people are put into excruciating pain for all eternity as punishment for a finite number of immoral acts during their lifetimes, with no chance of forgiveness ever? The idea is absurd.

Besides, if hell is a real physical place we can get to by drilling into the Earth, then where is heaven? Outer space?

slipknotpsycho
04-16-2006, 09:06 PM
only question i have is, how did people 1000's of years ago know that the center of the earth was filled with fire? that part i can't quite understand. i'm sure most everyone here knows i'm strongly against christianity... but this per-plexes me... the only way i can just push it aside is to say "coincedence" but... that doesn't quite make the question go away...

Oneironaut
04-16-2006, 09:10 PM
I think they could have figured it out by looking at volcanoes and thinking about where the lava is coming from.

sToNeDpEnGuIn420
04-16-2006, 09:17 PM
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/d/drilltohellfacts.htm

meh read that and deciede for yourself. If this was real so much more would have happened, excavations on that site and what not. Yeah lol just read the thing im too lazy.

slipknotpsycho
04-16-2006, 09:17 PM
but still, people knew little of the world back then... i mean up until just a few hundred years ago people thought the world was flat...

Oneironaut
04-16-2006, 09:18 PM
Here's the Snopes page that debunks this hoax:
http://www.snopes.com/religion/wellhell.htm

Geologists working somewhere in remote Siberia had drilled a hole some 14.4 kilometers deep (about 9 miles) when the drill bit suddenly began to rotate wildly. A Mr. Azzacov (identified as the project's manager) was quoted as saying they decided that the center of the earth was hollow.

Supposedly, the geologists measured temperatures of over 2,000 degrees in the deep hole. They lowered super sensitive microphones to the bottom of the well, and to their astonishment they heard the sounds of thousands, perhaps millions, of suffering souls screaming.

Origins: This legend is quite popular among Christian groups as it "proves" Hell (and therefore God) exists. Popular endings to the story have it that the scientists ran screaming from the site, or that since the discovery conversions to Christianity are occurring at an unprecedented rate.

If there is a Hell under Siberia, scientists have yet to discover it. What we have here is an enthralling legend that's been spun off an actual event.

In 1984, an article about an experimental well in Russia's Kola Peninsula appeared in Scientific American. The Kola well reached 12 kilometers into the ground, where scientists encountered rare rock formations, flows of gas and water, and temperatures up to 180°. (That's 180°, folks, not the 2,000° usually reported in any "Scientists Discover Hell!" screed. It was hot, but it wasn't hellishly so.)

Those who did the actual drilling of this very real well did not break through to a hollow centre, and certainly no piteous screams of the damned were heard. That part — all of it — was pure embellishment added after this real event was turned into a legend. (Yes, we know that any number of web sites offer audio clips purporting to be the screams of the damned as recorded in the Well to Hell, and all of them sound like they could be the noise from a typical bar on a busy Friday evening.)

The report on the digging of that well and the difficulties encountered during the project were collided with someone's vision of what should have been found down there. A little exaggerating about depth and temperature, some fabrication about hollow centres and screams, and all of a sudden there was this great story to throw back at those who claim there is no God.

Though it's impossible to pinpoint when the news story about a well in Russia transformed into a story about scientists breaking into Hell or who was responsible for that transformation, we do know that in 1989 the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) aired a "Scientists Discover Hell" story and placed the event as happening in the Kola Peninsula. A Norwegian schoolteacher visiting California heard that broadcast and took the story back to Norway with him. He then mailed it to a Christian magazine in Finland. In the form of a letter from a reader, it reached a Finnish missionaries newsletter. From there it returned to the United States, reaching both the TBN people and other evangelists who then claimed they had gotten it from a respected Finnish scientific journal.

In the spring of 1990, the legend as we now know it appeared in both Praise The Lord (February) and Midnight Cry (April). Debunkings of it showed up in Christianity Today (July) and Biblical Archaeology Review (November). Even so, the Weekly World News ran the story in 1992, this time setting it in Alaska and claiming thirteen oil rig workers were killed when the Devil came roaring up out of the ground.

You can't beat that for embellishment.

Barbara "just a spoonful of auger helps the 'men has sinned' go down" Mikkelson

Krogith
04-16-2006, 09:33 PM
If you ask me the real question is why in every culture thurout Time are there Dragon's and/or talking about dragons. Even in the bible it talks about dragons. All cultures English , Chinese, Mia etc. have discriptions of dragons all simular ( serpant, fly, scales, fire breath) Why?:smokin:

Oneironaut
04-16-2006, 09:34 PM
but still, people knew little of the world back then... i mean up until just a few hundred years ago people thought the world was flat...
Actually, that's not true. People have known since the ancient Greeks that the earth was round. Eratosthenes even calculated the size of the earth with only a 2% error. As for the few people who did think the earth was flat, it was only because the evidence was hard for them to see. But I think anybody who's seen a volcano will conclude that it the lava had to come from some really hot place deep below the ground.

BobBong
04-16-2006, 09:37 PM
Here's the Snopes page that debunks this hoax:
http://www.snopes.com/religion/wellhell.htm


Origins: This legend is quite popular among Christian groups as it "proves" Hell (and therefore God) exists. Popular endings to the story have it that the scientists ran screaming from the site, or that since the discovery conversions to Christianity are occurring at an unprecedented rate.

If there is a Hell under Siberia, scientists have yet to discover it. What we have here is an enthralling legend that's been spun off an actual event.

In 1984, an article about an experimental well in Russia's Kola Peninsula appeared in Scientific American. The Kola well reached 12 kilometers into the ground, where scientists encountered rare rock formations, flows of gas and water, and temperatures up to 180°. (That's 180°, folks, not the 2,000° usually reported in any "Scientists Discover Hell!" screed. It was hot, but it wasn't hellishly so.)

Those who did the actual drilling of this very real well did not break through to a hollow centre, and certainly no piteous screams of the damned were heard. That part â?? all of it â?? was pure embellishment added after this real event was turned into a legend. (Yes, we know that any number of web sites offer audio clips purporting to be the screams of the damned as recorded in the Well to Hell, and all of them sound like they could be the noise from a typical bar on a busy Friday evening.)

The report on the digging of that well and the difficulties encountered during the project were collided with someone's vision of what should have been found down there. A little exaggerating about depth and temperature, some fabrication about hollow centres and screams, and all of a sudden there was this great story to throw back at those who claim there is no God.

Though it's impossible to pinpoint when the news story about a well in Russia transformed into a story about scientists breaking into Hell or who was responsible for that transformation, we do know that in 1989 the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) aired a "Scientists Discover Hell" story and placed the event as happening in the Kola Peninsula. A Norwegian schoolteacher visiting California heard that broadcast and took the story back to Norway with him. He then mailed it to a Christian magazine in Finland. In the form of a letter from a reader, it reached a Finnish missionaries newsletter. From there it returned to the United States, reaching both the TBN people and other evangelists who then claimed they had gotten it from a respected Finnish scientific journal.

In the spring of 1990, the legend as we now know it appeared in both Praise The Lord (February) and Midnight Cry (April). Debunkings of it showed up in Christianity Today (July) and Biblical Archaeology Review (November). Even so, the Weekly World News ran the story in 1992, this time setting it in Alaska and claiming thirteen oil rig workers were killed when the Devil came roaring up out of the ground.

You can't beat that for embellishment.

Barbara "just a spoonful of auger helps the 'men has sinned' go down" Mikkelson

hahah owned. just goes to prove how gullible people really are.

slipknotpsycho
04-16-2006, 09:37 PM
Actually, that's not true. Even the ancient Greeks knew the earth was round. Eratosthenes even calculated the size of the earth with only a 2% error. As for the few people who did think the earth was flat, it was only because the evidence was hard for them to see. But I think anybody who's seen a volcano will conclude that it the lava had to come from some really hot place deep below the ground.
ok i guess that makes sense... i don't have a very large base of knowledge from that long ago, i just know the basic history you're forced to learn in school.. so i had thought that they thought the world was flat... never knew the greeks were smarter then that... so i guess tha'ts a logical asnwer..

BobBong
04-16-2006, 09:44 PM
If you ask me the real question is why in every culture thurout Time are there Dragon's and/or talking about dragons. Even in the bible it talks about dragons. All cultures English , Chinese, Mia etc. have discriptions of dragons all simular ( serpant, fly, scales, fire breath) Why?:smokin:


i answer your question with a question then.. why is it we've been able to find fossils and dinosaur bones from millions of years ago.. full skeletons.. and yet not a single shred of evidence has proved that "dragons" exsisted.

Simple. The same reason a unicorn skeleton never will be found.. they're mythical creatures.

Krogith
04-16-2006, 09:53 PM
There wings are made of a cartalige lol i don;t know just strange even some rock drawings have dragons in em. Or they could be to fradgle to fosslise:smokin: We find new stuff all the time

slipknotpsycho
04-16-2006, 09:58 PM
i answer your question with a question then.. why is it we've been able to find fossils and dinosaur bones from millions of years ago.. full skeletons.. and yet not a single shred of evidence has proved that "dragons" exsisted.

Simple. The same reason a unicorn skeleton never will be found.. they're mythical creatures.
i'm not usually a 'what if' person, but i want to put out some insight... dragons, from what i've known are roughly the size of dinosaurs... for all anyone knows, they've just been mistaken as some type of large dinosaur, and every few years for awhile back they were finding new and new dinosaurs, that they never even knew existed before, who's to say we just haven't found them, yet?

then again, maybe for along time dragons were just a representation of satan? or something of the like, a myth to scare people into being good people... think about it, some all powerful angel-demon that can torture for ever, is just about as menancing as something 20x your size with razor sharp teeth, claws, can fly and shoot fire out of it's mouth..

BobBong
04-16-2006, 10:11 PM
i'm not usually a 'what if' person, but i want to put out some insight... dragons, from what i've known are roughly the size of dinosaurs... for all anyone knows, they've just been mistaken as some type of large dinosaur, and every few years for awhile back they were finding new and new dinosaurs, that they never even knew existed before, who's to say we just haven't found them, yet?

then again, maybe for along time dragons were just a representation of satan? or something of the like, a myth to scare people into being good people... think about it, some all powerful angel-demon that can torture for ever, is just about as menancing as something 20x your size with razor sharp teeth, claws, can fly and shoot fire out of it's mouth..

Yea,new species of dinosaurs are discorved quite often.. but nothing close to a winged two legged creature that breathes fire....the whole fire breathing thing makes it painfully obvious that dragons are no more than an embellished version of the dinosaur. what puts me off believing that dragons exsisted in the sense that they are presented is the fact that no evidence can be provided to prove the claims. What about cyclopes? unicorns? trolls? lepricons? vampires? warewolves? all these things have been written about and presented as possible historical events...so why do so few people believe it?
so like slip says... " a myth to scare people "

God v2.0
04-16-2006, 10:20 PM
ok i guess that makes sense... i don't have a very large base of knowledge from that long ago, i just know the basic history you're forced to learn in school.. so i had thought that they thought the world was flat... never knew the greeks were smarter then that... so i guess tha'ts a logical asnwer..

You think the fact they knew the world was round back then is smart think about the fucking Veda's there is a basic theory of relitivity in them. Think about that.

God v2.0
04-16-2006, 10:23 PM
oh, and the veda's are over 4000 years old, before the fucking pyramids were built. I really think that humanity has an incredibly large amount of alien influence in its history, but thats my lame ass fantasy. I bet that reality is much more complicated than we can ever hope to understand.

NightProwler
04-16-2006, 10:25 PM
fuck hell.

Krogith
04-16-2006, 10:37 PM
1.st of all or arguement solved it self more than likely dragons were old world explanations of dinosours 2.ed cyclopses are from elephant bones and/or wolly ones , unicorns of course are an abstract of hourse and all these trolls, lepercons are abiously from abstraction of peoples defects such as midgets and big ugly people with elephantightus. 3.rd your missing my point pass what your creaters have and thats just the fact that all cultures have a very simular form of dragon and thats Strange. Throughout History Dragons are there thats Strange :smokin:

psychocat
04-16-2006, 10:42 PM
A geological group who drilled a hole about 14.4 kilometers deep in the crust of the earth are saying that they heard human screams. Screams have been heard from the condemned souls from earth's deepest hole. Terrified scientists are afraid they have let loose the evil powers of hell up to the earth's surface.

today my bro showed me a recording as the mic went into the hole, it was played on an american radio station and as the mic went deeper into the earth you could hear a world of pain and screams. i thought nahh this is bullshit, but im starting to think it could be true. what if hell is below us? is it pretty logical as humans have never explored into the center of the earth and never will cause the conditions ar unbarable for humans.
also if there is a hell, where else would it be? heaven above, hell below.
as in below our own feet.......hear it for yourself, even scientists have been convinced. this is what the media dont want to to know!
listen for yourself what the scientists have discovered...
http://amightywind.com/hell/audiofilelinks.htm

also cheak this out
http://amightywind.com/hell/testimonies.htm

type in hells hole in yahoo for more info

once you have, tell me what you think.


I want some of the drugs these fuckers are on.:thumbsup: :cool:

BobBong
04-16-2006, 10:52 PM
1.st of all or arguement solved it self more than likely dragons were old world explanations of dinosours 2.ed cyclopses are from elephant bones and/or wolly ones , unicorns of course are an abstract of hourse and all these trolls, lepercons are abiously from abstraction of peoples defects such as midgets and big ugly people with elephantightus. 3.rd your missing my point pass what your creaters have and thats just the fact that all cultures have a very simular form of dragon and thats Strange. Throughout History Dragons are there thats Strange :smokin:

you obviously haven't a clue what you're talking about.. as non of that was even remotely accurate... The reason you see dragons through history is simply because these dragon like creatures (otherwise known as Dinosaurs,Corcodiles and Komono Dragons to us) have exsisted for millions of years...and it's been proven. because they've found physical evidence of these creatures...until Dennis Quaid comes swooping in on DragonHeart's backside,or actual physical evidence is present.. dragons will always be a Myth to me.

Just like, Jesus.

Oneironaut
04-16-2006, 10:59 PM
If dragons are supposed to be dinosaurs who lived alongside mankind, why don't we ever find any dinosaur fossils dating from the past few thousand years? Why are they always tens or millions of years old, much older than the oldest humans? Why are European dragons depicted with wings most of the time but Chinese dragons never are?

BobBong
04-16-2006, 11:05 PM
If dragons are supposed to be dinosaurs who lived alongside mankind, why don't we ever find any dinosaur fossils dating from the past few thousand years? Why are they always tens or millions of years old, much older than the oldest humans? Why are European dragons depicted with wings most of the time but Chinese dragons never are?

That's right! Bingo Bango Bullshit was her Name-o... Mythical creatures have exsisted for thousands of years for this specific reason, to make people believe utterly ridiculous things.

Krogith
04-16-2006, 11:09 PM
But i got a bong packed and bob marly came on radio , you win dragon idea........:smokin: almost cali 420 to!

eddievanzant
04-16-2006, 11:38 PM
You really shouldn't pay attention to chain e-mail letters.

slipknotpsycho
04-17-2006, 12:02 AM
may i state that i don't believe in dragons, i was bored out of my mind and wanted to provoke a more indepth response then "i said so, so there, if you don't like it stfu cuz i'm right and you're wrong"... but i'm high now so i don't care... i finally got what i been waiting for all weekend...

Divo
04-17-2006, 12:03 AM
well they do say that god and the devil will fight but god will win and the whole hell will be destroyed including earth during the final days

Funkamander
04-17-2006, 12:27 AM
Personally, I take a different approach.

I don't give a fuck.

For all we know, dragons could've been walking around blasting dragon-rap cappin' bitches long before the gangstas. Or, they could've not existed at all.

What I DO know is that COUNTLESS times throughout history civilizations will change history to suit it's own needs. So fuck it. I don't give a fuck. If it was recorded over 200 years ago, I'm just gonna deny it happened at all. Actually, fuck that too. I'm just gonna say The Universe started 200 years ago. And I'm gonna do it like a Christian. Deny any and all evidence against it.

Fuck dragons, Jesus, and your great-great-great-great grandparents. None of them ever existed.

graph
04-17-2006, 12:30 AM
Here's the Snopes page that debunks this hoax:
http://www.snopes.com/religion/wellhell.htm


Origins: This legend is quite popular among Christian groups as it "proves" Hell (and therefore God) exists. Popular endings to the story have it that the scientists ran screaming from the site, or that since the discovery conversions to Christianity are occurring at an unprecedented rate.

If there is a Hell under Siberia, scientists have yet to discover it. What we have here is an enthralling legend that's been spun off an actual event.

In 1984, an article about an experimental well in Russia's Kola Peninsula appeared in Scientific American. The Kola well reached 12 kilometers into the ground, where scientists encountered rare rock formations, flows of gas and water, and temperatures up to 180°. (That's 180°, folks, not the 2,000° usually reported in any "Scientists Discover Hell!" screed. It was hot, but it wasn't hellishly so.)

Those who did the actual drilling of this very real well did not break through to a hollow centre, and certainly no piteous screams of the damned were heard. That part â?? all of it â?? was pure embellishment added after this real event was turned into a legend. (Yes, we know that any number of web sites offer audio clips purporting to be the screams of the damned as recorded in the Well to Hell, and all of them sound like they could be the noise from a typical bar on a busy Friday evening.)

The report on the digging of that well and the difficulties encountered during the project were collided with someone's vision of what should have been found down there. A little exaggerating about depth and temperature, some fabrication about hollow centres and screams, and all of a sudden there was this great story to throw back at those who claim there is no God.

Though it's impossible to pinpoint when the news story about a well in Russia transformed into a story about scientists breaking into Hell or who was responsible for that transformation, we do know that in 1989 the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) aired a "Scientists Discover Hell" story and placed the event as happening in the Kola Peninsula. A Norwegian schoolteacher visiting California heard that broadcast and took the story back to Norway with him. He then mailed it to a Christian magazine in Finland. In the form of a letter from a reader, it reached a Finnish missionaries newsletter. From there it returned to the United States, reaching both the TBN people and other evangelists who then claimed they had gotten it from a respected Finnish scientific journal.

In the spring of 1990, the legend as we now know it appeared in both Praise The Lord (February) and Midnight Cry (April). Debunkings of it showed up in Christianity Today (July) and Biblical Archaeology Review (November). Even so, the Weekly World News ran the story in 1992, this time setting it in Alaska and claiming thirteen oil rig workers were killed when the Devil came roaring up out of the ground.

You can't beat that for embellishment.

Barbara "just a spoonful of auger helps the 'men has sinned' go down" Mikkelson

You didn't, by any chance, see that I posted that before, did you?

I feel like no one even reads my posts...

Oneironaut
04-17-2006, 12:34 AM
Hmm, seems you did. I skip over a lot of posts. So sue me. :p