What’s at the Bottom of the Deepest Hole on Earth?

Question: What is the highest mountain on Earth? You like me? Almost everyone watching says: Mount Everest. Oh, give yourself a point, now let's ask the opposite. What is the

deepest

hole

on Earth? Some smart Alexes among you might be saying the Mariana Trench, but that's wrong, it exists. a

hole

so deep that it exceeds the

deepest

depth of the famous Mariana Trench and surprisingly was dug by humans, yet

what

they found at the

bottom

no one expected

what

they found. How deep was it and how deep have we dug before? Me as we take a terrifying look at some of the deepest holes on Earth and what's at the

bottom

of them.

Chand Bowry when you think about what the Earth's deepest holes look like from the surface. I bet you imagine a jagged circular gap cutting through the bark leading into impenetrable darkness and doom, but that's not always the case, take Chond Bowy for example, which is located in Rajasthan, eastern India, this It is not a simple circular cavity that cuts through the Earth, but a complex stepwell, if you didn't know, stepwells are Wells with a long corridor of descending steps that descend to the water level. This particular stepwell built during the 8th century provided the areas around Rajasthan with a reliable water source centuries before modern water supply systems were introduced.

Chand Bowy is the deepest stepwell. throughout the world in all its amazing structure consists of 3500 narrow steps that cascade 13 stories built 100 feet below those steps are equivalent to about five giraffes stacked on top of each other what is the reward for braving the colossal descent through stagnant water of delicious murky green color still, worth it just for the view, which is not something that can be said often: you know, a big hole, the Yamal hole, not all deep holes are the result of constructions made by the man, however, helicopter pilots flying over the Yal Peninsula and the Siberian Desert were What was greeted by this puzzling site in 2014 is that it will give anyone goosebumps this perfectly circular hole stretches 66 feet wide and has a terrifying drop of 170 tons.

The question is why did a giant hole open here? Conspiracy theorists pointed to everything from meteorites to missing missiles. and even aliens, yet scientists seem to think that this curious cavity may have been formed by a Pingo, no, not him. A Pingo forms when a layer of frozen soil is pushed up by water that manages to flow beneath it. As the water freezes, it expands to create a warming temperature of the mound causing the mound to melt and collapse. , leaving behind this enormous and disturbing crater. Another theory is that as the ground warms, underground ice formations may melt, which could release methane gases that make their way to the surface before exploding and causing giant craters like this, whatever the cause. of this gigantic alien hole or else, one thing is for sure: you don't want to fall through it.

Montello Dam Spillway Now it is not only our

earth

that is full of huge and mysterious holes, these holes can also be found in the world. Waters like this, at first glance, you may think this is a huge magical vortex that will transport you to some marine dimension, but unfortunately it is not as glamorous as the fact that this waterhole is actually a spillway. Spillways are basically overflow drains that ensure that when the water in the reservoir reaches a certain point, the excess water flows into the spillway instead of over the dam, which could cause damage to the structure of the dam itself.

When the Montello Dam in California reaches capacity, its circular spillway channels are irrigated at a rate of 48,800 cubic feet per second. That's more than half the water that makes up an Olympic-sized swimming pool, as the spillway itself is a daunting 200 feet deep, making it as deep as the height of an 18-story building, even if it had wings. that you wouldn't want to get close to the oh uh, I'm sure it's okay, unfortunately the temptation to take a dip here was not only too great for the bird, but also for a woman named Emily Schallen who in 1997 decided to swim near the spillway before of being trapped.

In the powerful current it created, it somehow managed to hold on to the edge for about 20 minutes, but was eventually sucked in and sadly did not survive, so these holes are not only disconcerting to look at, but they are also literally a man and A bird. eaters Devil's Sinkhole in the Texas Desert 14,400 miles southeast of that ominous spillway you'll find another haunting hole, except this one is much drier. Explorer Aan Billings first discovered this sinkhole in 1867 and was so scared by what he saw before. He referred to it as the devil's own sinkhole, and to be fair, that's a pretty apt name for the hole.

The main cavern is a circular structure 65 feet wide and drops to a height of 350 feet deep, meaning you could fit the Statue of Liberty at its base. and all and I still have 40 feet to spare if that wasn't diabolical enough, the sinkhole is also home to 3 million Mexican free-tailed bats that nest in the cave walls, while the devil himself would be proud of this sinkhole , he didn't make it. It is actually the result of a natural process that began about 1 million years ago when slow-moving acidic groundwater carved a huge cavity in the limestone here when the water table fell, the water that once supported the roof of The cavern drained away leaving the cave roof to create this incredible formation, although it may not be the work of the devil's hands, this sinkhole is definitely a hellhole, speaking of hellholes, which leads us to our next spooky cavity that is Located in the desert landscape of Al Mahara in eastern Yemen, here the land stretches for miles until it reaches this strange circle that appears to have been cut into the landscape known as The Pit of Hell.

This vast void is nearly 100 feet wide and a staggering 367 feet deep, if that doesn't have you scrambling. Back, those brave enough to approach the hole report that a foul, almost unbearable stench wafts from below. It is so pervasive that local LEDs suggest that the pit of hell was created as a prison for demons. Despite those lurid claims, a team of 10 daring explorers set out. They went down the hole to find out what exactly was at the bottom, they didn't find any demons, but they did find waterfalls, stalagmites, cave pearls, snakes and birds, not the living kind, although maybe that's what was responsible for the horrible aroma.

One thing is for sure, although this hole was not formed for the purpose of housing evil spirits, no, it is just an ordinary sinkhole, okay, so it is not a demon prison, but considering that it is the home of bad smells, birds dead people and scary snakes, I'm still not very interested. As you fall through this huge hole, the Big Blue Hole, as we have seen with the Montello Dam spillway, huge holes can pierce the water and

earth

, but while that spillway is located in a dam, others create large voids in middle of the sea for example, the AP called the Great Blue Hole, this hole was found 40 miles off the coast of Biz and was formed about 15,000 years ago.

This sea hole was once a limestone cave system found on dry land when sea levels were lower; Over time, acid rain reacted with the limestone causing it to dissolve and the roof of the cave to collapse, then as the sea level rose again, the cave system began to flood creating what is now the Great Blue Hole. . In total, the Great Blue Hole is a staggering 1.43 feet wide and falls from a harrowing height. 407 feet, which is much deeper than the surrounding water, so it is a much darker color than the surrounding water, making it emerge from the sea, but it's not just the dizzying depths that you need to take into account, considering that this place used to be a cave.

The sinkhole is full of deer and stalagmites. It is also home to a wide variety of marine life, from Caribbean reef sharks to eagle rays and even ferocious barracudas. It's safe to say that it's not a place you want to find yourself at the bottom for several reasons why the big hole, if you thought a 400 ton drop was too far away, you haven't seen anything yet located in Kimberly, South Africa, this It is the Kimberly Diamond Mine, even more appropriately called the Big Hole, this chasm is enormous, so enormous that it stretches over 1,500 feet wide and drops 705 feet deep below the water line.

The question is what. makes such a huge sunken hole in the middle of the South African countryside Well, it turns out that back in 1871 diamonds were found at the site Light a diamond Rushing to the area just a year after the discovery of the diamond, the population of diggers grew to 50,000 unfortunately, a As the excavation progressed, many men met their ends in mining accidents, while unsanitary conditions, lack of food and water, and intense summer heat also wiped out much of the excavating population in 1914 after untold losses ceased. of workers, excavation at the mine ceased, but it was not all doom and gloom, at that time more than 22 million tons of rock had been excavated, producing 31 tons of diamonds for context, that is the weight of four African elephants.

No wonder the hole was so big after it was abandoned and the big pumps that kept all the groundwater in the Bay were turned off. It was allowed to collect water from the ground and rain and began to accumulate what is now 130 feet of picturesque looking turquoise water, however, that 100 tons of height is steep. The sides are almost impossible to climb because of how pretty it is, I wouldn't recommend jumping there, well not if you ever want to get out of the Dragon Hole, although the big hole surpasses the Great Blue Hole in terms of depth, there is a Sea Cavern that sinks even further.

Lower than the South African diamond mine, this is the dragon hole located in the South China Sea. It is the deepest blue hole in the world, with a staggering depth of 987 feet, making it exactly as deep as China's Kong Tower. It is as tall as the Great Blue Hole. This would have formed as a result of water erosion into the limestone, causing the roof of the cave to collapse and then, as the sea level rose, the Blue Hole emerged according to local legend. The Dragon Hole is where the Monkey King from the famous Chinese novel Journey to the West acquired his famous golden cave from an underwater kingdom ruled by a dragon, unfortunately it does not appear that this large blue hole is actually ruled by a dragon deity, although this place It is home to some marine mysteries, the upper part of the dragon hole is home to at least 20 species of fish, but below depths of 300 feet practically nothing exists, this is because the dragon hole does not have open caves that let the fish in. ocean tides, resulting in isolated, stagnant deep waters that lack oxygen and without oxygen there is no life.

The dragon hole is terrifying by name and even more terrifying by nature. Wooding Dean Well located on a sidewalk in the center of Brighton, England, you will find this small structure discreet but as modest as it appears at first glance. This is actually the site of the Wooding Dean Water. Well, the world's deepest hand-dug well in total, this massive well sinks, seriously, get ready for this 1,285 feet, which means it's deeper than the height of the Empire State Building, excluding its antenna, so, What exactly is such a big hole doing in the middle of a? Work on a sidewalk well began on this well in 1858, back then it was dug to provide water to a nearby workhouse in exchange for food and a bed.

The residents of the asylum were expected to dig the well. It was a task that was carried out day and night for 4 years with only the light of a candle to dig, can you imagine going up and down a shaft-sized Empire State Building every day with only a flicker of light to show you where you were going? Finally, after four grueling years, the workers finally found water. That that hard work was worth it, no, despite the enormous cost, enormous effort and the promise that the well would save the city of Fortune in water rates. The Dean Well was only used for 4 years before being abandoned in favor of a more practical water supply.

Okay, if I had been one of those workers who had done everything possible not to jump into the well after that simple well of mine, maybe you wouldn't have assumed that Wooding Dean Well was a deep drop at first glance, the same may be true. It should be said about the mine, this open pit diamond mine inSiberia has a diameter that stretches 3900 feet wide and when it comes to depth, the Mir Mine falls to a whopping height of 1722 feet, as the name suggests, this site was once an open pit mine according to Soviet geologists. Diamond deposits were discovered in the area in 1957.

Mining began, but it was not an easy task as it was located in Siberia, where average winter temperatures dropped to -70°F. The ground was covered with a rigid permafrost to traverse. Workers had to use jet engines to thaw the ground despite difficulties excavating Me Mine quickly became the largest diamond mine in the Soviet Union, producing more than 2 tons of kimberlite diamond per year in the decade Since 1960, mining operations continued until 2017, when flooding made the mine too dangerous to use, but this place is not only a danger to those working inside it, it is also a threat to planes flying above. .

It seems crazy, but apparently the Earth warms the air within the depths of the hole compared to the freezing temperature on the surface. The hot air inside the hole rises while the cold air rises. around it sinks such a large temperature difference between the air inside the pit and the air on the surface results in a deadly vortex capable of dragging aircraft into the abyss, although there have been no recorded accounts of this actually happening, man alive, I'm going to If you have nightmares about this huge hole, the Berkeley shaft is almost 5,000 m away from the Mir mine, there is an even deeper shaft located in Montana, but you will find the Burk shaft, a former copper mine a open pit that operated from 1955 to 1982, at that time around one billion.

Tons of copper, silver, and gold were mined from the site, considering the amount of material mined from this place, it's no surprise there's a pretty big hole here in all of Berkeley. The pit spans an entire mile wide and half a mile wide as it falls from an astonishing height. 1,780 feet, meaning One World Trade Center could fit here. In fact, this hole is so mind-blowingly large that it can even be seen from orbit in space because the well is so deep that groundwater has now seeped into the empty hole filling it with 900 feet of water, but it is not known. treats any water due to the presence. of sulfuric acid that is extracted from exposed rocks, the water has an acidity of 2.5 pH as a reference, which is as acidic as lemon juice, but it is not only acidic, it also has a high concentration of metals.

It contains more than 70,000 parts of copper per billion more than 50 times. higher than the human drinking water standard, in fact this water is so toxic that in 1995 a flock of migrating geese died after landing at the Berkeley Pit's Waters Laboratory. The test shows that the birds' insides were covered in Burns and Soares due to exposure to high concentrations of Since then efforts have been made to purify the water and make it safe for wildlife, but still, canonically, Montana was a once home to the world's largest toxic pit, which looks like, uh, let's be fair to the shoi tenen Kung brand, anyone who walks through the In the beautiful mountainous landscape of Quang Chin, in southwest China, you can expect to see kilometers of lush green hills and for the most part, in the middle of this Emerald Abyss lies this colossal circular cavity, from above it might look like a huge alien footprint, but this is in fact, oh here we go, shojai Tien Kung , the deepest sinkhole in the world and, the hardest thing to pronounce if you're not a native, at least I tried this huge hole that gradually formed due to the flow of water carving out underground cave systems.

Over time, the underground cavities became larger and larger until the ceiling of the cave collapsed in on itself, resulting in this sinkhole, and as sinkholes go, shojai tenen Kung is huge to begin with, measuring 2.54 feet long and 17.62 feet wide, on top of that, this place drops 2,172 feet deep, more than twice as deep as the tallest skyscraper in the UK. The Shard is tall overall. Some 1,285 species of flora and fauna are found here, including the rare Geno plant, the elusive clouded leopard and the 6-ton long Chinese giant salamander. It's safe to say it's huge. The hole is giving me a sinking feeling Bingham Canyon Mine Much of the landscape in the rural region southwest of Utah's Salt Lake City is dominated by tall mountain peaks, but not everything you see here is also home to The Bingham Canyon Mine, the deepest open pit mine in the world, the mine has been in production since 1906, since then it has produced about 19 million tons of copper more than any other mine in history, even today The mine is still in use, employing 2,000 workers and excavating some 450,000 tonnes of material each day.

You can imagine how much excavation has made the Bingham Canyon mine enormous: it stretches 2 and a half miles wide and a colossal depth of 3,960 feet which is more than 8 times the height of the Great Pyramid of Giza and considering that the excavations here they will continue until 2032. It won't be long until this well becomes even wider and deeper. Holy Moly Veryovkina Cave, while you can see the Bingham Canyon mine from high in the sky, the same is not true for an even deeper hole hidden in the lush mountain landscape of Abazia. Georgia, you may not even notice this small 10 x 13 foot opening, but this small shaft is actually the entrance to Viovia Cave, the deepest known cavern in the world.

The cave was initially discovered in 1968 by spelunkers who reached a depth of 377 feet, but that's just the tip of this cavernous iceberg. Explorations have continued since then and spelunkers have found untold new depths here. In 2023, a team of explorers descended to a staggering 7,293 feet, meaning this place is almost twice as deep as the giant Bingham Canyon mine. The descent that requires cavers to spend four grueling days scaling walls and squeezing through tremendously narrow spaces to reach the bottom sounds impressive, but can you imagine how exhausting it would be to spend 8 days climbing up and down this place true to its name?

This cave is a deep Chasm Ice Cube otter observatory in a region even more remote than the desolate Abassian Mountains. You'll find the Ice Cube Nutrient Observatory and no, before you ask, scientists are not monitoring an oversized ice cube. Instead, this Observatory found at the Ammidon Scott South Pole station in Antarctica is designed to study neutrinos. Neutrinos are small massless and chargeless particles that rarely interact with other particles, making them almost impossible to detect, although occasionally neutrinos react with water molecules in ice and this is where the ice cube forms. . The Neutrino Observatory enters using a hot water drill. 86 holes ranging at depths between 4,750 and 8,000 feet were dug into the ice for reference.

The deepest of those holes is almost six times the height of the Willis Tower. A vertical string was placed in each hole with each string holding 60 light sensors. These light sensors were then used to detect any blue light emitted by neutrinos, allowing scientists to infer the presence and properties of neutrinos. In 2013, just 3 years into the project, Ice Cube detected 37 neutrinos that originated outside our solar system. system man who knew that he could detect these alien atoms and thought that all he needed was to drill 86 huge holes in the Antarctic ice sheet. Mel's hole, but the world's deepest holes aren't always found in desolate places or so it seemed in February 1997.

A man who identified himself as Mel Waters called the AM radio station Coast to Coast. Waters claimed that he owned property near Ellensburg, Washington, that contained a mysterious hole. According to Waters, the hole was of an unknown depth, he claimed after using 880,000 feet of fishing line that was tied to a weight that had not yet hit the bottom, that meant the Burge Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, could fit inside. of this abyss 30 times more than wowa, but the depth is not the only crazy thing about Mel's hole. Waters also claimed that the chm had magical powers apparently a neighbor's dead dog had been discovered alive some time after it was thrown into the hole uhhuh Waters said that because of all the supposed magical properties, US federal agents confiscated their land and financed their move to Australia, but that sounds crazy to online conspiracy theorists. noted that the hole is near the Yakama Training Center, a US Army training base, who knows that perhaps the hole is home to some secret government extraterrestrial activity, although geologists say a hole so big can't exist, something so deep would collapse in on itself due to the tremendous pressure and heat of the surrounding strata, it's fair to say there are some holes in Mel's story.

Cola's super deep hole, while Mel's hole seems pretty baseless, literally what is the real deepest hole in the world? Well, the answer lies in the Cola Peninsula. remote region of northwestern Russia, this is the site of the super deep tailhole, the deepest recorded hole in the world, although you wouldn't guess it from how it looks from the surface, yes, that's right, the deepest hole of the world is beneath Rusty. Abandoned metal lid, so how deep is it and what is under the lid? To find out, we have to go back to the 1960s, during this time, the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union was at its peak and each was trying to surpass each other in history.

Remember the space race. Both also participated in a race to the Center of the Earth. The American Mold project drilled up to 600 feet into the Pacific Ocean, but Soviet scientists scuttled that effort with their tail. Drilling of a super deep well began in 1970 with the help of the 4E oral mesh rig, when the operation ended in 1989, the 9-inch wide hole had reached a mind-boggling depth of 4,230 feet or 7,619 miles for context. , which is over 5m deeper than the deepest mine in the world and almost a mile deeper than the bottom of the Mariana Trench, if that wasn't crazy enough, the depth of the hole is the height of Mount Everest and Mount Fuji placed on top of each other, this hole is so deep that if you somehow managed to fall through this thing, it would take a terrifying 50 seconds before you crashed to the bottom, so how did they dig so deep when the drilling started?

It was easy to break through the granite rock, but about 4 MI down the layers became denser and more difficult to drill, as a result, the drill bits broke causing The excavators changed the drilling direction several times gradually, they did it lower, but when they overcame one obstacle, another soon appeared. Heat due to heat flow from the Earth's mantle the lower down, the hotter it gets over 7 Mi. Bottom temperatures reached 356°F, twice as high as expected at that depth. The high heat was beyond the capabilities of their drilling equipment, causing Soviet scientists to abandon the project in 1992 and that was it, or some online theories have suggested something much creepier.

Until the end of the experiment, evil screams of tortured souls were said to have been recorded from the hole, leading to the belief that it reached the underworld, but before you bite your last nail, this is probably going to be horrible. For starters, the audio is just an urban myth, recording devices couldn't withstand temperatures of 356 degrees Fahrenheit, and although a website that analyzes myths analyzed the sounds and found them to be suspiciously similar to the audio used in the horror movie from 1972 Baren Blood. a potential portal to the underworld hiding about 8 miles below the Earth's surface is certainly a razor or should I say Hellraiser and with that we have delved to the bottom of the world's deepest holes.

Have you come across any gaping holes of yours, let me know in the comments below and thanks for watching