Mel Waters called Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM three times between 1997 and 2002 describing a hole on land he said he owned near Ellensburg: he claimed to have lowered over 80,000 feet of fishing line without hitting bottom, that the hole muted sound above it, and that a neighbor's dead dog thrown in was later seen alive wearing the same collar. No property record under his name matches the site and no person named Mel Waters was found in the area.
Later calls escalated: a second hole in Nevada with a beam of black light, a metal 1943 dime from the future, an ice-like substance that burned for months, and a sheep lowered in that came back cooked from inside with a moving mass sewn into its chest. Believers treat the retellings as one continuous account.
Geologists note the region is riddled with lava tubes and old mining shafts, and that a genuinely bottomless hole violates physics at any depth: air pressure, heat and rock plasticity close deep voids. The durable structure is the story itself, a modern oral legend that grew exactly the way folklore grows, by call-in.
If a hole can un-kill a dog, what else fell in and came back wrong?