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title: "The Great Mystery of Mel’s Hole: 80,000 Feet Deep?"
description: "The bizarre story of Mel's Hole, a supposedly bottomless pit in Washington State that became a late-night radio sensation, spawned government conspiracy theories, and inspired fruitless expeditions to find nothing at all."
url: https://decodingtheunknown.pub/article/the-great-mystery-of-mels-hole-80000-feet-deep.md
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datePublished: 2026-06-28
dateModified: 2026-06-28
author:
  - name: Simon Whistler
    url: https://decodingtheunknown.pub/author/simon-whistler
publisher: Decoding the Unknown
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summaryUrl: https://decodingtheunknown.pub/article/the-great-mystery-of-mels-hole-80000-feet-deep.md.summary.md
---

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The bizarre story of Mel's Hole, a supposedly bottomless pit in Washington State that became a late-night radio sensation, spawned government conspiracy theories, and inspired fruitless expeditions to find nothing at all.
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