Ep. 155: The Well To Hell Hoax (Halloween Special)

Leaving Eden Podcast

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True Crime, Cult, History, Survivor, Theology, Exfundie, Religion, Lgbtq, Christianity, Exvangelical, Documentary, Fundamentalism, Baptist, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Deconstruction, Inspirational Women, Duggars, Inspirational

4.5 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, we discuss the urban legend of the "Well To Hell." This claim gained popularity after Trinity Broadcast Network (TBN) broadcast a news story in 1989 that Soviet researchers had drilled a hole through the crust of the earth and into hell. This claim was widely believed to be fact within fundamentalist and evangelical circles. Some church services even played an alleged recording that was made of the screams that according to legend, was made when the scientists lowered a specialized heat-resistant microphone into the 1100C pit. On this episode, we examine the details of this claim in an attempt to prove or disprove its validity.

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TW: In general we talk about a lot of potentially triggering topics on this show, including but not limited to suicide and mental health, racism, misogyny, PTSD and PTSD symptoms, child abuse, mental, physical, and sexual abuse, and spiritual abuse including guilt, shame, and fear. In most episodes we’ll mention at least a few of these topics, but we try very hard to avoid graphic detail unless it’s relevant to the story we’re telling, and we do our best to give the audience a heads-up before going into detail on any of these topics. This episode is ALL about hell, and the urban legend about a microphone allegedly lowered into hell by scientists, and the accompanying totally fake recording of screaming. We are going to play this recording, although we will give you a heads up before we do so.

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0:00.0	No rolling river of time.
0:07.0	You've healed me in too many days.
0:13.0	No regrets, no confusion.
0:18.0	There'll be no pollution. I'm so thankful i've decided to change my ways
0:30.0	welcome back to the leaving eden podcast my name's gavi i'm here with sadie cult expert expert, cult survivor, Sadie Carpenter. This is the Leaving
0:40.2	Eveneaton podcast. How are you doing today? How's life? I am doing great. I wanted to say happy
0:45.8	spooky Halloween season. Yes, happy spooky Halloween. Do you have a costume? Where are you
0:52.4	going as this year? I actually do not
0:55.0	have a costume this year, but Chuck is insisting that she is going to be a dinosaur. So we
1:00.2	have procured a dinosaur costume for Chuck. Oh, that's cute. She is super cute. I can just
1:08.1	imagine her in a dinosaur crossing. That sounds awesome.
1:14.0	So, yeah, it's an exciting time of year.
1:19.2	And gosh, this episode comes out, what, the day before Halloween?
1:22.3	Yes, October 30th.
1:26.1	I want it because today we're recording it on the 16th, which is my sister's birthday.
1:27.9	It's also my friend, Nick's birthday.
1:30.7	Happy birthday to your sister and to Nick.
1:32.9	Yes, happy birthday to both of you guys.
1:40.1	But this is coming out on the 30th and, right, the 30th is in Monday.
1:45.1	The 31st Institute, yeah, so this is two weeks from today is the 30th.
1:45.2	Yeah.
1:47.7	So this is October 30th day before Halloween.
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