Art Bell's famous radio program Coast to Coast introduced many themes into the realm

of the strange, some true and some completely made up by crank collars.

In some cases it's been up to us to decide which was which.

Today we've got one of these urban legends, the story of Mel's Hole, literally a bottomless

pit in Washington State with all kinds of supernatural characteristics.

The truth behind Mel's Hole is today unskeptoid.

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Falling in to Mel's Hole.

Today we're going to point our skeptical eye downward, down into the deepest hole in the

world.

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