Special Report: The Hole Story (2024)

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Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Mike White engages in a conversation with filmmaker Elijah Sullivan about his 2024 documentary, The Hole Story. The film investigates the mysterious appearance of a 60-foot man-made hole on California's Mount Shasta in 2009, which sparked over a decade of speculation and intrigue.

Elijah explores the challenges of documenting such an enigmatic subject, the process of gathering diverse perspectives, and the broader implications of the public's captivation with mysteries. They also discuss Sullivan's approach to storytelling and his experiences filming on location at Mount Shasta.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.0	Shut it off.
0:25.4	Turn it off. The whole to me was a witch hunt and it was a joke.
0:45.3	You know, it's a cliche, mind-blowing.
0:51.3	But that's what it was.
0:53.3	I said that's the damnedest thing I've ever seen in my Forest Service career.
0:57.3	I've never seen anything like that.
0:58.8	What in the world is going on?
1:04.1	When you start out on any case, you don't know where you're going to wind up or if you're going to solve it.
1:14.6	It had to do with the mountain.
1:20.6	It's Mount Shasta. You can't keep anything a secret in Mount Chasta.
1:29.3	Dude, you're famous.
1:30.3	Famous.
1:31.3	Yeah, the FBI is here, the U.S. Forest Service are here.
1:35.3	They want to talk to you about digging a hole.
1:37.3	They kind of think you did it.
1:41.3	They were trying to plan something. Like, what's going on?
1:47.0	Like, if I got myself into something,
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