Originally published at: What lies at the bottom of Yemen's mysterious Well of Hell? | Boing Boing
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Interesting. But the fact this video was shot with a drone raises a fairly obvious question about why exactly it’s so hard to find out what’s down there.
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In the comments of that youtube video are links to other videos with drone footage of the bottom of the well, so seems like there’s definitely been cameras in it.
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Sunlight doesn’t extend far into the structure
How about going there at noon?
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If clickbait was a video
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I see you and raise:
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Yes, you could explore the bottom … but why deflate the local’s superstitions?
Like forcing your kid to actually look under his bed for so-called monsters. …
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Maybe this is where the hole people went when Amazing Stories went off the air?
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It’s south of the tropic of cancer so there are two days a year when the sun is directly overhead at noon
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“Oh, you think darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark ; I was born in it, moulded by it. I didn’t see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING!”
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Sunlight doesn’t extend far into the structure
Yeah, that’s bullshit. There are plenty of times the sun is directly overhead at that location.
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well, the “strange smell” can be easily speculated upon via:
and little can be seen from the edge except the birds that fly in and out of its depths.
(especially if among those birds are the carrion variety)
(related to photo: “what’s inside the mystery hole?”)
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Ladies and gentlemen, we have found the earth’s butthole.
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You’d have to wait for a Lahaina noon, but that would be possible as Yemen is in the Tropic of Cancer (I just checked)
ETA oh, everyone said that already
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…or it’s thermal exhaust port?
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This is Dagon’s winter timeshare. In the summer, he usually sublets to vacationing Shaggoths.
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