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CoffeeJedi said:i've heard the theory that the "sounds from hell" tape is just people at a shopping mall or amusement park with some echo effects.
... Though it’s impossible to pinpoint when the news story about a well in Russia transformed into a story about scientists breaking into Hell or who was responsible for that transformation, we do know that in 1989 the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) aired a “Scientists Discover Hell” story and placed the event as happening in the Kola Peninsula. A Norwegian schoolteacher visiting California heard that broadcast and took the story back to Norway with him. He then mailed it to a Christian magazine in Finland. In the form of a letter from a reader, it reached a Finnish missionaries newsletter. From there it returned to the United States, reaching both the TBN people and other evangelists who then claimed they had gotten it from a respected Finnish scientific journal.
In the spring of 1990, the legend as we now know it appeared in both Praise The Lord(February) and Midnight Cry (April). Debunkings of it showed up in Christianity Today(July) and Biblical Archaeology Review (November). Even so, the Weekly World News tabloid ran the story in 1992, this time setting it in Alaska and claiming thirteen oil rig workers were killed when the Devil came roaring up out of the ground.
You can’t beat that for embellishment.
volshebnik said:"A physical, real Hell would put a dent in more than one generally accepted fact about the physical world."
Well, I can't read Russian (though my sister can) so I had no idea what the page said. ...
In the 80s in the former Soviet Union, a group of geological scientists worked on a project for drilling an ultra-deep well. Says the project manager Azzakov:
“As a communist, I do not believe in Heaven or the Bible, but as a scientist, I now believe in hell. We need not say that we were really shocked to make such a discovery.
We lowered a microphone into the well to record the sound of movement of lithospheric plates. But instead of moving the plates, we heard a screaming human voice that sounded in pain. At first, we thought that the sound came from our own drilling equipment.
But then when the equipment was adjusted again, our worst suspicions were confirmed. The screams, screams were not screams and screams of one person, they were screams, screams and groans of millions of people. "
"... and they will be cast into the fiery furnace; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth" (Matthew 13.42)
The sound recorded on tape can be heard (and downloaded for mortal memory) here:
{Link to the mp3 download}