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May 2018
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#27: Mel Waters and the Devil’s Holes

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In the wilds of Washington State, adjacent to the Yakima Firing Range near the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, is a bizarre geographic anomaly that was said to bear strange and arcane attributes. An impossibly deep pit that locals had come to believe may well be a gateway to another dimension… or hell itself. 

Episode Reference Links:Mel Waters and the Devil’s Holes http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2011/08/mel-waters-and-the-devils-holes/

Devil’s Hole Tumor Seal: (Nevada, USA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2015/02/devils-hole-tumor-seal-nevada-usa/

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