how deep is mel's hole

Mel’s Hole is a legendary “bottomless” pit from a 1990s paranormal radio story, and its true depth is unknown because the hole itself has never been verified to exist in reality.

What the legend claims

According to the story told by Mel Waters on the late‑night show Coast to Coast AM , the hole:

• Was on his rural property in Washington State, about 9 feet across with a stone wall around the top.

• Supposedly took at least 80,000 feet (about 15 miles / 24,000 meters) of fishing line without hitting bottom when he tried to measure it.

• Was used as a trash pit by locals and was said never to fill up, adding to the “bottomless” mystique.

Why that depth is impossible

Geologists point out that a man‑made vertical hole tens of thousands of feet deep in that area is not physically plausible.

• The deepest real borehole on Earth, the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia, reaches about 12,263 meters (roughly 40,230 feet), far shallower than Mel’s claimed depth.

• A shaft as deep as the legend describes would collapse from heat and pressure long before reaching such a depth, especially with no known engineering around it.

So how deep is Mel’s Hole?

Putting it together:

• In the story, the claimed depth is “at least” 80,000 feet because the line ran out.

• In reality, there is no independently confirmed location, survey, or scientific measurement of any such hole, so its depth cannot be measured or verified at all.

• Most researchers therefore treat Mel’s Hole as modern folklore or a hoax, not as a documented physical feature.

So the only honest answer is: in the legend, it goes beyond 80,000 feet deep, but in the real world, there is no confirmed Mel’s Hole and no proven depth.

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