News - April 1

April 1, 2006

This Map of Kittitas county was originally believed to contain the location of Mel’s Hole.  

Mel’s Hole was first reported by Mel Waters from Ellensburg, Washington on February 21, 1997 on Coast to Coast with Art Bell (a nationally syndicated radio program).    According to the local Mel’s Hole experts;  "Mel's Hole could very well be the world's deepest volcanic vent hole - a worm hole and as such not only the best indicator of volcanic activity in the Cascade range for the immediate safety of the Northwest and the Pacific Ring of Fire volcano range but of huge geological significance giving us the best access for instruments to study our earth's mantel."

Unfortunately, it seems likely that Mel’s Hole will soon be the location for the most significant conservation project that the NSS has ever attempted.  According to Mel Waters himself:
“We’ve been here several years we just take all of our trash rubbish there - anything we have we have to get rid of we take it and just throw in the hole there, everyone’s throwing there stuff in the hole.  The people from  around there throw all the stuff in the hole.  I mean its just been going on for a long time well, and  I got to thinking one day how come this hole is not filling up? It must be an awfully deep hole!”

They've been looking for a long time:
According the to Seattle Times: "The quest for Mel's Hole is in its sixth year." This was in 2002!  At that time,  "A recent appearance by Waters on Bell's Coast to Coast AM show (heard in Seattle on KOMO-AM), convinced many it could be found. Bundled up for cold weather were, among other searchers, a physicist, a father and son from Seattle, three Los Angeles amateur filmmakers, a family from Enumclaw, members of a Vancouver, B.C.-based paranormal investigation team and a shaman."

And it's DEEP!
Mel estimated his hole to be at nearly 80,000 feet deep! By utalizing an ingeniuos method of fishing line and weights, apparently Mel managed to ascertain that pit was far and away the largest pit on the Earth!

But it doesn’t stop there!
Mel’s Hole is rumored to resuscitate deceased pets!  According to Mel Waters in the original interview: “story is that he was a hunter and he was out there hunting and he saw the same dog, he had the same collar, he had the same little metal thing on his collar there and he said it was the same dog and he says he knew he had threw the dog into the hole... now that’s...
now that’s my dog!”

And we've even been there (or at least near by).  Famed Mel's Hole hunter, only known to the public as "GrantBo", has  repeatedly invited the Cascade Grotto out to assist in the exploration of interesting holes and canyons.  Mel's Hole may or may not exist (we always have hope since you can't prove that it doesn't exist!), but the search for Mel's hole has been a source of new cave discoveries in a county that previous to this date had never been the site of documented caves. 

Come and join us during the convention and take time out to search for Mel's Hole.  You never know you might even find the country summer home of the Sasquatch!

If you would like to read the original transcript of the talk show, please follow this link: http://www.seattlechatclub.org/Mel_Hole_Transcripts.html  
For an archive of the Seattle times article: http://rense.com/general24/mels.htm
For additional information on Mel’s Hole see http://www.seattlechatclub.org/MelsHole.html or http://www.melshole.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/forums.cgi?forum=1