Mel's Hole | The Supernatural Existence of This Backyard Bottomless Pit
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On a night like any other night, Coast to Coast AM was live on radio in Washington State. The overnight program discussed all things uncanny and entertained the discussion of a local man who claimed his backyard held something otherworldly. He would call in periodically over the next five years, each time with new information about a magical, bottomless pit in his backyard. What started as a piece of local lore eventually required a full government intervention, and the man was never heard from again. Today, we're discussing the eerie urban legend of Mel's Hole. This is Red Web.
welcome back task force to another episode of red web the podcast all about unsolved mysteries true crime and the unknown i'm your resident mystery enthusiast trevor collins and joining me hearing this case for the very first time alfredo diaz this this sounds like a fun case right here this is mystery conspiracies like what's going on in the backyard just like the people listening in on the radio call that are entertained for the five years i'm sure we're gonna be entertained getting little trickles of like I don't know. It's just very... It feels story structured. Yes. And then it crescendos in something massive happening. And then a disappearance? It's got all the ingredients of a good... Yeah.
It sounds like a great story off the bat. And the thing is, the fact that already my tinfoil hat is squeezed on a little tighter than it usually is because of... Yeah. What do you mean he was saying all these things? And you're like, I'm not sure. You know, it's some guy telling a wild story. It's a fun series, et cetera, et cetera. What do you mean the government gets involved? Right? Like what evidence do we have of that? And then he goes missing.
And then he's never heard from again.
It validates the story, man. It does. The government just, you know what I mean? Like I'm getting a little ahead of myself and my thoughts, but the government is validating this man's wild stories.
It is out the gate, one of the most interesting stories. I will say it's an urban legend. We're going to talk about the fact or fiction of it when it gets to the theories. It's just one of those cases. Do you believe in it? Do you not believe in it? Why? Why not? We'll break all of that down. But this is, like you said, you nailed it. It is a fun one. This is a short one because last week I feel like we had one of our heaviest or longest episodes we've had in a while. We just wrapped our six-year anniversary stream. And so with all the things going on in the Red Web universe, we felt that this would be a perfect time to kind of have a lighter one, a little shorter one, a little bit more lighthearted as well.
There's no like, there's always a few content warnings, right? But less than usual here. But yeah, we are here in the heart of July. It is boiling here in Texas. And if you want to... if you want to continue, by the way, celebrating that six year anniversary of ours, you can still go to store.redwebpod.com. We've got about two and a half weeks remaining for our merch, our founders merch that comes out every year, but exclusively available here in July. And all six year anniversary merch purchases continue to support the stretch goals through the end of the month. So even though the stream is over, you can continue to chip away at any stretch goals we didn't hit on the stream. Again, the merch is available until the end of July, unless you're a Patreon member, in which case you'll have a few extra days.
Also on the stream, we just unveiled our Patreon exclusive Red Web Mystery Tour shirt. So if you want to join us at redwebpod.com, our Patreon page, you can get access to that shirt just for you guys for supporting us directly. And then this Friday, Fredo, we just recorded this. I'm very excited for the task force to hear it. But we've got Movie Club About Obsession, the recent indie horror show.
That was probably a movie that we go so in depth on, on so many levels in terms of just like, I don't know. It was probably our most discussed film.
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