Biblical Archaeology Review 16:6, November/December 1990

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Hell Found Under Siberia: Screams Scare Scientists

First it was Noah’s Ark,a then it was the Ark of the Covenant.b Now hell itself has been discovered—by geologists in Siberia. According to a report in a Finnish newspaper, the scientists drilled a hole in the crust of the earth nine miles deep and accidentally reached hell. The newspaper account quotes scientists saying that when they took soundings from the hole, “they heard human screams. Screams have been heard from the condemned souls from earth’s deepest hole. Terrified scientists are afraid they have let loose the evil powers of hell up to the earth’s surface.”

The manager of the project, undertaken by the Joint European Science Drilling Project, is a Dr. Azzacov who stated: “The information we are gathering is so surprising that we are sincerely afraid of what we might find down there.”

According to the newspaper report, “The geologists were dumbfounded. After they had drilled several kilometers through the earth’s crust, the drill bit suddenly began to rotate wildly.”

The scientists were surprised not only that “the deep center of the earth is hollow,” but that it is so hot. According to Dr. Azzacov:

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