The Kola Superdeep Borehole
The second deepest ever hole drilled, The Kola Superdeep Borehole, can be found in Russia on the Kola Peninsula. The USSR was proud of it as much as it was of its space stations and underwater vehicles. Each of its 12 262 meters (40,230 ft or over 7.6 miles) below the earth’s surface. was a real revelation for scientists, and a number of anomalies and strange things that used to happen during the construction work are still food for sensations.
Drilling began on 24 May 19, 1970. You had to be really lucky to get into the project — only one specialist of a thousand could go to the construction spot and be one of those who were drilling the whole never seen before. All the members of the construction group were given an apartment in Moscow and had a monthly salary equal to a year’s salary of a university professor. There were 16 laboratories working at the borehole at the same time, and the project was headed by the Minister of Geology.
The Kola Superdeep Borehole was frozen in 1994. In 1983 it was already 12 km deep when they decided to stop the digging, and after another 262 meters were dug (it took a decade to “cover” this distance), the project was totally nixed. The official reason for it was a lack of financing, but insiders say that it was because of supernatural things going on inside the hole. The drilling technician assure journalists, that the project was fell-financed by the scientific foundations, and they actually stopped working because “demons started to get from under the ground”.
Distant galaxies happen to be better explored by the humanity than what it has beneath its feet. Getting to the border of the Solar System was easier than to go three kilometers deep. Most of the boreholes couldn’t reach deeper that that because when drills went further, something unbelievable happened – they melt in some super-hot matter (though, its fusion temperature is equal to the Sun one) or were pulled down and the drillers dragged out only ropes. Moreover, from that holes people can hear howling and screams, which can’t be explained by science.
In 1970-ies the scientists got the samples of ground from the Moon, and they found that the moon ground was the same as the rocks taken from the three-kilometer depth. It means that the Moon torn off from the Kola peninsula!
When the drilling machines came up close to the 13-th kilometer, the devices registered strange sounds in the well. Intrigued by this astonishing discovery, workers lowered an extremely heat tolerant microphone, along with other sensory equipment, which recorded sounds of screaming human voices. The workers could swear that it was like “yells of sinners in hell”, and then they detected a powerful explosion of totally unknown nature. In a few days, when the works were resumed, nothing was found inside the well.
The project cost a pretty penny, but the result was really worth it — when the drill reached 9.5 km level, it dug itself into the rocks full of gold and diamonds. The concentration of gold was 80 grams per ton. That was a real treasure, as commercial production can be started if the concentration is just four grams, and the places with ten grams per ton are really few and far between.
So, even if hell really exists and is situated where they were drilling, it is a really gorgeous place, all paved with precious stones and gold, though, rather a hot area to spend the rest of your life.
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It still amazes me how my country, which is hardly able to feed its own peoples can be wasting money on this interesting but useless project. They even manage to make the poor people feel proud of these achievements - the luster and prestige of Mother Russia is also their luster and prestige !!
What a load of crap and deception.
Very true.
And today´s Russians seem to adore the motherfucking USSR… That is downright pervert.
i disagree
If you are really Rusian, you can´t say this nosence
If you are really Russian you would really love your country and its good people and hate these corrupt money wasting ass-lickers that run Russia now and shit on common peoples! Duraks that only care about prestige and looking important, fat necks and fat wallets sitting in foreign cars driving on the center lane, shitting on people like you and me. Building high walls around their villa’s and have their body gaurds shoot at poor people that try to make living by selling stuff at gate and under the wall. Do not fall for lying propaganda and see what Russia really has become. Nigeria with snow and permafrost.
No, i’m not a Russian, i am just his imposter!
Well, he can - and he did!
What were they actually trying to find out?
wow thats fuckin crazy
It’s a pity the “hell” part is a hoax…
Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_to_Hell_hoax which kinda seems like the hole in Murmansk got mixed up with this one. Typical urban legend.
These scientist must be too withdrawn to hear screams.
Great blog!
I actually though Kola Borehole was the deepest borehole ever dug. Which one is the deepest then?
The deepest now belong to Qatar, Al-Shaheen field now holds the title.
And it seems the people of Qatar share the same Soviet style of create the biggest, largest or greatest things (tallest building, deepest well, largest artificial islands). Soviets never achieve those (well artificial island can be accounted thanks to Oily Rocks, Azerbaijan) but they hold other ¨greatest of the world¨. Largest aircraft, largest helicopter, largest weapons testing area, largest biological weapons testing ground, largest yield nuclear weapon tested and many others, mostly of military nature. Of course largest deep drilling, the few of not military nature
The Qatar hole is dubbed BD-04A, courtesy of Maersk Oil.
BD-04A not deepest! BD-04A is longest, that’s different things.
The ‘well to hell’ story is actually about a different well, drilled in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. It is nothing to do with the The Kola Superdeep Borehole.
Check out this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_to_Hell_hoax
I don’t know why, but this statement “The workers could swear that it was like “yells of sinners in hell”” made me laugh. Nice that you interjected some comedy into this post. lol!
How would those workers know what sinners in hell sound like?
They have been living there for most if not all of their life. I guess.
How do they know how sinners yell, in hell?
The yelling reports were a hoax: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_to_Hell_hoax
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WTF
With the microphone quality of the nineties and some freshly opened pressure chambers I guess you could head some “voices”, but for them to be those of humans… also once the pressure dissipates it stops, but then again they’re the scientists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_to_Hell_hoax …
In fact all those stories about screamings are nonsense and a not so well known hoax. Was created by Finns newspapers at that time and picked up by and american broadcast network. Later was used by Christian denominations as proof of hells existance beneath earth.
Good post
Kola Superdeep borehole is still the deepest one.
Qatar borehole is the *longest* one, drilled at acute angle, and so not getting as deep.
Those voices are urban legend (rather HOAX). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_to_Hell_hoax
That’s pretty cool stuff. Would be interesting if they could pierce through the MOHO.
Very poorly researched article.
The ‘well to hell’ story is actually about a completley different borehole, located in the Murmansk Oblast,Russia. It has absolutley nothing to do with the Kola Superdeep Borehole (which incidentally IS the deepest hole ever drilled, not the second deepest).
Search for ‘Well to hell hoax’ in wikipedia for more info.
very cool post! One of the coolest ever!
Shame that a lot of it is bollox
Hell is just right below the former Sovietunion? So the Americans were right that the Sovietunion was the “Bastion of Evil”. The CIA made an amazing work to find that out these days
“Moreover, from that holes people can hear howling and screams, which can’t be explained by science.” - They can be explained by science, it’s called a ‘delusion’. There’s no such thing as Jesus or Hell, that’s just crazy talk.
Pacific NW , you dont have to show us your stupidity and ignorance. Are you a God that knows everything? No Jesus and hell? Give me a break.
No voices or other Devilish stuff:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_to_Hell_hoax
The superdeep borehole was started not only in USSR, but also in other countries.
The German superdeep borehole KTB located at the town of Windischeschenbach, Bavaria, reached a depth of 9.1 km.
Similarly as well as the Kola Superdeep Borehole, the boring drilling of KTB was shut-down from technical problems and failures.
Finnish borehole ODB is smaller, only 2516 meters.
Maersk Oil BD-04A drilled not in to deep, but in side. It is a horizontal hole.
Maersk Oil BD-04A drilled not in to deep, but in side
Re: Existence of Hell, and the damned heard from a hole in the ground.
Is blog owner showing his sense of humor, or is he really that ignorant? Or is it excessive drug addiction?
Cossack , are you really that ignorant that you think you know everything???
I suggest all read Mark Cahill’s book “One heartbeat Away.” He writes about some accounts of people who have seen hell with their spiritual eyes when they died and came back to tell the story. There are many more accounts not recorded in books. All this should lead to the recognition that the most accurate account of these “phenomena” is written in the Bible.
about rock from moon being the same as from this place, it doens’t mean the moon came from the Earth. This is a logical fallacy. No one can prove that the moon originated from the Earth. People believe this only because they don’t want to believe in a supernatural origin of the moon, or the whole universe for that matter.
Moon rock =Kola rock. The size of the moon appears to the naked eye to equal the size of the sun, so that it eclipses it perfectly from time to time. 2 biggest things in the sky are same size. What are the mathematical chances? just coincidence? I don’t think so.
GO USSR GO !
Respect from Holland!
To me the most interesting part was that drills “were pulled down and the drillers dragged out only ropes” WTF??????
In other news, the deepest hole ever drilled was your mother.
Hello..the world. Welcome to Yiwu.
YOU RUSSIANS ARE SO STUPID. DEMONS COMING OUT OF THE HOLE. HOW IGNORANT YOU PEOPLE ARE. I BET YOU BELIEVE IN THE LORD OF THE RINGS MOVIES TO. HAAA HAA
I find myself hanging around this website often. I don’t understand why anyone would criticize its maker. It is very interesting and it gives the rest of the world a window into the private and mysterious land of Russia.
This sight is the bomb….I love it….half of the “news” here is a load of crap, but I love the interaction that it has generated…Dig some more…please!