How would you react if you were a scientist who dug a hole with the other workers, and you heard recordings of high pitched human screams? The Well to Hell was a hole dug by a group of geologists, and during the time the legend was born, people weren’t very superstitious, and new scientific findings were very significant to people. The urban legend “The Well to Hell” was born in the 1980’s when scientists dug a deep well in the earth and recorded high-pitched sounds that were heard as screams of humans.
“The Well to Hell” was created in the 1980’s when geologists dug a hole in the Earth and thought they heard terrifying screams. This is evident when the author states, “A geological group who drilled a hole about 14.4 kilometers deep in the crust of the Earth are saying they heard human screams”(Buhler). According to the text, scientists dug a hole deep in the Earth, which is how the legend all started. The story became even more of a legend when some scientists stated that they heard screams of condemned souls coming from
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According to the article, scientists were atheists, so when the geologists dug the hole and heard human screams, the scientists “ran screaming from the site in terror when confronted with such proof”(Mikkelson). This shows that scientists were very surprised when they heard that people thought they had dug a hole to Hell. Also, it shows people weren’t very superstitious because they couldn’t believe what they had heard from the hole known as the “Well to Hell”. Scientists were so afraid and shocked, especially because they didn’t believe in the existence of Heaven and Hell. In the time period that “The Well to Hell” was born, people were becoming less and less superstitious, which is why this story was so horrifying. Now, people barely believe in these types of stories, and there are many people who side with science and
What is Hell? According to the online Oxford Dictionary, “ A place regarded in various religions as a spiritual realm of evil and suffering, often traditionally depicted as a place of perpetual fire beneath the earth where the wicked are punished after death.” A horrible place to be. Have you ever see someone tortured? I hope not, it is a terrible thing. Imagine this scene: An individual, engulfed in flames. Screaming for help but no one can do anything about it. Skin boiling, shrieks of agony, truly a horrid scene. What crime could someone have done to deserve such a punishment. Let us use an illustration. A good father would punish his child when he has done something wrong. But a cruel father would torture him. Hell from this perspective is illogical.
The government, which was listening to what all was going on through the radio, thought that this was very strange. In the past, they had thought about there being a time when strange organisms from outer space would come to Earth, and try to take over. They decided that they would design a building that could be used to research the different things that they might come across in the future. This building would have to be very sterile so that the organisms couldn’t contaminate anything and destroy the Earth. The building was five stories high and each level was more sterile than the previous one. The building was located in the middle of nowhere underground, so that no one would know about it, unless they were on one of the teams that would be doing the r...
There are many elements of fiction. All of them together are a recipe for the perfect story. There are five elements all together. They are conflict, setting, character, plot and theme. “The Grim Grotto” displays all of these elements with an exceptionally well written storyline.
“They pound and pound, but background noise on the surface interferes... The men write notes to family members, seal them in a metal lunch box, and wait to die” (Steven Church 240-245/14). When you can't be heard you get the sense of death. Although when you hear sound and are heard, people get the sense of life. “He listens, his hands on the machine, until he finally hears or feels the rhythmic noise of the trapped men hammering at the steel. Above them, on the outside, the expectant wives and mothers rejoice” (Steven Church 264-269/15). The operator hears the fair sound of steel getting hammered on and realizes that it was the alive trapped miners. The miners pounding on the steel gave hope to the drill operator and the miners families that the miners were still alive. If the miners did not pound on the steel, the possibility of them getting saved would be low because the people on the surface would know if the miners were even alive. Therefore, sound being used as a form of communication to know the condition of life is
“The Man in the Well”, written by Ira Sher, is a short story about a group of children that while playing find a man stuck in a well. The children collectively decided to not help the man out of the well. They instead decided to talk to the man and ask him questions. There were a lot of games in the story, the children started out in the beginning of the story playing a game. It felt as if the children thought of the man as a pet or a game for them to play. The children got to hot while sitting outside the well, so they left the man in the well while they went and cooled off at the movie theater; never once having the idea to get the man any help. Could the children be so callous as to leave the man and go watch a movie? By these children’s actions they failed understand that the adult was in danger.
Not many people know of the used-to-be 150-mile excursion that the Glen Canyon had to offer. Not many people know how to sail a raft down a river for a week. Not many people know how to interact with nature and the animals that come with it. We seem to come from a world that is dependent on time and consumed in money. Edward Abbey is what you would call an extreme environmentalist. He talks about how it was an environmental disaster to place a dam in which to create Lake Powell, a reservoir formed on the border of Utah and Arizona. He is one of the few that have actually seen the way Glen Canyon was before they changed it into a reservoir. Today, that lake is used by over a million people, and is one of the biggest recreation hot spots in the western United States.
What does a man do when the canyon that he so dearly loves is transformed into an unrecognizable monstrosity at the hands of others that have no affinity to the area they have destroyed? Some may bemoan the destruction, yet lament that what’s done is done and move on. Others may voice their concerns with the unsightliness they see. However, rarely does one voice their views in such a poignant and direct way as to grab the attention of the reader and powerfully force the writer’s views into the mind of the reader. The essay “The Damnation of a Canyon” by Edward Abbey is a revealing look into the mind of an environmental activist and his dissatisfaction with man’s detrimental impacts on the environment and the natural world. Edward Abbey is acclaimed
As a lot of science was happening people thought God would get upset and not want humans to interfere with what he/she had created. In the late 18th century and early 19th centuries science was rapidly progressing. Experiments and techniques using dead animals and humans were also increasing e.g. galvanism bringing drowning victims “back to life”. Ideas and fears of grave digging and experimenting with human bodies were also increasing.
Elements of the supernatural have long enhanced the folklore of many cultures. Stories of ghosts, magic, and so-called aliens are transferred from generation to generation, sparking our imagination and uncovering our deepest fears. While some stories are clearly fabulous, others are believed by those who tell them. The story I wish to report is of the latter kind: an experience that generated real fear in the teller. Although the story is completely original, it contains ideas reflected in much other folklore, including similar tales from similar locations. And like all folklore, the effectiveness of the story depends upon the performance of the teller and those to follow.
Hell is what he is referring to when the author says firey pit. He describes hell as the lowest,
pits, different cells in hell and there is a heart of hell. As Mary and JESUS went through hell their were people there who are begging god to let them in heaven and god says no because judgement has been set. He said there has been many people their way to introduce them to god and they refused. Souls are in hell begging for repentance and the answer is no because they had their chance and they turned their backs on god. Some souls even were at one time of another saved and they were going through something to make them stronger in the word and they though god was being unfair to them and blamed god for the mistake; therefore turning their backs on god. There are many false prophets in hell. As god walks through and stop to talk to these prophets they beg and pled for forgiveness and when god says judgement has been set they began to curse god and talk to him in the manner where they are really disrespecting god.
Another example is Grendel’s mother's lair. For instance, “It was a strange cavern where no water could harm him and the fangs of the depths could never reach him through the roof. He saw firelight flung in beams from a bright blaze” lines 149-1812. Therefore the lair introduces a descent underworld, which symbolizes hell. The way Grendel’s mother's lair is described was an unforgettable scene which made anyone enter feel
As long as one can remember, paranormal beliefs have always existed in human society. They are living in every man’s childhood and in every corner of human’s life. From the burning belief about Santa Claus’s gifts under a Christmas’s tree in the morning to a scary game about Bloody Mary and her coming back from the dead, it seems that people cannot help but draw themselves to these stories. Even when these beliefs fade, there would be a new one that eventually shows up. No matter how much science has progressed, the belief in paranormal phenomena still remains in society. Eventually, the question about paranormal phenomena seems pale in comparison to the human’s undying belief about such things. It is really hard to pinpoint an exact cause for human’s belief in the paranormal for only one cause is not enough; however, it is sure that psychological, sociological, and biological factors play an enormous role that contributes to this belief.
Another aspect of hell that surprised me was that the devil was standing on a frozen lake. This isn't the picture of Larson's Far Side hell scenes, nor is the devil the cool, rebellious bad boy of Milton's Paradise Lost.
They laughed when they heard for the first time about diseases that were supposedly caused by animals so tiny that you could not see them. They continued to laugh at virtually every discovery that challenged their previous beliefs in an attempt to preserve the status of "have-studied-for-years-and-must-therefore-know-everything-already." They always laughed first but, when things became clear, they must have felt very, very. On the other hand, many well-known scientists now admit that certain discoveries tend to indicate that God does exist rather than not. The problem, I suggest, lies in certain preconceptions. If we picture God as a person, then the question comes up: where is God?