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What did the first people who dared to go down to the "Hell's Hell" sinkhole find?
The locals are sure that the ancient sinkhole is full of demons guarding the gate to the next world or that this is where the infidels are tortured after death.
A brave team of researchers first descended to the bottom of the deep sinkhole and found some fascinating findings - and some frightening
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Sunday, 26 September 2021, 23:44 Updated: 23:47
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A team of researchers enters first into the "Well from Hell" in Yemen (Ocet Oman / Thomson Reuters)
Cave researchers from Oman last week became the first people to descend to the bottom of a 112-meter-deep sinkhole known as the "Hell's Well" in Yemen, which many locals are convinced is full of gins that guard the gate to the next world, according to local media reports. "Some say it is the place where infidels and non-believers are tortured after death," said geologist Prof. Muhammad al-Qindi, owner of the Earth Sciences Advisory Center that led the researchers, "while others believe their heads will be cut off as soon as they get down there."
The natural sinkhole, officially named "Barhut's Well", has a remarkably round entrance, 30 meters in diameter, located in the middle of the desert in al-Mahra province in eastern Yemen, near the border with Oman. Amateur cave explorers have already entered the sinkhole in the past, but so far no one has been known to have reached the bottom and discovered what is there.
Despite the frightening local stories and beliefs, last week a team of 10 researchers from the Omani Cave Research Team (OCET) explored Barhut's well after descending it using a state-of-the-art pulley system that lowered eight of the members to the bottom while two remained supervised from above, along with a small crowd of locals. To be found at the bottom of the sinkhole.
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The photographs released from the cave revealed sentries, colored patterns on the walls and "cave pearls", which are actually spherical calcium deposits, shaped over thousands of years by water dripping into the hole.
The researchers spent several hours in the sinkhole and also found waterfalls, running water and a thriving population of snakes: "They reproduced because they do not have predators there that would endanger them," the researcher explained, "it is completely normal."
Remains of birds and other animals that apparently failed to survive in the sinkhole were also found with them.
"Believers say that the waters of the buzzing well in Mecca are the holiest and purest on earth and that the water from 'Well of Hell' is the worst," he told Kindi, "all we found was fresh and pure water down there. We both drank a whole bottle and nothing. It happened to us. "
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