# "sounds of hell" urban myth **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 27, 2003, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sounds-of-hell-urban-myth/157875 "2003-02-27T14:23:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silentmikew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@silentmikew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silentmikew)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sounds-of-hell-urban-myth/157875/1 "2003-02-27T14:23:30Z")
I just recently heard an audio recording. the clip is a recording made by a group of scientists who were drilling a deep hole in Siberia. I’m not sure what the details are of whatever the scientists were doing, i only know they drilled a hole very deep into the earth and lowered a microphone into the hole and recorded the sounds. What they got was what sounded like people screaming and moaning. Pretty horrifing sounds. Has anyone else heard this clip and do you think it is real? You can find it on the web if you want. Just go to google and type in “hell” + “siberia”+ “drilling”. It looks to me like an urban myth since i don’t believe in hell. What do you guys think? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sounds-of-hell-urban-myth/157875/2 "2003-02-27T14:27:48Z")
[nope](http://www.snopes.com/religion/wellhell.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sounds-of-hell-urban-myth/157875/3 "2003-02-27T14:31:28Z")
Oh, I think it’s REAL. The REAL THING. I mean, it SEEMS real, doesn’t it? And it was on the Internet, so it HAS to be true. Two gazillion christians can’t be wrong now, eh? (This sarcasm wasn’t intended toward SilentMikew…I just had to say it.) ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sounds-of-hell-urban-myth/157875/4 "2003-02-27T14:34:24Z")
All the churches I’ve been to not only believe this stuff, they also believe the lost day theory.:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sounds-of-hell-urban-myth/157875/5 "2003-02-27T14:43:41Z")
I’m [reliably informed :dubious:](http://www.witchvox.com/protection/kerr_chick1.html) that the entrance to heaven is in the Orion Nebula: > [@](#): > > ‘for the depths of the Orion Nebula appear like torn and twisted objects and river masses of shining glass, irregular pillars, columns of stalactites in glittering splendor and stalagmites from the clear walls of ivory and pearl, studded with millions of diamonds and shining stars’… This could well be the entrance into the glory of Heaven, that we’ll pass through at the Rapture That about wraps it up, I think. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sounds-of-hell-urban-myth/157875/6 "2003-02-27T14:44:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vanilla \* > \*\*All the churches I’ve been to not only believe this stuff, they also believe the lost day theory.:dubious: \*\* What the deep well is the “Lost Day” theory? ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sounds-of-hell-urban-myth/157875/7 "2003-02-27T14:49:25Z")
That some passage in Joshua where he asks God to “make the sun stand still” for a bit and SUpposedly someone in NASA found a “lost day” in computations. Total bunk, but still believed. Today. Someone will come by with a link, Cecil has covered it. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sounds-of-hell-urban-myth/157875/8 "2003-02-27T14:52:14Z")
> [@](#): > > _DanBlather_ > What the deep well is the “Lost Day” theory? [This one.](http://www.snopes.com/religion/lostday.htm) In preview, snopes search is better than TSD’s. I’m pretty sure Cecil has written on this too. ---
**Author:** ![silentmikew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@silentmikew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silentmikew)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sounds-of-hell-urban-myth/157875/9 "2003-02-27T14:52:58Z")
has cecil already talked about this hell sound? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sounds-of-hell-urban-myth/157875/10 "2003-02-27T14:59:49Z")
It isn’t in the archive, but it might have been covered in one of his printed works. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Brian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c89c15/32.png) [@I\_Brian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Brian)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sounds-of-hell-urban-myth/157875/11 "2003-02-27T15:32:19Z")
LOL! Read this story in Fortean Times perhaps 10 years ago. This has been around before the net was the net. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sounds-of-hell-urban-myth/157875/12 "2003-02-27T16:12:40Z")
Here is Cecil’s column on the “missing day.” As to the “hell sounds,” I remember hearing that story at least 15 years ago, maybe twenty. I suspect it’s at least that old. There’s no more truth to it than to the story about George W. Bush winning the 2000… What?!? Oh, hell. ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sounds-of-hell-urban-myth/157875/13 "2003-02-27T17:49:22Z")
We must be increasingly on the alert to prevent the Russians from taking over other mineshaft space, in order to breed undead hellspawn more prodigiously than we do, thus, knocking us out with superior numbers when we die! Mister President, we must not allow… _hellspawn gap!_ ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sounds-of-hell-urban-myth/157875/14 "2003-02-27T17:50:40Z")
Aw, crap. Now I know how Neil Armstrong felt. ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sounds-of-hell-urban-myth/157875/15 "2003-02-27T18:02:56Z")
I’m sure the A was lost in the static of the web… Sunspots or something… Personally when I heard the “wails of the Dead” I nearly peed myself laughing. There is one womans high pitched wailing I immediately recognized from an old Halloween Effects Album I had. [Sounds to make you shiver](http://www.endlessgroove.com/issue2/horrorsfx.htm) (its the one with the title Bloodcurdling! Terror! Horror! Stereo title) OOOOOOOOooooo Spooky… and nice try. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sounds-of-hell-urban-myth/157875/16 "2003-02-27T18:08:47Z")
Oh, I am a full supporter of the “Lost Day” theory. In college, I lost a couple Saturdays during weekends of heavy drinking. I think they are with my socks. ---
**Author:** ![Will\_Repair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Will\_Repair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Will_Repair)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sounds-of-hell-urban-myth/157875/17 "2003-02-27T18:35:18Z")
That story appeared on the front cover of a 1992 edition of “World Weekly News.” The World Weekly News is famed for photographers being at just the right place at just the right time. It’s motto is: Aliens cannot sue for libel. A detail of the story is here: [http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm317674.html](http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm317674.html) ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sounds-of-hell-urban-myth/157875/18 "2003-02-27T19:10:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hamlet \* > \*\*Oh, I am a full supporter of the “Lost Day” theory. In college, I lost a couple Saturdays during weekends of heavy drinking. I think they are with my socks. \*\* While you’re looking, let me know if you find my virginity. ---
**Author:** ![WRENCHEAD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@WRENCHEAD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WRENCHEAD)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sounds-of-hell-urban-myth/157875/19 "2003-02-27T19:18:52Z")
I’m sure if this story was beneficial for evolutionist it would be welcomed with open arms and confirmed many times over by scientist. ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sounds-of-hell-urban-myth/157875/20 "2003-02-27T19:36:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by WRENCHEAD \* > \*\*I’m sure if this story was beneficial for evolutionist it would be welcomed with open arms and confirmed many times over by scientist. \*\* Huh? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sounds-of-hell-urban-myth/157875.md?page=2)