There is a legend that weird voices that resemble human screams come from the bottom of the deepest mountain production in the world. We checked how true these rumors are.

In 1997, the well located near Murmansk was Subjected In the Guinness Book of Records as "the deepest invasion of man to the earth's crust." According to common information, when in the mid-1980s experts reached a depth of 14.5 km, they suddenly stumbled upon the voids. Intrigued by the opening, the stumps lowered a microphone that could work at extremely high temperatures. The audio recording made in the hellish Peckla (1100 ° C), when reproducing, issued something very similar to human cries. In the Boulevard newspapers they wrote that it was a “voice from the underworld”, and in the west of the well there appeared an informal nickname “a well to hell”.

Since then, the legend of infernal sounds wanders from book to book, from an article to an article. In the XXI century, filmmakers also joined her: first a horror came out "Horror at a depth of 9 miles" With Edian Paul in the title role, then the famous Lars von Trier included documentary personnel from Kola ultra -deep into the epilogue of his thriller "The house that Jack built", and in October 2020, a Russian action-packed tape was released "Kola ultra -deep".

And if all of the above films are artistic, then the audio recording is usually presented as documentary. Here it is:

The drilling of ultra -deep wells is sometimes compared with flights into space - this operation is so complicated. The similarity is enhanced by the fact that the lunar soil in composition almost completely corresponds to the breeds extracted from the Kola well from a depth of about 3000 m. The record for Kola Buroviks was 12,262 meters, reached in 1990. Moreover, in 1984, the drill stopped only two hundred meters higher - an accident occurred, and almost half the distance had to break through the new trajectory.

It was then, after the accident, there was talk of a clash with the other world. Although the breakdown was connected just with obstruction The breeds, people spoke about "breaking through a hole in hell." When this rumor arose, it is not known for reliably, but one of the foci of spread of the legend of the United States. There, an article on the achievements of Soviet drillers came out on the pages of the Scientific American scientific magazine. It would seem that people should have read it purely with interest in academic science. However, a few years later in the California religious newspaper Jewels of Jericho, a story appeared about the Siberian (more familiar to the Americans) a hole in hell of 14.4 km and the heartbreaking cries of sinners, which in 1989 was retold in several Finnish newspapers. The articles mentioned a certain Dr. Azzakov - the initiator of the drilling, supposedly admitted:

“We tried to listen to the movement of plates with certain intervals through supers -sensitive microphones lowered into the well. What we heard turned rational scientists into miserable ruins. It was sometimes weak, but high -tonal sounds that we first wrote off on our own equipment. But, having adjusted the equipment, we found that sounds come from the bowels of the Earth. We did not believe our ears. We heard the voices of people screaming in pain. Although one voice was well distinguished, thousands were heard, millions of suffering souls on the background. ”

The last of the publications was read behind the ocean, and in 1989-1990 this story was devoted to at least three programs on the American Christian TV channel TBN (Trinity BroadCasting Network). Moreover, in the issue of January 29, 1990, the presenter said that the news helped to turn 2000 atheists to Christianity.

Of course, no doctor Azzakov existed at all, not to mention the Siberian well. But still, our main interest is screams from the depth, wherever they sound. Consider this part more detailed.

Firstly, the information about a depth of 14.5 km, on which an audio recording was made, obviously fiction-this is much deeper than Soviet and Russian drillers could ever get. Secondly, the temperature at the maximum depth is far from four-digit indicators and reaches approximately 200 ° C.. Thirdly, no one would lower the microphone to such a depth. In those years, a probe with a generator and a fluctuation receiver was used for an acoustic examination of breeds. The signal was reflected from the thicknesses of the Earth and was transmitted in the form of an electric impulse on a regular TV - the researchers literally looked at the underground sounds, and did not listen to them in the headphones.

As for the audio recording, the examination showed: The recording is fake and made using an sound radio from a classic American horror film of 1972 “Blood Baron”.

Thus, the whole story about hellish cries from now Slomed Kola ultra-deep well is a fiction that appeared in the second half of the 1980s, and the popular “audio recording” of these screams is the processing of the soundtrack.