December 25, 2002: Mel's Hole Replay Compilation
Mel recounts his mysterious abduction in late 1999, waking up beaten and toothless in a San Francisco alley twelve days later with his fortune gone. He reveals the significance of a 1943 Roosevelt dime found on the property, minted before Roosevelt's death with an impossible "B" mint mark, and directs listeners to the TerraServer satellite imagery showing his Washington property blotted out with white squares.
The compilation continues with the discovery of the Nevada hole, its metal-lined interior, and the extraordinary ice experiments. Mel describes how a sheep lowered into the hole was retrieved dead, containing a tumor-like mass that when cut open revealed a living creature resembling a baby seal with disturbingly human eyes. The creature later communicated with the Basque through radio frequencies, warning about the dangers of the burning ice.
Key Moments
Hand on the Bible, swear to the truth: Art halts the original Mel's Hole interview and demands Mel place his hand on a Bible and swear that everything he is telling him is the absolute truth before continuing.
The dog thrown in dead, seen alive again: Mel says a neighbor told him he threw his dead dog into the hole, then later spotted the same dog in the woods hunting alongside someone else as if it had been brought back to life.
Plane crash cover story takes the hole: Mel says that after the original broadcast and a major snowstorm, uniformed officials met him on the road to his property, told him there had been a plane crash there, and barred him from his own land.
Second hole with a metal collar all the way down: Bass herders and Native Americans lead Mel to a second well in Nevada with a two-foot metal collar around it and notches that look engineered, and the metal continues as far as the eye can see down the nine-foot-wide shaft.
Sheep goes silent the moment it reaches the hole: Crated and lowered toward the hole, the sheep screams the most piercing, ghastly noises the men have ever heard, then the instant the crate is positioned over the opening every sound stops dead, even though the sheep is still moving.