A Roosevelt dime found buried on Mel's property draws particular attention. Dated before Roosevelt's death and bearing a mysterious "B" mint mark unknown to any U.S. facility, the coin baffled a dealer before Treasury officials confiscated it. Listeners confirm that TerraServer satellite imagery shows a large blacked-out section over the Manastash Ridge area where Mel's property sits.
Mel then reveals the real bombshell: he has found a second apparently bottomless hole in the Pacific Northwest with its own strange properties. The program opens with listener calls covering Bigfoot field research in southern Oregon, shadow people encounters, and a security guard's account of a vanishing vagrant in Fort Myers, Florida.
Key Moments
Recap: 80,000 feet of fishing line, no bottom: Mel reviews the original Manastash Ridge hole story for new listeners - nine feet across, used as a dump for refrigerators, dead cattle and TV picture tubes that never made a sound, ultimately measured at 80,000 feet of fishing line with no bottom reached.
Government leases the property in perpetuity: Mel describes how, after the original 1997 broadcast, uniformed personnel told him a 'plane crash' had happened on his land and threatened to plant a drug lab. They then offered to lease the property in perpetuity for a quarter-million dollars a month and relocated him to Australia.
The black beam of light: Mel says the Native American group that contacted him reported the same paranormal effects he'd seen at the Washington hole, including a 'black beam of light' that periodically shoots straight up out of the new Nevada hole - solid black, not a UV black light.
The unmelting ice that burns like fuel: Mel describes lowering Safeway bags of ice 1,500 feet into the Nevada hole. The retrieved ice did not melt, did not feel cold, and when set on a cooking fire it began 'burning' with a faint blue glow - and a friend has been heating his cabin with it since September.
Lowering a live sheep into the new hole: Mel reluctantly admits that to test the hole further, the team built a crate, stunned a 150-pound live sheep between the eyes, and winched it 1,500 feet down. The sheep's piercing screams cut off into total silence the moment it cleared the rim, and around 700 feet down all movement on the line stopped.