Saturday, September 21, 2013

Door to the hell - burning crater for last 35 years..


There are many mysterious places on planet earth whose attributes or existence usually go beyond our human reasoning capacity. They demand supernatural aura. Anyways, Here's story of such place...




This place in Uzbekistan is called by locals “The Door to Hell”. It is situated near the small town of Darvaz. The story of this place lasts already for 35 years. Once the geologists were drilling for gas. Then suddenly during the drilling they have found an underground crater, it was so big that all the drilling site with all the equipment and camps got deep deep under the ground. None dared to go down there because the crater was filled with gas. So they ignited it so that no poisonous gas could come out of the hole, and since then, it’s burning, already for 35 years without any pause. Nobody knows how many tons of excellent gas has been burned for all those years but it just seems to be infinite there.