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The Darvaza Gas Crater: The Door To Hell

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The Darvaza gas crater is the official door to hell, burning for over 50 years and has never stopped. It was found by soviet engineers in 1971 when Barrikad Smyshlyaev and his partner Geroinja truda were looking for oil. They started drilling on a spot that they thought was an oil mine. When the Door to hell was broken into and Barrikad Smyshlyaev was sucked into the fiery gates of hell. After truda saw the crater she ran back to the city to find help but unfortunately no one could believe anything she had to say. Until one man offered to help her. Albert Sasman ran back with her to the Door to hell, when they got there he was completely caught aback he had no idea what he was seeing. In a recent interview with Albert he talks about the first time he saw the door to hell “It was too scary to even believe… Fire everywhere at the bottom of the hole!” …show more content…

It wasn’t always the Door to hell though the people in the soviet city believed it was just a random fire that would take care of itself. Flash forward a year and people began to wonder why the fire never lost its power and was still burning. After one more year the crater got its name ‘The Door to Hell’. Although people have been saying “This is the door to hell”, a lot of people are saying there is a scientific reason behind the fire. People believe that the reason the fire is burning is because there is oil in the crater. Another rumor is that someone set the crater on fire to prevent the spread of methane gas. Even though no one can prove it for sure wether or wether not this is “The door to hell” there is reason to believe it's

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