Waters, who claims he and his wife bought the property sometime in 1993, discovered the hole soon afterwards and — much like all those who came before him — used it as a convenient (if environmentally unfriendly) rubbish bin.It wouldn’t be long, however, before he became irresistably drawn to this strange hollow. In particular Waters became fascinated by the its’ inexplicable ability to “devour” all that was thrown within. In his own words:“Well so, we’ve been here several years we just take all of our trash rubbish there. Anything we have we have to get rid of we take it and just throw in the hole there. Everyone’s throwing their stuff in the hole. The people from around there throw all the stuff in the hole. I mean it’s just been going on for a long time well, and I got to thinking one day how come this hole is not filling up? It must be an awfully deep hole.”
In the summer of 1996, Waters’ decided that his first experiment would be to ascertain just how deep this crevice actually was. Being, by his own admission, an avid marine angler, Waters had a plethora or high test fishing line. So, in an effort to discern the depth of the pit, he rigged the line to the center of the opening and attached what he referred to as a “triangular, one pound, standard lead fish weight” to a long spool of fishing line and lowered it into the black depths of the hole… it never reached the bottom.
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