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Mels Hole

Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.

The story

In 1997 a caller named Mel Waters told a national radio audience about a bottomless hole on his Manastash Ridge property that swallowed everything, restored dead animals, and unsettled the neighbors. No Mel Waters ever appeared in county records and no hole has ever been found, which makes this pure radio-age campfire folklore, and Washington loves it anyway. The ridge country is real, pretty, and worth the drive the legend gives you.

The ground it haunts

Manastash Ridge country near Ellensburg (Kittitas County, WA). Source: Radio-age folklore, told as exactly that. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.

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