Mels Hole

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.