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'Hell's Gate' in Russia gets bigger every year
The 990 m wide Batagay crater in the Far East is continuously expanding, with the volume of frozen ground melting each year reaching up to one million cubic meters.
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Why can't the 'Hell's Gate' burned for 50 years in Turkmenistan be filled?
Turkmenistan- Methane leak also known as
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Scientists propose the idea of drilling 'Hell's Gate' to put out the fire
Scientists propose drilling 'Gateway to Hell' in central Turkmenistan to extinguish the crater that has burned for decades.
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Turkmenistan wants to extinguish the 'Gate of Hell' that has been burning for 50 years in the desert!
Some Turkmen geologists say the crater appeared in the 1960s but did not start burning until the 1970s, and it has been in the Karakum desert for the past 50 years.
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7 mysterious death holes on Earth
Many mysterious lands in the world are thought to be the gateway to the afterlife, from a permanent fire pit in Turkmenistan to the sinking holes in Mexico.
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The mystery of the valley of corpses, going in is painful dry death
The scenery is beautiful but the place hides a dangerous danger.
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New video filmed the fearsome 'hell gate' for 50 years
The Sun has just published an amazing video of 'hell gate' in Turkmenistan.
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The eternal flames of the world
Flames burn naturally in many areas of the world that have existed for decades or even centuries.
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After more than 2,000 years, the mystery of the hell gate was opened
Two thousand years ago, the ancient tourists went to a Greek-Roman temple in Hierapolis (modern-day Turkey), located above a cave that was supposed to be the gate to the…
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The 10 scariest places in the world
The spooky to scary scenery along with the murky atmosphere to the cold of the following locations will surely make you hair up if you miss it.
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The well of the strange Thor smoking water in the middle of the sea
Thor's well in Oregon (USA) is also called
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Son Doong enters the top scary destination in the world
The Buzzfeed page of the US has just brought Son Doong cave to the list of destinations that suffocates viewers next to Turkmenistan's Hell's Door and Devil's Nose in No…
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Open the Mayan hell gate
Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula is littered with thousands of mysterious caves that once served as a haven for prehistoric people and later became a sacred Mayan sacrifice.
Archeology
Find 'hell gate' in myth
Italian archaeologists announce that they discovered the cave Pluto, also called