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'We've ruled out Satan': Mysterious hole in the ground shooting out 12-foot-high flames ...
www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | October 1, 2018 | By Marlene Lenthang

Posted on 10/05/2018 7:35:36 AM PDT by Red Badger

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'We've ruled out Satan': Mysterious hole in the ground shooting out 12-foot-high flames for 40 minutes in Arkansas leaves officials stumped

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On September 17 a hole in the ground shot out 12-foot flames for 40 minutes

The blaze broke out on a private property in Midway, Arkansas at 4.30am

Weeks later, officials are still clueless as to what caused the inferno

Officials have ruled out meteorites, a gas leak and Satan as potential causes

Soil samples from the area are yet to be tested and could reveal the cause

Geologists determined that the hole was made by animals but have no idea how flames would have started shooting out

Baxter County Judge Mickey Pendergrass believed someone ignited the fire on purpose using a clean fuel

Arkansas authorities are scratching their heads to figure out how a small hole in the ground spewed out 12-foot flames last month.

The bizarre hole, located on a private property in Midway, Arkansas, released a fiery display on the morning of September 17, yet officials are clueless as to how the hole opened up.

On that fateful day the hole released a spectacle of furious flames for about 40 minutes, shocking bystanders. Then it suddenly stopped.

Baxter County Judge Mickey Pendergrass joked that he's ruled out Satan as a possible explanation for the fire - as well as meteorites or a gas leak.

'As far as the spiritual Satan goes, we've ruled that out. He didn't come up and stick his pitchfork in the ground and blow that hole out,' he said to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Agriculture; Outdoors; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: fireinthehole
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And the green grass grew all around, all around.

And the green grass grew all around....................

1 posted on 10/05/2018 7:35:36 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

How’d they rule out Satan?


2 posted on 10/05/2018 7:39:58 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

Because Hillary isn’t in Arkansas right now.


3 posted on 10/05/2018 7:41:24 AM PDT by rivercat
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To: ifinnegan

I’m surprised they didn’t rule out Islam Terrorism already. That usually comes first.


4 posted on 10/05/2018 7:41:28 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The MSM is in the business of creating a fake version of reality for political reasons.)
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To: ifinnegan

no pentagram around hole


5 posted on 10/05/2018 7:42:20 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: ifinnegan

They called the Secret Service and asked where Obama was..................


6 posted on 10/05/2018 7:44:44 AM PDT by Red Badger (Q............PREPARE FOR 'SKY IS FALLING' WEEK...........................)
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To: Red Badger
"Hey, what's that noise?" "hehe hehe.. It's Satan, dumbass"


7 posted on 10/05/2018 7:44:54 AM PDT by Jim Noble
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To: Red Badger
Geologists determined that the hole was made by animals but have no idea how flames would have started shooting out

Maybe the critters built a small campfire underground for warmth, it got out of hand, and burned an area that had not burned in a long time.

8 posted on 10/05/2018 7:44:55 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Red Badger

Cue the Bill Murray pics... (Sorry, I don’t have any handy)


9 posted on 10/05/2018 7:45:01 AM PDT by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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To: Red Badger

Back in the 1920s, or 1930sa gas company wanted to drill on some Arkansas mountain land for exploratory purposes. They got the permits, and bought rights to drill, and they hit gas.

The well exploded, and all that fire coming out of the ground convinced those hillbillies that the company had drilled into Hell and the devil was coming out to get them. It was about fifty years before any company was allowed to drill that area again. Now it has lots of gas wells in the area.


10 posted on 10/05/2018 7:47:11 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

This may be in that vein.........................


11 posted on 10/05/2018 7:48:09 AM PDT by Red Badger (Q............PREPARE FOR 'SKY IS FALLING' WEEK...........................)
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To: ifinnegan

Because it conflicts with their progressivist religious belief.


12 posted on 10/05/2018 7:48:36 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: Red Badger


13 posted on 10/05/2018 7:55:15 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Red Badger

So exactly how’d they ‘rule out Satan’? They yelled down the hole “Hey, is that you, Satan” and didn’t get a response?


14 posted on 10/05/2018 7:59:24 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: Red Badger

Start drilling.


15 posted on 10/05/2018 8:00:25 AM PDT by buffaloguy (MSM: Wind up dolls of the DNC.)
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To: Red Badger
Noooooooooooo....


16 posted on 10/05/2018 8:02:05 AM PDT by avenir ("But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine."--Paul to Titus)
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To: WKUHilltopper

“They yelled down the hole “Hey, is that you, Satan” and didn’t get a response?”

They did get a response: “No!”


17 posted on 10/05/2018 8:02:21 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: Red Badger

Darn groundhog tried to fry a turkey... and burned his own house instead...


18 posted on 10/05/2018 8:02:44 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: rivercat

LOL

Then better make sure no one arkancided in that hole.


19 posted on 10/05/2018 8:04:27 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: rivercat

LOL

Then better make sure no one arkancided in that hole.


20 posted on 10/05/2018 8:04:27 AM PDT by DannyTN
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