"I threw in sparrows and they immediately breathed their last and fell," he added.

I was puzzled by how one would throw a sparrow, but I am reminded that some people juggle geese.

Well, at least I know where to find my ex.

I was going to go with "Plutonium discovery announced. This is not a repeat from 1941" or something to that effect.

FlashHarry: WhyteRaven74: FlashHarry: anyone got a non-fox link for this? wtf are they on about?

They think the found the location of the "gate to the underworld" that the Greeks and Romans talked about. Pretty cool actually.

cool indeed.

MSN has their fark helmets on: 'Gate to hell' found in Turkey, not Detroit as previously thought

No, what is in Detroit is Hell's Anus, we used to think it was a Hell's Mouth, but that proved to be in Sunny Dale, California.

Was expecting the yearly article about this

How did they build the entrance if the vapors killed anyone who got close to the opening?

FlashHarry: WhyteRaven74: FlashHarry: anyone got a non-fox link for this? wtf are they on about?

They think the found the location of the "gate to the underworld" that the Greeks and Romans talked about. Pretty cool actually.

cool indeed.

MSN has their fark helmets on: 'Gate to hell' found in Turkey, not Detroit as previously thought

That's pretty funny.

So Rupert Murdoch's entry point into the world has been revealed by one of his own "news" companies?

I was expecting this to be about the burning gas well in Turkmenistan. That gets mentioned monthly.

WhyteRaven74: That's a digital reconstruction of what the place used to look like. The vapor is based on some accounts that mention a vapor coming out from the gate.

Hey, that looks kind of familiar:

What a load of horse hockey! I've been to Hell's gate. Knuckle-headed "Byzantines" built a chapel there.

The Caves of Heaven and Hell (Cennet ve Cehennem)

Kick-ass trip actually. Hard, and hot as hell getting down to the cave entrace. Down in the cave it was cold as fark. Free Efes , FTW!

" 'We could see the cave's lethal properties during the excavation. Several birds died as they tried to get close to the warm opening, instantly killed by the carbon dioxide fumes,' D'Andria said."
so I can quit using my bb gun on pests and just breathe on them?

Cerebral Knievel: Gate to hell? I dont think the Greeks had a Hell? Everyone went to the same place when they died.

Everyone went to Hades, the Underworld, ruled by Pluto (not the Roman Pluto, mind). Hades is NOT hell. Sure it may have a few beasties guarding its gates (Cerberus springs to mind, among other ones), and you can hardly call it a friendly place, but Hades was not Hell. Unless you assume that everyone goes to Hell and there is no heaven...

Aureliano_Buendia: Cerebral Knievel: Gate to hell? I dont think the Greeks had a Hell? Everyone went to the same place when they died.

Everyone went to Hades, the Underworld, ruled by Pluto (not the Roman Pluto, mind). Hades is NOT hell. Sure it may have a few beasties guarding its gates (Cerberus springs to mind, among other ones), and you can hardly call it a friendly place, but Hades was not Hell. Unless you assume that everyone goes to Hell and there is no heaven...

There were a few exceptions.  If you were really, really bad you went to Tartarus, and if you were really, really great you went to Elysium.  But most people ended up in Hades.  That was one of the big selling points of Christianity--anyone could get into heaven.

Aureliano_Buendia: Cerebral Knievel: Gate to hell? I dont think the Greeks had a Hell? Everyone went to the same place when they died.

Everyone went to Hades, the Underworld, ruled by Pluto (not the Roman Pluto, mind). Hades is NOT hell. Sure it may have a few beasties guarding its gates (Cerberus springs to mind, among other ones), and you can hardly call it a friendly place, but Hades was not Hell. Unless you assume that everyone goes to Hell and there is no heaven...

You have to watch out for thsoe OPRASUSAALFists. They fill up your limbo bars.

/obsure?

I'm too low of a level to play in Hell. I'm still stuck at Nightmare.

In The Natural History (book II, chapter XCIII), Pliny the Elder mentions this exact same cave:

...the deadly Exhalations in some Places, either emitted from Pits when they were sunk, or else from the very Position of the Ground ; present Death in one Place to the Birds only (as at Soracte, in a Quarter near the City) ; in others, to all other living Creatures, save only Man : yea, and sometime to Men also, as in the Territories of Sinuessa and Puteoli. Which damp Holes 1 , breathing out a deadly Air, some call Charonece Scrobes, or Charon's Ditches. Likewise in the Hirpines' Land, that of Amsanctus, a Cave near the Temple of Me- phitesy into which as many as enter die presently. After the like Manner, at Hierapolis in Asia there is another such, fatal to all except the Priest of the great Mother.

Snnrrt... Good thing this didn't happen under a Republican administration or we'd be overthrowing their government on the news they found a Plutonium there.

...was seen booking a flight to Turkey.

Once Upon A Time In Anatolia is an outstanding movie.

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Hopefully an expert was called in.

"No John, you are the demons."

Hellgate is just east of Missoula.

Arkanaut: "I threw in sparrows and they immediately breathed their last and fell," he added.

I was puzzled by how one would throw a sparrow, but I am reminded that some people juggle geese.

Quaint ;)

FlashHarry: anyone got a non-fox link for this? wtf are they on about?

Allergic to Fox? Awwwww, your a really cute True Believer.

(To the tune of This Old Man: "Marching ants, marching ants, rootin' tootin' marching ants....)

/Felix the Cat rocks.

Well before I go in, I'll need to dupe some gear.

I don't know what he found, because, when I went there it was gated off and had an explaination, and explained that priests used to throw sacrifices in there and that recently a tourist went into the cave and died. That was 5 years ago.


Anyways everyone has always known that there is a site there where there is a toxic cave. Nothing new there

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/Hierapolis

even worse are fat russian men sitting in the travetines in their speedos. Toxic to the eyes

thread is USELESS without this

DontMakeMeComeBackThere: How did they build the entrance if the vapors killed anyone who got close to the opening?

Duh, it was the gods. Gods still walked the earth in those days, before the LORD GOD came along and was like "Nope."

Of course Fox News wouldn't be able to differentiate between Hades/The Underworld and the modern Christian concept of "Hell".

exick: Why...why is there photoshopped smoke/steam coming out of the hole in that picture? This was posted yesterday, so I'm just going to go ahead and assume this is a hilarious archaeological April Fools' joke. Ross Gellar and Indiana Jones are laughing their tits off at it.

Really? The fog is what tips you off to 'shooping present? Not the pristine white marble in-ground pool and gazemo with razor straight edges and crystal clear water plopped down amidst rubble in the middle of some forsaken valley in the middle of nowhere?

*Gazemo is Turkish for Gazebo...

Cerebral Knievel:

thank you folks.. that was all pretty much my point about the name of the article. and this thread, that considering the origins of the culture that made this thing, to call it the "Gate to Hell" is at the least, disingenuous., and at the worst, out right trolling.

Hell, you could argue that "Gate to the Underworld" sounds more ominous, if not just correct. I dunno, Hell doesn't sound that scary. As a modern greek stand-up comedian said, if Hell's where hookers and people who do blow go, that's where I want to go. Hell is demystified.