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5 min readIn January 1991, a shipping manager at a remote drilling site in a cold, semi-desolate northern location found an old technical logbook hidden behind a section of wet drywall in a damaged bunkhouse roof. The logbook contained a journal written thirty years earlier by a man named Jack Hutchinson, who worked for Standard Drill Company. The journal recounts a story that begins with Jack being dropped off at the site via amphibious plane, where he meets his monitoring partner, Vladislav—a retired deep earth isolation miner from Ukraine who prefers to be called Vlad, "like the impaler." Vlad is a small, pale, muscular man with enormous hands and feet, and he is utterly unflappable, having spent twenty-five years digging alone in holes so deep that rescue is impossible and bodies are rarely recovered.
The Discovery of the Hole
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- 1 (00:33) **Setup: A Remote Drilling Site and Its Unusual Crew** - The narrator explains his job at a remote, semi-classified drilling site in a cold, desolate location, and how he discovered an old logbook hidden in a wall.
- 2 (03:53) **Jack’s Log Begins: Meeting Vlad** - Jack, the logbook's author, is dropped off at the site and meets his monitoring partner, Vladislav, a retired Deep Earth Isolation (DEI) miner with a bizarre and dangerous background.
- 3 (06:24) **Vlad’s First Disappearance** - Vlad vanishes for four days without explanation, then returns and begins exhibiting strange, sleepwalking behavior.
- 4 (10:26) **The Tank Explosion** - A pressure tank explodes due to Vlad’s negligence, creating a massive crater and revealing a mysterious, ancient iron cover buried beneath the soil.
- 5 (16:34) **Opening the Lid** - Jack and Vlad work together to pry open the heavy iron cover, revealing a deep, hand-carved stone ladder descending into the earth.
- 6 (22:12) **First Descent: An Underground Story** - The pair descend the narrow shaft, discovering pictographs on the walls that tell a story of alien miners, their enslavement by humans, and their eventual rebellion.
- 7 (30:16) **Deeper Discoveries: Alien Tools and a Grim History** - The descent continues, revealing more chambers, an alien mining civilization, and evidence of slavery and genocide.
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How far would you be prepared to descend into the unknown?
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