Another portal to Hell story, this time from Elizabethan England. In the late 1580s, Lord Robert Dudley, purportedly a favorite suitor of Queen Elizabeth I, sought to prove once and for all whether a portal to Hell was located on his property at the bottom of Eldon Hole.
Located in Derbyshire, Eldon Hole is a wide, dark cavern with no end in sight. By the time of the Middle Ages, and possibly even as early as Roman Britain, the hole had a demonic reputation, which Dudley wanted to prove or disprove.
Never fear – Dudley didn’t enter the hole himself. He sent a peasant with a rope tied about his waist. Once lowered into the hole, the peasant fails to answer any of Dudley’s calls. When pulled up again, the man reportedly convulsed and spouted gibberish, his clothes torn. He died eight days later.
Sensibly, Dudley declined further experiment. Other adventurers set out to chart Eldon Hole, but never made it more than 60 to 80 feet down before giving up. More modern explorers have found multiple sets of human bones, some that looked as though they were charred by fire.
What’s at the bottom of Eldon Hole? What will arise if disturbed? What happens next?
