Obscura Archive Ep. 1: Gateways to Hell

On the first installment of Obscura Archive we dive into urban legends and superstitions based around the concept of other worlds and how to travel to them

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Music: Kevin MacLeod
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[egmorox]

It was 3 am and saw the sounds from hell story on tumblr with a sound file attached. I worked up the courage to hit play, and braces myself, and la bamba played.

[CatTheKitten]

Thank you for talking about the history of the Elevator Game without mentioning elisa lam. That's definitely a youtube first

[GredelsRage]

The bore hole to hell is funny. The hole was so hot that it melted the drills but sure shove a microphone down in thrre because everyone knows plastis, chrome, copper and shit are 100% heat proof

[ChaosRaych]

I would definitely die on the elevator, either of answering the lady or the awkward silence from not answering her

[kmoneymoolah]

As someone who's lived in York County, the 7 gates of hell is just an urban legend. I went out exploring with friends a while back, and nothing unusual happened. The only creepy and eerie thing is that you're in the pitch-black woods in the countryside. It is surreal to see you talk about it since I've grown up with this urban legend for most of my life. Keep up the good content!

[gooseyghost]

2:55 I just immediately went "oh its the Mob Psycho tunnel!" 😂

[Hyena-Princess]

Listen, all I'm saying is that if there is a 9 mile deep hole in the Earth that leads to Hell, at some point we're gonna go in and try to conquer it. Tell the US there's Oil down there and boom, we got Hell colonized.

[GarGhuul]

From what I recall the “Sounds from hell” audio clip Coast to Coast AM had was eventually identified as a “Hellscape” sound effect from “The Devil in Miss Jones.” (Not to be confused with more family friendly “The Devil and Miss Jones.”)
P.S. I am uncertain if I am remembering a correct comparison of the two clips, or if they were disproving that they were the same. Sorry, my memory is faulty.

[SakuraAsranArt]

The Kola bore hole may not be a portal to hell but these stories about it did inspire one of my favourite Russian horror films, 2020's The Superdeep. It's set in the mid 80s, shortly before the fall of the USSR and the film makers did a splendid job recreating the atmosphere of the Soviet Union. It's a fun movie, the effects are excellent and I highly recommend it for any horror fans looking for something to watch on movie night.

[CGCGCG]

The ad placement on this video was absolutely top tier.

Just as it said about here's the sound from hell, it cut to a Dominos Pizza ad

[airplanemaster]

And when the world needed her most, she appeared.

[seanmccoy]

The hell sounds just sounds like a public indoor water park

[suryadas]

The guy talking about having the "Siberian Sounds of Hell" tape and that it is legit is on some April 1st shenanigans! 😂

[GrahamCracka]

Sweet new video! When I was younger we visited the "7 gates of hell, " near York pa, it was awesome. There was steps in the snow about a mile in that looked like it had dropped from a tree and started walking.

[SerpentNight]

Been listening to a WWII book recently and heard that Kyoto was largely spared from any bombing raids in 1945 as War Secretary Henry Stimpson lobbied for it to be spared because of it being the country's cultural center and he had honeymooned there with is wife before the war.

[tragedyonbroadway]

idk why that elevator story had me in such a grip but it did

[eldergroan]

the 'sounds from hell' has been debunked, the video is on youtube. the analysis shows it is from a known source and repeatedly looped.

[TheStryphoon]

the format and reference as "the traveller" being given set instructions, do this, ignore this, etc. reminds me of the old 1000~ cursed objects creepy pastas from 4chan way back when. Was a kind of unofficial mass colab writing project. people would make up a story in that format, go here, do this, etc. success would result in obtaining an object, final line was always that they (the cursed objects) must never be brought together.

[asteriondeltoro]

I had a creepy experience in an elevator once, though there was nothing supernatural about it. I had a job interview in a urban skyscraper. I forget which floor, but it was the upper double-digits. The first thing I noticed walking into the elevator was that there was no handrail in back, which struck me as odd. I also dimly remember one of the walls being covered with a blanket, as if there was damage that someone hadn't gotten around to fixing. Rationally, I knew that it was probably some cosmetic damage that wouldn't affect the function of the elevator, but nevertheless it sent the unnerving message that maintenance was not on the ball. The elevator was a high-speed that served the upper floors, so when it started there was a notable feeling of acceleration, which instinctively made me look for something to grab onto, but there was nothing- no handrail, and the walls were all flat and smooth. I was suddenly seized by the irrational fear that the floor might fall out of the elevator, leaving me to fall many stories to my death. I recognized the fear as ridiculous, but since fear is illogical, even counter-logical, my nerves didn't much care what left brain said. I made the trip there and back with no ill effects other than some white knuckles, but I can't say I was disappointed that I didn't get the job.

Elevators are, I think, inherently nerve-wracking because they take you to high places. There's glory in going to high places- the peak of Everest, the penthouse suite, the SpaceX flight for the rich- but there's also danger, from the very real dangers of cold, winds, and the ever-present possibility of falling, to more metaphorical hazards like hubris. The Tower of Babel is probably the Ur-example. A modern example is the Steinway Tower. According to Google, it sways as much as three feet on a windy day. If the news ever got out, the rich people who don't live there would take a bath. (The high-end real estate market in NYC is basically a financial scam- nobody lives in the luxury condos, they buy them for $2 million to sell to someone who pays $4 million, then he sells it for $6 million, etc., until the condos eventually wind up in the hands of organized crime outfits, who sell them at a loss to launder money.) So when you hop into an elevator, you're asking this cold, dispassionate structure, incapable of offering you reassurance or even recognizing if it's not working as intended, to convey you into dangerous territory and back. It's a wonder more people AREN'T afraid of elevators, frankly.

[Vulkans]

Interesting, the elevator game is part of the videogame Faith Ch. 3, with a similar method to start the journey and complete with a woman that you must ignore lest you die, and a giant cross visible when looking out one of the final floor's windows. I figured it was just some creepy thing the developer thought up to put in the game but it turns out it's a whole urban legend I didn't know about.