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Diagram of Devils Hole Cave (1988) Located 650 feet (200 m) north of Devils Hole is a separate cave system called Devils Hole Cave (#2). It was first explored underwater to a depth of 70 feet (21 m) by divers from the Southwestern Speleological Society in February 1961.
Caves are often associated with legends and superstitions of all kinds, dragons, sorcerers and devils like the Quebec caves called fairy hole, devil's hole or bottomless hole. On the Devil's Hole cave of Saint-Casimir, it is said that: The stream was used to quench the thirst of the damned. The noises heard inside the cave were those of souls ...
The cave, part of the Mill Cave System, drains Grassy Cove, which is the largest sinkhole in North America. It contains numerous instances of Mississippian era Native American cave art. The entrance is 125 feet by 150 feet. [1] The cave stream forms the nearby Head of Sequatchie spring, the source of the Sequatchie River. [2]
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Dean's Blue Hole, an underwater cavern, in the Bahamas may be popular with tourists and freedivers, but, according to a 60 Minutes report, many locals believe it was "dug by the devil.". Such ...
The Devil's Throat (Spanish: La Garganta del Diablo) [1] is an underwater cave formation near the island of Cozumel, Mexico, at Punta Sur in the Arrecifes de Cozumel National Park; it starts at approximately 80 feet (24 m) of depth and opens up at approximately 135 ft (41 m) - right at the edge of recreational dive limits.
Historically the cave was known as the Devil's Arse, under which name it is described in William Camden's Britannia of 1586: ...there is a cave or hole within the ground called, saving your reverence, The Devils Arse, that gapeth with a wide mouth and hath in it many turnings and retyring roomes, wherein, for sooth, Gervase of Tilbury, whether for want of knowing the truth, or upon a delight ...
The cave's dark, black entrance inspired the idea that the Devil lived inside. [3] Other stories of the name's origin say that one of the rocks near the entrance was thought to look like the Devil [4] or that warm water vapour drifting from the cave in the winter had an eerie effect. [5] [6] See also Hell Gorge, Pekel, Maribor, and Pekel, Trebnje.