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Located on the southern flank of Eldon Hill (etymologically "Elves' Hill"), the peaceful landscape has a hidden evil scar of just a hundred feet long and twenty feet wide.

Long before 18th-century geologists dared to measure its depth, Eldon Hole was feared as a "bottomless pit." In 1636, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously wrote of a stone dropped into the abyss: "The lowest deep descending, it broke through Hell and the centre."

The folklore surrounding the hole is as grim as the shadows within:

The Gibbering Victim : During the reign of Elizabeth I, the Earl of Leicester reportedly lowered a man into the depths on a rope. He never reached the bottom.…