After the report

on the second hole The dime given to Mel by the Basque elder does not show up on photographs or digital scanners

The dime also disappears from view when the observer moves more than 15 feet away from it.

Helicopters had been flying by the Basque village since Mel reported on the second hole.

The burning ice that one Basque man took to his cabin to use as fuel ended up sucking the moisture out of the surrounding environment, keeping him thirsty and his skin dry.

The man's cabin eventually totally desentigrated into piles of wood dust, and the stove began sinking into the ground.

Mel contacted one of the government agent who had been involved with the first hole, about the cabin and the stove.

The government sent heavy duty construction equipment to the site. It took multiple large cranes to lift the stove out of the ground, and one of the largest trucks on earth to haul it away.

The Seal-like Creature had returned to the Basque village occasionally.

The Basques found that the creature could speak to them through the radio on their boombox.

The voice coming through the boombox could not be recorded. When the Basque tried, all that showed up on take was a series of radio tones.

The Creature warned that the burning ice was very dangerous when improperly used, and that it could and probably would destroy this world.

It also said that there are beings on other worlds, who plan to move to earth if humans were to destroy ourselves through nuclear wars, and that they would likely misuse the ice on our world.

Mel has not been seen or heard from since this final interview.

In December of 2002, Mel Waters appeared again on Coast to Coast AM for an interesting update.



Helicopters had been flying over the village with the hole, regularly. Mel has since been informed that the metalic collar around the new hole becomes invisible, when an observer reaches a particular distance away from it.



Now it seems that the mysterious 1943 dime disappears from view at 15 feet away, and does not show up on film, nor digital scanner.



Mel updates us about the strange burning ice. He lets us know that the man who began using a can of ever-burning ice as a heat source in his wood stove for the cooler months.



This Basque guy was noticing that in his house he was always thirsty, and the air was always dry, and even his skin began getting very dry. He would place a kettle of water on top of the stove to humidify the air, but one day he noticed that it looked like the steam from the stove was lingering around the stove, and even being absorbed by it.



One day, this man came home and found that the stove had crashed through the hearth and floor boards of his cabin, and was sunken a foot into the ground below.



Faced with the dangers of the frigid air, the cabin owner patches up his stove pipe and continues to use the stove, as it sits below his floor, to heat his home.



A week or two later, the man returns home to find that his entire cabin has desentigrated into piles of dry wood dust. So he leaves the pile behind, and moves in with his brothers. A month later, he returns to find that the stove has now sunken five feet into the ground, leaving a glassy-smooth surface to the hole it creates.



At this point, the man contacts Mel and tells him the story. Mel decides that the best course of action is to contact one of the mysterious officials who was one of his contacts when he was in Australia. That acts deeply troubled and concerned, and insists with great urgency that Mel explain to him where the cabin was and how to get to it. The cabin owner gets in contact with them, and shows them where it is.



The Basque gentleman then decides to hide somewhere in the hills near by, and watch what is done about this sinking stove. A team is dispatched to deal with it. He can't tell whether they are military, or scientists, or what, but they brought out a lot of heavy duty construction equipment to the site, including cranes. It never seems to be enough. They continue to bring heavier and heavier equipment in their attempts to extract this stove and its contents. They're having trouble lifting it even with multiple cranes.



Eventually, they drop some chains into the ground, and pour water over them. With multiple cranes they were then able to hoist the stove out of the ground, and load it onto what was described as the biggest truck he'd ever seen in his life. Then they hauled it away.



This ice reminds Mel of the fictional substance Ice Nine, described in Kurt Vonagut's book, Cat's Cradle. Ice nine was a form of water molecule that freezes at a high temperature, and converts surrounding water to the same form of molecule. It's a theoretical substance that could freeze all the water on earth, and turn people into statues. Vonegut got the idea from a scientist he'd worked with, and there are scientists today who think it isn't impossible.



Mel has since been under the impression that he was being followed. Saying that people he wanted to talk to ended up finding him, even though he's not easy to find. Therefore he has decided not to return to the hole, fearing that somebody might find their way to it through him.



The Basques have informed Mel that the creature that had emerged from the dead sheep had returned multiple time, since it dove back into the hole the first time. The Basques say that they have found a way to communicate with the creature. It speaks to them through one of their boomboxes. The Basques tried recording the dialogue, but the only thing that showed up on the tape was not dialogue, but a series of random and pulsating tones.



Mel theorizes that the creature may be a Rock Flyer, a creature legendary to native Americans, which live beneath the earth and can travel between multiple earths.



The Creature warned the basques about the burning ice, too. It told them that the ice "can and would" destroy the earth in a very short amount of time if improperly used. They anticipate that "greedy and undisciplined use of the ice" would probably occur in this world.



The Creature says that there are intelligent beings on other worlds who anticipate that the human race will destroy itself through nuclear war, and they plan to move in once we're gone, and use the ice on this planet. Mel is told that when the burning ice is discovered in the universe, it's almost always improperly used.



With that, the interview ended, and nobody has heard from Mel Waters since.