Behind The Mystery Door

This is my entry to the "Behind the mystery door" contest by @onceuponatime

My think about Behind the mystery door :

If there is anything on the entrance to hell, this place can be called in the village of Derwaz in Turkmenistan. The fire is burning in the face of a hole day and night. There is no such scene seen anywhere near the Darwage Village. Year-by-winter, summer, monsoon, this hole is burning. So the local residents call this hole as hell gate. Why this fire burns forever? What is the secret behind it? Is not it really hell gate? What is science saying? Perhaps these questions are rotting in your mind. Then know what is the secret behind it?

This pit of Turkmen's Darwesh is 226 feet wide and 98 feet deep.

Although it is not a natural hole. This 'hell gate' has been created by humans.

A huge reservoir of natural gas at Turkmenistan's Darwaza. This place was discovered by Russian engineers in 1971.

First Russian engineer thought that it could be oil mine. That's the beginning of excavation work

But they did not understand that they would come out of the hole instead of oil toxic gas. Even during the excavation, collapses in the soil and the equipment is pressed.

Due to the spread of toxic gas all around, the excavation was stopped. From there, the camp was taken away.

Russian engineers thought that if the fire was set on fire, it would stop toxic gases in a few weeks.

But mistaken for their beliefs, this hole is burning in a way for almost 45 years.

From there, this place of Derw has been abandoned.

Investigator George Couronis first entered the hellhound. Extremofilm collected from there for research. His adventures were shown in the National Geographic Channel by creating a film named Crater of Fire.

This place has now become the main attraction of tourists. In the last five years, about 50 thousand tourists have come to see the hellfire.

The world's largest natural gas reserves in the Karakum desert, along with Darvage, are bishops. The Turkmen government has recently ordered the government to impose this holes.