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#66 --- The following letter appeared on page 10, of THE HOLLOW HASSLE newsletter (VOL.241).  The H.H. was a quarterly newsletter published by TAL Levesque and Mary Martin, formerly of Santa Fe, New Mexico:

 

    “Dear Mary... In June 1978, a local rancher named Earlin Busch had a cow mutilated. I went out to his ranch one mile east of Rattlesnake Buttes, 27 (?) miles east of Walsenburg on Colorado #10. In the course of the interview, I asked Earlin about the water on the land, minerals and other features. They had drilled 15-20 wells and all of them were different. The one that the cow had been drinking from was slightly radioactive. The cow was muted just after it had been moved to a field with only ‘clean’ run-off water to drink. One of the wells was very peculiar. They were drilling a couple of miles west of the house - they reached 117 feet and the well started to fill with water slowly. Thinking they'd get more water if they went deeper, they pushed on to 128 feet, where suddenly the bit broke through into a hollow space. They pulled up the bit and felt a powerful blast of air coming out of the hole.

    “Meanwhile, they noted that the hole would suck air for 12 hours and blow out air for 12 hours. For some reason they got some people from the Colorado School of mines in Golden, Co. to come look. They said that the ‘miners’ were delighted to find the continuation of a tunnel that they had last tracked to Oklahoma from the Gulf of Mexico. They explained that the tides pushed the air and pulled it back. Earlin put a cement plug at 117 feet to take out what water he could. -- David Perkins, Farisita, Colo.”

 

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#67 --- The following news article, titled "A HOLE IS EATING SAN JOSE" - written by reporter Rick Carroll