按 http://www.av1611.org/hell.html
进网页，有个人头的报道。
在正中间那个报道写着LISTEN那边！
你听过最恐怖的声音是什麽？半夜里的女人尖叫声？刀片刮玻璃的声音？妈妈叫你把考卷交出来的声音？还是…「地狱传来的声音」？网络上正在流传这样的声音。真的有种事吗？
网络上流传的「地狱之声」是一个大约2分多钟的声音档，前面2分多钟都是一个人用英语做说明，後面30秒才是所谓的「地狱之声」。根据文本说明，这些声音，是俄国科学家在钻探地壳时录到的。中文版的传言其实写的很简略，我们在网络上查找了这个传言的外文版，其中一个版本是英文版，我们在这里面查找了更多消息。先来看看原文：
These details are reportedly from the translation of an article in a Finnish newspaper named Ammennusatia.
A geological group who drilled a hole about 14.4 kilometers deep in the crust of the earth are saying that they heard human screams. Screams have been heard from the condemned souls from earths deepest hole. Terrified scientists are afraid they have let loose the evil powers of hell up to the earths surface.
The information we are gathering is so surprising, that we are sincerely afraid of what we might find down there, stated Dr Azzacov, the manager of the project in remote Siberia.
The second surprise was the high temperature they discovered in the earths center. The calculations indicate the given temperature was about 1,100 degrees Celsius, or over 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, Azzacov pointed out. `This is far more then we expected. It seems almost like an inferno of fire is brutally going on in the center of the earth.
The last discovery was nevertheless the most shocking to our ears, so much so that the scientists are afraid to continue the project. We tried to listen to the earths movements at certain intervals with supersensitive microphones, which were let down through the hole. What we heard turned those logically thinking scientists into a trembling ruins. It was a sometimes a weak, but high pitched sound which we thought to be coming from our own equipment,` explained Dr Azzacov.
But after some adjustments we comprehended that indeed the sound came from the earths interior. We could hardly believe our own ears. We heard a human voice, screaming in pain. Even though one voice was discernible, we could hear thousands, perhaps millions, in the background, of suffering souls screaming. After this ghastly discovery, about half of the scientists quit because of fear. Hopefully, that which is down there will stay there,` Dr Azzacov added.
What really unnerved the Soviets, apart from the voice recordings, was the appearance that same night of a fountainhead of luminous gas shooting up from the drill site, and out of the midst of this incandescent cloud pillar a brilliant being with bat wings revealed itself with the words (in Russian): I have conquered,` emblazoned against the dark Siberian sky.
The incident was absolutely unreal; the Soviets cried out in terror, says Mr. Nummedal. Later that night, he saw ambulance crews circulating in the community. A driver he knew told him that they had been told to sedate everybody with a medication known to erase short term memory. The Soviets use this drug in the treatment of shock victims.
“As a communist I don’t believe in heaven or the Bible but as a scientist I now believe in hell,” said Dr. Azzacove. “Needless to say we were shocked to make such a discovery. But we know what we saw and we know what we heard. And we are absolutely convinced that we drilled through the gates of Hell!”
Dr. Azzacove continued, “. . .the drill suddenly began to rotate wildly, indicating that we had reached a large empty pocket or cavern. Temperature sensors showed a dramatic increase in heat to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit.”
“We lowered a microphone, designed to detect the sounds of plate movements down the shaft. But instead of plate movements we heard a human voice screaming in pain! At first we thought the sound was coming from our own equipment.”
“But when we made adjustments our worst suspicions were confirmed. The screams weren’t those of a single human, they were the screams of millions of humans!”
根据英文提供的信息，我们认为有以下几点可供查证：
1.前苏联真的有科学家去钻地壳吗？
2.当前地壳钻探到底可以钻到多深？
3.这个博士真有其人吗？
4.除了我们查找的两个网页，这个消息还有那些媒体可以提供旁证？
第一个问题，答案是肯定的。苏联的确有过钻探地心的行动。
第二个问题，英文版里表示，这个钻探团队是在钻到14.4公里里录到这个声音－－这，根本是不可能的。当前全世界最深的钻探纪录只到12262公尺。一直到今年，才有一位美国科学家提出要向地心挖掘3000公里的计划，不过，能不能成真都还不知道。参见地心钻探纪录
第叁个问题，这个博士只在这个传言里出现，其他地方都没听过。
第四个问题，除了上面这两个网站，根本没有任何主要媒体报道过这个消息。
综合以上的分析，这个谣言除了在第二点出现明显的错误，其他部分大都难以查证。我们正在犹豫该如何下结论时，淡水河一号又回头看了一次原文，才又发现一个可以查证的疑点，而且就在第一段：
These details are reportedly from the translation of an article in a Finnish newspaper named Ammennusatia
这些内容是翻译自芬兰一家名叫Ammennusatia的报纸。
我们试着以Ammennusatia再次搜索，竟意外发现一段精采的追查故事，原来，国外的辟谣网站TruthOrFiction.com早已经针对这个谣言进行过查证，而且过程还非常曲折。
TruthOrFiction.com的站长是Rich Buhler，根据他的自我介绍，他是一位牧师，一位广播人，也曾经在CBS等媒体待过。他致力於追查一些乡野传奇，尤其是宗教方面的。参见Rich Buhler
Rich Buhler在加州主持一个广播节目。事情是这样的，大约在1990年代初，他的听众就不断的call in到电台去问他关於地狱之声的事情，大部分的人都宣称他们是在Trinity Broadcasting Network的节目中听到这件事，他打电话去问，小姐居然跟他说「是真的。」让他大为震惊，才开始决定调查。
注：Trinity Broadcasting Network有个网站
http://www.tbn.org/index.php
接下来的调查过程很长，全翻出来，一方面有版权问题，一方面也怕大家看到疯掉，简单的说，Rich Buhler问TBM「消息从哪来的？」TBN就告诉他是A说的，然後他再去问A，A又说是B说的…以下如此类推，他一路从美国加州问到芬兰，甚至问到谣言上的那家报社，结果，统统都是「听人家说的」。最妙的是，绕了一圈後，他才发现，原来谣言的发源地还是在TBN，而关键人物是一位挪威人Age Rendalen。
最早就是他把这个故事给了一位常上TBN的牧师，然後TBN不加查证的把谣言都广播出来，再经过十八手传播，从美国传到芬兰，再从芬兰传回美国，大家都听说来听说去，甚至在转述过程中再加油添醋，才会让谣言愈来愈像是真的，也愈来愈不可考。
整个调查过程，参见Background on the Drilling to Hell story
值得一提的是，在英文版的谣言里还有一张照片，上面看来是一堆工人，那张照片其实是Age Rendalen把他们家社区报里的一则工地消息张冠李戴，拿去骗TBN的。
Age Rendalen表示，其实他在编造的故事里，有留下许多可以查证的线索，包括他的个人以及他知道真相的友人的联络方案。他没想到的是，这麽多介质居然没有一家去向他查证。
总而言之，这是一个编造出来的故事，不过却是个值得媒体人好好深思的故事。
2003年8月21日补述：
之前为了确定地心钻探的纪录，我们有写信向经济部中央地质调查所探询，今天接到回信，再度证实「钻到14公里」的说法并不正确，以下是原信：
您好，
您的问题我们回答如下：
地球构造是由地壳、地函、地核等叁个部分组成。您所谓的 “地心”，不知是否即指 “地核”？ 以下我们将视您的问题为 “地核” 进行回答，如有误解之处，请您再来信说明：
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全球现有最深的地核探测，为1970 到 1989 年於俄罗斯（当时名为苏联）境内，由俄罗斯人进行，名为 Kola SG-3 的计划，深度为 12,262 公尺（近13公里)。
请引用网站 http://icdp.gfz-potsdam.de/sites/kola/wellsite/well.html 的介绍，该网站另外介绍了其他国家的探测计划，值得引用。 -
另外根据中国时报报道，加州理工学院行星科学教授史蒂芬生在 2003年5月15 出刊 的 Science 期刊，发表的探测地心计划，请引用：
(1) URL智邦生活馆网站的报道： http://iwebs.url.com.tw/main/html/scisci/638.shtml
(2) 中国地质学会会讯92年5月20日-5月26日的报道： http://geolsoc.gl.ntu.edu.tw/0520_0526.htm