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{{quote|''"Moria! Moria! Wonder of the Northern world. [[Trope Namer|Too deep we delved there]], and [[Sealed Evil in a Can|woke]] the nameless fear."''
A mining operation unleashes the [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]. The [[Trope Namer]] is of course ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', and it seems this happens ''a lot'' with little variation because [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same]]. A mine filled with evil is one of the great traditional [[Dungeon Crawler|Dungeons]]. Also, evil from mines have so many themes. You've got [[Greed]] and it can be a [[Green Aesop]] too!
See also [[King in the Mountain]]
Can result in an [[Abandoned Mine]].
Do not confuse with [[Enemy Mine]], when you and your enemy team up to face the [[Conflict Killer]], or [[Digging Yourself Deeper]], which is for awkward one-way conversations.
{{examples}}
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Mazinger Z]]'': An archaelogical expedition researching ancient ruins in the Greek Island of Bardos went too deep in the underground mazes of the island and found an army of [[Humongous Mecha]]. Subverted, since [[Big Bad]] [[Mad Scientist|Dr.]] Hell ''hoped'' finding them and using them to further his goals. Also, when Hell seized those robots, he drew the attention of the Mykene Empire -[[Beneath the Earth|an ancient civilization had been forced to live underground]]- and they decided return to the surface ''quite'' violently (in the sequel, ''[[Great Mazinger]]'').
* The construction of the [[Amusement Park|Marine Garden]] in ''[[
* In of the weirdest episodes of the otherwise [[Mohs Scale of Sci Fi Hardness|hard sci-fi]] series ''[[Patlabor]]'', underground construction woke up what was either a [[Kaiju]] or a ''dragon'' (the characters couldn't quite agree which).
== [[Comic Books]] ==
== Comics ==▼
* The creature in the 2008 ''[[Wolverine]]'' annual "Roar" was unleashed when a town suffering from a drought dug for groundwater where it was lurking.
* Clive Barker's ''Rawhead Rex''. Granted, he wasn't buried very deep.
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* [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] miniseries ''Jedi Academy: Leviathan'' is all about this trope.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Rodan]]'' was unleashed on Japan by miners breaking into a sealed chamber and allowing the egg to hatch. Not to mention the giant Meganulon caterpillars that were also in there.
== Films -- Live-Action ==▼
▲* ''[[Rodan]]'' was unleashed on Japan by miners breaking into a sealed chamber and allowing the egg to hatch. Not to mention the giant Meganulon caterpillars that were also in there.
* ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (film)|Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' has construction workers unearthing Ivan Ooze.
* The dragons in ''[[Reign of Fire]]'' were discovered by underground construction workers as well.
* Possibly in ''[[Galaxy Quest]]'': "Where are the miners?"
* The title creatures in ''[[The Boogens]]'' were initially released due to gold mining in the
* Played with in ''[[Aliens vs. Predator]]''. The Predators dug out the Alien temple in the arctic, but they did it on purpose. They use it to hatch aliens inside humans for sport hunting.
* Appears in ''[[The Descent Part 2]]''. Apparently, many years before the events of the film a mining operation dug just too deep.
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* Implied to be the source of Perfection's Graboid infestation in ''[[Tremors]] 4'', in which [[Wild West]] miners uncover "dirt dragon" eggs and unwittingly allow them to revive.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* ''[[Lone Wolf]]'': An immortal monster was kept imprisoned by the special ore in the rock around it. Very, very valuable ore. Which was dug up by dwarves, thus releasing the ancient evil (which happened to be a servant of the [[Big Bad]] from the [[Backstory|elder days]]), which set about destroying the dwarves' underground kingdom.▼
* In the ''[[Fighting Fantasy]]'' book ''[[Sealed Evil in a Can|Portal of Evil]]'', which is set during a gold rush, miners unwittingly uncovered an [[Artifact of Doom]] in the form of an ancient portal to a [[Lost World]]. The portal is sentient and causes those to pass through to transform into zombie-like slaves to its will. Or prehistoric mammals. Or dinosaurs.▼
▲== Literature ==
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'': The Balrog was found when the Dwarves of Moria "delved too greedily and too deep." It ''was'' [[Sealed Evil in a Can]], but then they woke it up, and it wiped out their kingdom.
** One of [[FoxTrot|Jason Fox]]'s ideas for "How Disney could improve its movies" went like this:
{{quote|'''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Dwarves]]:''' We dig-dig-dig and dig-dig-dig and mine the whole day through...
'''Grumpy:''' Balrog! }}
* In ''[[Desperation]]'' by [[Stephen King]], Chinese Miners dig too deep and uncover the dwelling of Tak, a sadistic, insane, body-snatching horror from beyond our world.
* ''[[Warhammer
** Another Necron base was found in an {{spoiler|asteroid mine}}. Cain suspected, but as there were ''also'' tyranids attacking the asteroid, ''they'' got the blame for the deaths of the miners. It seems likely the 'nids actually arrived ''after'' just about all the humans were dead.
** The same thing happened in the [[Space Marine]] novel "The Fall of Damos". The Adeptus Mechnicus dug up necron ruins, collected artifacts and did not tell anyone else about it. Some time later the awakened necrons slaughtered most of the human population and were only halted by the Ultramarines.
* Subverted in ''[[
** In the same novel, an opal miner uncovers the Luggage
* In the [[Simon R. Green]] novel ''Blue Moon Rising'' the inhabitants of a mining town Dug Too Deep just as the [[Big Bad]] awakened. By the time the heros get there it is far, far too late for anything except revenge.
* ''Streams of Silver'' by R. A. Salvatore: manages to combine both [[The Lord of the Rings|Moria]] and ''[[The Hobbit]]'', because the dwarves dug too deep and thereby somehow allowed access to a shadow dragon that drove them from their home.
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* [[Invoked Trope]] in ''[[The Heroes of Olympus]]''. {{spoiler|Gaea forces Hazel to use [[Dishing Out Dirt|her powers]] to revive [[The Brute|Alcyoneus]]. After realizing this, Hazel buryed herself along with Alcyoneus to postpone Gaea's plans.}}
* Subverted in the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "The Devil in the Dark". A monster starts attacking a group of miners after they enter a new level. It turns out to be a [[Mama Bear]] [[Monster Is a Mommy|protecting her eggs]] (silicon nodules), which were being destroyed by the mining operation. Fortunately, she's a very reasonable Mama Bear and Kirk and Spock are able to resolve the situation with a mutually agreeable compromise.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' in "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit." The title of the latter should explain it all...
** A drill to tap a new fuel source in ''Inferno'' instead unleashes a substance that transforms people into bloodthirsty beasts, and the destruction of a parallel world the Doctor is trapped on for the duration of the serial.
** Subverted in the two-parter "The Hungry Earth"/"Cold Blood"
* On ''[[Lexx]]'', an [[Asteroid Miners|Asteroid Miner]] scouting a test shaft in a small planetoid is possessed by an alien essence, which proceeds to {{spoiler|[[Body Surf]] while building a 20,000-planet theocracy around itself.}}
* On ''[[Lost]]'', the group of scientists known as the Dharma Initiative {{spoiler|uncovered an electro-magnetic hot spot by drilling into the ground,}} causing a disaster that would {{spoiler|result in a hatch being built with a button that would have to be pushed every 108 minutes in order to keep things from going to crap, the failure to push said button eventually causing the crash of Oceanic flight 815}}.
* Used a few times on ''[[The X-Files]]'', usually with geologists whose explorations unleash a hibernating [[Monster of the Week]]. Another episode, in which loggers ''sawed'' too deep into a really ancient tree and released a swarm of killer bugs, could be considered a variant.
* A re-imagined ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' episode has a group of miners blast into an ancient cave containing a dinosaur fossil and a crapload of worms that quickly infest the miners and, shortly after, the whole town. Luckily, they hate light and need salt to survive.
* When ''[[Mock the Week]]'' covered a potential funeral for [[Margaret Thatcher]], [[Frankie Boyle]] suggested that "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFzNhLRAgEU For £3,000,000 we could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we would dig a hole so deep that we could hand her over to Satan personally]."
== [[Music]] ==▼
* The [[Gorillaz]] song "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head".▼
{{quote|''"The Strangefolk, they coveted the jewels in these caves above all things, and soon they began to mine the mountain...as the Strangefolk mined deeper and deeper into the mountain, holes began to appear, bringing with them a cold and bitter wind that chilled the very soul...And then came a sound. Distant first, it grew into castrophany so immense it could be heard far away in space. There were no screams. There was no time. The mountain called Monkey had spoken."''}}▼
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Judges Guild adventure ''Dark Tower'' (1980). A village was buried during a great battle between the forces of the deities Set and Mitra. After a hundred years of digging, searchers found the buried village, and discovered that someone was tunnelling up to meet them. Eventually the old village's inhabitants went mad and slaughtered the inhabitants of the new village built on top of the old one.
* Used quite well in ''B10: Night's Dark Terror'', a Basic ''D&D'' campaign module, where the breakage of columns in a natural cavern unleashed an uncommonly-nasty {{spoiler|monstrous mutant spider. Do NOT touch its webbing...}}'
* Mentioned in the ''[[Dungeons
* The ''D&D [[Ravenloft]]'' setting runs into this on occasion. It seems that digging too deep can open up a tunnel out of your domain and into another. Unfortunately, that other domain is full of illithids... Or possibly something that already ''ate'' the illithids.
* The ''[[New World of Darkness]]'' supplement ''Midnight Roads'' provides a couple of samples of this - some''thing'' living in the silver mine at the edge of a hidden community of illegal immigrants, or the "Hole to Hell", an abandoned mining tunnel in the side of a mountain that's full of voices pointing out a person's shortcomings.
▲* ''[[Lone Wolf]]'': An immortal monster was kept imprisoned by the special ore in the rock around it. Very, very valuable ore. Which was dug up by dwarves, thus releasing the ancient evil (which happened to be a servant of the [[Big Bad]] from the [[Backstory|elder days]]), which set about destroying the dwarves' underground kingdom.
▲* In the ''[[Fighting Fantasy]]'' book ''[[Sealed Evil in a Can|Portal of Evil]]'', which is set during a gold rush, miners unwittingly uncovered an [[Artifact of Doom]] in the form of an ancient portal to a [[Lost World]]. The portal is sentient and causes those to pass through to transform into zombie-like slaves to its will. Or prehistoric mammals. Or dinosaurs.
== [[Toys]] ==
* ''[[Bionicle]]'': Onu-Koroan miners dug too deep and eventually hit an indestructible layer of semi-organic rock. Beneath it, lies Makuta's lair and the Bohrok Hive. {{spoiler|It also turns out to be [[Humongous Mecha|Mata Nui's face]] }}.▼
==
▲* [[Bionicle]]: Onu-Koroan miners dug too deep and eventually hit an indestructible layer of semi-organic rock. Beneath it, lies Makuta's lair and the Bohrok Hive. {{spoiler|It also turns out to be [[Humongous Mecha|Mata Nui's face]] }}.
▲== Music ==
▲* The [[Gorillaz]] song "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head".
▲{{quote|''"The Strangefolk, they coveted the jewels in these caves above all things, and soon they began to mine the mountain...as the Strangefolk mined deeper and deeper into the mountain, holes began to appear, bringing with them a cold and bitter wind that chilled the very soul...And then came a sound. Distant first, it grew into castrophany so immense it could be heard far away in space. There were no screams. There was no time. The mountain called Monkey had spoken."''}}
* In the free flash game,''[[Videogame/Armor Mayhem|Armor Mayhem]]'', the player's company, [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|which was red]], dug deep into the game's locale, only to discover [[Womb Level|living caves and corridors]]. Still, [[Too Dumb to Live|they dug deeper]]. [[What an Idiot!|Smart business decisions]].
* The ''[[Penumbra (video game series)|Penumbra]]'' series heavily implied this in Overture but outright stated so in Black Plague that the source of all the deaths and strange creatures was the Tuuurngait, an otherworldly hive mind alien creature which shared its knowledge with the Inuits until humans became corrupt. The Turungait then dug into the earth and remained peacefully sealed away until the main until it was disturbed first accidentally by miners, then intentionally by [[Ancient Conspiracy|The Archaic]]
* The entire premise of third person shooter series ''[[Gears of War]]'' revolves around the government mining the crap out of resources and unleashing a horrible plague of locusts. The locusts in this case aren't small bugs that mercilessly devour crops: they're pale man-sized monsters. And in Gears of War 3 from the trailer we learn that there is something far worse than the locusts living underneath.
* ''[[Freelancer]]''. Explorers visiting the Omicron Major system awoke [[Durable Deathtrap|the]] [[Eldritch Abomination|Nomads]] which possessed them, hitched a ride to human space, and tried to exterminate us.
* ''[[Torchlight]]'''s [[Green Rocks|Ember]] miners dug into a whole maze of [[Beneath the Earth|buried civilizations]], [[Dem Bones|necropolises]] and [[Lost World
* ''[[Halo]]: Combat Evolved'' The Covenant are responsible for unleashing [[Sealed Evil in a Can|the Flood]] after exploring Halo's secrets. As the Monitor explains "their kind seems most persistent in accessing restricted areas". They do it again in ''Halo 2'', with even worse results.
* ''[[Tales of Phantasia]]''. Part of the game sees you access the abandoned [[Writing Around Trademarks|Morlia]] Mineshaft, recently discovered. {{spoiler|When you [[Timey-Wimey Ball|travel to the future]], you can access the end once more and go ''even further'', to the Dwarven Ruins--the game's optional dungeon.}}
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*** The succession game [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=84451.0 Deathgate] takes this [[Up to Eleven|one step further.]]
*** {{spoiler|Hell}} Science has been taken to its logical conclusion at last with the fortress Swordthunders: {{spoiler|the glowing pits were sealed, hell was completely walled off, and used to grow strawberries. Then it was flooded with magma.}}
* ''[[Might And Magic 7]]'', the dwarf tunnels.
* In the computer game ''[[Temple Of Apshai]]'' (1979), part of the backstory was that greedy people tried to excavate the buried temple of the Apshaians, releasing the evils hidden inside.
* ''[[Legend of Mana]]'' has two of these: the mine in Gato Grotto and the Ulkan Mines.
* In ''[[Sonic Unleashed]]'' a monster is sealed in the core of the planet, prompting Eggman to crack open the Earth's crust in order to set it free.
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* ''[[Guild Wars]]'' has the Deep, where miners in search of high quality jade unearthed a powerful demon. The demon drove them mad, and now claims dominion over the Deep and its corrupted denizens.
** Also, in ''Nightfall'', Kormir's excavation into Fahranur awakened the Apocrypha, which helped weaken Abaddon's prison further.
* This is so common in ''[[Avernum]]'' that it's considered an inevitable result of mining. Usually, crypts full of undead turn up, but ancient ruins aren't unheard of.
* In ''[[The Way]]'', a mining operation results in a {{spoiler|demonic outbreak}}.
* The fall of the Nerubian Empire in ''[[Warcraft]]'' is attributed to this. This underground empire of anthropomorphic spiders waged war against the Undead sent by the Lich King. As they lost land, they dug deeper until they reached the zone of influence of [[Eldritch Abomination|Yogg-Saron]]. Beset from two sides, the Nerubian Empire collapsed. It's a shame really. They had a real shot at ending the Undead Scourge before it took off.
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* In ''[[Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box]]'', this is what happened to {{spoiler|the town of Folsense, when gold miners discovered a metal that released a toxic, hallucinogenic gas.}}
* Played with in ''[[Dragon Age]]'' where, during the course of the Dalish elf origin, you can find "a strange statue commemorating the emergence of -- and short-lived trading partnership with -- dwarves who dug too high and too frugal and struck elves."
** Also played with with the Deep Roads, the [[The Lord of the Rings|Moria]] of the setting, where the problem wasn't that the dwarves dug too deep, but that the subterranean tunnels were taken over by the darkspawn, who were themselves digging for their old dragon-gods.
* In ''[[Fallout]] 2'', the miners of Redding presumably dug too deep in the [[Meaningful Name|Wanamingo]] mine, and unearthed massive amounts of the immensely strong ''Aliens''. [[The Chosen One|The player character]] can buy this mine, clear the mutant creatures out, and sell it for a large profit. This area of the game (along with the rest of the town) [[That One Level|is known to be very hard despite being available early in the game]].
** The miners of Redding seem to be particularly unlucky when it comes to digging, as when they are hired by the [[Putting on the Reich|Enc]][[Eagle Land|lave]] to dig up the remains of the [[Abandoned Warehouse|Mariposa]] [[Secret Government Warehouse|military base]], they are greeted with massive amounts of [[Body Horror|mutagenic vapors]] which slowly turn them into brutish super mutants. They kill their Enclave masters and take over the base. Two notable super mutants are created in this mess, [[Enemy Summoner|Melchior the magician]] and [[The Dragon|Frank]] [[Complete Monster|Horrigan]]. The Player knows about this because by the time s/he arrives, all the Enclave are either gone or dead, and they left behind graphic [[Apocalyptic Log|holodiscs]] on their corpses.
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* Dig far enough in ''[[Terraria]]'' and you'll enter the underworld, a place filled with large lava lakes and stuffed with some of the toughest mobs in game. Without special equipment even the rock you came for hurts you.
* In the Flash game ''Motherload'' when you dig too deep, you encounter your boss, [[Sdrawkcab Name|Mr. Natas]].
* The game ''[[Delve Deeper]]'' is all about digging too deep. The best relics and treasure (including mithril) are in the "deep" parts of each map, but so are some of the toughest monsters. If you do happen to dig too deep too quickly then you will quickly be swarmed with goblins and slimes and whatever else.
* ''[[Phantasy Star Online]]'': Both the Caves and the Mines qualify for this. Really, everything after the forest is digging deeper. You dig so deep that you find the spaceship of the final boss. Each dungeon is deeper and more monstrous that the previous.
* Though Samus intervenes (read: blasts their plans to hell) before it can happen, one could interpret this as the direction the [[Space Pirates]] were headed in in ''[[Metroid Prime]]'' with the Phazon Mines.
* ''[[Dawn of War]]'': An excavation team accidentally uncovered a marker on Tartarus which, through a series of events, eventually led to the release of a daemon. Another one opened up the necron catacombs on Kronus. You'd think they'd learn to keep their spades out of the earth.
* ''[[Fate of the World]]'': The destabilization of methane clathrates, caused by countries drilling too deep to get natural gas, can be a game-ending event. Even a player who does not believe in banning the use of certain resources in [[Real Life]] may consider banning clathrates in this game.
* The Desert Gold Mine under the Dusty Dunes Desert in ''[[
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings Online]]'' has a Session Play in the Mines of Moria where you're part of the party of dwarves that actually uncover the Balrog. [[Run or Die|Your job is to survive until you can escape]].
* Only really showing up in [[Fridge Horror]] in ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]''. Until much later in the game, the world is essentially a floating shell above a layer of poison miasma and bottomless mud. If you dig too deep in this world? You'll go ''right'' into the layer of bottomless mud. [[Fridge Horror]] when you consider this might have happened in Akzeriuth.
* In at least two instances in the ''[[Tomb Raider]]'' series, a [[Sealed Evil in a Can]] ends up being unleasshed this way, such as the demon Seth in ''The Last Revelation'', and the [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere|Unknown Entity From Nowhere]] in ''Legend''.
* ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'' has a quest where miners have dug into an ancient burial ground filled with draugr. Guess who gets to clean them out? {{spoiler|You}}.
▲== [[Web Comics]] ==
* The origin of Deep Crows in ''[[Penny Arcade]]''
* In ''[[Digger]]'' this is how the story started, and arguably its entire premise. It is however of course deconstructed as unlike the dwarfs of Moria, wombats are [[Genre Savvy]] enough to know there are some things in the deeps you ''leave the hell alone!''
* In ''[[The Noob]]'', the dwarves "[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=258 dug too deep]", and unleashed... level 200 mining bots. So they turned to the tourism industry instead.
* Parodied in [http://xkcd.com/760/ this] ''[[Xkcd]]'' strip.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[Ruby Quest]]'': The Metal Glen started out as a fairly nice medical facility built on the seafloor. Then one of the administrators heard [[Eldritch Abomination|something]] whispering to him in the night, urging him to dig the foundations just a ''litte bit deeper''...
* The story detailed on [[
* ''[[Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do In An RPG]]'' tells us that contrary to what ''The Lord of the Rings'' and ''Dwarf Fortress'' suggest,
{{quote|2376. The [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|Dwarven]] work ethic is not just "Dig until we hit evil."}}
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* The ''[[Disney Ducks Comic Universe]]'' has to deal with these all the time. Most of Scrooge [[McDuck]]'s riches came from mining, after all.
* Sort of inverted in ''[[Captain Planet and the Planeteers]]''. When Hoggish Greedly and Rigger use a titanic machine to drill for oil along the shore, their drill goes so deep into the Earth it causes Gaia, the [[Sealed Good in a Can|sleeping spirit of the Earth]] to wake up and take action.
* This is how Doomsday is uncovered in ''[[Superman: Doomsday]]'' by Lex Corp. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Nice Job Breaking It Villain]].
* ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' had some episodes kicked off this way.
** It sequal series ''[[Extreme Ghostbusters]]'' was kicked of like this with the opening of a new subway tunnel unlocking new [[Eldritch Abomination
* In ''[[South Park]]'', BP (later DP) does this. Multiple times. We're sorry.
* A lighthearted throw-away gag version in the ''[[Donkey Kong Country (animation)|Donkey Kong Country]]'' cartoon. Kaptain Skurvy and his crew are digging for their treasure (in the wrong spot, thanks to Skurvy holding the map wrong), and Green Kroc comments, "If we digs any deeper, we'll sink the island."
* In ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers]]'', a thumper using deep-penetrating sound waves to gather soil data deep underground Granna's surface wakes up the [[Cosmic Horror|Scarecrow]].
== [[Real Life]] ==
* The [[wikipedia:Deepwater Horizon#Massive oil spill|Deepwater Horizon oil rig]] happened to explode a couple months after it finished digging the world's deepest oil well? Coincidence? [[Epileptic Trees|I think not!]]
** Less "
*** How about [[James Cameron|a ocean-obsessed director]] of [[Epic Movie|Big]] [[Terminator|Effing]] [[Avatar (film)|Movies]] [http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2010/06/james-camerons-oil-spill-brainstorming-session-it-was-time-to-sound-the-horn.html and his environmental think-tank?] (BP didn't take his suggestion, but the device that finally capped the thing evidently looked ''very'' similar).
*** As of August 2010, it seems to be mostly cleaned up, despite being like the worst oil spill disaster in the country's history. ''Seems'' being the operating word. In reality, [http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/dear-science/Content?oid=4040881 not so much.]
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*** "Iakob! Michael! I think we finally found [[Public Domain Artifact|the lost Ark]]! [[Poor Communication Kills|Those must be smoten unbelievers in the pictograph! Lets dig it up and bring it back to defend our civilization]]!"
*** [http://www.damninteresting.com/this-place-is-not-a-place-of-honor This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.]
**** [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|Really? What was that about honor, esteemed deeds, and valuables?]]
*** This is called [[wikipedia:Nuclear semiotics|Nuclear Semiotics]], and when its principles are applied, will pretty much be [[Foreboding Architecture]], including a [http://www.damninteresting.net/content/yucca.jpg landscape of] [[Spikes of Doom|thorns]].
*** Here lies some [[Fridge Logic]]: wouldn't future people have devices to detect radiation? It is one of the more consistant dangers of Earth and a mountain of radioactive waste would set off alarm bells. Unless someone thinks there's treasure in the mountain of radioactive waste....
* The [[wikipedia:Kola Superdeep Borehole|Kola Superdeep Borehole]] is ''twelve kilometers deep.'' There was an [[Urban Legend]] that they detected [http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/demonsscr.htm a sudden spike in temperature, together with sounds of people being tortured], having accidentally [[wikipedia:Well to Hell hoax|broken through the roof of Hell]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV8NLu36Sz0&feature=related This was the recording that had people fooled.]
** Was surpassed in early 2011 by the [[wikipedia:Sakhalin-I#World record wells|Odoptu OP-11 Borehole]], wich is almost a hundred metres deeper.
* The [[wikipedia:Sidoarjo mud flow|Sidoarjo Mud Flow.]] An Indonesian oil and gas company, PT Lapindo Brantas, in its search for natural gas in East Java, created a "Borehole" (a narrow shaft) into the Earth, digging more then 10,000 meters into the ground (a depth no natural gas has ever been found at before). Having ignored sensibility, they decided to ignore the law as well, not using the required protective equipment on the drill. The result? Running a giant drill next to fault lines has consequences, as the poor people of the surrounding villages learned when the drilling erupted a massive mud volcano, making 1.5 million people homeless. The eruption is still going on today, five years after the incident, spewing 88,000 cubic feet of mud every
* The [[wikipedia:Iron Mountain Mine|Iron Mountain Mine]] in Northern California. When this location was mined out, they discovered that in addition to rich iron deposits, the mine contained acidophilic archaea that lived off of the rich iron deposits, metabolizing them and producing sulfuric acid as waste. This created extremely toxic hot springs with a pH of less than 1, which drained into other water sources, making the mine one of the most toxic waste sites in the United States of America.
* [[wikipedia:Lake Peigneur|Lake Peigneur
** On the other hand, drilling for oil directly over a salt ''dome'' is a Really Good Idea: it's not uncommon for a salt dome formation to trap oil.
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