Recently saw Jennifers Body & through googling various things as the Internet tends to do ended up here. I'd like to add a few of MHO's, most natural flowing water that disappears into the ground and seemingly a mystery as to it's destination is lost in caverns. It may never resurface or take a long time to reappear if it ever does. The problem with the methods of tracing the path mentioned in the original story is dyes disipate quickly with such volumes of water involved you virtually need truckloads of the stuff to do it right. Logs get caught very easily, ping pong balls will end up in a air pocket since they float easily both of which will not reappear obviously. These methods require that there is an outlet that's fairly close. Caverns can go for miles & it would be a longshot for any object to reappear once it had made it's winding obstacle ridden journey through them. Some groundwater may never reappear even given the apparent volume of water that would flow through the falls the amount of room underground caverns can hold is almost endless. Colored dyes while seemingly a good idea have solid pigments however small that eventually be caught along it's journey a flourescent dye may work if the same water reappeared at all & in relatively the same place which it may be dispersed in several outlets & not just one as most would assume.

I'm not the most technologically savvy person in the world, but how hard would it be to drop a water-proof GPS unit in the hole and simply track it?

if you want to know how far it goes all you have to di si one simple thing...get a few miles of steel 500lb fishing line and forge an 8 ounce sinker onto one of the ends and make sure the rest of the line is on some kind of rotatating spool such as an empty telephone company wooden canle spool.....then all you have too do is sit and wait....if you run out of cable you know it goes farther when it stops cut the cable and measure what you have left subtract it from what you started sith and wah lah..........also you could fashion some kind of water proof beacon on the end that runs on a lithium battery witha delay that will keep going off so you could hear it...bottomline is if the water can flow in and not flow over then somewhere it flows out no matter how big that opening is remains to be discovered...chances are from the looks of this is flows down into a cave and somehwere in the cae the water slowly drains out and chances are this cavern is hundreads of feet deep so it never fills to over flow

So if astronauts can go into space couldn't they use the same technology that they use to go into space with,like space suits and long very long lifelines attached to them to go in an explore it,alternatively couldn't they build a small vessel like a shuttle of sorts where it would be equipped with enough oxygen and a strong line connected to it so that it can be pulled back from the pothole. And someone in the vessel with the communication tools that astronauts use so that communication would not be lost.

Hey,

I live about 15 minutes from the kettle. If anybody had any ideas you'd like me to try. Let me know. I am interested in knowing where it goes as well.

hi epilogue have you tried what an anynomous said about wire and or rope?
and see how deep it go?
im not from usa and i check this out also... after watching
jeniffer's body XD

thanks !!

I found this phenonmena very interesting also. I wonder how come they didnt divert the water flow for a while and got some cave experts or divers to have a look around while there is no water flowing in. I personaly think this water is going very deep and into the water table. Here in Australia they say some of the old aquafers are holding water over 1000 years old that moves very slowly over large areas underground. If this is happening there you wont be seeing any dies coming out anyplace as its still traveling slowly underground and proberly disapating..... Anyway thats my thoughts for the day :)

just a thought. why not try a remote robot camera like in themovie the abyss? a device like this would be able to take a lot of water pressure and banging around. the only obvious difficulty is cable lenght. as far as a coverup of the answer to the mystery, a private effort could solve it without "yhem" tampering with the results.

again i watched jenifers body to be brought here... someone must have absailed into the kettle..? i would...if i was not so scared of monstes.

wow dont be so rude anonymous..its a good thought and technically the tax payers arent happy anyways..lol so why not try and solve a big mystery..honestly it would make alot of people happy, because it could very well answer scientific questions as well as maybe historical ones. The government is wasting money on alot more ridiculous things anyways

Layla - as the story relates, over the years people have tossed various things into the pothole never to see them again. It's just not known where (or even if) that part of the river comes out in Lake Superior. Devil's Kettle is located along the North Shore of Lake Superior in Judge C. R. Magney state park between the small communities of Covill and Hovland. The closest large town is Grand Marais, MN located 14 miles southeast of the park on Highway 61.

I have to laugh when I see so many people who have watched Jenifer's body and then looked for the Devil's kettle on the net.

But I to did exactly that, and to be honest I was surprised it was fact I was sure it was going to be just part of the movie and fiction.

Of course I would also love to know were the water (and all the other stuff) goes but I would be VERY suprised if scientists did not really know. I bet they have it mapped out etc already but stories like this make money for the area just like Nessie and loch Ness up the road from me.

Speaking of Loch Ness one of the theories for Nessie is there is some kind of portal (time, dimensions etc) in Loch Ness and that is why Nessie appears and disappears etc. Maybe the devils Kettle in one two !!

So anyway can anyone explain to me what all these ping pong balls, logs and a car are doing in Loch Ness *S*

Maybe this is where Marshall, Will, & Holly, found the Land of the Lost??? There may be dinosaurs and sleestak down there.

I read a book a couple of days ago, a murder mystery, that included the devil's kettle. The book is Unraveled Sleeve by Monica Ferris. I won't say anything else about the book, in case anyone wants to read it.

I also watched jennifers body which by the way was a good movie and it had led me to do alittle research as well. Because i didnt think it excisted but one that likes to look up this type of stuff includeing the cresent hotel i think for the devils kettle i think they do need to lower something down in there just to see where it goes and there is such a thing that they can as well as send a cam corder water proof of course to see what all is in there maybe you would be suprised and if any bodies have came up missing well that would be one place to look right if i do say so myself. I am one of those types of people that likes to do research and see what i can find if i was a researcher then i would find out for myself just to see and go from there.Just like paranormal activity you seen what happen well i was at a lake where i live and my husband and i were at the lake fishing one night around midnight and this ghost of some sort was calling my name i looked up and there he stood looking at me wanting me to come into the woods i wouldnt do it and my husband of course made him really mad by flashing the camra he wanted me to do everything he demanded but i didnt listen and he attacked me i had all kinds of bruises and cuts that it was real and of course the police couldnt do anything and his name was joseph he had rapped a couple of girls out there and then killed them and then killed himself my 2 sister in laws were there with us that night and had seen it all as well as my husband so talk about spine chilling thats just like what people need to do is investigate that type of stuff like this beautiful waterfall see where it goes just to be curious..

Like many others, Jennifer's Body is what brought me here. Really interesting to know that it is actually really. Kind of scary, reminds me of that one movie THE DESCENT. But anyways what i think they should do is block the water from entering like creating a dam and then send something down there. Either a person (if they fit) or a little camera. If we can do space explorations im sure the government can do underground explorations. Who knows might lead to some secret underground civilization lol but that would be awesome to find out. I also agree that they probably know where it leads to but not want anyone to know.

Why try to find out where it goes or what is down there, why can't we just leave it is one of those wonders that never gets figured out, I rather think.....no..HOPE there are things out there that science cannot explain, good to see one mystery that has yet to be debunked.