It's fun reading about some of Earth's scariest depths.
We scrolled past a TikTok and did some research, and here are the most deepest places to ever exist on Earth--places we can't get to. Check them out!
1. Mariana Trench
What is it: The deepest part of the world's oceans. It reaches a maximum known depth at a spot called the Challenger Deep, which is about 10,984 meters below sea level deeper than Mount Everest is tall.
It stretches over 2,550 kilometers long and is about 69 kilometers wide.
Where is it: Western Pacific Ocean
What's the lore: Home to sea monsters like the kraken, the kaiju and the megalodon
2. Kola Superdeep Borehole
What is it: It was an ambitious Soviet drilling project that aimed to dig as deep as possible into the Earth's crust. It reached a depth of 12,262 meters, making it the deepest artificial point on Earth.
Where is it: Kola Peninsula, near the Russian border with Norway
What's the lore: Well to hell (Soviet scientists drilled so deep they broke into Hell itself, and recorded the screams of the damned using a heat-resistant microphone).
3. Dean's Blue Hole
What is it: he most famous and deepest marine sinkholes in the world. It is about 202 meters and roughly 2,535 meters wide at the surface, but it widens significantly more below.
Where is it: Long Island, Bahamas
What's the lore: Home to a deep sea creature known as the Lusca; it is half octopus and half shark and can create powerful whirlpools or ink clouds to trap its prey.
4. Yucatan Cenotes
What is it: They are natural pits or sinkholes formed when limestone bedrock collapses, exposing groundwater underneath.
Where is it: throughout the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico
What's the lore: A portal to Xibalba, a mythical underworld in Maya cosmology, ruled by death gods and spirits. The Maya believed that cenotes were literal gateways to this realm, where souls traveled after death.
5. Lake Vostok
What is it: A fascinating lake completely buried underneath ice (subglacial lake). Covered by about 4 kilometers of ice, and is roughly 250 km long and 50 km wide.
Where is it: Beneath Antarctica's East Ice Sheet, near Russia's Vostok Station
What's the lore: Beneath the ice covering the lake, lies a massive alien structure or base, possibly left behind by an ancient extraterrestrial race.
6. Hranice Abyss
What is it: The deepest underwater cave currently known on Earth. It is at least 404 meters deep, but the true bottom has not yet been reached.
Where is it: Near the town of Hranice, in the Czech Republic
What's the lore: Locals believe the abyss has no end, swallowing anything that enters; animals, objects, even people, never to be seen again.
