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A Shooting Star Meets the Well of Death

8/14/2014

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Not a very good picture but you can spot Halliburton right in the middle of it, plunging down 70 feet into The Mayan Well of Death. He did it twice - the second time so someone could document the event so his detractors couldn't claim he falsified the accomplishment. Of course these days the photo would be easy to create but in 1928 the process would have been much more challenging. Miraculously, Halliburton escaped serious injury while making those impetuous plunges but did acquire a painful shoulder in the process.

Halliburton was a "shooting star" because he burst upon the world scene unexpectedly and brilliantly in 1925 when his first trail blazing  travel/adventure book THE ROYAL ROAD TO ROMANCE was published. He was the Pied Piper to millions the world over, spewing forth seven best-sellers filled with adventure, history, geography, poetry, physical feats, and humor until 1939 when his gaudily beautiful Chinese junk SEA DRAGON was lost in a massive Pacific storm. The onset of World War II insured a quick oblivion to the memory of his frenzied but thoroughly entertaining passage across the imaginations of the world's armchair travelers and adventurers. His life was brief and brilliant - like a shooting star - and he "met" the Well of Death not once but twice.


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Wilhelm
9/19/2014 08:04:33 am

Actually, the well or cenote is quite a bit wider than it is deep. At one time or another the water was chlorinated to make it clear and many treasured archaeological artifacts from the human sacrifices were found there, especially in the cracks.

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wilhelm45
11/1/2014 09:52:12 am

The fact that there were actually human sacrifices performed there is a well documented fact - hence the discover of the many artifacts.

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8/20/2020 04:55:35 am

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8/21/2020 09:59:44 am

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