616: The Devil's Bible and the Nazi Hole to Hell
The traditional story involves a desperate bargain with darkness. The real story connects this manuscript to a limestone crack in Bohemia where creatures emerged nightly, a duke who sent prisoners into the depths, and a fortress built to seal Hell's gateway.
When the Nazis occupied the site in 1940, they brought excavation equipment and Himmler's personal occult division. What they found made them destroy everything and flee.
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Speaker 12 Bohemia 1229. A monk named Herman the Recluse watched the bricks stack up around him, sealing him in, punishment for his sins.
Speaker 12 Then Herman made a desperate offer, set him free, and in one night, he'd bring glory to the monastery by creating a book containing all the world's knowledge.
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A manuscript of that size would take 30 years to write. Herman had 12 hours.
Impossible. Still, his offer was accepted.
His execution could wait one more day.
Speaker 12 In the morning, the monks unlocked Herman's room, ready to drag him back to his brick tomb. But there was the book, complete, over 600 pages.
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When Herman was asked how he achieved this, he said, I prayed for help. The monks were confused.
Herman's sins were envy, lust, fornication, and worse. Why would God help them?
Speaker 12 But Herman didn't pray to God, he prayed to someone else.
Speaker 12 Herman heard the bolt slide into place and footsteps disappear down the hallway. He was alone.
Speaker 12 His cell was 12 feet by 8 feet, stone walls, one high window, a table, quill, ink, blank parchment, and candles. Herman thought about the promise he'd made.
Speaker 12 Complete the manuscript by dawn or face immurement.
Speaker 12 Amurement or immuration is a type of torture where you're enclosed in a tight space and left to die.
Speaker 13 Ew, it sounds like a spirit airlines flight.
Speaker 12 Herman was found guilty of serious crimes against God. His punishment was he'd be forced to stand in a stone room no bigger than a coffin, then walled in alive.
Speaker 12 If the cold didn't kill him, the thirst would, or starvation, or the rats.
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Herman lit the candle and started writing. The manuscript needed to contain all the world's knowledge, art, science, history, philosophy, mathematics.
But Herman decided to start with the Bible.
Speaker 12 Writing the Bible would help him atone for his sins.
Speaker 12 Herman was working through Genesis chapter 1 when he heard the bell ring for midnight prayer. He swore he had just sat down, but it had been three hours.
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He wasn't halfway finished with the first page. Then he heard three chimes, the matins bell.
Somehow, another three hours had passed, and he barely wrote another word. Herman started to panic.
Speaker 12 The sum would be up in a few hours, the heavy door would open, and he'd be dragged to a stone box.
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He'd been praying to God for help and forgiveness. He received neither.
His sins were extreme. God wasn't listening.
So Herman decided to pray to someone else.
Speaker 12 Satan,
Speaker 12 Lucifer, if you can hear me, I'll give you anything.
Speaker 12 My soul, my eternal life, anything.
Speaker 12 Please let me live.
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And Herman's prayer was answered. Suddenly, the room got cold, and the darkness coalesced into a human form.
Or almost human.
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It was over six feet tall with broad shoulders, strong features, handsome, even. But the eyes were wrong.
They were too dark.
Speaker 13 No, this guy had BDE.
Speaker 12 What?
Speaker 13 BDE, bad devil energy.
Speaker 12 The entity spoke with too many voices at once, some laughing, some screaming. It asked if Herman was sure about his offer.
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Herman did nothing, but his hand grabbed the quill, dipped it in ink, and he started writing. He was a passenger in his own body, but the words poured out.
400 pages, then 500 pages.
Speaker 12 Then on page 577, Herman didn't write words. He drew a full-page illustration of the manuscript's true author, the first self-portrait in history of the devil himself.
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At dawn, the monks found Herman collapsed over stacks of parchment. They expected to find him dead or insane.
Instead, they found the manuscript, 620 pages.
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But what was most striking was the size, not the length of the book, the actual size. It was 36 inches tall, 20 inches wide, 9 inches thick.
It weighed 165 pounds, just the book.
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The abbot lifted the cover and couldn't believe it. The complete Old Testament was there.
Every book, every chapter, every verse, perfect Latin calligraphy. He turned the pages.
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The New Testament, Matthew through Revelation. Not a single error, not one smudge or correction.
But the Bible was just the beginning.
Speaker 12 The next section contained Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews, the complete history of the Jewish people from creation through the Jewish revolt against Rome, 40 years of historical documentation, transcribed perfectly.
Speaker 12 Then the siege of Jerusalem, the destruction of the second temple, the fall of Masada, the monks kept turning pages.
Speaker 12 Isidore of Seville's Etymologies was next, 20 volumes of knowledge, grammar, rhetoric, mathematics, medicine, agriculture, architecture, and warfare. Everything scholars knew about the natural world.
Speaker 12 Then the Chronicle of Bohemia, the complete history of their own land, kings and battles, and politics going back 400 years. Herman had documented their entire civilization.
Speaker 12 Next were two medical texts, techniques for identifying diseases, treatments, herbal remedies. Then a text on anatomy and physiology, how the body worked, why it failed, and how to heal it.
Speaker 12 Then the pages turned dark.
Speaker 12 A whole chapter with magic formulas, incantations in Latin, some in languages the monks didn't recognize, symbols that predated Christianity, geometric patterns that seemed to move in candlelight.
Speaker 12 There were protection spells, ways to trap evil spirits in physical objects. There were even instructions for identifying demonic possession, seven signs, 14 symptoms.
Speaker 12 The possessed would speak in tongues, display superhuman strength, and know secrets they couldn't possibly know. They react violently to holy water and blessed salt or sacred relics.
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Herman had created an operational manual for spiritual warfare. As the monks turned the pages, they became more and more concerned.
Then page 577.
Speaker 12 A full-page portrait of Satan. Green face, red horns, two forked tongues, clawed hands reaching outward, trapped between two towers.
Speaker 12 Opposite Satan, the heavenly city, fortified walls and golden spires, the eternal battle between good and evil. The manuscript continued.
Speaker 12 Alphabets in multiple languages, spells for protection against night creatures. A few monks asked why there are so many rituals for creating weapons to fight unholy forces.
Speaker 12 Herman said he didn't know, but the abbot sighed and in a shaky voice said, I do.
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Hauska Castle sits on a limestone cliff in the forests of Bohemia, a few miles north of the monastery. The castle had always been strange.
First, its location doesn't make sense.
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It has no strategic value. It's not near any trade routes.
It's not near a water source. Then there's the building's design.
It didn't have a kitchen, no sleeping quarters.
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But the most concerning design elements were the fortifications. They faced the wrong way.
They didn't face out. They faced toward the courtyard.
The castle wasn't built to keep enemies out.
Speaker 12 It was built to keep something in.
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Before the castle existed, the locals spoke of a crack crack in the limestone that exposed a bottomless pit. They called it the hole to hell.
They threw rocks in and never heard them land.
Speaker 12 They lowered in rope, and no matter how long, it never touched the bottom. Strange sounds came from the hole: whispers, screams, words and languages nobody recognized.
Speaker 12 Local tribes said the hole was torn open thousands of years ago, and something ancient and evil lived deep in the earth.
Speaker 13 Was it a magic seal fetus? No.
Speaker 12 A crab cat?
Speaker 13 No. A magic seal fetus.
Speaker 12 Demons. Yeah, that makes more sense
Speaker 12 in herman's time the situation was desperate entire villages were terrorized farmers found their livestock drained of blood animals were twisted in unnatural shapes travelers who went too deep in the forest were found days later in pieces if they were found at all The local clergy was overwhelmed.
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Whatever was down there, the church couldn't stop it. No army could stop it.
This was spiritual warfare. But the priests knew they needed something more powerful than prayers and holy water.
Speaker 12 They needed instructions for identifying, confronting, and defeating these forces of darkness. And just a few miles away, a monk named Herman the Recluse had created exactly the weapon they needed.
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Herman's Codex had turned the tide of the war. For 40 years, the evil was contained.
Villages were resettled. Travelers reached their destination safely.
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Creatures still crawled from the pit every night, but now they faced organized resistance. But the war was taking its toll.
The monks were exhausted and running out of resources.
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For every demon they banished, two took its place. Even with Hermann's manual, they would eventually lose.
In the late 13th century, Duke Attokar II investigated the hole.
Speaker 12 And just as the legend said it had no bottom, the Duke needed to know what was in there.
Speaker 12 The castle dungeon was empty, and prisoners were given a choice, death by torture, or go in the hole and report everything they see.
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The guards lowered the first prisoner. They heard screaming.
They felt the rope twitch violently and then go still. When they pulled the man up, his hair was completely white.
Speaker 12 He aged 50 years in minutes, and he was babbling about frogs the size of men, shadows with eyes, and a massive entity staring up from below. Duke Adikar tried again with a different prisoner.
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Same result, rapid aging and total insanity. Each experiment revealed more horrors.
This was more than a pit.
Speaker 12 It was a gateway, a source of evil that would bring demons into the world until the end of time.
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The Duke decided that if the church couldn't close the gateway with prayer, he would close it with stone. Massive limestone blocks were quarried and brought to the site.
Monks blessed every stone.
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They consecrated the mortar. They prayed over every beam of wood.
Piece by piece, a fortress took shape above the sealed pit. And finally, a chapel was built on top of the slabs.
Speaker 12 The chapel was dedicated to the warrior Saint Michael.
Speaker 13 Yes, Mart. If you got a demon leaking hellmouth in your basement, building a church on top of it, it's just good property management.
Speaker 12 Well, it was a symbol of faith conquering evil.
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It's a divine cork, human. A holy bottled cap and a fizzy drink from hell.
Let's call it what it is.
Speaker 12 When the last stone was set, the gateway to hell in Hauska Castle was finally sealed, and it would stay sealed for 700 years.
Speaker 12 Then, new dark forces arrived that didn't want the evil contained, they wanted to channel it for their own purposes. That was 1940, when the Nazis took Hauska Castle and started digging.
Speaker 12 May 1940, Northern Bohemia. SS officer Klaus Mendel stood at the edge of the forest studying Hauska Castle through binoculars.
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Gray stone, no strategic value, no transportation routes, no resources, worthless. But Himmler's orders were clear.
Secure the castle, excavate the chapel floor, tell no one why.
Speaker 12 Mendel read the files, medieval texts about bottomless pits, prisoner experiments from the 1270s, ancient artifacts, mystical manuscripts, superstitious nonsense. But he wouldn't tell Himmler that.
Speaker 12 Himmler believed in the occult, and more importantly, so did the Führer. They thought these things held real power, and the power could be controlled and weaponized.
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The SS convoy arrived with 40 men and equipment, radar, medical instruments, and prisoners. Lots of prisoners.
The chapel floor was limestone slabs, each weighing over a ton.
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Prayers had been carved into the stone. Latin phrases meant to bind and seal the pit.
The jackhammers didn't care about prayers. After seven days, they finally broke through the floor.
Speaker 12 The pit lived up to its reputation.
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It was deep and dark. And not only was it bottomless, the hole seemed to swallow all sound around it.
The first prisoner was a math professor from Prague, 43 years old.
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His hands were shaking when guards strapped him to the harness. They lowered him slowly, 50 feet, 100.
At 200 feet, the screaming started. They hauled him up fast.
His black hair had turned white.
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He looked like he was 80 years old. And he was manic, laughing and rambling.
As the sedative took effect, he whispered, they're waiting. So many teeth.
He died that night of heart failure.
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Over three weeks, they lowered 11 more prisoners. One described frog creatures the size of men, hundreds climbing the walls of the hole.
Another came up speaking a language no one recognized.
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One prisoner clawed his own eyes out. He said seeing was worse than blindness.
Three prisoners didn't come back at all.
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Over time, the castle changed. Animals avoided the area.
The forest was deadly quiet. No birds, no insects.
At night, green lights flashed in the chapel windows.
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Soldiers heard sounds in the walls, scratching, whispering. Three guards deserted.
Mendel didn't bother searching for them. The remaining men stopped sleeping, intentionally.
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Their dreams became vivid nightmares that felt more real than reality. They went through gallons of coffee and lots of amphetamines.
Anything to stay awake.
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Then Mendel, the skeptic, began to see movement at the edge of his vision. He felt like he was being watched.
He could swear he heard the wind whisper his name.
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In January 1945, orders came from Berlin. The Allies were coming.
Destroy everything. The equipment, the research, all documents, everything.
And that was fine with Mendel.
Speaker 12 Surrender was better than spending one more night at that castle.
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They poured concrete into the hole. A titanium plate was welded over the top and steel locks were added.
Finally, landmines were placed all over the property.
Speaker 12 And 80 years later, the landmines are there still. The current owners say the mines make it too dangerous to dig, but locals know that's only half the story.
Speaker 12 The Nazis came looking for something in Hauska Castle. Nobody knows for sure what they found, but they made it so whatever it was, nobody would ever find it again.
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A monk created a 165-pound manuscript with perfect handwriting across 620 pages. A few miles away, a duke built a fortress with fences facing inward, both in 13th century Bohemia.
But what's true?
Speaker 12 Well, the Codex Gigas, which is just Latin for big book, the Codex is definitely real.
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It's been in Sweden's national library since 1648. And today, you can see digital scans of every page.
You can read the spells, study the patterns, look at the drawing of Satan on page 577.
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It's all there. Herman the Recluse existed, but the Codex took decades to complete, not one night.
It was actually 20 to 30 years of continuous work. That's the realistic timeline.
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The overnight creation legend emerged because the handwriting consistency seems impossible. Everyone's handwriting changes as you age, but the writing in the Codex doesn't.
It stays consistent.
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But that consistency proves methodical work, not rushed panic. A monk working through one desperate night would show mistakes, sloppiness, declining quality.
The Codex shows none of that.
Speaker 12 Same spacing, same pressure, same style, start to finish. And Carbon Dating confirms the book took about 25 years to write.
Speaker 12 We know Herman existed because he signed the Codex, but there's no historical historical record of a monk named Herman committing crimes against God or to being sentenced to amurement.
Speaker 12 That part of the story first appeared hundreds of years after the Codex was written.
Speaker 12 The devil portrait on page 577 is weird, but it's not unique. Medieval manuscripts often included images of Satan as warnings about morality.
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Being drawn opposite the heavenly city is standard Christian iconography. Good versus evil, heaven versus hell.
The most unusual aspect of the book isn't the concept, it's the the size and detail.
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Scribes didn't create books this big. It was just too expensive.
The Codex is made from over 160 animal skins. The ink was expensive.
The gold leaf used to decorate the pages was expensive.
Speaker 12 When the church burned thousands of books referencing dark magic and the devil, they didn't burn the codex, probably because it was so unusual and so valuable.
Speaker 12 Monks often protected rare works like this. There is one unresolved mystery about the codex, though.
Speaker 12 Right after the section on exorcism, 10 pages were carefully cut out, and nobody knows what was on those pages. But legend says they contain instructions for summoning demons or the devil himself.
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As for Hauska Castle, the pit is really there. Limestone caves are common in Bohemia, so it's probably just a sinkhole or a deep cavern, and probably isn't bottomless.
But we don't know for sure.
Speaker 12 Nobody's seen it in hundreds of years. And if you find pictures online, they're fake.
Speaker 12 Now at first the castle's design does seem strange. The fortifications do face inward, but Ottakar II used the castle as a prison for a while.
Speaker 12 Inward-facing defenses would help guards keep an eye on the prisoners.
Speaker 12 And the location also doesn't make sense unless it's a prison because it has no strategic value, no water source, it's not near any trade routes.
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But if Ottakar was building a prison, he'd probably want it somewhere remote. Speaking of Ottakar, he did conduct experiments on prisoners there in the 1270s.
Those are documented.
Speaker 12 What he found in the pit and why he sealed it, we don't know. Now, Himmler's interest in the occult is also a fact.
Speaker 12 He created the largest collection of books on witchcraft, the supernatural, and occult practices in history, over 13,000 manuscripts.
Speaker 12 And some believe Himmler stored his collection in Hauska to protect it from Allied bombing. Others say the SS was there for something else.
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either black magic rituals or experiments on locals trying to create a master race. But without documentation, all we have are rumors.
There's also no evidence that Himmler read the Codex Geus.
Speaker 12 We can assume he was aware of it, but the Swedish National Library has no record of any Nazi official requesting access to the book.
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But the occupation of the castle, the destruction of records, and even placing landmines around the property, that's all true. Hauska Castle opened to tourists in 1999.
You can take guided tours.
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You can walk through the chapel. You can see the frescoes.
You can stand over the sealed pit. And many people have reported strange sightings at the castle.
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And if you're brave enough, you can go see for yourself. So how do we explain the Codex? Why create such a strange and dark book? Well, medieval people lived in constant fear.
Plague, war, famine.
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When they couldn't explain suffering, they named it. Demons, monsters, evil crawling from the ground.
Which is probably why the Codex survived and became so famous.
Speaker 12 If there were a manual for fighting evil, then evil could be fought. And if evil could be fought, it could be defeated.
Speaker 12 And the Codex explains how to do it so the codex isn't about making a deal with the devil it's about fighting him the codex is about hope herman spent 30 years creating a manuscript that gave people hope in the face of unknown terror whether the demons were real doesn't matter the fear was real herman didn't need supernatural help to create something extraordinary he had something more powerful faith The Codex and Houseka Castle exist.
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Both are steeped in legend. But more importantly, both are testaments to human courage and determination in the face of evil.
And both were created to protect the innocent and punish the guilty.
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And both were created to give people hope. Now, that's not legend.
That's history. And it's history worth remembering.
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Speaker 12 I fear the crap guy down, got stuck inside Mel's home with them chaos trucks I've been only too aware
Speaker 12 Did Stanley Kubernetes face the moon landing alone
Speaker 12 on a film set I would the shadow people
Speaker 12 there
Speaker 12 And his name was cold.
Speaker 12 I can't believe
Speaker 12 I'm dancing with the fish shit.
Speaker 12 And we'll fish on Thursday nights with D.J.
Speaker 12 And when I'm happy all through the night.
Speaker 12 All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth. So ramp on my feet all through the light.
Speaker 12 The Mopman sightings and the solar storm still come. To have got the secret city underground
Speaker 12 Mysterious number stations, planet surfaced to Project Stargate, and what the Dark Watchers found.
Speaker 12 In a simulation, don't you worry, though.
Speaker 12 The Black Knight satellite told me so I can't believe
Speaker 12 I'm dancing with the fears.
Speaker 12 Henry Fish on Thursday nights Wednesday changed. And the whiteboard's rubbery all through the night.
Speaker 12 All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth. So the white balls rubbed me all through the night.
Speaker 12 Henry's fish on Thursday, next Wednesday, J2.
Speaker 12 Weapons up and beat all through the night.
Speaker 12 All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth. So we'll repeat all through the
Speaker 12 light.
Speaker 12
I've been out here a while. Cast up to cast, and nothing's biting.
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