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Rendalen wrote to the network, originally claiming that he disbelieved the tale but, upon his return to Norway, supposedly read a " factual account " of the story.

According to Rendalen, the " story " claimed not only that the cursed well was real, but that a bat-like apparition had risen out of it before blazing a trail across the Russian sky.

Rendalen deliberately mistranslated a trivial Norwegian article about a local building inspector and submitted both the original story and the " translation " to TBN, along with a letter which included his real name, phone number, and address, as well as those of a pastor friend who knew about the hoax and had agreed to expose it to anyone who called seeking verification.