The Untamable Monster Well of 1894: Big Moses

Podcast: Stories of Appalachia · Steve Gilly, Rod Mullins

Opublikowano: 2026-07-11

In September 1894, a routine drilling operation on a Tyler County, West Virginia, farm broke into a massive natural gas pocket, unleashing one of the most powerful and uncontrollable wells the world had ever seen. For nearly a year, the Big Moses well defied human engineering, triggered massive fissures in the ground, survived two separate lightning strikes, and wasted billions of cubic feet of gas. Join us as we tell this wild true story from the West Virginia oil boom era about the legendary Big Moses gas well. If you like these historical stories, make sure to...