The story of Golyamo Gradishte and the Cave of Bastet in the first part of this investigation finished on ancient Egyptian mythology about a foxy feline goddess and the possible whereabouts of her tomb in Bulgaria’s Strandzha Mountains but the second part moves on to far stranger territory a decade later and an even bigger…

About 28 years after British entertainer and comedian Bernard Cribbins’ novelty song “The Hole In The Ground” was released a team sent in by the Bulgarian defence ministry was “digging this hole” in Tsarichina, about 30 kilometres outside Sofia, although “it’s not there now, the ground’s all flat” but beneath the stone that marks where…