
It rises from 2000 miles below the earth to melt everything in its path!
1956 1 hour 21 minutesArmy radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village. An American research scientist at a nearby nuclear plant joins with a British investigator to discover why the victims were radioactively burned and why, shortly thereafter, a series of radiation-related incidents are occurring in an ever-growing straight line away from the fissure.











21st September 1956
69 years ago
1 hour 21 minutes
Finishes at 6:04pm



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