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Subscribe to RSSIt's worse than monsters in the dark or something creeping under your bed. Guardian.co.uk reports that a sinkhole appeared in the home of a woman in Guatemala City.
Johan Ordonez / AFP - Getty Images
A man inspects measures the depth of a sinkhole in Guatemala City on July 19.
Johan Ordonez / AFP - Getty Images
A man inspectas a sinkhole formed in a house on July 19, 2011 in the north of Guatemala City. When neighbors heard the loud boom overnight they thought a cooking gas canister had detonated. Instead they found a deep sinkhole the size of a large pot inside a home in a neighborhood just north of Guatemala City. The sinkhole was 12.2 meters (40 feet) deep and 80 centimeters (32 inches) in diameter, an AFP journalist who visited the site reported. Police, members of the country's natural disaster office and water utility company officials came to visit the site. Sinkholes, formed by the natural process of erosion, can be gradual but are often sudden.
Guatemala City, built on volcanic deposits, is especially prone to sinkholes, often blamed on a leaky sewer system or on heavy rain. AFP PHOTO / Johan ORDONEZ (Photo credit should read JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
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What "natural process of erosion" caused all those bricks to form a perfect cylinder shape I wonder?? It seems like the title should read " Old well uncovered"
Good observing there Fritter. Lol, sink hole? Sure, someone sunk a hole.
This is not a sink hole. There are bricks lining the wall. Looks like an old well that was abandoned.
Problem with lack of water solved!! We need to look for pre-made wells formed from suprise sink holes.
HOLY @!$%#!! It's the rabbit hole from Alice in Wonderland!! Somebody call Tim Burton and tell him he was wayyyyyy the @!$%# off!
LOOK'S FAKE?....
Obviously a perfect sinkhole. just happened to have a pipe in it, lined with bricks and nearly perfectly trimmed tiles decorating the rim. NBC journalists are idiots.
You can see a portion of piping sticking out at the upper right of the hole.
It looks like it may have been used for draining because there is no connection on the end, it looks like an open connection.
c'mon if this is a sink hole then who ever found it is an @!$%#
Oh please, that is so photoshopped!!
oh please that is so photoshopped!
whoever tiled over the well with barly 1/4inch tiles was aparently the same ***** that thought this was a sink hole.
A sink hole? Are you serious? What kind of sink hole is lined perfectly with bricks and has a pipe sticking out of it?? This is seriously lame MSNBC.
that definitely is not a sink hole... it is a water hole for water run off that was probably a well to begin with. I think someone who doesn't speak Spanish saw the picture in a news paper and printed their own story.
i dont see bricks lining the walls and it looks real to me guatemala is known for its sink holes im just surprised that its not very big and the women is lucky to be alive... its funny to see people commient about something they have no idea lols... just google guatemala sink holes and u will see the facts...
they look totally fake and the caption under the second pic :Sinkholes, formed by the natural process of erosion, can be gradual but are often sudden.
Guatemala City, built on volcanic deposits, is especially prone to sinkholes, often blamed on a leaky sewer system or on heavy rain. doesn't sound right, i mean water can seriously cause a whole in ur floor? no way...
More bad editing from msn.....this is so obviously not a sink hole, even my stupid bored housewife eyes can see the bricks in a cylindrical shape.
Fact-checking, msn, fact-checking!!!!!!