Missing: 1 Large Lake

[shipperx]

Eyecatching story of the morning (from Yahoo news):

A lake in southern Chile has mysteriously disappeared, prompting speculation the ground has simply opened up and swallowed it whole.

The lake was situated in the Magallanes region in Patagonia and was fed by water, mostly from melting glaciers.  It had a surface area of between 4 and 5 hectares (10-12 acres) -- about the size of 10 soccer pitches.

"In March we patrolled the area and everything was normal ... we went again in May and to our surprise we found the lake had completely disappeared," said Juan Jose Romero, regional director of Chile's National Forestry Corporation CONAF.

"The only things left were chunks of ice on the dry lake-bed and an enormous fissure," he told Reuters.  CONAF is investigating the disappearance.

One theory is that the area was hit by an earth tremor that opened a crack in the ground which acted like a drain.

Comments

[sp23.livejournal.com]

Hey, didn't this happen on an episode of The Twilight Zone (or was it The Outer Limits) where a neighborhood just up and disappeared one day? Those damned aliens are always stealing our stuff. *g*

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Scientist 1: I looked everywhere and I can't find it!

Scientist 2: Did you check the refrigerator?

Scientist 1: Why would I check the refrigerator?

Scientist 2: (Shrug) You said you checked everywhere else. And I left my car keys in the refrigerator once...

[sourisvho.livejournal.com]

Damned Hellmouth.

Seriously, that's freaky.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Someone go find Buffy. The Master stole a freaking lake!

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

O.O

It kinda sounds like the opening scene to a bad SciFi Network disaster movie, starring Treat Williams and Kim Delaney!

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

He say: I know that lake was right here.

She would roll her eyes and argue: You should have stopped and asked for directions at the last gas station.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

Then they'd stop to talk about why they split up, why they should never get together again, how it was all a horrible mistake.

And end up in each others' arms at the end of the movie. (Looking a wee bit sooty)

Disaster could be: volcano, tectonic plates shifting, meteor, geothermal vents, global warming.

(we should get a job writing these)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Hee! Someone really should pen a Sci-Fi movie parody and post it. It would be wondermus.

[thedeadlyhook.livejournal.com]

??? Damn, this IS the plot of a sci-fi movie. I don't know whether to be intrigued by the scientific novelty, or terrified, or both.

"The only things left were chunks of ice on the dry lake-bed and an enormous fissure," he told Reuters. CONAF is investigating the disappearance.

I should hope so! Holy crap!

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Yeah I read this one and couldn't help but think it was utterly surreal. Sounds like an X-Files episode.

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

That's totally freaky!

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Yep. This was decidedly freaky.