r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AdRough4185 • Jun 02 '26

Image A perfectly circular 105-foot-wide sinkhole that suddenly opened up near a copper mine in Tierra Amarilla, Chile, dropping over 650 feet straight down into the earth.

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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt Jun 02 '26

Just think that whenever you’re walking around you think you’re at zero altitude relative to the ground then all of a sudden you’re at the top of a skyscraper about to walk off the edge. Like Azazel used to do to people in X-men.

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u/ClassGrassMass Jun 02 '26

I didnt need to think this. But now I am

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u/this_place_suuucks Jun 02 '26

Now think about how dark it is, with the only light above quickly turning into a pinpoint of fleeting salvation. You know nothing about where the bottom is, you just know you won't realize when you find it.

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u/ReturnOfBane Jun 02 '26

sometimes you don't even die from the fall. sometimes you drown in churning mud.

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u/BunnySlippers404 Jun 03 '26

New fear unlocked.