When The Earth Swallowed a Lake. November 20, 1980, is a new day at Lake Peigneur in Louisiana. Some 9 miles north of the Vermilion Bay in the Gulf of Mexico, a charming, calm lake is a popular resort ...

It was so large it could potentially swallow a boat. — -- The whirlpool from “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” has nothing on this one. A six to eight foot-diameter vortex was caught on camera at ...

ST. LOUIS – The fish are gone, and a sinkhole is being blamed for the empty Benton Park Lake. Where did the water go, and the fish that swam in it? The City of St. Louis and the Missouri Department of ...