Swallowed Up by the Earth

Energy, energy, energy, because I think Carla heard me say that in the hotel. It's just like, what is that. I'm like, It's like, it's our chant to get our energy up so we can talk about so I can come way down. We can go way down when we talk about dark ass shit. That is how we do this. That is exactly how we do this. Yeah, it's we're like a roller coaster. We are. We are a roller coaster of energy. We have the highest highs and the lowest lows. Welcome to Scary Mystery Surprise, where we talk about scary things that surprised us around the Internet. I'm Edwin, I'm Michelle. Imagine the following. Michelle. It's eleven o'clock at night, and you're done watching your favorite series on Netflix. Colombo, yeah, or Discovery Plus. Right now, it's Colombo. But Ghost Adventures is just come back. So and Files is also back. Yes, they are both back. Cool new episodes, quite enjoyable. I can't recommend them enough. You're you know, it's late, You kiss your dog good night, get into bed, and then you stare up at the ceiling a little bit, you know, just before going to sleep, typical, but before yeah, before you know it. You're asleep. Next thing you know, the ceiling is moving farther away from you, and the furniture is moving toward you. You see your night stand coming straight for your head and that's it. You're suddenly floating toward the light. Oh God, And you have to choose who you're gonna hunt. I should pick an enemy, right, I have a list, so I'll just work my way down. See. And the thing is, you don't know how you died, so you're like, dang it. You know, that's that's what makes a ghost, When you're just like suddenly dead. You're like, what where do I go? Oh my god? What? Anyway? CNN knows though, what did they kill me? Well, you know it's it's because they actually ended up this story one of something similar actually happened. And CNN published this article that just really caught my eye called a loud crash then nothing sinkhole swallows Florida man. And I know that was funny because the title, you know, the title is epic. Yeah, that is like an epic title. Oh but what the hell? Seriously though, like it's terrible, like this guy died. The article came on March fifth, twenty thirteen, and it tells the news of a man in Tampa, Florida. It was late when Jeremy Bush heard his brother scream for help, like, ah, I help man, and he was sleeping in his you know, in his own room. And it's sad even just reading the account of his brother trying to help him and not being able to is Seriously, it got to me. I'm just this is why true crime is hard for me. Anyway. Basically, a hole opened up underneath his bedroom and not even rescuers could go in because it was so dangerous twenty feet wide and it estimated around twenty to thirty feet deep. The county actually determined that the house might end up getting swallowed up too, so like the whole area was just like evacuated. The other people that were there. I think it was for other people and even a two year old, like they escaped. But you know, the brother was trying to get the brother out and he went in and tried to you know, dig him up, but it was just so much dirt and just its just impossible. Yeah. Anyway, his name was Jeff Bush, the guy who was swallowed up and his body was never recovered. Oh my God swallowed by the earth. You know, you don't think about a sinkhole dumping dirt on you when you get pulled into the sea. I think I just always imagine it like you just go straight down you, Yeah, like you're just falling forever, like Alice in Wonderland or something like that. I don't think I never thought about the dirt actually falling on you. Yeah, that's terrifying. You're basically buried alive. Yeah, that's terrible. It's like like imagine a landslide in three sixties, like from all directions. That's exactly, yeah, because that's Yeah, it's like suddenly just you know, like a thing opened, like cartoon style, just something just opens and you fall deep into But no, anyway, the whole was filled up and what remained of the house was removed, and two years later, August twentieth, twenty fifteen, CNN releases another article called massive Florida sinkhole That's swallowed up Man reopens, which just tells you what happened. It feels like a curse now because they left him in there. Yeah, so he's like revenge. Yeah, he's like, now everyone will die in sinkholes in this neighborhood. It's like when you look at a picture now, there's like it's fenced around it like it's god. Yeah, and it's it's a bizarre looking hole like it's like a circular, and it's just it's it's weird. It's really weird to look to look at that. Really sad too. It's just a sad story. I think the account from the brothers what got me the most out of all this. But also, yeah, the fear that it could happen to me, Like did they know what caused that sink hole in Florida or was it? Well, yeah, I mean it's the whole area there. It's you know, because of storms and rain. There was rain I think before that, and limestone you know kind of dissolves or not dissolves, but like what is it called disin I don't yeah, like, uh, it's it's porous, I think. So, yeah, it makes like caves and stuff with water. Yeah, so, but yeah, there are causes to that. I mean the actual like real natural causes to that, but also in cities with you know, leaky pipes and you know, it affects that too, So it's yeah, it might be man made and it might be natural. But that area in Florida also has other sinkholes, so yeah, not far from there, there was another one, so it's like a natural occurrence in that neighborhood. Yeah, I mean it's not uncom I mean it's not common, but it's not also not like oh it never happens, right, like they know about it. Like I kept just kept finding story after story, right, but not anything as like none, not the same level as a Florida guy who got swallowed up, but still bizarre. One and one of these was very extreme. This one takes place in what Mala Watermala as the folks say it was that like your Texas accent was that water Malla? Thank you for speaking English so we all understood. Yeah, I had to translate that translate those so zone two Watermala City. Americans really really don't say they're teas. Huh, Like it's really now, we really do not say teas. That's so funny. Yeah, I'm telling you, like Santa Monica, we just Sana instead of Santa you know, like yeah, it's like, oh, you gotta go see Sanna, Sanna, Sanna. This is why the world makes fun of us. I know, Well it does it does it's and I think it's acceptable. I'm fine with it. Yeah, as an American, I'm fine with it. So go right ahead, everybody. Anyway. Guatemalaa Guatemala, an entire factory, a three story factory just collapsed. But it didn't just collapse. It fell into a hole in the ground about sixty five feet in diameter and three hundred feet deep. What the fuck that? Oh? Yeah, like that's like a what thirty story building or yeah, that's insanity. Yeah, it's it's creepy looking too. Like I saw these, I'm like, is this real. It's just it's very circular, and like as you see the picture, it just gets darker and darker that you know, it just never like it just looks like it goes down forever, and ah, it just looks fake. In the building, though, there had been one security guard who is listed as missing, not dead because it was never confirmed. They never found them, which is really sad, but I mean it was he probably went. He probably went to that prehistoric place that everybody goes, and it's just floating in time. It's just yeah, it's just stuck in time fighting dinosaurs and uh, you know, saving a child that will someday become your husband, but they then has to travel back in time to rescue you your second time. You know that kind of that's the thing. Yeah, time is so complicated, that's the thing. It's it's just a fact. I think of that whenever there's like a close call, you know, like when you're about to die, you're like, had I done this one second earlier? Like you know really, oh boy? Yeah, yeah. You have those moments where it's like, oh, well, I guess not today, not today, you know. When I was looking up all this info, I found an article from a website called Christian Science Monitor, and one of the quotes was like, speaking of this sinkhole, sorry, the only way to describe it is to say it's huge. It doesn't seem real. And I was like, I mean, duh, Like it's and it doesn't seem real, Like these things can't happen, Like why why? Why? What is going on? Like a whole building And if you look at it, it's not just like a building in the middle of nowhere. This is like in a city, Like there's buildings that are around this huge hole. There's a sidewalk that kind of like the corner of the sidewalk where the little ramp is kind of when you're crossing the street. That's kind of like in the hole. So no, there's no I don't know. I want to know that filled it in or what happened or yeah, how to fill it? I mean, what do you do? You just fill it with rock trash? I don't know rock. I don't know, you're just trying to I don't know how you stabilize something like that, Like, I don't know. And if they can reopen right, right, that's what makes it like it's like, could they ever put anything back on that property ever? Again, Hey, if you're a sinkhole expert and you're listening to the show, right in and tell us what they fill sinkholes with, because I don't do you even imagine, I know, I kind of I can't imagine. They're just like scooping things in there and it's just going, yeah, it's like let's throw an old junker car and there, Yeah, thank you, thank you, because you'd want to put stuff that didn't bio degrade, right, because then it would just think again, So so it has to be dense and strong enough to you know, not I don't know because also what if it's I don't know how these things happen, like I really want to ask, Like I know I can look it up, but I mean we want to ask. We want someone to tell us. It's like that, you know, like yeah, like if they're explaining it to a five year old, like I want to know. Please, if you feel like explaining how sinkles work to a five year old, then email us and let us know or d m us on our Instagram page. Oh man. Like these things though, they do have a reason why they happen, and in this case it had been because of tropical Storm Agatha and the what is it pak Pakaya or Pakaya volcano eruption, but the actual explanation could be because of crap, like literal crap. The sewer pipes had been leaking for some time, and because the city's built on volcanic deposits, which are a low density, so that means you know, there's air in between or some type of gas particle between, or you can crush it or whatever, they're prone to erosion. The geologists that help with the study from Dartmouth College partially blamed the lack city zoning regulations and building codes, and they say that the sinkhole should be renamed a piping feature and not a sinkhole, because I guess it wasn't natural, so I guess it's getting political now. That suck for that security guard to have fallen into the earth, but then also to probably be covered with shit, so you're like, you fall into the earth and then you're in a shithle, like literally like a literal shithole. Like that's awful. That is awful. You know, when I was a kid, like I used to have this, not an obsession, but I really like digging. And you know how dogs kind of do that, like they have a thing like they either dig or they like to. I think kids, I think as kids we have certain things too, where like we like to do one thing and like like that. For me, it was digging, Like I used to dig in the backyard and like bury things like jars of coins or stuff. And I don't know if there's any in there now that I think I'm gonna try. Now now you might want to, yeah, get like a few bucks gold, Yeah some gold, they got gold, but sure it might For sure, it's like thirty cents that you buried in the backyard. There was this There was this book I remember reading about this kid who dug his way all the way to China, like he just kept digging, and I was so like, because I'm sure somebody out there must have read it or heard about Well, yeah, I mean I think we all grew up with that you're gonna dig your way to I don't know if that's just like a saying or if it came from a book, but it seemed really possible when you were a kid to like dig your way to China. There was this The book told of this kid who was just digging, and then as he's making it closer to the center of the earth, he's in this I don't know, a type of spaceship looking thing, yeah, a suit, yeah, And it's like, wow, this is so cool. And I'm like, what if I just dig deep enough not to go all the way to China, but like make a little cave for myself down there, that would be so cool. I remember trying starting to I remember starting the dig and I'm like, I'm never gonna get this. Ever, the largest one of these sinkholes, which is the largest one in the world that has been discovered, I guess, because you know there's area. I don't think humans have been everywhere, everywhere, like every single square inch yet maybe I don't know, it's possible, I guess. But anyway, the large one of these measures six hundred and sixty meters deep, which is multiply that by three to get it in feet. I don't know. No, I don't know how any of that works around eighteen hundred feet almost two thousand feet with a volume of one hundred and thirty million cubic meters. They're just numbers. I don't I can't visualize it. Yeah, I believe you. It sounds big. It's in China, but it isn't the middle. It's not like in the middle of a city or anything. So that's why I don't. I didn't really care. It doesn't count as freaky and therefore maybe not worthy of scary mystery surprise because it's just this nice looking foresty whole with with animals and species of things that live there, and it's very You could just imagine snow white just hanging out there. So it's yeah, so we'll just ignore that. Yeah, just the magical sinkhole. But we'll just ignore that whole. Actually, the name for it, it's tiang King, which means the heaven leap, the heaven leap it. So definitely, I'm assuming there are some people that maybe think sinkholes are caused by the devil. Am I am I right about that, just because uh, you know we're gonna ask that question. Our sinkles, Yeah, are caused by the devil coming up in trying to claim you, because it does feel like a very final destination like thing where it's like, oh, we're just going to take this one building, this one guy, this one thing. You know, it's very uh yes, selective and targeted. Oh man, that's why you have to do good. Don't sin you guys, that's true. I guess, don't sin. I guess this has become a crazy Christian podcast and like two seconds, uh don't sin or do sin? And uh, you know, make sure you're not above a sinkhole. Uh. I'm trying to think of what environment doesn't get sinkholes. Make sure you are living on a boat. Yeah, I guess boats, but maybe they can and then end up with one of those swirly ocean thing. That's actually what I'm scared heard. Ever, what is it that's like a whirlpool, a whirlpool title waves. I'm terrified of tidle waves. That is not my damn not oh man. Anyway, So next time you're going to sleep, be afraid. I'm gonna say you might die. Yeah, like yours better like be afraid. Definitely add it to your list of things you stare at your ceiling at night about. It's like, oh well, I couldn't be man, just dead dead, like wake up dead. Definitely wake up dead in the morning. You can't wake up dead swallowed by a sinkhole. Never saw that coming, oh man. So anyway, remember geologist or sinco experts, get in touch with us. You want to know, actually, everybody, get in touch with us. We're reading through it. We're reading, yeah, we're reading through the Spotify messages those things are yeah, oh yeah. And the d ms, don't forget that, yeah, dms and comments on the Instagram we share those. So yeah, we're all about it. Anyway, What are we going to talk about next week? Edwin? I know I actually know this time. No, I do share, but I'm not going to tell you till next week. It'll be a surprise. Fine, bye, guys,