In the small hours of a quiet 1613 night, the residents of Holwell, a quaint village in England, went to sleep completely unaware of the catastrophe that awaited them. As they lay in their beds, the ground beneath the village was giving way, weakened over centuries by natural erosion processes and perhaps exacerbated by heavy rainfall or underground streams. By morning, a gaping sinkhole had swallowed the entire village, leaving nothing but a deep, eerie pit where homes and streets once stood. T

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