Some of the mystical blue-green lakes of the Lacandon jungle in southern Mexico are drying up this year. The Metzabok lake, which normally covers 220 acres (89 hectares), dried up completely this month, leaving cracked mud where the translucent waters normally reflect the surrounding jungle and Lacandon Indians travel by canoe. We are familiar with […] More
Mont Blanc in France is the highest mountain in the Alps and the highest in Western Europe. A perfect location for a hike during a heatwave. If you were around at the end of June, you could have even taken a nice swim in a beautiful lake that popped up out-of nowhere at over 3,000 […] More
We have heard about rivers and lakes disappearing overnight. But this time, it’s an Irish beach washed away 33 years ago that suddenly reappeared overnight following a freak tide. I have already reported strange lake and river disappearances. But extreme events can also have positive endings as reported by The Guardian: The sand at Dooagh, […] More
Within the last 3 months or so, newspapers have started reporting increasingly about rivers and lakes that mysteriously and suddenly disappear around the world. Here a compilation of the most baffling incidents. Let’s start this compilation with the Atoyac River, which disappeared overnight drained by a giant 30 meters by 20 meters fissure in the riverbed. The large […] More
A 200 meters in diameter and 3 meters in depth forest lake – Lake Peschёra – disappeared overnight underground as a deep sinkhole drained the entire reservoir with all the fish in it. The incident is worrying residents who are scared that a nearby lake – Lake Lyubimov -, which feeds water to 300 houses […] More
Pictures and videos show that most of the 1,400 hectares of lake Riesco have disappeared overnight near Aysen, Patagonia, Chile. Nobody knows what’s happening over there. The lack of information from any official teams increases the mystery. Sinkhole? Geological fault? Or lack of rain? Lake Riesco, or Lago Riesco in spanish, has almost completely disappeared from […] More
Mystery: The lake around the temple of water god, a Chinese cultural heritage area in the Shanxi Province of North China, has completely disappeared overnight for no apparent reason. The information was first released by a Chinese governmental website on August 2, 2014. Since then, the Shanxi government has appealed to experts to investigate the […] More
For the first time in modern history, scientists have observed an entire river disappear in the space of days. Historical evidence suggests it usually takes thousands of years for the process to occur, but in this case the Slims River fed by Canada’s Kaskawulsh Glacier was co-opted in only four days. The phenomenon – called […] More
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