That sinking feeling: 10 jaw-dropping sinkhole GIFs
One minute, you're going about your daily business and the next, you're being sucked into a killer sinkhole.
These unsuspecting victims were caught on camera as they narrowly cheated death as the ground dramatically gave way beneath them.
Three cars were sent crashing into an enormous sinkhole in Chicago last November when the road gave way .
Miraculously only one driver suffered minor injuries during the jaw-dropping incident, as the vehicles were dragged into the monstrous hole.
A teenager talking on her mobile phone had to be rescued by firefighters after she plunged 20 feet into a sinkhole.
Sinkhole swallows eight cars at National Corvette Museum in Kentucky
Museum spokeswoman Katie Frassinelli said six of the cars were owned by the museum and two - a 1993 ZR-1 Spyder and a 2009 ZR1 Blue Devil - were on loan from General Motors.
Bowling Green city spokeswoman Kim Lancaster said the hole opened up at about 5:40 a.m. CST Wednesday, setting off an alarm and a call to the fire department. Frassinelli said no one was in the museum at the time.
The hole is in part of the domed section of the museum, and that area will remain closed. That's an original part of the facility for which was completed in 1994. The fire department estimated the hole is about 40 feet across and 25 to 30 feet deep. Pictures of the sinkhole show a collapsed section of floor with multiple cars visible inside the hole. A few feet away, other Corvettes sit undamaged and undisturbed.
Frassinelli said the rest of the museum was open Wednesday.
Sinkhole opens up in Barnehurst back garden, UK
Gretel Davidson, 55, of Holmesdale Crescent, thought her daughter Mia, 12, was exaggerating when she called her to say a huge black hole had appeared in the middle of their lawn.
Gretel Davidson, 55, of Holmesdale Crescent, thought her daughter Mia, 12, was exaggerating when she called her to say a huge black hole had appeared in the middle of their lawn.
The radiographer at Darent Valley Hospital did not realise the extent of the hole until she got home and peered into the void last Wednesday.
Gretel said: "I just feel totally helpless. Mia rang me to say 'Mum there is a massive hole in the garden'.
"I didn't really believe her and just thought she was going over the top.
"It is just unbelievable to think a hole that size could appear over night and out of nowhere." Feeling totally helpless Gretel knocked on her neighbour's doors to try and get some help but nobody had any idea what to do.
She added: "I got in touch with the council but they said they couldn't help because it's my own property.
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