[RegulatorCountry]

Lake Mattamuskeet, the largest natural lake in North Carolina, is a Carolina Bay. Legendarily, it burned for “13 moons,” or a little over a year. I’m not absolutely certain, but I believe Mattamuskeet means something along the lines of “bad place where the ground burns.”

[Fred Nerks]

Oral traditions passed down through many generations...I believe they were eye-witnesses. Aboriginal artists in Australia depict an impact event:

A snake came from the west, traveling high, and fell down into Wolfe Creek Crater. It made its home in the hole in the crater. This hole is not shallow — it goes down deep into the earth, all the way through to Red Rock on Sturt Creek. When rain falls the water rises up in the middle of the crater and you might sink down. Then the whole ground is soft and dangerous. One Kartiya already sank there. In the dry time it is safe to go down, the ground is hard there.