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'We've ruled out Satan': Mysterious hole in the ground shooting out 12-foot-high flames ...
www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | October 1, 2018 | By Marlene Lenthang

Posted on 10/05/2018 7:35:36 AM PDT by Red Badger

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'We've ruled out Satan': Mysterious hole in the ground shooting out 12-foot-high flames for 40 minutes in Arkansas leaves officials stumped

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On September 17 a hole in the ground shot out 12-foot flames for 40 minutes

The blaze broke out on a private property in Midway, Arkansas at 4.30am

Weeks later, officials are still clueless as to what caused the inferno

Officials have ruled out meteorites, a gas leak and Satan as potential causes

Soil samples from the area are yet to be tested and could reveal the cause

Geologists determined that the hole was made by animals but have no idea how flames would have started shooting out

Baxter County Judge Mickey Pendergrass believed someone ignited the fire on purpose using a clean fuel

Arkansas authorities are scratching their heads to figure out how a small hole in the ground spewed out 12-foot flames last month.

The bizarre hole, located on a private property in Midway, Arkansas, released a fiery display on the morning of September 17, yet officials are clueless as to how the hole opened up.

On that fateful day the hole released a spectacle of furious flames for about 40 minutes, shocking bystanders. Then it suddenly stopped.

Baxter County Judge Mickey Pendergrass joked that he's ruled out Satan as a possible explanation for the fire - as well as meteorites or a gas leak.

'As far as the spiritual Satan goes, we've ruled that out. He didn't come up and stick his pitchfork in the ground and blow that hole out,' he said to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Agriculture; Outdoors; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: fireinthehole
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To: Red Badger

Clinton man cave


21 posted on 10/05/2018 8:05:21 AM PDT by jimmygrace
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To: rivercat

you win the internet...


22 posted on 10/05/2018 8:06:09 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Red Badger

That white stuff looks like the deposits around my pilot lights.


23 posted on 10/05/2018 8:06:46 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: Red Badger

Probably where Hillary buried her e mails


24 posted on 10/05/2018 8:08:45 AM PDT by SMARTY (Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. Ortega y Gasset)
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To: Red Badger

Satan is in the Senate.


25 posted on 10/05/2018 8:13:50 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: WKUHilltopper

No sulfur smell..................


26 posted on 10/05/2018 8:15:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Q............PREPARE FOR 'SKY IS FALLING' WEEK...........................)
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To: Red Badger

many decades ago there was a hole in the ground that sucked a 100 ft garden hose down to who-knows-where, When the hose disappeared, the story disappeared ... we’ll never know ...


27 posted on 10/05/2018 8:16:25 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF
many decades ago there was a hole in the ground that sucked a 100 ft garden hose down to who-knows-where, When the hose disappeared, the story disappeared ... we’ll never know ...

Spagetti monster
28 posted on 10/05/2018 8:21:48 AM PDT by texas_mrs
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To: Red Badger

John McCain trying to get his Senate seat back to vote against Kavanaugh.


29 posted on 10/05/2018 8:23:00 AM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: rivercat

POTD! LOL!


31 posted on 10/05/2018 8:26:01 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda e)
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To: PIF

I live in Florida where sinkholes are very common.

At our last house we lived in before the one now, there was an old clothesline in the yard that hadn’t been used in decades.

I dismantled it with just one pipe left sticking up out of the ground.

I went out to dig it out, thinking it had been put in with cement at the base and hit it with my shovel.

It disappeared into the ground and I NEVER SAW IT AGAIN...............


32 posted on 10/05/2018 8:28:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (Q............PREPARE FOR 'SKY IS FALLING' WEereEK...........................)
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To: Red Badger

Arkansas? Prolly an illegal still.


33 posted on 10/05/2018 8:29:34 AM PDT by bruin66 (Time: Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once..)
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To: PIF

Florida?...........................


34 posted on 10/05/2018 8:30:06 AM PDT by Red Badger (Q............PREPARE FOR 'SKY IS FALLING' WEereEK...........................)
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To: Red Badger
On that fateful day the hole released a spectacle of furious flames for about 40 minutes, shocking bystanders. Then it suddenly stopped.

It was so spectacular that in 40 minutes of burning no one recorded it on video?

35 posted on 10/05/2018 8:31:01 AM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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To: Red Badger

I live in an area with a lot of shale - and natural gas. There are pockets everywhere, and its a big gas production area.

There’s a stream bed near me that leaks natural gas from the earth (there are no wells or pipelines nearby) - if you have a lighter, you can set it on fire.

Its not that uncommon.


36 posted on 10/05/2018 8:31:19 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Red Badger

Hillary’s birthplace-marked with an eternal flame. AKA the portal to Hell.


37 posted on 10/05/2018 8:31:48 AM PDT by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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To: Red Badger

Mother Earth farted?


38 posted on 10/05/2018 8:33:19 AM PDT by Waverunner (I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
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To: Red Badger

People in the Midwest that own hundreds of acres, sometimes have their own landfill since there’s no codes against it. Dig a big hole and throw your trash in their for 40 years and then cover it up and start a new one somewhere.

Could be methane gas from grandpa’s landfill.

Also, you’d be surprised how many people don’t have a proper septic system. Some people just run a pipe down into the woods.


39 posted on 10/05/2018 8:35:45 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: rivercat

“Because Hillary isn’t in Arkansas right now.”

You nailed it.


40 posted on 10/05/2018 8:37:55 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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