WATCH: Giant sinkhole opens in Illinois soccer field

A giant sinkhole that opened in a southern Illinois soccer field swallowed a large light pole and left a gaping chasm above an area where limestone is mined underground, authorities said. Read more: bit.ly/4cjFumO
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[@quicksandsavior]

New fear unlocked: Unknown mine.

[@operatingengineer520]

It’s known. Just one of the actually rock quarry mines in the county. No clue why this happened. They’ve mined around this park for decades. Sounds crazy, never had any issues that I’m aware of since my arrival in this world. They know now though🤦🏻‍♂️

[@kevincourtney7312]

Pit happens...

[@PrinceYahoshuaBanIsrael]

Nuclear

[@msladytsunade777]

Same here!😱🤯

[@LisaMitchell-f8e]

@@operatingengineer520 you can Google sinkholes around the state . They're mapped out.

[@pixiwix]

This is one of my top irrational fears. Terrifying.

[@nealdaleyjr7625]

And I always thought quicksand was going to be more of a problem. This is much worse...

[@bawnfordays73]

Lol. Just remember to relax, don't tense up.

[@Workerbee-zy5nx]

I have a sinking feeling about this.

[@rcnelson]

I thought the Underminer had been defeated.

[@mantheking]

Down with that sort of thing!

[@stevieb8560]

That comment was sinking pretty low, even for you.

[@Workerbee-zy5nx]

@@stevieb8560 There yall go.

[@mantheking]

@@stevieb8560 Plumbing new depths, so to speak?

[@cynthiad4443]

Isn't it odd that so many sinkholes are occurring lately?

[@classiccarbuff]

It's been happening on and off for years now.

[@kieragard]

They've always been happening but now there's cameras everywhere and people can see it for themselves.

[@Vlican]

Feels like this could happen anywhere... I wonder if there are agencies that look after this...

[@bruceb5481]

The Department of Sinkhole Management?

[@ProfessorGreg_]

For a moment I thought Bane was about to walk up and give a big speech.

[@theresehopkins1581]

In Illinois???.... 🤔Those cameras are amazing!!!....😮 Thank goodness noone was hurt!!!🙏❤

[@paulsmith5398]

Yes!, in Illinois! And theres another sinkhole somewhere along Illinois state highway route 185! The road was just recently reopened to one traffic lane.

[@mrfroghello]

ITS THE LOCUST

[@mattpeterson4160]

Ween says it was the mollusk

[@quentonglover4839]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Bill-nv6lj]

Perhaps telling you that there should not be an enormous light pole in the middle of the field?

[@Percival-kl9yy]

But what else are people going to accidentally run into?

[@quentonglover4839]

Now just imagine if it was graduation day...

[@rcnelson]

Mother Nature needs to get a red card.

[@stevieb8560]

Haha

[@TimelordUK]

So so so lucky. That would have been instant death for a lot of people

[@arielatom03]

Must be sinkhole de mayo

[@stevieb8560]

Bahahaha! Best comment

[@jacobsteele7138]

That was like watching Biden's debate performance.

[@merk9569]

Or one of Trump’s campaign “speeches.”

[@FireIsTheCIeanser]

Or jaws

[@Paulygon]

There needs to be a new button in the list of reasons to report a comment, “Shoving politics in places it shouldn’t be.”

[@notadvertiserfriendly6084]

The other choice is literally a confirmed associate of Epstein though 🤢

[@ggcatbelladogantics2959]

Actually, like watching trump everyday. Complete disaster.

[@ghost.ranger1628]

What's with all these sinkholes the past few years ?????????????????????????

[@plica06]

The weirdest thing about that for me was the grass wasn't grass but green strips of carpet!

[@samrowe2889]

Do it again i didn't see it the first time

[@jessikadople2185]

Thank you Lord for it happening while empty! Blêss It Be 2all 🙏🌎💕

[@danielreece8898]

In those places ..must have many under ground mines . In time erosion takes its toll .

[@monsignore11]

that you call giant? its not even big !

[@ericdwhitmorec]

We really have stop pulling stuff out of the earth.

[@JunkyardBashSteve]

I have never understood how this happens

[@Jamoofinmilk]

The pit I was in it, the pit You were in it, the pit We all were in it, the pit

[@AwesomeAngryBiker]

well done uploader, a 30 sec ad on a 35sec video. GREEDY

[@miracledaysband]

Crazy!

[@sauronindian6169]

GOAL.... 🎉🎉🎉

[@ShreddedRipcord]

What was CaseOh thinking jumping 2 inches high!?

[@Risa_Renee]

Yikes!!😲😳

[@SteveSmith-uo5ug]

Field built on an old land field?

[@jboy8735]

How does the sinkhole happen ?

[@dragonridley]

The ground collapses into a hollow space underground such as a cave or mine tunnel.

[@Karina_Engr]

That took about 5 seconds. 😮

[@MissionaryForMexico]

Quality soccer field!

[@mamster233]

Why did this happen???

[@HouseTargaryen24601]

Abandoned mine collapsed.

[@daleb5967]

Yikes...

[@madwhitehare3635]

Who is this Bane /Bain everyone keeps mentioning?

[@slendersera]

I half-expected demons and other monsters to come crawling out, starting the apocalypse.

[@Channy-nw5zt]

Not an apocalypse but Jesus' return ☺

[@joeylawn36111]

Talk about getting Relegated....

[@bossross8270]

"LET THE GAMES BEGIN."

[@magnificentmuttley2084]

That is frightening. To think there could be homes built over old abandoned mines is very scary. No insurance company would ever pay out and that is also wrong.

[@Teapot-Dave]

There are several homes built on top of old mines in Cornwall. When you buy a house there, you have to have a mining-survey done first, but some mines are so old that nobody kept a record of them in those days.

[@ep2223]

First time it pays off not to practice too much. Perhaps not at all!!!!!!!

[@tammiecampbell6164]

Yikes!!! 😮

[@Joe_Peroni]

It's just as well NO Euro 2024 games were played THERE!! Or Copa America games, either!

[@michaelbarnes7086]

Where was this? Florida?

[@HouseTargaryen24601]

It's in Illinois. There is a rock quarry nearby. The entire area has mines.

[@HelloImAPizza225]

Thats not a sinkhole. Its a cloaked bird of prey landing.

[@lusterdog9694]

Gotham! Take control...take control of your city...

[@lsingstock1646]

Why is our earth caving in? This happens all over the country.

[@Mark_5150]

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL!

[@wickedlester2743]

Whoa!

[@SpiderKnight]

You can’t blame that on inflation

[@Dave-sw2dm]

But you can blame it on the teachers union. 😅

[@Storkystormbird]

Interesting.

[@robertsklenka5823]

Dang now all those games have to get rescheduled for fields 10,11 and 14 … haha

[@Last_Sane_Man]

The parents need to be held accountable!

[@elijahfluw4347]

Don't forget my mother in law, she's guilty too!

[@Last_Sane_Man]

@@elijahfluw4347 Oh course she is!!! THE PARENTS NEED TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE!!! She sounds entitled! And you know what that means....she needs to be held accountable!!!!

[@elijahfluw4347]

@@Last_Sane_Man Exactly!

[@Last_Sane_Man]

@@elijahfluw4347 You know whats up brother!!!

[@Rhyas9]

More like sucker-field amirite?

[@Mike-su8si]

Yeah those worm will do that

[@gman5051]

That could of been a catastrophe !

[@ge2623]

True. It stopped a soccer game from being played.

[@marioschristodoulidis7531]

*Football field

[@b_ks]

Sandworm.

[@chuckholt5375]

Could this possibly be an old coal mine shaft?

[@John-Smith02]

Thats what SocksFor1 does when he sees a glizzy

[@Frankygoestohollywood]

Poeple dont fall into these holes because poeple don’t go out anymore..they should worry about a sink hole falling under their computer in their room..

[@HouseTargaryen24601]

These fields are used constantly. The local Catholic high school uses them.

[@Frankygoestohollywood]

@@HouseTargaryen24601 ok..thats good..i was exaggerating a little bit... They’re lucky nobody was in the field..that would’ve been disastrous..

[@kevinlane7555]

Dang gophers

[@gthangguthrie3213]

WHOA 👀

[@spacesuitor]

Recess = cancelled.

[@muztbnutz2914]

Biden's America

[@notadvertiserfriendly6084]

I don’t like Joe Biden either, but I think state or county government is to blame here, not the federal government. I really don’t think approving the locations of sports fields is on the federal government’s agenda.

[@privacyhelp]

Made in US

[@javiercorreapr9977]

goooolllllll !!!

[@boristheamerican2938]

"Uh Mr Vercotti, I didnt quite make Java" - Ron Obvious

[@bman7452]

Goooooooooooaaaaaaaaallllllllll!

[@cajunpower]

Domain expansion

[@Driven2Beers]

Dúrin and his kin are unavailable for comment.

[@allansedgwick-pc4xe]

Just play it down the right wing then⚽️🤭

[@AWISECROW]

Are you serious? A Screamer? In this day and age? Edit: oh its real

[@zoeherriot]

“Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal…..”

[@SteveB-hy2ci]

Chinese digging to close to the top😮

[@denisemcclain6416]

😮

[@planetdisco4821]

That’s a yellow card at least….

[@patrickw9706]

Like this post and the sinkhole won't get you

[@albertoserna3968]

End of the world

[@SumPixelz]

Shaolin Soccer

[@La_Sn3ak3r_3-ky9ki]

IAbolishTheElectoralCollege!!BanAssaultWeapons!!!!!!!!!!!DefundPoliceNationwideLikeWeDidPortland!!!PackTheSupremeCourt!!!!!!!!OpenDaBorder!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!VoteDEMOCRATtoSaveDemocracy!!!!!💙🇵🇸💙🇵🇸💙💙💙🇵🇸

[@azroseazlang9995]

FJB FBLM FPELOSI FADEMS FJB FJB FJB

[@azroseazlang9995]

FJB FBLM FPELOSI FADEMS FJB FJB FJB

[@pjt]

Battle of the Russian bots

[@Austin-fc5gs]

Feel better

[@La_Sn3ak3r_3-ky9ki]

@@Austin-fc5gs lol PoliiceFundiingMAGAt!

[@Ojb_1959]

Bidens brain on debate night🤣

[@notadvertiserfriendly6084]

The other choice is a confirmed Epstein associate 🤢

[@marcd6897]

@@notadvertiserfriendly6084you mean like Donnie?

[@ChetWeeds]

That was China digging to the other end

[@fatherdamien69]

Imagine if that would've happened during soccer practice. Those kids and coaches sure are lucky they weren't there at that time.

[@moycorbin4750]

It would have been like the match in Dark Knight Rises 😅

[@MsTinkerbelle87]

🙏

[@cjpatz]

Im not 100% sure but it seems these thing tend to happen during rain or just after, so hopefully that minimizes these things happening during large outdoor gatherings!

[@Kube_Dog]

The players would have been safe on the field. Maybe a few parents would have been watching from the sidelines and fallen in, I dunno.

[@thfrussia6717]

Yeah because pressure could trigger it even faster.

[@Brolly5]

This is normally the start of a monster movie.

[@DJBlueX]

Or the opening scene for eighth installment of the “Tremors” franchise.

[@analienfromouterspace]

@@DJBlueX Or a Gate, they gonna have to call Stephen Dorff again

[@Kube_Dog]

It's illegals digging a tunnel under the border and things went terribly terribly wrong for them.

[@kerryketcheson8145]

I was certain a big hand was going to rise out of the hole!

[@PJTYLER]

No kidding. That's got the makings of a blockbuster

[@reekhavoc2932]

Swallowed a whole stadium light!

[@bonjovirocks24]

The stadium light had it coming. It’s been a snitch for years, shedding light on you know what.

[@Lee-JayGessell]

No they hit a water spring when they put the pile in for light I bet

[@believewhatyousee2852]

So glad no students or faculty were on the field!

[@americangirl1344]

It’s not a school. It’s a park

[@jbbajangamer]

​@@americangirl1344 you get the idea

[@americangirl1344]

@@jbbajangamer ok.

[@billwillman7687]

I am from that area. There is a rock quarry not too far from there. Apparently the mine was under the soccer field causing the collapse.

[@kikijewell2967]

Thank you for the details. I didn't think mines were so close to the surface!

[@Pewlander]

​​@@kikijewell2967I'm pretty sure they aren't supposed to be anywhere close to the surface if they are under a soccer field. R.I.P light pole

[@amystern123]

Thank you. AP did a terrible job by supplying no background at all.

[@yacobshelelshaddai4543]

Woah!! That's so much worse than just a natural sink hole!

[@Cara-39]

​@@amystern123 This is just a video. The link to the article is in the description box

[@suzyseaweed9112]

Really thankful no one was hurt.

[@citronnierlyonnais96]

Bane prepares his return 🦇

[@jimschuman9926]

Remember a news story way back involving a sink hole. A guy was asleep in his room when his bedroom floor collapsed and he was never seen again. Authorities figure the sink hole was 500 feet deep.

[@thereisnosanctuary6184]

Nightmare fuel

[@honestytoafault]

It was his niece's room. But he was sleeping in it.

[@jmtimmons]

That happened down in Florida. How scary.

[@lisaflowers3608]

I will never forget that story! It terrified me!! 😢

[@jimschuman9926]

@@lisaflowers3608 I’ve always wondered if the guy woke up and was like “ what the heck is happening to me!” And also did he live a long time and suffer? That would be a terrible way to go. 💀💀

[@ristonalaimo5048]

Keep scrolling and the sinkhole won't get you.

[@DJBlueX]

Reminds me of the 90s movie “Tremors” with Kevin Bacon in it.

[@sun_chariot6141]

I was just thinking of that movie

[@TAO502]

@@sun_chariot6141such a classic

[@LightBeing369]

"You gotta do something"😄

[@LFTRnow]

MMMMmmmm Baaacon....

[@micke3035]

Taken for what it is, excellent movie! 👌

[@ivorleak8823]

Nothing major, just miner damage.

[@stevieb8560]

Lol. I see what you did there.

[@daved8858]

Well done 🫡

[@tuxoxoracer]

Sink holes terrify me to no end :(

[@Neotron2001]

I just finished watching Godzilla x Kong: New Kingdom. And this is what the KZbin algorithm brought me to? That's enough internet for today.

[@george1la]

Luckily no one was there at the time. It happened so fast no one could have done a thing. Doesn't anyone check to see what is under before construction? How many other places are at risk for the same reasons?

[@SimbiAni]

They're typically caused by natural internal erosion, ie water moving thru the earth, but with excessive rain, it saturates the underground areas, flows too much & erodes too much, leading to weaker areas collapsing inwards.. 😬

[@ge2623]

9.

[@daniellecarnaflanaganahan1538]

It was dry... ​@@SimbiAni

[@richardpankey6483]

Estimates are that more than 20% of the U. S. land surface is over karst regions where the bedrock is limestone or dolomite or other rock that is dissolved over time by water. Florida is the state worst hit with these suddenly collapsing sinkholes but there are many others. People are saying this soccerfield is near some mines, but Alton is also in one of the karst regions of Illinois.

[@bonjovirocks24]

There is a rock quarry nearby and a mine was beneath this stadium light, whose life ended & light will never shine again. RIP stadium light.

[@eligebrown8998]

So lucky there wasnt a game going on

[@DavidCurryFilms]

Bane "Let the games begin"

[@Wyndamn]

What a lovely lovely voice .

[@PatrickDoyle-gt9kd]

RIP in Peace, stadium lights.