Top 10 amazing hole photos in the world

Sinkhole, Guatamala

just for the idea of falling 330 ft into the ground one day

a lot of those holes are dope but who's fucking with the Door to Hell? let's get real here

this guy is dope tho

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/54/Bingham_Canyon_April_2005.jpg/800px-Bingham_Canyon_April_2005.jpg

otoh yoooooooooooooooo

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/images/070226-sinkhole-photo.jpg

Yeah, the Sinkhole, coz all it needs is one of Mole Man's monsters.

First response hall of fame there

Sinkhole, what a surprise that would be!
Great blue hole was 2nd, just cos it's pretty.

the great blue hole looks like a winner to me

want to rep for Poll na bPeist " the wormhole" on the aran islands

http://www.blog-trotter.net/voyage/users/henribonneville/album_photo/irlande/Poll_na_bPeist.JPG

a lot of those holes are dope but who's fucking with the Door to Hell? let's get real here

Gotta agree, third photo of it is off the chain

Ubu Said:
March 8th, 2009 at 6:47 am
My girlfriend’s hole is the scariest 0_o

Yeah that gas hole door to hell is pretty wtf.

http://www.omnomnomnom.com/random/index.php

[06:14] me: http://gallery.xemanhdep.com/2009/03/top-10-amazing-holes-photos-in-the-world/
[06:16] fritz: yo monticello dam is like a real life charybdis
[06:16] me: i gotta hand it to them
[06:16] me: those ARE some amazing holes

can you imagine a more terrifying way to die than being sucked into this spillway? i'd rather fall down the giant statue of liberty sinkhole

http://xemanhdep.com/gallery/awesome_photos/awesome_photos07.jpg

in before goatse

can you imagine a more terrifying way to die than being sucked into this spillway?

yes. falling into:

http://johnhbradley.com/photos/070707darvaza/img_2531.jpg

ok, holy shit

That Seberian diamond mine looks like that old Windows swirly screensaver.

omg i was briefly obsessed with that crater in the turkmen desert for about a week last year. iirc it was some attempt at drilling for natural gas in the soviet era which went wrong and it's basically been burning since then, ie 20+ years. apparently loads of desert animals go there at night just to sit and stare at it. pt933047448 of the endlessly captivating craziness of the central asian states.

the other holes are impressive but the whole back story around the gates to hell is just so weird. easy vote.

yeah i actually wasnt that impressed w/hellgate at first because, just looking at it, i assumed it was just a lava pit or something - then i read about the natural gas fire and i was like d-d*mn....

apparently loads of desert animals go there at night just to sit and stare at it.
http://www.glogster.com/media/2/3/25/43/3254329.jpg
"woahhhh"

no BLOWHOLE no credibility

http://www.ellenbaycottages.com/images/photos/5/Watching%20the%20Blow%20Hole%20on%20Bird%20Island.jpg

monticello dam is most scary to me because if it wasn't roped off i could see just canoeing along and then suddenly you start getting pulled somewhere and then this hole appears and you die

^ this, but the door to hell is all kinds of awesome.

Door To Hell ftw. Holy shit.

cool thread!

i've actually been to the chuquicamata copper mining hole in chile. sadly i don't think the photos linked in the op do it much justice. it's really completely amazing - i remember having a lot of difficulty comprehending how deep it really was

like it looks just like a big arena or something but then you look down and see these trucks that are actually HUGE but just look like ants because the hole is so deep

I can't look at any of those photos for more than a second. Argh.

http://www.lglan.net/vbdump/dan/3267_goatse.cx-pumpkin.jpg

no BLOWHOLE no credibility

no YELLOWSTONE no credibility

http://www.moonlightbasin.com/moonlightbasin/images/gallery/yellowstone_national_park_thermal_hole_lg.jpg

can you imagine a more terrifying way to die than being sucked into this spillway? i'd rather fall down the giant statue of liberty sinkhole

Following his parents along a boardwalk in the Old Faithful area in 1970, nine-year-old Andy Hecht from Williamsville, New York, tripped or slipped into the scalding waters of Crested Pool. He swam a couple of strokes, then sank in front of his horrified family. In 1981, David Allen Kirwin, a 24-year-old Californian, died from three-degree burns over his entire body. He dove head-first into Celestine Pool's 202 degree water, attempting to rescue a friend's dog.

http://somchaisthailand.blogspot.com/2007/05/west-of-ireland-cliff-jump_09.html

^^^^ dude jumps into the worm hole

wow he jumped into a pool of waterzzzzzzzzblorftpl

it is relevant

also, for your consideration:

crater lake
http://www.cen.ulaval.ca/pingualuit/CraterLakeRF2.jpg

meteor crater:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/03/images/050310_meteorcrater2.jpg

ive been 2 crater lake its pimp as hell

that's not the Crater Lake in Oregon, right?
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.aisledash.com/media/2008/05/crater_lake_large.jpg

ya i was gonna say, thats definately not the one i went 2

yes v v different

impressive holes all

jtm you're such a shithead

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WkKZJVG5wTk/SXLLXv7zbpI/AAAAAAABsNg/_Tz1uIIrUT0/s400/Glengarry_Glen_Ross-75.jpg

We took the exit off the interstate to check out Meteor Crater, then were confronted with the fact that they charge 15 fucking dollars to look at a big hole that doesn't even have alien spacecraft or Jeff Bridges in it, and turned around.

i worked at this "hole"
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-03/05/xin_1720306052039812290489.jpg

rent's hole FTW

that is a scary hole.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3581/3415492432_b98a950dc1_o.gif

^^^ that spillway hole is the stuff of nightmares. Like, if you were in some sort of paralytic state and drifting slowly toward it (shudder)..

It would be the ride of your life, duuuuuuuude \m/

The dam spillway hole is terrifying. Most amazing, that's tough. Great thread though.

the dam spillway is the most beautiful imo

Voted Chuqui for jingoistic reasons but the dam and the door to hell are my favourites.

# PhilosopherQueen Said:
March 8th, 2009 at 3:20 am

Interesting page, but the weirdest hole is not mentioned… Mel’s hole.

haha

kind of hard to get an awe-inspiring photo of a hole that people have been looking for for 15 years and haven't found.

John linden Said:
March 8th, 2009 at 1:58 am

These holes are impressive but I’d have to go with Pamela Anderson’s coucher.

These are so amazing but I think that I'd have to vote either the Door to Hell or the Great Blue Hole. They're both just beautiful.

Amazing stuff, but had to go with the Sink hole in Guatemala. That's just freaky. I had a 4 feet deep hole "like that" onder my doorstep. It was only till the glas setter came in to bring the new windows I found out about it, because he fell through (I kid you not, whereas I have been running these steps every day for the last four years). It's a hole of beauty, that Guatemalan Sinkhole.

The spillway hole really unnerves me, and I think it's because I once had this way-too-real and vivid nightmare that I had a memory of being sucked into a spillway/funnel of a large dam as a child, or something, and there was this terrifying sensation of claustrophobia, rapid speed and "shit I'm going to drown".

It was the most terrifying thing ever.

Maybe it was some fucked up birth memory lol.

I went for the spillway too. Mostly because in my head it sounds like a bath draining. And I wonder where all the water goes..

God's bathtub

No Kalgoorlie Super Pit? http://www.superpit.com.au/default.aspx

http://www.superpit.com.au/Portals/0/LiveContent/516/Images/LG_127.jpg

http://www.superpit.com.au/Portals/0/LiveContent/516/Images/LG_124.jpg

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0709/PSP_004847_1745_cut_b720.jpg

"Hey, I'm the hole on Mars! What's with all the geocentrism on this list? Check me out... I'm on Mars!"

wki in the super pit

That Yellowstone hole looks pretty cool - but the thing abt Yellowstone that freaks me out the most is that the WHOLE FREAKING PARK is a giant caldera volcano. That means, if it goes, basically the whole area of the park will just asplode. Life'll get pretty... interesting, if that were to happen.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45637000/jpg/_45637027_05hanging_cartwo.jpg

Not especially impressive, but certainly topical.

Martian hole would make a kickass record sleeve

I do like the Guatamala sink-hole, just because of the 'oops, the town just fell down a hole' thing, but also because it looks (in the 2nd pic) like there's only about 20ft thick rock that this town is build on, then a huge expanse underneath.
After seeing the Door to Hell in action in the video, that's pretty cool, but none of them scare me quite as much as the mysterious plug-hole in the middle of the dam which makes me feel pretty queasy. I also realised why it looks so strange: Why isn't the water spiraling? Like it does in a bath. Hmm. Because it's fallins straight down it just gives it this real 'bottomless pit' look.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

the holes, however, will continue to gape ever wider

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

It had to be really.

That Yellowstone hole looks pretty cool - but the thing abt Yellowstone that freaks me out the most is that the WHOLE FREAKING PARK is a giant caldera volcano. That means, if it goes, basically the whole area of the park will just asplode. Life'll get pretty... interesting, if that were to happen.

If you consider dying within a few days interesting, than yes, it would. (me, that is, as I'm 1000 miles away and in the direction of prevailing winds. probably would be a lot slower and more fcuked up of a downfall for y'all)

site about the dam hole:

http://www.trophybassonly.com/id56.htm

I only just watched the vid of the gas hole, despite voting for it.

Mind = blown.

Video 2/6 of the fiery hell pit is totally WAU when he pans back to the dude on the other side and you see it's totally huge.

I tried to look at it on Google Earth, but they don't have close-ups in the middle of Turkmenistan. The spillway looks shit on Google Earth as well. I haven't bothered looking for the rest of them.

If we'd all known the dam one was known as the "Glory Hole," would that have changed the voting, do you think?

I f/w these results

berryessa gloryhole is shit frightening, the stuff of nightmares, but that guatemala sinkhole actually beats it. Feel a sick sensation in the pit of my stomach looking at photograp[hs of either. Ugh.

Fiery pit is just totally awesome.

Yeah, what is it about the spillway that creates this gut-level instinctual-type dread? It's like spiders or plague or something, it just hits this primitive Fear button.

I think it's just one of those very effective reminders that the world is huge and cares not a bit about what horrible things happen to you and your body -- it's like 80% the "terror" component of the sublime and only 20% the "beauty" part

I think it's the un-naturalness of it? I mean nothing remotely like that exists that is not man-made. Primitive fear button is probably right, you look at it, yer lizard brain says "unknown:dangerous" and you can't help but recoil.

i think its more that it has no consciousness and is suckin everything in its immediate vicinity down into an unknown darkness.

see also that pit in Return of the Jedi, with the added creepiness of teeth-like things on the rim.

unfortunately you're not the first to make that comparison:

yeah, but the other good one's ON FIRE AND HAS BEEN FOR NEARLY FORTY YEARS! That's some other level of scary shit right there. Also, it's on fire all the time, whereas spillway isn't plugholing all the time.

(I have just wikied both and feel like some sort of expert on scary hole things now)

that sort of makes the spillway worse, that it can just open up in what appears to be a placid lake

That's not how it works! (is it?)

^ new-found expertise deserting me now