The SIMM's Sink
This sinkhole was treated as a dump from at least the 1970's. I pulled a ton, literally, of metal out of this hole, including the old hog feeders that sat behind the rip-roof barn on the Bunger tract, near the old apple orchard, below the pond. Besides the old metal, the huge sycamore tree adjacent to highway 333 just in front of the cattle barn and twin-silos was cut up and dumped in this hole. I made quite a blaze, for two days, as I used fire to consume most of that debris.
The hole has been cleared to the point where I have gained access to the karst feature, a traingular gash between two limestone plates. Rainy seasons for the past two years have caused a large volume of fill dirt to disappear into the void below this point. The gap opens to a wide, but extremely narrow void. The only way to physical enter this space would be to remove a few inches of fill dirt and crawl forward about ten feet. At that point, per the path the water takes, the passage may meander to the NW. It's hard to tell at this point, but the hole remaining open to continue acting as the sink for the green pipe that empties the bottom land in front of Mrs. Beulah Hager's house.
This hole gives a couple good indications that a cave is somewhere beneath the area. However, debris still surrounds the opening, making the entrance itself prone to a slide that could trap anyone under that opening.
The hole has been cleared to the point where I have gained access to the karst feature, a traingular gash between two limestone plates. Rainy seasons for the past two years have caused a large volume of fill dirt to disappear into the void below this point. The gap opens to a wide, but extremely narrow void. The only way to physical enter this space would be to remove a few inches of fill dirt and crawl forward about ten feet. At that point, per the path the water takes, the passage may meander to the NW. It's hard to tell at this point, but the hole remaining open to continue acting as the sink for the green pipe that empties the bottom land in front of Mrs. Beulah Hager's house.
This hole gives a couple good indications that a cave is somewhere beneath the area. However, debris still surrounds the opening, making the entrance itself prone to a slide that could trap anyone under that opening.