Missouri Hunter Dies After Falling Into 70-Foot-Deep Sinkhole

[Blazerman]

Scary stuff. This could happen to anyone. Be careful out there.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/missouri-hunter-dies-after-falling-into--foot-deep-sinkhole/article_8e9205e8-f292-5d9a-a09c-c8881e16c22d.html

[Quillback]

Sad story, my condolences to his family.

[gotmuddy]

that would be horrible.

[jdmidwest]

I turkey hunted with a friend years back in Perry County. New country to me, full of sinkholes and caves. We split and I was told to stay along the log road and I would be fine. I fumbled along in the dark and sit up by a tree to wait for daylight listening to the gobbling. When it came daylight, there was a 40' wide sink across the road from me and I was staring at the tops of some pretty good trees that had roots at the bottom of the sink. There was another hole at the bottom about 5' across that led to who knows where.

I sit up on a gobbler later on that morning in a holler, but I could not get him to come in. He was hung up about 50yds out for an hour and never came in. I walked out to a ledge that was about a 15' drop running down the holler. It was part of an old cave system that had collapsed years ago. The old bird was not going to fly up and look for me.

Interesting countryside in the Perry county area, lots of Karst, Caves, and Springs. Sinkholes abound and many steep hollers formed where cave systems have collapsed.