Lost my lake, dude - seen it somewhere?

This actually is about my lost lake in Chile... It just disappeared... Wonder where it went? Around the corner, next pub, had a drink, forgot his way home?

Taken from: Yahoo News

 Written by: Reuters

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A lake in southern Chile has mysteriously disappeared, prompting speculation the ground has simply opened up and swallowed it whole.

The lake was situated in the Magallanes region in Patagonia and was fed by water, mostly from melting glaciers.

It had a surface area of between 4 and 5 hectares (10-12 acres) -- about the size of 10 soccer pitches.

"In March we patrolled the area and everything was normal ... we went again in May and to our surprise we found the lake had completely disappeared," said Juan Jose Romero, regional director of Chile's National Forestry Corporation CONAF.

"The only things left were chunks of ice on the dry lake-bed and an enormous fissure," he told Reuters.

CONAF is investigating the disappearance.

One theory is that the area was hit by an earth tremor that opened a crack in the ground which acted like a drain.

Southern Chile has been shaken by thousands of minor earth tremors this year.

So if you happen to see a lake somewhere passing by and he's happening to speak Spanish with a strong accent, please tell him that he's missed and point out the direction...

You sure that's real?

SO random!

yup, it's all over yahoo news

and not just Yahoo, but I guess it comes from Reuters...

I think the one I read off of yahoo was AP

that lake must be having his head in the clouds

Well, look at what happened to the Aral Sea. While that has a bit more of an explanation to what happened, and it happened over a longer time, it's still vanishing slowly but surely. And, though it's not as incredibly random as a lake disappearing, the Aral Sea has left some pretty weird and haunting pics of large fishing vessels out in the middle of what looks like a desert.