Hundreds of people are flocking to a field at Neuhofen im Innkreis in Austria after a mysterious perfectly round hole appeared overnight, leading down to a metallic construction 25-foot underground.
Farmer Franz Knoglinger, 47, discovered the hole while looking for his missing cat and after a report on local television he was flooded with curious visitors, as well as geologists, archaeologists and even UFO experts.
He said: “I was looking for our family cat Murlimann when I noticed the hole. I didn’t know how deep it was then so I dropped the stone down there, and heard a metallic clunk.
“From the time it took for the stone to reach the bottom I realised it was very deep.
“I managed to get a big magnet which I dangled down there and it clearly fastened onto something at the bottom – so there is something large and metallic about down there. It also sounds as if there is a hollow space around about whatever the metal object is – it sounds as if there is a room underneath.”
He said they needed 25 foot of rope to lower the magnet down and the local plumber who had tried to use a special camera to view the object had failed to get an image.
He said: “There seem to be disturbance on the line – maybe it was some sort of electrical field. Either way the camera didn’t bring a good result.”
Archaeologists suggested the hole could have been left by a wooden timber from an underground burial chamber that had rotted away.
Underground ancient burial chambers are most certainly non metallic but it could be a long forgotten about water tank.
Interesting. I would have the experts in to radar the ground in that location to see if there are any more holes. That would confirm or destroy the theory of the hole being caused by a wooden timber rotted away. And I’d want to know if there were more holes for safety reasons.
Sounds like a set up.Here we have a farmer that has a hole in the middle of a very flat block that has never seen the hole befor.FMD,LOL.
Mystery solved – took me 10 seconds to do it lol
http://austriantimes.at/news/General_News/2012-03-13/40154/Hole_Lot_of_Bother
“But the mystery has finally been solved by a local historian who discovered that 50 years ago a company had drilled a hole in the field while looking for oil – and that the massive drill bit had snapped off at the end leaving a chunk of metal in the ground.”