A massive sinkhole in Louisiana tugged a fresh meal of swamp trees into its depths on Wednesday night, according to local media.

A sinkhole swallows a stand of trees in seconds in a Louisiana bayou.

In a video from the Assumption Parish Office of Emergency Preparedness, the Bayou Corne’s tall trees slip into a sinkhole hidden beneath metallic-sheened swamp water, like pieces of spaghetti giving in to a pot’s boiling water. Afterward, the tree gone and the water jiggling to a still, the video almost begs for a voiceover – something like: “You saw nothing. Nothing happened here.”

The sinkhole first bubbled and trembled last June, and then about two months later caved open to take in about 24 acres of land. Ever since, the giant swamp thing has occasionally sighed and heaved, expanding to pull down more above ground brush and trees and dirt. The latest video, though, in which 25 trees bid their adieu to sunlight, is the first footage of its machinations.

Sinkholes form when acidic eats and eats at sedimentary rock such as limestone until an underground cave is formed. That water keeps eating until that cave collapses and so too does the aboveground landscape. On the surface, all looks well and calm until that cataclysmic point of no return is reached and the ground plummets downward, like a monster plunging into the foreground and breaking the dramatic silence of a horror film.

Earlier this month, the state of Louisiana and Assumption Parish’s Police announced plans to sue Texas Brine Co., a Houston based salt-mining company, pinning the sinkhole on the structural failure of Texas Brine’s salt cavern there. Since August 17 of last year, Texas Brine been paying about 350 residents evacuated from the affected region about $875 per week, according to documents. Texas Brine has also been organizing buyouts for residents not suing it, and locals have found themselves in the difficult spot of deciding whether to turn their homes over to the sinkhole's hunger or to hold out hope that the ground - and their homes - will be stabilized.

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