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Strange Tales Of Loughareema – The Vanishing Lake Where People Are Lost


Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com –  If you travel to the Glens of Antrim, a few miles from the seaside town of Ballycastle, in Northern Ireland, you may or may not see Loughareema. Whether you can spot the lake depends on whether the water is blocked.

Known as the Vanishing Lake, it has been a source of amazement not only because of its odd geological behavior throughout the year. “The Vanishing Lake” is a chalk sinkhole that occasionally gets blocked up when peat washes into it.

Strange Tales Of Loughareema - The Vanishing Lake Where People Are Lost

Water draining off from the surrounding land fills the lake up, sometimes flooding the nearby road after particularly heavy rains.

Once the blockage is cleared, or the aquifer beneath can accept more water, the “Vanishing Lake”… vanishes.” 1

This beautiful place has been mentioned in several strange tales.

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