Deep, Perfect Round Hole with Something Metallic at the Bottom: Can You Guess What It Is?

Alex

Austrian farmer named Franz Koglinger went looking for his lost cat when he stumbled upon this 25-foot-deep, perfectly round hole in his field that - as he claimed - appeared overnight.

So naturally, Franz threw a rock down the deep hole and heard a metallic clunk. Next, he tried a magnet, which stuck to something metallic. What could this mysterious hole be all about?

... soon the mystery drew local, national and, finally, international attention. Curiosity-seekers, geologists and UFO buffs flocked to the farm to see the hole for themselves. A buried UFO became a favorite explanation.

There is a perfectly logical solution to this, Neatoramanaut, as Benjamin Radford of Skeptical Inquirer wrote over at Life's Little Mystery, but see if you can come up with an answer first: Link


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Wild guess: a previous land owner was drilling pilot holes looking for water. This one was dry so they capped it with a metal plate and a few inches of soil. Over time the plate slipped and fell into the hole, allowing the earth above to crumble. The current owner might want to get a metal detector and see if there are other similarly capped but unfilled holes so they can be made safe.
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Ah, I wondered where Kanye West was. I see that rappers are on another grid.

And regarding the grid of writers: Ain't nobody more arrogant than Ayn Rand. Sorry.
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"Kurt Kobain's placement looks about right." Well, his *spelling* looks about right, but his placement on the genius scale - at least relative to most of the other names on this list - is preposterous. I love his music, but come on.
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Neil Young will tell you that Jerry Garcia not only humbly took his place in American music, but that he did so with a vision and expertise that places him firmly in the genius level. And I will tell you that stopping to measure the genius of Axl Rose is like measuring the bounce of a flat tire.
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Prince is way too low on the Arrogance meter. Here we have a guy who took on the Big Label (Warner Music) and officially changed his name to a symbol just to get out of a contract. In Stipe's case (REM), he sold out by signing an 80 million contract with Warners…I don't think Prince and Stipe should be even near each other; they belong in different quadrants (or universe)!
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