THIS is the horrific moment a terrifying sinkhole opened up in a retired couple’s backyard before they made a chilling 120-year-old discovery.
Shocked neighbours told Lynn and Ray McKay there was a giant hole next to their Queensland home on Monday morning.
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Alarmed McKays rushed their backyard to find the eerie hole – at which point it was about a metre wide.
Mr McKay told ABC News: “I came out and I see a hole in the ground.”
“It was only a little one, around one metre, but it kept getting bigger.
“We were seriously shocked after seeing it.”
What followed next was a nightmare for the retired couple who did not have the slightest clue about the terrifying event.
By the next day, the hole had swollen up to become a huge cavity which was measured to be around 15 metres in diameter.
Queensland Utilities were called, in the belief that a water pipe had burst.
The McKays, however, were told there were no related pipes in the area.
But they soon learned about the chilling past of their property.
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