Oregon Lake Has A Hole In It!

[Yazata]

Check this out. More Oregon weirdness (it isn't just MR).

It's a low-lying area in the snowy Cascades with three lava tubes in the bottom of it, like drains!

In the spring, snow melt in the Cascades fills the low area faster than the three drains can drain it, so it becomes a shallow lake or pond. Then later in the season, when the mountain streams slow down as the mountain snow disappears, the water disappears down into the holes, turning what's know locally as "Lost Lake" into a grassy meadow until the next spring, when the cycle repeats.

Apparently there's a whole cave system down there with underground streams and stuff. There's almost certainly life in it. (Imagine if human beings were swept into the holes thousands of years ago and survived and reproduced down there. All albino-y and eyeless in the dark.)

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http://www.opb.org/television/programs/o...ean-river/

[Magical Realist]

I used to skinny dip there as a rebellious teen. Often times I'd throw empty beer cans down the hole and listen to them fall like cartoon bombs.

[C C]

It's a low-lying area in the snowy Cascades with three lava tubes in the bottom of it, like drains! [...] Apparently there's a whole cave system down there with underground streams and stuff. There's almost certainly life in it. (Imagine if human beings were swept into the holes thousands of years ago and survived and reproduced down there. All albino-y and eyeless in the dark.)

Too bad Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs didn't know about that as an alternative fantasy route to either enter or to escape from their hollow versions of Earth.

[Carol]

I used to skinny dip there as a rebellious teen. Often times I'd throw empty beer cans down the hole and listen to them fall like cartoon bombs.

Might it be possible for someone to accidently fall into the hole?  An unknown race of prehumans was found in a cave in Africa.  The people who went through that hole were either dead and put in the hole as a burial of they fell in and could not get out.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kQ0SK6MUNU
It would be nice if there were a way to investigate to lost lake hole because of the possibility of finding something interesting.

[RainbowUnicorn]

There are some extremely fascinating storys about native american Tribes living underground for years.
There is some suggestion that this might have been how they survived during large scale global natural events.
There are cave drawings which have been dated(unsure of the validity/accuracy) back thousands of years in some places.