Lake Peigneur was once a shallow freshwater lake. By the end of the day, it was gone. Drilling crews had miscalculated their position and pierced directly into a salt mine with caverns as tall as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While Louisiana's largest lake, the Toledo Bend Reservoir, spans 1,200 miles of shoreline, the state's deepest lake only spans ...

Discover the incredible story of Lake Peigneur, a drilling site turned disaster zone. In 1980, Texaco's accidental drill hit an underground salt mine, creating a vortex that swallowed the entire lake!