The Claim
Theres a large water fall that’s swallowed up by a hole that goes……no where?
This one isnt quite a hidden stash of pirate gold or a mysterious ancient settlement, but rather a curiosity that no one can explain. The Brule river flows through the Judge C. R. Magney State Park in Minnesota, and at one point is seperated by a rock that splits the river in 2 just before it goes over a waterfall.
The right hand side of the river flows normally over the falls and continues on through the park, but the left hand side flows into what has come to be known as the “Devils Kettle”.
The kettle is simply a rock pothole that has been formed somehow by the flow of the river, but the strange thing about it is no one has any idea how it formed or where the water goes. It seems to fall about 10 feet down into the hole and then travels horizontally “somewhere”, and then may or may not come out further down the river.
One of the unusual things about this is the rock that its formed in is mostly rhyolite rock which is very hard and difficult for water to form natural channels through, so no one can understand how a seemingly enormous underground canal was formed in the first place.
The most odd thing, and the reason its famous, is nobody can work out where the water comes back out. Arguments about how it shortly rejoins the main flow have been debunked through various experiments, as many people have put dyes, thousands of brightly colored balls and even waterproof gps trackers down the hole, with not a single trace of any of them appearing down flow.
A research project conducted in 2017 concluded that the water flowing into the kettle rejoins the main flow shortly after the falls, and that any kind of materials put into the kettle would be held underwater until they were smashed to pieces against the rocks. Many people accept this theory but of course, many do not, with the biggest question resulting from this is why theres literally no trace of the materials, especially the dyes.
Since no one has been brave/stupid enough to gear up and go down the hole themselves, it seems no one will ever find out were the water truely goes.
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