🚨 THE LAKE THAT FLUSHED ITSELF 🚨 It sounds like a movie script, but this actually happened in Louisiana in 1980. This is the story of Lake Peigneur. It started as a calm, shallow lake, popular for fishing. On the surface, a Texaco oil rig was drilling for oil. Below the surface, unbeknownst to them, was a massive salt mine with miners working deep underground. Because of a tiny calculation error—a mistake in coordinate conversion—the drill bit didn’t hit oil. It punctured the roof of the salt