On the night of February 28, 2013, a tragedy that is hard to imagine occurred in Seffner, Florida. Around midnight, 37-year-old Jeffrey Bush was sleeping in his bedroom when the ground beneath him suddenly collapsed. Without warning, a giant sinkhole about 20 feet wide and deep opened up directly beneath his bed. Within seconds, it swallowed Jeffrey, his furniture, and the entire room. What made the incident even more shocking was that there were no signs—no tremors, no time to escape—just a blinding gap in the ground that swallowed everything.
Jeffrey's brother, Jeremy Bush, who was also in the house, was awakened by a loud bang. He thought there was an earthquake. As he ran to Jeffrey's room, he was stunned by the sight before him—where the ground had been, there was now a sinkhole, with walls and electrical wires hanging from it. He was certain he heard his brother scream. Mustering up courage, Jeremy jumped into the sinkhole and began sifting through the debris to find his brother. “I swear I heard him scream,” he later said. The ground continued to sink, but Jeremy refused to give up until a deputy arrived at the scene and pulled him out. Moments later, the sinkhole widened.
Rescue crews tried their best, but it soon became clear that Jeffrey was impossible to retrieve—the sinkhole was too unstable and the danger too great. A few days later, the house was demolished and the sinkhole was filled, but no trace of Jeffrey was ever found. Shockingly, the same sinkhole reopened in the same location in 2015, despite expert measures taken to fill it.
The Jeffrey Bush case is still considered one of America’s most horrific sinkhole accidents—a stark reminder of nature’s unpredictability. A man who was swallowed by the earth in his sleep and who left his family in grief and emptiness forever.
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