Mythalily

In a quiet forest far from roads or towns, a river runs its course — narrow, quick, and seemingly ordinary. It winds through hills and hollow glades, never growing particularly wide or deep. But follow it to its end, and you’ll find something difficult to explain. The river doesn’t widen into a lake. It doesn’t vanish into a marsh or split into smaller streams. Instead, it narrows, circles once in a smooth, glassy spiral, and descends into a vortex — a dark, silent sink where the water is drawn down endlessly, as if the earth itself is drinking. No one is quite sure where the water goes. Some suggest it's a natural sinkhole connected to underground caverns, part of a hidden drainage system formed thousands of years ago. The rock in this region is old and brittle, and it's possible the river carved out an unseen path through layers of limestone or basalt. Others believe it feeds into a deep aquifer or an underground river system, still unmapped and unmeasured. But there are prob...