One of the last things you expect when heading off to la la land is to wake up with a one-metre wide, 17-metre deep sinkhole beneath your bed, unless your name is Inocenta Hernandez. The city of Guatemala also happens to be built on volcanic deposits and highly prone to sinkholes, which rules out the possibility of nightfarts, although they too can be rather devastating.

Apparently, Inocenta ran out into the street after hearing a loud explosion, but was shocked when a neighbour told her that the noise came from inside her home.

“We rushed out to look and saw nothing. A gentleman told me that the noise came from my house, and we searched until we found it under my bed. Thank God there are only material damages, because my grandchildren were running around the house, into that room and out to the patio.”

Inocenta humbly commented that she was only ‘rather shaken’, which leads me to believe that she is a capable grandmother and the kind of lady that a kid can trust to take care of the monsters, or the sinkholes, beneath their beds.

Inocenta and her family can count their lucky stars that this was not as big as the one last year, also in Guatemala City, that swallowed a three-storey building and a nearby house.

[Source: huffingtonpost]