Discover the incredible story of Lake Peigneur, a drilling site turned disaster zone. In 1980, Texaco's accidental drill hit an underground salt mine, creating a vortex that swallowed the entire lake!

Some stories — even big stories — are sometimes knocked from the front page by even bigger stories. That's where the podcast "Eclipsed" comes in. When Campside Media created the history podcast, the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Virlie Langlinais was at her Louisiana home on Lake Peigneur when she saw the ...

In 1980, Texaco drilled down to look for oil beneath Lake Peigneur. A little too far down. The mistake drained the entire lake like a bathtub, creating an enormous ...

While Louisiana's largest lake, the Toledo Bend Reservoir, spans 1,200 miles of shoreline, the state's deepest lake only spans 1,125 acres. Lake Peigneur is the deepest lake in Louisiana, with a depth ...

The Miraculous Vanishing of Lake Peigneur: The Real True Story of a Lake That Disappeared by Allan Wolf and Jose Pimienta is a new nonfiction middle grade graphic novel. It tells the story of "the ...

Wolf (The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep) blends swashbuckling mystery with ecological disaster in an epic novel about one family’s 100-year-old connection with Lake Peigneur, in the Louisiana wetlands.