There’s a Deadly Glory Hole in California
No, not that glory hole.
The glory hole is real.
I’ve had a nightmare about it for years without even knowing it.
It starts with a mile-wide whirlpool under a dark sky.
I float in increasingly smaller circles.
No matter how hard I swim, I keep getting pulled closer and closer.
If I fall into this void of darkness, I won’t die; I’ll be stuck there forever, in some type of hellish limbo.
Eventually, I get sucked into the darkness — and this is usually when I’d wake up in sweats with my heart pounding.
The dream combines all my worst fears: drowning, falling, and eternal suffering.
This nightmare exists in real life. And like most real life nightmares, it is man-made.
Some people have been sucked into it — through their own recklessness.
The story of the mighty “Glory Hole”
In 1997, Emily Schwalek was swimming in a pristine glassy lake in California.
As she paddled through the water, she heard people screaming from the shoreline.
Yet she continued pushing forward, despite the increased urgency of the screams.
