The real story of the sinkhole that swallowed a man in his bedroom

 One of the most shocking and tragic events of 2013 was the sudden disappearance of Jeff Bush, a 37-year-old landscaper from Seffner, Florida. Bush had been sleeping in his bed on the night of February 28, when a massive sinkhole opened up underneath his bedroom and swallowed him up.

His brother Jeremy, who was in another room, heard a loud crash and scream and ran to help, but he could not see or hear Jeff.

“We heard Jeff scream,” Rachel told ABC Action News at the time. “We ran down the hallway, I flicked the light on and we opened up the door and it’s all we’ve seen was a big old hole, and Jeff was gone.” Jeremy jumped down into the hole to attempt to rescue his brother but had to be pulled to safety by a Hillsborough County deputy sheriff as the ground around him continued to cave in.

“The floor was still giving in and the dirt was still going down, but I didn’t care. I wanted to save my brother,” Jeremy told The Guardian. “But I just couldn’t do nothing.”

“I could swear I heard him hollering my name to help him.”...<<<Read More>>>...