Cavern of Lost Souls

Reading through Robert MacFarlane’s Underland (a book I’ll write about more once I’ve finished it) I stumbled on ‘The Cavern of Lost Souls’. The cavern is an abandoned Welsh mine, which at one point became a popular way for the locals to dispose themselves of old cars.

The locals would reportedly take cars they no longer wanted to a certain point above the mine shaft, put them in neutral, and let them roll to their doom. The result was hundreds of broken cars creating this nightmarish, but eerily beautiful underground space.

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