On a recent trip to the beach in Dublin, three men named Charlie Wallace, Peter McEvoy and Chris Flood dug a hole. It’s a great hole — good size, lots of space for activities, etc. When they were done, they left the hole where it was. Soon after, a local astronomer came upon it, dragging a whole news crew along with him.
@joedotie You couldn't make this up Charlie and his friends dug a hole on Portmarnock beach last week which caught the attention of a local resident who thought it had an astronomical background which led to their hole making the national news Watch til the end via @charlie.w.wallace #Dublin #Portmarnock #IrishNews #irishhumour #ireland ♬ original sound - JOE.ie
“It’s a huge mysterious crater that looks out of this world, but is it?” asks the news reporter (hint: it’s not).
#WATCH A mysterious hole on a beach has caused a stir in North Dublin.
— Virgin Media News (@VirginMediaNews) September 13, 2023
A local astronomy enthusiast is hoping the crater in Portmarnock, could be the aftermath of a cosmic event. @Hanelizaa reports ⤵️#VMNews pic.twitter.com/cGJiyd3eZj
The man then proceeds to very excitedly explain the hole. “Only about a month ago I was watching a documentary from NASA on exactly what you’re looking at behind you, so when I looked at it and saw how uniform it is, I knew immediately that what I was looking at is an impact site.”
Sure, man. Sure.
There’s a whole bunch of “evidence” to bolster the man’s theory. First, the hole itself. It’s big. Second, a rock inside the hole. “As you can tell here, there’s a scorch mark on this side here, so that would have been at the angle that it came down at,” the man says. “It is weighty. I’m not sure of its composition, but we’re definitely going to have to find out.”
Of course, none of this was true, as the news crew would later admit via its Twitter feed.
Meteorite mystery solved!
— Virgin Media News (@VirginMediaNews) September 14, 2023
The mystery of the hole on a north Dublin beach has apparently been solved - denting the hopes of a local space enthusiast, who had hoped it was the site of a meteor strike.#VMNews pic.twitter.com/zhqKbhzvNY
The news reporter herself even got in on the action.
Not the outcome Dave had hoped for but at least it's given people a laugh all the same! https://t.co/5IqdfBLpUJ
— Hannah Murphy (@Hanelizaa) September 14, 2023
So the crater wasn’t a crater after all. But then again, maybe that’s just what the powers that be want us to think.
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