(May 17, 2008)--That massive Texas sinkhole is now a lake big enough to become the home of an alligator.
Area residents believe water from surrounding swamps washed the reptile into the 600-foot-diameter crater.
Sightings of an alligator in the sinkhole were confirmed Friday when a Texas Railroad Commission worker snapped photographs.
The sinkhole in the small Southeast Texas town of Daisetta began as a 20-foot hole in the ground but rapidly grew to 900 feet across at its widest point and 260 feet deep.
It has swallowed up oil tanks and barrels, tires, telephone poles and several vehicles in Daisetta, a town of around 1,000 residents located about 60 miles northeast of Houston.
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