A team of scientists sent an underwater drone into the Devil’s Sinkhole, and the footage has left experts terrified. The expedition was meant to map the cave’s depths, but the device captured something entirely unexpected.

The Devil’s Sinkhole, a roughly 350-foot-deep vertical cave in Edwards County, Texas, has drawn attention for decades because of its unusual geology and the questions it leaves unresolved. Located about eight miles northeast of the small town of Rock Springs, the sinkhole opens as a roughly 50-foot-wide oval in flat limestone terrain and drops straight down. Settlers first documented it around 187…