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Mystery Burning Ground Found in Woodlands by Jogger

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NewsWeek
By Jess Thomson

A Reddit user in Britain found an area of the forest floor that was mysteriously smoking, with no fire in sight.

User u/TomakaTom shared a video of the strange sight, which showed the ground charred and smoking. "I found it in Blidworth Woods, which is in a village called Blidworth just on the outskirts of Nottinghamshire [in the U.K.]," the poster, who was jogging in the area, told Newsweek.

"There had been a fire in those woods a few months back during the heat wave, and so the woods are still all charred and ashy," u/TomakaTom continued. "I thought the smoke was a remnant of that fire at first, but it was too long ago and there was heavy rain. So I had an inspection and found that it was just the ground itself that was smoking. There was no fire."

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