swallowed by a massive sinkhole that opened directly beneath his room. In an instant, his bed and everything around it vanished into darkness.
His brother, Jeremy, heard his cries and rushed to help — but when he arrived, there was nothing left. He tried desperately to climb into the hole, but firefighters pulled him back as the ground continued to collapse.
Rescue teams worked for days, yet Jeffrey’s body was never recovered. The house was demolished, and the hole was filled with gravel, though it reopened several times in the years that followed.
For the Seffner community, the memory remains haunting: a reminder of how fragile the ground beneath us can be, and how one ordinary night can change everything forever.
