Hutchinson's Hole is a large
pit cave
A pit cave, shaft cave or vertical cave—or often simply called a pit (in the US) and pothole or pot (in the UK); jama in Slavic languages scientific and colloquial vocabulary (borrowed since early research in the Western Balkan Dinaric Alpin ...
(located in
Saint Ann
According to apocrypha, as well as Christianity, Christian and Islamic tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary, mother of Jesus, Mary, the wife of Joachim and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the Bible's Gosp ...
in northern
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...
) named after the 18th century serial killer
Lewis Hutchinson, who used the sinkhole to dispose of bodies. Its depth is approximately ,
with a cave entrance some 5 by 3 metres widening to approximately 18 by 25 metres at the bottom.
The hole is believed to have claimed a number of victims since.
References
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Aerial view
Caves of Jamaica
Geography of Saint Ann Parish
Sinkholes of North America
Caves of the Caribbean
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