New hole found at N. Ind. dune where boy trapped

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. — A hole similar to one that trapped a 6-year-old Illinois boy beneath 11 feet of sand has been found on the same northern Indiana dune.

National Park Service Ranger Bruce Rowe says a crew setting up ground-sensing equipment to examine Mount Baldy at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore on Monday spotted a 10-inch wide hole resembling the size and shape of the pocket described by the boy's family.

Rowe says the hole is about 100 yards east of where Nathan Woessner (WAYZ'-ner), of Sterling, Ill., was trapped and is about 5-feet deep. He says the dune will remain closed until scientists determine what is causing the holes.

Emergency workers freed Nathan after he was trapped for more than three hours on July 12. He was hospitalized for two weeks.