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Thai locals baffled by bizarre smoke seen rising from the ground for five months

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Villagers were baffled by this mysterious smoke which has been rising from the ground for the last five months.<br /><br />Pattama Pimsali, 62, first noticed the mist coming from under her field in Udon Thani, northeastern Thailand in February.<br /><br />The landowner attempted to pour water directly into the spot worrying that it could become a bigger fire but the smog was still rising.<br /><br />The unstoppable underground fire has killed her plants and destroyed soil nutrients, which also made the unpleasant atmosphere for the last five months.<br /><br />Pattama said: ''My cow was once burned on his leg because he walked into the area while eating grass. The fire is getting bigger and keeps burning my land.<br /><br />''The smoke has a strong smell too, like a chemical. It'll hurt your nose when you breathe it in for too long.''<br /><br />Footage taken yesterday (July 11) shows how more white smog was flaring up when Pattama began poking the dark, solid ground.<br /><br />Prasert Chantawan, the chief of Chiang Phin village, also shows in the video how the heat turns a raw egg into the soft-boiled after leaving it on the spot for ten minutes.<br /><br />The village chief said environmental officers were informed and had visited the field but none of them could solve the problem and seemed to know the cause of the fire.<br /><br />He said: ''They came with two big pumps and spent all day putting a large amount of water. But it still didn't help.<br /><br />''All we can do now is to alert our people and make sure anyone didn't get close to the area. I just hope that the fire would stop spreading otherwise it would totally affect our daily lives.''

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