I feel like there were a great many red flags about this project before this unfortunate fellow met his untimely end:

A man died after falling down a 130-foot hole he dug under his kitchen floor after dreaming there was gold buried under his property in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

João Pimenta, 71, lost his balance Thursday afternoon and plunged down the massive pit he excavated, which ended up being as tall as a 12-story building.

The fellow really went all out:

I mean really, really went all out:

Leaning over and looking into that hole like:

I don't care how compelling your "dream" is, you just don't do this. Or at least you stop after, like, nine feet.

The digger reportedly would "pay others to help dig the hole, increasing their rate of pay as the chasm grew deeper. Most recently he had paid others up to $500 to assist in his efforts."

A neighbor, meanwhile, said Pimenta had recently "spoken of finding dynamite to blow up a large rock that had been hindering the excavation."

If he hadn't met his end by falling I would imagine it would have been by another accident. A sad way to go, either way.

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