On the morning of August 22, 1986, a man hopped onto his bicycle and began riding from Wum, a village in Cameroon, towards the village of Nyos. On the way he noticed an antelope lying dead next to the road. Why let it go to waste? The man tied the antelope onto his bicycle and continued on. A short distance later he noticed two dead rats, and further on, a dead dog and other dead animals. He wondered if they'd all been killed by a lightning strike when lightning hits the ground it's not unusual for animals nearby to be killed by the shock.
A limnic eruption is also known as a lake overturn. It occurs when carbon dioxide (CO2) from the bottom of a deep lake is suddenly released. In addition to possibly causing tsunamis due to water displacement, this eruption also emits toxic gasses that cause instant death.
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