Instagrammers under fire over litter at Welsh ‘Cavern of Lost Souls’ mine site

Instagrammers under fire over litter at Welsh ‘Cavern of Lost Souls’ mine site

Online videos of disused slate quarry ‘car grave’ led hundreds to come and take photographs but leave rubbish and graffiti behind

An old flooded slate mine used as a dumping ground for cars in north Wales, the eeriness of which attracts Instagram photo seekers, is in danger of being destroyed by visitors trashing the site, it has been claimed.

YouTube videos of the so-called “Cavern of Lost Souls” filmed in the Gwynedd quarry have been viewed by millions and attracted adventurous visitors to the site at the old Gaewern slate mine from where they have posted hundreds of photographs of the “car grave”.

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