WATCH: Gas bubbles out of Ont. golf course pond

It looked like a vision of hell, if hell was a golf course.

Muddy bubbling water churning several feet in the air at a golf course Wednesday in Lampton Shores, Ont., was clearly no regular water hazard.

Jamie Reitknecht, who posted the dramatic spectacle on YouTube, said it “smelled like propane.”

He wasn’t far off. Police said a gas pocket under the pond next to Indian Hills Golf Club caused the frightening scene, and that it was a natural event rather than a leak.

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They closed the road to all but local traffic until the thing ran its course.

The Ministry of Natural Resources dispatched a team of investigators to the scene to make sure there was no harm to passersby.

Reitknecht said the gas was even visible in the air.

“Right above the green, there’s a haze that looks like a gas,” he said in the video.