{"id":14570,"date":"2026-04-20T19:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/indias-wells-of-death-gravity-defying-stuntmen-become-social-media-phenomenon\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T19:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:14:06","slug":"indias-wells-of-death-gravity-defying-stuntmen-become-social-media-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/indias-wells-of-death-gravity-defying-stuntmen-become-social-media-phenomenon\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#039;s &#039;wells of death&#039;: Gravity-defying stuntmen become social media phenomenon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/08d72f50-3a82-11f1-92ce-005056bf30b7\/w:1024\/p:16x9\/JT-FRANCE2-20H-09-04-2026-FF.jpg\" \/><br \/>It looks almost impossible: cars and motorbikes racing at full speed inside towering vertical arenas in India. These dangerous stunt shows are known as the &#8220;wells of death&#8221;, where drivers cling to the walls as gravity seems to disappear. The races\u00a0attract large numbers of young Indians and have gone viral on social media. Our France 2 colleagues report, with FRANCE 24&#8217;s Guillaume Gougeon.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tv-shows\/focus\/20260420-india-s-wells-of-death-gravity-defying-stuntmen-become-social-media-phenomenon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks almost impossible: cars and motorbikes racing at full speed inside towering vertical arenas in India. These dangerous stunt&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[452,173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divertissement","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}