The closest access to the boiling fountain is from the Hameau des Ecacheries side. At the end of rue du Bosquet, take the dirt road that goes into the forest. Quite quickly, you will find a marked path on your left, heading east. It is at the level of a small bridge that you then discover this source whose surface of the water is constantly agitated with fine bubbles. It’s not the heat of the water, a bit hotter than it should be, that is causing this incessant bubbling. It is in fact the air which, thanks to a fault, crosses the sandy layer at the bottom of the source.
The legend of the sunken coach
the boiling fountain of Stambruges hides the legend of the sunken coach. This unusual phenomenon has fueled a tragic legend linked to the place. In fact, it is said that in the past, one of the princes of the house of Ligne, to which Beloeil castle belongs, not far from here, was nicknamed the great devil. A nickname due to his reputation as an unrepentant gallant. He invited a young lady to spend a romantic evening on Good Friday. The unfortunate woman never returned to her home ... Coach, horses, coachman and young girl disappeared body and well in the waters of the spring. Nobody knew that she was the cause of the accident… divine punishment or jealousy… Some murmured that the mad coachman in love with his mistress could not bear that she gave herself thus to this prince so depraved… He then rushed all his crew in the dark waters, reputed to engulf forever objects and living beings trapped in the sands that sleep at the bottom ... This is how since midnight, every Good Friday, it is said that the coach reappears for a short time. We then hear the driver cracking his whip ... Before he dives again until the following year ...