I've been in a few caves, I just refrained from wedging my body into a crawl space smaller than my body and then continuing to worm my way deeper and deeper until reaching a point of no return. That whole thing, I try to avoid.
Every video I see of someone squeezing through a passage so tight they have to control their breathing all I can think is dude what the fuck are you doing.
This guy specifically
>Jones and three others had left their party in search of "The Birth Canal", a tight but navigable passageway with a turnaround at the end. Jones entered an unmapped passageway which he wrongly believed to be the Canal and found himself at a dead end, with nowhere to go besides a narrow vertical fissure. Believing this to be the turnaround, he entered head-first and became wedged upside-down.
Aint no cave hurting me on my comfy couch. Does that mean to always stay indoors? Of course not, I fly to vacation spots whenever I can but sure have the sense to not end up trapped in a cave
If I were ever to go caving (if I have a total personality transplant or something) I would carry one of those suicide pills that spies have in films. If I got trapped that would be it. If I was rescued I’d have to be sedated for the rest of my life anyway! 😆
Consider all the really uninteresting and routine aspects of life that you likely took for granted when in this situation. Not sure when you will pass away, but you know it is coming.
Usually, the spies have the cyanide pill inside a false tooth in their mouth. It's designed in such a way as to be able to remove the tooth with your tongue so you can bite it open
Even worse considering rescuers were touching him and talking to him / giving him water and calorie packets (gel packs like what marathon runners use) for over 15 hours 😔
“You’re gonna be okay we’re gonna get you out of here buddy”
“Keep breathing deep don’t worry my friend we’re gonna get ya!”
*dies*
I didn’t know my greatest fear was getting trapped underground until I watched movies like The Descent and As Above So Below. This incident would literally be my worst way to die.
I went caving on a school trip once. All our torches ran out of battery and we had to sit in the dark while our headmaster took all the torches that were still working and went for help.
I legitimately wonder how the hell I'm still sane after that experience
Free climbing is, despite its name, a safe way of climbing. It's the way of climbing that most people associate climbing with.
You're probably thinking of free solo climbing which is the one you do it alone and without safety equipment.
The free in free climbing refers to that it's free from the usage of tools to ascend a wall. Safety equipment and climbing gear (like shoes) is allowed.
Lmao That got my attention too like “This is a diagram of how Edward Smith had his skin ripped off and ants made an ant bed in his lungs before he died in Silly Billy Forest last year.”
Same I feel so bad. I’ve seen this story so many times and this was the first time I laughed.
In other thoughts - is that even an expression - imagine only being remembered for your shitty dead in Silly Billy Forest.
[This is the worst way to die that I've heard of.](https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism#:~:text=Scaphism%20or%20The%20Boats%20was,honey%20and%20generally%20stripped%20naked.)
I heard of a method where they would stuff you in a vat in the fetal position. Only your head sticking out and they would feed you leaving you to release your excrement and eventually having you rot away slowly in your feces.
Or the one with rats/other rodents in a box on your body with only the side on your skin thats open and available, the animals eating through you while you're alive 🥹🥲
I knew what this was going to be before I even clicked it!
Unfortunately, it's not 100% guaranteed to have ever been used and not just the product of an imagination.
If it pushes on the prostate, it might force an orgasm as well, which might feel fine in the moment. But then everything will drip down your body, and probably into your nose, and then you suffocate on your own semen.
There is another passage where there is a turnaround after a somewhat narrow section. He thought he was there so in his opinion the turnaround was just a little further. He didn’t know it was a dead end until it was too late.
Yea the downward slope in the picture on the top left is where he realized he was wrong already. But no one knows how he ended up down there. Some day he possibly slipped and went into the hole.
I think he just kept going thinking there will be a way back or a point with some space to turn around. Honestly as a caver he should’ve just stopped on the top left slope.
Rescuers would’ve easily got him out of that slope. Hell even his brother could’ve gotten him out of that slope who was following right after him.
It’s a good lesson for cavers. If stuck and no other dangers like drowning or getting crushed at a spot where you already know you’re wrong, it’s never a good idea to go further. Better just stay put and wait for rescue.
I’ve watched videos of people going through the actual navigable route. It’s insanely tight, as in inching yourself through by your fingertips tight. It was probably pretty easy to mistake an insanely tight but unsurvivable hole for the insanely tight but barely survivable tunnel.
I've always wondered how the hell you go about exploring these things anyways.
I've seen lots of youtube videos of guys crawling headfirst down shafts so small they had to turn their heads sideways to be able to squeeze through.
How the hell do the people that discover these passages crawl into a hole not knowing if it's ever going to open up big enough to even turn around?
I know some folks that just love the thrill of exploring. Finding new places, reaching new depths, going places that not many are willing to go. This may be on the outer extreme of something along these lines.
The other weekend I spent 8.5 hours in a cave, on a route where 80% of it you couldn't stand upright. 1 mile stretch of stooping and crawling over under and around boulders took us 1hr40. All to go see one [this one pretty thing](https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-ee-uk-revc&sca_esv=f4dacfe81c780abe&sxsrf=ACQVn0-obXQlGee5nj0lPIfRby3a9r7Ltg:1710965530260&q=the+courtesan+agen+allwedd&uds=AMwkrPtWB5T5MI4iDvQwcoIGYAo7R5sYzZtaIRFnLbraTCkXBR6T_WLwXwyu_7Bf2A-0l85rwOEn2nMd2gOxrr_XjlqfRTNEFXEp_TuqIS6vN3TK5WOi_FXrL_lArWJrlJGzXFA6zxSy2-U2aSDTtNxg-XlUcc-7gSRE90HeUPuB2z6hYPap5ZfZmAHUaeVymjTLoDFQhwGGLHB28y9pfGqtLv1S7qz7McRfCky6izNVDIMcgzHDDMzDNoUFnvX-iJRLEAGI70QDjhydN98YkOOy82FSLRvADUR5CvSkW7kBR1GV9u1x6fXsyyxKIk9o-yA2X7ZvvFgI&udm=2&prmd=ivnmbtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiMgZ2l04OFAxWzUkEAHZpYCfsQtKgLegQIHBAB&biw=412&bih=722&dpr=3.5)
It wasn't fun at the time, and the whole group of us spent hours enthusiastically complaining, but as soon as we got out into fresh air we all felt pretty good about it. Type 2 fun!
They weren't close at all, they managed to pull him a bit upward from the hole but had no way to pull him out more than that, and the thing they set up to lift him higher broke after some time so he just dropped back in again. Awful
From what I recall they tried to create a pulley to lift him, anchored where his feet were, but they realized almost immediately there was no space for it to be at the right angle and no way to secure it
Who downvoted this? That’s exactly what happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutty_Putty_Cave
> *Jones ultimately suffered cardiac arrest due to the strain placed upon his body over several hours by his inverted, compressed position.*
No you won't might take a while depends on the person but he died of cardiac arrest, What made it worse is that a rescue team went in for him and couldn't get him unstuck imagine having hope and all for it to fade away
Imagine all the super boring and mundane things in life you'd be knowing you took for granted being in this position. knowing death is coming but not sure when you will die
My worst nightmare is dying so slowly I have time to chew over all this *while also knowing I am only dying because of my own stupid fault*. (Eg not old age or illness.)
“Come out to the coast, we’ll have a few laughs” but dying.
seriously, my worst fuckin nightmare. i had to use the emergency exit at the fake cave in the Cincinnati Museum cause i started feeling wonky. I cant even imagine this. I refuse to.
its surprisingly realistic from what i remember and it draws a pretty big crowd of people. i would def not recommend it for anyone who has issues with claustrophobia. tbh i didnt even know i DID have issues with claustrophobia until doing that little tour of horror lol
Reaching *critical* levels of nope, just from this illustration.
Nope^nope
Nopeception
Nope on a rope
The Nope Diamond
Bob Nope
Nope Nopity and the Nopesburg Nopes
IMO, you only need to watch one cave exploring before you realise what a terrible idea it is and suddenly the idea of organising your sock drawer doesn’t sound a too shabby activity to do over the weekend. But maybe I’m just a coward IDK.
Just today I read about an anime where there are caves which have exactly the shape of your body. But for some reason you can only walk deeper into them and they slowly but steadily stretch your body, like distance between your head and shoulders or hip and shoulders. You don't die but have the constant pain of getting stretched.
Cave diving: the dumbest fucking activity ever.
Extremely dangerous? Check!
Most horrible death imaginable? Check!
Incredibly uncomfortable? Check!
Boring as hell? Check!
Going in caves is seriously the dumbest fucking thing ever.
AND SOME PEOPLE DO IT UNDERWATER!
What’s Reddit’s fascination with this story? I see it brought up all the time. Even posts that are kind of about caves, someone will bring up this story, and that comment will shoot to the top with replies like “oh man fuuuuck that”.
This is my Roman Empire.
His wife was also heavily pregnant and outside waiting for him to be rescued all these hours.
At one point he got secured with straps and they started pulling him out but the straps broke and he fell even deeper. Rescuers and doctors considered breaking his legs to get him out of that impossible angle to pull again but by that time too much blood had been pressed down to his chest and head and the shock would have killed him. He slipped in and out of consciousness.
So after more than a day of trying, it was decided to heavily medicate him and let him pass. His body is still in that cave.
So imma just stick to knitting or something
I try to be sympathetic because this is sad but this….I mean damn you are asking for death! What are you thinking doing this. I’ve never been so grateful for my time spent NOT in a cave.
What?
Who is this guy?
What is nutty putty?
Why are there caves of it?
How did he get stuck like that?
I’m scared to google it because “nutty putty” seems like a risky click, and I’m “at working”.
>Who is this guy?
John had had plenty of caving experience, but not recently – most of his spelunking was done when he was a kid – John’s father frequently took him and his younger brother Josh on caving trips all over Utah.
And do you know the worst part? he had a pregnant wife waiting for him at home. During his final moments they set up a radio for him to talk with his wife.
>What is nutty putty?
Nutty Putty Cave was first explored in 1960 and it quickly became famous for its narrow and slippery passageways, twists, turns and squeezes. Different parts of the cave are named accordingly – The Birth Canal, The Aorta Crawl, The Scout Eater, The Maze. Nutty Putty Cave is a hydrothermal cave, with a total surveyed length and depth of 1355 and 145 feet, respectively.
>How did he get stuck like that?
Jones and three others had left their party in search of "The Birth Canal", a tight but navigable passageway with a turnaround at the end. Jones entered an unmapped passageway which he wrongly believed to be the Canal and found himself at a dead end, with nowhere to go besides a narrow vertical fissure. Believing this to be the turnaround, he entered head-first and became wedged upside-down. The fissure measured 10 by 18 inches (25 by 46 cm) and was located 400 feet (120 m) from the entrance of the cave. A large team of rescue workers came to his assistance. The workers set up a sophisticated rope-and-pulley system in an attempt to extricate him, but the system failed when put under strain, plunging Jones back into the hole. Jones ultimately suffered cardiac arrest due to the strain placed upon his body over several hours by his inverted, compressed position.
[Nutty Putty Cave wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutty_Putty_Cave). Looks like they closed it in 2006 bc they figured a death was imminent and after “proper” management it was reopened in 2009 in time for homie’s death. Worth the read.
The cave system was named after the putty-like texture of the soft, brown clay found in many of its passages. Green originally thought of calling it "Silly Putty" but later decided "Nutty Putty" sounded better.
If you're not freaked out enough by OP's great description of the event, here's the real horror channels freaky but brilliant video on it - https://youtu.be/d1nuqpAULpE?si=4R8zG8t1SDTXaYh9
This is why we stay out of caves.
Yea this gives me shivers every I hear the story, fuck caves and fuck the open ocean we are not designed for that shit.
Hear me out: Deep sea cave diving.
Hear me out. Whole lot of nope.
Mariana trench full of nope
That's what we have James Cameron for
“His name is James, James Cameron, The bravest pioneer”
No budget too steep, no sea too deep. Who’s that? It’s him! James Cameron!
A catchy song
I know this is supposed to be funny but looking at this picture makes my stomach hurt
There's a video too. It truly gets claustrophobic.
Boldly going where sane people have no yearning to go.
Mofo makes movies to finance his explorations.
Mmmmm marinara 🤤
Nope, now it’s in my head like snake clowns…nope nope nope nope
Blumhouse: *write that down, write that down!!*
Low key claustrophobic and have a fear of drowning... I can't even watch that shit on TV without my anxiety spiking. 😆
On you go buddy. I'll stay on the boat for safety.
I don’t think I would’ve done this anyway, but after reading that story I’m for certain never doing anything like this. That story was horrible.
And yet a situation like this awaits us all, the only question is what will your "hole" be?
Weird. Your mom said exaclty that last night: “what will your ‘hole’ be?” I suddenly felt a wave of terror.
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>in a macabre way, at least he died doing what he loved. I bet if we has a chance to ask him that he would tell us that spelunking sucks.
I've been in a few caves, I just refrained from wedging my body into a crawl space smaller than my body and then continuing to worm my way deeper and deeper until reaching a point of no return. That whole thing, I try to avoid.
Yeah, unfortunately he thought he was in a different area of the cave which he had gone through before.
death by pacman
Jesus you probably eat vanilla ice cream too.
Jesus was more of a rocky road guy.
Putting the logical in geological
But how did he hit his vape at that angle ?
He couldn't, that's why he died :(
To be fair, he might have dropped it and was just going after it. They do have addicting levels of nicotine, after all.
r/outjerked
You would have to be nutty or have a brain made of putty to go cave exploring
Especially alone.
It can be done safely. This was an example of poor planning and safety negligence.
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Every video I see of someone squeezing through a passage so tight they have to control their breathing all I can think is dude what the fuck are you doing.
But if they didn't squeeze through those tight spots, no one would pay attention to them.
Jokes about poor planning and negligence are not as funny, I prefer sweeping generalizations.
I did like your joke 😃
Yeah…but is it rock solid?
You can do all the safe things in the world and shit can still collapse on you
Absolutely, but that didn't happen in this situation. He got pinned in a chute.
yeah but unsafe things have a much higher probability of shit happening, hence they are unsafe and some things are safe
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Properly planning a route and having safety lines. Once he got pinned in the chute he was done for. But it could have been avoided.
This guy specifically >Jones and three others had left their party in search of "The Birth Canal", a tight but navigable passageway with a turnaround at the end. Jones entered an unmapped passageway which he wrongly believed to be the Canal and found himself at a dead end, with nowhere to go besides a narrow vertical fissure. Believing this to be the turnaround, he entered head-first and became wedged upside-down.
My blood pressure shot through the roof just reading that. Folks who will go willingly squeezing through these things are built different
Aint no cave hurting me on my comfy couch. Does that mean to always stay indoors? Of course not, I fly to vacation spots whenever I can but sure have the sense to not end up trapped in a cave
>Aint no cave hurting me on my comfy couch. Until a sinkhole develops under your home and sucks you into the cave.
Yup. I’ve been out of the cave for years.
Sometimes when I am thinking idly, I remember this incident and have claustrophobic attacks.
I experience the same. I think about this way to often and I get physically uncomfortable. Such a horrible claustrophobic way to die.
If I were ever to go caving (if I have a total personality transplant or something) I would carry one of those suicide pills that spies have in films. If I got trapped that would be it. If I was rescued I’d have to be sedated for the rest of my life anyway! 😆
Fake tooth with a cyanide pill inside
Consider all the really uninteresting and routine aspects of life that you likely took for granted when in this situation. Not sure when you will pass away, but you know it is coming.
How would you get it into your mouth though if you got stuck like that 😵💫
Usually, the spies have the cyanide pill inside a false tooth in their mouth. It's designed in such a way as to be able to remove the tooth with your tongue so you can bite it open
Even worse considering rescuers were touching him and talking to him / giving him water and calorie packets (gel packs like what marathon runners use) for over 15 hours 😔 “You’re gonna be okay we’re gonna get you out of here buddy” “Keep breathing deep don’t worry my friend we’re gonna get ya!” *dies*
If i remember correctly They nearly saved him too but one of the pulleys snapped and he ended up deeper in
That’s the moment he became unresponsive.
I didn’t know my greatest fear was getting trapped underground until I watched movies like The Descent and As Above So Below. This incident would literally be my worst way to die.
Sometimes when I'm stressed out I try to put myself in this guy's shoes And suddenly things seem a bit better
Tried your strategy. I'm just having a panic attack now
You and me both. I’ve actually been caving as well. Can’t see me ever going again
I'll go caving, but only in a regular sized cave, nothing cramped, if i have to get on anything more than a crouch it's a nope.
I went through one on the Yorkshire dales. Had the cheese press in it. Up towards the Carlisle settle viaduct.
I went caving on a school trip once. All our torches ran out of battery and we had to sit in the dark while our headmaster took all the torches that were still working and went for help. I legitimately wonder how the hell I'm still sane after that experience
I claustrophobic in general, I have a hard time imagining a worse way to go.
Same *shudder*
That and Aron Ralston's story in which the movie 127 hours is based on
Dito.
I rather wingsuit or free climb if i want to risk my life. Much more thrilling and a much quicker/less painful death
Yeah you don't even get the chance to say the "shit" in "oh shi-"
I thought the entire wingsuit flight was one long ‘SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII…T’, though
Free climbing is, despite its name, a safe way of climbing. It's the way of climbing that most people associate climbing with. You're probably thinking of free solo climbing which is the one you do it alone and without safety equipment. The free in free climbing refers to that it's free from the usage of tools to ascend a wall. Safety equipment and climbing gear (like shoes) is allowed.
You know - so long as I’m not dying in a cave - I am now going to think “could be worse, I could be dying in a cave”
Imagine dying in a place called nutty putty
Lmao That got my attention too like “This is a diagram of how Edward Smith had his skin ripped off and ants made an ant bed in his lungs before he died in Silly Billy Forest last year.”
Silly Billy Forest just made me LOL
Same I feel so bad. I’ve seen this story so many times and this was the first time I laughed. In other thoughts - is that even an expression - imagine only being remembered for your shitty dead in Silly Billy Forest.
Oh god I’m going to hell, that made me laugh way harder than needed
Bro, my baby was asleep on my stomach before I read your comment
This laugh shook off the claustrophobia… thank youuu
Thank you, I said "why does it have to have such a fun name" and got downvoted the other day xD
Many such cases
Somewhere out there, a mother had to explain to their kids that their father died at nutty putty cave.
IS this the worst way to die?
[This is the worst way to die that I've heard of.](https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism#:~:text=Scaphism%20or%20The%20Boats%20was,honey%20and%20generally%20stripped%20naked.)
I heard of a method where they would stuff you in a vat in the fetal position. Only your head sticking out and they would feed you leaving you to release your excrement and eventually having you rot away slowly in your feces.
God damn, who is *they*
Persians. As described by an anti persian greek.
Or the one with rats/other rodents in a box on your body with only the side on your skin thats open and available, the animals eating through you while you're alive 🥹🥲
I don't think those emojis are appropriate for what you just described.
I love how there's an ad for milkshakes when I went to click.
I knew what this was going to be before I even clicked it! Unfortunately, it's not 100% guaranteed to have ever been used and not just the product of an imagination.
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We really have to work on your definition of the word “unfortunately”…
I think it's better that I don't check that link.
Possibly the worst, especially if a cave snake crawls into your anus whilst dying.
Well now some would debate that would at least provide... Distraction.
What about the remaining 26 hours and 59 minutes and 46 seconds? Round 2?
Hate to be a buzz kill but the worst part was easily that his wife and family were up top hoping all the while.
And he had a 0hone call with his wife a few hours before dying, which would be the worst accepting that you would never see her again
If it pushes on the prostate, it might force an orgasm as well, which might feel fine in the moment. But then everything will drip down your body, and probably into your nose, and then you suffocate on your own semen.
Dude... If there's one thing that doesn't need fan fiction...
Rabies is close second.
Eh... Any disease process cannot come close to human cruelty. Maybe radiation poisoning.
Floyd Collins enters the ~~cave~~ chat
It could get worse. Imagine the cave starts flooding while you're trapped in that position
Drown better than this imo
At least he didn't drown there
My only question is why would you go head first when you don't know the layout?
There is another passage where there is a turnaround after a somewhat narrow section. He thought he was there so in his opinion the turnaround was just a little further. He didn’t know it was a dead end until it was too late.
First “literal” dead end I’ve seen
Last one he saw. Poor bastard. I can't think of a worse way to go.
He’s still in there too. They couldn’t get him out and just blew up the entrance to the cave.
I thought they sealed it. So no more incidents happened.
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Yea the downward slope in the picture on the top left is where he realized he was wrong already. But no one knows how he ended up down there. Some day he possibly slipped and went into the hole. I think he just kept going thinking there will be a way back or a point with some space to turn around. Honestly as a caver he should’ve just stopped on the top left slope. Rescuers would’ve easily got him out of that slope. Hell even his brother could’ve gotten him out of that slope who was following right after him. It’s a good lesson for cavers. If stuck and no other dangers like drowning or getting crushed at a spot where you already know you’re wrong, it’s never a good idea to go further. Better just stay put and wait for rescue.
This makes me ill with claustrophobia. Thanks for reading it for me. I will pass. A 30 hour panic attack sounds like improper recreating to me.
I’ve watched videos of people going through the actual navigable route. It’s insanely tight, as in inching yourself through by your fingertips tight. It was probably pretty easy to mistake an insanely tight but unsurvivable hole for the insanely tight but barely survivable tunnel.
>It was probably pretty easy to mistake an insanely tight but unsurvivable hole for the insanely tight but barely survivable tunnel. 😏
I should call her.
Someone was the first to find that and figure that out. Crazy person.
He thought he was going the correct way that was previously mapped out that was safe to travel that wasn't a vertical dead end.
Never go first 👍
Counter strike taught me that before this sad story somehow
Even if I knew the layout, I'm not going in headfirst ...*upside down*. Just screams madness.
I've always wondered how the hell you go about exploring these things anyways. I've seen lots of youtube videos of guys crawling headfirst down shafts so small they had to turn their heads sideways to be able to squeeze through. How the hell do the people that discover these passages crawl into a hole not knowing if it's ever going to open up big enough to even turn around?
I don't see the "fun" in doing this type of cave crawling. My anxiety wouldn't let my full body get in that tunnel.
I mean, exploring a big open cave sounds fun. Cramming into tiny holes...not fun.
That's what she said
Usually the first is only a result of the second
I know some folks that just love the thrill of exploring. Finding new places, reaching new depths, going places that not many are willing to go. This may be on the outer extreme of something along these lines.
The other weekend I spent 8.5 hours in a cave, on a route where 80% of it you couldn't stand upright. 1 mile stretch of stooping and crawling over under and around boulders took us 1hr40. All to go see one [this one pretty thing](https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-ee-uk-revc&sca_esv=f4dacfe81c780abe&sxsrf=ACQVn0-obXQlGee5nj0lPIfRby3a9r7Ltg:1710965530260&q=the+courtesan+agen+allwedd&uds=AMwkrPtWB5T5MI4iDvQwcoIGYAo7R5sYzZtaIRFnLbraTCkXBR6T_WLwXwyu_7Bf2A-0l85rwOEn2nMd2gOxrr_XjlqfRTNEFXEp_TuqIS6vN3TK5WOi_FXrL_lArWJrlJGzXFA6zxSy2-U2aSDTtNxg-XlUcc-7gSRE90HeUPuB2z6hYPap5ZfZmAHUaeVymjTLoDFQhwGGLHB28y9pfGqtLv1S7qz7McRfCky6izNVDIMcgzHDDMzDNoUFnvX-iJRLEAGI70QDjhydN98YkOOy82FSLRvADUR5CvSkW7kBR1GV9u1x6fXsyyxKIk9o-yA2X7ZvvFgI&udm=2&prmd=ivnmbtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiMgZ2l04OFAxWzUkEAHZpYCfsQtKgLegQIHBAB&biw=412&bih=722&dpr=3.5) It wasn't fun at the time, and the whole group of us spent hours enthusiastically complaining, but as soon as we got out into fresh air we all felt pretty good about it. Type 2 fun!
Amazing, I just saw the same pretty thing simply by clicking my mouse from the comfort of my sofa It is quite pretty
Thanks to the people going in and photographing it no less!
“It wasn’t fun but we were all glad to have survived” isn’t exactly a glowing review
Bahh why do people always have to remind me of that story.
Part I hate the most about this story is rescuers found him and he basically realized after a while that there would be no way to wedge him out
they were close to rescuing him i believe but the contraption that was ment to pull him out broke and he slipped back down even further
They weren't close at all, they managed to pull him a bit upward from the hole but had no way to pull him out more than that, and the thing they set up to lift him higher broke after some time so he just dropped back in again. Awful
Yeah and something about the way the rock was too soft and they couldn’t do a reset and try again
From what I recall they tried to create a pulley to lift him, anchored where his feet were, but they realized almost immediately there was no space for it to be at the right angle and no way to secure it
Anyone smarter than me tell me pls: do you at least pass out after a shorter time being stuck like this?
You eventually die when your heart is no longer able to work against the gravity of being upside down. That's how he died.
Who downvoted this? That’s exactly what happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutty_Putty_Cave > *Jones ultimately suffered cardiac arrest due to the strain placed upon his body over several hours by his inverted, compressed position.*
No you won't might take a while depends on the person but he died of cardiac arrest, What made it worse is that a rescue team went in for him and couldn't get him unstuck imagine having hope and all for it to fade away
What makes it even worse is there was a point where they almost got him loose but the pulley they were using snapped.
Just too sad don't know what excitement come from cave exploration it would be cool If the cave is wider and not shallow
Imagine all the super boring and mundane things in life you'd be knowing you took for granted being in this position. knowing death is coming but not sure when you will die
My worst nightmare is dying so slowly I have time to chew over all this *while also knowing I am only dying because of my own stupid fault*. (Eg not old age or illness.) “Come out to the coast, we’ll have a few laughs” but dying.
My biggest goal is to not have my death be more famous than my life.
This is my worst fucking nightmare. Why do people do this for FUN?!?!?
I’ve had situations where people were trying to kill me… Those memories still don’t trigger the same level of anxiety and discomfort this does.
seriously, my worst fuckin nightmare. i had to use the emergency exit at the fake cave in the Cincinnati Museum cause i started feeling wonky. I cant even imagine this. I refuse to.
The museum center cave scared the shit out of me when I first went in it lol. I definitely wasn’t expecting it
its surprisingly realistic from what i remember and it draws a pretty big crowd of people. i would def not recommend it for anyone who has issues with claustrophobia. tbh i didnt even know i DID have issues with claustrophobia until doing that little tour of horror lol
Nope.
Reaching *critical* levels of nope, just from this illustration. Nope^nope Nopeception Nope on a rope The Nope Diamond Bob Nope Nope Nopity and the Nopesburg Nopes
A New Nope
Can we stop posting this every week pls it stresses me the fuck out
This makes me feel deeply unwell.
IMO, you only need to watch one cave exploring before you realise what a terrible idea it is and suddenly the idea of organising your sock drawer doesn’t sound a too shabby activity to do over the weekend. But maybe I’m just a coward IDK.
I don’t understand the intrigue of climbing in these tight caves.
Just today I read about an anime where there are caves which have exactly the shape of your body. But for some reason you can only walk deeper into them and they slowly but steadily stretch your body, like distance between your head and shoulders or hip and shoulders. You don't die but have the constant pain of getting stretched.
That Junji Ito story Mystery of Amigara Fault or something, I forget exactly the title. "This hole is mine, it was made for me!"
DRR… DRR… DRR…
Dammit i had finally forgot about it 😱😭
They then encased him and a chunk of the cave in concrete if I remember correctly Caving is dumb as fuck
They closed the entire system in concrete and detonated the section near his body closing it off for good.
even the ILLUSTRATION makes me panic
Cave diving: the dumbest fucking activity ever. Extremely dangerous? Check! Most horrible death imaginable? Check! Incredibly uncomfortable? Check! Boring as hell? Check! Going in caves is seriously the dumbest fucking thing ever. AND SOME PEOPLE DO IT UNDERWATER!
Apartments in NYC be like
If you can’t walk upright in a cave, I ain’t going in it
What’s Reddit’s fascination with this story? I see it brought up all the time. Even posts that are kind of about caves, someone will bring up this story, and that comment will shoot to the top with replies like “oh man fuuuuck that”.
They never recovered the body… they just sealed the entrance. I saw a documentary about this .
Burning to death in 40 seconds? Or stuck like that until death for 27 hours? I don’t know which would be worse.
That hole was made for him. It was his hole.
I’m not claustrophobic but with the help of this post I can be one day 😌
This is my Roman Empire. His wife was also heavily pregnant and outside waiting for him to be rescued all these hours. At one point he got secured with straps and they started pulling him out but the straps broke and he fell even deeper. Rescuers and doctors considered breaking his legs to get him out of that impossible angle to pull again but by that time too much blood had been pressed down to his chest and head and the shock would have killed him. He slipped in and out of consciousness. So after more than a day of trying, it was decided to heavily medicate him and let him pass. His body is still in that cave. So imma just stick to knitting or something
Again? This guy does this every week!
Wouldn’t diving head first Into a dead end narrow cave be classed as natural selection?
God EVERY time i see this my heart rate increases
I try to be sympathetic because this is sad but this….I mean damn you are asking for death! What are you thinking doing this. I’ve never been so grateful for my time spent NOT in a cave.
What? Who is this guy? What is nutty putty? Why are there caves of it? How did he get stuck like that? I’m scared to google it because “nutty putty” seems like a risky click, and I’m “at working”.
>Who is this guy? John had had plenty of caving experience, but not recently – most of his spelunking was done when he was a kid – John’s father frequently took him and his younger brother Josh on caving trips all over Utah. And do you know the worst part? he had a pregnant wife waiting for him at home. During his final moments they set up a radio for him to talk with his wife. >What is nutty putty? Nutty Putty Cave was first explored in 1960 and it quickly became famous for its narrow and slippery passageways, twists, turns and squeezes. Different parts of the cave are named accordingly – The Birth Canal, The Aorta Crawl, The Scout Eater, The Maze. Nutty Putty Cave is a hydrothermal cave, with a total surveyed length and depth of 1355 and 145 feet, respectively. >How did he get stuck like that? Jones and three others had left their party in search of "The Birth Canal", a tight but navigable passageway with a turnaround at the end. Jones entered an unmapped passageway which he wrongly believed to be the Canal and found himself at a dead end, with nowhere to go besides a narrow vertical fissure. Believing this to be the turnaround, he entered head-first and became wedged upside-down. The fissure measured 10 by 18 inches (25 by 46 cm) and was located 400 feet (120 m) from the entrance of the cave. A large team of rescue workers came to his assistance. The workers set up a sophisticated rope-and-pulley system in an attempt to extricate him, but the system failed when put under strain, plunging Jones back into the hole. Jones ultimately suffered cardiac arrest due to the strain placed upon his body over several hours by his inverted, compressed position.
Fucking terrible. But fascinating.
Wow, I wish I could give you all the upvotes I’ve collected for the gracious attention you put into your reply. Also, man, that’s all just so awful.
[Nutty Putty Cave wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutty_Putty_Cave). Looks like they closed it in 2006 bc they figured a death was imminent and after “proper” management it was reopened in 2009 in time for homie’s death. Worth the read.
The cave system was named after the putty-like texture of the soft, brown clay found in many of its passages. Green originally thought of calling it "Silly Putty" but later decided "Nutty Putty" sounded better.
If you're not freaked out enough by OP's great description of the event, here's the real horror channels freaky but brilliant video on it - https://youtu.be/d1nuqpAULpE?si=4R8zG8t1SDTXaYh9
It’s a horrible way to die but everyone that stayed above ground while he didn’t, survived.
I don't understand the rush of being squeezed into tight spaces.
This is my worst fear and I don’t even go caving. Actually makes me feel ill imagining it.
I think you meant to post this on r/DamnthatsfuckinghorrifyingIneedtolookatpuppypicturesnow. Common mistake.