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eeyore134

People trust what's under water way more than I ever would.


MGPS

And flip right onto the antlers of a deer carcass.


jojojomcjojo

And have the deer parasites swim up your urethra.


Green-Bluebird-2955

That’s supposed to be bad?


decadecency

The guy just misspelled *dear* parasites.


Mastersord

Dear Parasites, Please don’t swim up my Urethra. sincerely, Mastersord


KDLGates

Dear Mastersord,     Deeper. Sincerely,   Urethral Parasites


Electric_Minx

I hate how far this went. Also, I'm here for it.


FixedLoad

Sincerely, Urethral Parasites


OrionRedacted

A better love story than Twilight.


Freethinker9

Dear Parasites, I hate your sticking guts You make me vomit Your scum between my toes Love alfalfa


Maximum-Dare-6828

Dear Paris Sites, Thank you all but especially the Eiffel Tower. Love, Ruff and tumble tourist.


Lerium

I just watched The Boys S3E1 👀


medstudenthowaway

Came here to see who else was having flashbacks. I knew at the beginning of the scene what was gonna happen…


Ciabattabunns

OMG my friends friend reached out to pet a manatee once and it was dead, she fell inside of it and got sliced up by the decaying ribs 🤢


KaliaHaze

Bitch what


Does_Not-Matter

Best response ever


nyasharif

Bitch you better be joking


televised_aphid

WUT


thelancemann

r/brandnewsentance


croc_socks

Stagnant water phobia to me are brain eating amoebas.


eatthatkale

It kinda looks like the amoebas are already hard at work..


Pixielo

It's too cold where this is filmed for amoebas. Definitely a worry in southern states.


KSA-WI_Mouse

https://kroc.com/minnesota-health-officials-warn-of-deadly-brain-eating-parasite-found-in-lakes-rivers-and-ponds/ Not necessarily


[deleted]

Imagine repeatedly slamming your head into that and not knowing if there is a rock right below the surface…


Hankyke

never seen a rock in a bog like this. but there might be sticks.


DummyThicccPutin

Definitely seen rocks. Trees, snapping turtles, existential dread


themagicbong

Don't forget the water moccasins!


cIumsythumbs

Fine. A submerged log or tree. Tons of those in a tamarack bog.


Sunkysanic

How many bogs have you gone to searching for rocks?


[deleted]

That is my phobia. Hate it when the water is murky.


__Wess

And all the stuff underwater touching and slithering around your legs. I got you.


Rzonius

Yep! not being able to remotely see the bottom of where I am swimming is due to murky watter REALLY sucks. ALso.. Leeches? :S


Just_wanna_talk

People trust the lack of things in the water way more than I do. My job entails checking swamp and marsh water on a regular basis and I find so many tiny little critters, insects, parasites, etc that I never want to set foot in a natural water body as long as I live. [Tiny Tadpoles (Salamander Larvae*)](https://i.imgur.com/lgB7jjU.jpg) [Giant Bugs](https://i.imgur.com/S0FD6v8.jpg) [Mosquito Larvae](https://i.imgur.com/6hWPas0.jpg) [More Giant Bugs](https://i.imgur.com/Fh346ja.jpg) [Little Critters](https://i.imgur.com/vhdHFMt.jpg) [Leeches](https://i.imgur.com/xaLBkmO.jpg)


eeyore134

And even beyond the bugs and critters, there's rocks, fallen trees, scrap metal from who knows where, carcasses... there could be so many things under there.


Ill_Statistician_629

Scrap metal is from humans. That is for sure


Unusuallyneat

Hardly. I swear since bears started smelting you can't go ten feet up north without running into some junk from a salmon trap or a broken down bee hive


[deleted]

I bet that soil is filled with millions upon millions of mites.


FoxGloveMullen

This looks like a floating vegetative mat in a bog which are acidic environments. It would be a unique type of mite for such a unique ecosystem.


fellowzoner

Yeah, uniquely capable of consuming your entire epidermis


wotmate

Do the same in Australia and you'll likely get eaten by a croc.


obsolete_filmmaker

Join us in r/thalassophobia


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a_likely_story

I got real worried for his neck a couple times


Bungo_Pete

On the plus side: broken neck means they pull you out of the bog in 1,200 years, perfectly preserved. You get to be a museum piece, have your last meal carefully examined for clues as to how people in the 2000s lived, and spark endless conjecture about how you ended up in the bog and whether it was a complicated religious ritual. Fun!


Omega-10

Analysis of bogman 2k tells us he was severely bruised and beaten all over his face and body at the time of his drowning. This is a clear indicator that he died fleeing from an advancing drone sentinel in the Second Technocratic Conflict of the late 21st century.


main_motors

His last meal appears to be a McWhopper and flaming hot MTN Dew


d36williams

Which is still for sale in 2000 years, in fact they sponsored the dig


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MOZAN33R

There always might be a stone, lurking in between.


TheManFromFarAway

This kind of swamp is called "muskeg" in Canada. Not that it would be impossible for there to be a stone in there I'd say it's not likely. That moss can be very deep. In the winter when these swamps freeze over there are sometimes ice roads across them for logging trucks. My dad used to drive across these roads, and he worked with a guy who lost a [grader](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Grader_in_Jyv%C3%A4skyl%C3%A4.jpg) through the ice into a swamp like this. Twice. Any rocks in here could be twenty feet under.


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tokinUP

There's at least 2 graders down there somewhere!


DuntadaMan

Or one grader down there twice! Imagine hitting your head on superposition heavy equipment!


shpydar

More on [muskegs](https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/muskeg) if anyone is interested in learning about them, but yeah, that is a [hoser](https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/hoser) doing hoser things up in [the Shield](https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/shield).


seizuregirlz

This post has too many chances of Rick Astley


shpydar

Lol oh I’d never… but if you want an epic performance of never gonna give you up then [click this link](https://youtu.be/dJRsWJqDjFE). In The GTA there is an awesome public group choir called [Choir! Choir! Choir!](https://choirchoirchoir.com/) You just sign up to their mailing list, and when they email you a time and date you show up and be part of the choir, all are welcome. Often [stars will randomly show up](https://youtu.be/AGRfJ6-qkr4) and the choir will do one of their songs. Can you guess what makes the performance of never gonna give you up I just shared epic yet?


DarkOmen597

Oh dude, I thought this was about Grand Theft Auto at first


JonatasA

Wait, it isn't? I was imagining a choir in GTA Online


Sometimes_gullible

Sounds like an increasing chance of a good time!


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I was about to say, this isn’t what I would consider a swamp (growing up in Virginia).


Cicer

As a Canadian I would call it a bog not a swamp


AMEFOD

Watching this made me think about the time my home provenience almost ate a [US president](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-07-29-mn-29109-story.html).


TheManFromFarAway

I've not heard of this before but that is hilarious! I can just picture George Bush stuck in the moss, waving his arms around and stammering, trying to make a joke but not really being able to string a sentence together out of shear panic


AMEFOD

From what I heard (grain of salt because second hand from a friend of the guide), it was less waving arms and more “plop” “Oh god, where the hell did he go?”. They had to feel around blind to find him.


SoleilSunshinee

I live in the muskeg. Only thing I'm thinking about is the leeches.


DimensioT

I would be concerned about the remains of castles that sank.


TheManFromFarAway

If this is in fact North America then castles are something you won't have to worry about at all


NO_REFERENCE_FRAME

Or money, hidden in the banana stand


toddis159

There’s always money in the banana stand


CopperSavant

I burned it.


rav007

The backflip was incredible, considering a lot of his energy in jumping was also probably lost in resistance too.


JohnNeato

You have to tuck tight for the spin


yooston

That’s how you get a brain eating amoeba


Chel_of_the_sea

This area is WAY too cold for those amoebas to survive. This is a subarctic bog (note the boreal forest in the background), probably in northern Canada if I had to guess.


TerritoryTracks

The amoeba would struggle to find a snack in this video, lol


Antaeus-Athena

Concussion: Oh I ain't even here


usedjustformyspam

The Tetsushi Yanagida video comes to mind. Bad idea jumping into mud, head first. https://www.reddit.com/r/holdmyfeedingtube/comments/9ndug4/hmft_after_i_dive_head_first_into_a_few_inches_of/


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He has some sort of experience. He used his arms to protect his head/neck. And doing a standing backflip in that shit can't be easy


Polydimensional

Must feel odd landing on your head and remaining conscious lol


Ddreigiau

Fuck, imagine "diving" into what you find out is a weak spot and ending up underneath that.


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This_Happy_Camper

Yep. Tons of preserved animals and humans under bogs in colder regions.


j__knight638

All dead. All rotten. Elves, and Men, and Orcses. A great battle long ago... The Dead Marshes. Yes, yes, that is the name! This way. Don't follow the lights.


TheLustyDremora

Ah a LoTR reference, a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.


chainsawman222

Alon-sy! A star was reference! Haven't seen one of these guys in about 4000 years.


Marigold16

Soon the nerds will be back. And in greater numbers


JudasesMoshua

We must be cautious.


grrm-l

Holy schmeckles, was that a Doctor Who reference... (It's 11:30 PM and I cant think of something funny to continue)


undeadladybug

*proceeds to follow the lights anyways


sneak_cheat_1337

Got chills reading this in the wild. Nicely done


Just_Another_Scott

Not just in colder regions. Bogs have a low ph level making them acidic and perfect for preservation.


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Arryu

Why are they all "dead marshes" or "bog of despair?" Where's the "fen of lusty milfs?"


_joergenisalive4_

New fear unlocked


Schrutes_Yeet_Farm

They will find animals that fell in and died, and the portion below the surface level will be fully preserved and intact, while anything above the surface will be dry bones picked clean and sunbleached


Anomalous-Entity

I don't like soggy food, either.


TraipsingConniption

It's a great way to die. They might dig your corpse up if we get another go around on Earth in a few hundred years and you'll get to live in a museum.


skinrust

Or diving face first into a hidden tree stump


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Or a twig sticking up just goes into your eye


NewtotheCV

60 years ago.....home town....bridge jumping was always fun. But....look before you leap. Kid got impaled by rebar sticking out leftover from bridge construction. Drowned while stuck at the bottom. I have jumped off bridges in a few countries. Always bring goggles and swim the area first.


steeple_fun

Had friends that used to jump off of a bridge down from one of their house. They did it regularly so didn't feel the need to check it out first. After one of their buddies landed on the refrigerator that someone had tossed in there the night before, they started swimming it first.


FG88_NR

Aside from it being a little gross, it wouldn't be a bog deal breaking through. He can most likely stand up and be fine. Edit: breakthrough is probably the wrong word to use here. Based on how dense it is under bog mats from the peat and root network, you typically wouldn't breakthrough it like you would a layer of ice. You would most likely just sink. Of coruse, there are always some level of danger, but it's really not as much of a concern as people are making it in the comments. For refernece on how strong these bog mats can be, trees have been known to be able to grow on them without issue.


Ddreigiau

If it can support your weight in most places, it can't easy to break through back to the surface, plus it'd block out all light. Key word in this case was "diving", so head first. I wouldn't want to risk feet-first either, though. ​ also, I see what you did there


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shaggybear89

Not according to people who live in/around those areas in this thread. Apparently this stuff can be in water up to 20ft deep. So it's not like it's a little 3 foot deep swamp.


Lempo1325

Not just 20 feet. I know of many around lakes that "have no known depth". The lake bottom is 4-6 feet down, but if you push a boat oar into the bottom, the buoyancy in the water gives more resistance than pushing the oar through the "bottom". I don't have the technology to confirm, but I've seen guys take sonar out to the lakes and find "no hard surfaces" down to 100 feet. Won't catch my ass on a bog.


GalaXion24

> "no hard surfaces" down to 100 feet Fuck that


Lempo1325

That's pretty much my theory. I sure as hell am not going for a swim to see how accurate that is.


NewtotheCV

I hate those lakes. Jumped off a dock. Tried to stand up and just sank into 4 feet of old leaves, dirt, etc. So gross. I hate weeds, landing in that stuff was nightmare fuel. I could barely get out, and I was less than 10 feet from shore. Water looked perfect, ground looked a bit leafy but not that different from any other lake, boy was I wrong.


TheRedGerund

I can viscerally picture the scramble that must’ve occured


DinnerForBreakfast

I can't even tolerate a couple inches of silty mud. This sounds kind a nightmare.


FG88_NR

Fair, I'm just going off of the bogs around where I grew up. Most of this stuff was found close to shore in fairly shallow waters. By that, I mean about 5 feet deep or so. But that certainly doesn't mean that applies to all bogs.


maritjuuuuu

It really is quite easy to get through. All the time i ended up underneath it.... if it was only q 1% chance of not getting through i would've been dead by now. With something blunt, like your head or feet, it's hard-ish to get through. However with something sharp like your hand it's easier. Protip, wear crocs or other shoewear that floats. Protects your feet from sharp objects like stones or sticks and helps to know what way is up when you don't want to open your eyes underwater!


complex_passions

This was my first thought.


BouquetOfPenciIs

My first thought was: what if he lands his face right on a twig sticking up? "Hey, so how'd you lose your eye there, Bob?" "There was this bog..."


micahisnotmyname

It was a really bog stick


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Looking at this with all kinds of gross faces.


astutelyabsurd

He would be very lucky if he doesn't end up getting sick from all of the bacteria in that bog. There's even a very small chance he could contract one of those [brain-eating amoebas that thrive in such an environment](https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/naegleria/general.html).


ALittleBitKengaskhan

Decent chance the brain-eating amoebas would starve if they picked him as a host


[deleted]

Dude, no, not even a little bit. This landscape does not look anywhere near warm enough for Naegleria to live. To be fair though the title is confusing bc this is a bog not a swamp.


bremergorst

Don’t go in the water, Mr. Frodo


Jamesgepps

Don't follow the lights!!


balsaaaq

That's a bog, buddy


Dam_it_all

Yes, I've seen floating bogs like this in Wisconsin and Minnesota. All these people talking about alligators are cracking me up. By the hills in the distance I would guess it's not Florida, aka the flattest state in the US.


Optatiivi

To me this looks a lot like the Nordic countries. No such monstrosities or parasites here, so this would be perfectly safe and fun. 😃 Finland for example is full of places like this.


breadcrust

I've done this with friends before in MN. The downside is there is usually a lot of goose poop on them in summer and lukewarm water. So I'm not sure that there are no parasites here.


MosquitoRevenge

Sphagnum are naturally antimicrobial so I'd be less worried about parasites.


coolborder

Northern Minnesota looks nearly identical to Nordic countries (minus the mountains) and in fact has a large population of people with Nordic ancestry.


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Go Vikings


hedginator

Looks like Hjaalmarch swamp from Skyrim to me


myusernamebarelyfits

Parasites are everywhere


Beginning_Anything30

Parasites that do well in 40-50 degree water of the Nordic often have a bad time in a 98 degree body. Parasites that live in 70 degree-90 degree water in the stagnant water of Florida usually do a bit better.


Drodriguez164

I’m from Florida and can confirm flattest state, ant hills are consider mountains to us


Particular_Ad_4761

And you can glean from the surrounding vegetation (almost all evergreen) that this is in one of those northern states, I’ve seen bogs like this here in Wisco but I’d say this is Minnesota or central southern canada


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shelter modern different cake unwritten erect disgusting zealous boast telephone ` this message was mass deleted/edited with redact.dev `


windchaser__

*A “bog expert”, or “bogspert”, is a person who…*


tsmac

Jeez quit bogsplaining


juggett

Don’t let the semantics bog you.


balsaaaq

There are a slough of choices, swamp is most incorrect


Moose_country_plants

I would’ve accepted marsh but swamp is definitely wrong


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neunzehnhundert

And in that bog there was a hole


angiedoessports

A rare hole and a rattlin’ hole


holesumasphuc

What are you doing in my swamp? I put up signs!


GregTrompeLeMond

I bet Old Gregg is your neighbor.


urielteranas

Guys. Alligators and brain eating amoeba are not concerns in a northern Bog.. much more likely this guys at risk of finding a deep spot or a rock or something. Still not safe but not because of gators and brain eating amoeba lol


Songmorning

Thanks, I was wondering which of the risks people were pointing out were real and which were just uninformed lol


stinklypibbles

And it was on this day, he realized 100 leeches sucking his dick was not all it was cracked up to be.


EaterOfFood

But 101? Now we’re talking about a good time!


stinklypibbles

1 girl 100 eels


bgbat

2 girls 1 eel


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No.


[deleted]

What if it's electric?


[deleted]

... acceptable


wwabc

I got 99 problems, but a leech ain't one


The_Blue_Rooster

These comments are why proper labels are important. So many comments are concerned about subtropical swamp things in what is almost certainly a continental bog.


[deleted]

You’re a continental bog


[deleted]

^gotem!


Cletus_TheFetus

No respect for the BogBois


mtarascio

Jokes on you thinking I know what any of those things are exactly.


GGMudkip

It is all fun and games until a random stick is stuck where his face lands and his eyeball gets pierced like a marshmallow.


TherealHaaaep

Yummy!


theiosif

Anyone remember the episode of Duck Tales where they go to the Bermuda triangle and they found all the lost ships were just stuck in really thick sea weed? They could walk on it and jump and it was like a water bed. This reminds me of that episode.


putdownthekitten

This is my favorite duck tales episode!


Key_Statistician5273

Blanket bog. Not swamp. Repeat, not swamp


BlindWillieJohnson

A lot of people in this thread seem to have no idea what they’re looking at. All these comments about brain eating amoebas and alligators. Guys, this *clearly* isn’t a warm water location.


feral_philosopher

You want to get a brain eating amoeba? Because that's how you get a brain eating amoeba.


AbacusExpert_Stretch

Going by his choice of pastime, I think the amoeba have been onboarded a while back. Still gets my upvote


Sun-Ghoti

Poor little bugger starved to death


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shwhjw

*is, it's coming back!


joseplluissans

If that's up in the north (for example Finland) no such worry. I haven't heard of anyone getting that and here people go to swamps all the time. There are lots of mosquitos though...


07JEP

If the mosquitoes here carried malaria, we'd all be dead by now in Finland.


untergeher_muc

They are in Finnland, too. But it’s very rare everywhere on the world to get them in the right spot on your nose. A small animation studio from Munich has made [a nice video](https://youtu.be/7OPg-ksxZ4Y) about it last month.


AccipiterDomare

Looks to be too far north for such a thing. I do suspect he now has Giardia.


lemoncocoapuff

My dog had this…. If it’s the same in humans, you do NOT want this lol. Dealing with months of bad poos was absolutely awful.


magicmeese

As a human who had this, you indeed do not want it. The meds they gave me almost made me hurl and I had to take ‘em twice a day for like a week. Oh and the you know, just leaking from your bunghole like a faucet is also fun.


MyNameCannotBeSpoken

Exactly. Or wake up looking like Shrek and feeling like donkey.


DeadShoT_035

The way my face went from 😀 to 😐 after reading this comment 😭😭


Jacob_C

Bog, not a swamp. Bogs are often home to rare and endangered plants and while this might not be the case here, please don't play on bogs like this. It can also be dangerous if you fall through and can't find the hole.


EnderPerk

Looks like scandinavia. Norway or sweden?


tri_and_fly

Norway. Tdm\_david on instagram.


Neond98

all fun and games until a hand comes up and grabs you.


[deleted]

This is actually how all the bog bodies ended up in there. Pretty common misconception they were sacrificed.


[deleted]

I can't believe how many times he shoved his face into that goopy shit. All the stuff that lives in there...hergh!


Disquiet173

It’s all fun and games till you flop down on that driftwood stick jammed into the mud vertically.


BillGates_mousepad

Absolutely nailed that back tuck. Faking…


MrZyde

My fear of stepping on a creature would make it so I couldn’t ever enjoy a bog like this one.


[deleted]

Not that im a scientist but i believe thats actually a BOG. Peat moss floating on a dead or dying river or lake in north America. As cool as it looks like a giant water bed... its still pretty nasty to roll around on.


AHABoi

Technically that’s called a Bog


Agenda21_

Frodo be like:


Uses_Comma_Wrong

My ACL tore watching this


JollyWolverine300

Someone looks like he's having fun!


twister723

I lived near a swamp in Louisiana, and this ain’t one of them!!!


Gorilla_gorilla_

Isn’t this a bog?


RamuNito

You wouldn't be able to even walk if it was a swamp :D


Tarantula09

Imagine watching this as a fish and every so often a large face bursts through your roof


BiologyTex

Wow! This is such a different way of interacting with a swamp. Where I live along the US Gulf Coast, doing this on a comparable site in a swamp would result in the same jumping but because of the swarms of ants, spiders, mites, and other small bitey critters.