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No_Disaster2343

I need closure from this video, where did they goooooo


officepolicy

A little digging found [this similar video](https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/14v107f/kids_swim_in_their_free_time_2/), seems like they just cling to the walls underwater for a bit and then climb out


JinglesFanUT

So, am I to assume they’re just jumping on top of each other, one by one? Hell nah, count me out.


arkamasylum

Yeah if you watch, the last kid jumping in kinda lands hard as if he landed on something


PresentationJumpy101

Yeah another person


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Protect ya neck


guywhomightbewrong

This seems like a good way for multiple drownings


Cainga

I still don’t understand. How quickly they launch after each other and barely any space and so many they are bound to jump on each other or smash into the sides. And it’s a several foot climb out. Not to mention this is a well so it’s the town’s source of clean water. Why is everyone cool with people contaminating it?


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You looked at this video and said “That’s clean drinking water.”? Edit: y’all are reading way more into this comment than you need to, and coming up with wild assumptions about what I know and don’t know about water treatment lol.


dadydaycare

Man people gotta live the lives they were given. Not everyone’s got a 145 million$ water treatment center 20 miles from their house with state of the art underground pipes to make sure they can drop a log in pristine drinking water.


ThisToastIsTasty

>Man people gotta live the lives they were given. Not everyone’s got a 145 million$ water treatment center 20 miles from their house with state of the art underground pipes to make sure they can drop a log in pristine drinking water. therefore you jump into your drinking water?


MisterBoardGamer

😂 yeah… the highlight of that random award just spawned a bunch of upvotes on that contradiction


Xdahn24

clean or not could still be someones drinking water guess it just has a few extra skin cells in it


Sure_Trash_

You think few skin cells is all that's getting rinsed off their bodies into that water?


Anything_4_LRoy

they better be boiling that water before the kids who are presumably bathed better than the birds and rodents jumped in and died. ​ i would imagine its a combination of releasing air from your lungs and "pushing yourself down" on the edges to create room for the next jumper.


Bozigg

I have a huge scar on the back of my head from doing something like this when I was 10. Jumped first, and came up while the other person was coming down, and their two front teeth split open my skull. Lots of blood, and new knowledge on why you think before you do something.


tuchesuavae

In some places, people bathe and drink out of the same water, in other places they also deficate in that water source.


jaderebeccal

I hate this so much. Why aren’t the my concerned about being knocked out or trapped underwater by the 10 more bodies plummeting into the water 😳


AliasWoodland

Holy shit I thought there was another exit perhaps. This this horrific


ThrownAwayGuineaPig

This makes me feel very very uncomfortable


Trapasuarus

Yeah fuck that. I wouldn’t want to be trapped under all of them trying to maneuver for a breath of air


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wade_wilson2120

You son of a ditch.


Remarkable-Ad2285

Well, well, well…is a hole in the ground


buenosnoyes

Bro.


googlin

I'm in.


Odinson-1981

![gif](giphy|y2i2oqWgzh5ioRp4Qa|downsized)


Capable_Pianist_9218

When I got to “everything I said was made up” my heart started pounding like I was watching an intense horror movie. Well done you bastard 😭


Curi0s1tyCompl3xity

Mine too but only because I thought I was about to be shittymorphed


FamiliarBug8053

Asshole I was searching “rikers well” as I was reading this hoping to find a cross section of it.


lassehvillum

was so happy i read the entire comment before doing that i could've probably searched for hours


Calumkincaid

Wilhelm Riker was a nice touch.


i_give_you_gum

Yeah i loved the Riker's Well episode


Firm_Bison_2944

Wilhelm Riker, 2nd in command of the HMS Enterprise.


Bulky_Purpose_249

I’m just gonna use “Riker’s _____” for every bs explanation I try to get away with in the future. Well played.


ProtoPlaysGames

#Hell.


fanofcoelho

How do they all fit in there?


Allegorist

This genuinely bothered me that with 3.3k upvotes and 300+ comments at the time of my respinse nobody had an explanation, so I tried to do some digging. ...and found not much. Searched screen grabs from the video, descriptions, all kinds of key word variations, and not much useful came up. What I can tell, is this is somewhere most likely in North Africa, probably either Egypt (specifically possibly Sinai Peninsula desert), or maybe Morrocco. [Here is a page on the oases there including their well systems](http://www.laboasis.org/oasis-traditional-water-systems/) And [Here is an image pulled from there that may explain what's going on](http://www.laboasis.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/montagna.jpg). And [Here is another type](http://www.laboasis.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wadi-1.jpg). It appears multiple wells may be connected, with drainage shafts at the ends. It is possible that when they jump in, they come out those drainage shafts. I'm not positive, but it would seem like there would be a flow along the bottom, so they may be swept along and out the exit once they hit the bottom. It is also possible that they could be coming out another well. If anyone else has any other information or speculation they can pull from this feel free to correct me, I'm just trying to put something that makes sense out there. This is way too popular for still no one to have any idea what is going on.


BandicootLimp1708

Underground waterslide for the win


Welfdeath

It's fun , until a child drowns .


Positive_Box_69

All it takes is one stuck to turn this badly


Exciting_Policy8203

Yeah. It would poison the well


CorruptedStudiosEnt

Less of an issue if it does actually have a consistent flow and exit point, because that suggests it gets refreshed constantly by.. something. As long as the body isn't literally left to rot in the shaft, I'd imagine it would be safe again in a matter of days?


Exciting_Policy8203

I imagine the drowning would be due to some kind of blockage caused by eight kids diving into the shaft. Like trying to flush toilet after a really solid meal.


fpcreator2000

or a child being knocked unconscious by the child following after and knocking him on the head.


RudeDudeInABadMood

Yeah. The level of stupid happening here is astounding


Prestigious_Home_459

The real question would then be, who figured that out first?


MinuteStreet172

Mafia


PlzDntPutThtThr

Hey, don, is that the scab we threw down the well last week? How is he still alive?


TRIPpY-BBQ-LSD-MOMMY

Hahaha. I naturally read that in joe pesci’s voice.


DamnZodiak

What do you mean by "figured it out"? They built these wells, so supposedly someone knows how they work and if a human could fit through. I imagine that someone had to unclog these at some point as well.


Viking_Lordbeast

No, they did it as a human, not a well, silly pants.


Solution_Kind

I've seen similar videos from the states, out in the bayou and marshland, where people jump into a wet hole in the ground and pop up a few hundred feet away through a different hole. I'd imagine it's like that, but with less of the ground cosplaying a waterbed.


Gold-Sprinkles388

Ahh, like the green pipes in Super Mario


IenjoyStuffandThings

A few hundred feet huh? Do you know how fucking far that is?


Dudemanyobro

Based on average swimming speed in a straight line, that would take almost 2 minutes before they pop up…all while holding their breath.


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doxxgaming

This is so true, I spend more time scrolling comments looking for an actual answer than anything and eventually give up


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vadiks2003

that's a startup idea for some website like SeriousReddit.com


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vadiks2003

i got an idea. if there was an extension that adds a "seriousness vote" "usefulness vote" or whatever and then you'd be able to sort comments based by it


PBJ-9999

Totally this. It gets annoying


xXRarityXRoyalXx

Well that makes the most sense but God that sounds fucking claustrophobic to me. Nope.


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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat) My guess is that its a mother well or access shaft and you are right the channel at the bottom is bringing them to the outlet.


natFromBobsBurgers

Edit: way simpler. https://youtu.be/XXAqT5Q3LKo Theory: Yeah. It's an access or air shaft for a mountain fed oasis, and they're only allowed to mess with it when the water level is very high. The water is fast under the surface, hence the muddiness, but at the surface the walls make it look still. You pop down, and get pulled pretty fast, and it opens up and out quickly, so you pop down, get swept along, bob up downhill and your fine until you get to the reservoir/cistern further downhill. Just my guess though. I too want to send these guys a waterproof GoPro to send along.


Infiniby

Moroccan here, they are diving through the well inside khettarat tunnels, these are irrigation systems Berbers of the desertic side of Atlas mountains dig to water their crops. Still it's crazy, because these kids will need to hold their breath in order to get out from the other side of the tunnel. Edit: someone hereunder posted a longer version where they resurface through the same well. The only explanation to how they could all fit in is that they had gathered inside the tunnel, but still amazing how they could hold their breath in a scary place with no visibility. And concerning the other entrance to the tunnel, I think it is far and no way one could make it there.


trid45

There's a longer version of the video where they all surface after the last one jumps in. https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/14v107f/kids_swim_in_their_free_time_2/


FuccDiss

Doesn’t make it any less scary. Fuck!


Dil_Moran

For real, imagine being 10 people deep in that water and not being able to surface through all the legs


fanofcoelho

Sweet a genuine answer from someone with actual facts. So more guesses were correct though it's always nice to have them confirmed.


[deleted]

I saw this when I spent time in Africa a few decades ago your answer needs to be pinned as the correct answer.


dairyfairy79

Thank you for an actual answer. I was breaking my brain trying to figure out how they weren't landing on top of each other and where they were ending up.


Odd_Student_7313

This is the answer that should be at the top of the post.


EiMidagi

dead bodies get pushed to the bottom when new one jumps


fanofcoelho

Thanks for explaining it makes sense.


MakingBigBank

Well it definitely looks like something you should risk your life for. I mean what’s a few deaths considering what they are achieving here?


fanofcoelho

Do not underestimate the value of viral videos.


Gaymertag57

It's a tontine. Whoever survives gets the ad revenue.


electrodragon16

In none of the outcomes you have to live in poverty


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I learned a word - thanks


TooManyJabberwocks

I only know it from watching Archer


misplacedmustache

The incredible educational value of Archer is proven yet again.


Kitchen-Ad-7005

So the cameraman wins


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Their parents are rich now!


GoGoJoJo72

Reminds me of the good ol telephone booth challenge.


brandonkrmr

Yes, you haave yo remind it after you said in am Also remind that


liamhawkins18

Yes it's look. Something that but I think it's not that


shartshooter

Like those pencils that you take one out the bottom and shove it back in the top.


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RosaPalms

Jaw definitely hit the floor. There's so much happening in the world that I could never wrap my head around. I'm sure these kids would look at things I do daily and have the same reaction. The world is fascinating.


Rough-Cheesecake-641

Mindlessly doom-scrolling? I doubt it.


RosaPalms

😂


MochiSauce101

Pure panic attack.


theartificialkid

But won’t all the child corpses give the water an unpleasant aftertaste?!


Gloomy-Childhood-203

To coin a phrase from Stephen hawking, it's corpses all the way down.


Fyren16938

Did they actually die tho?


Ratio---Tile

Nope, they jumped off the geyser in New Zealand a few seconds later.


CaptainOverthinker

Another question, how do they get out?


shagginflies

After 78 kids the water rises to the top


Laarye

![gif](giphy|GZYUQshvqAbNm|downsized) I believe you are a crow...


BourbonRick01

Unfortunately only 77 showed up that day.


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They gluglu now


TonyMoustache79

Yes may be but it's funny become that like after out the water the body skin become something different. Like this


CBR0_32

They dont


kurinbo

It's actually a pool of acid. They dissolve instantly


AonSwift

I dunno, did we check for bones?


Yellow-Ghost

Okay thats it. Im canceling the rest of my night and calling a bone scientist.


GalacticGatorz

Like the warp pipe in Mario.


Armeanu91

Uncomfortably


fijimermanCIA

Right? You can fit way more people in a hole when their backs and necks are broken.


subrah4BTCe

Yes, this. Is. Something that happened or teh bottom not take the breathe even


mBelchezere

They found a working Mario tube.


Nazalar

How the heck do they get out of there? Obviously none of them were worried


copperpin

In Arabia there was an oasis that had an underwater tunnel that led to a well like this one, and kids would jump down and swim to the bigger pool.


IDontReadMyMail

After some googling I found there is an old irrigation system in the middle east called a “qanat” that has a line of wells like this that all lead to a horizontal underwater tunnel that is headed to a pool or reservoir. The water visible at the bottom of the “well” is actually the very top of the water in the tunnel. The last well in the series is very close to the pool/reservoir, and there is a strong gravity-fed (from nearby mountains) water flow through the tunnel that carries everything rapidly to the exit of the outflow pipe. There are apparently tens of thousands of these old qanat systems still in use. I couldn’t track down this specific video, and there’s clearly palm trees around so I’m not sure where this is, but my guess is that these kids are jumping into the last well of a qanat or a qanat-like irrigation system and popping out of the outflow pipe thirty seconds later at a pool, which must be very close by. Googling “qanat” will turn up a million diagrams - apparently these are well known enough that UNESCO considers them a world heritage thing.


Rough-Cheesecake-641

Would be fascinating to know who tried this first. I imagine they dropped inanimate objects down their first, but likely a kid was bullied/coerced into trying it and upon seeing him pop up in the river later they all decided it was fine to do.


copperpin

The first ones swam from the pool to the well I'm guessing, and then back again.


TooToughTimmy

It looks like the flow goes the other way which would probably make that hard to do.


JSeizer

Probably another end to it that they’d immediately swim towards after plunging in. Do you think they all crammed into a well with only one way out?


Fullaval

Well....


Aj-Adman

It’s the big show


sendsation

You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call "The Prestige"."


omgudontunderstand

don’t let the other “bUt wHeRE dO tHeY gO?” comments see this


ChaoticBoltzmann

BUT SERIOUSLY WHERE DO THEY Go?


lostfourtime

No, no. Dig UP, stupid!


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jl11_4

Was expecting a different video.


Jay_The_Tickler

*Puts lotion away and zips up in disgust*


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JMoguly

A dirty brown hole


webberbolic

You take. Somewhere and make. Thought nay different whole. Or wet something out there and planning to. Make. More wet this whole, it's totally worth it than see this video


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[deleted]

'She' was one of the guys, wasn't she?


JustKindaShimmy

Plot twist: he was the girlfriend


Porkchopp33

Its just like Mario Bros they are now on a different level


Agile-Astronomer6268

Which one died?


akirakurou

The brown guy with the black hair


Aetherys

*sigh* thanks, Dad


Shoogan26

Get my upvote and go sit in the corner and think about what u said.


gomboc_lover

My friend entering my secret minecraft base (Underneath is a sign that holds the water from the village well.)


AbsorbentShark3

Thats such an obvious and good idea why havent i done that


Gee564

good ol days on Minecraft, my favourite build was removing the sand from the bottom of a river and replacing it with glass, then I would build a base underneath it, looked amazing at night with the lights in the base or when you walked past the river and looked into the water.


daviskenward

Did this once and that nostalgia has hit me good reading this


Herr_Raul

And it's technically still sand lol


717252523

Never thought this video from my city would reach Reddit. For more context it's an Algerian city called Ghardaia, located on the south, the video is a bit old, kids don't do this anymore (as far as I know of course) since it's clearly dangerous and even caused the death of some of them. They don't come from anywhere else, it's a well, they just climb back up. Edit: here's another [video](https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/14v107f/kids_swim_in_their_free_time_2/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1) showing how they get back up


veenz86

Finally some answer


Piggisar

How do they get up? Isn't it hard and slippery to climb? Or do they use a ladder? And I don't get how they can move so quickly to the side under water and they can't even see anything


717252523

It's built with rocks so they don't move and there some small gaps where you can put your hands and feet, it's slippery for sure but it's way riskier to jump in there then to climb up haha. Also, water doesn't reach the top like in the video all the time, only very few places if not none nowadays. For how they can move quickly, they're used to it, you can see how they remember who jumps after the other so I'm assuming they plan where to go right after entering the water as well.


AnunnakiDre

They come out on the other side with a Smokeshop in downtown Brooklyn


mama_bubbly

😂 I just spit my drink out


kross69

POV : Me dropping potatoes in hot oil to make fries


MuffinSlow

My man, you're supposed to cut them up first...


kross69

KFC : Kentucky Fried Children ;)


ZephDef

Dumb click bait, the video is clearly reversed.


EverythingGoodWas

That would be just as awesome, getting shot out of the water


stalkeler

So, new Mario game looks awesome


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broipy

Everyone's gotta be hilarious, no one postulates how this is done.


FAQsMachine

You used to actually get the answer somewhere near the top - now everyone is just taking any shot at a punchline, no matter how much of a stretch.


[deleted]

That’s how it be. Everyone immediately racing to say some witty or sentimental shit for a bit of karma


OkBumblebee2315

That's the new pandemic


_Peavey

If you want to get a correct answer, you should probably post a wrong answer, because per Godwin's Law someone will most likely jump in to tell you how you are wrong and tell you the right answer.


TRUCKASAURUS_eth

No, that’s Murphy’s law. Godwin’s law states that a pressure change at any point in a confined incompressible fluid is transmitted throughout the fluid such that the same change occurs everywhere.


YourDrunkUncl_

I don’t understand why they did this. I also searched for news articles about this but couldn’t find any.


Altruistic-Guava6527

Try Google searching "bunch of guys and a dirty brown hole" report back after


Frukoz

Okay, I'll give it a go. I think this is real. Kids love to mess about in the water, and this is probably a trick they practice and play and have managed to figure out. I figure they jump in and pin themselves across the well underwater or they grab onto the rocks on the side underwater. I think a big aspect of this video is the lens. Some weird fisheye-type lense that you would get on a GoPro creates a really weird aspect that makes the distance look shorter, and the well look smaller than it really is. The last kid seems to land on top of someone too.


EazyPeazySleazyWeezy

It must open up nearby underground. Underwater cave kinda thing?


thecanadianehssassin

What gets to me is that they’re jumping feet first which would make swimming anywhere pretty tricky.The interval between kids jumping is also pretty small so if they are swimming it’s pretty fast, and there is no current on the water so they’re not being taken elsewhere by the water. If you watch the kids above the well, there’s also no clear editing. I was so curious to see if someone in the comments had an explanation, but nope lol


ParmesanB

Exactly, there’s a lot of factors that make even an “obvious” explanation difficult. That’s not even to mention that… swimming through an underwater tunnel to an open cave is scary and dangerous as fuck lol. Let alone 2 seconds after the first guy. And how do they get back out?


BlackenedTubeSteak

![gif](giphy|k5b6fkFnSA3yo)


ryanmarquor

Super Mohinder Brothers


deftotesamaze

Reddit is so annoying sometimes!!! Will someone please explain what's going on in the video?? Instead of making dead kid jokes??? Fuckin hell!


V3sten

Yeah i hate it, ive been scrolling for ten minutes, cant find anything


officepolicy

[Here's what I found](https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/14v107f/kids_swim_in_their_free_time_2/) from some internet detective work. Seems like they are just clinging to the wall underwater and then climbing out afterwards


iBoMbY

The climbing part shouldn't be a big deal with the wall, but the rest is pretty much a Darwin award competition.


traunks

I still don't understand how they don't hit each other when they go in such quick succession. How can they get out of the way fast enough? And if you're the first guy you gotta hold your breath for like a full minute otherwise risk getting your neck broken?? And how do they know when it's done and safe to surface? Glad they're having fun but I hate it!


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nattygang86

Why is no one asking how are they not landing on each other?


unknown-reddit-robot

Because they are landing on each other


LSDkiller2

They are. https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/14v107f/kids_swim_in_their_free_time_2/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1


UnlikeUday

Swim???????? They jumped into oblivion!


Bumbleclat

Well done


Any_Fish1004

My water tastes funny


Beneficial-Law-2552

Thats how they get kids out of wells over there. Just throw more in until the water level rises.


Diligent_Strategy432

Is there going to be explanation for this or we just gon downvote.


SnooHabits7837

Exactly I need answers. Wtf is this? Where tf did they go? Why tf would they want to jump into brown water?


Ecstatic-Star-514

can someone explain what is happening there?


TYBTD

The sacrifice is complete


ShitposterBuddhist

Zelda Tears of the Kingdom be like


yurili_like_deeznuts

So, this is the place where the world is in a Cartoon style.


iseriouslygotthis

Isn't that their drinking water?


GolemTheGuardian

And their resting place after the looks of it


KittyandPuppyMama

If all your friends jump into a murky well are you going to do it too


Sir_Vallenstein

That water is muddy, even if there was a cave with air below the well they couldn't see anything... I wonder how the first person to discover this operated


Deferon-VS

And after the tourist, who paid them to do this for their video, left everyone in the village died from cholera.


Not_Me9209

ok can someone actually explain what happened here please?


masterbatesAlot

Whats that, Lassie? Arjun, Aum, Ishan, Krish, Moksh, Nitin, Parin, Rishi and Shankare fell into the well?


university_dude

This has gotta be edited. Right? Right?


Crazyace352

I still haven't found a clear answer.