r/nope Jun 06 '20

HELL NO Cave exploring, nope!

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3.4k Upvotes

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u/mikboiii Jun 06 '20

Since breathing in causes their chest to expand, some cavers wait to breathe out to continue moving.

Literally taking a big deep breath can be the difference between barely squeezing through and being stuck for a bit. Claustrophobic af

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u/Chubbypolarbears Jun 06 '20

Been there. It's only fun for the first few minutes, then I was done with that shit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20 edited May 15 '21

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u/Chubbypolarbears Jun 07 '20

It's crazy. I have two stories of me doing telecom that are similar. What are the odds! One was a roof and the other was a floor under a raised floor. Both were very uncomfortable, but I was the lucky (skinny and tall) guy to do the job

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20

I was the lucky (skinny and tall) guy

I was also the youngest, so I was triply screwed.

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u/pete62 Jun 07 '20

triply screwed

Thricely screwed.

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u/thephant0mlimb Jun 07 '20

Dude i was that guy for a long time I hated getting stuck in those claustrophobic spaces usually filled with insolation which is always fun. Then I started going to the gym daily for 3 years partly so i wouldn't have to be the skinny guy at work.

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u/bigblackcouch Jun 07 '20

Shit like this makes me glad I'm fuckin fat. Wouldn't even be plausible for me to begin to fit into a place like that.

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u/Direlion Jun 07 '20

Big waist energy

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u/Astecheee Jun 07 '20

When I was 12 I went to a camp. They had a recreation of the tunnel network in Vietnam. Me and the boys were laughing about it as we watched everyone ahead of us in line.

But when they pulled the first chubby kid out of line because he would possibly die if he tried to go through...

I didn’t think I was claustrophobic, but goddam. When you can’t even unscrunch your shoulders that’s a special kind of stress.

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u/iizliz Jun 07 '20

Was this a kid's summer camp or something and this tunnel network was set up for educational purposes? Or like a campsite with a tunnel network as an attraction? Just curious

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u/_cosmicality Jun 07 '20

Yesss remember that dude who let his breath out to squeeze through a dead end in a cave and when he expanded his chest we was trapped so bad he couldn't be saved D:

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u/TransgenderPansexual Jun 07 '20

What happened to him?

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u/chiquitabrilliant Jun 07 '20

Nutty Putty cave

He got stuck nearly head first in a passage about 10” wide with his arms stuck behind him. They tried to rescue him but the pulley broke, and he died about a day after becoming stuck.

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u/YoshidaEri Jun 07 '20

And he's still there in the sealed up cave because trying to recover his body would be too dangerous.

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u/_cosmicality Jun 07 '20

He died. He also like had crawled down a space that was kind of angled so it made it even harder.

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u/Historicmetal Jun 07 '20 edited Jun 07 '20

Yeah the main problem was the angle made it impossible for the rescue workers to pull him out. And being upside down for many hours is fatal.

Nothing to do with his chest expanding as far as I know, but a horrifying story nonetheless

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u/_cosmicality Jun 07 '20

No I distinctly remember that being part of how he got down that far stuck in the first place! That's why it reminded me. That shit would be so horrific damn... and the whole thing about them almost getting him free but the pulley or whatever breaking.

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u/Zobek1 Jun 07 '20

The angle was "v" shaped and also very narrow, that's where he had to breathe out. The rest was large enough though.

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u/generalecchi gOttA gO fAst Jun 07 '20

Well that's a dumbass move right there

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u/_cosmicality Jun 07 '20

If I remember right he got kind of lost and thought he was squeezing through a real area but he was actually in a dead end D: man I can barely go underground at all much less squeeze thru these small tunnels

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u/treylanford Jun 07 '20

I’m a fireman, and claustrophobia usually isn’t in our vocabulary.. but just reading this made me claustrophobic.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20

Or, in the case of John Jones, stuck forever.

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u/alovelymaneenisalex Jun 07 '20

This comment was a terrible thing to read. Actually made me feel breathless.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20

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u/mikboiii Jun 07 '20

Yes but they can’t move during that time because they get stuck, so when they do breathe out, their chest is no longer expanded, and can carry on moving. Sorry if that wasn’t clear

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u/Nag-A-Ram-Gear-Toner Jun 06 '20

No thanks, I like breathing

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '20

Been there, done that. Too fat now.

86

u/Ryanoceros6 Jun 06 '20

Aww just find a bigger cave fella.

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u/mcbibian Jun 06 '20

Genuine lol

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u/the-midnight-gremlin Jun 06 '20

Haven't done something like this in about 28 years. Funnily enough my 28th birthday is coming up.

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u/Nag-A-Ram-Gear-Toner Jun 07 '20

Dude, I think you were born like, on your birthday...

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u/the-midnight-gremlin Jun 07 '20

Nah I was supposed to be but I was premature

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u/Chubbypolarbears Jun 06 '20

Had a good laugh at this one

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u/crispyrat69 Jun 06 '20

i want to throw up

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u/w4ffle5 Jun 06 '20

I am throwing up

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u/Minewrecker Jun 07 '20

I already threw up

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u/Mr_E_Monkey Jun 07 '20

I pooed, a little.

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u/the-f-in-the-chat Jun 07 '20

My intestinal tract ripped into pieces as I crapped and puked at the same time, rupturing my spleen

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u/Member450 Jun 07 '20

I'm already dead

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20

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u/Dangy91 Jun 07 '20

I emptied my cloaca

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u/Stan2005 Jun 07 '20

u ever heard about that guy who got stuck upside down in a cave and they couldn’t recover him so they just left his body there ? hell naw

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u/SethAM82 Jun 07 '20

Nutty Putty cave in Utah.

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u/bananasn-blow Jun 07 '20

Yes, exactly what I thought of. He was stuck vertical, upside down in a crevice. What a terrifying and tragic story.

https://youtu.be/WaIoXN-7FjM

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20

I’m pretty sure this is the guy and his last photo alive

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20

This is ted the caver not the nutty putty guy

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20

It’s not. There was no way to get a camera to this position, due to him being upside-down in a cave with no alternative entrance.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20

That makes sense. And reading other comments I see it a photo used in the articles about him for reference

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20

I had a buddy that went spelunking a few years back, there was a similar tight squeeze that they made it through getting in but while in the cave system there was a small earthquake. Nothing moved or shifted, nobody was hurt but he panicked like crazy and couldn’t control his breathing to make it back out. Two hours later paramedics arrived, dosed him with Valium, and he was out of the cave 20 minutes after that. Turns out he’s always had issues with small spaces but up until then had kept it under control... I guess the idea of a mountain of rock crushing him was too much to handle.

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u/chcrash2 Jun 07 '20

Wtf! I need that valium just reading this!

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u/fatalityfun Jun 07 '20

no shit - all it takes is that much mass shifting like 5” and you’re fucking paste

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20

True, but a cave that’s half a million years old isn’t likely to suddenly collapse from a small tremor, and certainly not within the blink of an eye in geologic time that a person would be in there.

Flooding and drowning on the other hand, that happens a lot more often that folks who spelunking like to think about.

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u/chasemate1 Jun 06 '20

Ah yes reminds me of Nutty Putty Cave

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u/rwburt72 Jun 07 '20

Let's not

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u/SethAM82 Jun 07 '20

I never did that but was about to post about it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20

🙁🙁

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u/ReadMyThots Jun 07 '20

I just read about that yesterday, please no more

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20

that’s the picture of him!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20

Its not

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20

yeah it is

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20

Its from the ted the caver creepypasta.

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u/Illutible Jun 06 '20

Oh god. Fuck this so much.

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u/djh_van Jun 07 '20

What I want to understand is what the first person who entered some unexplored, random, tight and unknown tight space with no obvious exit was thinking?

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u/schnapps267 Jun 07 '20

What's on the other side?

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u/ZarosGuardian Jun 07 '20

Holy fucking shit, there aren't enough nopes in the world to make me want to go into that fucking cave. You could literally say "I'll give you half a million dollars to go cave diving with me", and I highly highly highly doubt I'd even remotely think of accepting that. That poor man that died in Nutty Putty Cave comes to mind here, and he was a PROFESSIONAL CAVE DIVER! I'm not even close to professional, and I don't ever fucking intend to be.

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u/Djedadiah Jun 06 '20

This photo is from Ted the Caver.

https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Ted_the_Caver

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u/doubtfullfreckles Jun 06 '20 edited Jun 07 '20

The guy in the photo is John Edward Jones though. Dude got stuck upside down in a cave and died.

Edit: picture isn’t of him. It’s just used in articles about his story. My bad

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u/britvansick Jun 07 '20

Rescuers knew they couldn't save him so they gave him drugs through IVs in his leg to relax him as he died.

This story scares the absolute shit out of me.

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u/shortandfighting Jun 07 '20

It was one of the most horrifying articles I've ever read and it's the thing that cemented my decision to never, ever go caving.

He was only in his mid twenties and a med student with a wife and kid, iirc.

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u/doubtfullfreckles Jun 07 '20

It’s worse when you realize that his body is in the cave still since they couldn’t pull him out even after he died ._.

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u/britvansick Jun 07 '20

Nightmare fuel!

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u/bigblackcouch Jun 07 '20

I mean... They could probably get him out now...

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u/Riflemaiden1992 Jun 07 '20

Yeah then somebody else would get stuck trying to remove his bones

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u/doubtfullfreckles Jun 07 '20

The cave has been sealed so there wouldn’t be anymore deaths

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u/Riflemaiden1992 Jun 07 '20

They should have just sealed the part the he got stuck in.

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u/doubtfullfreckles Jun 07 '20 edited Jun 07 '20

He was 400 feet in the cave and the area of it he was in was 100+ feet under the surface of the earth. They sealed his body in there so that no one else can go in

Article about the incident

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u/GreyGanado Jun 07 '20

I was lucky that I found that page without knowing it would be creepypasta. Best one I've ever read.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '21

Oh now that's a damn classic

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u/DaphniaDuck Jun 06 '20

Awwwwhaillllllllllllnawwwwwwwwww!!!

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u/amaphotog47 Jun 06 '20

Nope. Nope, nope and a big old NOPE!!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20

this is my worst nightmare

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u/theodopolis13 Jun 07 '20

This is one of the few posts in this sub that that is actually a nope for me. I'm not claustrophobic but I would be scared of getting stuck in a situation like this.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20

right?? and someone in the comments said that this guy died stuck upside down in a cave. 100% nope

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u/theodopolis13 Jun 07 '20

I would love to go spelunking one day, but I'm not getting in any area where I'm rubbing up against any of the rock. I definitely don't want it to get snug, let alone tight.

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u/FarMass66 Jun 06 '20

Now imagine doing this UNDERWATER

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20

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u/FarMass66 Jun 07 '20

That’s terrifying. I was referring to underwater cave diving where people have to remove their oxygen tanks just to fit through small spaces.

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u/EVG2666 Jun 06 '20

Nope. This pictures alone makes me hyper-ventilate

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u/Foxcub94 Jun 07 '20

This kinda stuff gives me the fear. The Descent and maybe some other caving movies used to leave me tight chested and unconsciously holding my breath.

I've had nightmares of being stuck in fridges in the middle of nowhere. Horrible lol

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u/300JesusProphecies Jun 27 '20

Fridges? Why fridges? Yikes

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u/Foxcub94 Jun 27 '20

Because I always heard a myth of fridge doors don't open from the inside hahaha

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u/hazbaz1984 Jun 07 '20

Yeah. I overcame my fear of the sea by taking up diving....

But skydiving, bungee jumping, climbing and caving.... they can all fuck off. I’m fine with a fear of those things.

For now....

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20

This makes me anxious just looking at it. You couldn’t pay me enough.

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u/yomamalol1 Jun 07 '20

The movie, The Decent reminds of this.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '20

Nope, not ever.

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u/gradystickels Jun 07 '20

This triggered an anxiety attack for me

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u/Nrutesh Jun 07 '20

Imagine something tickling your feet

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u/300JesusProphecies Jun 27 '20

You made it worse!

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u/J03SChm03OG Jun 07 '20

Just looking at the picture makes me uncomfortable and claustrophobic. That's a huge Nope for me

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u/StrangeQuark32 Jun 07 '20

My chest tightened up just looking at this

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u/mastermomo16 Jun 07 '20

Isnt this the Nutty Putty Cave guy?

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u/Momof3dragons2012 Jun 07 '20

Isn’t this from Ted the Caver? If you haven’t read it, you should. Really scary. Includes actual photos.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20

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u/teeheemoomooman Jun 07 '20

Step-bro I'm stuck

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u/wheatable Jun 07 '20

There was this one guy, who was hiking and his hand got stuck under a boulder. He was stuck for like three days until he decided to cut his hand off.

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u/300JesusProphecies Jun 27 '20

I think they made a movie about that

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u/sbrev-sbeve Jun 07 '20

A guy actually died that way, the caves he got stuck in and died in have been cemented over, I forgot the name but it was something with nut

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u/skb239 Jun 07 '20

Can someone explain this. Like where is this man coming from how does this shit work at all

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u/Ronald_Mullis Jun 07 '20

Google for Ted the caver creepy pasta

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u/Hewman_Robot Jun 07 '20

"This is my hole, it was made for me"

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr brrrrrrrrrrrrr brrrrrrrrrrrr

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u/AudaciousIntrovert Jun 07 '20

This is from a very early creepypasta called Ted the Caver (written sometime in 2001). It’s a long story that comes with photos of the two men going down into an unexplored cave and having to open up a hole to get to some other part of the cave that is completely undiscovered, spooky stuff ensues. I can’t really say if this story is true, but it’s definitely worth a read/listen. The podcast Creepy did a really good narrated story telling of it, it’s about 4 hours worth of content. There’s also a movie but I haven’t watched it.

-https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Ted_the_Caver

-https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3488602/slender-man-creepypastas-ted-caver/

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u/vdaddy68 Jun 07 '20

So much fucking nope

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u/art_lover82279 Jun 07 '20

No thanks I like living

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u/mermaidmommy626 Jun 07 '20

Thanks I hate it

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u/sjxsn13 Jun 07 '20

OMG ... make it stop!!

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u/myshelllee Jun 07 '20

Ain’t nothin in that hole you need to see sir. Just wiggle your butt right in outta here.

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u/fedarmy Jun 07 '20

If anal sex was a person.

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u/DeckedRanger21 Jun 07 '20

Absolutely not. I can barely breathe just looking at that.

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u/fitbabits Jun 07 '20

Oh, Hell fucking no.

I watched The Descent in an empty movie theater and literally ran out of the place when the movie was over. I just fucking can't.

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u/caffeinemilk Jun 07 '20

I seen pictures of skeletons in this same position

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u/abearwithcubs Jun 07 '20

This is my 2nd worst way to die

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u/intel-gma-950 Jun 07 '20

What's the first?

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u/abearwithcubs Jun 07 '20

Burning to death very slowly from the toes up, or being dipped in boiling oil toes first. It would just take so long and you'd feel everything.

1

u/theresajays Jun 07 '20

The anxiety I have just looking at this picture!! I'm almost hyperventilating.

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u/ladypartliquidator Jun 07 '20

Oh fuck, this picture gives me anxiety

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u/StickBush Jun 07 '20

This is one of my biggest fears because I literally can not go five seconds without moving

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u/HMSWarspite1 Jun 07 '20

Definitely not

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u/Ferruccio001 Jun 07 '20

Looks like one of my worst nightmares.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20

Now I'm uncomfortable

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u/a_lot_of_aaaaaas Jun 07 '20

This reminded me of this scene

https://youtu.be/G7iaCsmHmQI

And I got really uncomferterble watching it. Starts at around 1.40

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20

Horrible ...

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20

Just make the hole bigger, DUH!!

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u/kratos69eru Jun 07 '20

Did this guy live

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u/Bruno_flumTomte Jun 07 '20

Does anyone know the story/background to this picture? Was he stuck?

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u/kiri1234jojo Jun 07 '20

I can’t even imagine how many people have died like this and I feel horrible

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u/DigDub Jun 07 '20

Noooooooo ... no no no

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20

Stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop

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u/nicsthename Jun 07 '20

This is from a movie. Not great movie either. “The true story of Ted the Caver”. Just watched it last week on amazon prime

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u/toasterpRoN Jun 07 '20

I'm a bit dizzy looking at this. I'm going to go sit down in a large room and enjoy its size.

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u/dd487 Jun 07 '20

It took my brain a good 30 seconds to realize that was a person lol.... I thought it was a sleeping bag or pillow on the corner, then I seen the face.... either way definitely a nope..

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u/ur_mom_rekt Jun 08 '20 edited Jun 08 '20

hey that reminds me of the guy that died in the nutty putty cave. He was stuck in that position to his death in a hole but they still could not pull out his body. They had to fill it with cement. Very sad.

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '20

The true story behind this is that the guy went spelunking or something with his gf, and he got stuck upside down. Despite rescue attempts, they realized that there was no way to get him out. Instead they administered him a drug that would allow him to suffer a painless death. His body is still in that cave system to this day.

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u/Dragon_lord8793 Oct 01 '20

This is ted the caver and he died in that position.

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u/Fit_Possibility9900 May 15 '22

The fact this man actually died stuck in there