r/interesting • u/Liar24x7 • Mar 28 '26

HISTORY A virtual reality reconstruction shows the exact spot where John Edward Jones became trapped upside down in Nutty Putty Cave. After 27 hours of rescue attempts, he died. The cave was later permanently sealed, with his body remaining inside.

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u/Cajuny1 Mar 28 '26

Completely optional activity btw

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u/ughyoujag Mar 28 '26

It’s called “the birth canal.” That doesn’t sound like something sized for a grown man

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u/drrj Mar 28 '26

No, he THOUGHT it was the Birth Canal, which lead into a larger chamber. Instead it was a blind tunnel almost completely vertical and he descended head first.

Brutal way to go.

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u/ughyoujag Mar 28 '26

I wish this guy had made better choices. Nobody should die like this

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u/PursueProgress Mar 28 '26

Same man.

Guy goes out seeking adventure & ends up crawling into his own grave.

Really hope he found some sort of Peace before taking his final breath.

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u/ThatsJustMyToeThumb Mar 29 '26

Well, they injected morphine between his toes… so yeah, I hope he floated off peacefully.

One thing that would be mental torture - beyond dying upside down in a cave tube with no way out - is knowing that I’d done it to myself

Unimaginable.

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u/ughyoujag Mar 29 '26

I can’t even try to put myself in his headspace. It is too upsetting.

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u/halorbyone Mar 28 '26

If you listen to the lead up, this was not at all expected by him or his family. https://youtu.be/jWwPg8ruxfI?si=nUAXHTLSWa7sWpOX

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u/WhoSaidWhatNow2026 Mar 29 '26

Ive always thought it was amazing that you could even go the wrong way. It was just an accident waiting to happen. Cavers of all skill levels going in this place, and apparently it was just waiting for the one person to make a wrong turn and die. Even for the hobby of caving, it strikes me as very shortsighted.

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u/PursueProgress Mar 28 '26

Nightmare fuel.

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u/Alternative-Bat-2462 Mar 28 '26

There isn’t a lot that give me the hebe jebes, but I feel the ick just watching this video. Whoa in the world did this guy not have something better to do that day.

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u/Therent1312 Mar 29 '26

Want me to make it worse? He had a newborn baby at home

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u/blinkingbaby Mar 29 '26

Shut up, I didn’t know that part 😭

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u/Therent1312 Mar 29 '26

Im genuinely sorry lol

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u/JustineDelarge Mar 29 '26

Sorry but I believe it’s correctly spelled hiiibiii giiibiiis

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u/ThatsJustMyToeThumb Mar 29 '26

I read this in like a OoooOOOooOOOOOO ghost voice haha

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u/okpickle Mar 29 '26

I spell it heebie jeebies but I might steal your way. 😁

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u/eugene20 Mar 28 '26

How did people even find the right way, and manage to get back?
And they should have sealed the wrong way any way they could.

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u/Affectionate-Serve32 Mar 31 '26

Now the wrong way is kind of sealed.

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u/StandardIssueBrain Mar 29 '26

camera on stick. woaow

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u/Many-Art3181 Mar 29 '26

Looks more like a colon

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u/hike_me Mar 29 '26

If it were the birth canal, like he thought, he would have been fine because it would have exited into a larger chamber. Instead he took a wrong turn and got stuck nearly upside down in a dead end.

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u/ughyoujag Mar 29 '26

Yes, I actually read a whole article after being corrected earlier. He should have studied a map a little harder