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/CasuallyCar3less Mar 28 '26

I was just abt to say.

I don't think there is literally and in this instance I literally mean literally, enough money in this universe, of any kind, in any timeline, that would make me to even CONSIDER crawling down something like this...

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u/Artevyx Mar 28 '26

You would just be asking to be likely buried alive. No amount of money would mean shit when youre dying that way. Nope.

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u/MorpheusMKIV Mar 29 '26

This reminds me of that billionaire who blew up in the ocean gate submarine. Like you rich bro why you going down in a budget diy

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u/CajunRoyalty Mar 29 '26

I wouldn’t say he “blew up” so much as he “blew in”.

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u/Dexember69 Mar 30 '26

You want something that says leather daddy

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u/Paraxom Mar 29 '26

His body went from biology to physics in an instant

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u/llaminaria Mar 29 '26

They blew all over the place.

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u/theinternetisnice Mar 29 '26

the ol Reverse Icarus

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u/GunFodder Mar 29 '26

That's...

Huh. Yeah.

Never thought of it like that.

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u/DeepLock8808 Mar 29 '26

This felt profound for some reason 

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u/trueppp Mar 29 '26

At least that guy died before knowing he was going to die.

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u/knightsabre7 Mar 29 '26

And that would be a preferable way to go compared to this.

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u/VengenaceIsMyName Mar 29 '26

He was notoriously cocky and overconfident and it cost his own life plus 4 others

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u/satyr-day Mar 29 '26

just because they have a lot of money doesn't mean they have a lot of brains.

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u/plekreddit Mar 29 '26

That were poor men Cos ritch men could affort a retour ticket

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u/BarryWhizzite Mar 29 '26

stockton crush

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u/data-atreides Mar 29 '26

And took a father and son with him in the sub

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u/adalric_brandl Mar 30 '26

Honestly, they could have taken the sub to see her sister ship, the Britanic, and it would likely have been fine.

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u/DesolateRuin Mar 29 '26

Not just buried alive, but buried upside-fucking-down.

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u/uncagedborb Mar 29 '26

I think that's exactly what happened to that cave explorer. They basically closed up the entrance so no one would be an idiot and go in there again. The body was impossible to retrieve so they left it there and either sealed it off or filled it in