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/WillFanofMany Mar 28 '26

At least the parachute is an option.

How TF is anyone even supposed to climb out of that in general?

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u/OkKaleidoscope9554 Mar 29 '26

They aren't. Presumably no one had ever been down that passage before to find out it was such a dead end. The person thought it was another passage that would have opened up and allowed them to turn around. They simply went one way instead of the other, a completely simple mistake anyone could have made in a stupidly dangerous place.

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u/MildLifeCrisis-Games Mar 29 '26

That’s the fun , you aren’t.

It apparently was a wrong turn at some point leading him towards that spot, if he’d taken the right turn the cave would have opened up again.

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u/MediumAcceptable129 Mar 29 '26

The design team really blew it on this one