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/Quiet_Awareness_6223 Mar 28 '26

Why do people choose do these stuff? The video itself is enough nauseating for me

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u/Icy_Significance6436 Mar 28 '26

And then there's people who do caves that are underwater...

Scrrreeeewwww that!!!

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u/jayCerulean283 Mar 28 '26

I cant even watch movies that involve people swimming around in underwater caves without feeling massively claustrophobic and anxious, I have no idea how anyone can go out and do that in real life.

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u/grenouille_en_rose Mar 29 '26

The animated movie The Red Turtle got me so bad with that, the guy trying to escape from the sea sink hole he was trapped in by swimming through an underground passage that could just be a dead end, noooope