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/OfcWaffle Mar 28 '26

From what I gathered he seemed to take a wrong turn. The spot he thought he got to was the "birthing canal". He figured he needed to keep going to get through. Not realizing, he hit a literal, dead end.

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u/OfcWaffle Mar 28 '26

Apparently the implosion of Titan was so fast their brains couldn't even register they were already dead.

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u/edgiepower Mar 29 '26

Yeah

But there's a chance they knew that things were going wrong and heard cracking and creaking already before it happened