Fear of Depths

We are going to tell you what lies underground, why you should not disturb this place, and what may happen if you do.
Support me: / jacobgeller
Follow me: / yacobg42
Voice Cast:
Zac Frazier as James Tabor: / zc_frzr
Suriel Vasquez- Spanish voice/translation: / surielvazquez
Bohdan Hrynevych- Russian voice/translation: / bohdannovem
Tanika- Chinese voice/translation: captanika?...
Marcus M.- Arabic voice/translation: / lolmarcus__
Peter Vexillographer- Navajo voice/translation: / vexillographer
Research Sources:
Underland (2019, Robert Macfarlane)
Blind Descent (2011, James Tabor)
The 1925 Cave Rescue That Captivated the Nation- Lucas Reilly (www.mentalfloss.com/article/5...)
Annihilation (2014, Jeff VanderMeer)
Dave Gallagher on Moulins: www.cognitvexplorer.co.uk/jour...
Deep-Sea Fish: qz.com/1387690/a-new-fish-fou...
INSIDE map from Heterotopias 001: www.heterotopiaszine.com/001-2/
Video Sources:
Derek Bristol: / derekbristol1
Юрий Касьян: / @user-hg1oh8jh9l
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Overview: • Waste Isolation Pilot ...
Kentucky Route Zero footage: / esupin
Moulin footage from Jason Box: • Raw Video: Jason Box L...
Containment (Documentary Trailer): • Containment (Documenta...
A Fight for Life (Floyd Collins Footage): • A Fight For Life (1925)
Game Footage:
Scanner Sombre, NaissanceE, Dear Esther, INSIDE, Kentucky Route Zero, Hollow Knight
Music (in order):
This World is not my Home (Ben Babbit, Kentucky Route Zero), What Darkness Awaits You (Scanner Sombre), Head (Thumper), Know Our Truth (Scanner Sombre), Prométhée Part 1a (Thierry Zaboitzeff, NaissanceE), Titan (Hyper Light Drifter), Submarine (INSIDE), Procession Inversif (Vincent Nielaender, NaissanceE), On the Motorway, Always (Dear Esther), NJ (Max Payne 3), The Stars Drop Away, This World is not my Home (Ben Babbit, Kentucky Route Zero)
Description Credit: The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, via Robert Macfarlane

[@JacobGeller]

Join my Patreon so I can afford a better mic to bring spelunking, and get a full video director's commentary on this video as a bonus: www.patreon.com/JacobGeller

[@rngwrldngnr]

You might want to put a comment in the description describing when this was filmed, as I'd imagine there wilould be a lot of people asking in the comments, re:quarantine.

[@JacobGeller]

@@rngwrldngnr cavers actually kinda keep quiet about these sorts of things, so I'll just say to look into your local speleological society, especially in NC or Virginia!

[@beardbeardedbeardsbeardedh9374]

I'm surpised you didn't talked about the game Below, it's would've fit perfectly in this video. If you don't know the game, I sugest you check it out and play it, it's a fantastic game and right up your alley, it feels very claustrophobic and atmospheric, also the music is absolutely stunning. (If you do play it, I would advice not watching any trailers for it, I played the game without knowing anything on it and I really think it made my experience that much more enjoyable and intense).

[@IDaiszy]

I just found your videos like a month ago and this channel is legit art keep it up

[@turkeyhamman4111]

I thought you would mention that junji ito story

[@airshipcircus2404]

1 minute in - Ah fuck he's talkin about the cave 4 minutes in - AH FUCK he's IN the CAVE.

[@paulagodebrito]

HAHAHA YEAH I HAD THE SAME REACTION. I was like "oh yeah that's scary- wait hold up he WAS THERE?"

[@bluebaconjake405]

i was like. "woah... he sounds like he's in the stock foota- WAIT HE'S IN THERE?"

[@montlejohnbojangles8937]

Fuck that's a mood and a half

[@pissapocalypse]

@@montlejohnbojangles8937 two whole moods

[@wolfywlf3983]

10 minutes in - *AH FUCK HE IS THE CAVE*

[@dirtybubblerising]

The Void does not call me. It says "stay the hell out" And I say "you got it, Void"

[@TheSlammurai]

The Void and I have a gentleman's agreement.

[@CrescentUmbreon]

Can't relate, but I'm glad someone out there has some sense!

[@WaldoBagelTopper]

"You want me to close the door on my way out Void?"

[@marioconte6223]

Based

[@jenniferskweter]

this made me laugh

[@OSCARMlLDE]

hey massive shout-out to jacob geller for covering the Floyd Collins event while citing each of his sources clearly and not restating any of the content word for word or anything like that. would that be a weird thing to do or what

[@haemilee8875]

after that video came out I started looking back into all my favorite video essayists and thank fucking god they actually have integrity and something actually profound to say instead of clout chasing

[@awildsylveon9896]

So it IS possible to recount the same historical event using different words and framing?!

[@Charlie-ik3wv]

​@@haemilee8875 wait fill me in here what happened?

[@scj6693]

IH would have been fine (or at least slightly better off) if he just… cited his main source and said he wanted to bring it to a new medium. asking for permission would have been even better. but to just pass it off as his own is so disappointing and disrespectful

[@MasDouc]

Yeah really lost a lot of respect for internet Historian after that. When I first watched it I thought it was a work of art and considered it it to be one of the greatest KZbin videos ever made... Now it's just completely tainted after reading the original Mental Floss article. I've never seen a more clear cut case of obvious plagiarism.

[@JohnTK]

When you revealed that Collin’s cave was Mammoth caves, my jaw dropped. I’ve been there before and I had NO IDEA that’s how that cave started out. Really creepy that an origin story like that can just be missed so easily in the modern age.

[@versesZero]

I just took a trip to Mammoth cave a few weeks ago and came back to watch this video again. On our way out we spotted a 'Sand cave trail' and pulled off the road to check it out. It did indeed lead to the infamous entrance shown in those old photos, with some information about Floyd Collins and the rescue attempt along the path. There was no easy way to get down to poke around and see the full entrance from the trail, but I guess that's for good reason. A testament to the theme of the video that my first thought was "Ooh how can I get down there and how far into the cave can I get?"

[@haoxinlinying5278]

Internet historian just made a video about it

[@versesZero]

@@haoxinlinying5278 His video was good too. The bit at the end about the journey his remains took was wild.

[@Fatvod]

Mammoth cave is a system of caves across a wide area. Sand cave isn't specifically the exact same cave.

[@arrow_awsome]

right?! my parents took me there as a kid. would not have expected it to have started as a place someone died; but i guess it does make sence

[@Teddy_yb]

Could y'all imagine being grouped with Jacob in this expedition while he records himself saying all this shit...

[@RodIII1000]

(Jacob accidentally begins to read lines intended for his Bloodborn review at the bottom of the cavern... grizzled splunkers slowly back away.)

[@zenrelaxation9940]

I’d shit myself

[@marisseandgale5365]

I honestly might just get annoyed by the fact that a guy wouldn't shut up about a damn cave. I'll leave.

[@mexa_t6534]

Honestly that would have been fun

[@argelisplanchart9438]

I honestly would smack him right in the face.

[@jacoblees312]

The only thing I can think of that is scarier than cave diving is underwater cave diving

[@briannawarren4174]

I remember getting lost in a cave while playing subnautica, I freaked out so hard when my character started running out of air. I was perfectly safe in my home playing on my computer, but I felt like I was the one running out of oxygen

[@yegor2]

fighting Pablo Eskobear, AKA the cocaine bear would be the scariest thing i could think of

[@jameslangbein1471]

@@briannawarren4174 Yes! I love that game, gives you chills. I've freaked out like that exactly the same.

[@Riflery]

Or underwater cave diving in a confined space, in space, at night, upside down, backwards, inside out, while drunk, deaf, mute, and gay. *Shivers* Terrifying.

[@arcticsaxifrage1000]

Riflery I breach the depths. There is no up from here - though every part of me is screaming for fresh air, I’m trapped. I can only go forward. I have nothing but hope. I close my eyes for just a moment, and the sudden loss of sight is like nothing else. I look around, frantically, and suddenly I can’t focus. Girl in Red’s ‘Girls’ echoes in my head.

[@mineturtledabrave3796]

I can’t stop revisiting this ‘Fear of-‘ miniseries. I seriously hope more are to come.

[@fayhay8011]

I hope there will be "Fear of heat"

[@joet7458]

I hope that one day Jacob will give his fans what we really need; “Fear of Going Outside”

[@claudiacook619]

This and fear of cold are like epic, viscerally frightening poems to me. It's been years but I find myself coming back over and over to feel all of these threads of sories weave into this beautiful, horrifying, heavy blanket of a video. There isn't another channel on youtube like Jacob's. Incredible stuff.

[@Julio_Gomes]

Truly a great story teller. You just get immersed in anything he's talking about. If he made a 50 minute video called "fear of cup noodles" I'd watch the shit out of it. And 2 million other people would too.

[@MyChannel773]

i recommend some of wendigoon’s videos if you like this style!! imo he’s pretty similar, he also has a really great way of telling stories

[@Julio_Gomes]

@@MyChannel773 nice recommendation dude, never heard of that guy before and seems like something I'd like. Gotta love a good fanbase.

[@Fresh_yams]

there are no other creators quite like him, I found him with fear of cold and was captivated right away

[@Hysterii]

Also Fear of Big Things Underwater, gives me the chills in an existential, poetic way

[@seansliger1]

even just exploring caves in Minecraft is scary enough for me

[@Hijiri04]

Cave noises

[@Crylorz]

the panic when you hear a creeper is about to blow up behind you.

[@bigdaddy1695]

Play the forest that will put hair on your balls 😂

[@sombrs44]

I straight up refuse to go caving in minecraft. Freaks me out

[@bigdaddy1695]

It’s a kids game Minecraft ☺️ the forest is something else creepy as crap😟😟

[@davideagin5321]

"Why would this corridor be EXACTLY this size?" -Tiny ants crawling under your door in summertime

[@14zachay14]

I am become Cave! beckoner of the Lost. Keeper of the found.

[@woulfhound]

Exactly! So much of *staring into the void* is really just a combination of irrational fear, paranoia, panic attacks and just reading too much into places and things that you really don't know shit about. Sure, there are _real_ psychological components to perceiving a void such as outer space or the ocean as well as dark spaces such as caves and tunnels, and there definitely is a correlation to the reptilian brain, but beyond that it's mostly self-induced phobias. Scientifically speaking on the other hand, is there more to a void or a cave than meets the eye? Absolutely. Does that mean that you have to watch out for evil spirits or sleeping eldritch gods? Not unless you can tell the difference between the ones that were discovered using the scientific method and the ones in your own run-away imagination.

[@woulfhound]

@@cyber774 If it is then this is why its funny...

[@MoeMoon]

Having flashbacks to Amigari Fault. 😓

[@cmen6895]

Wolf Hound Yo. Who the fuck are you tryna educate?

[@juginstin]

The thing about caves swallowing sounds is the scary part to me. I went on a lantern tour in a cave about a week ago. Me and my party's only source of light was a candlelit tin can. I couldn't see 5 feet ahead of me. At one point, I was in a narrow passage, and my party got ahead of me. They were only about 15 feet away, but I felt like I was completely alone and had lost everyone.

[@evyknouse4590]

This reminds me of Junji Ito's short story "The Enigma of Amigara Fault". It is a manga story about a cave with holes that specifically fit those that are called to it, and as you keep moving down your personalized hole, it shapes you into something completely grotesque, without any hope of escape. It is one of my favorite Junji Ito stories and fits the themes of this video. Go give it a read!

[@friday3592]

exactly my thought too, especially at around 10:48 I was like NOO that's how amigara fault gets you!!

[@debjeetbanerjee9027]

EXACT-FUCKING-LY

[@ChaseFace]

Overrated, most people just know that one. Long Dream is better.

[@MaticTheProto]

„This is my hole, it was made for me!“

[@keltzar1]

Jacob shows an image of that in the video.

[@Mae_Dastardly]

"A man in central kentuky is stuck in a cave!" "HEY!!"

[@Brain-washed2]

Wurm LOL

[@Thomasscnz]

BUILD THE NEW RESCUE TUNNEL !

[@alessandromangaXD]

HEY he fucking dead lmao :(

[@andrewmiller8456]

And off to the rescue!

[@helper_bot]

this is bad but i absolutely love it

[@xillion2751]

This guy sounds like he writes A++ essays

[@malink2658]

Can’t say the same

[@ScabbyCrab]

I dunno man I think he sounds like he thinks he writes A++ essays.

[@esmeraldagarcia1583]

Lol

[@louisb.6149]

Your voice is the most important tool you have in life, honestly. Learn to use it, to convey what you need, or to help people. Never neglect your vocabulary, and it will carry you anywhere. Or write dank papers

[@breadbeard9728]

Trust me, if you’re writing an academic paper, sadly, most English teachers don’t appreciate feelings or personality

[@elimaloney2025]

the magnus archives hits hard with the concept of the vast. that if we look hard enough, the sky, the ocean, the caves and the forests are all too large to comprehend. nothing is small enough for us.

[@not_them]

The Lost Johns Cave episode is phenomenal too, I love how they explore fear

[@elimaloney2025]

@@not_them still think that's one of the scariest episodes

[@aspen8544]

I feel this video is more The Buried, especially when talking about caves specifically. Kentucky route zero especially seems like a game made entirely about The Buried, especially with the characters fear of debt as well.

[@elimaloney2025]

@@aspen8544 thats fair. i felt the kind of claustrophobic feeling, but also the weird blankness of the vast. kinda like how the daedalus was a combination of vast/dark/lonely?

[@parafalll1025]

10:01 I wanna mention something that I haven't seen many people talk about and something that's always unnerved me about this video. Look at the shape of the way to the dream, it looks so much like it was made for someone, with room for their head and shoulders, I'm supprised it isn't mentioned much. It sticks in my head, that specific image, and no one I talk to seems to understand what I'm saying about it

[@den93050]

I get it. Gotta wonder how erosion caused that exact shape.

[@awanderer3047]

Another one that struck me like that was the background footage where the group was walking through the cave and the rocks sticking out of the walls 10:50 seemed just spaced out enough to let a human walk through without trouble

[@fyrebirdd]

i saw that picture and instantly said “oh god that gives me junji ito vibes” only for him to put that very same manga on screen

[@noahatlas5240]

Jesus Christ. Read this and went to the time stamp. Chills EVERYWHERE

[@gothtechsupport2337]

noticed that too and it made my stomach drop

[@jirris]

I've never listened to something that filled me with such levels of attraction and discomfort at the same time.

[@firmanhandipratama8414]

So how was it ? Did it feel like it was calling you?

[@jumpander]

you should read junji ito mangas

[@Username-1939t9]

ive never been so comforable listening to something so uncomforable

[@Username-1939t9]

as i wrote this i was jumpscared by giant mosquito decending towards my face

[@cirlu_bd]

@jirris fascination for the disturbing, I love that feeling. I'm not having a good time yeah, but I enjoy the experience a lot, so strange to try to actually describe it, I think your words are better than mine here.

[@Kikilang60]

In Texas, in the late fifties, the was company, having a company picnic. While just standing around, a guy fell in well, or mine air shaft. My grand father, who told me this, didn't know, it was just a deep hole in the ground. The guy just fell in, and they could hear saying, "I'm okay. I'm just stuck." The hole was wider at the top, but narrored down. The guy was just snugged up tight in the hole. The guy's family was there, and his brother where the first to go down the hole. The problem was, the hole was to small. You couldn't go down feet first, because it was just wide enough for a person to go down, but not turn around. Worst, a person had to go down head first, with the wall touching the sides of the hole. Everytime a person went down, dirt and junk fell, buring the man deeper. His brothers went down, but it was so frightening, that they paniced, and were dragged out screaming. The was a local military base near, and the town asked for help. Many military personal showed up, but going head down a collasping hole in the ground was to much everyone. There was one British soldier there with a bunch of other people from Britian. One small British man said, "I've been coal mining since I was fourteen, I don't mind tight spaces. They tied the guys feet to the rope, and sent him down with two buckets. While the guy stuck in the hole, was digging himself out, the coal miner was going up, and down with the a bucket. The trips, up and down, at frist, seem to make to much stuff fall down the hole, and they were slowly buring the guy alive. The ended up going slower. Working together, the stuck man, and the coal miner, got free. My grand father said, it never even made the paper, but the courage it took, to go down that hole, was heroic. My grand father said, "No one cheers you on, when you do the right thing. They don't even remember."

[@lileijon3452]

that seems terrifying...

[@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan]

You remembered though

[@cocksukinmobile5756]

Sorry nigga I am too claustrophobic to even continue reading after maybe 10 percent but rest in peace in advance ✋✋

[@krustenkaese3905]

Cocksukin Mobile the story has a happy ending if that helps :P

[@BChan1991]

@@cocksukinmobile5756 nigga? Really?

[@hollowblight372]

Watching "made in abyss" gives me a similar feeling of wanting to know what's at the bottom of the depths. Despite knowing there's no easy way back up, and that each level of the abyss lies beings that could kill you if you make one wrong step, there's still the desire to know whats at the bottom despite the dangers

[@justarandomperson4296]

such a good anime

[@yassersolaiman2313]

Yooo am a made in abyss fan too

[@kneegoblin4352]

greetings fellow made in abyss enjoyer 🗿🍷

[@drouseyman]

yoooo made in abyss enjoyers in the comments i love made in abyss favorite manga/anime of all time personally

[@SeptimusTSS]

its an absolute travesty that the author increasingly started using his manga to explore his sick poop/CP/amputee fetishes, making it absolutely unreadable at the end. I agree though, the abyss concept is amazing.

[@shyguypro9876]

The warning for the WIPP is genuinely terrifying. It sent a shiver down my spine.

[@femboygaming64]

The fact that these formations can be perfectly small enough that someone can only just squeeze through, and be taken as not only a challenge, but an invitation, is so strange

[@Zejoant]

my worst nightmare

[@DarshanBhambhani]

Junji Ito amigara fault intensifies

[@UACLive]

"This hole, it was made for me"

[@CharinVZain]

@@UACLive Things to say during sex.

[@salhb737tm2]

"Oh boy look at all these cool spikes coming out of the grounds.I sure hope the thing I'll found in there wont give me erectile dysfunction!"

[@FleurMarigold]

now imagine a speculative fiction about a future race of humans stumbling upon that waste disposal and all the horrors of attempting to unearth it

[@James_Wisniewski]

Marking like that really seems like it invites curiosity and exploration. Maybe some things are better left simply unmarked and forgotten.

[@TucsonHat]

My dad advised on/supervised the building of a nuclear weapon assembly bunker. At face value it's basically a very large dome/pile of graded (similar sized), white rock that was shipped in from somewhere off site (it's designed with the rock pile as the roof, should a criticality/meltdown/detonation occur, a web of cables supporting the rock will melt, the rock will bury the bunker). No large, foreboding monument that will accurately depict the danger, transcending language and time. To an outside observer, It looks exactly like the type of ancient site we love to dig up looking for answers..

[@BagelBagelB1]

@@TucsonHat bruh

[@theB0sSPr0]

someones probably made some creepypasts from this before not that I could find it

[@hinducroat9838]

They will probably mark our warning off as a mere superstition just like we do when we unearth a tomb from a long forgotten civilization with a supposed curse attached to it

[@4foot11rat2]

i really like how you added hollow night into this video even if it was only for a single second the feel of the game is just like a big open cave. one the creepyist things i know

[@thebighurt2495]

It *is* a big, open cave.

[@somedragonbastard]

Except for deepnest, which is mostly a rather cramped cave

[@jamessmells123]

Coming here after the H. Bomberguy about plagiarism. So glad to see the Collins story is sourced to MentalFloss 🤗🤗

[@jamessmells123]

And now I’m once again re-absorbed into one of Jacob’s videos…

[@tovarishcheleonora8542]

This is just a random youtube video. Not a scientific research paper publication, so no one cares about "plagiarism" also there will be more than one people covering the same topic so calling a video "plagiarism" is just stupid.

[@logicalnonsense0058]

​@tovarishcheleonora8542 you can plagiarize outside of academia dumbass. copying shit and not giving the creator credit is bad even disregarding the fact that you're essentially stealing money from them

[@maxwellwhite5762]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@tovarishcheleonora8542plagiarism exists outside of scientific research and papers… You aren’t informed enough to be commenting. The ignorance on display in your comment is genuinely hilarious.

[@maxwellwhite5762]

@@tovarishcheleonora8542of course you have an anime profile picture LOL

[@thesaviorofsouls5210]

"Why does this cave seem...made for me" yeah nah i read this manga before i'm outta here

[@nemo9864]

What manga, may I ask? I really want to scar my mind.

[@michaelhessel8086]

@@nemo9864 "The Enigma of Amigara Fault" by Junji Ito

[@hawk_zero6531]

It triggered my bloody PTSD

[@thesaviorofsouls5210]

@@nemo9864 the enigma of amigara fault i think ^^ enjoy! Oh someone else beat me to it, my bad.

[@001Brunix]

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@tealduckduckgoose]

"This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... " The long-term nuclear waste warning message is actual poetry.

[@dolores111]

One of humanities most revolutionizing ahcivments must be kept hidden and dishonored

[@SteveChisnall]

I think one thing we could do that would be the best way to underscore the seriousness of the danger posed by radioactive waste, and to make it clear to would-be intruders that they need to stay away is to end the warning with, the message, "Please forgive us. We're sorry."

[@galacticupfan7386]

@@SteveChisnall as terrible as it is to consider, it must be said that that is a lie. If we truly were, there would be no plant in New Mexico. Humanity’s greatest sin is too valuable to relinquish.

[@casacara]

@@SteveChisnall the most painful part is knowing that more advanced reactor design can make waste far less dangerous and squeeze more power out, but we keep just piling up waste cuz' it's cheaper.

[@wojciechniemirski1782]

I personally hate this "message". It's so needlessly convoluted, hard to grasp even with knowing the language - it's the opposite of what eternal message should be. The one Jacob presented in the video is not as bad, but still I feel it should be just "DANGER" or "DEATH" and universal symbols associated with it - propably the best would be the image of human skull. Also I think "hostile architecture" around the place just draws needless attention and it seems more like people of the past were trying to scare us off to protect their treasure, not convey actually true message.

[@ebrahimnaeem757]

First of all, I really just want to talk about media and content like this. The production quality, the research, the analysis, and the smithing of words in a string that truly touched some deep part of me, all of it, was fantastic. I never know if it is the chills that I feel when I watch something like this. My body seems lighter, but I feel more aware of every bone and muscle that makes up who I am. I can hardly critique anything because in the face of something like this I feel like I am surrendering myself to the journey. That the person who made this media, whether book, video, or movie, knows more about the subject matter and I could not possibly hope to contest their delivery in any meaningful way. I don't often feel that but I love when it happens, I don't feel afraid anymore, I'm just giddy, with excitement, anxiously holding on to my seat as I plunge into the depths that they are so fervently talking about. Secondly, speaking about the depths themselves and those tight, narrow, passageways has such an intense fear for me. I am by no means claustrophobic. But when I imagine myself trapped like Collins was, I can hardly breathe. I can see the darkness, the empty void, I can feel the desperation, the heavy breathing, I can sense the rage, the inability of anyone to save him, but more than that I feel terrified that it was all my fault. That it was me, knowingly, who fell into this trap laid out by the Earth. Almost as if some sadistic siren has entranced me into following her down into the waters, and now as I tried desperately to swim back to the lifeboat, she was holding on to me, unwilling to let go. I've felt this feeling before, and it was when I played Bloodborne. This amazing Fromsoftware game is a brother to the Dark Souls series. There are numerous sections where we explore dark dense castle superstructures, but also times where we go deeper and deeper into caves. The depths, the pull of the darkness, and the eventual greeting of an eldritch horror at the end. It resonates with me and I can't help but be enamored by it. Thirdly, something that stuck with me that Jacob discussed in the video was the burying of radioactive waste. Deep so many thousands of feet below the ground, with jagged structures that warned of what was contained within, and writing that told of the horrors that we conjured. It reminds me of a very popular trope in video games, perhaps it is popular in books as well - you would be able to tell me if it is since you read way more than me - but the trope is of the lost civilization and the secrets they buried deep underground. They set up traps and so many obstacles in your way to dissuade you. They are screaming, begging, pleading, please don't come any forward. This is not where we left our power, this is where we left our demise. This is where we died. And yet, almost unflinchingly, not dissuaded at all, we rush forward. And overcome every single challenge. And at the apex of the discovery, we usually even in those games find out demise. I remember the Assassins Creed games were one of the first that introduced me to these types of stories, and as a teenager, I was so utterly engulfed in them. I desperately wanted to know more, about the civilization that never was, their wisdom, and their demise. Ultimately, I shudder to think of a time when hundreds of thousands of years later. Strange alien future civilizations will find the remains of us. You and me, and the waste of our civilizations and the power we once wielded. They will not be deterred and will go deeper and into more dark places. The same ones we locked our mistakes behind. And they will find, the horrors we could not defeat. I wonder if they'll be stronger than us, or if we'll be the downfall of a people that breathe so long into the future.

[@aisha3517]

I genuinely hope you’re a writer otherwise seeing this gem in a KZbin comment sections feels like getting to see a glimpse of someone potential and then watching them let it go to waste, I usually pirate for all pieces of entertainment but I would be willing to pay for any piece of literature you’d put out. not everyone can write like this.

[@ebrahimnaeem757]

@@aisha3517, This is such a massive compliment. Thank you very much for saying this to me. I, unfortunately, am not a writer, but I am tremendously grateful for you saying this. Honestly, these were just thoughts that were evoked by Jacob's spectacular video. So he's the real writer here.

[@555diggs]

“I can hardly critique anything because in the face of something like this I feel like I am surrendering myself to the journey.” You’ve written such a beautiful statement that it made me reread this sentence multiple times. Love this response

[@Vulpilux]

I know this comment is a year old, but I just wanted to say that, personally, I do not fear for the alien civilizations - from other planets - that may find our remains and this waste, they will have figured out space travel. I fear for the ones that come after us, from earth, wether they be humans, insect people or octopeds or whatever because in a way they are also our descendants, as they will receive our legacy, our planet, how we left it and all the dangers that come with it.

[@benjinaraa]

I don't know why but that last song really struck a chord with me. I cannot find words to say how melancholy it sounded. It just felt so... sad. And ever so relevant to the topic of the video.

[@jacoblynam923]

:)

[@jimmybean420]

that's most of kentucky route zero's ost. recommend listening to it. so good.

[@RamzaBeoulves]

"A few people had made it to him... A reporter" bruh the dedication i'm here watching KZbin at work while thes reporter risked his life in a freakin pitch-black sand cave?

[@guygex31]

He received a Pulitzer Prize according to Wikipedia

[@fifthofascalante7311]

Meanwhile, in 2021 being a reporter is far, far more dangerous. In involves descent down the deepest of rabbit holes on... Twitter.

[@dylanhaugen3739]

FifthofAscalante tell that to the poor reporter who got murdered and dismembered on the orders of Saudi royal family.

[@fifthofascalante7311]

@@dylanhaugen3739 how? He ded.

[@Hydrauliskk]

@@fifthofascalante7311 40keks

[@ahobimo732]

When you stand at the cliff's edge, staring into the chasm below, the most horrifying realization is not that you might slip, but that you could leap.

[@numbdigger9552]

We truly are a strange species...

[@cowboysandallthegoodstuff3713]

This is such a wonderful sentence, it's so inspiring and haunting. Thank you!

[@snowmanapocalypse497]

That gives me chills

[@operatorchaos6931]

Truee

[@bradley2349]

Brain Confusion, most likely. It's such a dangerous place to be in - the equivalent of just walking up to a grizzly bear. Your brain knows this isn't safe, but feels like you're clearly ok with the situation, so maybe you should just jump, even if it seems dangerous.

[@nindy4368]

Seems the right time to rewatch this video

[@starrry.nightt]

I grew up with my father and brother, my father owns an old gold and silver mine. He used to take us there every weekend. At first, I was scared shitless, he used to prank us by switching off every light, and letting the silence fill the stone walls. It was terrifying. After I grew up with the cold and wetness of those caves and hallways, I found comfort in the stilness and darkness. There was something in knowing that I could always just walk in, and never walk out. It was more then once when my father told me about cave ins. I still love the place, I love to visit and take care of it. We even got a small railway working with a small train. Even if the most popular trails are well taken care of, I still come to the parts that are off limits for visitors and take care of the buckets and buckets of stone that needs to get carried out. There are multiple pools of water they are small ponds I think. I come to them often. They are beautiful, still, silent and so beautiful. Most of them are clear, if no one would throw rocks into them, they all would be. We even found multiple old wooden pillars from medival times. It's so strange running your hand across something centuries old. I swear it never cesease to scare me thinking of falling into some of those water pools and wondering how deep they go, how long would I stay under there until someone found me. It could be hundreds of year's. I m still not sure if im scared of fascinated by it. I still love the place, but I hold deep respect for it. It could kill anyone who doesn't know how to play by the rules.

[@Joaosantos22114]

I once went on a small cave tour on my island, at one point our guide told us all to shut off our lights and remain silent. He then said, "Humans were not meant to be here."

[@James11111]

"Then why the fuck did you bring us here???"

[@shadeabout]

what happened after that?

[@Joaosantos22114]

@@shadeabout nothing lol, we just lit our flashlights again

[@connorp3764]

I remember long ago going with my old scout troop to a caving place, and at one point there was this part that was essentially a big uphill circle around this huge stone. But we were told to shut our lights off and try to navigate in a line around the rock. But some bastard kept on turning their light on so the effect was ruined.

[@gadielgonzalez2755]

Ok that sounds like a good creepypasta intro.

[@ElijahShawn]

This video is like VSauce, but for afraid people.

[@umangmalik]

That's the whole channel

[@ElijahShawn]

@@umangmalik I don't know, I usually view it as VSauce but for hyper-analytical artsy types, but I guess that is covered by the umbrella of "afraid people."

[@lmao.3661]

No I’m just heavily interested in things that cause unhealthy levels of anxiety and dread

[@frostynoms5517]

VSauce, but for Magnus Archives fans. Lost Johns' Cave, anyone?

[@1SweetPete]

​@@frostynoms5517 I didn't need to know what that was right before sleeping TT___TT

[@tatertot6212]

I’ve shown everyone I know this video, friends, family and coworkers; they all say the same thing “this is amazing” “this is literally a Harvard essay” and it’s so true. It’s not often I find things on KZbin that really galvanize me but your intellect and creativity really shine here on your channel and all I can say is please don’t ever stop!

[@spoobini]

Who else coming back after The internet historian cave vid?

[@nickv364]

Jacob is one of the most terrified men on the planet and is shouting for everyone to be as frightened as he is. His fear is infectious and fascinating

[@dazza2350]

Most terrified is a stretch

[@superbuneary8819]

@@dazza2350 actually pretty accurate. hes decribing all this things in some sort of horror esque type of way when in reality its just nature and its pretty cool and (rationally) dangerous but its the thrill of it. he makes it supernatural when it isnt and it can be annoying but i guess thats what his content is about.

[@morganrobinson8042]

So like a non-racist Lovecraft. There are worse places to be standing, really.

[@keithsimonh]

@@superbuneary8819 as a GM, I'm terribly jealous of his talent/skill

[@furrycircuitry2378]

@@keithsimonh his combinations of words and tone are literally the best I've ever heard he can paint multiple different pictures even if he uses the same words

[@JonnesTT]

This guy permanently tries to teach us true horror, the scary without a scare, the thrill that comes only if there is no thriller.

[@ChuckyMarks]

His videos like this are my favorites.

[@turbofoams]

well put!

[@DieReweEmskirchen]

There's a great book by Mark Fisher about these weird and eerie forms of horror in which he talks about Lovecraft, the Strugatzkis and others called The Weird and the eerie, it's definitely worth a read

[@ThatReplyGuy]

I got the same sort of vibes from Marble Hornets, SCPs, and The Russian Sleeper Experiments.

[@robokill387]

@@ThatReplyGuy The russian sleep experiment creepypasta is so cheesy and impossible to take seriously, it's hilarious.

[@axse996]

When you started speaking about "the call of the void" and how the fact the caverns feel just made for someone to walk through, it starkly reminded me of my own "calls" of random pathways. My friends and I joke about a saying in our language that roughly translates to "dont lose your way for a pathway" and how I would absolutely literally do that (the saying itself is symbolic). I feel like these two things are quite connected and I feel like the answer is just behind a few more doors of knowledge that I've yet to open for myself

[@thepinkestpigglet7529]

Been thinking about this with that whole submarine thing

[@TheAmazingHerosquad]

"Bro it's easy not to get stuck in a cave just break the stone with your fist and put the torches on one side of the wall."

[@UhKimboze]

No replies to this comment, I'll be the first.

[@megumiseyelashes6706]

I'll be second

[@bill8383]

I will also.. comment

[@sleepycoffinraido8169]

me to

[@nick12_29]

I'll drop one as well...

[@Snnoy]

Y’know, weirdly enough, I always found Minecraft to be amazing at conveying this feeling. The caves felt endless, and back when I was little, I sometimes got completely stuck in them. Sometimes I’d try to just dig out, but ended up finding it to be too much effort, and just kept looking around blindly for an exit. I’d attempt to use glitches to escape, like the one where quitting and joining the world would teleport you through the ceiling above, but that would always end with me dying. It honestly felt like it was meant to be a deep, dark prison.

[@deadmemer5150]

I leaned to bring a stack of logs with me into the caves for that very reason

[@drlostcause4427]

Those caves are much creepier now

[@reynaclarke2110]

i still get lost in them, and i am also a very soft little man and so i go into creative and punch my way out then switch back when i reach the surface

[@Nacanaca12]

I used to know the caves in Minecraft. I've played the game since I was a child. I was frightened at first, but with time I got to know how the caves worked and what to expect within them. Unlike caves in real life, these were made by people. With computers, yes, but there was a subtle logic to them which I could remember. With the recent cave update, all my experience is worthless. It's new. It's deep. It's dark. It's beautiful. I want to see more, to live more, to go deeper. That is how I die.

[@lorenzopacheco6651]

There's something so enchanting yet terrifying when the new Cave update came out. Minecraft caves back then were pretty simple, maybe a big tunnel and a mineshaft here and there. But now, you'd have these insane expanses or claustrophobic crevices. Exploring those entirely fresh and unique caves was an amazing experience. Seeing all the weaving tunnels and underwater rivers. But what really struck me was how it felt like there was something calling you down there. The urge to dig deeper, to see how far it goes. Especially if you weren't aware that the new depth limit went into the negatives. I don't know if others had a similar experience, but I was deep in this cave and I was running out of food but there was this huge pit that came out of nowhere and it's like when you look at it, it calls you.

[@Lainyofthewires]

The Enigma of Amigara Fault by Junji Ito deserved a whole section for me, especially compared to some of this media and especially with the references to the "pull" and or "draw" of the earth's hollow bodies. With some of these works it's subtext or no small amount of projection. But in Ito's The Enigma of Amigara Fault it is the defining narrative and explored to a degree some of these pieces only scratch the surface of. Beautiful video tho

[@AL-ey9fx]

I love that all of what you describe, Jules Verne wrote of in “Journey to the center of the Earth” without leaving his house in France with the same detail. Your video made me feel the same as when I first read it. It’s just… fascinating.

[@malaizze]

If Jacob is going to a cave for his cave essay then I challenge him to write an essay about Mars

[@slimykit3816]

Jacob should make a video of the endless limited space and talk about No Mans Sky

[@AnonymousYoutuber69]

I challenge him to write an essay about Fort Knox and then one about carrying heavy metal bars to my house.

[@pip4708]

he kinda already did. I don't remember the name but the game was outer wilds

[@robertinogochev3682]

I challenge him to write one about Uranus.

[@malaizze]

@@robertinogochev3682 I mean have you SEEN him? I'd welcome it

[@mwalker784]

i love how it starts with “we cannot resist the call of the void”, because all i could think was “yeah i can resist that call for sure, thank you so much though”

[@words_on_a_screen]

Join us in the void. Don't resist us, for the void always gets what it needs... You.. 😈 Sorry for making you scroll into the void! 😂

[@Spar7anProjec7]

I agree, you either push me down the pit or I won't ever enter it, lmao.

[@MrBioWhiz]

See i thought the same thing. Then i started watching vids like this. And the mystery, the pull of the unknown. I can understand the call now. I've actuall6 applied for diving lessons. I will see what lies below

[@alexanikolas9172]

Made me immediately think of Ito Junji's comic "The Enigma of Amigara Fault"

[@lukeofender2071]

I can't lmao, I love caves

[@mikearrani3299]

Came back to rewatch this masterpiece after Internet Historian's video on Floyd Collins.

[@Tina-fj4xo]

Watching this after playing tears of the kingdom. That underground is TERRIFYING 😢

[@f0rnarnia]

imagine that, a horror story where its just you, a cave, and lantern. no monster, no villain, just the vast abyss ready to swallow you whole..

[@tadghgibson4523]

Your pfp is true horror

[@yeethittter1285]

Minecraft on peaceful mode

[@mistwalkerwabalubdub6250]

Try looking up the magnus archives there's a few horror stories in there that depicts this really well

[@dalecal1129]

@@mistwalkerwabalubdub6250 "Take her, not me."

[@flamingaish]

I'd kms 💀

[@Highmelon]

Underground miner here! Though it's not a cave, the deepest I've been underground is 9900 feet, Almost 3 km.

[@lowprofbeats5280]

What.. is it hard to breath that far down?

[@firepingun1236]

@@lowprofbeats5280 Well what ever the material he mines is hes probably used to having a lack of oxygen like if he mines coal.

[@lowprofbeats5280]

@@firepingun1236 thats true.

[@Highmelon]

@@lowprofbeats5280 everything is ventilated, but if you run a lot of machinery on the level, it can get hard to breath with all the heat and fumes in the air. the hardest thing to deal with is usually the heat.

[@Highmelon]

@@firepingun1236 we mine copper/zinc

[@blackattack1840]

Then Tears of the Kingdom comes out and...

[@awildsylveon9896]

Internet Historian should come take notes on how to tell the story of Floyd Collins without being a thief 😊

[@zazikikomo7796]

His video has over two million views. He doesn't need to take any notes, he's too busy stacking them.

[@ethanotto5760]

Did anyone else stop and read the articles on screen? One said: "Mother earth after clinging grimly, in life and in death, to Floyd Collins for more than 17 days, finally surrendered and, without warning, opened a tiny hole between a rescue shaft and the natural tomb of the cave explorer." This reads like the opening to a fucking horror story...

[@MontySlython]

Reminds me of Lovecrafts writing style

[@artillery8188]

people always had a way with words in those days that you just cant see anymore.

[@jollystrangers]

if you back and read obituaries in the early 1900's, you will be quite surprised how frank or poetic they will be.

[@jollystrangers]

@@mustapleko to be fair, i think people might be saying that about our news in 100 years

[@Belenus3080]

People were so well spoken back then. They’re busy teaching us useless shit nowadays.

[@josealejandromedinanegreir3142]

What a reassuring way to end this video. Not only did you show yourself leaving the cave, but also a glimpse of two people just waiting outside. Like returning to society after experiencing the loneliness of the depths.

[@Tuniphero]

Great Ending

[@glosterwine]

After hearing the oceangate titan submarine incident, this video gave me more chills

[@zacharypeterson5540]

One of my favorite concepts is discovering the unknown, especially when there is no going back. Stories like Made in Abyss and Promised Neverland are unexplainably fascinating to me.

[@user-dd4fv6qj8g]

The fact that Collins reached a part of the cave that pretty much no one else could, and that's what killed him, really resonated with me. I am an avid caver and I live in a county that is swiss cheese when it comes to the amount of spelunking possible. Heck, I work as a tour guide at one of these caves. But one of the rules we have about caving is never do it alone. Rule of three: Three people, three redundant sources of light. Even still, it takes everything in me not to go out caving ALONE in the midst of a time where social distancing and stay-at-home guidelines abound. Never, ever underestimate how tantalizing the unknown can be. The same tunnels that feel inaccessible and unwelcoming to some are, to me and other cavers, one of the world's last frontiers. The call of the void indeed. I often wonder if there are even words that capture the feeling. Then Jacob Geller goes and does this. God bless it, thank you for making this video. Like, I needed this to explain to myself why I'm having to mentally chain myself to the idea that I CANNOT go out caving alone while wanting nothing more than to get out of the house and delve into any one of the hundreds of entry points into my county's circulatory system.

[@wesleygaray2666]

Man I wish I was brave enough to go into caves, I have the biggest fear of dark places like caves and deeper sections of water but they have always intrigued me at the same time something about it just makes me want to walk in and explore as far as I go, but I am also to scared to even fare even with 3 others I don't think I could.

[@user-dd4fv6qj8g]

@@wesleygaray2666 I do not know if it is possible for you geographically, but Mammoth Caves mentioned in Jacob's video is a great place to start. That was my first cave: it is massive, and at least for the tour I started with, there's little claustrophobia to deal with. That comes in other parts of the cave. Otherwise, google local showcaves in your area, just visiting and doing a simple walking tour of a cave will often give you an idea of how much hunger you have for more of it.

[@user-dd4fv6qj8g]

@@rsh650 To me it means "hopefully don't need this, but have it along with me anyway". You don't WANT to need any of the other sources of light.

[@user-dd4fv6qj8g]

@@mustapleko darwing? symphaty? Spell-checking aside, I feel like commenters like yourself are missing my point. I consistently resist the urge to go out and cave alone; I know better, that's the point. My experience is the coexistence of knowing better and still wanting to follow what I can only describe as an INSTINCT to go deeper. I only commented because I believed that my experience of that dichotomy would be supplementary to Jacob's thesis. But, this is the internet--for some reason, a couple folks find it funny to laugh at my imagined death. Cool. Whatever floats your boat. But I would really like to hear how you feel that adds anything to the conversation surrounding Jacob Geller's incredible video essay. He put his work in, literally recorded parts of this video IN A CAVE to assist in his points. And you can't even be bothered to check your comment for spelling errors. Give me a break.

[@szuzmariacsatkai3496]

What country are you from?

[@tristanneal9552]

The anime “Made in Abyss” is one of the only shows that I’ve found perfectly captures the call of the depths, probably because that’s its very central theme. Despite the darkness and dangers below the earth, the abyss calls to adventurers and they continue to throw their lives to it generation after generation simply to have the chance to explore it.

[@LTGSStrophox]

Exactly what I thought of as well!

[@GeronimouxIII]

bruh, that broke me

[@snowboundwhale6860]

There's of course also the factor that in Made in Abyss, those humans who descend into the abyss become "sick" if they try to climb back out, with the effects of that "sickness" growing exponentially the further down they'd gone, which itself can be seen as a parallel to the way things that live or are acclimated to "the deep", such as the sea creatures in the ocean depths, literally can't survive outside of those depths, or how we get altitude sickness if we try to climb too high without waiting to adjust to the thinner air.

[@radikaldesignz]

@Yggdrasil Burnes get back? She never intends to, nor could she. They call it a "last dive" for a reason.

[@radikaldesignz]

@Yggdrasil Burnes I appreciate the optimism, I really do. I just don't think this is one of those stories, friend.

[@cybernesisofhell]

I come back to Jacob's videos incredibly often and, although this is not my favorite of his library of incredible work, I find it kind of astounding that I have not yet seen anybody comment that Jacob went to a whole ass cave to recite pieces of this essay. Seriously so fucking cool. At the very least, it goes to show if you tell such a grossly captivating collection of words, that gnarly shit transcends into the realm of contextual normalcy.

[@goon-705]

Unlike his video 'Fear of Cold' this is actually makes me shiver out of fear. I honestly love Fear of Cold, it's my favorite video out of his entire repertoire, but this one makes me feel genuinely afraid.

[@SrSeed]

Just install the brightness mod on Optifine

[@allgodsnomasters2822]

lol haha

[@001Brunix]

Gamma 100

[@TwistedScarlett60]

"Why did it feel made for me?" Junji Ito Fans: Uh oh

[@ninasoto2274]

Tobias Reilly who gon tell him

[@xtrashocking]

junji ito fans: 👀👀👀

[@ivonjonsoncavalcanti1053]

I literally said that out loud when he said that

[@nickPOPmusic]

I love how he actually flashed Enigma of Amigara when he said that lol

[@avatar5058]

My heart stopped when the picture popped up

[@vesperfromtheinternet5588]

tfw you know how the new internet historian video ends bc you watched this video years ago

[@ExpandDong420]

The term "welcoming hostility" immediately brought me back to Made in Abyss. Perhaps it's no coincidence that it of all media captures the feeling of caving so well, it might not look like a cave all the time but it never lets you forget that you're underground and never abandons that inherent uneasiness of being somewhere you don't belong but still seems made for you to explore

[@mistertwister2000]

“Like it was . . . made for me” And that’s when I had to walk away and breathe in the sunshine for a while

[@thawedantarctican2171]

Ah...good ol Amigara Fault...

[@sauviel6296]

Junji ito?

[@thawedantarctican2171]

@@sauviel6296 Precisely

[@adrianjames6552]

The connections he made between a future species uncovering these monuments despite the "cries" of the past civilization while showing the human race's own drive to explore the Egyptian monuments were mind-blowingly genius and absolutely bone-chilling.

[@Shauniiiiiiiii]

Maybe this future civilisation will consider radiation as harmless as modern day humans consider ancient Egyptian curses

[@crookedintelligence2421]

Yea like the movie (Decent)!

[@JJMomoida]

It's really rather depressing to see that as a cycle of sorts, to be honest. The idea that, despite the warnings, people might go "nah fuck that LOL" and dig as their nature compels them to.

[@spookyho5994]

@@Shauniiiiiiiii oh god

[@luigivercotti6410]

@@JJMomoida Honestly I find it somewhat inspiring myself. That we can know, no matter how many millennia of death separate us, as long as there is humanity in some form, there will always be someone brave enough and stupid enough to seek the truth, to explore and discover at any cost. Because we know, we just know, if we keep exploring, if we just keep delving through the horrors, through the darkness and the peril, downwards into the earth or upwards into space; In our very being we are certain that one of these dark abysses will open into something truly wondrous on the other side. Something, that will make it all worth it. Because it could be there, and therefore it must be. Humanity is a gambling addict, continuously and without fail dropping coin after coin after coin into the pachinko machine of the unending cosmos, because as long we have quarters, we can get a jackpot, and if we never run out, then we're bound to get it, eventually.

[@mayn8154]

Rewatching this one after IH's video: "Hey! I've seen this one!"

[@kibbleofdoom]

This topic resonates. I did a few deployments on a submarine and that environment is definitely claustrophobia inducing. The worst part though, was having to clean up around the vessel. You crawl into impossibly tight spaces looking for dust and grease, looking to hide from your supervisors and catch a few minutes rest. Sometimes you get stuck and there are horrible moments of frantic scrabbling, looking to clear your shoulders so you can breathe, begging for help from friends who are often times just feet away. Those couple feet might as well be miles if you've gotten yourself well and truly stuck

[@drdurry7536]

10:38 When he showed the Junji Ito drawing I literally said out loud, Oh my god don't even fucking start'

[@Lucs21fRecorder]

dude same, i just skipped right ahead in the video just to be safe

[@Crowborn]

@@Lucs21fRecorder why did you skip? That part of the video was made for you ;)

[@paulagodebrito]

@@Crowborn _smooth_

[@oyasumilunlun]

made me remember that one comic so well i became horrified of the thought that it might come true.

[@Greippi10]

D: I wasn't looking but got ptsd just from hearing that. drrrrrrrr drrrrrrrr drrrrrr.......

[@urhomiesapien3722]

I guess this is the reason why Mojang ain't giving us a cave update Edit: _This aged like Milk........_

[@Magmava]

:))))))

[@user-pj1ec5om5g]

Fufufufu *HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA*

[@princefreddo5044]

Man oh man do I have news for you

[@TsegyalBhutia]

Oh boi, you have no idea

[@eggrolltheillegal6201]

You are right doh

[@Artalus94]

3 years after stumbling upon this video, I keep returning to it for some reason. There is just so much to it, and it is so perfectly composed. The material, the story, the seemingly unrelated things that you manage to tie together, the voice, the intonation even, the whole... idea. Even though I watched the video multiple times already, and I know what and you will talk about, it is still fascinating to just rewatch it again. "The inevitability of these stories was part of their power. Some tales could never be told too often"(c)

[@madisonpetri7361]

Every year or so, I find myself remembering this video, and so I share it with anyone I hadn't yet shared it with yet, and rewatch it myself. And every single time I do, I find myself leaving the video hanging on a different point you made. All your stuff is wonderful, but this one's definitely left a special mark on me.

[@spoogerification]

Getting trapped in a cave is the most terrifying thing I can imagine

[@zigguratdemetrius5984]

Na… trapped in an underwater cave

[@MM-qj8ys]

@@zigguratdemetrius5984 that’s... still getting trapped in a cave but yeah lol

[@zigguratdemetrius5984]

@@MM-qj8ys yeah but... in water...

[@CC-ok2kt]

@@zigguratdemetrius5984 but it’s still a cave…

[@zigguratdemetrius5984]

@@CC-ok2kt but, with water...

[@teejaykaye4357]

Me, an intense claustrophobe: "this seems like the perfect video to watch"

[@barkingdoggo3331]

I wasn't claustrophobic until I watched this

[@NoSubsWithContent]

Everybody gangsta till they get stuck under billions of tons of rock in a 2 foot hole with mini knives everywhere

[@Companion92]

I personaly feel like the wide underwater place was even scarier

[@sorcierenoire8651]

@@MasterLobster waa that a fucking Junji Ito reference?

[@laniakeas92]

Um fear of depths it's a bit different thing

[@ai1410]

You know, I've watched these fear of videos at least a dozen times. Every so often youtube will randomly bring it back for me, and never once am I disappointed in watching them. You by far are my favorite youtuber. Your voice is perfect for me to relax to, your information is stunning and attention keeping. I can't wait for more essays, they really make the time I listen to them special.

[@sixstringtherapy5038]

This video keeps drawing me back again and again. It pops up on my feed in the times where I am in the certain type of mood to watch something like this. Amazing job on the atmosphere of this. And then at the end of it all, that song. I grew up in rual South Louisiana, raised in a extremely strict religious environment. So that song was one I've heard a thousand plus times, but never with the sadness and longing that the artist puts in that version. That just adds to the experience of the whole thing in a way I find hard to explain. That song in that moment, makes me both nostalgic, sad, and I don't even know what other emotions all combined into one feeling that only this video has made me feel. Amazing job on this project. The amount of work had to enormous to put this together. I really appreciate the effort you put into this.

[@theamaranthineman574]

"We just can't resist it." Uuuh, yes we can. I'm doing it right now. It's not even that hard.

[@Red_Eyed]

I'm fucking chillin. Miss me with that bullshit.

[@aussieseal9979]

What??

[@pissapocalypse]

It's actually extremely easy to not go exploring a cave lol

[@MrCmon113]

I don't even have anything against caves frequently hike and I never thought about exploring caves.

[@Kikiapina]

You don't know it then, you don't truly realize what the void is and in your ignorance you think you've conquered it.

[@oxilef8471]

Being somebody with Thalassophobia, i don't especially find "solid" depth this much scary, but the ocean/water depth is what trully scares me. It's a mix of the infinite space, the ocean literally spread throughout the entire planet, and the fact that you just can't see the end. These two things make for me any body of water where the bottom can't be seen a true nightmare. Add an unhealty amount of creepy imagination and my brain is going off, seing an "infinite" space that could be filled with anything, anything that can't be seen and that may never be seen. It gives me nausea, it make me feel anxious. I also guess that, the fact that in the water, you don't have any footing. Yes, you're "floating", but if somebody or *something* is a better swimmer than you, it could just grab you and pull you wherever they want. For me, Thalassophobia isn't the fear of body of waters, it's the fear of the seemingly infinite possibilities that lay there, untouched, ungazable.

[@uncomfortablyclose8481]

Yeah I feel like you’re either an ocean type or a cave type when it comes to this stuff. Unless you like underwater caverns.

[@lukasi.v4269]

When I see the shit they pull out from the abyss of the oceans I get what you're saying. Creatures so alien that might freak out even the most brave humans. Can't even imagine what is yet to be discovered.

[@Can-uj5pv]

@@uncomfortablyclose8481 I like the idea of both, caves seem like they can be nice and cozy while water always has this calming, serene feel about it to me when I don't need to worry about drowning, but I would preferably not have to crawl through tight spaces, that seems like a disaster waiting to happen. And I haven't had the chance to explore neither the underground nor the underwater yet because even simple camping and caving gear costs a lot of money, let alone scuba diving gear and permits, so my preferences maybe yet to change if/when I get actual 1st hand experience.

[@uncomfortablyclose8481]

I meant in terms of fears but It’s cool that you’re open to both. Personally I was forced to go caving in school trips and absolutely hate it.

[@uncomfortablyclose8481]

Honestly my prediction for whats at the bottom of the ocean is either a really deformed looking thing that makes you pity it’s existence or Cthulu. Probably the first one but I have hope.

[@James11111]

Here again after Internet Historian's hour long video about Floyd Collins.

[@excalibirb9204]

Yeah it rang a bell and brought me back here

[@ebrahimnaeem757]

It is videos like this, creators like you Jacob, why I believe KZbin is one of the most fantastic platforms to have ever existed. This was amazing. I can't even describe all the emotions I am feeling and the thoughts that I am thinking. Blown away.

[@AlexRedacted]

Turn back Turn back from this cave You said, "Let me prove that I'm brave Let me keep going" But the cave goes for miles And miles and miles And you're so tired But I know that you're strong

[@Circusme]

...But I know you're strong... I know you can....keep going

[@feverprole]

@@Circusme sorry to break the mood, but this wasn't an attempt to come up with a poem on a spot, it's a song

[@o2xide503]

So You too are on board with the theory that chell is Cave Johnson's daughter

[@AlexRedacted]

@@o2xide503 I'm just old and lazy. I was on board with it 8 years ago.

[@Mateo-fo5xd]

a few years ago, me and my friends found an entrance to the drain system under one of the roads in our town, we strapped flashlights to our bikes, and went in at full speed, the journey felt like it took hours, until we found a place where the tube split in two, smaller yet large enough holes for us to fit and crawl. we were about a minute into one of these small holes, when we felt a deep, resonating roar, coming from far down the tunnel, slowly coming closer, we _shit_ our pants and ran as fast as we could while crouching to our bikes and escaped. Aftere what felt like mere minutes we were out, and cuestioning what we heard back there, we found out that it was just the roar of a car enjine coming above us on the road, the sound bouncing off the walls of the tube and drowning the higher frecuencies. we felt a little dumb for thinking that something was there. but deep down we knew, we were never coming back there, even if all of us wanted to go _just one last time_ thanks for reading, this stuff actually happened just like i told you, it was really fun at the time and i just felt like it fit the video edit: grammar

[@Mateo-fo5xd]

thank you so much jacob!

[@skylarwalls3227]

I did the same thing with a couple of my friends but we ended up just surfacing behind a mercedes dealership, nothing exciting

[@MaggieJaneSimpson]

no way i would go there with you XDDD (yes, i am a chicken and a proud one XDD )

[@mateo.mauro_xd]

Hey, I finally found someone else named Mateo :)

[@Mateo-fo5xd]

@@mateo.mauro_xd good to meet you man, we Mateos should stand together

[@rebeccacohen996]

Just wow. Ona of the best videos I’ve seen in my life, I’m literally crying. Thank you so much for putting this together in such a beautiful way.

[@neuroticgazer176]

Still one of my favorite essays to go back and listen to before bed, I love the “Fear Of” videos so much

[@corbeaudejugement]

"Why does this cave seem _made_ for me?" ...yeah fuck that. i still get nightmares about Amigara Fault. no thanks.

[@smallasaurus4200]

I just read amigara fault... I haven’t been that unsettled in a very, very long time.

[@paulagodebrito]

junji was on my mind the whoole time watching this, omg im still traumatized

[@Liliputian07]

why

[@cyberwolfy37]

@@Liliputian07 imagine being put in a gingerbread man mold in the side of the mountain. you go into the human shape hole that shape just like your silhouette, exactly like your silhouette. then it sucks you in, deep deep deep into the mountain, then you stop. you're stuck in place, unable to move your limbs because that's how precise this mold was to fit you. you wait, then slowly feels the earth moved, tectonic movement, erosion, your hole began to shift, it sloooowly, and graaadually contort your limbs in weird shape, your arms and your legs is being slowly broken for the course of what feels like weeks or month, your body is being pushed sideway, constricting your ribs and bending your spines like a piece of licorice. what's worst is your head, you can feel the rock slowly squeezing your head, slowly fracturing your jaw, sliming down your neck where it feels like your head is going to get yanked off, but extremely slowly. that is the horror of amigara fault.

[@Liliputian07]

@@cyberwolfy37 eh he's made spookier stories

[@SlunkyBoi]

"We can't resist it" Uh speak for yourself fam, I find it absurdly easy to resist the urge to go underground ahahah, another masterpiece though, great work.

[@sosig9254]

It's either you're dying to go explore it. Or you're dying for someone else to go explore it and tell you about it.

[@brandonclarke436]

@@sosig9254 well said

[@uncomfortablyclose8481]

Sosig I just don’t really relate to that personally. I’ve always preferred the ocean as that sort of deep unfeeling mysterious cavern. But I do see why people are interested in them and I respect that, I wouldn’t have watched this video if I didn’t respect it.

[@t0ri178]

Bruhh ocean is wayyy wayyyy worse than caves in my opinion

[@DoselH]

Really I feel what I would like the most is explore like an old abandoned soviet factory or somewhere with a lot of abandoned Busses,cars etc

[@sozius0]

Back here again after man in cave.

[@itssproot1271]

i went to mammoth cave last summer, i really wish i had watched this before then so i could have really appreciated it. i watched a video on Floyd Collins a day or so ago and it was great. your videos never fail to make me take a moment to think, and appreciate the world in a new way. and i don’t think i can thank you enough for that thoughtfulness. genuinely, i think that these sorts of videos have helped shape my world view and have changed how i think. and for the better at that.

[@ieatmice751]

Imagine how Gollum felt, literally stuck down there in the crushing, blinding darkness for centuries

[@atlantethan]

"And we wept, Precious, we wept to be so alone. And we forgot the taste of bread, and the sound of trees, the softness of the wind. We even forgot our own name."

[@gokhandemir7917]

Cringe

[@coito5307]

Oh my god i was thinking exactly that lol, everyone in these conditions would turn into a Gollum

[@Rynewulf]

@@gokhandemir7917 oh f off

[@Fleurig-xr5mm]

Gökhan Demir You must be very sensitive

[@Iserlohn.Republican.Government]

21:44 “Wow guys, the counter is clicking so fast, this must be where Geiger buried his treasure”

[@GamingWithHajimemes]

10000 year old radiation is the most expensive thing I could think of in the future.

[@Calum_Chrystal]

I come back and watch this video every couple months. Truly exceptional stuff. Thank you Jacob

[@nikolakaravida9670]

Great essay as always. Particularly glad you've covered Kentucky Route Zero. It's one of the most fascinating games I've ever played, and your comparison of the game itself with a cave is perfect. My favorite character was the one you meet first, the one haunted by guilt and alcoholism.

[@zartheitalian5376]

"Why does it feel like its made for me" - Sir you just triggered my Enigma of Amigara Fault PTSD

[@daisychainsaw]

JFBSBFD EXACTLY

[@snickle1980]

I'm about to copy paste "Enigma of Amigara Fault" into youtube. Am i going to hate you later?

[@martinsmartini44]

@@snickle1980 Both. Happy reading

[@phantomeggs4315]

Why did you have to remind me of that.

[@aperture102]

you've done it again mr geller. keep killing it

[@zentrocs]

What about Aperture Laboratories. When i first fell through the floor the sheer size of the facility gave me CHILLS

[@abdulrafaykhan5582]

Why has it been just a day

[@ChrisJones-rd4wb]

I remember when I went caving, held everyone up cause I got stuck in "anal virginity", a notorious part of the cave that only small-boned people can fit through. It restricts your breathing going through so you have too take shallow breaths.

[@AMoodyB3ar]

20:15 fun fact, we figures this out. We melt it down, mix it with glass, concrete and silica, confine it all in a barrel and then bury it. The result is strong enough to suffer a run-away train without leaking radiation. It's pretty much rendered inert.

[@ouchpotato2221]

Thank you jacob for the story about the cave, i think one time i was remined of it and its the only thing that has ever caused me anything resembling a panic attack. But i am stronger for having experienced it and it gives me ideas for what to write about

[@kiah9085]

I love videos like this, it really summarizes the difference between terror and horror. Terror is realizing that you’re lost, or that your stuck. Horror is the feeling of being haunted, of when you realize that you aren’t going to get out, and this is all that’s left. Terror is the panicked feeling that first hits you, horror is the deep, unavoidable realization of what it actually means, of the implications.

[@funkypenguin3000]

yes! i've once heard it described as "terror is seeing a wolf charge at you, horror is realizing your feet are glued to the ground"

[@moesalamander7012]

Horror is when something scares you. Terror is when you scare yourself

[@MrCmon113]

Terror is when a car explodes, horror is seeing a ghost.

[@moonjui]

horror is more like the initial shock at something gory or sickening. I think terror is more psychological

[@lurkingmoth]

You know, Subnautica really plays on this fascination and fear. It's a game set almost entirely underwater, and you spend a lot of time in underwater caves. Sometimes, you'll be in a place where you can't see the bottom and you have to decide whether to turn back or keep going down.

[@puckmanstudios2172]

And the fact you never know what's around the corner, a wonderful ecosystem of fish and plants, or an eldritch abomination

[@OneBiteoftheCherry]

Great game

[@Dingus_Khaan]

When he brought up the creatures living in the deep ocean, I was really hoping he'd cover that game.

[@Wimpiethe3]

I get really on edge with that game. Quite fantastic. My friend is always amused when we play it and I inevitably give myself a jumpscare, jerking the mouse about. Good times.

[@Khymeira]

That game makes my nips hard. Best game I've played in a long time.

[@MrNeodylliphan]

I know what he's talking about. I once saw a nature documentary about glaciers and they showed a massive chasm that was all smooth and glassy and perfectly dark and the more I looked at it, the more I felt this growing temptation to just fall in. Also, kind of impressive that Jacob did a whole video on fear of caves and without mentioning Ted the Caver, one of the most famous creepypasta stories on the internet