When the Exit Tunnel Starts to FLOOD | Cave Exploring Gone WRONG

Hello everyone and welcome back to Scary Interesting. In this video, we’re going to go over three more horrifying caves stories. The first story actually takes place in the infamous Nutty Putty Cave, but is not about John Jones. And the final story is about the worst possible thing you can imagine seeing miles deep into a massive cave. As always viewer discretion is advised.
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[@claretravels783]

I have to say, if I was a rescuer, to hear that someone I'd risked my own life to rescue had literally gone back to the *same* spot in the cave they almost died in previously...I'd be enraged :/

[@glenmchargue5461]

Exactly. Many cavers including well known KZbin cavers are always advocating that caves should be kept open, and oh the tyranny, that the caves are being shut. And then I hear these stories and think wtf do they expect? It's a slap in the face to the rescuers. Not to mention they are putting them on a platform where thousands and thousands can see, of course there is going to be overuse and misuse. I'll always be on the side of conservation, and I know that drives people nuts.

[@Vorexia]

It’s understandable that people want to face their fears, at least when done with caution and awareness. But it seems like he managed to get himself stuck, but lucked out that time and squeezed himself back out. Guess that made him finally learn his lesson.

[@KGatLC]

Yeah, that was a douche move.

[@Mamsaturatdevoi]

The place where he initially got stuck was a dead end. I'm almost certain that he did not actually go as far in that tunnel as he did the first time. He just wanted to revisit the area he almost died in, which I think is pretty relatable.

[@Woodie-xq1ew]

⁠@@Mamsaturatdevoigoing sitting outside the cave would be, trying to shove yourself into the same gap that you had to be rescued from but not quite as far as the previous time is utterly moronic. I would have slapped him silly

[@MichaelDavis-mh8bb]

Naming that area the “scout eater” is straight up savage 😭

[@CrackheadHuntersDopeDealer]

😂

[@joshuakuehn]

Mogging on the scouts

[@kaydublin5164]

😂

[@WhatAboutsAndWhatifs]

Disrespectful

[@user_abcxyzz]

Call it shut it iz

[@Psycho-go5yr]

I've been in a grand total of 1 cave in my life, and that cave had established pathways, stairs, guard rails, and lights as well as a tour guide. That is the closest I will ever get to exploring a cave. I remember the tour guide leading us into a large cavern and instructing us to grab onto a rail. They then briefly turned off the lights so we could experience cave darkness. The thought of spending the last moments of my life like that while being completely stuck is terrifying.

[@realsatisfied.]

Do you still remember where this experience was located?

[@Psycho-go5yr]

Not fully. This was something like 20 years ago or so when I was in early middle school. I do remember it was somewhere in Virginia in the Appalachians, but that's about it. I still have a geode that I got from thier gift shop. It was a fun experience but I have no desire to push the envelop and go in one without established paths. xD

[@emixdarling]

@@Psycho-go5yrpossibly luray caverns?

[@Psycho-go5yr]

@emixdarling it's possible. Frankly, I wouldn't be able to remember the caves name even if you correctly guessed it. I was a kid at the time. I was more interested in running around looking at the cool rocks as kids do than remembering the name. That's just not what stuck in my memory.

[@donkeyching8339]

@@Psycho-go5yrthat sounds fun and probably the only way i could go caving lol. what a fun and cool experience to have as a kid!

[@sebastianthehotsaucedude5473]

I go caving almost daily. The cave I go-to has a recliner, a tv, a series x, a mini fridge, several cigar humidors, and most importantly, a door.

[@SurnaturalM]

That's the kind of caving I like.

[@vettle1]

😂😂

[@thereviewartistrrp5493]

Lol

[@tanjakaiser6452]

"Men cave" 😂

[@Tenacitybrit]

Ah yes, the extremely challenging, 'man caves' I bet people have had to 'rescue' you from it frequently right? XD

[@DeltaCodeGames]

When the cave has a section called "the birth canal," I'm gonna nope on that one.

[@rickradix7464]

Right?

[@Scott-pn3np]

How about "the poop chute"?

[@itsez1129]

@@Scott-pn3np Still too tight 🥵🥵

[@ripwednesdayadams]

it’s so fucking weird that people enjoy jamming themselves into dark, cramped caves. can’t see how that would end badly. 😂

[@TakeMeToYourLida]

The birth canal isn’t the dangerous part so it’s not a reason to avoid a cave. All caves will have smaller crevices than that.

[@zkillyatt1738]

Experienced caver here, there is a three things most people don't think about but I believe are rules to follow. One: Never go into anything headfirst, while it sounds like a good idea to enter a tunnel headfirst to see where your going, any tunnel that goes down should be entered feet first, specifically to avoid incidents like sliding into cracks, I would rather skin my legs/get my legs stuck than my arms, and anywhere thats too tight for you to see down past your body is probably a no go, you should always be able to see your feet, if you can't, you aren't fitting. Second: Marbles, I always bring a marble or two when I cave, there is plenty of times where you become confused in those winding tunnels, having a small object that rolls with gravity has helped me keep my bearings, and warn me of sudden changes the steepness of routes, when your in those smaller caves you can really forgt which was is up and down, having something you can hang or drop to gauge which way yout facing is great, at least it helps me. And third: You should trust what your body tells you, if you smell or hear something in those tunnels and your body is telling you to turn around, you should, mother nature doesn't care about us when we are down there, and the human body is still a living thing, it will warn you when it feels like something is wrong, you should learn to be able to pick out whats just fear of the unknown, and learn to trust your body when it gives you that red flag.

[@shayanali8771]

Just don't go to a cave at all!

[@ender5892]

Very nice tips! I think that cave diving is like having s3x 😂 people say "just don't go cave diving!" But same as with s3x, prohibiting people or judging them for doing it don't stop them! I think that it's better to spread information and tips about the dangers and what people should to prevent accidents instead of prohibiting people. I would never enter any narrow cave, even being only 109 pounds and 5'2 feet, I'd rather not! But I can understand the fact that some people like to cave dive and I think that exploring nature is amazing, but as you said, mother nature don't care about us. I also wish people would stop calling people who got trapped "dumb" or anything like that because even the most skilled people can do wrongs and unfortunately sometimes we just get unlucky. With John Jones people judge him too much but if they took time to understand the story they would understand it's more of a tragic accident than anything. If Jon was just a bit skinnier or smaller or simply faced another turn he could have been easily saved :/ everything that led to his death was an incredible sequence of misfortune.

[@feelsdankman211]

@@ender5892 sex is an interesting comparison but i agree completely

[@227bdiddy]

​@ender5892 you're whack lol I can't get trapped headfirst and suffocate during s$x

[@user-tm5st6zt7g]

They don't have fear at all man

[@jacob_90s]

Jesus Christ; I thought John Jones was bad; getting stuck folded in half in a cave gave me a panic attack the moment you showed it.

[@eldritchbeauty]

No kidding. I had to fast forward the video when it got to that part.

[@Him_He_Me]

This whole video is making me panic!!!

[@sashimi879]

Jon Jones is the 🐐 of mma

[@krashd]

I wonder if the guy who had his knees tucked up at his chest shouted "CANNONBALL!" as he entered that crevice?

[@DisturbedAidan2]

@@eldritchbeauty They survived though.

[@seandelap8587]

If you have to squeeze yourself through a space then you shouldn't try to go through that space

[@Scott-pn3np]

Giggity

[@Conathan23]

I'll never understand the desire some people have to do this.

[@chendaforest]

No risk of pregnancy though.

[@paulshannon9578]

He got that news way too late.

[@paulshannon9578]

​@@Conathan23I guess a death wish.

[@superkameguruandnail6966]

You'd think after multiple people nearly got trapped and died in the offshoot thinking it was the birth canal they would put a warning plaque or something or name it something as a warning.

[@SuperDestroyerFox]

Well we can’t do that, after all it would ruin the nature(a body doesn’t)

[@oddbirdMusic]

A bucket of hunters' orange paint painted all over the wrong branch, maybe.

[@mosaicowlstudios]

Yeah. This is a really, really good point. That would have been beyond easy to accomplish. Would have saved a life (and John Jones's child would have a daddy)

[@elisamartinez3881]

Yes they do this for underwater caves/sinkhokes

[@sash7831]

This is what I was thinking

[@RiseandBrine]

Cave diving is nuts. “Hey! Let’s do the most dangerous thing we can think of while simultaneously doing the second most dangerous thing we can think of”. -Cave Divers apparently

[@m1rrorshades]

Originally they were going to do it while juggling chainsaws, but they kept cutting out under the water

[@paulshannon9578]

Can't think of anything better than leaving my wife and child and dying upside down...I had to do that cave.

[@paulshannon9578]

Oh we did...we did.

[@marhawkman303]

Well a lot of cave diving isn't the "I'mma wedge myself in this crevice and hope I can squeeze through the other side" kind of caving.

[@rule1dontgosplat]

they should add base jumping. base jump into the cave entrance and then cave dive.

[@squiddler7731]

Something that hit me when it comes to caving. With any hobby (sports, art, video games), you have people who are the best of the best at what they do, raising the skill ceiling, encouraging eachother and inspiring new people to get into the hobby. No matter what it is, there's always this desire to push your limits, to put your mind and body to the test to see what's possible. I realized that caving is no different, that same drive exists for these people too. But when they realized they had pushed themselves too far, it was already too late to turn back. For caving, "going beyond your limits" doesn't mean pulling a muscle or burning yourself out: it means getting yourself stuck in a hole hundreds of feet underground with no way out.

[@demo2823]

Far fewer people see terrible consequences because they want to push the limits of crocheting.

[@bzboo]

@@demo2823my new mantra!

[@philiplubduck6107]

@@demo2823idk, could be an easy way to lose an eye or get Jesus hands, haha

[@Meriale46]

@@demo2823 Exactly... choose a safer hobby. hahaha

[@nanonano2595]

@@Meriale46 eh, dont judge others for what they decide to do with their own lives. If you don't like it, dont do it and dont engage with people who do it, but not everyone wants to live a long, dreadfully boring life.

[@EventsKiosk]

I explored Nutty Putty caves as a Boy Scout a year or two before they sealed it off. The Big Slide wasn't too bad, thanks to the ropes, and I enjoyed it for the first 45 minutes or so. Our group got to the Birth Canal, and when I saw how tight it was I started to get really anxious. I thought "there's no way we're all going to crawl through this.." and then a tall, husky adult excitedly squeezed himself into the opening and started worming his way out of sight. At this point I started hyperventilating and telling my scout leaders there was no way on earth I was going to crawl into that opening. My older scout leader assured me I could stay back with him, and I was able to calm down. While we sat there, he quizzed me on camping preparedness. He asked me to list some things you should always bring camping, and at one point he was trying to get me to say "bandaids." He said "You're forgetting something. There's one behind that rock over there." So I look behind the rock and there was a used condom sitting there. I said "a... uhh... a condom?" and he immediately sat up and apologized, saying "is that really?!!" He put the used condom under his kneepad's elastic and packed it out. He was a devout, strict man, but he was a really good guy. He died of colon cancer a few years later. R.I.P. Mr. Loser (pronounced "low-sir"). I’ve never felt like caving again.

[@user-iv8rp8ie8n]

Bro is the husky rescued 🙄

[@curiositypiqued6573]

Wtf that's bizarre.... Perhaps the water carried it there

[@Krisp138]

Lol the husky made it without rescue?

[@khosta6690]

Mr Loser took me😂😂😂😂

[@Miss_Akashiya]

@@curiositypiqued6573 hahah lol no humans are disgusting you better believe a couple went down there and had a little fun (i cant know for sure ofc but i BET you 100 percent at least one person did smth like that in a cave already. humans are humans. they do that in ANY possible place)

[@leigha2814]

Usually when people cover the John Jones story they briefly mention the previous rescues but this is the first time I've seen anyone cover any of them. Thank you & well done!

[@hillbilly_harry]

My exact thought!

[@XenosSavior]

He has another video, one of his older ones which does a much deeper dive on it. It's basically a recap in this video of that one. Unfortunately I can't remember which video it was...

[@frakismaximus3052]

Re-open Nutty Putty!!!!

[@WouldntULikeToKnow.]

​@@frakismaximus3052 no.

[@luma222]

@@frakismaximus3052 no

[@Bugsy-dq2en]

The last story is so frustrating. I hope the trespassers who interfered in the rescue efforts were ashamed of themselves; they'll never know if they could have reached one of the men in time if they hadn't been delayed chasing off selfish voyeurs. Also, I always appreciate that you put a lot of effort into getting pronunciations right, it really improves the viewing experience.

[@thequinsrose]

There was an attempt, not the best atleast an attempt.

[@ashtona9475]

man it was so frustrating. seems like they were doing a whole lot of dicking around and gave up after one was found dead. i would be PISSED, if i were them i’d haunt those mf for the rest of time. RIP. what a lazy stupid effort the gov gave them. Poor men. they should’ve gone the always flooded route that they already knew.

[@ellaelliott4415]

they should be charged with interrupting and derailing the rescue

[@GamesCooky]

I don't think they really made a difference. I bet the outcome would have been the same anyways. Still, they shouldn't have gone in there knowing there was a rescue operation going on.

[@percyjackson5417]

@@GamesCookythey delayed the rescue for at least 12 hours. Thats pretty significant

[@ghost_ship_supreme]

“Hmm. There’s a rescue operation in this cave underway… where they’re using explosives… clearly this is the BEST TIME to sneak in and watch!”

[@Alesha_Lewer]

Nutty Putty sealed the deal for me, I’ve never been interested in actually leaving my house to go caving, but as soon as I heard John Jones story it was just a hard no for me to ANY caving I’ll just continue to watch and enjoy your videos from the comfort of my bed

[@lisaperry5999]

Watch The Last Descent if u haven't about JJ and Nutty Putter

[@MajinObama]

and the 2 horror movies The Descent and Caves 👀 Especially the 2nd one, the first one leaves a sour taste…

[@norrecvizharan1177]

Of course it's gonna seem spooky if you're only listening to horror stories about it, but the reality is that it's still not as bad as it's made out to be. Just gotta be truly prepared 'n trained.

[@BenKlassen1]

We went caving as scouts when I was a kid and nobody died. It was fun. We weren't doing any crazy, poorly mapped caves, though.

[@Pikseliotso]

I went caving in finland and I'm planning to go again, this time to the unmapped areas *Luolavuoren Luola is the location*

[@MarkT1700]

I watch these as a reminder not to kill myself early by doing dumb shit

[@beverlyreiner-baillargeon6205]

ABSOLUTELY

[@NSUSashiel]

"The best part of cave diving is that you don't have to do it." -Sun Tzu

[@googlenutzername5279]

100% relatable 👌

[@marowak87]

I also heard that getting killed by doing dumb shit can be quite fatal actually XD

[@mols0n]

the second one is the perfect example of play stupid games win stupid prizes. don't feel sorry for those people at all

[@victor.elkins]

Never has any man gotten more out of any stock audio

[@awwad01134]

😂 agreed

[@hyperadapted]

it has the "curious_cave_loop.ogg" feeling that might be found in the ominous "exec/game/assets/audio/ambient/005/_1" folder of that ancient horror game

[@birbamour6]

I didn't even notice it was the same sound the entire video

[@thomas.thomas]

@@birbamour6 I noticed but I think it does fit the video very well

[@SamuTheFrog]

This sound file is also found in a ton of various mobile games.

[@apathyisdeath2977]

Anyone else's chest feel a little tight hearing these stories? Like secondhand anxiety imagining the horrors these people experienced. Nightmarish... But goddamn, watching these videos is addictive.

[@bradleyroissetter6796]

That's one of the reasons I watch it. It makes me feel stuff haha

[@kspen6110]

I feel like I need oxygen and a Xanax when I watch these caving stories.

[@Teddythedogsocute]

A little?!!? It freaks me out!

[@jxn1056]

always

[@frogee42]

Yes, I can’t watch videos about certain things because it causes me anxiety.

[@KingsteveTV]

Thank goodness I quit caving after I was born

[@blakebaldwin2572]

😂

[@kritokasumi4602]

This is the one😅

[@ainocj173]

Already exited the birth canal once before we aint going thru it again💀

[@debozebuurman]

​​@@ainocj173Can I go thru it then?

[@worldofwonderz1]

@@debozebuurman sure if I can go through ur mom's

[@jamesquinney6686]

Never go caving exploring Never go diving Most importantly never go cave diving That’s what this channel tells me.

[@D00RYA]

Disagree. Dont go EXTREME with these. Im diving a lot, and its always been super fun and safe. I just dont get idiots that need to get deeper and deeper just for the sake of it.

[@MatthewHeraghty]

@@D00RYAThis is the correct answer. I can say the same thing, only with caving however.

[@-.OVERLORD.-]

Diving is good i think

[@MatthewHeraghty]

@@-.OVERLORD.- caving is good as well, its cave diving that has a considerable risk, caving and diving when seperate have less accidents than driving

[@TheSkyFallTronic]

@@D00RYA the problem is the risk profile. You can have 10000 dives and it takes a small mistake to drawn in 20 sec. Same with caving, - a flash flood and it's game over. And you can argue that something can happen in all sports and hobbies but the issue is with caving and diving the potential is always present at its highest intensity. If you go on a trail to enjoy the outdoors you can encounter a bear and it could kill you (one does not lead to the other necessarily) but bears are not always present all the time in the highest intensity.

[@tankradiooperator]

Holy shit, I never actually expected the story of my dad to make it onto this. Thank you for sharing their tale. If anyone is wondering how my dad (Chris Hales) is doing, he unfortunately passed away in 2010 when I was still very young. But, Morrow is still a very close family friend.

[@cycil]

Your dad had balls of steel. Much respect 🙏

[@henotic.essence]

Wow, massive respect. God bless your dad's soul. Hope you and your family are well ❤

[@bruddaozzo]

Wow, he passed away young. 17 in 99, so he was only about 28 when he died? I dont wanna get too personal, but was his passing didn't have anything to do with more risk taking did it?

[@iREP87]

@@bruddaozzothat’s a good question

[@bigbay1159]

Fake Internet comment

[@420thebestdayever]

Never go caving.

[@tommyb261]

Its not for everyone but i sure do enjoy it.

[@TheTeaCupKiller]

Yeah literally what all his videos have taught me

[@a.nobodys.nobody]

But if nobody ever went caving how would we..... oh yeah. Guess you're right. There's no reason to be a human earth worm 😂

[@assboi]

or to Poland

[@shan4680]

Scuba diving and hiking are things I'm not terribly keen on after a few videos like this. Especially not scuba diving in caves.

[@Goabnb94]

So this is why youtube videos have "professional do not attempt" disclaimers. Because there are people who go "I can do this, I saw an internet video"

[@ButIamAStick]

Is even worst knowing that the youtube video they saw *encouraged* that dangerous path.

[@irendreaming]

There is a cave in Bulgaria called Devil's Throat. Two young divers' only attempt to explore it in 1971 ended terribly wrong. Since then, no one has dared to follow the river pouring into the cave. It's called Devil's Throat because what goes into the cave river funnel never resurfaces. Nat Geo tried to explore it with action cameras, but it was impossible to track the underground river path, and many cameras got lost.

[@iREP87]

That’s interesting I’m going to see if there’s a video now!

[@shivamkumarshrivastava5182]

Wait, so did they die and their bodies were never found or did they survive?

[@forgenorman3025]

Sounds like The Strid in the UK. Once something- or someone- has fallen in, they're gone.

[@Tax_Collector01]

Personally, I’d be satisfied just taking a dip on the surface level with a snorkel.

[@VantaDraws]

@@forgenorman3025 Worst part of the strid is you wouldn't know its there unless you were looking for it. It looks like a perfectly normal part of a calm, serene, river.

[@davymckeown4577]

In 1995 three cavers drowned in the Marble Arch cave system in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Part of the system is a show cave which is open to the public, however the cave is much larger (an estimated seven miles) and carries the Cladagh river. This makes it prone to flooding and public access is limited during rainy periods, which is quite often given Irelands notoriously wet climate. Very little information seems to be available on line about the tragedy, in fact I learned about it from a guy I met whilst kayaking in Scotland but I thought it might interest you as a topic for a future episode. I was told that the men were part of a caving club from Dublin University and that their bodies were never recovered but I've been unable to confirm this.

[@tillitsdone]

There were three who died, and they did recover the bodies.

[@fredfredburger5150]

I'm from Northern Ireland and I went to the Marble Arch cave system on a school trip. Even the public area of the caves was not a welcoming hospitable environment.

[@TheRealRusDaddy]

@user-ut6nu8ey4jgenerally yeah

[@abigail1023]

Caves have to be sealed up to prevent idiots from killing themselves. I absolutely LOVE your channel and, horror aside, I also appreciate how much work you put into the backstories, detailed diagrams, etc. Very interesting.

[@lisetravis]

I agree- this channel is very well done.

[@WouldntULikeToKnow.]

Very interesting, very scary.

[@darnellpistachio2991]

should be allowing it

[@dementionalpotato]

offended over caves xd

[@tommyb261]

This is like Sunday morning cartoons for adults

[@griffincontracting]

Saturday morning cartoons, but on Sunday.

[@chriswelcome8102]

What's an adault

[@ImaplanetJupiteeeerr]

@@chriswelcome8102 its like an adult but with an extra a letter between the d and the u.

[@tommyb261]

@@chriswelcome8102 typo 🤣 I fixed it

[@chriswelcome8102]

@@ImaplanetJupiteeeerr Oh okay!

[@vessela7484]

Honestly, i think the titles of these video series should be "Cave exploring gone EXACTLY AS EXPECTED"

[@HoleyMoleyAlex]

Not really, 99.99% of the time nothing bad happens, you just don't generally see videos on that and caving is generally a safe sport, I say that with 555 trips under my belt and 163 of them being exploratory in nature.

[@AgxntAqua]

​@HoleyMoleyAlex The vast majourity of spelunking is done by tourists in commercial cave operations. When you look at just exploring wild numbers shift rather dramatically. Obviously most of the time people live, but injuries are exceptionally common when compared to other non-competitive hobbies and most experienced cavers have a few close calls in their career. Cave diving is a whole different beast

[@Radu33-]

Not every cave explorer is dead these cases are extremely rare

[@vessela7484]

@@Radu33- Imagine justifying the hobby with "well they didn't ALL die" 🤣

[@yimwee2401]

​@vessela7484 pretty sure driving has a higher fatality rate than caving.

[@Tirani2]

I went amateur caving as a college student. Watching these videos tells me how unbelievably stupid we were, and how unbelievably lucky we were.

[@sarabachmann2837]

I've never looked at a deep, dark cave or hole and thought "Better go in and see if there's something in there."

[@VANOX1]

🥹🥹

[@maloskain]

And then you get to the end, and you go, "Ah, it's just a wall. Cool."

[@sarabachmann2837]

@@maloskain, or it's a narrow tunnel and you get trapped in there, alone and cold in the dark. I'm personally not into that

[@mihirojha4475]

Same lol

[@MrNoName7474]

I’ve been in a few caves before but like the ones with installed walkways and tour guides. Was terrifying when they’d tell us to stop and turn off all the lights. Absolutely pitch dark. So dark it like hurts your eyes and you can’t tell what way is up. And they or some other kids making up stories maybe would always tell how somebody once got lost and died in the cave and now I never want to go in a cave again. Or at least no further than where I can directly see the exit.

[@CYMotorsport]

22:12 as I was reading the reports I was reading this as more akin to ‘death rattle’ than a “snoring”. At that point, consciousness was likely fleeting and the body was in protection mode. I doubt by then proper “sleep”, or rather sleep by choice is more accurate, was even possible and more the body in self preservation mode. Horrifying stuff - thanks for the reminder to be thankful for life!

[@ScaryInteresting]

Death rattle is a horrifying, but probably accurate way to put it

[@roondoggers87]

The John Jones story hits close to me. My friend actually married his widow, and I was a student at BYU when this happened. It was a big deal on campus back then.

[@jorugarushia9167]

Your friend married John’s widow? Weird.

[@AedanTheGrey]

​@@jorugarushia9167how is that weird?

[@Andrea92_91]

@@jorugarushia9167That’s not weird at all. Widows and widowers remarry all the time. It’s quite normal.

[@Andrea92_91]

I hope she’s doing alright and that her and your friend have a happy marriage.

[@luma222]

How are the kids doing?

[@dollkari]

what the... it's so infuriating to hear how people interrupted the rescue mission just because they wanted to take a look. jesus...

[@justherebecause4760]

Definitely pissed me off, how inconsiderate….

[@markjackson3531]

yes, but why tf didnt the rescuers just use oxygen tanks/hoses to get to where the cavers were??

[@focusedfox7167]

Do not use the lords name in vain

[@focusedfox7167]

Extremely bad behaviour!

[@aaptyp]

@@focusedfox7167looks like they did so unlucky mate

[@shan4680]

I'm sure I'll come back to it eventually but hearing Nutty Putty mentioned has me like Abe Simpson walking in, seeing Bart and immediately turning around and walking out again.

[@SugarandSarcasm]

7:00 here's the part where the other two stories start

[@pomademayhem5775]

when i was a teenager i was occasionally paid to guide large groups of kids through caves. this series makes me SERIOUSLY REGRET taking that gig. (thankfully we’re in kentucky so they were large, well managed campgrounds)

[@chrisbelkosky5466]

SI: "...And the worst possible thing you can imagine seeing at the bottom of a cave." Me: "Balrogs?"

[@scruffy-thejanitor]

I definitely thought it would be an Elder God

[@fritzfxx]

Eldritch Horrors Or maybe an offensively named black cat

[@krashd]

A Karen?

[@shaunmcclory8117]

Michael Jackson😬😅

[@ozma7339]

Only if you delve too greedily and too deep.

[@spacejasontodd]

I DEEPLY appreciate you for the effort you put into the pronunciation of foreign words. You have my undying respect, truly.

[@jankowalski6338]

not so much effort though józek is not jozek

[@mmw6109]

@@jankowalski6338 As he never learned polish he still does put in the effort to pronouce it good. Same goes for french words/names, he's pronounciation is not perfect but you can hear he does try to do it correctly. And as native polish, with second language being english and third french I do appreciate that

[@jankowalski6338]

@@mmw6109 narodowości piszemy wielką BTW, zasady gramatyki nie są tranferowalne. Pozdrawiam.

[@mmw6109]

@@jankowalski6338 w mowie znanych wieszczów: nie zesraj się c:

[@jankowalski6338]

@@mmw6109 ludzie nie doceniają darmowych lekcji. Tak czy inaczej teraz zapamiętasz. Proszę.

[@vboytan]

I’m so glad I stumbled upon these KZbin videos. This way nobody could ever one day talk me into this BS and convince me it’s safe.

[@projectalice8119]

These videos make me grateful that my high sense of self preservation always wins whenever I’m tempted to do something that I probably shouldn’t do.

[@juneyshu6197]

Yes!

[@jus10lewissr]

Watching videos of people going through the Birth Canal area of Nutty Putty Cave is pure torture. Years ago, after first learning about John Jones, I decided to look up the interior of the cave -- which actually looks like it's made of old school Nutty Putty, assuming they still make it or that you're old enough to remember that stuff if they don't -- and watched various videos of people going through different features and the Birth Canal clips were so overwhelming to watch that I eventually wasn't able to watch a single person make it all the way through that area from start to finish without skipping the majority of it. It's a long, very tight belly crawl and is 100% appropriately named. I had never had such an extreme level of anxiety when watching caving videos until researching that particular cave. Now, I can't hardly stand to watch any caving videos where they go through even a semi-tight squeeze without getting really anxious and somehow managing to feel claustrophobic from the comfort of my own living room. So, if you decide to look up Nutty Putty Birth Canal videos, be prepared, just in case.

[@nickkohlmann]

Fantastic! I will definitely watch those myself

[@jennharrison5579]

Theres a lot of cave entrances back home in the Blue Ridge. When I was 14 and believed I knew everything and was invincible, some cousins and I explored an entrance we stumbled across. Naturally, we got stuck for hours. When the tribe realized we weren't back they went out and found us. After that day, I took 2 lessons from that. 1. I'm not immortal and should listen when warned of things. 2. Always let someone know where you are going to be.

[@Jimbobob5536]

"Oh boy another Scary Interesting video!" 'And for the first story we go back to Nutty Putty Cave.' "Oh geez."

[@gonegolding]

And now they are altering photos saying the bloke pictured is John Jones. Its NOT. I don't know who that guy is but he is definitely NOT John Jones...looks nothing like him.

[@rollingpingamers2785]

"Caving stories are getting harder to come by" me: Isn't that a good thing!?!

[@sehrerwachsen8955]

Not for youtube money^^

[@rollingpingamers2785]

@@sehrerwachsen8955 well I guess some people can benefit from it no matter how messed up that sounds...

[@gregv2821]

All the work that goes into these videos and we have to listen to 25 minutes of the same music track over and over and over and over and over and over again. It's like Chinese Water Torture.

[@iaurtgrecesc33]

last sentence made me giggle LMAO

[@victoriajones9872]

Nothing wrong with the background music ... It's effective

[@Cookie-Taylor]

The music is perfect.

[@ZombieSazza]

I’m always so confused how folk have barely any diving knowledge and barely any certification but will choose to do a challenging dive after watching ONE video, and then not do any further research, just WHY?! It can turn deadly so quickly, it really doesn’t hurt to make sure you’ve researched properly, looked into available maps, spoken to divers with more qualifications to ask “I have XYZ certification, is this enough for X dive? If not, what experience and qualifications do you recommend so I can safety do X dive?”, maybe even visit forums, there’s just so much information on the internet that is FREE, yet folk just watch ONE video and go “Aight bet, I could do this” and it always confuses me!!

[@ashadowintime7305]

yeah especially when you have kids with you you're responsible for. that 2nd story is infuriating. how unprepared they went in.

[@Hexiad]

For the same reason that people try to own and run restaurants with no experience: hubris.

[@z000mbful]

yeah i bet 99 times out of a 100 nothing happens and there is no accident, thats why ppl do it. You only hear of accidents that happend here not when some one went in and out without problem. Even if you are super prepered the accident still will happen not that often but still

[@Adrenalean767]

​@@z000mbfulaccording to google. about 10 cave divers a year die on average. That may not seem like a high fatality rate, but there are there are only a few thousand cave divers in the world.soooo yea

[@brittanyhyatt3407]

I think a lot of it has to do with ego. They get cocky and don’t appreciate just how dangerous places like that can be.

[@thalwegeducation1684]

Nutty Putty was the cave that I learned how to cave in, so I always find episodes about Nutty Putty Cave from an outside perspective to be particularly interesting. Compared to many of the caves in the State of Utah, it was one of the safest beginner caves in the state because it lacked the highly technical repelling and rock work required in so many of Utah's caves (some of the caves are over 1,000 feet deep), but because of the relative safety of most of the cave's routes, many beginners overestimated their skills and accessed areas of the cave that were clearly marked as off limits on the maps. Incidents like the one in the story mentioned in this episode caused, did lead to many changes in how Nutty Putty Cave was managed, requiring every team to either have a guide who knew the cave well or a high level of caving experience...unfortunately for John Jones, some teams were willing to lie about their experience levels on their paperwork and continue to underestimate the cave.

[@debayeuxchats5607]

Thank you for this context! I think, because the Nutty Putty incident is so famous in 'things gone wrong/disaster/etc' circles, it gets the connotation that it was a very accessible but very dangerous cave. Hearing the truth that it was very beginner friendly (except where it wasn't!) changes a lot of the stories' tones. It's like if a ski mountain had a black diamond veering off from their bunny hill- this is a very easy ski route if you don't go over there!

[@searchiemusic]

mr scary interesting, i would like to say that, personally, i think you have a talent for creating empathy in the viewer while being informative, that's the main thing that keeps me coming back, the cave stories are cool and kind of what carved you out at the beginning but you absolutely do not need to do them to keep on brand, admittedly if you decided to start talking like, idk, international economics or whatever, yeah might be drab, but you've def got a gift for putting people in a place and time, you using it is enough

[@xy4489]

After he runs out of true stories, he will most like switch to fiction. He would be in a superb position to write some stories. I'd watch it.

[@roguetheotter]

this is why, despite the anxiety i feel watching these sometimes, i continue to come back. his storytelling is impeccable and i adore his compassion for the people involved in the stories.

[@ginahouseholder2747]

The thought of being stuck in a cave is horrifying, the thought of being stuck in a cave under water is even more horrifying!!!!!!😮 so sorry for these people and their families

[@cmdrTremyss]

The sad thing Sean never runs out of story material, since people produce these more quickly than he can ever cover.

[@caitroseco6752]

I’ve never considered myself claustrophobic, but have come to realize that I think most people will experience a sense of fear in spaces tighter than we are usually exposed to. I went on an “adventure tour” in a cave with some pretty tight spaces. We had to be able to fit through a cardboard cutout to be able to go on the tour because bigger people wouldn’t fit through the spaces. Some of these spaces were quite tight, to the point where we thought our guide was joking at one point when he asked us to squeeze through a certain section, and at another point he informed us half of a group of children were too scared to try and go through. But between the size test and the fact that it was a guided tour, with an experienced guide who had taken many people on these paths, I was able to muster up the courage and do it. It was still terrifying though. I don’t understand these people!

[@Strype13]

Wow, that last story was insane. Out of the hundreds, perhaps even thousands of cave rescue/tragedy stories I've heard, I have no idea how I had never heard that one before.

[@johna.zoidberg3049]

*"Viewer discretion is advised"* feels like *"Geneva Convention is a suggestion"* watching these stories.

[@nickkohlmann]

Haha yes

[@HonkeyKongLive]

That second story at Friedman sink is the absolute definition of "doing your own research." No maps, no consulting experts, just vaguely remembering a KZbin video.

[@cheyenne9081]

It baffles me that those 4 guys would do something as dangerous and risky as cave diving with no experience.

[@ferguson8143]

Well how's a person supposed to get experience in said activitie if you don't ever go do it

[@Gaius_Julius_Caesar_Augustus]

@@ferguson8143 there's no way you watched the video. It clearly stated in the video that you can go there with someone who has already been there. That's the equivalent of learning to drive with someone who can already drive (and not someone who can't drive) and not to mention u gotta practice a hundred times in less dangerous caves before going into one That's dangerous

[@Jimmy94411]

Men aren’t the sharpest tools in the drawer

[@nekomimicatears]

​@@Jimmy94411 mk Jimmy, cool it with the misandry.

[@Jimmy94411]

@@nekomimicatears shut it incel

[@EverythingEverywhereAnywhere]

Can we talk about the locals in the last story sneaking into the cave to “get a better look” at the rescue- which ended up further delaying said rescue? Like dude are you serious?

[@mclovin6829]

I don't know if anyone has said this, but the most dangerous thing about Nutty Putty Cave is it's ridiculous and unassuming name. After so many deaths, a cave should be required to get a scary name.

[@NB-nh2sf]

Well it's a grave site now..smh

[@Kk207s]

I was here in your first week of making videos, and let me just say no one does it like you. I’m glad you blew up as much as you did, I re-watch your videos all the time and always come back for more. Cheers!

[@JohnDoe_Poland]

Greeting from Poland! Thank you for adding it to your clip! Absolutely love your work!!!

[@analyticalhabitrails9857]

This man's voice is Dr. Death!

[@solyluna1778]

🙋

[@katharina...]

Tell Poland I miss her. And that I'll be back someday.

[@TRCumbox]

It*​@@katharina...

[@katharina...]

@@TRCumbox Polish has gendered nouns, so Poland may be an "it" to you, and a "she" to me.

[@delladylan8301]

They need to start naming these caves things like “no way out” and “you’re f*cked” instead of catfish hotel. These places are just so dangerous and I can’t imagine that any of these people have a death wish and if this is their passion then maybe just do scuba diving OR cave exploring. Jeez, that is like pairing sky diving with cliff jumping into water.

[@bubblyproduction9809]

Great timing! Keep with the great uploads Scary Interesting

[@jeffderice753]

How not to get trapped in a cave Rule # 1 Stay home Rule # 2 if you have the urge to go into a cave review rule # 1

[@scruffy-thejanitor]

Don't live in Florida and fall into a sink hole*

[@scruffy-thejanitor]

Don't live in Florida and fall into a sink hole*

[@CrackheadHuntersDopeDealer]

​@@scruffy-thejanitor Lame.

[@CrackheadHuntersDopeDealer]

​@@scruffy-thejanitor Lame.

[@Nicole-um9gc]

😂

[@LamYipMing]

1. John really should have waited. 2. I never understand how divers just split and don't act together as a team.

[@dirtrascal171]

Man the narrator was born for this. So stinking good.

[@umarsyedexp]

The music gives me chills to this day. I remember one of the first videos ScaryInteresting put out and the music just made every story that much darker and eerie.

[@j3suisd3]

💥💀💥

[@DrummerJacob]

He just puts that same track on every video lmao... It often doesn't even like up with what he's saying. Glad you're easily amused

[@Sb142sf]

Dude those visualizers for the two boys had my chest TIGHT

[@ALA9E]

Please drop the background noise down a tad as it is hard to distinguish your fast pace of speaking through the bonging noise🙏

[@Dzeffer12345]

I went in a cave tour when I was a super young kid. Got me highly interested in caves ever since. So I absolutely love your channel, as I can indulge in my fascinations but stay completely safe. Win win

[@DanielDorn-tr7tw]

I have broad shoulders and a barrel chest Just watching footage of people squeezing themselves through little crevices is giving me uneasy breathing

[@dondavis5633]

Me, too -- and I don't even have broad shoulders and a barrel chest!

[@roderickflint1330]

Why couldnt they just seal off dangerous dead ends and leave the cave open.

[@medicine2202]

That's a good point

[@FuckKamalaHarris]

Because that’s what government does. Overreact

[@Hope-Dasher]

At a cost anywhere between 300,000 if everything goes smoothly, to 1.5 million dollars not to mention the personal risk to rescuers and the diversion of time, and emergency equipment from more understandable incidents, if you look at this in a reasonable context it’s not worth the cost to save thrill seekers and amateur adventurers who have ill planned, underestimated and are far to inexperienced, Darwinism must bear consequences and demands a sacrifice of the unfit

[@bluejediforce]

Getting concrete down to those dangerous passages sounds like something that wouldn't be easy, most likely

[@demo2823]

In my local limestone cave system, there are just so many offshoots that it would be near impossible to get them all. And the caves are fractal. If you go down a large dead end tunnel, it splits into a narrower dead end tunnel, and then more and more, leading to a risk of a caver or the person doing the concrete getting lost. You actually want to stop someone at the point where continuing would cause you to reach a dead end. Not to fill up all the itty bitty areas where a child might get wedged in if they slip. So our cave systems just have chain links bolted to a wall with "no entry, fine penalty" signs stuck to them. It allows any scientific group to also still access these areas.

[@chrisperrien7055]

I won't even wriggle under my bed to get something I dropped under there.

[@isaT]

Same! But I also get claustrophobic if my pullover gets sort of stuck on my shoulders when trying to take it off😂

[@Nicole-um9gc]

😂

[@EGarrett01]

6:32 "He continued telling himself that he wasn't claustrophobic to keep his cool." LOL yup. I'm afraid of the ocean and when I had to take my nephew out on a jet ski, I realized it was exactly the thing I was afraid of, deep water where I couldn't see what was under me, and I could easily have a panic attack, but instead I just told myself it was no big deal and sung the Baywatch song. And that's how I made it through the whole hour until I could take it back to dry land.

[@deisisase]

Wow. It's shocking that it took a death to finally seal Nutty Putty Cave; with all those incidents I'm surprised it wasn't sealed sooner.

[@jessieliang1999]

Not sure if this would have made a difference in the Polish cave rescue, but hearing how people got in the way of rescue efforts is pretty enraging. Like rescuers are working hard in a time-sensitive life-or-death situation and other people think that's the perfect time for unauthorized access...

[@nieznanyczek5580]

Pole here, idk how this thing looks in other countries but here people have some weird mentality about accidents. Something happens and people just start making a crowd not to help but just to look/take photos. I remember when I witnessed a car crash (family hit a deer) and while we tried to calm the kids and call road helpline some cars just stop nearby to look at the damage, take photos and leave. I will never understand what is so interesting in accidents. I once talked with a guy (paramedic) who said that once he was called to serious electrocution on construction site and while they were helping the victim the rest of construction workers was trying to stop people from coming closer to take photos/film because for some reason a lot of them need to have photos of dying men. WTF is wrong with people

[@lcharlesesquire4087]

You have to be a certain type of special to return to the same spot where you got stuck the first time. Cavers are a mixture of brave and room temperature intelligence

[@AYouTubeCommentator]

Who would someone be and what would they do if they are brave and highly intelligent?

[@charlesharsha4568]

Watching these kind of videos actually make me feel smart

[@Nicole-um9gc]

😂

[@colbyholmes10]

I look forward to a new scary interesting every Sunday thank you for your videos!

[@ScaryInteresting]

Thanks for watching!

[@astrobonk]

As someone who loves swimming and diving, I have to say 90% of the appeal of diving is exploring open waters with almost complete freedom. First time I saw someone cave diving I basically swore that off because my claustrophobia would kill me 3 seconds in.

[@consciousobserver629]

I was invited to do some caving with friends when I was about 20, and I just couldn't bring myself to go along. Crawling around on my stomach in the pitch black deep underground just sounded awful to me. My dude friends LOVED it though.

[@HaggisMuncher-69-420]

When I was in the army, we were set to go on an adventure training thing (think rock climbing, orienteering, abseiling from stupidly high cliffs etc). One of the tasks was caving and in order to go, we had to pass our swimming test due to the water present in the caves. I'm not a strong swimmer but I could pass the test easily (something like swimming two lengths, then again while using your bag as a floatation device). Knowing about the caving thing, I intentionally failed my swimming test - I'll do a lot of things in life, including being deployed to war zones, I will not put myself in a cave, I don't care. That's my line. I'm scared of heights but I'll still through myself off a cliff or climb a mountain but being stuck underground is a huge nope for me. We all ended up going on the adventure exercise thing and the ones that failed their swimming test did everything but the caving. Was good fun.

[@TheDedictvi]

I binge watched a lot of these videos. People getting stuck in underwater diving caves, regular caves, mining tunels, submarine accidents and for some reason they kinda make me want to try it out myself.

[@a.nobodys.nobody]

Ahh, I was just thinking of you. Guess it's time to make another pot of coffee😊

[@beverlyreiner-baillargeon6205]

Caving stories are so scary to me and listening to your stories are real spooky. It makes me wonder if cavers, in water and out, all have a death wish, similar to mountain climbing??!!

[@Him_He_Me]

What lunatic would go down a freaking sinkhole???? That is my worst nightmare!!!! Are peoples lives so meaningless they have to kill themselves? Smh Then they expect other people to risk their lives to rescue them. Sometimes 200 people are present to rescue one lunatic

[@dementionalpotato]

offended over caves xd

[@Him_He_Me]

@@dementionalpotato I dont think I mentioned caves in my comment. The stupidity of people risking their own lives, that in turn, risks the lives of rescuers. Its not rocket science.

[@AntonioLopez-kw3ev]

@@dementionalpotatoI offended cave looser divers in this gay video

[@Siejec]

16:00 thank you for covering the Wielka Śnieżna 2017 incydent

[@maeglin9041]

Polish pronunciation is hard af, you did better than a lot I've heard 😂

[@666marq]

As a Pole I laughed aggresively loud at "Przemków" lol

[@mRibbons]

Imo one of the best things about this channel... Is that it informs viewers of the dangers of caving and scares them out of putting themselves in a horrible situation.

[@UgetTheMemo]

I don't normally get up early on my only day off, but when Scary Interesting uploads I do 😆😆

[@hannah-yi2su]

Im so sad for Dave and Daves´ son, it must be horrible to look down waiting for your father to come out just to never see him again.

[@PDilling]

I just don't get it; if multiple people have mistaken one tunnel for another and gotten stuck, as with Nutty Putty, why doesn't someone put up a marker or sign, at the juncture to make sure people don't make that mistake again? XD

[@bugsbunny8691]

Cavediving videos make me think of that paraglider camara man who took close up videos beside other people skydiving that on his 5th jump of the day jumped, recorded the video and after his subjects deployed their parachutes he went to pull his and suddenly realized he forgot to put it on over the camera battery backpack and he kept filming all the way down.

[@adeelb3678]

I started off with Nutty Putty 1 month ago. Now i have gone a bit nutty on these videos.

[@ChallengeFate]

Have you heard the story about Cave M?

[@lisetravis]

Yeah, it's hard to stop watching these!

[@cha9165]

Me too

[@nickkohlmann]

Until this video, i genuinely forgot that I actually have been in a 800m abandoned copper mine system as a kid where quite many of the lower paths required you to crawl on your belly and sometimes go through high water. Really want to go back there sometime

[@Bigtree5]

When I found your channel I got hooked and binged watched so hard. Thanks for the great work!

[@fattysl26]

Same! His videos are so addictive

[@robertrigby-jones2805]

Love your cave videos more than anything, It's what I started coming here for, So glad you've blown up so quick but please do more cave videos again!

[@jimmycline4778]

19:16 How on earth did they even find this cave entrance in the first place 🤯

[@Nobel-1384]

4:42 The worst possible position to be stuck in

[@1maaaks]

Also, the most confusing motion graphics possible. It showed four people!

[@englishcanuck4930]

The way I love you, your voice, your channel and your content is simply ridiculous! ❤️ 🙈 Thanks for the upload and Happy Sunday. Love from 🇬🇧

[@AJ-98]

Being a boy scout in Wisconsin growing up, we'd annually go to a place called Eagle Cave to camp out for 2 nights. Very well maintained with lights, stairs, railings, and designated paths. However there were also a lot of tunnels, tight passages, and large caverns away from any of the luxuries installed in this cave. We loved it, no supervision, just freely roamed as we pleased. I'd like to imagine for all intents and purposes that the cave is thoroughly explored, mapped, and the owners knew the likely-hood of a group of young boys getting stuck or lost were slim to none, but after watching a good handful of these caving gone wrong videos, it's freaky to think any one of us could've gotten stuck, lost, or worse.

[@cosmic_pursuit]

I hope you're earning good money making these bro. the quality and consistency is exceptional