Never in my life did I think an internet historian video would make me feel so tense. What a wild story.

The storytelling and delivery was perfectly timed.

The storytelling and delivery was perfectly timed.

Yeah, this one was not exactly afun story like furries takin over a hotel

@ThatDudeinBlue culture indeed. What's up, TDIB?

@ThatDudeinBlue culture indeed. What's up, TDIB?

<b>BLACKPINK - 'Shut down' with 𝘩𝘪𝘱-𝘩𝘰𝘱 vibes dr𝚘pped : Listen</b>

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You can barely tell he narrated the entire video while taking a shit. The man is on the cutting edge of fecel content creation.

u mean the cruise ship video wasnt nail biting enough?

u mean the cruise ship video wasnt nail biting enough?

I AM THE BEEST YOUUTUBER YOU'RE ALL TRAASH COMPARED TO ME IM THE BEEST 😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯

@ThatDudeinBlue I made it as far as 4:32
Pretty sure I'm done. It's too much. My life is stressful enough.

Dang, Internet Historian is now produced by Netflix. Wtf?!

Dang, Internet Historian is now produced by Netflix. Wtf?!

I was so on the edge of my seat the hole time.

I was so on the edge of my seat the hole time.

I put this on to take a quick nap and got sucked in, trapped. No nap and now running late

Turn to Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is God who died for our sins and God raised Him from the dead on the 3rd day. He loves us more than anyone. He created us and loves us. Call upon His name! Heaven and Hell are real places. We need to repent and turn to Him. We have all sinned against God. Pray and seek Him. Repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.

“Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.” Acts 2:38-39 KJV

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:6 KJV

“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” John 3:36 KJV

“For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.” Matthew 6:14-15 KJV

“And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?” Luke 11:9-13 KJV

“And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.” Hebrew 9:27-28 KJV

“And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not. All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.” John 6:35-40 KJV

“And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.” Matthew 10:28-31 KJV

“Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.” Matthew 10:32-33 KJV

“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Romans 10:9-13 KJV

“Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” John 3:5-6 KJV

“Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.” Colossians 1:13-20 KJV

“Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
2 Philippians 2:4-11 KJV

“Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly. And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Matthew 6:1-21 KJV

“But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.” John 20:24-31 KJV

@Dingle Flop I’ll make sure to check him out

@Dingle Flop I’ll make sure to check him out

He should just be an actual historian he’s good

He should just be an actual historian he’s good

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. 14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

I had to watch the add just to calm down.

I had to watch the add just to calm down.

I always come to Internet Historian to feel claustrophobic and uncomfortable

Just shows how talented and how much range this man has

Just shows how talented and how much range this man has

yeah, but the Gentleman Pirate video catched me even more

yeah, but the Gentleman Pirate video catched me even more

Oh boy, just DO NOT bring yourself in situations where it is VERY likely that you will suffer a very unpleasant death.
<br>I was almost not able to watch through this. What a freaking NIGHTMARE.

Oh boy, just DO NOT bring yourself in situations where it is VERY likely that you will suffer a very unpleasant death.
I was almost not able to watch through this. What a freaking NIGHTMARE.

I don't know who you are, but I feel like we're brothers.

I don't know who you are, but I feel like we're brothers.

@Patrick W. Dunne This comment reads like a bot.

@Patrick W. Dunne This comment reads like a bot.

@Attigator I would 10000% do it.

Some crazy stories from shady car companies would be fun.

I was about to cry throughout multiple parts of it

I was about to cry throughout multiple parts of it

I've never got so much anxiety from a YouTube video.

I've never got so much anxiety from a YouTube video.

@ThisNameIsFake lmao you silly anxious thing you. Relax.

@ThisNameIsFake lmao you silly anxious thing you. Relax.

@ThatDudeinBlue Did Floyd piss his pants while trapped down there?

I just got in from a long day and intended to take a nap and fall asleep on a video but nooooo this kept me glued and wide awake the whole time. <br>Was so sad when found out he had died. Hope he did indeed go to heaven

I just got in from a long day and intended to take a nap and fall asleep on a video but nooooo this kept me glued and wide awake the whole time.
Was so sad when found out he had died. Hope he did indeed go to heaven

@ThatDudeinBlue Hey David! Wassup? Great minds, on occasion, do think alike! Cool cars and Internet Historian = Good times❗

Was literally just talking about you with a coworker.. not where I thought I'd see your name next lol

Never in my life did I think we'd get another IH upload

Never in my life did I think we'd get another IH upload

@السراق المجهولIdk what, the video is unsually and unexpectedly grim and sad.

Not trying to advertise here, but Scary Interesting has a TON of terrifying videos about caves!!

@edgedg im just appreciating the presentation of the video wtf is wrong with you

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@Felix Drifts litterally everytime a youtuber comments. Every time

@السراق المجهول Do you thrive on sadness?, or are you joking

@السراق المجهول Do you thrive on sadness?, or are you joking

making this in black and white with recommended minimum brightness enhanced the experience drastically

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@BeanDaddy DoggRatt that’s why i insinuated that i was surprised that there was one before a 6 month gap

The only thing that made me realize its going to have a happy ending is the fact that we know so many details so the guy must survive to tell the story right?

I'm only 10 mins in

@Anti Hey it was a 5 month gap lol look at his last upload lol

@Anti Hey it was a 5 month gap lol look at his last upload lol

This story has been told many times on youtube, way better, don't know why he bothered.

Never in my life did I think I would see an Internet Historian video be posted without at least a 6 month gap

Wassup David, just got finished watching that s2k swapped starlet.

I legit just commented something similar to this lol

I legit just commented something similar to this lol

@Jackson Guillory and then it gets better, luckily.

@Jackson Guillory and then it gets better, luckily.

Hey im a fan of your channel too didn’t expect to see you here

Hey im a fan of your channel too didn’t expect to see you here

@Attigator Imagine Internet historian covering Japanese or American drift culture.

Seeing you here is an unexpected surprise, but a welcome one !

Seeing you here is an unexpected surprise, but a welcome one !

What are you talking about? What about VPN man? Suspense, romance, tradgedy. Plenty of tension

I'm honestly sad I watched another video on this a few months ago so I can't experience this fully

@ThatDudeinBlue Internet Historian collaboration incoming?

@ThatDudeinBlue Internet Historian collaboration incoming?

Omfg, the same! I have claustrophoby, so I will never visit another cave in my life

heyyyyy, what are you doing here anyways??

heyyyyy, what are you doing here anyways??

@Jamie Jenson I'm 3 minutes in and the anxiety from listening to this is painful.

I am five minutes in and I've already compressed down into neutronium from the cringe and dread.


Absolutely insane story. Great documentary as usual, Internet Historian. Bravo. And also, rest in peace, Floyd Collins. <b>bows head</b>

Absolutely insane story. Great documentary as usual, Internet Historian. Bravo. And also, rest in peace, Floyd Collins. *bows head*


This is honestly so good, well done IH. More please?


So sad that wendigoon buried himself alive with both hands jammed at his sides and one leg crushed then crushed his own torso with the force of 6 men against the top of the cave and blew up his own internal organs by stretching himself out via rope pull. He will be dearly missed.


I have now watched this about five times all the way through.  This is one of the worst situations I can imagine experiencing.


Hearing that even after his death, Floyd was trapped once more in the cave, not by the force of the cave itself, but by a person whose prerogative was to profit off of this tragedy, makes me feel a kind of queasiness unlike anything else. So relieved that at long last he was given a proper burial. May he rest in peace.

He was reburried in Crystal Cave, a cave that he discovered and is the whole reason he's at Sand to begin with. But IH clearly couldn't be bothered to tell the story truthfully and had to make up shit the whole way through.

@Pop P And to think this isn't the last time this sort of thing happened...some dude was embalmed that he turned into a wood like statue.

well, the feller was dead anyways, innit ? now time to go dig up the queens elizabeths corpse for monetary gain ey

It just goes to show the extent people will go to make a quick buck. Radix malorum est cupiditas "The root of all evil is the love of money."

@Dan Kanerva I agree, just seems to exaggerate the flaws

@Andrew Simmer  what happened afterwards represents the darkest sides of capitalism...  <br>but don't get me wrong , i would still choose capitalism over comunism every day

@Andrew Simmer  what happened afterwards represents the darkest sides of capitalism...
but don't get me wrong , i would still choose capitalism over comunism every day

@Pop P To me though, the difference is in the fact that that was his family's land, and in that time, the best opportunity you had was to profit off your land; it was the basis of capitalism.<br>Whereas, everything that happened afterwards was the worst kind of perversion of society, imo

@Pop P To me though, the difference is in the fact that that was his family's land, and in that time, the best opportunity you had was to profit off your land; it was the basis of capitalism.
Whereas, everything that happened afterwards was the worst kind of perversion of society, imo

The reason he was even trapped there in the first place was in an effort to turn the cave into a tourist attraction and bring people in. In an ironic twist of fate, he himself ended up becoming the spectacle. Still a bit of a mindfck to me.

I felt a queasiness throughout the whole video once he died. Even with how it ended... It's just really disappointing, I guess


Fantastic story telling in this one, i was invested the entire way though it.   Crazy story.


There is a musical about this story and it’s actually beautiful to listen to despite the harrowing story


I'd love to see him do a video on the emu wars that Australia somehow lost twice. I don't know much about it but it sounds like a hilarious topic


This was so interesting and well done. Nothing has held my attention like this for a while


This is without a doubt, one of the saddest stories of false hope I've seen. A great, suspenseful video but a sad tale. Rest easy, floyd.

@Padlock Steve Do you think they could have made it airtight with what they had available at the time?

i mean the could have just boarded up the mouth of the cave and used machinery

And the fact that it took them that long to just properly lay his body to rest makes it worse

GOD. DAMMIT!!!! ..thanks, youtube Chud person.

..lmao, seriously tho, I made it 32 minutes and I think 14 ads into this vid before reading that he doesn’t even make it. God. DAMMIT. AGAIN.

GOD. *DAMMIT!!!!* ..thanks, youtube Chud person.

..lmao, seriously tho, I made it 32 minutes and I think 14 ads into this vid before reading that he doesn’t even make it. God. *DAMMIT. AGAIN.*

@Aidan Insua I’m glad I did tbh I can’t take false hope!!

Damn I should not have been reading comments 5 mins in. Rip Floyd.


My heart genuinely sunk when Floyd was confirmed dead. What a disheartening and unsatisfying conclusion.

sorry but the story isnt scripted so he couldn't do much about it


I’m barely into the video and I’m already inspired by how good of a brother Homer is.


Man I'm so excited to spend the rest of my life staying the fuck out of caves 😁


Fuck’s sake…that’s such a depressing, heartbreaking story!! My God!

Leave it to Internet Historian to make this so entertaining and hilarious! 😂


What a painful yet beautiful story. Homer's dedication to his brother showed how much character he had.

@Amelia Bee Yeah if there were less people they might actually did it, though granted the man might need to be amputated or lose his legs but still at least more chances and the cave wouldn't crumble that fast.

The sad thing is, the three men could have done it without everyone else getting in the way.


I keep coming back to rewatch/listen. This is truly one of a kind, I crave more!


I once got a blank check when I was 16. It was my first job and I was an employee at a small thrift store, so the boss gave everyone checks directly. Unfortunately, my boss was an old guy who had been trying to sell the store and retire for years and an all around awesome person, so it was practically impossible for anyone who wasn't either a sociopath or being held at gunpoint to take advantage of it without saying anything.


pls do more like this, this was some of the best shit i have seen on Youtube lately, its really good and really well made ! much respect


its a celebration when a well made internet historian video is released. its the perfect thing to listen to. already watched it 5 times


In some kind of ironic twist, it was Miller's fault that thousands of tourists camped outside the cave which caused the cave to lose its integrity, which inevitably caused the cave-in. Homer almost singlehandedly saved Floyd on his own. Yeah actually I'm doubling down on this opinion: the government did too little too late. Did they really have no way to redirect the engine's fumes out of the cave? It's not rocket science, literally just a tupe going from the exhaust all the way out of the cave would be sufficient. So even though Miller personally was a great help, what he did with spreading the story is eventually what caused their downfall.


WOW!! Such a great Doc, I was glued to the end. Magical storytelling

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So I understand that they eventually got Crystal Cave open to get guys down to the crystals Floyd found. But this was due to much more equipment digging down to it. My question was if Floyd has cleared out that hole and made it through. I must say he truly must’ve been crazy to think people would go through all that to see a crystal cave.

@char ah I see now. That makes more sense.

@Alexander Forrest I think you might be getting confused because of the names? The cave wasn't known as "Sand Cave" until media started calling it that. He called it Great Crystal Cave because while exploring it, he found that grotto.

But yeah, it would be really cool to visit the park. I would like to actually get a feel for the proper size of it all, looking at pictures even the cave entrance looks to small for me to ever think about going into it myself!

@Alexander Forrest I think you might be getting confused because of the names? The cave wasn't known as "Sand Cave" until media started calling it that. _He_ called it Great Crystal Cave because while exploring it, he found that grotto.

But yeah, it would be really cool to visit the park. I would like to actually get a feel for the proper size of it all, looking at pictures even the cave entrance looks to small for me to ever think about going into it myself!

@char confusing part that messes with me is all the records say Floyd found Crystal cave before going into sand cave for the first time. I kinda want to visit the park and ask a park ranger the details.

I also thought about that but I suppose he wanted to make sure the cave could be reached so <i>someone</i> could access it before widening the whole entrance so it would be more accessible

I also thought about that but I suppose he wanted to make sure the cave could be reached so _someone_ could access it before widening the whole entrance so it would be more accessible


I really enjoyed this video and there's clearly been a lot of work put into the editing, but the script is almost word-for-word plagiarized from a 2018 Mental Floss article written by Lucas Reilly titled "The 1925 Cave Rescue That Captivated the Nation".  It's fine to dramaticize someone else's writing, but you have to credit the orginal author for their work.


The reason Floyd was even trapped there in the first place was in an effort to turn the cave into a spectacle and a tourist attraction and bring people in. In an ironic twist of fate, although it became an attraction, he himself ended up becoming the spectacle.

@Caleb Hagen lmao yeah, with the exploitation of Floyd as a spectacle to a point  where theres a whole ass carnival really reminds me of NOPE

his dad sold the land with him in it knowing the clause like "its what he would have wanted"

Be very specific and heartfelt when u wish/manifest things into this life.

He also massively overestimated the caving prowess of everyone else, since he had been doing it his whole life.  Nothing he could have done would have ever made that crystal room viable for tourism.

And the reason the cave collapsed was because the tourists outside with the fires. If his entrapment had not been a tourist attraction then maybe they would have been able to save him.

Truly a "be careful what you wish for" moment

In an even more ironic twist of fate, the tourism to the cave is what killed him in the end

Quite, in the ironic and morbid way, he managed it.


The Internet Historian is a god amongst mere mortals when it comes to the quality of his videos. One of my all time favorite things that came out of the invention of the internet.


Knowing that he passed soon after the light bulb went out, I hope he wasn’t conscious to see it go out. I hope he wasn’t aware when he was plunged back into darkness, and that he fell asleep one last time to that small, minuscule comfort of light and heat, at the very least.


When they tried the rope pull you can just use a hook to keep the rope attached to the ground so he would be pulled backwards and not upwards.

I don't think that would've worked considering the force needed to pull him out and how would they have attached the hook?


One of the best stories I ever heard. Not just a context but how it was delivered. Thank you for the amazing documentary

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For essentially a random journalist with no personal stake in this story, Miller is an unbelievable badass

it's literally crazy especially when he was like, 22?????! What a guy

For real, man could've just gone back after being turned down, after getting enough material to write his article or even after it gained national attention, but he stayed and he actually helped instead of gawking and asking pointless questions. All for the sake of some stranger that wasn't even important.

Forget about being a great journalist. Miller was a great guy, period.


Thrillingly, excellently executed video. Mad props, my man! 🍻


Top tier video, amazing in-depth explanation and everything. Keep it up!


One of the best documentaries I've ever seen, hands down, as well as one of the best told stories I've heard.


I rarely feel compelled to comment on videos but this was so well done and I was sucked in the whole time. Keep it up!


It's amazing how many people can show up to this sort of scene without providing a single drop of useful help.

@this is a social experiment its like that bell curve of knowledge-confidence. people with surface level knowledge are much more confident than someone with a little more experience, and that curve only goes back up when someone becomes an expert

Probably for the best; every stupid idea or clumsy individual could just lead to more lives at risk

Yeah they literally spent a copius amount of time to come there just to be useless

Just like high school. Group project of 5, one does all the work while the rest sit around and BS.

People often overestimate their knowledge of fields they know nothing about. Inversely, experts often underestimate their knowledge and experience in their field. Only consult with experts, never with mere bystanders. Even now I'm just paraphrasing Vsauce, I'm no expert lol

@Claud I think that's just human behavior though. Criticizing or giving advice to others might've been their way to try and "help", since they couldn't directly help by going through the gap.

@KillaAhmadilla and then start criticizing the people that are actually helping.

@samtheweebo I wouldn't be able to do it. I wouldn't even try to pretend I would. That shit is terrifying. Props to anyone brave enough to do so, and I really mean that

Apparently many tried at least. Having crawled under a house in a really tight space once I can say it really takes a lot to convince yourself to squeeze into a narrow passage. Add to that the cuts, scrapes, lack of vision and breathing difficulty and you might understand that all the desire to do good in the world might not be enough to get you in such a hole. Also bet a lot of people simply wouldn't fit either.


I am only 49 minutes and 56 seconds in

It is f*ing brutal. Every time it sounds like they are about to succeed I realize how much more video there is to go and sure enough the line of “but nooooo” immediately follows.

This is so f*ing  nerve wracking.


Internet Historian has gone so beyond cool, that he ended up in 1925; decades before the internet.


The sad, lonely death of Floyd Collins is one of my favorite storys ever, but it has kept me up at night. I just wanted to let you all know that All That's Interesting did an excellent article about Floyd Collins.


this is actually pretty good lol always love the way you tell stories


I think the tragic irony of the whole thing is that he originally went down there knowing he could make it into a tourist attraction, and ultimately it did become an attraction because of him.

@Renan Leandro Yeah I should've worded it better huh sorry.

@Ad Boi Production Why does everyone keep calling it "the cave punishing him for his greed"? He was not greedy, the dude wanted to fucking provide for his family.

It's disgusting how the horrid parts of humanity wouldn't leave him alone even in death

@Just A Man of Culture First off, he was trapped for days, not months. Second, paranoia as in the caving business, not the part where hr got trapped. The cave tourism was his city's source of income, and there were already people straight up attacking him to get the rights to the cave.

There's also the fact that the proper equipment needed for the work he was doing would've brought a lot of unwanted attention on hi. So yeah, he easily could've been paranoid of people WANTING HIS CAVE. Enough to warrant him doing work solo.

@TheNapster153 sorry but your comment makes no sense to me. Like floyd had already showed trust and confidence that most likely 99% of humans stuck in that position could never. But the nail in the coffin was probably when the whole cave just collapsed. Had it not collapsed he would have made it out alive. Again, What Paranoia? He already had no food for months and when the cave collapsed his hope died. I don't blame Floyd.

In my lore he was a warrior until the end and prolly died because of lack of food. At least he died doing what he loved.

The definition of a monkey’s paw bargain.

@Groovy Gunslinger well...he didnt really get a chance to do so, so we have no idea what his plans were.

Continuing here, part of the downfall also came from paranoia. Had he trusted his friend and brother to help or at leasr get more involved in the excavation, the perhaps the cave could be cleared out earlier and safer too.

There are so many things that were raising red flags from the start. The best we could do is learn from them and never give up the tenacity when it comes to savung people.

The bigger irony here is that he wanted the cave system to be a tourist attraction, but when a bunch of people started showing up the cave collapsed in on itself. His goal was doomed from the start.

It's almost Karma in a way like the tourist ended up worsening his condition it's like the cave is punishing him for his greed.

I assume the idea was to probably open up another entrance elsewhere once he got into the cave proper

Now that you put it this way......yeah lol

@Calamity Sangfroid Collin's cave likely would not have gotten many visitors because he underestimated just how good of a caver he was. The fact he didn't try widening the squeeze first, and instead just went through to try to make an entrance to the other side shows he didn't understand most tourists would not have his level of experience. He probably understood that when he was trapped there, as only 4 people managed to get to him to help him.

It's sad, but it gets even sadder knowing that if he was successful completing that entrance, he likely would not have made the income he had hoped. So at the end of the day, it was all futile.

@Groovy Gunslinger yeah that's what confused me, it sounded like it took an extremely fit person with a specific build/bone structure to even get to where he was stuck, yet collins was making a hole beyond that point to the crystal cavern? why didn't he widen the area closer to the entrance first then work his way towards the cavern after his initial discovery of it?

Well he did make the cave famous after all.

Also it seems like he had no plans to stabilize or reinforce the cave. So even if he had not been stuck down there, surely a tourist would have been trapped at some point


one of the craziest parts about this was how nobody else got killed trying to save floyd


If he had spent his time widening the squeeze first, none of this would have happened 😐


Super sad for a while. Then morbidly hilarious at the end! Well done everybody!


This was amazing! please do more things like this!!!


I love how the entire story is in black and white except for the yellow light of the bulbs. It makes it feel so much more hopeful when Floyd finally isn’t in complete darkness all the time

Well it was 1925. color wasn’t invented till around the 50s

@Caden Tan and don't forget about WORLD OF TANKS

@Martin S gotta thank Einstein for inventing color

@Martin S So true. Many children truly believe this until a surprisingly advanced age.

The thing is the world was black and white back then. There is a lot of photo and video evidence of it from those times.

and i like that everything after 1989 is colored

@Caden Tan oh yeah lol. Schindler’s list may have the girl in the red coat, but this video has the subway sandwich

I legitimately didn't even notice that it was in black and white, that's how good Internet Historian videos are


Absolutely awesome story and good storytelling.  Never before even heard the damn city.  But his story will live a bit longer now atleast

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A mere physics or earth science student in their final year today could have given a thorough opinion on the rope pull idea even without internet access on their phone. They'd have calculated everything with remarkable accuracy - factoring in the angle of the force on Floyd using trigonometry, and also how much the opposing force of the gravel that initially acts downward on Floyd is, and finally whether or not a successful rope pull would destroy Floyd's body or not.


Always looking forward to watching these longer style videos!!


This was excellent, please make more videos like this. Thanks.


He’s just a regular historian now. Not complaining, this is a really interesting story

@FilthyCasual His content was typically shit that went viral on the internet, hence why I guessed THAT was the reason for his channel name. Until recently.

@Cool Guy 77 I mean, considering this is a 1 hour true story about a brutally painful and drawn out death; I’d say he made it fucking hilarious and thrilling at the same time.

@Cozy He was always a historian ON the internet, was he not? xD

@Joel Friberg No, I'm just pointing out the lack of humor in this video compared to his others. Compare this video to almost any other video on his channel and you can see the difference very clearly. I'm not complaining about it though, it was a good choice for this story.

Along with the Gentleman Pirate video these are some of my most highly rated things. Both were as engaging as multi million dollar movies.

The way it was publicly talked about in the paper and over the radio kind of resembles how the internet treats huge stories today. The way some people were lying for fun, others believing those lies, and many people trying to profit off of the story. It’s like a pre-internet internet.

@Cool Guy 77 You’re more of a knock knock joke kinda guy huh

@Cool Guy 77 the funny was in the "actors" and animation

@Glenn Griffon He didn't really do anything funny with this video though. The only funny parts where really in the sponsor.

I don't care. As long as he stays funny and makes his sponsors wonder why they sponsored him.

He used to be a historian ABOUT the Internet, now he's a historian ON the internet.


Watching this while being claustrophobic, is like being scared of spiders and sticking your hand in a tarantula cage.


I've watched this video so man times now that I hear how Internet Historian in my head narrates my life, and everything got way more dramatic now. From boiling egg, go out for a jog to just take a dump.

Serious, how do I turn his voice off?


Almost every person involved in this story is an absolute Chad in wildly different ways

Except all the cowards standing outside who won't go into the Cave themselves thinking up stupid plans like "Lets just throw dynamite in there."


Floyd wanted the cave to becoem a tourist attraction for it's natural beauty, instead, the cave made HIM a morbid curiosity for the general public. The few people that spent everything they had, even themselves to try and save him, they were heroes fighting an uphill battle.

As much as the cave is characterized in this story as a malevolent but also alluring force, the public themselves were both an aid and a hinderance to the rescue. at first, it was genuine, in getting the word out to his family, people who could help, and eventually organized government forces. however, that same spectacle little by little caused the cave to collapse with the weight of all the activity, the melting of soil from campfires, the sheer amount of cars on hollow land -little by little, each footfall buried him deeper, butonly a few set of hands dug him out. After all of the that coverage, the public and the news dropped him and his suffering, after it could no longer be drained for all of it's sensationalism, was left alone, the support ended once the public couldn't shove their noses into the situation and worsen the rescue, in almost a parasocial connection, feeling personally owed entry or feeling personally betrayed by the 'conning of the family'.

as alluring and crushing the cave was, it would not have been so damning had it not been aided by the dark tourists and everything they brought.


Not gonna lie, Miller is a legend. For a journalist to go through that much effort and danger to save a man, he definitely deserved credit for his actions. Even though it’s through different circumstances, this reminds me of that new documentary about the boys who got trapped in that cave a few years ago. That documentary really sheds light on how dangerous caving is

@Freestyle HD bro it's YouTube what do you mean burner account you loser

@Freestyle HD my god you are a brainlet.

@Coc bruh chill out, was a passing joke. burner profile you mean nothing btw

@Freestyle HD You shouldn't expect others to accommodate your destroyed attention span.

@Coc was 2nd comment down. Its also and hour long video.

Somehow my faith in people in general went down while my faith in journalists went up. Then I remembered I live in 2022.

@Freestyle HD Maybe watch the video before looking at the comments where the video is being discussed? Are you r worded?

I agree.<br> I’d never be able to crawl through a squeeze that tight, the people who tried to help him deserve all the recognition they get

I agree.
 I’d never be able to crawl through a squeeze that tight, the people who tried to help him deserve all the recognition they get


Ive listened to this story 3 times now. More please.


This was such a good video! Wow!!! Impressive story telling, music, and animations. Wow

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Amazing story and coverage/portrayal. Rare to me, but I liked and subscribed both


You didn't explain one thing: How was Floyd intending to get tourists into that cave? Nobody would even think about going in there. He should have first widened the entrance, which would have made the rest of the work much easier and safer.


this story really showcases the best and worst of humanity all at once. what a tale

What really gets to me was Lee taking "donations" at the fair grounds. No doubt in my mind he swindled people by saying the money went to helping Floyd, then he kept it all to himself. Sickening.

There were like 3 people going through that cave, something so scary I can’t imagine doing it. Then there’s mfers ruining the structure of the cave so they can camp outside is basic graveyard

my man was out here dying and they had a clown juggling. bruh

@Kola I don't think that's a good comparison

I think that’s usually the case with these crazy situations. Just look at the pandemic 😅


I have seen others cover this story, but with the simple addition of reenactment cutouts brings it to a whole other level... man... just watching makes me feel like I'm having trouble breathing...


What a crazy story, I had a hard time getting through it all.. BUT.. Knowing IH as I do, I KNEW it would be worth the wait.  Thanks for the great video.,


I think this is your best video yet I was so invested every second of the story.

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Incredible video. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time.


This story shows just how stupid, selfish, and cruel humans can be but also how courageous and selfless. Truly amazing.

@JovialDemon01 and who created capitalism? humans

this is the system of capitalism, not human nature.

@Lunasa Gaming oh yea, i know there's plenty of good people. I'm not a cynic or anything. Just thought the other guy was dumb

@Spicy Dong it was that guy's last attempt at saving his family's financial situation<br>cave tourism

@Spicy Dong it was that guy's last attempt at saving his family's financial situation
cave tourism

@Cyborg Cuttlefish everyone has been terrible in their own way!<br>but there is also lots of good people in the world, they're hard to find tho

@Cyborg Cuttlefish everyone has been terrible in their own way!
but there is also lots of good people in the world, they're hard to find tho

@senadawr ah yes because no other country has cruel people or events in its past or present (just ignore cartel members in Latin America, the crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, the Rwandan genocide, the Sino-Japanese war, the history of Australia, Russia's current invasion plus the shit with the Chechens, the femicide in El Salvador, the--ok i think we all get the point)

Have the 999th like. Somebody make it 1k.

@Ikxi - Forever a Tatsunoko they're fucking swarming everywhere bro, but they keep hiding in their "houses" so they're hard to see

@Dｅmｏnｉtｅ wtf where have you seen a human?

@Gamma Humans definitely do stuff. I've seen it before.

... so it showed that humans sometimes will do stuff

Yeah "humans" should stop smoking crack and shoving themselves in holes

Or, you know, just don't enter deadly caves?

Yeah men. In a way, fake positivity was also always a thing. (I mean all those idiots who want to help, but make it worse)


as tragic as this was, i couldn't help but burst out laughing when they threw his body out of the cave and supposedly into the lake, only for it to be caught in a tree.


Amazing research and story. I never heard of this story


Damn.<br>Floyed's death was actually what made the cave that he wanted to make attractive for tourists what made the cave attractive for tourists.

Damn.
Floyed's death was actually what made the cave that he wanted to make attractive for tourists what made the cave attractive for tourists.


So, wait wait wait... That man got trapped underground, got burried by gravel and died there. His corpse then gets removed from his grave, only to be placed a few stories higher than were he died, so he essentially was still trapped in his original grave. He then enjoys freedom from being buried underground for a few moments, albeit having been dead for a while already, only to get burried in his previous grave yet again. There he lies for a couple of decades, only to get freed from his dark and damp grave, only to yet again get burried underground, except in a dark and damp place next to a church. This guy isn't allowed to catch a break. What did he do, that the universe hates him so much?


100 years later this story continues to trend. Imagine how much of a big story it was back then.

@C Porter hey, thanks for your reply. Looking forward to your response video, but.... The Dollop guys are so annoying to listen with their constant improv skits or whatever? I can't really see how is that different from this video, although I've watched only a half of the podcast.

herd about the incident before, but the parts that happen after are new to me.

and how his story gets misconstrued by people like Internet Historian, who don't do enough research--or DOES do enough research yet decides to leave out major details so he can create his own fictitious narrative of the event. If you want something that has far more respect for the history that's about Floyd Collins, The Dollop made a podcast episode about it.

EDIT: I've lost nearly all patience for defending myself through people's hopeless wails of "it's just a video" or "who cares" and the condescending "it's not supposed to be 100%, just get over it lmao" toxic cancer in comment sections, by people who instead of looking into it themselves jump straight to believing i'm talking out my ass. Instead over the last several days I've been making a video that will address and explain everything I'm talking about, and it will be out in the next few days hopefully. There are far too many things to list here, along with their context, as to tell it correctly, telling it in 1 or 2 sentences isn't enough for commenters to beleive these things are incredibly crucial, and cant be left out.

@Banana I really doubt that, given that social media exists now, there is even greater incentive for self absorbed twats to do extreme and dangerous activities towards others or for the entertainment of others. The internet eats that shit up, the suffering of someone else is easily accessible and sensationalized

A century old real story still makes any creepypasta feel like pixar cartoons. Maybe I'm still under the impression, though.

@Banana <br>Something's telling me that in the foreseeable future we will all not only witness but be subjected to cruelty not yet seen before. It doesn't seem like you can run or hide.

@Banana
Something's telling me that in the foreseeable future we will all not only witness but be subjected to cruelty not yet seen before. It doesn't seem like you can run or hide.

@Banana we are as cruel and fvcked as we were...  we just now have the means to vent out without causing real harm

In an age where girls selling their bathwater is trending, your point is moot

@Sy IN Ta X We are probably less fucked up and cruel than we were 100 years ago.<br>Still fucked up and cruel but not as bad!

@Sy IN Ta X We are probably less fucked up and cruel than we were 100 years ago.
Still fucked up and cruel but not as bad!

@Lucas I mean there was obviously some really cruel shit here. Like sending out that fake telegraph. That whole fake news campagne. The was his body was handled afterwards just tops the fucking list.

Obviously there are classical heroes and villains to this story but well. I guess the nice thing out of this is how am entire country prayed and rooted for a mans life.

@Sy IN Ta X I don't think it was cruel. Even if the advice was dumb, everyone was horrifyingly intrigued at worst, but I feel like they were  rooting for him every second of the way and trying their best to help.

@Meowmeow yeah the righteous mob that not only didn't do anything but actively made things worse for the rescue and ruined the farmers land? You are saying the people criticizing those pieces of absolute filth are the same as them?

@Sy IN Ta X You are part of the righteous mob in this ongoing story.

Everything about this story from Floyds absolutely horrific fate, to how people reacted to it is so unbelievably fucking gut wrenching to me.<br>I never heard of this story but it really showed how people ALWAYS were fucked up and cruel. Jesus fucking christ man.

Everything about this story from Floyds absolutely horrific fate, to how people reacted to it is so unbelievably fucking gut wrenching to me.
I never heard of this story but it really showed how people ALWAYS were fucked up and cruel. Jesus fucking christ man.

The most infuriating thing is that all of those shit heads hanging out and posturing probably weren't treated like the cowards they were.


5:30 you know, I don't really have claustrophobia, I don't feel uncomfortable in small confined spaces, but when the space goes from its small to 'there is no way in hell anyone is digging me out' is where the fear comes in, the 'I am completely fucked if I get stuck'. in 6th grade we had a field trip to some caves, and the sick fucks decided that we had to crawl 10~ feet into this very small gap and hopefully spin around, and I was full on 'fuck you i'm not doing it, I don't care if others did it and came out fine'
I like to think that that the part of my mind that tells me don't do shit like that is what little will I have to live going full self preservation, kind of makes me happy in a morbid way.


I am curious if the story has been corroborated  or is solely reported by Miller but him helping a complete stranger without regard is admirable. Gerald and miller are true heroes the bystanders despicable. I wonder if this event is the advent of shock media.


That was so good I let it disrupt all my plans, so engrossing, so worth it!


This gave me anxiety like you wouldn't know. Imagine, crawling through a hold that narrow, I don't know if i have clostrophobia, but even someone who doesn't would look at that hole and say "NOPE"


This story consists of a handful of people who went above and beyond to save one man, some teams who did their job as well as they could, and some hundreds of idiots with no sense of decency who couldn't help but make everything much harder than it had to be.

@Mr Al alright. Now what? What do we do with this? Can we change it? Fix it? I'm asking you here, do you have the solutions? PLEASE, PLEASE.....just tell me you do. TELL ME that I don't have to do yet more work for...whatever this is.

that's pretty much Kentucky in a nutshell.

@Mr Al it's really not worth mentioning. It's very obvious that no one with any sort of high ranking job, in 1920's Kentucky, would be anything other than white. I'd bet everyone involved in the story was white.

Kentucky is about 7% black these days, that was probably lower 100 years ago. And Barren county, probably had about 3 black people live there in 200 years. So we really don't give a shit what stock photo is used to represent any of the people.

@condensedmatter118 Empathy [trivial: failure]

Or just people that think if youre stupid enough to squeeze into that cave in the first place then why should others risk their life for you.

Henry St. George Tucker Carmichael (Superintendent of Kentucky Rock Asphalt Company) was an Anglo Saxon which was not depicted accurately by Mr "Internet Historian". He took a few liberties in his re-telling of this harrowing story. It's worth mentioning because too many people are distorting historical accuracy for the sake of pandering to contemporary politics.

This video has caused me to lose a lot of faith in humanity. However, I do appreciate what Homer, and those lads did far more. :)

It amazes me how those people just accept the idea that everyone else around them are just stupid rather than questioning whether they really fully understand the situation or scenario.

The past example of your ordinary group assignment

1-2 people working
10 others gawking
And another 10 complaining and criticizing

Really screams "people with the least amount of knowledge always have the most to say"


This video helped me discover that I have moderate claustrophobia. Thanks, Internet Historian!


He still somehow managed to live so long in that cave just to die.


An absolute wild video start to finish.

I've heard this story before but never with so much detail, and the animation was brilliant as usual. Just enough humour but also enough info to keep me interested.

One of your best videos yet.

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I am a mere five minutes in, and I have already never watched a video that has given me this much anxiety. This is gonna be tough to get through.


national geo could put out videos far faster than internet historian

"Internet Historian is going to put national geographic out of business with these types of amazing videos."<br>Internet Historian puts most mainstream tv shows to shame with these types of amazing videos

"Internet Historian is going to put national geographic out of business with these types of amazing videos."
Internet Historian puts most mainstream tv shows to shame with these types of amazing videos

I actually just tried watching one of the nature docs on disney+ and it was terrible

Dude got 1 million views in 2 days lol hes great

@Deathbird Sinister IH seems to have a talent for storytelling. This was better than many movies or documentaries I have seen. I think he could write and direct a great movie if he got the chance.

& horror movies. <br>I got more suspense from his narration than I have any Thriller.

& horror movies.
I got more suspense from his narration than I have any Thriller.

@tim i dont if its a story worth the 20 year wait

@tim Great content, but I wish he could hire people to animate and help with the research so he could focus on the writing and the directing, we could get one every month or something like that

@Fixy Clary can you tell I'm a writer? 😅

@Alexander Leonard They didn't always do that. My grandfather had a collection of National Geographics, some of which were so old they didn't even have pictures on the covers.

@Paul S Rohrbaugh What does my name have to do with the jewish religion other than the fact the Jewish religion practices circumcision? How do you know its anti-semitic and not anti-islamic? OR, more likely than all of them, anti-circumcision. I can hate the practice and still love the religion. Love the sinner not the sin. Circumcision, is a sin in my mind. God doesn't require you to perform blood rituals on newborn infants. I know the history of circumcision pretty well, the semites learned the ritual from the pagan egyptians. who, by the way, only performed the mutilation ritual on adult priests, not defenseless children. What kind of person would harm a child in the name of god? Clearly not a child of god.

Plus, in the US, the vast majority of circumcised males, aren't jewish, or muslim. So your argument couldn't be further from truthful. It seems far more like an attempt to criticize something you haven't taken the time to understand.

No doubt about that. He's done a better production for Fyre Fest better than Netflix did and has done a better recounting of this event over an actual movie adaptation of this event.

@CircumcisionIsChildAbuse I agree with your point but must hit dislike due to your antisemitic username.

In a perfect world, he absolutely would be more prestigious than national geographic

@William North In all of your cocky bullshit you must have missed the complete success of the video.

Never heard this story before, and IH's renditions are always a joy to watch.

Not sure why you bothered with your snark.

@CircumcisionIsChildAbuse "What unites people? Armies? Gold? Flags? Stories. There's nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. No enemy can defeat it. And who has a better story... than The Internet Historian?"<br>okay I'll stop xD

@CircumcisionIsChildAbuse "What unites people? Armies? Gold? Flags? Stories. There's nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. No enemy can defeat it. And who has a better story... than The Internet Historian?"
okay I'll stop xD

He's practically The History Channel, but before, you know, they stopped airing anything about history.

@A. Ducky People make a lighthearted comment wishing IH was able to upload more often, and you reply with OTT praise/ass-kissing and say he's treating IH like a dancing monkey, ungrateful for the videos, demanding he "dance" on cue.

Chill out. Internet Historian ain't gonna fuck you, bro.

Amazing how people want actual engaging content instead of retarded reality shows

This story has been told many times on youtube, way better, don't know why he bothered.

Warner Brothers is going to beat him  to it.

National Geo... who? Joking. But for real IH is gold. I rewatch his NMS video once a year as if it was It's a Wonderful Life.

@tim I don't fucking mind lol. I binge Internet Historian videos once in a while and every time I rewatch, it just gets better. I would say the time is worth it. Why churning out content as fast as possible but you could ony watch once when you can create timeless videos that makes people revisit once in a while.

when national geographic stopped putting an emphasis on tribal sweater puppets they lost the public interest.

@tim
I don't.  This is better than anything on Netflix or in theaters.  But to each their own.

Life will go on anyway, I don't see why not get notified of a new upload and learn something I'd never otherwise known about, while having a few lulz from his signature dry humor.  One of the best creators on the platform.  Yea, I'm willing to give him all the time in the world if he just keeps creating masterpieces like this or "The Gentleman Pirate".  They've gotten me through some dark, dark times.  I just feel like shit for not being able to financially support his work.

🍒 on top is that he brings many of my other favorite creators as guests!  Seeing Wendigoon was like seeing an old "friend" after watching his channel for however long.  Same with Ordinary Things, every time I see that blonde mop - my heart smiles.  He's another whose videos I'd only skip if I was completely incapacitated.

But again, to each their own.  I respect your right to voice the need to have monkeys dance as many times as you say so.  Cheers!

Discovery for sure though since after eating up Warner they’ve been making the worst fucking decisions ever

Television these days doesn't seem to understand or appreciate the value of having a story-telling structure in their narrative. Instead of having just boring casual dialogue over long clips of wild life and nature and what-not, Internet historian actually goes to great length to tell A STORY.  You know how few do it as well? When people tell stories they almost intentionally leave out the EXPERIENCE and the subjective emotional value, far too often I see stories striped of their meaning and replaced with facts and observations.

Granted IH might also be simply reading from a well done book to begin with, but still. BOOKS, are under rated to say the least. The power of a story teller transcends human civilization.

If you don't mind 1 video every 20 years


Every time I think this story must be coming to an end, oooooh no there's more


ever hear of  the cave of song?  also known in some stories as the breathing cave? the absolutely most terrifying cave/cave complex ive ever heard of.


Amazing. I had moments of my hand over my mouth and I had to resist skipping to the end or looking it up, what an up and down.


Can you imagine the things Floyd mind was playing on him , things he could hear and feel my god that’s scary 😟


I’ve never heard this story before and was rooting for this poor guy so hard. How cruel for them to treat him like that after his death. The love his brother had for him is very clear though

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holy freaking claustrophobia on absolute maximum extreme i almost freaking shit myself and pulled all my hair out at the same time. good LORD, i absolutely hate caves but i took this class called the forest. i had to deal with cannibals in deep dark caves, and by god once you reach the light the feeling of pure GLORY is something to behold. never again will i submit myself to such horror. that is, until the reappearing of our lord and saviour. from the deepest darkest cave you could ever imagine, february twenty third twenty twenty three. remember the day my friends. stay in the light.


I remember listening to a podcast about this years ago.  They ended up coming to the conclusion that capitalism prevented him from being saved.  I was baffled then, am I still am that that's what they got out of this.


Salute to you for the quality content I'd never watch 1hr video on other channels


The woman in the background, who no matter what, kept reading is such a mood. No matter if she screams at people to not enter a cave or looks at a dead man in a glass coffin, she keeps reading. I get her😆


My man basically suffered through life and death I feel bad for him


I absolutely adore the way this video was done! 😍


I wish that all historical video you see that museums were this good.

I’d watch this for hours


This was amazing sad and suspenseful 10 out of 10


Perhaps it's just me with a sad, heartbreaking thought, but I think Floyd held on and on through agony and suffering until the moment that lightbulb went out. He probably felt it, and assumed they had decided to give up on him, so he likely closed his eyes and let go, succumbing to the cave.

Such a sad tale. Can't imagine how slowly time must have passed for him.

@My 9th Account I mean its the same as the people who profit off the suffering of others in foreign countries through charity organizations. Some of them ban donations less than a hundred dollars knowing full well it'll peer pressure some people into donating more than they want to. Then never solve the problem to begin with, just send in a couple of tuna sandwiches and use the rest to fly around the country in private jets. Or my favorite the news media giving clout to monsters and insisting something else is the problem and not the attention given to someone who did a heinous act knowing people will do anything for attention.

@JonokBR ™

What kills me is that they could’ve made a fortune on the cave and the gravesite alone.  There wasn’t even a reason to exhume the body from a economic standpoint.  The guy just did it for the hell of it.

@My 9th Account Well said mate, the way they just desecrated his body even after all he went through, its just revolting.

@StyxDescension Shit, if this particular part is factual, he may have (potentially in delirium) nearly gotten someone else stuck down there with him, just so that he didn't have to be alone. I can't even begin to imagine what that would have been like, and it's going to haunt me for the rest of the day.

In response to people saying "it kept him warm so he died": yes, you're absolutely right, that probably was the main cause of death, but also, he already assumed people were trying their very best to save him, and he'd already noticed them starting to visit less and less, because it was becoming harder to do so. The moment that bulb went out, he probably assumed they cut it as a way to say they weren't coming anymore. Even though in actuality, the bulb just died. But his hope he'd been holding onto, died there.

I took it more as the bulb quite literally keeping him alive through warmth. Once it burned out, and with no more food coming to him, his body didn't have the energy to keep him alive.

Yes, that light bulb was his only source of hope, and honestly it was probably helping him stay a little bit warmer so he didn't succumb to exposure. Really sad story

@JonokBR ™ morale of the story, don't go into caves, like why do people do this let me put myself into a fucking crack in the wall

I thought the exact same thing. That light was his last lifeline to the rest of the world. When it burned out so too did any hope he had left.

@Stapled Cranium Anyone who is reading or leaving comments before watching the entire video deserves all the spoilers that come with it.

@Stapled Cranium Feel free to stop reading the comments when you should be watching and listening to the video!

@JonokBR ™

This story really is human nature in miniature.  The good and the bad.  Heroics, ingenuity, dedication and courage.  Counterbalanced by mindlessness, ineptitude, profiteering and depravity.

What disgusts me is that the ultimate victors of this whole debacle are the vultures.  The kind of guys who think turning a corpse into a tourist attraction is remotely acceptable.  If he simply died in there and his body was recovered it wouldn’t have been nearly as bad.  The shit that came after just further increased my misanthropic tendencies…

Its not just a sad heartbreaking thought, its factual he was alone in pain, with nothing to warm him up and the idiots outside who werent trying to dig him up, were just making it harder for the people who were trying to help, its a shitty situation that no one deserves to be in, the moral of the story is: get those who want to help and are able to help engaged and no one else, other people will just want to get their hands on their own profit and that is just part of human nature: "if they dont care, they will not care that they will be making things harder for you". Really shows you need to have good and strong conections like gerald and his brother, and that there are some good people out there like miller.

Ps: Just wanted to get this shit out of my chest, fucking traumatizing bullshit heart-wrenching fucking real goddamned story.


Did he expect visitors to take the same route? The turnaround room and all the other mess? Looks like he was working on the wrong spot then and got himself killed. Also, only bringing one light and then not triple checking it is filled all the way to the top?
This guy killed himself with stupidity.

All he had to say was "I'm stuck, Step-sister"


Man the internet historian is a good story teller!

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If you love this story, I highly recommend the old classic movie, "Ace in the hole", with Kirk Douglas


My professor talked about this in class a week ago. Pretty interesting this was in my feed. I go to school 30 minutes away from mammoth cave too! Fun learning!


Man.<br>This quickly escalated from one of the most wholesome hope inducing stories about people working together to an astonishing series of certified society moments.

Man.
This quickly escalated from one of the most wholesome hope inducing stories about people working together to an astonishing series of certified society moments.

That's the real world. After every act of heroism or every tragedy is a media circus hoping to make a quick buck through irreverence.

@Miðgarðsormr Apophis Someone died in the Nutty cave

@John Smith Don't look up Nutty Putty cave


He got so obsessed with making a path he didn’t think about whether it was really viable. If no one would go down the squeeze to begin with it doesn’t matter if you can technically access the cavern


Good grief, that was a rollercoaster. Nicely done, IH.


I just love how IH continues to subtly show his love to L.A Noire


This truly hurt to watch I’m getting claustrophobic from looking at this lol great work❤


As an IRL rescue worker, I must have to say, that the bystanders who do nothing beside passively making the situation worse while having an opinion on everything, is all too familiar. Some things never change indeed.

@gxlorp  panic is no excuse for shitty or disruptive behavior. If you can't keep your composure, it is very much your fault. And yes, half a dozen people can very much be overtaken by mob mentality. Among other reasons, that is why friends and family are usually removed from near the patient, with force sometimes if neccecary. Let them calm down first. It baffling how agressive and violent people can be towards those who are trying to help. Even the patients themselves(assuming they are awake). God forbid they watched too much shitty medical drama and agressively yell at medics and doctors how they know better.

@Sharm Gidly there are tons of things someone can do. Call an ambulance for starters, stop bleedings enough to save a life, provide valuable information, place the person in a stable position or even provide cpr. You don't have to be particularly experienced or trained to do this. Until there are no professionals at hand even minimal help can be life saving. That is my opinion on the subject. Also, not every emergency is strictly medical in nature, and there are examples where conscriping bystanders is a viable strategy.

If you're an IRL rescue worker then you should know that inexperienced bystanders would make things even worse by trying to help

Sounds like a woman could've entered the narrow hole better

@BeardyBadger you're scared by that? You're sheltered and don't understand human psychology or trauma. The friend almost died, friends aren't going to act rational if they are experiencing emotional trauma. It sounds like you were traumatized too. You ironically put yourself in the same category as the person you were scared of, by the very act of being afraid. What's more the paramedics weren't phased by the friend at all. They know how to deal with shit. Mob mentality? You pulled that out of a hat. A mob doesn't apply to a half dozen people.

@Daniels Vībots my collegue who were at several cave rescue effort said that "today we most likely would use controlled microexplosions, to chip away enough stone around him, enlarging the tunnel to free him."

@Ciaphas Cain what would you (or any other rescue team) have done to save him?

People are the same, only technology is different

@4rkain3 not quite. A lot has changed since. First, there would be a rescue team there within hours, who would have sent the people away, second we have drones, small explosives that can chip away rocks, without causing much collateral, better mining equipment and other tools, which run on electricity importantly, and oxygen systems, i probably can't name all of it. And even without them, as I see it, this man was lost becouse of the lack of a coordinated effort.

At least now we have professional rescue workers. That’s the ONLY thing that’s really changed here (and speed of information, but that would’ve just led to more onlookers).

Even the methods they used to get him out would be virtually the same as the options available to us today.

I get you, I'm a nobody really but all we all want is perfection, and it's impossible to expect it from people, but nobody really thinks about themselves

the more ignorant they are the more opinion they have - that one dr on fnv

Have you tried hitting them every time they said something stupid?

@Coffeeisnecessarynow What are you, a Bot? 🤨

@Coffeeisnecessarynow Why? Can't he just sod off already? lol

@BeardyBadger paramedic is one of the most important yet underappreciated jobs, among the chain of healthcare workers. They are overworked and underpayed, for essentially saving everyone. Thanks for stopping to help. More people should do it, instead of watching and doing nothing beside being in the way and eroding your faith in humanity.

Bro I once found myself behind a car who did a hit and run on a pedestrian. we stopped to help but I am still scarred by the attidude of the friends of the person getting hit, who tried to assault the paramedics because "IT TOOK TOO LONG FOR YOU TO GET HERE!!!!"

Mob mentality is scary, best of luck out there and thanks for the hard work you do!

I gotta admit, I kinda read your comment in Stephen Perring's voice, after seeing your name...

@Jeff Bezos without the pesos If slowing down causes an accident then the person behind was tailgating and should have had his license taken away to begin with.

@Incurable Romantic I mean both good and bad people were in this story. It should be an even split.

This video has seriously dented my faith in humanity. And I didn't have much of that before hand.

It may not be much, but Bless You for being one of the guys who gets in and does the rescuing instead of being one of <i>them</i> .

It may not be much, but Bless You for being one of the guys who gets in and does the rescuing instead of being one of _them_ .

Yeah, I have stopped for an accident to help when it just happend and I can be among the first to arrive but, once there are half a dozen people around an accident it's unlikely you can help unless you are trained to do so. People need to realize that if professionals are working to resolve a problem a crowd will not help them, and it will likely only make it harder to be efficient. Rescue workers need s p a c e not 2 dozen people standing around giving them unsolicited opinions and being a general distraction.

A lot of traffic jams are caused not by accidents, but onlookers on the opposite lane slowing down to gawk.

I can believe your testimony because you regularly rescue the 597th Valhallan from danger all too often


Something like this happened recently in Morocco when a child fell into a well.<br>It became national news and at some point neighbouring countries were also invested in it.

Something like this happened recently in Morocco when a child fell into a well.
It became national news and at some point neighbouring countries were also invested in it.


There’s something so soothing about the SFX that IH uses in his videos, I can’t put my finger on it


this cave was so good, even the shelbys fought over it.


I wouldn’t call myself claustrophobic, but I couldn’t imagine wedging myself through a space that small.


"It's 100 years later. He's dead. Let's call it even." was a great way to disarm some of the hate I was feeling for the bad actors in the story.

@Africa it's the kids and grandkids that are the reason that he was reburied properly. They were the ones who left off after the family did. This whole video gets the Collins family Dynamic wrong in the first place. Pretends like Lee didn't give a shit about his son in this too. Honestly you shouldn't believe a word that this video says. It is practically fictional compared to the true events.

for you maybe. I'm gonna track down their great grandkids and cyberbully the fuck out of em tbh.

It does nothing really. Especially when he tells the story blatantly falsely throughout the entire doc.

@Xen N Which just proves there's assholes all over the globe.

Ironic isn't it. Under a comment about letting hate go, all the replies are angry people pointing fingers at each other.

Humanity will never change.

@Flicks Yeah cause you euroweirdos don't get mad about things dead people did. Hey how long has Britain and France been at odds on and off? A thousand years you say? Damn.

A true statement to be sure, but never forget that nothing happens in a vaccum and our actions ripple out into the future.

I'ma start using this phrase.  It's a good one to use.

I AM THE BEEST YOUUTUBER YOU'RE ALL TRAASH COMPARED TO ME IM THE BEEST 😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯

I love how he didn't say that for the guy who made his corpse into a tourist attraction. Fuck that guy.

@Ken I mean i don't really have an opinion on the subject but thanks for sharing yours.

@Francisco Pereira I don't get why public sentiment should ever change towards someone when they die. Seems like a dumb thing to complain about, people being bothered at a person's actions after they die. Like no shit if their legacy is harmful they will be remembered for it

@Paul Newman americans mad at dead people...lol what u mean by that

A lesson Ireland is in desperate need of learning.

@𒈨𒈛𒄩𒆠 "and that was my opinion so you don't have to lecture me either"

I got on your case not because of your opinion on the matter but due to you lack of reading comprehension, you can tell because i made 0 comments on your opinion, like did you just not read my comment or something?

" and i was asking him which americans angry at which dead people in other words i was asking for context"

Except you just flat out didn't, you asked: "who are you referring to in this instance?" so only which americans not at who they are angry with, and if you really wanna know the answer to your first and only question: He was making a generalization, it's not refencing anyone in specific.

"pretty self explanatory if you have <60 iq lol."

Ironic coming from the person that needed to be correct on what he himself fucking wrote.

"additionally he also says "blaming alive people" without any evidence or context."

Again i don't really care for the subject at hand, i only got on your case because of the way you chose to interpret Paul's comment.

@Francisco Pereira and that was my opinion so you don't have to lecture me either and i was asking him which americans angry at which dead people in other words i was asking for context - pretty self explanatory if you have <60 iq lol. additionally he also says "blaming alive people" without any evidence or context.

@Flicks foreigners always have to come through and reveal how rent free americans are to them by thinking replying to something means you're angry :/

they can dish it out but can't take it<br>Edit; point proven thanks Xen:') + learn the meaning of foreign, on an Australian channel, mad about a Polish guy's reply you are the foreigner

they can dish it out but can't take it
Edit; point proven thanks Xen:') + learn the meaning of foreign, on an Australian channel, mad about a Polish guy's reply you are the foreigner

The mur'cans always have to come through and prove people right, by getting mad at shit that means nothing:') it's one reply on a comment lads chill out<br>Edit; RIP the americans' chill, 2022

The mur'cans always have to come through and prove people right, by getting mad at shit that means nothing:') it's one reply on a comment lads chill out
Edit; RIP the americans' chill, 2022

@𒈨𒈛𒄩𒆠 "who are you referring to in this instance?"

He was referring to the americans that are angry at dead people, pretty self explanatory i would say.

"no one american or not is obligated to feel any less hate for people in history just because you do too."

He was most likely giving his opinion and not claiming that people have a moral obligation to do as he says, in fact why did you interpret it in that way anyways?
Like did you read his comment and think: "Hmm yes when he says "No point in getting emotional about it and looking for alive people to blame." He wasn't just giving his opinion he was making the claim that there is objectively no value in such an activity, that is clearly the most logical conclusion" - 🤓🤓

@Paul Newman who are you referring to in this instance? no one american or not is obligated to feel any less hate for people in history just because you do too.

@Paul Newman "way too many americans" its funny because generational grudges literally fueled the rise and fall of empire throughout history

Honestly, no problem with thinking the guy acted like a huge dip, but there’s honestly nothing that can, or SHOULD, be done. Letting it go really is the only option. At most, just point it out as some sort of morality tale, or as something to wax philosophical about on the nature of man, but eh, we all really should have better things to occupy our time with.

Yeah. Way too many Americans are angry at dead people these days. Just learn from the story and don't commit the same mistakes and bad acts. No point in getting emotional about it and looking for alive people to blame.

Nah, their great great great grandkids are gonna catch heat in school now because the history teacher wanted an easy day and put on this video

In all seriousness, I could see people get up in arms about this. Easy way to put out a fuse and not stir a pot that wasn’t even meant to be served with any ill entente

I just didn’t expect him to be returned to the cave as an exhibit. That was truly disheartening. Greed shows it’s wicked green eye every so often

I wish more people would think this way. We could advance society lol


I would it be possible to pull him out if you could somehow get the harness on his lower back instead of chest? Because wouldn’t the upward force sort of pull him into a sitting position outside the cave?


Watching this again, why isnt this a movie?  Truly envious of having such an awesome brother.


my only comment is that Sand Cave was on land owned by Bee Doyle. The cave that Floyd had found on the Collins family farm was Crystal Cave (later advertised as Floyd Collins' Crystal Cave) and that is where Floyd's body was eventually displayed in the glass topped coffin (not in Sand Cave).  Crystal Cave was off the beaten path and tourists looking for a cave tour had many options that were much closer to the main roads.


This was the most anxiety inducing and claustrophobia triggering video I've ever watched!


This and the nutty putty cave incident has convinced me to never ever risk any sort of dangerous caving. Dying by being stuck in a cave sounds unbelievably horrid.

Yeah, I’m not really sure what this guy was thinking. I get it, he wanted to make money, but crawling through such tight gaps that he could only inch along with his feet? Yeah…that’s just insane.

It'd be like drowning, but prolonged for tortuous amounts of time.

@AbsoluteZeroChill so statistically the chances of injury in caving are higher if 15 people get injured but only 100 trips are taken (and bear in mind injury isn't fatality) then that's a 15% chance if 1500 people get injured over a suitably multiplied number like a million, that's only 0.15% caving is often guided by experienced people who assess tourists for suitable skill level, nobody asks if you're competent or safe when you buy a bike for you or your kid, bikes are pretty unregulated, but you'll sure as hell be asked what experience you have if you want someone to risk their own life to show you some caves because you just think it seems cool.
The severity of injury or sources aren't taken into account with those statistics either. Falling off your bike might result in a trip to A&E (which adds to the statistic even if they stick a band aid on you) and a school will keep records of a kid getting injured on the way to or on the school grounds (massively pushing that number up) but falling down a shaft is going to result in a pretty big rescue situation because you're probably not climbing out yourself and realistically, people go into cave systems themselves with little to no experience and are never seen again so they can't add to the statistic. Do things like that happen? All the time.
I was driving around the thistlegorm when about 12% of the outer hull broke off unexpectedly(that's a friggin huge piece of steel), if it had hit people there would have immediately been deaths and despite it being a reasonably advanced dive, tourists dive it every day. If people could just jump into the water there when they pleased I guarantee there would be a massive death rate at that site just like at the blue hole where "experts" made a concerted effort to have the site declared a mass grave by individually trying to beat the caves and running out of air unbeknownst to anybody until they're identified much later, sometimes years later. Oh and for perspective on the statistics of the place, new bodies appear there all the time and nobody knows when they entered, the closest they can guess is by how modern their equipment is.

@AbsoluteZeroChill statistics don’t really give you an accurate indication of risk in these situations. The experience of your guide is a much greater factor than random chance. Meaning, if you carelessly go caving by yourself as a novice there’s a good chance of getting injured.

@Derzull Ah, Mr Ballen, the channel that traumatized me again and again. Don't forget getting stuck in places you shouldn't, even in normally safe spaces, like that poor guy who got crushed in the trunk of his car. You can be stuck like that anywhere, almost makes you scared of everything.

@TheJadeWizard it's like... 15 people get INJURED every year in recreational cave exploring.<br>More people do biking sure, but the number of injuries for biking is still in the 1000's.

@TheJadeWizard it's like... 15 people get INJURED every year in recreational cave exploring.
More people do biking sure, but the number of injuries for biking is still in the 1000's.

@AbsoluteZeroChill Didn't know they had statistics for these things, learned something new today.

@Julio Flores Certified Therapy yeah I think the lifting and then dropping him multiple times killed him

@Degenerage how did the dude die in that again? was it from the fall when the rig broke?

Perhaps you'd be worse off without a utensil to facilitate your own demise! If you know what I mean

And to think that, you wouldn't be dying in darkness, you'd dissolve into psychosis long before. That is unless you choose to

pulls phantom rope round neck

And to think that, you wouldn't be dying in darkness, you'd dissolve into psychosis long before. That is unless you choose to

*pulls phantom rope round neck*

Mr Ballen's channel is full of those and underwater caves, no thanks!

Number one way to avoid being trapped in a cave: Don't go in a fucking cave.

Small caves are the issue, I could (probably I havent tried) manage a big cave

I’m not afraid of too many ways to die, but this one is by far my biggest fear. No amount of money in the world could get me to do that. A burning building looks much less intimidating to me, honestly.

It would be like a fun fever dream by at least the 3rd day when you're totally dehydrated and squirming around to death.

@TheJadeWizard it's very small. Look at the actual statistics

Probably one of the worst ways to die If you ask me. I would not wish this on my worst enemy.

@Degenerage The most fcked up thing about that (other than the dude dying) were the other cavers who threw a massive tantrum and vandalised his memorial as revenge for the cave being closed and them not allowed to go in anymore

Not sure why I know all of this, not like my fat ass can even think about fitting through that tight of a space, but here we are.

@AbsoluteZeroChill Honestly there is a larger than you think chance of mistaking the right path for the wrong one, I think that is one of the most common ways of getting stuck besides being reckless as hell. I've heard a few stories like that, mostly cave diving as it's confusing but normal caves too.

well yeah, avoid "dangerous" caving. Personally, unless you know there's a big room on the other side, never go through a space where you must exhale to go through.

I've noticed that any caving accident relating to getting stuck in a tight spot often ends in tragedy. There's just something about the finality of two impenetrable walls of near-unlimited rock and stone that's horrifying to me. I always fear getting a nightmare about this.

Oh no not the nutty putty cave incident why did you have to remind me

At least you should go caving underwater so your death is reasonably quick. The only thing worse than death by cave would be death by radiation sickness. Dear God, I hope internet Historian doesn't do a video about the Demon Core or Hisashi Ouchi....


First visit to the channel for me and I was like, "does Wendigoon's head know these guys are using it's image and if so is it ok with this?" The head says stuff and sounds like Wendigoon so I felt like probably yes. <br>Next thing you know there's Tommy Shelby and the Peaky Blinders because why not and then I'm like, "there is a lot going on here and I'm going to have to watch this several times on account of my deficit of attention."

First visit to the channel for me and I was like, "does Wendigoon's head know these guys are using it's image and if so is it ok with this?" The head says stuff and sounds like Wendigoon so I felt like probably yes.
Next thing you know there's Tommy Shelby and the Peaky Blinders because why not and then I'm like, "there is a lot going on here and I'm going to have to watch this several times on account of my deficit of attention."


How is this simultaneously funny, tragic, and utterly horrifying?


This telling was so good, I got confused trying to find it again and went to Jacob Geller's channel for a moment, would want to see a wacky collab with him


It's so infuriating that all those people gathering outside the cave got to live


By the last 5 minutes I'm just like <b>"HAS THIS MAN NOT GONE THROUGH ENOUGH?!? Just let him be at peace!!"</b>

By the last 5 minutes I'm just like *"HAS THIS MAN NOT GONE THROUGH ENOUGH?!? Just let him be at peace!!"*

@Shakes.Don't know what yer gettin why would someone even do that at this point!?

Nobody tell him that someone since dug him up and stuffed him back in the cave...

But the bit about the two mysterious mens hurling Floyd's body into the sky and missing the river is hilarious though ngl xD

american capitalism at its best at making (even dead) people's life miserable


"Naturally, the AP published these telegrams unquestioningly"

Very little has changed since that time...

_"Naturally, the AP published these telegrams unquestioningly"_

Very little has changed since that time...


Now that this is popular I guess we totally don't have to worry about anyone getting stuck in that cave ever again.


I love the voice work, everything about this is amazing

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Imagine you’re stuck under ground and there’s an entire carnival on top of you.


"Don't worry Floyd, tomorrow you'll be a free man"
Last seen online 95 years ago

"Don't worry Floyd, tomorrow you'll be a free man"
*Last seen online 95 years ago*

@Jordan playes games You are too young for YouTube my friend.

how was he last seen 95 years ago YouTube wasn't around back then??

Џон Мастерман

If doctors were in there they would not have lied to him like that 💀

Lol amc be like tomorrow is the day we squeeze <br>95 years later: finally breaks $20

Lol amc be like tomorrow is the day we squeeze
95 years later: finally breaks $20


i would have already lost my nerves crawling into the cave

especially the squeeze. fuck just to imagine that gives me the creeps. i am only 3 minutes in and i feel trapped just seeing this

 i can't imagine not being able to move for that long


Dude, I'm still laughing over here. Very imaginative, delightfully smart-assed.


Man when the YouTube algorithm works..... It fucking works. I've never heard of this channel but I'm sooooo glad it came up on my feed because this was a fantastic hour. Instant sub Mr. Historian!!

Edit: This was highly engrossing. Literally I could not stop watching!!!


I've never been so immersed in a story before.


I never imagined a video made up almost entirely of memes and stock photos could induce such an overwhelming feeling of tension and claustrophobia.  What fantastic writing and editing!

It's an absolute travesty that after his brother worked so hard to have Floyd's body freed and given a proper burial, a complete stranger dug him up and locked him back inside the cave, trapping him worse than the cave itself ever did.

@Yiti Blah bla Yeah, seen them all already.  Quite a wide range of topics, tones and emotions, but nothing so heavy as this.

@High Definition I wasn't putting him down. No need to nitpick what I said.

@Yiti Blah bla movies? Plus, they don't really give much of a feeling of anxiety and claustrophobia lol

You should watch his other movies then lol


I absolutely love the army of diggers filing into the cave like rustic oompa loompas.


“Ave ya seen the heed?!” Is statement I’ve heard. It was a bit bizarre. We went to the place. It was a mummified European monk’s head in a formaldehyde tank or something. So odd. It’s it’s just off and and and weirdly macabre to say the least. Eesh.


This story would actually inspire Billy Wilder's "Ace in the Hole (The Big Carnival)" released in 1951 which has a much darker and gritty tone to it but it is an incredible movie I would absolutely recommend.


This story reminds me of Tony Kurtz on Mount Eiger as told by Joe Simpson in The Beckoning Silence.  So close to salvation yet gripped by death.


Mad respect for Miller, he's only in it for journalism but my man, he's one of the most dedicated member on saving Floyd!

Only in it for journalism? After he got the interview with Floyd he could've moved on with his career, but he kept helping anyway. I think he realized how important he was because he was one of the only men slender enough and ballsy enough to get to Floyd.

@mrshmuga9 One good man does not redeem a profession of scoundrels, crooks, and vultures.<br>The press was yellow long before him, and was so long afterwards. Hell, journos even exaggerated and misreported this very story at the time it was ongoing.

@mrshmuga9 One good man does not redeem a profession of scoundrels, crooks, and vultures.
The press was yellow long before him, and was so long afterwards. Hell, journos even exaggerated and misreported this very story at the time it was ongoing.

@mrshmuga9 Not really, newspapers have always been terrible. He was basically a outsider that accidently stumbled on a big story. The industry was more interested in rumours and conspiracy theories (such as those shown in this video) He would later be fired and then move on to working in television.

@straight white male Take your meds you schizo

@TazmilyGum go away already jesus christ

@Random garbage I found on my hard drive really good point actually. Thanks random stranger on the internet.

@Random garbage I found on my hard drive yeah I got that but what relevance does any of this even have.

@Peace Master Still retracted on that one. Not seeing that nowadays, just mysteriously deleted from their pages (as if there wasn't any webpage archival tool an average guy can use).

@mrshmuga9 Funny you say that because the mainstream news was publishing outright lies in this story too. At least they corrected themselves later, I guess

@mrshmuga9 wouldn't go that far corpos,elite cabalists,masonic lodges always ruled the mass/mainstream media since medieval ages.

I feel like it started out only as journalism but I feel like he ended up just actually caring in the end.

@straight white male hilarious and original

@Parsaattle this was 100 years ago mate of course hes dead

@mrshmuga9 "Back when there was real journalism"

Yeah, real journalism like "FLOYD CAVE HOAX EXPOSED". 😂

@Republicshallriseagain There are journalists literally being murdered for trying to bring you the truth, but sure, shit on the whole profession for cheap Internet points.

@Republicshallriseagain Back when there was real journalism.

Back when there were real men in journalism


Miller trying to get the rock off using a crowbar, a floor jack, and two stacks of wood is just standard operating procedure in a garage setting.


It was kinda painful to watch this video knowing that, in the end, it doesn't have a happy ending at all.


Had me hooked from the beginning. What a tragic story.


So does anybody have pictures of the cave hallow he was working towards?  Kinda wanna know what was so beautiful a man risked his life to open it up.


Homer is seriously the best bro you could ever ask for. He’ll crawl into a dank cave, squeeze into a terrifying little cave opening with no hesitation, and do everything in his power to save his family.  This video was amazing and I’ve already watched it too many times. Also I’m glad to finally find a channel that supports tank on tank romance.

@ChangedNames
NNOOOOOOOOOO....
They have NO business, at all, in telling a person what he can or can't do.
Unless you are directly endangering another life
You should be able to do whatever you choose
They only exist to protect our shores, and our interests.

@Manored remember he didint even know the dude risked his life went in and out multiple times and in the end he rejected a million $ offer meaning he literally did it for nothing but honor and respect

@ChangedNames Also blame the bystanders who caused the cave to collapse in the first placed while also saying they were going to free him while doing nothing.

@My 9th Account Blame the government who allowed such actions to happen

Indeed!  Bless the man for being so steadfast for Floyd.

You watched the video many time? But why?

The worst part of it all is that not only did they not succeed, the ultimate victor in this whole affair are the vultures.  Guys who think it’s acceptable to put a corpse in the cave that killed him even after another team of people fought to get the body out and pay people 50 cents a pop to see.

Miller was a pretty great dude too. Went there for a story, ended up risking his life to try to pull the dude out. He didn't have to go that far, but he did.


It was hard to take it seriously with Wendigoon's face right there! I had to giggle!