The fact that ALL those efforts were made and he still died, made my heart sink. Poor guy

@Azoniar NL Bro I didn't put the words dumb and his fault in your mouth.

@Azoniar NL most empathetic person on yt

@Niix  people read the comments while watching the video. Dunce

@Azoniar NL I don't blame because he was desperate to earn money and make a better life for himself.<br>Only thing I can think of is that he shouldn't have gone alone and had help, (friend or family) with him whenever he went down there. First day wouldn't have been wasted then

@Azoniar NL I don't blame because he was desperate to earn money and make a better life for himself.
Only thing I can think of is that he shouldn't have gone alone and had help, (friend or family) with him whenever he went down there. First day wouldn't have been wasted then

@Whispasta dude why you read the comments before ending the video???

@Niix He was desperate. People do ridiculous things when they're desperate and in the brink of dying.

I wouldn't say poor guy after he tried to trap another miner with him

@Justin Y With Mustache Access damn youre putting alot of words in my mouth based on a few sentences I wrote.

I always come to Internet Historian to feel claustrophobic and uncomfortable

@Azoniar NL If someone dies and you say we'll it's his own fault for being down there in the first place, it would sound like you are saying, well he deserved it then he shouldn't of been down there.

@Azoniar NL It's his own fault, and? You called him dumb and you say you're "torn on it" like as if you're sympathetic with the man. He more than all people thought he was dumb for not only trapping himself there but also "troubling" that many people based off of the statements he gave. You saying the choices he made up to that point was dumb and his own fault is not just pointing out the obvious, it's also insensitive, almost as if trying to make the suffering the man went through trivial because "it's his fault", even if that wasn't your intention that's how it came off. You're right, you didn't say he deserved it. You said he was dumb for going caving and that's his fault, thank you captain obvious.

@Karl Dilkington there are mistakes that you have to actively make. I've never been trapped in a cave because I've never been in one.

@Hồ Nguyễn Hoài Bảo fair enough m8. Maybe if it wos like some mega deep shi emotion would capture me but don't have enemies like that do I. Respect the grind set doe. Also rip Floyd. Free my guy... from the cave.

@Aidan CB I would l, they are enemies after all, not Floyd tho.

@Azoniar NL wouldnt wish that on my worst enemy

@Karl Dilkington Did I say he deserved it??? No.. I said I was torn on it and it was his own fault and thats different then saying he deserved it..

@Azoniar NL yer but he seemed like a good dude. It's a horrible way to go only the worst of the worst deserve that kind of end. Yer he was very dumb to go down there especially alone but still

Reminds me of the nutty putty incident. Basically a very similar thing happened with the same results. I'm never ever going in a cave.

@Azoniar NL Someone dying because they made a mistake is deserving to you? Shame on you sir or madam.

@Azoniar NL i’m sure he spent more than enough time berating himself for that. had he been freed 100 hours in he never would of gone caving again. also if you really think he deserved it, well, he did die down there so

And not only that.. his body has been desecrated and paraded for years on. And that was ok back in the day since the dentist did make a profit from this.

Im with torn on this, i would call him poor but he made the absolute dumb decision to go in there. It was his own fault.


The moment I saw Floyd Collins dead, I just had about the loudest "NOOOOOOOO" I have ever had in my entire life. This story was a damn rollercoaster

@Riley Avi Druger This is exacly why you should never read comments while watching such videos in the first place :/

@Riley Avi Druger Why are you in the comments if you are still watching the video? Can your ADHD ridden zoomer brain not focus on one thing at a time?

The hopeful music right before the revelation fooled me: I really thought he had made it 😔


gerrald the absolute GOAT tho, man went down there and single handedly made more progress than anyone else had, did it again, kept doing it, saw the cave had caved in, kept doing it, then almost broke his back, legend


Every time Gerald promised Floyd was getting out soon broke my heart. Bless Gerald, Homer, and Miller for their tenacity

@BrightForest Those people who stopped him are dead now, so it's even.


Floyd, Miller, Gerald, this video has some of the bravest people I've ever heard of! What a heartbreaking story.

I think Miller might be the most impressive out of all of them. Guys a goddamn journalist, as soon as he published his story he had no obligation to help the man out maybe outside of publicity for his himself and his newspaper. Regardless I imagine he probably would have little to no experience with physical activities so the lengths he went through to save that man is honestly impressive

@Maverick 16  they were friends. and obviously he was a real friend. Yes it might have been stupid logically but he did everything he could to save his friend.

@Maverick 16 Didn’t even attempt the squeeze opinion rejected

there's a fine line between bravery and stupidity. floyd clearly the later.


Being in a claustrophobia inducing cave is bad enough.

Being TRAPPED in such a cave? That's something that no one person should ever endure.

97 years later, and an inflation fetishist is speculating on this mans harrowing death.

remember what IH said, he had been doing this for a long time and was already rescued once from a harrowing situation. at that point claustrophobia doesn't strike you as bad, and neither does being stuck in a life-threatening situation i guess

On top of being trapped in the darkness, unable to move, and all alone? I wouldn't wish that upon my greatest enemy.

@TheDeckinator The self-responsibility seminar is in the next room, sir.

@TheDeckinator Ok but what does that have to do with anything tho lmao

Being trapped underground in complete darkness is very, very not fun.

I think one these people that don't have a 'survivall' reflex. They are in real danger but don't truly realise it.

I remember this asshole he was stealing artifacts from caves and selling them, good riddance.

Yeah, man, I’m trying not to think about how fucking terrifying that would be. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.

I can get like looking for adrenaline highs and stuff and even typical cave exploration but i will never understand how people want to squeeze into holes they can only fit in with no air in their lungs.


my god , you can just post anything now . i hope this video lands you a nice car .


This is better than any movie Hollywood is turning out these days.  This had me gripped from start to finish.  I can't wait to see more content like this.

Truly. Good old fashioned story telling at its finest.

I love to watch IH's videos, no doubt. But this story would make a good full-length feature film. It even has an unhappy ending to make you feel crestfallen and an oddball postscript.


Despite such a sad ending, its still amazing how everyone bound together to try and rescue him. From his brother to complete strangers. Rescuers crying when they realized they didn’t reach him on time. One can only hope that if we are ever in trouble, people will help us out.

@frozenbacon yeah, I mean definitely modern technology allows us to do so much more than back then. But I need ignoring the dumb onlookers who were lighting fires, what was the alternative? You still needed people to go inside and attempt to rescue him so it was inevitable that some heat would be exerted. But yes, as other people, and you mentioned Dash I presume there was some rudimentary understanding of these types of caves, and the fact that people lit fires was just insane.

whatever it is, I’m staying the fuck out of caves  😅😅😅

@Elton Smith oh no definitely. But I am talking specifically about those who helped.<br>Sadly nearly in all cases where a tragedy is ongoing almost always you have people gawking. Call it morbid curiosity or whatever. At least it wasn’t all just people gawking and recording it for internet or something. I once remember someone got stabbed in a Moscow metro and instead of helping the person people were just recording it :(

@Elton Smith oh no definitely. But I am talking specifically about those who helped.
Sadly nearly in all cases where a tragedy is ongoing almost always you have people gawking. Call it morbid curiosity or whatever. At least it wasn’t all just people gawking and recording it for internet or something. I once remember someone got stabbed in a Moscow metro and instead of helping the person people were just recording it :(

@Lukycharms lol, if it's condensing a full 10 other videos it can't be very similar to any one of them, so it really can't be plagiarism. Besides, it's fucking history how much originality can you possibly have when describing the same facts? Not to mention this video follows the same general format as every other Internet Historian video, so unless you're saying the entire channel is plagiarised, then the format can't be stolen either. So what are you even claiming is stolen?

@Lukycharms "ten other channels read the wikipedia entry to this historic event first this guy is a plagiarist!" ok kid

@Lukycharms luke just because your 10th grade teacher called you out on copying your assignment from wikipedia doesn't mean this video is plagarism

This video is plagiarism from about 10 other smaller channels. This video is completely stolen.

What really sucks is: if they had stuck to their initial idea of just digging him out, it might have worked!

@Rsome Tom I will never understand people who read comments before watching a video. What do you expect people to be talking about?

@Rsome Tom maybe don't read the comments to an hour long video before watching

@Rsome Tom Why would someone read the comments before watching the video? And where are the people who finished the video "allowed" to discuss the events in the video?

The people helping wasn't the problem but the hundreds of onlookers doing nothing and going in and out of the cave as well as lighting bonfires is what caused the cave in. If they only got out of the way and only let the people actually doing something they may have been able to get him out in time.

Sad ending is an understatement. I am trying to put myself in a situation where a loved one's corpse is dug up and disrespected like this then upheld in a court and I can't imagine a scenerio where my reaction didn't put me in jail and those responsible in coffins of their own.

I am honestly shocked it didn't come to that, I'd have more pity for someone that actually killed my mother than someone that made a mockery of her corpse like that.

Reminds me of Cecil Kelley.

The sad thing is that all the people willing to help is what ended up killing him. All of those warm bodies in the cave caused the ice to melt, softening the rocks, leading to a cave-in. The cave-in may have still happened if they restricted access, but they may definitely would've had more time to rescue him. Thankfully we live in a time where a professional who is perfect for the job is likely just a few phone calls and a plane ride away.


the guy who got himself trapped by going into dangerous caves alone is the real villain of this story


The fact that he even survived that many hours...I would have given up hope the first three days and cried myself to death.

@Sissyphus Sartre  "one must imagine Floyd happy"<br>😉 I like your username but thought  Camus would make for a nice garnish

@Sissyphus Sartre  "one must imagine Floyd happy"
😉 I like your username but thought  Camus would make for a nice garnish

And then you would wake back up, still trapped, still slowly dying....


I knew how this story ended, i knew floyd would die down there, and yet, every second, i was wildly hoping for the best, even questioning if he did die, this is a mark of good storytelling, and a testiment to IH's abilities as a writer, truly magnificent

@Branson Jensen not saying you are upset did i? Just asking and being baffled as too why you did what you did

@MadDany man i really didnt get upset, relax brother

@Branson Jensen why did you bother reading the comment section first then? The comment section is for people to talk about the video, so of course its going to have spoilers. Kids these days lol

@Branson Jensen Lol spoilers on a real life event that happened 100 years ago..

Man dropping hard spoilers. Im going to try to forget i read this


I really wanted to watch new IH but I'm 3:19 in and I can't


When his lightbulb went out, I knew it was over. That light not only provided warmth, but served as a beacon of hope that pressed him to hold on :(

It breaks my heart because I wonder if he didn't know it had just burnt out and people were still working around the clock to save him. Maybe he thought they turned off the light because they were giving up on trying to reach him.

I knew it was over when he was in dark for twelve days without water and food


Dude, the moment it got revealed that he actually did not survive got me Real Bad

Right?! I gasped, I couldn’t believe it. I really thought he was gonna live to tell the tale

@DeathFemboyOfKrieg getting turned on is what he means

@DeathFemboyOfKrieg Sounds like finding out about his death gave you a hard-on.

That's weird but puberty is a bitch, shit happens, don't feel bad  :)

Also I got news for ya. That means you are a necrophiliac ... or again hormones idk lol

I know it was unintentional, but you should really rethink the wording of your comment lol...yikes

First, Stede Bonnet gets executed and now Floyd dies in the cave? Damn, I hope I never end up the subject of an Internet Historian video!

same bro, I was so happy whenever they finally got to him, only for my heart to sink into my stomach when he was found dead :(


Floyd: “This cave is gonna make me rich”<br>Cave: “This man gonna make me famous”

Floyd: “This cave is gonna make me rich”
Cave: “This man gonna make me famous”

Well Floyd DID want to make the cave famous, just not in the way he intended


I've read a lot of stories about caving going wrong and to me this is the most heartbreaking one. Imagine seeing your brother and childhood friend come so close to rescuing you from a cave you've been trapped in for over 100 hours only for the cave to collapse. Then imagine spending days hearing the sound of picks and shovels getting closer only to die from exposure after over 300 hours in the cave. This has got to be the worst way to die.

@Et Cogito Ergo Sum don't worry, you'll get what you deserve for comments like that

@asdkotable Nutty Putty story always gives me mild panic

@PornstarCheese That was what I thought as well when watching this video.
I can understand that being poor can make someone desperate, but this wasn't desperation, just stupidity or stubbornness.

There were many simpler solutions to his problem :
- Dig a bigger entrance to the tunnel and cave, and craft makeshift support with the nearest available ressources, aka wood and steel.
- Work with the competitors to have better infrastructure support for the cave so it can be exploited, all the while getting money by negotiating a cut with said competitors because Lloyd was the proprietor of the cave to begin with. Not considering the fact that there were MULTIPLE competitors who wanted to exploit the mine in the first place, meaning the amount of money he could have made by allowing one company to exploit it and receiving a cut from it would have increased significantly.
- Selling the mine to one company, considering that MULTIPLE companies were interested in exploiting the cave, these companies would have placed higher bids in order to have the rights to exploit it, meaning Lloyd could have had the choice of taking the highest amount.
- Make the fact that a valuable resource is deep inside that cave public to the authorities so it can attract governmental agencies into exploiting it, with Lloyd either collaborating or striking a deal with said agencies.

Instead, we got :
- One man doing the most minimal work by creating smaller than 30cm waist gaps that less than 10% of the population (including minors) can crawl through and thinking "Yeah good enough, tourists will come visit 100% sure".

I'm sorry, but no. No person that would think about the situation more than 2 seconds would agree that the last solution is the best.
This is just karma. He knew the risks, he died. End of story.

There is no way he heard picks and shovels down there

@Al Steak Sauce "I knew you was" Here we are again, gaslighting ghetto boys.

Caving and that kind of stupid shit that irresponsible people do to try to feel adrenaline is flirting with death for absolutely no reason. Karma.

@Clem Diamond Careful about what? The guy thought 22cm tall gaps were attractive to tourists, did a stupid thing, now he's dead. Boo-fucking-hoo.

@NotxEevee Bro I knew you was trolling bro. Nobody listen to this guy, he is copy pasting his response like a whole nerd.

@NotxEevee Be careful with judging people like that. Life has its way at humbling you.

@PornstarCheese He likely had that in mind, but he first had to get something the tourists would be willing to come for so he hadn't thought of opening it up.

@NotxEevee harsh but true. I was also thinking he could have made the hole bigger for tourists. Notice just how few ever wanted to go in for a rescue attempt

@Leon Stassen

More than a bit harsh… I don’t think I’d wish that fate on anyone.

@NotxEevee That's a bit harsh. He was young and ambitious but he also had alot of experience with exploring caves so it is maybe a bit weird he did not have any safety measures in mind. But I certainly feel bad for the guy.

The guy got himself into a stupid situation with no back-up source light, no rope security, and noone to accompany him. Imagine thinking that 23cm tall gaps in underground caves can be considered as "attractive to tourists".<br>Worst way to die, sure, but I won't ever feel bad for someone who got himself in his situation. One less idiot in the world.

The guy got himself into a stupid situation with no back-up source light, no rope security, and noone to accompany him. Imagine thinking that 23cm tall gaps in underground caves can be considered as "attractive to tourists".
Worst way to die, sure, but I won't ever feel bad for someone who got himself in his situation. One less idiot in the world.

This one and the Nutty Putty one are terrifying to me.


That final cave-in made me feel overwhelming sadness and frustration. I can’t even imagine what his final moments were like, all alone in the dark after getting so close to freedom.

It reminds me of the Mossdale Caverns tragedy (which only happened about 40 years after this.)

Yeah reminds me of the guy that died in the Nutty Putty Caves, except this story is even worse. Thinking about the agony Floyd must’ve gone through over two weeks is horrible to just imagine.

they should have just dropped a rock on his head from the ten foot drop. to save him from further pain


Let’s all be honest, we’re probably all mad at the townsfolk who didn’t wiggle through the squeeze to help Floyd, but tell me honestly after watching this that you would be willing to do that given the outcome. those three men that went in after him really were built different.

9 inches is a hell of a gap to try to squeeze through without being fully confident you can fit...  they were built different in quite a literal way.<br>me, I'm a thiccass boi, and my skull+ears are just a bit over 8 inches across.  chest below 9 inches?  probably impossible without breaking something, particularly if I'm already wrenching my head completely 90* sideways to fit.

9 inches is a hell of a gap to try to squeeze through without being fully confident you can fit...  they were built different in quite a literal way.
me, I'm a thiccass boi, and my skull+ears are just a bit over 8 inches across.  chest below 9 inches?  probably impossible without breaking something, particularly if I'm already wrenching my head completely 90* sideways to fit.

@Alex M That’s the thing, I think they did have a chance to save Floyd if the squatters didn’t come and ruin things/make things harder than they needed to be.

why would you add more victims? unless you're certain you have a reasonable chance, don't risk it.


As a kentuckian living near the caves, you have done more research than even your guides have accessible and have put it in a great video. Kudos

Barely did any research actually. Literally had to make a 50 minute long video talking about just the biggest things he got dead wrong in it.

I live near and the locals use only two syllables. Lul-ville

@James x you're not french, u dont have to pronunc it lui ville anymore, it's louisvil

@James x what's the actual pronunciation?

for real, but hearing him miss pronounce louisville is just painful


Between this and the "Nutty Putty" deaths I think a good rule of thumb is "Never enter a cave you can't walk through."

Nah. I can't evade the lure of adventure. I have NO claustrophobia. Almost the opposite honestly. Tight spaces make me comfortable.

Btw not sure about this level but in general yeah.

@Misirter E So preoccupied with whether or not he could he never stopped to think if he should.

He was so focused on making a path that he didn't make sure the path was actually usable.

Never go through a turn or drop you can't walk through. In both cases they were stuck in a turn. If they were stuck in a straight passage they could be pulled out.


This was legitimately heartbreaking, I just feel so bad for him and his brother


Sad as it is that he did not ultimately survive, it is inspiring to see the sheer amount of effort that went into attempting to save him from the cave.


This is an odd word choice, but I can only think to say that this story is actually.. heartwarming, how soooo many people came together and tried so hard to save him. Absolutely insane. The longer it goes on the more I can't comprehend the sheer effort and will. At least he knew he wasn't uncared for in the end

@Jeremy Rugg <br>we get it bro, you are salty about being unpopular. lmao

@Jeremy Rugg
we get it bro, you are salty about being unpopular. lmao

It's harder for something to feel heartwarming when you know the only reason that the state cared for this person is because he was popular, and then you realize all those resources are available, but most people aren't worth it.

@pedro vega antagonists aren't always a person. Sometimes it's an immovable object with a horrifying will of it's own.

@Sarah Van Donsel
what the hell are you talking about. almost no one wanted to help the trapped fool.
and they just made things worse

How all the miners were constantly ready to dig and burn every last calorie of energy in their bodies to do it, people can be so incredibly driven for each other they turn into machines.

In the end tho he would had a much higher chance  of surviving if there was a small team of people. flking tragic how in the end it turned into a circus with like 10 to 20 people actually helping. probably one of the worst ways to go


This story is so much more than I ever could have imagined...Despite the ups and down, despite how stupid some of the ideas were, you gotta give it to these people. The heart was there and people tried. Many only came for the fame and money to be made, but their were so many people rooting for him that I hope he finds peace


OMG, even hearing it is extremely terrifying to me, i will never understand ppl who are willing to shove themselves into the tight squeeze inside a cave. And this guy nontheless, is doing it day after day, gambling with his life till something happens, not if but when


Amazing story telling, combined with tasteful comedy, wish wr could get them more often. Waiting patiently for the next one keep it up


I never would have expected this channel with its unique, goofy editing style would tell such a scary tale. I am surprised how I was still able to take this story completely seriously, despite the moving jpegs of stock images, and youtuber faces.


This video was a more gripping, suspenseful, emotional rollercoaster— than anything marvel has put out in <b>YEARS!!</b>

This video was a more gripping, suspenseful, emotional rollercoaster— than anything marvel has put out in *YEARS!!*


This is exactly the sort of reason why you'd never, never, NEVER get me underground in anything but a highly reinforced and open structure FAR from a fault line.


I'm still baffled that IH did quite a serious story. I haven't heard it before but I find myself watching it over and over and researching a little more into it and my god. Little late homie but GREAT video, and Wendigoon of all people absolutely belongs in a video like this. Great team, great history to learn from, great vid in the end.


Well written narrative, fascinating expressive narrator voice, great character voices, creative visuals, well-chosen music, and best of all (I think) is how the sound effects really bring it to life and evoke a sense of place. I'm so glad I found your channel!

Watch the Cost of Concordia of his. That one is my favourite

Also love the strip of text along the top showing the date/time/hours elapsed


Honestly was grinding out and this was perfect to listen to, as much as I was invested in the game I was playing, this was amazing to listen to, defiantly should do more documentaries like this

He should definitely do more defiant stories.


i put on this video as background ambience as i worked on a drawing and by the 15 minute mark i was almost entirely engrossed in the storytelling. amazing video, i've never been more focused on an hour long video in my entire life


Anyone who squeezes into tiny caves like that is absolutely insane. I don't know if they're daring or just plain stupid


Homer is the kind of brother we all wish we had


Brilliant story, presented extremely well. Kept me up way past my bedtime.


I just hope all the people who worked to make this know, that i watched this instead of my knightly film, and enjoyed it just as much if not more. a actual 9/10 movie experience.


Excellent storytelling.

For anyone interested, the 1951 classic „Ace in the Hole“ tells a fictionalised version of a similar story.


I’m sure this video is amazing, and I’ll get around to watching it, but that zoom out at 5:08 almost gave me a panic attack. It’s one thing to listen to this story (like the Dollop’s excellent episode) but seeing it visualized might be too much for me.


The work you put into your videos is incredible. Thanks.


Internet Historian didn't mention that even when they dug down to Floyd that they still couldn't get him out. It wasn't that it was too dangerous it was that they couldn't get to the pinned leg to remove the rock. When Homer dug him out he had to dig a completely different tunnel so they could get to his pinned leg. So even if Floyd had been alive when they got to him he still wouldn't have been freed for a while.


Excellent storytelling at work. I was devastated to hear the ending.


I love Story time with Internet Historian. ❤<br>Legendary storytelling

I love Story time with Internet Historian. ❤
Legendary storytelling


I saw the Jacob Geller video Fear of Depths a while ago and as soon as I saw the photo of Floyd I knew already that he had died after weeks in the cave, and yet I was still hopeful even when I knew how it ended. I didn't know anything else about the story other than when he died but it was still so well told. Thank you


Truly incredible, had me claustrophobic at the start


I love the use of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault ost. One of my favourite games. Excellent video!


From a simple man to a national sensation. But at what cost?😬<br>PS: Amazing Job by creating this, well done!

From a simple man to a national sensation. But at what cost?😬
PS: Amazing Job by creating this, well done!


I've watched this over and over and I always hope he gets out even though I know the ending.


As sad as these event are, I'm glad in the end he was peacefully laid to rest.


Been to mammoth caves and the formations are beautiful especially the cave waterfalls but some of those entrances are down right horrific. Im talking a 4 ft entrance with an immediate 15 ft drop


This is an absolute masterpiece. Internet historian has always been good content but this.. this puts the history channel to shame.. this is exceptional.

@Super Anderson TV Didn't know you meant THAT side. Yeah in general they're going downhill with their programming, but the things they did put out were actually historical, and got shit right. Unlike this here.

@C Porter like the aliens special they did right? Gtfo

Quite the opposite, considering the History Channell when it does show history, actually tells it correctly without putting a ton of bullshit in that he cant even prove with his sources.


I didn't know about this. Absolutely amazing video. Some of your best work! Thank you!


To those of you in the comments speaking of how poetic his death is: it isn't. There's nothing poetic about dying alone after losing all hope for survival.
I have been caving. Only twice for real, and nothing quite as dangerous as that, but there is real terror in being trapped in a cave alone. Even surrounded by people, with your limbs free, pitch blackness can be terrifying.
He spent hours alone, in the dark, with no one on the other side. Even if he had prepared for something like it as a solo caver, there is nothing quite like the true reality of the situation.
Knowing that, I think no caver would've ever left him in that cave.
I'm glad he's out.


oh man this story worked so well in this format! Great stuff!


This oddly makes me wanna go mining. In a virtual space, where I can't be entombed.


This type of thing is like pure soul horror for me. This is one of the worst case scenarios for existence.


I think this story gives that old saying "but he died doing what he loved to do" a little less traction.


A living cave would make for a really good horror movie imo


This is exactly what I needed. A phobia of caves, nalism and dread watching this at midnight a week from Halloween


I think with today's technology, we should try to get to the cave where Floyd was trying to go in the first place. The beautiful scenery with a massive open space. The place should be named after Floyd to commemorate his resolve.


Not exactly Internet related but…still, nobody can tell a story the way you can.


it’s wild that the whole time this was going on, nobody thought to bring a spade to dig


I've heard this story before, a couple times, yet for some reason it's taken me 3 attempts to get through this video. I think it's the intro, description, and visual depiction.


Very tragic story about the effort to save this one person but was all futile in the end


Holy shit what a banger of a video. Had me on a rollarcoaster of emotions!


I confused as to why floyd was so deep in this cave if he was trying to open it up to tourists. If you were trying to widen the cave, so that you could walk or crouch through it, wouldn't you start from the beginning and start digging?

Seems like he was just exploring it to see if there were any large openings anywhere. He was so fearless that the idea of getting trapped probably never crossed his mind.


The reporters were there to help people gawk from afar. I can't stop laughing.


Wendigoon and IH in one video? This is literally top 10 best anime crossover irl.


Thanks for serving that story in such a light weight format.. man, scary af


I love how you use the theme song to Medal of Honor Frontline in this video  :D  Great story sir


Not going to lie. I've watched this at least 10 times all the way through. Not in one sitting but throughout the upload date. Even told my girl that this would be our movie night selection. She was happy with it.


"The best helmsmen stand on the shore."
It's the literal translation of an old Dutch proverb dating back to the time when Holland Ruled The Wa- well, at least the VOC did for a good part.

Anyway, I'll add my piece of advice that might have been of some use at the time.

POISON


Another crazy story that fits your channel would be the battle of Athens. It’s too crazy to not tell


Thanks for not talking about human excrement and urination through the whole video.  I'm certain the smell was mentioned in the sources, but culling it raised the suspense.  It would have made the video kinda gross to rewatch


I don’t really understand how the snow melt or the loitering really affected the integrity of the gave that much. Didn’t this all go down over a matter of weeks?


oh my god, Jacob Geller did another great video with Floyd; fear of the depths of you're interested.


People going "idiots these days and their cancel culture" when these people were trying to cancel a dying man in a cave and the people who broke themselves physically and mentally trying to help

People have just always sucked


now, the most surprising thing about this video is:
who the fuck are the 2000 plus people that disliked this story from history?
are they the 2000 other cave owners that got mad that Sand Cave actually got more tourists?


didn't have to randomly hit my nostalgia with the allied assault theme like that


Oh, so THIS is why Youtube has been recomending me so many cave diving horror stories lately


2 minutes in and I'm not sure I can watch this....how the hell that's a great idea is BEYOND me


He somehow boosted local tourism in another way and succeeded


This is the best documentary I’ve seen in a long time


A wonderful story, and I appreciate your telling of it.

With that being said, it is absolutely disgusting to be reminded of just how utterly stupid and callous human beings can be when people's lives are in danger. Spoilers below:

The vast majority of people would rather gawk than to make meaningful attempts to help those in tragedy, treating the lives of others without any respect.

This man would have lived if more people had been willing to help, and fewer people had been crowding around. The man would have lived if they had thought to shore up the structurally failing cave from early into the process - something any engineer that heard of the story should have thought to suggest, rather than waiting until it was too late. So many things could have been done better, and ultimately his death was turned into a tourist attraction by yet more people who care more about money than about basic human dignity.


It just occurred to me that if he was trapped in there for that long then he definitely was sitting in his own excrement which just adds a whole additional layer of “yikes” to the whole situation.


everyone: We'll get you out!<br>cave:Are you sure about that?

everyone: We'll get you out!
cave:Are you sure about that?


This damn video had me squirming in my chair at work , thinking of the first time I went spelunking in Arizona on acid !


We think the cave killed the man.
But in the end, each step of the way, what killed poor Floyd was rampant Capitalism. Mad respect for all the friends, volunteers and miners involved.
And yet again, one heck of a video by internet historian

Rampant capitalism? If anything capitalism helped Floyd because the paper sent a journalist who became very helpful. People selling hot dogs outside didn't stop anyone from helping Floyd.


The dollop covered this story wonderfully. talked it out the same way you did. huh.


Important Timestamps for Man in a Cave
Sorry for how many there are and if the way I timestamp is inconsistent!
0:00-5:31; Introduction
5:31-7:26; AD time
7:26-11:47; Brief Explanation of the Cave Situation/Who is Floyd Collins?
11:17-14:16; Hours 0-28
14:16-19:46; Homer Collins Enters the Cave/Hours 28-71
19:46-23:22; William Miller Enters the Cave/ Hours 71-75
23:22-24:28; Publicization of Sand Cave
24:28-25:50; Lt. Robert Burdon Enters the Cave/ Hours 75-79
25:50-28:54; The Rope Pull
28:54-31:11; Johnnie Gerald Enters the Cave/ Hours 79-88
31:11-32:25; Burdon vs the Locals/ Hours 88-100
32:25-34:45; Miller Interviews Floyd/ Hours 100-103
34:45-36:15; Tourism Boom in Cave City/ Hours 103-108
36:15-38:34; Miller Moves the Rock/ Hours 108-122
38:34-40:09; Henry Carmichael and the National Guard Arrives/ Hours 122-114
40:09-42:03; Casey Jones Enters the Cave & Floyd’s Last Plead
42:03-43:58; First Cave-In/ Hours 144-128
43:48-44:49; Gerald’s Plan, Re-Stabilizing the Cave/ Hours 128-132
43:49-47:51; Second Cave-In & Mistakes/ Hours 132-142
47:51-50:52; Henry Carmichael’s Plan, Dig & The Problem with Machines/ Hours 142-152
50:52-52:39; Hand Digging the Rescue Tunnel/ Hours 152-170
52:39-55:14; Rumors
55:14-57:53; Digging Continues/ Hours 170-411
57:53-1:00:03; Digging Ends & Floyd’s Death
1:00:03-1:02:18; What Happened After?
1:02:18-1:02:52; Floyd is Laid to Rest
1:02:52-1:05:07; Capitalism Sure Does Breed Innovation & Floyd’s Dead Body Becomes an Attraction
1:05:07-1:07:27; Floyd’s Rescue and/or Grave Robbery
1:07:27-1:08:59; Floyd is Finally Out
1:08:59-1:09:55; Thank You’s and Extras


Bro the body stealing moment might have been the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.


"Whatever you do, don't cut my foot off~" -Wendigoon 2022


We saw the best and worst in humanity in this one story


48:46 I like how the miners are all the same guy. xD


This is amazing that he escaped wait did he


I feel like this would be a really good Wes Anderson movie


This event was such a big deal even the Peaky Blinders we’re there


as a black man, I kept saying "hell nah" through that entire intro


My claustrophobia hit HARD this time I can barely breathe when even describing the start of the video let alone the rest

خليل علي خليل ابراهيم


This man really did become the attraction instead, jesus


So in the end Floyd was put to rest to become a World of Tanks advertisement piece. Poor guy can't catch a break


Bro 20 seconds in and my heart is pounding 😱


can someone give me a successful cave rescue story if it exists? I feel like I need that now


The trippy death scene caused be to Sub.... let's see what else you've got. ....my god... if I drank a bunch of coffee after a dozen sausage sandwiches I'd fill the cave behind me right up.


Don't trust the beguiling lights, fill <b>the caves</b> with concrete!

Don't trust the beguiling lights, fill *the caves* with concrete!


This is honestly one of the videos I've ever seen. Definitely rate it an out of 10!


I wonder if he could have lived if there weren't so many gawkers around. They were so close before it started collapsing


props to the elden ring soundtrack. i slept with the game open too many times.


I literally just watched the real story of this 🤯


I appreciate the use of The Last Guardian's soundtrack in this video.


Great video! The newfound claustrophobia/PTSD kept me awake at for 2 nights - but it was nice to find out that most involved turned into exploiting shit-bags. It made me love this world again- sorry, reaffirmed my nihilism again.

Mans kept awake by a documentary video and calls it PTSD.

You’re right, the human race does suck.


Masterfully told, I sat on the edge of my seat the hole time.


OH I Was so high I thought they used the rock that crushed his leg as the headstone for Floyd's grave. That would have been dark


"Speaking of people trapped in a cave...: WORLD OF TANKS"

Genius.


The End. For now...<br>The life of stone is a very ancient and patient one. The cave will outlive us all and one day, it will reclaim the bones of its sacrifice and Floyd will remain within its cold grasp for all eternity.

The End. For now...
The life of stone is a very ancient and patient one. The cave will outlive us all and one day, it will reclaim the bones of its sacrifice and Floyd will remain within its cold grasp for all eternity.

Apart from the near countless things IH gets wrong, He was never reburied even once in Sand Cave. He was reburried in HIS cave, known as Crystal Cave. Y'know, one that was actually accessible. But of course IH cant be bothered to put the facts in his video. I did.


Costa concordia:
"No more 45 minute videos on the main channel. Back to 10-15 min videos and more of them."
>This
Not complaining, it was great.


As someone from just outside lexington we say "lullville" like lullaby


11:04 That Medal of Honor: Allied Assault theme tho


Hey, seems like you can make a new video on a disastercon. Twitchcon and the foampit of death.


It was man vs nature and he lost, it was society vs nature and they lost them it was nature and society just disrespecting this poor man's corpse for all the profits possible


I have never watched a video that had me this on edge...


I just finished my monthly prescription for Klonopin in one video.


Bro at 25:53 that scared me so bad. I’m watching this at midnight, i nearly shit myself lol


I just wonder why they didn't dig till his feet on the fisrt attempt


How mean to leave hos body in the cave. But don't believe for a second that his sould wasn't free. When he died, his soul soared high and no rock or gravel could stop him InshAllah.


I love the use of the Little Nightmares and Halo soundtrack


5:35 if you just want some sweet ad time without the claustrophobia


If you have claustrophobia this is the worst thing to watch. Tried watching it, had to look away multiple times because the visuals just gave me the heebie-jeebies.


Wendigoon? why you so silly getting yourself trapped in a cave


Great YouTube vid man watched the whole hour


Thank you for using easy to understand measurements like inches and Subway sandwiches. My American brain can't understand metric.  How many football feilds deep is the cave?

When did he use Subway sandwiches as a measurement? Lol


So the plan was that tourists would take this way too once he removed like an arm's length of dirt?


Gerald, Miller, and Homer are actual chads


If only they could’ve got him a little earlier


love the little nightmares track inserts.


Took me 45 mins of video to realise the crowd is like, mostly Cillian Murphy


should of never stopped digging out the man


🍿Get ur popcorn ready! This is a good long video 😀


Oh my God that’s like total claustrophobia


So weird I just heard Danny Brown shout out this video on one of his newest podcasts


I went to mammoth cave in kentucky. pretty cool.


Don't crawl through places carved by water.


Why don't you cast the 2 brothers as the same race.


That ol' Black Stone Cherry song makes more sense now.


I cant think of a worse way to go, theres that other kid who got stuck head first in a squeeze


Damn Homer and Miller were truly men of integrity, Miller turns down a million dollars so he can write proper coverage of the tragedy and Homer uses his money to dig his brother's body out. Can many of us truly say we'd do the same?


I actually drew this scenario in an exercise at the fire station when I first became a captain (all on paper before anyone thinks we collapsed a cave on someone for laughs). I think I had an easier time of it with modern equipment and mutual aid from 4 rescue squads available, plus getting a feeding tube, IV drip, and cardiac monitor on with a Surgeon to supervise (as I say, all on paper, since we can’t trap someone in a cave just for training).

On paper, we had “Floyd” out 21 hours after being found. In real life, I never want to be involved in a rescue like that.

@RFD804 you mean being a useless cunt got ya  because you cant wipe your ass with out a instruction manual i like how your ideas all revolve around someone being in charge instead of people using common sense. pretty clear how capable you are on your own.

@bastiat the surgeon to place a feeding tube was a standby to kick in if things had gone longer (when I say supervise, I mean standing at the top of the cave with a field phone giving instructions to the medics). The other medical interventions can be performed by an EMT-A in our region, or by county EMS paramedics.

As far as the collapse potential, that’s a risk we take on most of our calls involving man made or natural structures. You can brace all you want but the potential is always there. The plan isn’t perfect, and there are probably other rescue techs that have better ideas. This is just what myself and two lieutenants war gamed at the table when the chief instructor handed us the packet.

how would the surgeon reach him what guarantee is there that the rock  wouldnt collapse on him if moved or widened seems like a ton if variables i can totally see why you wouldnt want to do this the real cause of his death was  rubbernecking.... thats whats sad they saw the cave deteriorating  and decided to not change any behavior.

@Jag Girl If they'd blocked off the area and told people to go home, the tourists would've been mad and said "Aw man, you're ruining all our fun," and in 1920s America, what was really the priority?

you can't trap someone in a cave with that attitude

@Jag Girl Also most experienced cavers nowadays wouldn't go anywhere near a cave like Sand Cave which was made up by sandstone and limestone held together with dirt and mud. It was basically bound to collapse at some point and Floyd Collins himself only hastened that inevitability by expanding it in the months leading up to the collapse.

Truth is Sand Cave would never have been suitable for cave exploration let alone be open for tourists (I will also add that IH made a small mistake by implying Collins corpse was put on display in Sand Cave. Obviously it wasn't because it was neither suitable for visitors nor was Sand Cave even located on the Collins property. His corpse was put in Crystal Cave; the cave Collins originally wanted to use for tourists).

@Jag Girl Modern technology has made cave rescue a lot easier for sure. In the 1920's they simply did not have the equipment we have available now. On top of that we also have better administration for public services like f.ex. firefighter departments due to a century of improvements. Communication and transportation are also much faster and efficient so it would be easy to fly in experts quickly if need be.

The fact Floyd Collins essentially had to rely on local volunteers to rescue him until his predicament became national news is not very likely to happen nowadays.

Same thing going through my mind as a first responder. What equipment could we use? How realistic would our effort be and what extra resources could we call in.

@RFD804 Thank you for the detailed explanation! Since I saw this video, I've gotten fascinated with looking up how to do a rescue right. It's brain bleach to hear the fire department would have a plan.

@Khenfu Cake 100%. I don't know how a bit of commonsense didn't kick in, to cordon off the whole area.

It's amazing how better equipment, training and experts can make a huge difference to the rescue.
I'm with you, no one would want to be put in a position like this. It would be terrible either way.
I know Australia has been pretty good in rescues like this. For bringing over professional drilling equipment etc.

@Dominic Troche i wouldn't, i would have shot him in the head instead<br>clearly he wasn NOT getting-out again

@Dominic Troche i wouldn't, i would have shot him in the head instead
clearly he wasn NOT getting-out again

@LC Merit so this was one of the random draws. There were 8 possible scenarios on our draw card for captain, based on real events.

1. Well rescue (baby Jessica)
2. Cave rescue (Floyd Collins)
3. Commercial fire with entrapment.
4. Commercial fire with HAZ-MAT (propane storage yard)
5. Mass Transit MVA (a school bus over the guardrail halfway down a ridge)
6. Brush fire with structures in danger (Gatlinburg wildfire was not long before this)
7. Tornado (same year one hit Cookeville, TN)
8. Flood rescue (flooded subdivision without road access).

The draw cards were for more mentally taxing jobs, the instructor at the time liked to throw people into difficulty and see if they could make a plan.

@Dominic Troche in the drill, we could only use tools the county could provide in the first 72 hrs, after which command would be turned over to “outside entities”. So basically we used the sheriffs office to push onlookers back 500 feet from the cave, then had our medical team place the above mentioned life support equipment (luckily we have two medically trained people who are absolutely tiny and fearless of tight spaces or darkness). The “squeeze” was drilled out with a combination of concrete drills and old fashion hammer and chisel, which generously allowed for a crawlspace of 14 inches after 12 hours. This was done by breaking everything up into multiple relief crews. There were 6 “drill” teams of 3 each, whose only job was to drill out tight areas. They were backed up by a “shoring” team that composed 5 people who would make sure the cave was structurally sound by use of rescue jacks( if you’ve never seen them, you can use 4 of them to lift a house 10 feet off the ground if you know how to brace them right). After widening the squeeze, a drill team was to start chipping away at the rock face directly over the victims torso. This accomplished two things. It negated much of the upward force issue of a rope pull, and it provided extra space to dig out the gravel and get to the boulder. By hr 20 (and I understand this exercise was generous for time, under real conditions it may have been quite a bit longer), the squeeze was drilled out, the rock face above victim was reduced, most of the debris was removed around victim, and a 4 foot pry bar was placed on a pivot block to lift the rock. At that point, it was just lift the rock, move his leg, use a rescue harness to extricate, then placed on a backboard to be carried out. (It is worth mentioning that our surgeon believed that the victim would need to be monitored in the ICU for at least a week due to compartment syndrome on the possibly broken leg or due to blood clots from being in a supine position for 50 hours). Now i do believe this to be the most straightforward tactic if you’re a rural fire department without a large amount of specialized equipment, but had the exercise given the option, I would have preferred to call in a mine rescue team (there are 2 that can be on scene in our district within 4 hours) for extra equipment and expertise. I still think the time frame was a bit generous, as some of the conditions mentioned in this video weren’t directly accounted for other than to say “unlikely with proper crowd control”.

Look up the nutty putty cave death before you so boldly assume that with modern tech we can rescue trapped cave goers…

@RFD804 Before watching this, I would have thought Baby Jessica would have been the go to.

you should trap someone in a cave (just for "training")

I reckon you would probably also cordon off the cave to make sure people aren't destabilizing the cave like all the people did with Sand Cave.

21 hours still sounds like its a hellish job to pull that off. I can inmagine its an interesting case study though!

Really shows how far technology has come


Man Gerald was such an amazing friend despite the result. He tried and was truly determined in order to be there and save his friend.

Its sad cuz if they would have jist left him.alone he woulda been able to get him out

@Lorna S Ahhh, sorry! I've been lamenting the outcome all day.

Spoiler!!! My fault for reading the comments I guess

If they had just stuck to digging him out with a bucket in the first place, and there hadn't been national news about it.. the outcome would have been different.

Yes - the brother, him and Miller amazed me so much


This has the highest production value of any Internet Historian video yet. Better than most documentaries I’ve seen

@ZMAPP Chan not obscure at all, see 35:27

@1337 I feel like over the past few years we've moved beyond the point where being hired a big production studio is a step-up for top quality creators

@Adam Cormier To be fair he made some obscure story into a award winning Documentary.

@ZMAPP Chan This, plus Netflix is kinda dead isn't it?

@1337 it gonna fucking enslave him and make production worse.

thats the art of being a master story teller. IH is a great literary master. he clearly has a great appreciation for stories.<br>I'd also like to point out the poetic nature of human life and death. With absolutely no hope of survival, shortly after the literal light went out, Floyd died. Can't make that stuff up. Humans are far more rooted in symbolism than we like to give ourselves credit.

thats the art of being a master story teller. IH is a great literary master. he clearly has a great appreciation for stories.
I'd also like to point out the poetic nature of human life and death. With absolutely no hope of survival, shortly after the literal light went out, Floyd died. Can't make that stuff up. Humans are far more rooted in symbolism than we like to give ourselves credit.

youre saying this tops the costa concordia? good story but naaaaah


Mad respect for Miller but you also gotta give Homer a ton of respect. That’s a man who was willing to crawl into hell without hesitation to save his brother.

Let's also not forget about Gerald. Sure he might've been experienced with caving more than the two but he sure did his absolute hardest to get Floyd out. If he didn't get hit by that rock, maybe he'd make a hole to contact him once again. Truly a great friend.

These three lads - Homer, Miller and Gerald all deserve respect and shall never be forgotten.

Miller didn't even know who Floyd was but still did it. Every brother should have done what Homer did and most of them would have done it.


Whenever Sumito's in an IH video, his character is always an absolute ride-or-die. Keep that up.


The Man was just chasing his dream, what a horrible fate for him


R.I.P Wendigoon, you will always be remembered and will live in our hearts😔🙏

Shame internet historian trapped him in a cave and starved him for this video. But I’m sure Wendigoon understands that his life is totally worth losing for our entertainment


God an hour long video from Internet Historian, what a great moment to be alive and not stuck on a cave

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

Or stuck in a cave with an ethernet cable that your rescuers have kindly thought about installing in advance. Hello to all my stuck spelunkers with Internet access!


I shudder to think what Floyd experienced in the time between the lightbulb burning out and his death from exposure. Undeserving of such a cruel fate. My heart grows heavy at the thought.

Same.. it breaks my heart to think what he had to go through from the beginning. It's a terrifying situation.<br>He did not deserve that. No one deserves that... I don't know if prayers will reach him, but I'd love to believe they do. RIP Floyd.

Same.. it breaks my heart to think what he had to go through from the beginning. It's a terrifying situation.
He did not deserve that. No one deserves that... I don't know if prayers will reach him, but I'd love to believe they do. RIP Floyd.

His spirit passing. Made the lightbulb burn out

@JonokBR ™ we have the same empathetic response and I pray Floyd knows how many and how much people truly do care about and feel for him, are impressed by his bravery, strength, and grit and are saddened by his tragedy. That counts for something, even retroactively.

It's poetically tragic that he finally passed on just after the lightbulb went out. Like his last bits of hope died with it and he just decided to let go.


The ending subverted my expectations. I expected him to get freed, but instead, we were given approximately 18 'what the fuck?' moments in a row.


Man, such a nightmare scenario. Honestly wouldn’t wish what happened to Floyd on my worst enemy.

@YK68 hurr durr hitler was sooo bad. What the bolshevihks and escpecially stalin did to Russia and the rest of Europe faaaar eclipse <b>anything</b> the NSDAP ever did.

@YK68 hurr durr hitler was sooo bad. What the bolshevihks and escpecially stalin did to Russia and the rest of Europe faaaar eclipse *anything* the NSDAP ever did.

@YK68 Then someone worse would seize the power vacuum that the allies created when they cut up Germany ala carte style, lmao.


The ending with all the cast members just gives out a wholesome vibe. Makes me feel grateful for friends, being alive and not being trapped in a cave 🙂

You never know. You can still, somehow, get trapped in a cave sometime in the future.

I loved the smile 🙂 you made in the end 🤡👌

" if you dont let me out i will hire a gang of hitmen to kill your family "

have you ever thought that throughout all your lives sometimes you lives a life where you get further from people and sometimes you live a life where we get closer.  many people say we are all one underneath this illusion of life as separate beings in life so as we get closer in each life we become closer to the ultimate true state of one being.


It's honestly so sad that Homer died in 1969 and never got to see his brother finally be brought out of the cave and laid to rest. I like to think they saw each other again somewhere in the great beyond.

@Jaime Valencia Next time, don't read the comments before finishing a video

What? I thought they brought his body out in 1925


This story really shows the duality of man. On one hand, it's people coming together for a common cause to help out someone in need, on the other it's the disgusting exploitation of a tragedy for self gain.

@Zzannez Yeah which is incredibly fucked up, how a desperate situation can turn a good man into a selfish one.

Also, that the man was happy and hopeful that people were helping him, yet tried to get one of them trapped with him so he wouldn't die alone.


Glad to see that Thomas Shelby cares so much about his community he showed up to help Floyd

I can hear Arthur going: "Oi Tômmy hand mei da bloudy crowbah, oi'm gettin' that fookin' gypsy outta there"

Funny that Tommy was a cave digger during WW1.


It had to have been such an unimagnable horror to be stuck in that cave for so long but the silver lining to these tragedies is that in the aftermath people were able to develop both tools & techniques to rescue people from caves and protocols to make sure something like this doesn't happen again in the first place.

Nutty Putty incident is a prime example of how un-excusably bad modern cave rescue equipment is. No money gets put into that kind of research... Which shows where government priorities lie.

@Juxtaposed Lime Well that dude was f'd if you see how he was stuck, which was upside down at an awkward angle. No amount of modern technology could have saved him.

It has definitely improved, but it's still far from perfect.

See Nutty Putty Cave

This is the kind of rescue work written in blood


You're supposed to report the internet history, not create it


As a digging man myself, I don't think most ppl know what lies beneath the first 3-4 ft of ground soil. It's bedrock. Without automatic tools, its the most backbreaking, slow, grueling work I've ever done. Also, all the townspeople do gather round to watch you dig. As it is one of the most subtle joys in all the world. The simple yet satisfying sound of metal hitting dirt.

@Ryan at the discotec Like I said, the clay where we are (central MO) is very deep and all colors of the rainbow. We were digging a lake to stop a large ditch eroding up a branch. Had to stop digging in one area as the ground started swimming...thin crust on top but felt liquidy underneath. We took a 20 ft length of rebar, poked it through the crust, and sank it all the way down by hand with no resistance. Pulled it back out, and it was covered in a blue, slimy, pudding consistency clay. No idea how deep that pocket went.

@Kevin Cheuk NE US. I think it's due to the ground freezing during winter. It creates these super condensed layers of rocks that are tougher than concrete.
Great question, where did you dig and what was it like?
If anyone has a good dig story, this is the place.

Bedrock depth varies wildly. For example, in California, you can be near the coast, and bedrock can be 300 feet deep due to the ocean carrying sediments onto the shoreline; then you can head a mile inland and bedrock will be sticking through the surface (overburden). In parts of upstate New York and southern Ontario, a shallow ocean (Champlain Sea) once covered the area, and as a result, the area is covered by a hundred meters of glaciomarine clay overlaying limestone.

All that to say that bedrock depth is incredibly variable depending on where you are. In areas like cordilleras or that have experienced significant glaciation in the (relatively) recent past, bedrock depth can go from very deep to very shallow in a very short distance. If you think of the topography you see on the surface; there is equally as much "topography" in the bedrock depth underneath the loose soil that overlies it.

And beyond the bedrock is an endless void.

plus it's impossible to break bedrock if you aren't in creative mod.

Where r u from where u find shale so shallow? Where I am it's usually like 25 ft at least

oh yes...hobby gold digger here...I was utterly surprised how hard it is to dig in a river when I did for the first time...it´s like concrete, almost impossible to get something out of there, I had a pickaxe but that did not help very much...

Even just with pickaxes the amount of folk up top and lallygagging could’ve made a great amount of effort digging straight down. The amount of folk who turned around at turn around cave could have expanded that gap. Then again I don’t know Jack and only made a couple Fox holes, small tunnels and trenches in my time and Iam less then a novice on the topic. Edit note this was post ww1 they did extensive tunnel work in that war so how were there not more professionals involved? Also I love that one of the people involved was named Casey jones. I swear the crowds caused the cave in, how only one guy  realize that is beyond me. Final edit note: I saw Thomas Shelby in the crowd in this vid and I love that.

i am not fond of black, brown, and yellow people. and also red people. please take them out .

@John Doe depends on the area, where I’m from there’s about 5 feet of clichi then sum clay then it’s just solid rock

I don't know how you can say a depth on bedrock, that's different everywhere. When our well was dug the drillers made it over 100 ft before hitting the first rock. All clay. Sure is easy to dig ponds and lakes here though.

True and even then power tools can only get you so far


the editing reminds me of the show angela anaconda lol


you know the storytelling is immersive when you dont notice it was in black and white until colour appears

WTF. I just realized with your comment that it was almost all black and white xD


Internet Historian is such an incredible storyteller. Just a few minutes in and I'm already filled with the sensation of dread.


There’s Elden ring music in here too right, around 46 mins in? Not in the music list


Miller is the best journalist in the history of the universe

Seriously I'd like to see Dan Rather do that shit.


It's really sad when you realize that Floyd probably would've been saved if either all those people were ordered away by the police, or if Floyd/Miller realized they should just tie the wooden blocks together so they wouldn't slip underneath the jack.

@Jun Gerald literally told everybody when they first arrived that they couldn't stand around because all the heat from the fires would cause a cave collapse.  People didn't care about Floyd, they just wanted to watch the drama unfold.

@Fabian  didnt think straight down. but since they were scared of the squeeze maybe they should dig that wider?

@PvtLenny Spectating and causing tremors with their every move that eventually trapped Floyd even more.

@PvtLenny did you really think digging straight down is easy lol, especially done by the locals? What if they dug it carelessly and a freaking 1 ton rock just slammed into his face lmao its not minecraft

You have to understand that the entrance was REALLY difficult and was getting worse each time they entered (because of ice melting). And people that were saving him had minimum experience in caves altogether, let alone these types of slim junctions. They were experiencing existential dread every f*cking time they entered the room. So it was mentally easier to try again and again, than go out for 15 minutes and then come back and face that hole. Heck, they had an example before their eyes every time they entered. A slight mistake and now you have 2 men trapped inside.<br>Logical solution would be to provide food, water and light supplies regularly, make him a pillow or something, so his head is not in the water constantly, while professionals dag up for a week and freed him from the other side, like his brother did afterwards, to his legs, and not to his head. Many ideas were discussed but they were all too late.

You have to understand that the entrance was REALLY difficult and was getting worse each time they entered (because of ice melting). And people that were saving him had minimum experience in caves altogether, let alone these types of slim junctions. They were experiencing existential dread every f*cking time they entered the room. So it was mentally easier to try again and again, than go out for 15 minutes and then come back and face that hole. Heck, they had an example before their eyes every time they entered. A slight mistake and now you have 2 men trapped inside.
Logical solution would be to provide food, water and light supplies regularly, make him a pillow or something, so his head is not in the water constantly, while professionals dag up for a week and freed him from the other side, like his brother did afterwards, to his legs, and not to his head. Many ideas were discussed but they were all too late.

Or you know.. dig at the other side of the cave, for 1 week with 7 people

@Joe Martin but didn'tthey have 100'ths of people after a couple of days. all just spectating or refusing to go past the squeeze?

@PvtLenny because at first they didn''t have enough manpower to do such digging operation. it was only possible after the word got out and the government got involved.

@Pax what makes me wonder, is why they didnt just start digging immedietly.  And why the guy didnt dig himself instead of crawling far in and picking up rocks. Like if the goal is tourism. Who would wanna go past the squeeze even if he did manage to clear those rocks. Seems like he wasted months on clearing a path further in than any tourist would be willing to go anyway.

Easy to say when you see this situation from a third person perspective...

I guess people didn't really understand the situation.

Only after Floyd's chances of escape literally crumble do people actually start coming up with real solutions (other than just dig him out)

Or got a bigger block. It couldn't have been that hard to ask someone to cut a wooden block of the proper dimensions. This is a tragic tale of just slightly too little and far too late at every stage.


Okay, it's driving me mad. What's the music that's playing at 15:25. I'm pretty sure it from a game and I can't remember for the life of me 😭😭😭


He’s really outdone himself this time. The best storyteller ever.

Literally on my 3rd watch/listen to today. No joke, this was very good


when i saw thomas shelby i cracked up ol


This is a small useless comment but I am ecstatic that you used the Little Nightmares soundtrack


When I heard that gerald moved half a tonne of rocks; I'm not sure why but I started crying. What an amazing effort.

For me, it was when Floyd asked the man to stay with him before he got trapped. Heartbreaking.

back then the media would make up numbers so im not so confident about that info but still i think he raised the morale of everyone involved


For those of you who don't know, this event scenario actually happened again.

 in 2009, John jones. a cave diver enthusiast went down to the nutty putty cave, a " cave for beginners "

He went down in there several times, and is likely a regular diver, but unfortunately, he ended up in the wrong pathway, instead of going to the " Aotra Crawl ", he ended up in " Ed's push " which is kinda like floyd's place, but even more tighter and John jones was Head first down,

The difference is, till this day, John jones' body is still inside the cave, and is officially considered his cave grave, they could never retreave his body because the cave was extremely tight and rescuers can't even pull up or simply reach his body.

@Justin Kashtock imagine seeing a hole that's not even a subway sandwich long and you decide I wanna crawl into that. Then you are in that hole and can only move when you exhale.

Ah yeah I was gonna comment this, I live not far from the caves and my parents explored them before they sealed them up

@Justin Kashtock

Eah! It's just white people doing white people thing~ who could tell em to stop?

the space you leave in between your quotation marks and the quote itself is a terrible and infuriating practice. people go to prison for less

Gets even more sad, guy just got into med school, came back to Utah with his wife and infant daughter for thanksgiving break and passed away thanksgiving morning after I think 3 days. I think with him being inverted put too much of a strain on his heart to oxygenate his blood. Really a heart breaking story.

Things like this have happened quite a bit, caves are dangerous.

thats not even getting into cave diving, which has and even higher death rate..

And this, dear friends, is why you'll never catch me inside of a cave that doesn't have lights, stairs, and a tacky overpriced gift shop.

Christ, imagine dying at a place called the Nutty Putty Cave. Poor guy.

Is Ed's Push named after Edd Sorenson by chance?

dont forget they filled up the hole afterwards.

@William Shakemilk his brother was with him and knew exactly what had happened

they could but needed him to decompose first.

@Skaiva Chase how do we know which assumption is true?

@Beep Bop <br>He wanted to go to the deeper section of the cave, but unfortunately took a different opening simply because he missed it and didn't know which was the right one, so he ended up head first at the dead end of the cave which was also a full drop. called " Ed's push "

@Beep Bop
He wanted to go to the deeper section of the cave, but unfortunately took a different opening simply because he missed it and didn't know which was the right one, so he ended up head first at the dead end of the cave which was also a full drop. called " Ed's push "

@Beep Bop yeah he was pretty daring but the reason he got stuck was because he mistook one tunnel for another so accidentally went into the wrong one

I never looked into it, but wasn't he an incredibly experienced caver who purposefully took the much harder path?


That part where Floyd calls the other person to stay with them so that he does not die alone. Bone.fucking.chilling. That truly shows how a man who knows he is going to die reacts. What fear can do to a person... Darn man. Bone fucking chilling still.

He was also probably not in his right mind. Like he said before, the inconsistent food, loss of blood circulation and hypothermia made his speech somewhat unintelligible and delirious at times. If he was perfectly lucid he might said things differently, but hey maybe not. Still seriously fucked up tho.

I don't think he expected to die at that point. Many people had come see him and they went and came back for him multiple times. I think he just wanted to not wait alone in the dark for another day.


4mins in this is terrifying...ha ha ha...


It's pretty heart shattering that Floyd very nearly intentionally trapped a man in the cave with him just to avoid dying alone, only to end up dying alone anyway, with no idea if anyone was even attempting to come for him anymore.

@Benz :p They die from hypothermia or heat stroke! It depends on the situation. Floyd died from hypothermia. I am a caver and just caving for 16 hours, I have felt the beginning effects of hypothermia, the first symptom is uncontrollably shivering and the next problem is not being able to think straight. I had gotten wet as well. Its a scary experience.

Brutal truth of death. When death is near, there is is no reasoning, no logic, no dignity.

Only piss, stinking scared to literally shit themselves.

Floyd either accept death and obey his DNA response to be an animal.

Or beg for the slightest hope and be human. Begging for company might be the last humanity action.

He had been trapped in that cave for days by that time and surely was not in his right mind.

Is it fucked up that I would consider staying

Panic will make people do things like that unfortuantely.


I was legit yelling when you spoke about the tourists driving there and forming around the cave, im sure that was another part of why the cave collapse. This was so fucking captivating, the anger of peoples stupidity, hope, optimism, fear, anxiety and eventually melancholic sadness. I unironically almost cried watching this a and i dont fully understand why


this video is a movie its soooooo gooood


What a horrifying story, couldn't imagine the fear and hopelessness that Floyd experienced, I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.

Хочу Бутерброд

@Misanthropic Servitor of Mars Nah, Putin bad, America bad, human bad. But bad is spectrum.

@TwerkToSpec GF died from overdose and panic.

@TwerkToSpec no it isnt that idiot just took to many drugs <br>And died ,the cop didnt kill him

@TwerkToSpec no it isnt that idiot just took to many drugs
And died ,the cop didnt kill him

@gupiwa no other world leader would invade another nation sending into turmoil and costing tens of thousands of lives. No one else but putin, he’s the worst.

Great story for a musical adaptation, amarite?

@TwerkToSpec I don't think Floyd Collins ever pointed the gun at any pregnant women tho 🤔

Play stupid games win stupid prizes, what a stupid hobby.

I dunno, I'd be okay with Putin being put in his place.

George Floyd? Cause it was kinda like the same thing hahahahah OH SHIT


[46:00-47:17] Gerald is as close as humans can get to a demonstration of goodwill and the strength of selflessness. He is hit in the head with a loose rock and digs like a man possessed to save his soul-brother. Only when he nearly dies does he even attempt to stop, and he still supports his best friend by coming to oversee the rescue efforts.

[46:00-47:17] Gerald is as close as humans can get to a demonstration of goodwill and the strength of selflessness. He is hit in the head with a loose rock and digs like a man possessed to save his soul-brother. Only when he nearly dies does he even attempt to stop, and he *still supports his best friend by coming to oversee the rescue efforts.*


did I hear the elden ring open world music?


i swear, never have I ever witnessed a video that managed to make me feel so much hope and despair in less than 2 hours as this one. the whole situation was tense for the entire time from the moment he got stuck to the moment they found him dead. the amount of effort, time, and hope people put in to saving one man was awe inspiring even if it turned out to be all for nothing. In the end, the lesson of this is that caving is a stupid stunt humans do because some of us seemingly don't have enough claustrophobia and that Floyd was a victim of the absolute bullshit that is getting stuck in something so well that a small army of people couldn't save him.

and then there's the section of his grave and corpse being vandalized which also reminds me that humans are terrible creatures that can't help but mess with stuff they have no justification to mess with.

this level of cinematic quality is why I am subscribed to this channel.

@cool dud oof, don't even remind me of nutty putty cave. that's pure nightmare fuel and probably 95% why i'll never willingly enter a cave that isn't super wide and well terriformed.

Yeah nah.
Floyd just happened to be a caver 100 years ago.
With modern technology he wouldn't be nearly as fucked.
Now, as for Nutty Putty Cave, that's a different story...

@Diogenes' Lantern don't read the comments if you want to avoid spoilers.

the difference is cave diving now doing it as a hobby, in Floyd's case, he wants to make money


As a big sister, Homer's dedication to his brother is just absolutely heart-rending to me. He wasn't going to give up on him ❤

@TheLuigiNoidPerson 109 means I'd still help my bro no matter what. I'd help you too if you were stuck buddy <3 no man left in hole!!

Not having a sibling sucks donkey balls.

As an only child… guess I’d let him die?

@Emma Righto bro i'm with you 100%, Its just so hard to even imagine the situation, it makes me anxious to even try to picture it.

@Dolorous John Literally I put myself in Homer's position and I was like "I don't know if I'd be brave enough to do what he did" but as soon as I actually imagined my own sister in FLOYD'S position, it was crystal clear that I absolutely would go down. No way could I leave her all alone in that situation, no matter how scared I might be ;_;

Yeah its got me on the edge of my seat, i pray that i'd have the courage and balls to do this for my sister. Homer is a fuckin g.

@hiropon I'd like to cut my older sister and her 3 kids off for financially abusing me.

can you IMAGINE the mental torture it would have been to be one of those rescuers and realize that Floyd would have likely survived if not for the giant crowds making a mockery of the whole thing? Instead of getting slim men to volunteer, taking shifts, that rubble would have been cleared in a few days.

as a little sister having to cut my older brother off after decades of abuse I am very much living vicariously <br>meanwhile I'd still die for him?

as a little sister having to cut my older brother off after decades of abuse I am very much living vicariously
meanwhile I'd still die for him?

That's what I was thinking, the fact that he was also able to win tug of war against the six men because they were crushing his brother is so crazy too. Brother of the century bruh


Never would I have thought that the internet historian re telling a story from the 1920’s would have been in a giant puddle of tears but here we are. Rip Floyd, if only knew how much of a legend he was


It's heartwrenching that Floyd never made it out alive.

yee I thought this is a bizzare story in which he makes it out... ;/


This one hour video only felt like 20 minutes, I have felt such a wide range of emotions. I will never go caving, let alone underwater diving into anything like that at all.

i feel the same exact way but we'll probably regret it when we're old and dying.


More excellent content from an excellent YouTuber. Not a moment of this whole video lacked suspense. The humorous scenes and remarks were all genuinely funny. Some of the best, if not the best video essays on the site.


This is a hell of a story. What roller coaster of emotions, I laughed, I feared, I cried...


What an amazing story, never heard of it and in the privacy of my own room made me shed a tear of hope before the great collapse happened


Thank you for another masterful work and all the time you put into it for us! Must watch content every time


Thank You for making this documentary on Floyd. I would have not known about this unfortunate historic incident, but man this makes me not want to go in caves even more now.


if any of this had ever worked. how would he have tunneled out the "turnaround room"
i understand that the idea of excavating your own cave is particularly... mad … but what was he going to do? smack the entrance to the "squeeze" with a pickaxe? imo if this gravel cave in didn't claim his life. another one would of weeks or months later.
your story telling is immense.

Imma be honest chief.<br>If he managed to get out of the gravel I don't think he would ever go  back in

Imma be honest chief.
If he managed to get out of the gravel I don't think he would ever go  back in


This made me feel cold.

This should’ve been a showcase on how our capacity to care for complete strangers and our strength in cooperation can lead to great things.

But it was instead a showcase on the folly of those very things. I’m sure most weren’t there for money and truly wished for the best. But too many of them cared and wanted to help, literally muddying the situation and causing the cave in. An excess of care and cooperation took his life.

Goes to show that too much good nature in people can be a bad thing in some circumstances. Which is a very cynical, even disturbing prospect personally speaking.


Favorite fella in the story was definitely Miller, he was just a news reporter at the start, but then he started giving it his all out of compassion. He was Homer's first piece of hope.


Holy shit!<br>I love each of those guys especially ❤ goon!!  For such a tragic story I absolutely loved this it was great

Holy shit!
I love each of those guys especially ❤ goon!!  For such a tragic story I absolutely loved this it was great


Thrilling story, and a brilliant naration! Thank you for a great evening


Oh hey I visited this cave once, when we visited Mammoth Caves. Obviously we only looked into the very opening of it, but even just being told the story by a tour guide was freaky enough as is


Great story, as always! But I was wondering why they didn't go through the other way while he was alive and lifted the rock? I mean if that's how the body was recovered it should have worked earlier, no?


What a great video! Almost a feature film length. Lord I stayed up too late watching this, well it was worth it.


This was an AMAZING overview of this story!


19:32 Okay so far you are making a tragic story extremely funny I mean a family member going to find his brother wondering if he's dead or alive crawling out to the hole and the other brother finding him and he just says" sup" effing genius and then anytime anyone gets up to turn around point yep nope and with that voice makes it so much better


What an amazing retelling of events! A brilliant example of the positive side of youtube. Well done!


That bastard of a cave. I knew how the story was going to end as I watched and I couldn't stop myself from getting hopeful. I legitimately thought he might have gotten out again this time. Thought I must have confused this story with another one. Thought THIS TIME THE MAN SURVIVES.

That bastard of a cave.


What technique did they use to determine the exact location of where to dig so they end up digging right on top of his head?<br>And how'd they know the depth so precisely? Barometer I guess?

What technique did they use to determine the exact location of where to dig so they end up digging right on top of his head?
And how'd they know the depth so precisely? Barometer I guess?


The end had me dying laughing, like bro they couldn’t stop messing with this poor f——ers body even after he was dead, dude was gone and still kept getting sent into the f——ing cave


I went to the mammoth caves a couple years ago, and I pissed in an abandon bathroom that looked like it was ripped right out of an office building, but run down. I needed to piss and…cave. So I found it and the door was open but jo lights were on, so I pissed and when I got back to our group a tour guide started telling us a story about someone who pissed in an abandon bathroom down here and how crazy it was, while I was sitting thinking “sick now he gets to say it happened twice”


this seems more like a storymode thing there are some more interesting internet concepts that i was hoping you guys would cover but i guess your going for obscure history


the way he was exploited way after his death and they wouldn’t let this poor man rest, makes me absolutely mad

Aahh, america, the land of the greedy; where incredible few has the heart of a truly good man.

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You have yet again blown us away. WELL DONE SIR. 👌🏻


In case anyone is wondering, the exact track used from Outer Wilds at 23:55 is "Timber Hearth".


56:39 wow that's pretty genius but I feel like with the weather in this cave just does not want this man to live it's like everything is against them


It's been a while, Internet Historian. Look forward to your next video... whenever that'll come...


Amazing story, this video is more engrossing than most movies!


world of thanks...

to the internet historian for another awesome content.


Great video. And I'm happy to see Rusty  Cage appearing in other videos.


Yearly story time with IH is always satisfying


So I'm going to mammoth cave this Wednesday thank you for giving me a great story to think of while I'm there


I think the thing that strikes me most about this story is how easily a profit was made by essentially mocking Floyd's death. The ease at which greed was able to work, compared to the agonizing effort to <i>save</i> the man by the few people who were selfless enough to actually try, leaves me feeling very bitter.

I think the thing that strikes me most about this story is how easily a profit was made by essentially mocking Floyd's death. The ease at which greed was able to work, compared to the agonizing effort to _save_ the man by the few people who were selfless enough to actually try, leaves me feeling very bitter.

Well? Now you know why so few go to heaven if you believe in that shit, hahaha.

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Fun fact : recently a very similar story happened in Morocco couple of months ago

It's about a kid named Ryan who accidentally felt in a well while playing around and his story became very famous in the Arab world
Unfortunately he was found died one week after the accident .

Skill issue.

Ok but seriously now my condolences to this man's family, losing a loved one is one of the worst experiences you could ever feel, especially when it's just a child.


Hadn’t heard this story but as it got going I recognized it’s basic contours from Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole, which took the basic outline of what happened and made a fictional story out of it. It’s a great movie, but it’s ironic that the Kirk Douglas journalist character who goes down into the cave to get the story is portrayed as the biggest piece of shit in a movie filled with pieces of shit. The character might not be named Miller, but still…. If I were Miller, I’d have been pissed given the whole “almost dying trying to rescue him” thing.


What a great story teller, I have claustrophobia now😂


So a guy risks his life daily in a tight crevice to move some rocks so he can get into a beautiful opening in this cave.
Instead of... you know, picking away at the sh*t ton of rock and make the crevice into hallways and ramps, which he would've needed to do anyway if he was going to make the cave a tourist attraction.
Are you really going to force people to go through The Squeeze to get to the crystal cavern?

Yes, it would take a long while. Time is money. But is Little Miss Tabitha Jane Johnson really going to get her new dress dirty and risk her life to go down in these caves, see the crystals, and pay you a dollar? Would you be able to compensate her family if she was injured or even died?
Are you really considering risking your own life to clear this pile of rocks from an already tight crevice just so you can later realize you'll have to mine out a ton of rock anyway?
Yes. Yes you are. And for your wasted efforts, you will die a slow and painful death in the dark. You can't run a business if you're dead, Floyd.


Love to see you working with wendigoon 😍 and what a video to do with him


The thing is even if he was rescued, it's highly likely that he would have died in hospital. Basically what happens when you're immobilized by rubble (as with this case or for example people trapped in buildings after an earthquake) is that the blood flow is restricted, causing your muscles not to get adequate oxygen, causing them to break down and release myoglobin in the blood stream. This will cause kidney failure. If you're eventually suddenly released from the entrapment without proper preparation, the sudden re-introduction to oxygen to your extremities can cause a "reoxygenation injury", after which you appear like you're recovering and then suffer cardiac arrest and die.


This channel is incredible, what an interesting way to tell this story.


43:41 Damn, the commotion got to the point where Thomas Shelby had to bring his clone


I absolutely lost it when I saw Wendigoons face in the cave LOL


crazy that the structural stability of the cave was only really tested when 200 people parked their cars on top of it.


I also feel like you added your own spin to this I believe I have to look up this man's name I want to make sure that this is the same story


I love how IH put on one of his best suits for this 😀


Historian, why do you do this to us?
Anyone else with massive recall of the Thai cave rescue? I remember being at the supermarket and I refreshed the news and saw two more boys were out and I let out a little happy noise. It was a bit louder than I intended and some people looked up, I said, another two boys are out of the cave! Massive grin on my face. And the like four randoms were like, oh awesome!
I know, I know, then everyone clapped yadda yadda... But this was just a moment in time uniting 5 random people in a supermarket late at night over the fruits and vegetables. Good memory


LMMFAO 100 years now let's call it even LOL oh shit it hurts I don't know how you did this but you turned a horrible and sad story into something extremely funny to me that's genius great job


He may have been dead for 100 years, but after watching this video I couldn't sleep last night thinking about the poor guy.


The prospect of this happening is so terrifying.


I’m pretty sad because I really thought they were going to get him out of there.


Dude got stuck in dirt before even going in the cave 😂


sad that the selfish people just waiting there using campfires got floyd trapped


I wonder of Floyd died before or after the lightbulb.<br>Did he spend his last minutes in darkness or did he at least have a small light at his side to guide him over to the other side?

I wonder of Floyd died before or after the lightbulb.
Did he spend his last minutes in darkness or did he at least have a small light at his side to guide him over to the other side?

He died at the same time the lightbulb did, it was symbolic. That's just how you do storytelling.


I'll never understand why people go into caves like this.


when he was in the hole someone tried to buy it. he said "over my dead body" so they did just that


I literally had to stop the video when I saw Wendigoon's face at 3:53 lmao! I was not expecting that!


Man, tbh he probably should have cleared a way through the little gap attached to thr turnaround room first


i was getting mammoth cave vibes since the beginning flash of what floyd was digging for.


How the courts were completely ok with the guy making Floyd into a tourist attraction is the most American thing ever.


The recent downfall of G4TV NEEDS an Internet Historian video asap.


Floyd is a brave man. I would have just told my brother to shoot me in the face the minute he showed up lol.


I knew this sounded familiar. The movie Ace in the Hole (1951) with Kirk Douglas adapts almost everything out of this case. Really good watch.


Dude, I was stoned watching this and my god. I was on the edge of seat. 10/10 would watch high again...


36:00 also with all of those people you're telling me that they couldn't just make a new hole or make the holes bigger just in general with all of those people if one person carried a bucket out then another goes in carries another bucket out they can make all holes wider that would make it much easier to get him out what the hell is wrong with humans they don't care they just want to be like oh I was there when this happened what a tragic story could I helped yeah but you know I don't want to get my clothes dirty or scratched up


Not gonna lie, I was really looking forward to a miracle to happen...

Oh well


36:00 I thought it was bad enough that people were camping out just a few people or like 20 people now they got 10,000 people there won't that kind of mess things up


I have never hated a group of people  more than everyone who contributed to this tragedy.<br>From the stupid bystanders to the despicable businessmen, to even the radio people who didn't even fact check the people pretending to be Floyd

I have never hated a group of people  more than everyone who contributed to this tragedy.
From the stupid bystanders to the despicable businessmen, to even the radio people who didn't even fact check the people pretending to be Floyd


A prime example of man's uncanny abilities to both unite and help one another in times of need and also to throw blame around and waste time when it's crucial. That and how greed can make people do absolutely horrendous and disgusting things.


I dont understand how he would have gotten the tourists to come through the tiny little squeezeholes into the main place? You know, he coulda just instead of chipping away at the very end part just chipped away at the places that were the most tight?


15:38 why didn’t he just mine the gravel blocks? My childhood is a lie


You should do one of these mini docs on the gimli glider


Wow, gravel really is just like in Minecraft.


the agony the i feel watching this is out of this world


Poor Floyd, he should've just gotten World of Tanks 😔


Crazy how he could have just made the gap 2 inches wider and more people would have went in


The reason why Miller refused to profit is because he felt guilty. As he realized that all the attention he brought to Floyd ended up being the reason why he died.


3:38 Very fitting soundtrack snippet choice here :D


The story of his corpse was much horrible than him trapped there💀


as a kentuckian, this hits home... We'll done ol' boi


23:44 - 24:28 That's Outer Wilds OST (Timber Hearth to be precise) or am I crazy ?


Floyd an example that the children, they yearn for the mines


i guess now we know why its called the turn around room


There's a movie called Ace in the Hole from 1951. If you study journalism in India, it was part of the curriculum.

Based on this story, partly fictionalized, stars Kirk Douglas as a shady reporter.


This story is very silmilar to Billy Wilder's film 'Ace in the Hole', except in the film, the reporter exploits the man stuck in the cave instead of actually wanting to get him out. I wouldn't be surprised if the film was based on this story.

The Creeper at 49:31 was such a nice touch


Okay this definitely does not sound like a creepypasta but I think someone went off of this story because they did go by the caves names that's what made me think this was a creepypasta and they added like there was a creature down there that unworldly cryptic creature in the cave would give you headaches and things like that but they did base it off of this cave I believe but very interesting story so far I'm at the point where I just found out he got himself stuck in a situation almost like this before so let's just say Floyd does not make the brightest decisions in life


Michael Reeves officially uploads slower than internet historian.


Again I don't know why they didn't do something like that at the beginning I think I said like about 40 minutes ago why didn't they make another tunnel or somehow widen it and make sure nobody that doesn't need to be there isn't there all those people just sitting around doing nothing could have been doing something I'm truly surprised that the light bulb still worked I mean they must have had extraordinary lights back then because the lights we have now suck ass well I don't know LED is pretty good but before that they sucked


Damn I kind of wish it was his brother and the people that were there first or what would be better is that they'd get enough Dynamite to crush that whole entire cave just destroy the whole thing screw it


The Creeper at 49:31 was such a nice touch 😅


I thought of this video when I learned about the infamous Bolton Strid.


I happend to be playing World of tanks while watching this on my second monitor lmao


Good god at first I thought this is fiction.


I am so confused why is Wendigoon in this? 😂


24:09 OH THE RADIO ! The start of the Humanities laziness of just sitting around


Wait a second this is a creepy pasta and a very creative one because the person that made it did some research and then went into the cave I don't think it's the same exact cave though took the pictures so they would have some type of proof but it ended up being fake but that's the whole great thing about a creepypasta you're not sure is this real is this fake one of my favorites is Ben drowned and this one is up there as well because there's proof


I see your mammoth cave story and raise you the legendary cocaine bear story (kentucky’s wild)


They should’ve just sent a tank down there…


All he had to do was not get stuck then he would not Have to spend 64 years I. The cave😂


25:55 laugh my fuckin ass out bruh. Youre fucking hell. 🤣 💀


1:02:39 Floyd is looking a little sus. My condolences to the Collins.

I hope a video on your phone plays a 'bruh' sound effect at deafening volumes exactly the moment you fall down the fucking stairs.


Holyyyyy that video popped off. Also good work. That's quality content


I have an acute fear of being buried alive. What a terrible way to go.


If only Minecraft Steve was there, he'll be out in no time


I think that you should watch cannibal the Musical and do one of these on Alfred Packard packer anyways check out cannibal the Musical if you haven't already watched it it would be awesome if you did a video on that situation the same way you did this now I have to check out other videos that you made this is great


Why are they not making "the queezer" bigger?


man used the little nightmare soundtrack 💀


even now hes being used for money… god damn world of tanks…


i don't think i'll be able to watch this video, internet man. Too much anxiety. I'm sorry


xQc brought me here. Love internet historian videos but now i'm subscribed and won't need to learn about new releases through different channels!


I live not far from here and go there all the time fun to take all the different tours.


I remember hearing about him from a song by black stone cherry.


Watching this was like watching one of those videos that are going to tell you 5 fitness/diet tips that are gonna change your life forever... and they swear they'll get to it in a minute... but first there's like 20-50 minutes of other pontificating and shameless self-promotion.


This entire story defines the US society as a whole...


Fancy seeing you here buddy LOL that just reminded me of South Park so bad the just the Buddy part it sounded exactly like Terrence and Phillip lmao


29:08 is that joe biden falling off the stairs??