30:50 go Gerald I mean why didn't anyone else start doing this before there's tons of people out there there's not one skinny enough to get through that hole and they all fat this isn't nowadays America this is back in the days where people were fit


Danny Brown recommended this video, and channel.  He had noice things to say.


As a Kentuckian who has been caving and loves Mammoth cave hiking and spelunking, the Collins story is a roller coaster of emotions that are truly difficult to understand if the reader has never been caving themselves. IH has done an incredible job of illustrating the claustrophobic and terrifying conditions that Collins and all cavers face when caving. The tight squeezes where even a slight change in clothes or the rock surrounding can trap you forever, the nearly invisible ceiling that can drop rocks and kill without warning, and the mental fortitude being eroded away within absolute darkness.

When I was in scouts and went caving for the first time, our caving guide who was 30 years experienced drilled into us the dangers of caving as us kids could climb through small gaps but the adults could not follow. We were excited as it was gonna basically be one giant McDonalds playground, so we couldn't wait to breeze through the safety meeting and start crawling. He slowly went through the safety conversation, always have a buddy, never crawl downwards, always cave slowly and methodically, but as 10-14 year old kids it went in one ear, out the other.

Recognizing this, he asked us all to tell us what we each feared the most. I said I feared heights and falling, he then explained that mountain/rock climbing are very similar to caving: arrogance and sloppiness can instantly and irreversibly seal your death, the former being a terrifying and quick splat while the later is a slow and agonizing smothering. That if we went somewhere that was too small for the adults to go, it was almost like dangling from a cliff with no harness. He tore everyone's minds open and made sure we understood the seriousness of the situation, that there wouldn't be police officers or fire fighters to catch us, and we would be trapped forever.

Everyone became uncomfortable and adults tried cheering everyone up to lighten the mood, while 1 adult went aside with the guide to ask why he was scaring everyone on purpose. He said "I would rather them be terrified than watch them carelessly crawl into their own tomb."

I had forgotten those words for all these years as nothing bad had ever happened on that trip or any subsequent trips after, but this video excavated the memory, and I now understand. I remember us kids crawling through entrances about a foot wide to go into a much larger chamber, how the guide showed us that this area was safe because it was sturdy and he was thin enough to crawl through and only had to crawl about 12 feet to get back into the open, but the other adults were too big.

I remember slowly crawling through, feeling the rocks push further and further on my head and back. There were small puddles where sometimes my face would get covered in water and mud. I must have been about 6 feet in so far when a rock clicked my headlamp off and I was plunged into total darkness at only 11 years old. It felt like the ceiling was beginning to sag down on my entire body, my arms and legs were trapped unable to move. I struggled and somehow wedged my helmet in such a way my face was stuck being pushed into a small puddle no more than the size of a cereal bowl. I was suffocating, I was immobilized and I was alone. This was what the fear of death was.

After that brief yet terrifying realization, I frantically ripped my helmet off and was able to back out of the tunnel and back with the adults. I soon realized that I was completely safe in that moment, the adults were right next to the tunnel and could have reached in to pull me out in an instant the moment I would scream. I was able to reason to myself that the secret chamber on the other side wasn't that big of a deal, and I was just hurt from the rocks scrapping me, so I continued to enjoy the caving and eventually went back to conquer the tunnel successfully to see the very cool secret chamber.

This video dusted off those memories as I now realize that my initial reaction was correct, that I had experienced true fear for the first time. Being faced with my own mortality that early on in life didn't really impact me too much, since it realistically wasn't a real danger and I even forgot about it until now. But watching this video scrapped off all the dust and now I understand how much it did: I saw a flicker of death that day. Subsequently, I slowly stopped my dangerous activities and became much more cautious in everything I do.

The guide taught me fear, and the cave seared it into my soul.

Hooking into whatever fears and other strong assosiations children have is probably a great way of properly teaching them.

He was making a route for tourism, not thrill seekers, I think, so I think it's on him.

If floyd had widened the cave enough for more than maybe a handful of people to successfully complete, as he went, he probably wouldn't have died, I think.

I spent 5-6 years in Kentucky and never went to mammoth or any other cave, I lived in Louisville. Thank you for this story, this is such a raw comment, love the articulation of your feelings. Thank you! ❤

S-tier comment—beautifully written and genuinely relates to the video and the commenter.

These S-tier comments are so, so rare.
These days I usually ask myself why bother reading Youtube comment sections, but then I find one-in-a-million comments like the one above and I remember why.

S-tier comment—beautifully written and genuinely relates to the video and the commenter.

These S-tier comments are *so, so rare.*
These days I usually ask myself why bother reading Youtube comment sections, but then I find one-in-a-million comments like the one above and I remember why.

Also went on a caving trip during scouts. I'm a tall and lanky person, and my dad was on the trip, who is just a little shorter but a bit thicker. Heights/falling have always a dear for me, and I've had a love-hate relationship with small spaces, and our trip had both. One area you had to straddle across a vertical drop into total darkness that I'm pretty sure would break some bones at a minimum of you fell. And then yeah, there was a "squeeze" tunnel that me and my dad were both terrified he wouldn't be able to get through. It took determination, time, and courage but he got through it.<br>But yeah, when IH was describing the journey into the cave it brought back a rush of memories to navigating through some similar passages. It was a fun experience especially in hindsight, but I don't know if I'll ever do it again.

Also went on a caving trip during scouts. I'm a tall and lanky person, and my dad was on the trip, who is just a little shorter but a bit thicker. Heights/falling have always a dear for me, and I've had a love-hate relationship with small spaces, and our trip had both. One area you had to straddle across a vertical drop into total darkness that I'm pretty sure would break some bones at a minimum of you fell. And then yeah, there was a "squeeze" tunnel that me and my dad were both terrified he wouldn't be able to get through. It took determination, time, and courage but he got through it.
But yeah, when IH was describing the journey into the cave it brought back a rush of memories to navigating through some similar passages. It was a fun experience especially in hindsight, but I don't know if I'll ever do it again.

It's not the fear of dying, it's the fear of dying slowly in the cold and total darkness whilst going mad from boredom.

Each paragraph drilled in the fear of something I didn't know I had. Thank you for sharing this.

Went to Vietnam to see the worlds biggest caves, so large u almost didn’t even feel like you were in a cave ngl

<b>Jumpscare warning</b> careful when pressing Read more

*Jumpscare warning* careful when pressing Read more

I enjoy caving myself, but this is every caver's worst nightmare. I'm not claustrophobic, but this would absolutelty suck for anyone.

"I saw a flicker of death that day. Subsequently, I slowly stopped my dangerous activities and became much more cautious in everything I do."

Damn, I really relate to that.
I survived a parachuting accident in the army, after that I have really toned down my risk tolerance... it was an experience of real fear that you can't replicate without scraping by death. Much different than any lesser fear

So true. A necessary lesson for all children to learn. I did so, too, through any number of "dumb and dangerous" stunts. Also, "I was able to reason to myself" the word is rationalize: to invent plausible and rational-sounding reasons or excuses, all to evade some unpleasant truth.

"He said "I would rather them be terrified than watch them carelessly crawl into their own tomb.""<br>Bonechilling...

"He said "I would rather them be terrified than watch them carelessly crawl into their own tomb.""
Bonechilling...


IF YOU HAVE A SHITTY DAY.
PLEASE REMEMBER.

IT COULD BE WORSE.

*IF YOU HAVE A SHITTY DAY.*
*PLEASE REMEMBER.*

*IT COULD BE WORSE.*


The sad thing is, given how fragile Sand Cave is with crowds of people in it, there was probably no chance of opening up the Squeeze and turning it into a tourist attraction.

@theproplady well I also think it might have been an efficiency problem he saw.  If he could work from within, he could just pile the tailings in the cavern, instead of having to haul it all the way out.  Hence why he was in that far cavern when he realized his light was bad.

@Jack R Perhaps Floyd thought he could easily expand the squeeze at some point in the future and that the real challenge would be opening the hole to the crystal room. Unfortunately, he couldn't think ahead to a possible scenario where he'd be trapped past the squeeze and would need help. He reminds me of the main character in the Jack London story, "To Build a Fire" who set out on his own during a dangerously cold day thinking he could handle any scenario he came across. Unfortunately, he didn't realize his margin for error was as thin as it was, and all it takes is a couple of disasters to finish a man off during such conditions. It's a mistake anybody could make...

It would require stout reinforcement.  The fact that he hadn't openend up the Squeeze is the thing that boggles me, for if there was anywhere that needed it, that point of no return would have been the place to start, instead of much deeper within.  That and not bringing in spare supplies, like candles to provide light where a fragile storm lantern might shatter....

@MeChupaUnHuevon I think the idea was to eventually clear out the squeeze and make it more of a cramped hallway rather than the literal hell hole it was at the time.

It’s ironic then that the shaft they were forced to dig in the end was essentially, Floyd’s endgame for the cave. Quick, easy and safe access to the crystal hollow that multiple people could use at the same time. If it wasn’t a literal death trap I would love to see it.

I feel that the story is very sad one, but Collins did succeed with turning place into a tourist attraction, by his corpse.

It's like a monkey paw situation, he wished for the cave to become popular, and it did, only not in the way he imagined

@ShroudedWolf51 It's sad because he essentially died for nothing

Why is this a sad thing? It's a fragile cave formation already known for instability. Yeah, this definitely sounds like a place to send inexperienced idiots into.

@getthecandies Yeah but it's tragic that the reason he went there in the first place would never have worked out

I'm going to go ahead and say the anxiety laden death trapped alone in the darkness was the sad thing.

Even if Flyod had managed to clear the way to the beautiful room probs no one would be willing to go through the squeeze for it.


This has been the scariest, most stressful and interesting I have seen on YouTube for years now.<br>Just incredible work.

This has been the scariest, most stressful and interesting I have seen on YouTube for years now.
Just incredible work.

This video got me so scared that it healed me from my constipation.


What's the name of that movie where the dude gets stuck in his arm in like the desert or something like that 72 hours or something like that screw that make this a movie they don't even need to make it like in the old times they could just make it more modern but I think the telling of this story in the time would be a very good movie but some people don't like historical movies but I think this would make a great one especially with all the dumbasses so far


The hardest gut punch for me comes after all is said and done, when Homer earns the money to retrieve the his brother. He assembles the crew and within just a week they reach him and get him out. It just seemed so simple. If only that coordination was applied at the start, things could've gone differently. Of course hindsight is useless, but it still hurts.

@Crispy As CoffeeSquirel said, the warmer conditions would have made all the difference. They managed to descend through the same kind of rock in about 2/3rds the time with about 1/10th of the personnel because the walls and ground wouldn't have been turning to soup around them.

@Crispy they could've used the previous dig hole for the first 50 feet and then worked on moving some 10 feet away in order to dig him up from the other side

The video says they dug him up from the other side, so they had to make a new hole few meters away. I dont think they were "reusing" the previous dig hole.

They dug him out in April, ALOT easier when weather is warmer

The tunnel vented past his body, so it sucked exhaust fumes in past where Floyd was.  Not a problem for a recovery, big problem for a rescue.

@Podstęp Mistrzem i mean i assume that instead of trying for hours and hours with makeshift wooden tower they probably didn't find any other jack

Yep, that's a borderline butterfly effect to an extent, he wouldn't have earned money if the story didn't blow up that much, the story wouldn't reach millions of people if the news wasn't spread for a lengthy period of time.

Of course they'd still need to have someone to crawl in with food and water, and I'm worried that with so much commotion from above if the cave wouldn't have collapsed anyway, eliminating the chance to feed Floyd or provide him any warmth. I'd love to have known what would have happened had the firefighter been able to do a second rope pull, or if Miller had just chosen to ask for a third jack that would be somewhere in the middle and properly fit the cave.

I would imagine it wasn't nearly as difficult to get back in afterwards though. Remember, the mining crew had done all the work of digging the vertical tunnel down through boulders and rock when they were first trying to rescue Floyd. Once they found him dead, they just refilled it with soil. When Homer and his crew went to get Floyd's body, they'd only have to dig through dirt in an already established tunnel.

Though absolutely, in hindsight if they'd done things differently at the start it could've gone way better for Floyd. But we're looking back at this with 100 years worth of perspective of course.


Okay so Floyd Collins is a real person but like I said I'm not sure if this is the same story because I look like you used one of the pictures in the Creepypasta and the people that did create the original story did do some background


Welp, my fear of cave exploring is now 100% justified

It's extremely dangerous, no question about it.

Me too. Wait, it's always been justified ever since I saw the Nutty Putty cave story by Fascinating Horror channel.

I was never going to go into a cave before this video, now I'm 3000% never going a cave.

Oh yeah, it is NOT a hobby for people who aren't 100% down for horrific risk of injury and death. I love it. I would recommend anything but the most surface level, guided explorations to absolutely no-one.

Looks like someone hasn't gone down the MrBallen hole yet...


What an uplifting, depressing, insane and simply scary story.

How the judicial system failed the whole family in the end was pathetic.

To be fair, the father was a drunk and a moron and signed it all away.

It wasn’t the system this time, but a drunkard of a father.

Lady Justice is blind...except when some money comes her way


please every time i watch wendigoon from now on its gonna be ayo floyd howd u get here


WARNING SPOILERS

My heart sunk when you said he died. Poor dude had to endure all that suffering just to not make it…

*WARNING SPOILERS*

My heart sunk when you said he died. Poor dude had to endure all that suffering just to not make it…

@Hey vsauce Michael here Dont worry about it lol

@The Kid From Brooklyn Reuploads please forgive me

@Spensir Mc Life I think he's upset he read his fate before seeing it, I hoped he came out alright until seeing OP.

@The Kid From Brooklyn Reuploads This is a real man's life, him dieing not a spoiler and you shouldn't be so petty to be mad about it

@XT1AN I mean if you look at the bottom refs a qoute is taken from a book called the death of Philip Morris near halfway in the video kinda gives it away

Fuck me, i shouldn't have read this, lol that's on me. 😂

@XT1AN yeah that's why i held off until the end, even though i felt it was pretty obvious he wasn't going to make it

Damn. I shouldn't have read the comments while watching.

I'm nowhere near half of the video.

I think what's worse is that he continued to suffere well beyond his lifetime. The man did not deserve nor his brother who fought so hard for his sake.

It really shines a light on our mortality. And suffering, is what you make of your situation. I bet you, if the light bulb didn't die, he wouldn't have either. That bulb, was his only sign of hope. Once that's gone, so is life.


I got stuck very briefly in a cave once and I can confirm that it is an existential dread that’s beyond awful. I was stuck in a pinch whilst spelunking in Victoria Australia and I’d locked my knee to my chest trying to get through a hole. It took our caving team about an hour to shimmy me free by pulling on my ankle and yanking my arms above my head.
It was by no means the worst “rescue” we’d ever had to do, but during that dive there was a brief moment where I thought “oh fuck what if I’m really stuck…”
Was actually devastated hearing “he’s dead”

I swear this channel gets better and better every video.

oh god even being stuck for an hour sounds horrifying, i dont even know what id do....

Absolutely positively fuck entering a cave.

That’s absolutely insane, I can’t imagine


anybody think about how he was pooping and peeing in the cave lol I was


These people have some sick death wish, who plays with fate like that??! Humans are not designed for that sh** man wtf...


I can’t even imagine how many hours this video took to produce holy shit

Internet Historian to an army of talented editors:<br>"Take this blank cheque and edit it."

Internet Historian to an army of talented editors:
"Take this blank cheque and edit it."


The full hour of the rescue story is a tale of the pure kindness and determination by people to save and honor someone<br>The last 9 minutes are a sharp "nevermind"

The full hour of the rescue story is a tale of the pure kindness and determination by people to save and honor someone
The last 9 minutes are a sharp "nevermind"

@Koen Van Damme Its one hell of an Irony.<br>A very sickly and dark irony.

@Koen Van Damme Its one hell of an Irony.
A very sickly and dark irony.

Random Ka-52 Alligator That is Still in The Air

Like another guy kinjo in this comment section said, this story is incredibly bittersweet<br>Showed both the absolute best and worst of people & humanity

Like another guy kinjo in this comment section said, this story is incredibly bittersweet
Showed both the absolute best and worst of people & humanity

Though in the end, I suppose Floyd got exactly what he was aiming for: the cave became a succesful tourist attraction.

This whole thing really reads like a darker storyline out of the movie Bedazzled.


Why didn’t they just take shifts removing rock from the start. Kinda brain dead


This video really shook me. Floyd lived through hell and was not able to leave. I can't help but cry hearing about what he suffered through and disgustingly the disrespect he went through afterwards.

If only he had thought to enlarge the way from the start instead of the end.

Floyd shouldnt've gone through that. He should've been laid to rest. It broke my heart seeing greed win yet again.

it's honestly one of the more terrifying ways to die frankly, alone, in pain, starving, dying of thirst and the cold, while well meaning idiots keep hurting you instead of helping, then they fuck up and leave you to die alone in the dark. Even slow deaths from cancer dont come close to the existential horror of this poor guys fate. The disrespect to his corpse is nearly as bad too....


Recently I was talking to someone who does cave exploration regularly and I thought "huh maybe I could face my fears and do that", thanks for setting me straight.


Was the picture of the real guy taken in Sand Cave?

It is a picture of Floyd. But its not taken of him trapped down there.


I just made myself a snack, sat down with a refreshment, and then magically, a new IH video. Perfect.

Same here lad. Just opened my YouTube and bam a fucking IH vid. What a way to start the day

Make any Sausage Sandwiches? Maybe a nice hot coffee?

This video is so claustrophobic I doubt you'll be able to stomach much lol


I need your voice desperately bad to create a conspiracy theory so basically we create one use your voice because you sound very intelligent we let it go for about a year then we tell them that we made it up so then the world will look at conspiracy theories a little bit different you can't believe everything you hear your voice is The Voice that would work


As a spelunker of caves myself, a situation like this is my greatest fear. But despite the sour ending to his life, it's truly amazing to see the backbreaking effort by hundreds of people to save just a single man caught in a cave. It really is a lesson in humanity.

@Aron Örn the part where the cave shifted was a lesson in humidity.

Rescuing cavers and extreme free climbers feels like accommodating peanut allergies:<br>...It feels like the right thing to do, but it's also not solving any long term peanut problems.

Rescuing cavers and extreme free climbers feels like accommodating peanut allergies:
...It feels like the right thing to do, but it's also not solving any long term peanut problems.

I would always have something to kill myself with if I was a spelunker. A knife, rope, drugs. I couldn't bear to starve to death, or worse - suffocate.

@Caleb or if they had just dug down to him the first time

It's also a lesson on how people can take a situation and make it fubar .

What was funny was that first portion where Homer had started moving gravel by hand and then everyone tried to offer more efficient ideas instead of just crawling down there one at a time and doing the work. Had there been maybe 2 more guys initially with the guts to just rotate moving gravel for a few days, they may have had him out that way, before the structural integrity of the cave was weakened by all the eventual traffic

Also, the part where they use his body as a tourist attraction, is a lesson in humanity...


This had me in more suspense than many horror movies I have watched recently. I felt real, genuine discomfort and shock and empathy and anguish for that poor man. All the while I’m laughing my ass off. Amazing video I love both of your channels you’ve really outdone yourself

Yeah, don't search for the nutty putty caves on youtube


Very cool... but I'm now going to go watch some happy puppies or something...


At first I thought this was going to be a thrilling story about a cave rescue, and then you said his name. Then I knew exactly who it was. I knew exactly how it ended. I didn’t hold out hope because I knew there was none. Congrats on making me sad, I’m going to go watch some Vsauce to get some of that grade A Philosophical Hopium™ to make me feel better.

and then Kurzgesagt to multiply all these feelings furthermore

go watch exurb1a for even more existential sadness

Man vsauce just makes me feel existential dread 😭


I think what annoyed me the most was the fact so many people showed up to the cave with excitement. They made the situation worse by their own ignorance and continued to make things worse as the days went on. Not to mention the father was more concerned with taking generous donations, I imagined he took a heartbroken old man persona while he did it. Poor Floyd, I bet he would’ve been rescued if it wasn’t for all the mayhem people were causing. Not to mention that when they got bored, they just got up and left him. Showed up, caused a cave to collapse on him, had a carnival, then left. Nice!

Pre internet people had nothing to do, i.e they would go outside and do shit.

It's a common thread in human history. We gawk and make problems worse.

@Lukycharms its a fucking historical event what do you expect

@Lukycharms "Stolen Content" lmao show one scene that's the same

@Lukycharms <br>Yeah, but like, those are also documentaries

@Lukycharms
Yeah, but like, those are also documentaries

@Lukycharms so multiple people aren't allowed to cover the same topic

@Lukycharms Would you care to post the links to said videos? Thank you.

What should annoy you is that this video is 100% stolen content from about 10 other channels that made this exact video months ago….


I've heard this story before, but this has GOT to be the best and most nail-bitingly fascinating, in-depth way I've ever heard it told! My husband and I watched this spellbound when it first came out, and I forgot how it ended, so I was on the edge of my seat the whole time! Great job, everyone who worked on this! He and I still talk about it, with a sense of awe and disbelief, at how this poor man died of incompetence (including his own, God rest his soul), but how amazing were the people who made a difference trying to save him.


Oh I'm sure the carnival was in his honor not just to make money no not at all definitely for him nothing for the almighty dollar


The way this guy's body was treated in death is horrendous. Good on his brother for never giving up on giving him a proper burial.


being from Kentucky hearing this story passed down from my great grandparents i can absolutely say you told this story so much better. I never expected this story to ever come close to a channel like this.... so cool.


The photos of the coffin,more specific the distant one,creeps me alot,the feeling of walking into a cave and seeing a iron coffin in the middle of nowhere,with chains around it just gives me a horrible sense of dread,like it's holding something that you shouldn't open (even though it's just a poor man's dead body)

@Shaddap no   problem   dude   ,   happy   to   help

You not putting a space after your commas creeps me out.

@Tighe Lutz this is precisely what makes it so eerie LOL

Also chaining + locking a coffin shut is extra creepy because you can't be sure if it's to keep you out... or it in


I'm curious why IH is using a photo of a dude that looks absolutely nothing like the actual Floyd Collins. XD

Because that's the picture of the guy who voiced floyd in the video


Missed opportunity to call it "Man in Hole" but still excited nonetheless.

Edit: After having seen the video, I am glad I got to comment on something this fucking good.

Time to to dub this vid with a documentary of a lazy sleepy man refusing to leave the cave and his brother crying about it.

@Castle White "omg one of my favorite youtubers is a fan of one of the most popular channels on the website what a coincidence"

Another successfully defeated hurricane I see.

When will you play a part in one of these?

Huggbees and Internet Historian need to do an In The Field collaboration. Please make this happen!

Haven't you single-handedly dick punched Ian and rescued Florida Man from inevitable destruction yet?

I live in North Georgia. I want to thank you for standing between me and Ian, turning it into a hurrican't.

My hero 💖

I'm sure your dad missed tons of opportunities when he decided not to use a condom

Hmm idk kinda like the singular "Hole" more

is a cave a rinsing or a filling machine ?

still think "man hole explorer" would have been more accurate

How goes the boxing of a hurricane mr bees?

Hope you did good against the hurricane beat it's ass

The legend appears.

Stay safe, and give the hurricane a good one-two

Hey, It's the legendary Rinsing or Filling machine man!

Congratulations on showing that dweeb Ian who’s boss.

Hay I know you. You do the YouTube stuff too👍

Shorten it further to Man Hole. <br>It has Many Meanings.

Shorten it further to Man Hole.
It has Many Meanings.

of course the hugger of bees watches the historian of internet.

I rather have it Massive Hole but the Mive is barely visible.

Im the guy whos up here before theres too many comments


This story is bittersweet, it shows both the best and worst of humanity throughout the entire story.


Literally my biggest fear is being stuck and I can’t imagine what Floyd was seeing surrounded by darkness for all that time

He probably wasn't seeing very much to be honest

I enjoyed watching the video yesterday afternoon, but when I tried sleeping last night in my dark room, it was bone chilling to imagine Floyd under the cave; stuck in absolute darkness.  I had an uneasy sleep last night.  I was laying still, with eyes open in the dark, imagining if it was me down there (although I was warm under my blanket).  I would have asked for a cyanide pill as a last resort.

@Pold111 having tinnitus in that situation would be even bigger mental torture then it is. I would rather die then spend even one hour in there.

i have tinnitus so it would be quite terrifying but at the same time i wouldn't know what to think


That nightmare/hallucination scene at 25:50 was truly haunting but in a kind of beautiful way

@Hamzah It's a mix of "Teeth and Leaves" and "Boots through the undergrowth" from the Little Nightmares 2 OST

I’d love to know what the music for the scene was, it’s such an effective tone-setter


Did this channel stop doing right wing 4chan Incel bait videos or is this just a coincidence?


I came into this with no idea about the story.  I held so much hope that he'd make it out alive. Then abruptly he died. Okay I can handle that even though it's sad. Then abruptly his corpse is put back in the cave for financial gain. Okay that's grim, but the "good ole days" tended to be pretty shit. Then abruptly his corpse is launched of a fucking mountain! Like goddamn has a dead man ever been so disrespected and exploited?! Rest in fuckin peace man, you deserve it!

I keep having laughing fits when I play the part where they launch him off the mountain. Its so grim that its comical

It was unfortunately spoiled that he was going to die cause at one point it cites "The Death and Transfiguration of Floyd Collins"

Then he is immortalized in an Internet Historian video.


I... I just can't think of a worse fate than this. Total darkness, arms and legs uselessly trapped at your sides, a ton of rock atop you, starving, thirsty, hearing the rocks shift around you... and that is only the first 24 hours. Any food or water given to you is going to cause you to have to urinate and defecate in your clothes. Your loved ones close enough to touch you and yet completely incapable of assisting you. People come and go and after each minor cave in, you sit and wonder if you will ever see another person. The light that has kept you alive begins to slowly fade as you are left in the pitch blackness, alone with only the agonizing cold and rock to keep you company.

This man suffered in ways that no human being should.

@Mack Donald ... bro, He spent days there, and was given food and drinks. Try not to go to toilet for 3 days

thanks for detailing the nightmare I'm gonna have tonight

Yeah, would be good if there was just a fucking die instantly button so you wouldn't have to sit there for so long.

i didn't even realize he was pissing and shitting himself the whole time jfc


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Holy fuck. I'll never, ever set foot in a cave after that one. I cannot imagine the horrors he lived through in those 5 days of absolute darkness, with no inkling that anyone was coming for him. He died a lonely, slow, terrifying death that I wouldn't wish on anyone.

I’d wish it on that Thomas guy who paraded Floyd’s corpse out in front of the public to make a quick buck, despite the protests of the family. I hope the devil is putting that pathetic shitstain of a human being through what happened to Floyd.

@Avery Pennington Good call. I'll edit accordingly.

@Dingus I was mostly being hyperbolic there, but I'm certainly never going into a small gap like that. I know most caving is safe but fuck man, this story messed me up a little.

@CODA Interesting story. At least he wasnt there for that long.

Caving is safe as long as you know your boundaries, abilities, and stick to a plan. I've got hundreds of expeditions under my belt through unmapped systems and have never had any issues, nor have any of my groups. These videos make it seem worse than it is.

I wish much worse deaths on many. Communism must be defeated.

You can go into a cafe, just not into a tight one

@CODA I’d like to hope that Jones just slipped away into unconsciousness for the last time thinking that they’d keep working on him and he’d be out by the time he woke up

@kat I dunno whats worse, if you keep hearing your rescuers fumble around above you, and you just sink deeper and deeper being upside down the whole time makes it sound alot more hellish than 'simply' dying in complete darkness.

@CODA At least John Jones passed away surrounded by people who’d been trying desperately to save him til the very end.  Floyd passed away after days in complete darkness and silence, with no sign that people were even trying to help anymore :(

Go read about Nutty Putty cave and the man trapped in there, upside down.

@CODA ah man, imagine giving your life to a cave named "nutty putty".. Btw john jones*

Check out John Johnes, he crawled into a cave similiar like this but became stuck UPSIDE DOWN.


All I wanna say is that I VERY much appreciate the people who tried to save Floyd, it's amazing how much people tried helping the poor lad even though it was just one single person. I actually had hope that he'd make it alive even though it was pretty obvious that he wouldn't.

Anyways now that I got that off my chest– it's sad that someone profited off of his death by using it as a tourist attraction. But I'm more mad about the fact that they held his funeral inside Sand Cave, really disrespectful.

@Callistia Just wanted you to know that people know what you are, and that you disgust people.

People like you need mental help, and to be kept well away from minors.

@Banana knowing how similar acts were played during the middle age i would say it predates capitalism by far

@Mexicola <br>The audacity to call me a redditor

@Mexicola
The audacity to call me a redditor

@Darkenduk I'm proud of being a lefty, are you proud of being a predditor?


Amazing how no cave explorer familiar with spelunking (many of which did it as a profession/means of making money) had the cojones to go through the squeeze, yet a 21 reporter looking for a story not only decided to enter, but upon hearing Floyd’s voice felt compelled to aid him further. Mad respect to Miller in that regard


pathetic. if a hole was drilled, air, water, food & tools could hav sustained, period


Well... Floyd's initial goal was to make a tourist attraction that nobody could resist. I guess he succeeded.

the wish granted by elizabeth hurley in a red dress


I don't have claustrophobia. I have never been in a situation where I would be completely stuck between literally a rock and a hard place. But that opening narration, that walkthrough of the man's routine expedition to the cave system, followed by a run down with each of his simple and seemingly small mistakes resulting in him being stuck in total darkness under a mountain left me feeling a sense of suffocation and helplessness that I had never felt nor hope that I will feel in the future. It's one thing to be attacked by some unknown assailant or to have a split second encounter leaving you high on alert, even if you've made it out of danger. It's another thing to find yourself in a situation where you can't do anything but pray and wait that by some miracle either someone, anyone, sees you in danger and immediately gets help. Because otherwise your're left waiting for who knows how long for the world to move in such a way that you can just barely slip back into safety and survive by the skin of your teeth.

@cyninbend I recommend going to a chiropractor, one specializing in TRT (Torque Release Technique).
I had many problems with pain and mental issues. they started on my lower back and worked their way up over a few weeks so not to shock my body.
Once they got to my cervical vertebrae they told me that I would feel a tingle and to not worry because it was just my cerebral spinal fluid that was blocked up being allowed to flow freely. They then made the adjustments. I felt a small shock and then warmth and tingles all around my head face neck and shoulders. After getting up I felt almost manic and realized days later that I just hadn't felt that good in years.
I had issues of paranoia, claustrophobia, anger issues, and suicidal depression. All of which suddenly seemed to happen out of the blue.
Basically your brain doesn't communicate with itself directly, parts of your brain talk to other parts by sending signals down nerves in your neck and then back up into your skull. If you have misaligned vertebrae this can cause interference which will cause your brain to become confused and also possibly throw your hormones out of whack.
I know have no issues except for very minor  episodes of panic and depression, but I am told that is just PTSD, which was way worse since my brain couldn't work through it naturally due to my neck and back problems.

“..hope that I will feel in my future” OKAY O___O

For everyone that was impacted by the intro but enjoy this type of story I strongly recommend the Ted the Caver story. There is a YouTube narration that sells it perfectly. I am not claustrophobic but that one made me sweat.

I'm exactly the same, never suffered from claustrophobia, but this video made me fully empathise and feel the fear and hopelessness

I did not have claustrophobia until I hit middle age. Then, I got sick and neurotic.  So be careful--keep tight control over your mind.  Now, even the simplest scans make me very nervous--used to tolerate an hour in an MRI. It's all in my head, but still, I get crazy.

Same. I was listening to this while falling asleep. I'm not sleepy anymore. It terrified me awake.

They would only seem small to a moron, which is what he obviously was.
Dude got removed from the gene pool which was a good thing.
Play stupid games, win stupid shit.


Thank you Internet Historian for deepening my fear of caves  😌👍

I see what u did there, even if it wasn’t on purpose


The amount of irony of the exploitation of his tragedy and death all caused by his fascination with the abyss of the cave and his own plans to commercialize it is staggering. A story with enough symbols and inherent meaning to pull from it, but must I separate myself from non-fiction and just applaud you for your storytelling.

@Duddridge1 They say money is the root of all evil

In the end, HE became the attraction. Weird to think about. I really wished it ended there though, the fact it took about 60 years to finally be left to rest after he died is incredibly disheartening. I guess people weren't really all that different from today in terms of morality..

How the saying goes, sometimes life is stranger than fiction. I bet many people would think this story is unrealistic if it were a movie script.


Internet Historian is legitimately one of the greatest filmmakers in the peer to peer medium. He continues to improve with every release and at this point, i view him as closer to the greatest directors than to his YouTuber peers.

@Benjamin Lambert I agree, though based on YouTube standards, 2,5 million views in 1 day is impressive. There are few “quality over quantity” YouTubers whose videos are quite as anticipated as Internet Historian. Lemmino is the only one I can think of actually

Well said. I hope to see a wider audience begin to recognize the legitimacy of his work.


you don't upload often but whenever you do, you manage to outdo yourself every single time. This video is by every definition a masterpiece


This one fucking somber and depressing story.


To be honest, if you'd had heard about the story before, its heartbreaking to see and learn about all the effort put into his rescue. Something so depressive about a team of people working non-stop for over 15 days to dig him out, only to find him dead, and only missing him by 3 days.

It's not really heartbreaking, this is a dumb ass hobby that's only real point is to get yourself killed

This is why I’ve always found cave/mountain rescues really impressive, folk rescue complete strangers and put themselves at risk. Granted in todays world there’s much better techniques and technology available, but it’s always impressive.

@0332288 Imagine if they started to clear the gravel like that friend did from the beginning instead of waiting nearly a week and the cave beginning to collapse. Like that one dude shoveled 500 Kg of gravel out in 6 hours. Actually insane with what they came up with instead of just doing the thing that is tedious but will 100% work.

It's actually uncanny how many things went wrong during the rescue. That rain alone might've made that 3 day difference if it didn't happen.


One hell of a story, Start with insanity, despair,, hope, despair, hope, tragedy, greed, crime, then finally ending with the original goal complete. What a whirl wind of emotions and those who worked so hard to free him and poor Collins. I can't imagine what it was like for him, his friends, family, and those volunteer's.

without a doubt my favorite part has to be when Floyd started talking to Miller, knowing what happened it makes me tear up


This is remarkable. I can't believe how many characters tried helping him, and Floyd did the best anyone could to hang on. So many crushing turns of events and so many new powers and people trying to help get him out.  I can't believe that dentist put him back in there.

For most people money is more important than human values.

Q҉u҉i҉l҉i҉b҉e҉t҉

dentists are disturbed people by and large, highest suicide rate in STEM for a reason i hear....


Goosebumps when he also wanted that one worker to get trapped with him. Good god, what amazing story telling.

@Declicitous Maybe try reading the article that would be easy to find if you just looked?

@Jason Voorhees Oh god I can practically smell your age

@Jason Voorhees Please don't tell me you liked your own comments.<br>It hasn't even been 2 hours lol

@Jason Voorhees Please don't tell me you liked your own comments.
It hasn't even been 2 hours lol

@Sinnre <br>i bet you love fast and furious movies kid

@Sinnre
i bet you love fast and furious movies kid

@Chaos <br>he didn't recount what happened. casey recounted his so called speculation to make himself a bigger part of the story. floyd never said "im going to trap you" lmao

@Chaos
he didn't recount what happened. casey recounted his so called speculation to make himself a bigger part of the story. floyd never said "im going to trap you" lmao

@Lion <br>imagine believing the casey story. you are like the useless people outside the cave spreading gossip

@Lion
imagine believing the casey story. you are like the useless people outside the cave spreading gossip

@Chaos bro, if you take a story of factual events, and have TWO DIFFERENT people recount it, the information presented can be told In COMPLETE different ways.  Pacing of how the story is told, background info and details that can be added (or omitted), using (or not using) foreshadowing, structure of the story, which “characters” the storyteller chooses to mention (or leave out), the storyteller’s use of tone/emotion and vocabulary throughout… etc etc — these are ALL factors that can be TOTALLY different from person to person.  Regardless if a true story had the same characters and same outcome, how a person actually PORTRAYS the story can have  a profound effect on how we perceive it and opinions we form on the matter.

I

@Mara Sov I am not a contrarian and more importantly I identify as a Tapir

@Chaos you are a silly little contraruan vole man

@Chaos I know this was over a week ago but all the editing and little jokes and suspense IS story telling. Story Telling Skills are the difference between a boring lecture and a fun video. A true story is still a story :)

@Chaos same here, wtf is this guy on about

@DragonEye Wait what? I don't know what's happening anymore

@Chaos Never interrupt a socialist when they are fantasizing.

@Chaos If someone told you about something that happened earlier in the day, it would be story telling

@Schneebly I just assumed that Historian saying what happened was just a normal narration.
I didn't see it as some grand reveal.
Apparently it was amazing.

@Chaos yes. that is the definition of storytelling

@Sinnre Holy Gonzolee that's a long explanation tipped with a bit of anger at the end.<br>So basically you just liked how he narrated it. Got it.

@Sinnre Holy Gonzolee that's a long explanation tipped with a bit of anger at the end.
So basically you just liked how he narrated it. Got it.

@Chaos what Internet historian did was he was hinting at it slightly and then BOOM he tells us that what was actually happening. You'd think Floyd just wanted a ladle of coffee when he actually wanted someone to be stuck with him. The way Internet Historian told us this is as I said with the slight hinting, the worker would go down there and as the cave was collapsing Floyd called out for help(this makes us think oh he needs some help), the worker came and was about to ladle in some coffee into his mouth but Floyd refused(we become slightly confused, "why? I thought he needed the coffee") Then as tension builds that sudden realization just pops into our head at the same time Internet Historian narrates it "He wanted someone to be stuck with him." Boom goosebumps tension blablabla. Atleast this was how I felt, and I felt that that was some good story telling. If you pass this on like "Oh I already knew he wanted that guy to be stuck with him." then alright dude I guess u already read the story or some kind of genius idfc

@Chaos he told it in a way that made me feel goosebumps, if you flat out just went "Floyd wanted that guy to be trapped with him" I wouldnt feel the same way. If you added some sort of flare or deepness when telling me about it then you are already trying out a different way of telling the story.

@Ella Karhu Tbh this video is plagiarizing a mental floss article from 2018 about this incident.

@Chaos I think you're just being contrarian for the sake of it

@Ella Karhu He did tell the story but I'm talking about one moment in particular, where he describes Floyd not wanting to die alone.
He just recounted what happened, I don't know how that is "good story telling"
That's what I was confused about

@Chaos Would you not say Internet historian told this story? It just materialized out of his mouth with no input on his part?

@Ella Karhu I don't get it. A true story is a true story.<br>I wouldn't think about something that had happened earlier in the day and say "That was good story telling"

@Ella Karhu I don't get it. A true story is a true story.
I wouldn't think about something that had happened earlier in the day and say "That was good story telling"

@Chaos True stories are still stories, and they can be told in different ways.

Imagine so deliriously suffering that you want another person to die trapped in a tiny dark cave with you, knowing full well that cave's gonna smell like another person's shit soon if it doesn't already.

random bystanders, were giving their all to save Floyds life. Im glad that he was able to eventually be given the proper burial he deserved.


Absolutely riveting storytelling!!! The anxiety I felt of his initial predicament was intense!!! RIP Lloyd...

you can't even spell his name properly how rude are you please become a man immediately


I became so invested in this storytelling that I actually felt my heart shatter in two when I found out that Floyd couldn't make it. I just assumed that he somehow miraculously survived in the end because of how you narrated the rescue in such detail and it completely caught me off guard when he died anyway. There has literally been no other documentary I have watched that played with my emotions as much as this.


So late to this but good lord this broke my heart. Such good work -- the pacing, the visuals, the acting, the humor? Some of your best work, dude. Thank you for this.


There was a moment there near the beginning when I thought I wouldn't be able to stomach this story. But seeing Wendigoon and Ordinary Things was just comforting enough to get me through!

Same I had to stop at one point it was giving me too much anxiety.


I've heard Floyd's story many times, my grandparents used to take my dad and his siblings cross country to all the national parks, he took me and mine before I entered highschool. The thing that stays with me most from that experience was the caves, well lit, beautiful, almost dreamlike at times, and the total darkness. That one moment our tour guide told us all to just be silent, the lights went out, and there was nothing. It felt like I'd been taken to a different place, the cavern walls were no longer there, I was in some sort of void. The thing about total darkness is pretty obvious but never occurred to me until that moment. Your eyes never adjust, pitch black doesn't exist on the surface, there's always some spec of light that will eventually give you something to work off of, in caves, light doesn't make it past the 20 ft mark. If you loose your light, your practically a goner, unless you know each wall and crevice of that cave intimately there's no way out. I only experienced it once in my life, safe and sound sitting on a bench with the knowledge that light would return in a few minutes. But that deep primal fear I felt, mixed with an inexplicable sense of wonder, it will stay with me for the rest of my life. I would gladly experience it again, and I understand why Floyd went down there, and why so many people still do despite the danger. We want to know what's down there, what wonders the world is still hiding from us. Surly there's something down there worth the risk.


That 3D flyout at the start of the video was insane


This really hits hard because I sorta know what it’s like to be trapped in a small space for a long period of time. It was miserable, so imagining being trapped for 2+ weeks?

@Mr. Shickadance Oh this will be long. Um well it’s not even close to how horrifying and despairing being trapped in a hole is, but I was in the ER for 72+ hours in a community hospital. And since during Covid you’re not allowed to leave the room at all. No windows except I was able to barely see the outside light on the other side past the nurses’ station. You start to realize how many hours of daylight there is and you’re missing it. I couldn’t have any electronics. I was only allowed one visitor and they couldn’t be there long. Time slowed so much. So many other details I don’t wanna share.
It’s nothing compared to what this man went through, but listening to it all reminds me of the feeling of being inside that tiny room not really knowing what’s going to happen next. So I’m really just imagining that feeling x1000000. I’m already an outdoorsy person, but it will make you appreciate being able to walk outside your house a lot more.

@Mr. Shickadance Oh this will be long. Um well it’s not even *close* to how horrifying and despairing being trapped in a hole is, but I was in the ER for 72+ hours in a community hospital. And since during Covid you’re not allowed to leave the room at all. No windows except I was able to barely see the outside light on the other side past the nurses’ station. You start to realize how many hours of daylight there is and you’re missing it. I couldn’t have any electronics. I was only allowed one visitor and they couldn’t be there long. Time slowed so much. So many other details I don’t wanna share.
It’s *nothing* compared to what this man went through, but listening to it all reminds me of the feeling of being inside that tiny room not really knowing what’s going to happen next. So I’m really just imagining that feeling x1000000. I’m already an outdoorsy person, but it will make you appreciate being able to walk outside your house a lot more.


This is the beat story telling I've ever witnessed. Such a great video. Well prepared and brilliantly stated. Rip Floyd this world was just too cruel for you.


The bit about the reflection of his tooth really got me. What a sad story, man.


Omg I love this story!!! Not that the last ones didn’t have good production but this one is another level; Thank you for putting the effort and money in.


What a story. 🙏💗 May Floyd Rest in Peace 💞💞 What an amazing love his brother and friends showed to him


His brother is a real one. Immediately travels 10 hours to the cave, enters the cave still in city clothes, squeezes through a small ass hole no one else wanted to go through and starts digging through a large amount of gravel bare handed for 8 whole ass hours and after all that he raises money to get his body out the cave to properly bury him.


A story worth telling. Not everything is global politics or epic battles or the like. Sometimes it’s a man stuck in a cave, and the struggles of people to get him out. You combed history to give us this thorough presentation. And now we all know the story of Floyd. Thank you for your efforts.


I never heard of this story, its 100 years old and I was still sooo sad when I found out he died. Absolutely heartbreaking 😢. Splendid storytelling on your part Internet Historian. (Also this whole story shows the absolute disgustingness of the american capitalsitic system 🤢)


Loved you doing this style of video. Incredibly entertaining and funny. Hopefully you have more in the pipeline!


It's interesting to see the internet historian branch out into real life history. I already liked the gentleman pirate. And this one is great to, props to the editing, as always!


This is an absolutely absurd story. That stupid cave had the first, middle, and last laugh. The fact that the family couldn't even get his body out of the cave after he died makes me hate rocks in a way I never thought possible. RIP Floyd.


It’s very rare that my easily distracted, instant gratification seeking, dopamine reward system loving ass will actually sit and watch something without doing anything else.
I just sat and watched this start to finish gripped by it.
That’s all your storytelling. Sure a guy stuck in a cave is intriguing; but the way you told it made it intensely captivating


the start of the video was agonizing, I never heard of this story and because of the agony I felt, it made me almost stop watching the video and I would have never know about what happened to floyd collins


This was the most amazing documentary I have ever listened to. Shockingly, I was even convinced by the faces that tried to save Floyd being the real guys from the 1900s. Golden Globe documentary.


excellent video.

bravo from covering "the pool is closed" to being, in my opinion, one of the best creator of  documentaries on internet that I have seen.

but, legit question, why didn't he worked on the entrance of the turn around room first?


this is my 3rd time watching this, i already know the tragic end but deep down there's this spark of hope that Floyd got rescued.

this story, this video IS Hope.


who needs a movie of this story, when internet historian already gave us the greatest version.


With a pulley system anchored well enough they could have successfully attempted a rope pull


incredibly illustrative visual effects, I love them. also, love you put wendigoon's face in there.

Yeah and he also put the peaky blinders in the background


In case anyone wonders why they dug up at such a "low pace" despite so much manpower, I myself have had to dug in hard terrain and it's not easy at all. The pickaxes barely do anything, and when 5 of us could barely move any debris, we were forced to call in a machine operator. The machine, a modern machine, f-ing tilted sideways when going in. So we had to leave it be. And we were dealing with soil and rocks that hadn't been moved in just about 4-5 years, hardening it, I can't imagine old geological formations...

Also, you don't actually dig faster with more men, adding more men means making a wider hole that just means more floor to clear away, all more men means is fresh men to take shifts.


I say this every time a new one drops, but this honesty might his best work yet.


Wonderful video, great narration! You've only gotten better, Internet Historian! 😘


I never considered myself claustrophobic but just the image of “the squeeze” instilled so much fear into me


so much of the background audio for the rocks and the cave in this video is fucking C R U N C H Y and i love it. i love the sound of the rocks and the gravel and stuff you put in aaah its so good.


This would have gotten a 10 minute standing ovation at the Venice film festival.

Its hard to fathom how far the YouTube video has travelled as an art form, where a video produced using the visual language bred deep inside internet culture has produced something that is a film, a documentary, an animation all at the same time and yet something completely different, that manages to sit on top of them all, grab the audience by their souls and keep them glued to their screens for days after the credits have rolled.

5/5 Would watch again.


makes me wonder if it would have been possible to have two teams working 1 trying to regain some type of access to Floyd to deliver supplies and other working on digging down to get him.


More of these! I love this channel waaaay to much.


Already watched it three times from yesterday. Always loved your work but this is something special.


“About the same time as when the lightbulb burnt out”

His final grasp of hope for life gave out when it burnt out and nobody came, thats depressing honestly.


Stories like this make me realize i’m more claustrophobic than i think


Another Fantastic Video! I hope these never end.


You should dedicate one of your 4 channels to just telling historical oddities, or start a 5th one.  You have an amazing voice to narrate anything really.  Still taken aback by your face reveal on your 4th channel as you look way to young to have that voice.


I look forward to the sequel documenting the rescue of the memelord inspired by this video to investigate Sand Cave 😊


Kind of a rant but here it goes... When it comes to Cave divers/Thrill seekers of all sorts I really do think they straddle the blurry line between bravery and sheer stupidity.  It is incredibly hard for me to determine whether him (Floyd) going into the pit beyond the "Turn Around Room" multiple times is bravery or just him just not considering hard enough that the slightest thing going wrong could end badly for him. Like, imagine the rocks don't fall but the lantern breaks anyway. How in the God golly hell do you find your way out. I grant you he knows this cave well but the sheer thought of traversing that level of squeeze in the dark, completely by feel alone kept me up last night. I mean come on, that shit is nightmare fuel. Why would anyone subject themselves to the even slim possibility that something even close to that happens?! I don't say this to take away from the sadness that befell Floyd I wouldn't wish that fate even on the worst people I can think of. If anything, it made the people who went against all thoughts it was complete stupidity to even go through the turn around room the bravest people ever. What I'm asking myself and the internet is this: Am I a terrible person for thinking Floyd is pretty stupid for doing what he did?


If he died about time the light went out that means that's when he officially gave up hope

Proving time and time again that the chances of you dying from anything is severely exaggerated when you don't have hope of survival


I’m a minute and 30 seconds in and I already feel claustrophobic. This is gonna be a rough one.


This is the greatest story I’ve ever heard!


2 weeks ago I started getting recommendations of videos from people being trapped on caves, now I know why. Great video as always!


I just found this channel and I feel like I stumbled upon a gold mine.


Neat, a story I'm familiar with. Bit more macabre than your usual fare tho


While I recommended this video to all my friends, I struggle to watch it again myself, knowing that this man is going to slowly die. It hit me hard and I cannot even formulate my feelings, why


Christ, the irony in this tale is insane.
Wanted to find a good cave for a tourist attraction, BECAME the attraction instead.
Refused to amputate his leg to escape, only to have it amputated after his death.
Rescued from the cave by his brother. only to be returned to it shortly after.


If you like this video watch fear of depths by Jacob Geller. It uses the same story and is about the primal fear of going deeper.


This gives me claustrophobia just watching, good job.


This story is terrifying, but I do very much enjoy the sheer percentage of the crowd of onlookers that are Cillian Murphy


Everybody already praised Homer and Miller for being real human beans, but let's not forget the real homie, Gerald. Dude lifted half a ton of rocks without proper equipment WHILE in a very disadvantageous terrain, and didn't give up hope of rescuing his friend even at the imminent danger of cave in. If it wasn't for the fact that rocks literally got dropped on him, threatening to incapacitate him, the dude probably would have clawed his way to Floyd for real.


The Subway
"Foot long"    Roll
has NEVER been 12 inches long
and still isn't, to this very day.


i always sleep w my weighted blanket slightly covering my face but the bit where you described him going through “the squeeze” made me so claustrophobic i had to take a break


I love how Miller went from just trying to pester a trapped man for an interview, to risking his life in order to save him, then refusing to profit when he failed.

Truly one of the best character arcs in anime history


Finally, a feature length movie worth watching


"... and forty five hundred automobiles sat backed up for two miles in front of the farm. There, they were in for the surprise of their lives - nobody expected the Ukrainian army to strike at that convoy!"


I mean. If he was fast enough to place a torch he could have broken the falling gravel blocks in a fast manner.


Can I just say how much I LOVE the inclusion of Little Nightmares 2 music here? No? Well I just did.


This is possibly the most Kentucky story I've ever experienced


54:20
Good to see that crazy people with wild behaviour isn't something new


I'm only two minutes in and I can already tell that this is too much for even my minor claustrophobia to handle, I gotta dip.

...Okay maybe five more minutes


This video made me realise i absulty fear caves


Should have used a pulley to transfer the vertical force of the rope pull into a horizontal force


somehow i kept praying he would be saved :(


oh man I made it so far into the video before I succumbed to the comments and it broke my heart to see that he didn't make it after all 💔


In an alt universe <br>He got out after 48 hours and then after standing up died of a blood clot acting on the brain.

In an alt universe
He got out after 48 hours and then after standing up died of a blood clot acting on the brain.


You probably won't see this Mr. Internet Historian, but I would like to know if there is any chance possible of you collaborating with Mister Metokur before he dies of lymphoma? I have been watching both of you guys for a while & I think Jim would jive extremely well with you just like Sumito does.


Watching this on an edible was a mistake, I am STRESSED


I'd really like to leave a positive review on this video, but that won't be possible since I physically cannot watch this video without panicking


All of those cave exploration meme videos hit different after this


Its hillarious that if you look at the reactions all of them have about 5 to 15 minutes of "reactions"


You gotta make a mountain disaster vid with HasanAbi as the main character. You can just use sound bites from his stream😱


Ik my comment out of thousands might not be noticed, but this genuinely was on of the most enjoyable videos i ever seen on this platform


That Cave is the Main Protagonist in this story.
She wanted him badly - badly enough to kill him
so that no one else would have him.


This certainly didn't help my phobia of caves.


Not even at the 5:30 mark and I'm at peak anxiety mode


Just started watching best part so far @13:03


I am glad that captain Steede made its career into a successful journslist path


Bro this Thomas dude is one of the sickest people I‘ve ever heard of 🤢 there really is no dignity when money is involved


I hate how there are so many reaction videos to this this. Just type in “Man in cave” and you’ll find dozens of them listed below this orginal video. I swear there’s so many leaches on youtube. They should be making their own content instead of feeding off of other people’s.


it brings me enormous inner peace to know that I am to tall  to even get through the squeeze,


This was better than half the shit you find on streaming services


I WAS WAITING so patiently for PEAKY BLINDERS CUTOUT 😂


would be wonderful if you'd cover some paranormal cases from time to time

Internet historian doesn't strike me as someone that would be cover made up stuff. I guess if the case is interesting enough, and displays how crazy people can be.

I'm not saying it's aliens... but it's aliens


"cave city... real name."
hey we didnt say it was creative 🤷♀

also you said louisville wrong


lmao seeing the peaky blinders outside of the cave


Nothing like this could ever happen today


As a Louisville resident, it’s pronounced “Loo-uh-vul”


So did they ever dig through to where Floyd was trying to get to?


Couldn’t stop singing the lyrics to deeper underground by jamiroquai


Well There's Your Problem did a good episode on caving disasters that mentioned this guy.


You should do a collab with LEMiNO, imagine what kind of top quality video we would get


i am just 4 min into the video and i m feeling like i am suffoca-


What are you doing to me, this video made me have such anxiety I felt breathless.


donating this from a cave. please send help


the fact peaky blinders was there and thomas shelby lookin like the hero sheesh.


Yeah sooooo don’t go through 4 tiny ass holes underground???? Yeah got it


Classic film Ace In the Hole (1951) is inspired by this story.


1:30 in and I'm already claustrophobic as fuck


i'm not even that claustrophobic and yet i felt like i was about to puke from the very start of this video


Whoever put llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch as their patron name is amazing and as a Welshman I thank you for sharing the pain of that town name.


14:01 bruh the situation was so dire evn Thomas Shelby arivved with Peaky blinders not once but twice


Yo I actually visited the mammoth cave before.


Imagine the smell. The guys was down there for days shitting and pissing himself among the rocks. Then people going down there to work.


bro, u promised shorter and frequent videos man.... there's so much stuff going on aswell nowadays


I wonder if I'll ever stop thinking about this now


Holy shit I never had claustrophobia but now??


the soundtrack from LIMBO was a nice touch


I went spelunking a couple times, got temporarily stuck once, and never did it again.


Things like this are why I'm glad I never got into spelunking


What is with the claim of the soil being barren in the region? KY is basically a bread basket for the region....


this video was stressful to get thru lol


Ur funny my guy or at least your writers are


Pfft, take that Franco!  127 hours ain't nothing.


I’m definitely having nightmares tonight.


srly documentary media should be edited and narrated like this


Gerald was a beast. He and Miller and Homer Collins were the heroes here, despite Floyd’s eventual tragedy.


speaking of people trapped in a cave...WORLD OF TANKS!


I knew of this story already, but this is probably the single most comprehensive and best-presented piece of media about it. All the little details here were completely new to me, and the narrative is highly compelling.

Exactly! All I knew was that a guy got stuck in a cave and it was very narrow so I liked the wider and smaller details here


Big fan but I don’t think the silly style of this documentaries fits a darker story like this


for those who are confused why wendigoon was in a tunnel, he was looking for giants

And the entrance to Agartha.  It's right there, we all saw it.

we all know wendigoons hide their prey in the tunnels after hunting


I feel bad for Floyd’s brother having to see how his brothers corpse turned into a tourist attraction after all he did to try to save him

Yeah, it's like his failure was paraded for all to see.


Louisville dude here, you really did the story justice, Internet Historian. I always thought it was sad few knew about it. Should you ever visit Louisville (I promise it’s not hillbillies; we’re a beautiful riverfront city built by German immigrants with the raddest food), I really do encourage you see Mammoth Cave. There’s one path called “fat man’s misery“ that might remind you of what poor Floyd had to go through...

Also, if you want any weird info about Louisville for your other channel or whatever, hit me up. I got a doozy about a court case of my Louisville ancestors that apparently affected a court of law’s views on the supernatural for fucks sake. Like, it’s in legal textbooks and shit because of it, I kid you not.

I have family in Louisville and one of them raves all the time about the food and job opportunities, then again, they've contracted covid like 5 times over there too.


I don't think I'd mind at all if this channel covered older historical events like this more often. What a great video.


I've heard this story before, but NEVER in the incredible minute by minute way that this is recounted. This feels much more personal, more human. Well done. If not for the goofy images and such (which I appreciate, BTW), I would be shedding some serious tears right now, these decades later.


I know this isn't his usual kind of content, so I wanted to leave a comment that this was an amazing video; absolutely gripping. Breaking down the situation and difficulties involved, the time tracking, the twists and turns of the story, all really well done! I hope to see more like this!

you took the words straight out of my brain, genuinely, it was narrated wonderfully

I agree it’s a great video but the story itself is just too sad. I can barely watch it


Man... that hurt the feels a little bit. After all dude went through and as long as he held on, he was just short of being rescued, potentially.

@Julie no need to be a dick about it. I just don't want to spend so much time watching something that ends up depressing me

I fear they'd have had to cut off his leg to get him out just like the eventual 'rescuers'.

@Autonova u skip to the end of books, don't u?

The video could have been half an hour long. To go through all the agonising attempts to rescue him and for it to be all for nothing feels like a waste


As a caver and an internet historian fan since 2018, I never dreamed I would see these two of my favorite things fused together. I knew how the story ended before I watched it, but it almost didn’t matter. This was hands down one of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen, and one pf my personal favorite ever.

@Bavarian Banshee It definitely sticks in the back of your mind whenever you’re underground, even if you don’t think about it all the time. Caves feel alive in a way that I’ve never really seen from any other type of environment, and their also (almost by design) perfect built to mess with humans. The darkness of caves takes away your sight and the shape of caves messes with your hearing, the two senses that humans are most reliant on, and deep enough underground they eventually just completely eliminate your sense of which way is up. I’ve been through some tight squeezes, not as tight as the one in the video but tight enough that I couldn’t move my arms and had to paddle with my feet, and they don’t scare me but I completely understand how they terrifying most people.

Caving today is a lot different, mostly due to improvements in safety. Headlamps are obviously a 1,000x better than kerosine lanterns, you wouldn’t catch me bringing that shit into a cave, and its easier to carry backup lights and supplies and whatnot. In the video, Sand Cave was already relatively unstable, and we know today (he mentions it in the video) that a lot of the things that the crowd outside the cave was doing sped up its collapse drastically. Caves have existed the way they are for 1,000’s of years- basically, just don’t do anything to alter or destroy that structure and it will be good to you.

I thought this was going to be another story where a guy got stuck in the same way as this guy in another cave but in more modern times. He also died but it was brutal as they almost pulled him out with ropes but at the last moment he slid back in further to a point where he was no longer reachable

Out of curiosity, has this story affected how you approach caving in any way? Or was anything learned from this incident that changed the way caving is done? Also, do you manage to not think about this story every time you go caving, or is it always in the back of your head?


This was an incredible story, gripping and heartbreaking. You can even see the defeat on everyone's faces at 59:19. All of the people who actually waned to help, not just the random bystanders, were giving their all to save Floyds life. Im glad that he was able to eventually be given the proper burial he deserved.

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is that where the cap phrase came from?!?


you know what's incredible? even after a hundredish years this story still captivates people like it did then.

It’s just one of those human things that captivated anyone with human nature. This was ONLY a hundred years ago. There are stories from several thousand years ago that still captivate us today.


That was quite the gripping story. After getting engrossed for an hour only to learn of the outcome, I felt genuinely defeated. Amazing story telling of an amazing story.


You said Louisville wrong, and as someone from Louisville, you really just angered me and disrespected my city. It isn't pronounced “lEwUViLe”, but “Luvile”, like your saying “Luke”, but stop at the K. Then you follow it with a ville.<br>Please make sure you know how to pronounce things before you say them. I am very disappointed in you.

You said Louisville wrong, and as someone from Louisville, you really just angered me and disrespected my city. It isn't pronounced “lEwUViLe”, but “Luvile”, like your saying “Luke”, but stop at the K. Then you follow it with a ville.
Please make sure you know how to pronounce things before you say them. I am very disappointed in you.


This was apparently one of the biggest news story between two world wars and yet so many of us have never heard of it! This is the kind of storytelling and history that needs to be covered and I see no one better to do that.


I have heard this story told like 3 different times, and this is easily the best retelling of it I have heard, it is like hearing it again for the first time. <br>Remember people, there is nothing for man in caves. Only the foolish and stubborn explore them.

I have heard this story told like 3 different times, and this is easily the best retelling of it I have heard, it is like hearing it again for the first time.
Remember people, there is nothing for man in caves. Only the foolish and stubborn explore them.

Someone gotta do it, but yeah at least don’t go alone

nothing except cool ass crystals that make you spend months digging to make it more accessible


And that, guys, galls, and nonbinary pals, is why you'll never ever EVER catch me in, nor near a cave


As a Kentucky citizen, this was a roller-coaster of a story that I have never heard of. Thank you for shining a light on this piece of history

@DeadlyCatfish lol I WANT PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

@MK Ultra More like my history class didn't deem it worth telling

@MK Ultra bro it was 100 years ago tf u want

Since you've never heard of this story the reporter guy failed.


Sam o' nella or someone similar should make a video about this too, I'd love to see this story in the artstyle and humor of someone like Sam.


The determination of his brother and a bunch of random strangers is truly inspiring. Faith in humanity restored

Lemme tell you bud, the humanity who made this story possible is long gone. all that remains is subhuman mongrels.

@PeterSpeeder69

The courage and daring of the rescue teams is to be admired though.  If they simply didn’t arrive in time, at least they could say that their efforts gave a man a proper burial.  Ultimately they couldn’t even say that…. It took almost another half century for that to happen.

@My 9th Account yeah i didn’t watch until the end until after I wrote this comment :/

Honestly this just decreased my faith in humanity more than anything.  The work done by the brave and hardworking ultimately amounted to nothing.  While the only people who gained anything from this were the jackals and vultures who exploited this event.

This was a hundred years ago. Humanity these days, not so much.

Until you get to the people who exploited his corpse that is

Just for hundreds of idiots to kill the man. Faith in humanity ended

the faith i got from those people was shattered by the thousands of idiots that gathered around the cave not helping at all. and especially those that made money off of floyds body and distress


The storytelling by Internet Historian is better than any documentary. First with Fyre Festival, then Costa Concordia (just to name a few) and now this.

Amazing.

Well, these masterpieces are documentaries among other things ...

It's kind of curious how a historical story he covered got covered into a TV show within a few months


Man idk why but I'm extremely emotional that he wasn't rescued. So close, so many what ifs. At the end of the day at least he is put to rest out of that hellish cave. God rest his soul.

@A Black Templar Absolutely agree but he could have had sameone to supervise him

@Obi the BEEF it would've been a much easier rescue if thousands of people weren't outside of the cave

@Obi the BEEF it wasn’t for a hobby, you ding dong, it was for a better future. Maybe pay attention next time you watch?

@Obi the BEEF nobody deserves to die for any reason, especially one as stupid as "i didnt like their hobby"

He literally threw his life away for the dumbest hobby ever conceived.


So this is what youve been working on...


This video never left like 1 hour. I was seduced by your story telling and editing. You and your team are fantastic at what you guys do

Sadly most of the script was plagiarized from an article written by Mental Floss. I wouldn't mind if he actually gave credit, but he did not.

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my heart sank when you said he was found dead. it's ridiculous to hope a man survived being stuck in a cave for more than two weeks, but humanity is a ridiculous thing. <br>he made it out, though. i hope he knew, as he died, that he wouldn't stay there forever.

my heart sank when you said he was found dead. it's ridiculous to hope a man survived being stuck in a cave for more than two weeks, but humanity is a ridiculous thing.
he made it out, though. i hope he knew, as he died, that he wouldn't stay there forever.


I don't think the sounds of gravel and rocks shifting will ever not be unnerving

When you get really deep underground, the rock around you is always making an odd groaning sound.  You learn to tune it out while remaining alert for even the tiniest hint  of that signature sound of rock fall.

I worked in exploratory drilling and even with the noise of our drills running, which was about 135 dB at full throttle, my ears were still able to pick up the sounds of even a marble sized pebble falling from the back or down the ribs.

Back and ribs are the miners' terms for the ceiling and walls.  Some refer to the floor as the belly, but it's a much less common term for some reason.

Edit: we had an MSHA inspector clock our rig at 146 dB in one heading we were working.  His report caused the company to require double hearing protection for all underground employees who were in the vicinity of a drill while it was running.

It was an odd sensation to have the drill turning constantly for 10 or 11 hours, then shutting it down at the end of shift and removing ear pro to dead silence.


So he’s just gone from internet historian to history historian

now he's just a historian that happens to be in the internet

Maybe the “Internet” is just the method in which he “Historian”’s.


As someone from Glasgow, KY, literally 15 minutes out from Cave City, this story's pretty famous with us. I was absolutely fucking thrilled you decided to cover it, because the entire story is a wild ride, and there's a good chunk of these details that tend to get omitted.

Fun Fact: Cave City absolutely went to utter shit after Sept 11th, 2001, after a lot of the other tourism trap shit died down a lot, Guntown Mountain went to shit, and Crystal Onyx Cave actually collapsed.

Wanna know what ended up reviving the town and kept it going to this day? Going from being a "Dry" city to "wet" around 2014. Literally ALCOHOL ended up saving the city, since most folks around the area didn't have to resort to driving over a half hour to Bowling Green to get booze anymore (or relying on bootleggers and resellers for a good time).

Glasgow, KY ended up resorting to the same tactics at the end of 2015 since the city literally ran out of money as well, but by that time I'd already moved out.

I'm from Glasgow, Scotland. There are still lots of old abandoned railway tunnels under this (surprisingly to some) large city. Closest I could get to your great info.

Are dry towns that common of a thing still? I honestly had no idea places in America were still dry outside of morman country, especially in the south.

@Fixy Clary no shit its texas that doesnt count

You gotta be more specific then September 11th for all the non Americans.

@Cerdic No i dont think so. He's talking about how travel was impacted by September 11th 2001.

@Sovereign Snorlax What happened in september in 2014 in kentucky? Was it a shooting or something?

@Cerdic He's not talking about this time period, he said 2014. I believe he's saying the September 11th attacks put a strain on travel and people stopped visiting the area in general and the town slowly died with no tourism

People love slowly killing themselves 🤷🏻♂ what can you say

Why did tourism die out in september when this all happens in february?

@rold4321 It's a pretty 'Southern' thing.

@rold4321 What about Gun Barrel City (in Texas)?

"Guntown Mountain" is the most southern thing I've ever heard

Hilarious, I remember when Glasgow finally switched but I never knew they were just following Cave Cities lead. My county still ain't wet yet 😔


You're literally the only one that can make me watch a whole 1h video, love your content man!

I'm old enough to remember when IH made 10 min videos.

@Anoon imagine not being able to watch a one hour video

@Davy Machinegun Careful boomer, aren't you afraid the radio will steal your soul?


Two things I'd like to mention,
First, when you think about it. They probably coulda reached him before he died, if there hadn't been so much interference from the public. Time was wasted during that two day court martial, and even prior to that, time was wasted with the locals arguing about what they should do to free him, while getting nothing done. Add it all up, and it shows that 3 whole days were wasted. It's tragic.
Which brings me to my second point, Internet Historian told this tragic story brilliantly. He told it in a way where it felt like you're actually there watching it all unfold. Upon watching his other videos, he does this with some of his other videos, and he does it very well. But the fact that he's able to tell this story in a way that it gets people like myself to shed tears for a man who's been dead for almost 100 years, which is praiseworthy and admirable

I totally agree. Media too focused on watching and criticizing the problem rather than focusing on it. I personally think the miners came too late because of that mentality.

The miners should have came the moment they realized the cave was unstable, they would have had a much better head start.

@Nabzarella Dare Right, not sure where I got 12 hrs from. It would make sense that they started in the same spot and eventually dug around the boulder when they got close, but I don't think that was stated in the video. Even so, after the first failed attempt to get him out through the cave they could have started digging and got to him in a week while proving food and water from the other end. Money would have been the main obstacle but since it was their property they could have charged the tourists a fee to get close or taken donations for the digging. With so many people interested in the situation it's hard to imagine they couldn't have raised enough money or found volunteers to dig. Anyway, I realize it's easier to come up with these ideas in hindsight but in the moment they were all running on adrenaline and doing what seemed to be the obvious solution.

the three days you mentioned are the same three days that was mentioned by internet historian that where missed before he died, and the same time when his light went out.

@Nabzarella Dare that’s an assumption? Bro everything we’re saying is assumptions, including you. Saying if they got to him 3 days earlier he’d be alive is an assumption, anything could have happened. It’s from a hundred years ago, relax, it’s not that serious

@Maelstrom It took a week for his brother and the miners to dig Floyd's body out, and that was only because the dig site had already been dug up prior, so the ground was softer and the boulders were mostly out of the way. Also, remember Homer had to get a lot of money before he could even get Floyd out to begin with? They clearly weren't willing to do it for free. The miners didn't show up to the rescue effort until they were promised compensation from the Kentucky Governor, and not a minute before.

@Nabzarella Dare It may have seemed fanciful at first but ultimately his brother showed with six men and dug him out. That tells me if only they had gotten the idea to dig first, and also to go behind the boulder from the beginning, he could have been out in the 12 hours it took for his brother to extract his body.

Not to mention the fires they lit causing the ice to melt.

@T Man That's an assumption, bro. We don't know why it was ruled out at the beginning, could've been for a legit reason. The people theorising about laying a tarp down were likely locals (once again) offering unhelpful advice because they don't know/understand the complexity of where he's trapped and how. Putting a tarp under him may have been near impossible given his position, maybe it could've worked. The point is, we're no better than those locals by giving unhelpful advice on what they could've done - we weren't there. Maybe they did fuck up (apart from the locals lighting campfires, that was 100% a fuck up), or maybe they really did all they could given the time period, their location and the situation.

@Nabzarella Dare it seemed fanciful because they preferred the far less fanciful idea of pulling him out with a rope… let’s just say it like it is, they made terrible decisions. Hindsight is 20/20, but facts is, if they had be stated digging down, that would have been far better than what they actually did. Hell, laying a tarp or drying him out would’ve been better than what they did lol

@T Man "The prospect of digging from above seemed almost fanciful, at least it did in the beginning. But luckily they had some help." This implies that digging from above him was a suggestion thrown around at the start, but was dismissed - no one knows why, but it's likely due to not having the right help to begin with. Most of the locals were drunks, random towns people and tourists. Not exactly the most coordinated or helpful bunch even when given instructions.

@Nabzarella Dare so do the calibration then? These are cave folk, they live there. I’m assuming that most anything the random miners brought in can do, they can also do. If that’s not the case fair enough, but it seems to me to make much more sense to start digging him out from the get go rather than spend literally weeks doing nothing except tying to pull him out or amputate his leg an stuff

@T Man Without calibration, they wouldn't know where to start digging from

@Nabzarella Dare all those locals who were there for so long could’ve at least started digging. Maybe they didn’t have the experience to go deep like the (expecting to be) paid miners were, but they could at least start and give the miners a 5-10 foot head start

That's still assuming the Lieutenant and the organised workers would've arrived sooner than they did. I guess getting outside help like this; was not as easy or guaranteed back in 1925. They kinda just showed up one day (several days too late) after getting an open purse promise from the Governor of Kentucky to help Floyd. Before that, digging a hole above Floyd was too difficult because of the boulders and solid rock and no one having the experience in mining. <br>I agree the locals wasted a lot of people's time and they should've minded their own goddamn business from the start. Wasting less time could've helped Miller's crowbar plan to actually work, and if it weren't for the locals; the cave likely wouldn't have collapsed before Miller's plan was truly exhausted (or potentially successful).

That's still assuming the Lieutenant and the organised workers would've arrived sooner than they did. I guess getting outside help like this; was not as easy or guaranteed back in 1925. They kinda just showed up one day (several days too late) after getting an open purse promise from the Governor of Kentucky to help Floyd. Before that, digging a hole above Floyd was too difficult because of the boulders and solid rock and no one having the experience in mining.
I agree the locals wasted a lot of people's time and they should've minded their own goddamn business from the start. Wasting less time could've helped Miller's crowbar plan to actually work, and if it weren't for the locals; the cave likely wouldn't have collapsed before Miller's plan was truly exhausted (or potentially successful).

Oh my God, you're right. Ugh, I wish they could have done succeeded.

Right?! If they had’ve just started digging straight down, with manpower only, from the start… whilst also feeding floyd with infrequent  trips so as to not damage the cave integrity… then they would’ve reached him and saved him. Hindsight is 20/20 I supppse


It's incredible how Internet Historian is a better storyteller than most working movie and tv writers. This was a very engaging video.

@Matthew M. S., CFP <br>You're gonna have to duel me for him! 🙃  IH is a gem of today's YouTube creators & storytellers in general.

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You're gonna have to duel me for him! 🙃  IH is a gem of today's YouTube creators & storytellers in general.

@Pillsbury DoughBane That's really interesting. Thanks for letting me know.

Ironically, there’s a classic movie based in part on this story called Ace in the Hole starring Kirk Douglas. Highly recommend it.

Movie and TV writers would have added a lot of useless drama, 5 side plots and a romance, while gender/race swapping half the characters.


Did I hear limegrave music from elden ring here? 45:30


Wow....I never thought a Internet Historian video would bring me close to tears but here we are, this story is heartbreaking. So much determination and grit by all those who tried to get him out only to have that be the outcome. Masterful story telling Historian!

I'm calling it here: this is his masterpiece.


14:50 this part made me choke up with emotion. His brother didn't hesitate to come save him, even though everyone else turned back.

I’d do anything for family, at the end of the day it’s really all you got who matter the most.

It really got me when Homer went to earn that money not for himself, but for his dead brother and to get him out of that cave and kept his word.


Almost 69,000,000 views congrats & a pre-emptive nice.


This was not a story I was expecting.  I was expecting to laugh but it went from fear, to anxiety, to sadness, a laugh or 2, back to sadness. This channel really is like no other. Thank you for all you do.


Truly such a harrowing story of an entombed soul. If only there was more bravery & urgency to make solid plans to aid, excavate and rescue in the beginning, He held on for way longer than I could have ever imagined surviving deep down there. Let's take a moment to appreciate such a captivating story that had it all, empathy, humour, hope, despair. It perfectly captured the suffocatingly dire state during the interpretation of the vision/nightmare. May you long rest in peace Floyd Collins.

So well said. When TIH was describing the scene of that worker going down to scope out the cave for the last time just as it was collapsing, I felt genuine horror in my chest. I can't even imagine knowing that you're about to be essentially sentenced to a slow, painful, and lonely death like that. I probably would've asked someone to kill me quick and easy, no joke.


I know that people wants to praise Miller or Homer for their selflessness, but we know that we all can agree that everyone that actively took part (not you tourists who just camp near the cave) in this rescue is great people.


Man, Miller was such a chad throughout this event. Dude went down a cave even experts hesitated to go into so that he could get a story, but then he ended up spending days risking his own life to try and save a man he barely knew. If Floyd was saved, I'm sure they would have become great friends.


This is the most tensed I've ever felt, watching an Internet Historian video. Good job making this real event exciting, tensed and certain parts humorous. I was very invested in the development of Floyd

It's amazing isn't it? How much humans can empathize with one another, even through story form. You put yourself in that position of hopelessness and all you have keeping you alive is hope. Isn't it poetic that when the light went out he died? He saw absolutely no chance of survival, that light was his hope, it went out and so did his body. How could someone possibly ward off hypothermia without the flame of hope to keep you warm?

I imagine if they would have been able to tell him he was being dug out, he would have survived. He could have kept himself active, he could have just exercised with rocks, etc to stay warm. granted, that took a ridiculous amount of time. Two weeks in a cave. What a hell. Hope dashed more than once. The crowds killed him. If his childhood friend had been there from day 1 he would have been out.

I'm 2 minutes in and already feel extremely claustrophobic. <br>And that while sitting outside in a garden

I'm 2 minutes in and already feel extremely claustrophobic.
And that while sitting outside in a garden


That’s the part that people always failed to mention when telling this story, his body was still in the cave technically on display until pretty much the 1990s, it’s absolutely crazy how no one thought “hang on a minute, this shouldn’t be a problem anymore” it’s so messed up

@JZilmo I believe he's criticizing other retellings of the story.

@JZilmo "failed to mention"<br>It's in past tense. they watched the whole thing

@JZilmo "failed to mention"
It's in past tense. they watched the whole thing


Reversing out of the cave to show how far down he was stuck was really a great touch. I've watch numerous vids on this caving disaster, and yours is the absolute best. Keep up the good work!

Does anyone know if there is a file for the 3D cave map somewhere? I’d like to look at it more, but I can’t find it.

I watched the whole thing, but what’s the timestamp for reversing out of the cave?


Powerful final statement that really made me rethink everything:

“None of this would have happened if Floyd had got World of Tanks.”

Floyd actually had his phone, but had only downloaded RAID SHADOW LEGENDS.


Can I just say the mans brother, a random news journalist, and a firefighter, sound like an accidental badass team combination I never imagined.


Why does an ad have to pop up every time the story is like at a pivotal moment that is so so frustrating


The greatest tragedy:<br>If enough volunteers in the first few days had just gone with the original plan, Floyd would have made it out alive. The cave would not have begun to collapse, probably.

The greatest tragedy:
If enough volunteers in the first few days had just gone with the original plan, Floyd would have made it out alive. The cave would not have begun to collapse, probably.

I'm guessing that the mass of people rushing to see the events at the cave are what caused it to collapse. The more attention it got, the more cave-ins were going to happen.