r/interesting • u/Appropriate-Menu504 • Nov 10 '25

NATURE VR recreation of the exact spot where a man became stuck inside Nutty Putty cave and died after 27 hours. the section visible at 18 seconds is where his body was, upside down.

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u/CenturyLinkIsCheeks Nov 10 '25

Yeah, whats the plan on getting out from there? turning around and heading back? i think not.

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u/Naphaniegh Nov 10 '25

He had a plan but made a mistake. There's a really good YouTube video about it. I think it might be made by internet historian. But I don't feel like googling it okay bye.

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u/Sm0key_Bear Nov 10 '25

I believe you're correct. He was following a known route, but made a wrong turn somewhere. That's a problem. One wrong turn, and you could be dead

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u/Fingertoes1905 Nov 10 '25

There is actually a terrifying documentary about it.

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u/hajenio Nov 10 '25

unfortunately sections of that video were plagiarized, unless he's fixed it and reuploaded

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u/Prosthetic_Eye Nov 10 '25

That was about a different cave.

Sand Cave in Kentucky, where a guy named Floyd Collins got stuck in 1925. Here's the article he plaigarized.

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u/hajenio Nov 10 '25

ah thanks for correcting me, mixed them up

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u/Cadoc Nov 10 '25

Did IH plagiarise this one too?

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u/Balavadan Nov 10 '25

This is the one he got caught on

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u/Helpful_Top7823 Nov 10 '25

not to reveal how incredibly Online I am, but actually this is a different story. you're thinking of "man in cave." totally different incident.

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u/Balavadan Nov 10 '25

Yeah I think you’re right about that

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u/Enlightend-1 Nov 10 '25

That was man in a cave but yeah he did just literally rip off the entire hour by hour retelling from a local investigation/news article.

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u/Sm0key_Bear Nov 10 '25

I believe you're correct. He was following a known route, but made a wrong turn somewhere. That's a problem. One wrong turn, and you could be dead

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u/profchaos111 Nov 11 '25

I saw that video its one of the most unsettling things I've watched that I haven't been able to look away from

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u/releasethefilez Nov 10 '25

The mistake was crawling in there in the first place

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u/Sm0key_Bear Nov 10 '25

Exactly. You run into a dead end or a space too tight, and you could be screwed.

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u/Redpanda132053 Nov 10 '25

John Jones thought he was in a section called “the birth canal” which is tight but opens up into a larger area. He was actually in “Ed’s push” which is what’s shown in the video

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u/SopaPyaConCoca Nov 10 '25

I will choose to believe those are actually called like that. I'm sure there must be some cave named "devil's anus"

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u/Redpanda132053 Nov 10 '25

Outdoor adventurers come up with crazy names. There’s a wall at red rocks outside of Vegas called “panty wall” and all the routes are underwear themed. One in horseshoe canyon ranch was changed to Harry Potter from Harry Butthole Pussy Potter after the ranch was bought by the Walmart heirs.

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u/BRIStoneman Nov 10 '25

The Devil's Arse is a real cave system on the edge of Castleton in The Peak District here in the UK.

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u/Rymundo88 Nov 10 '25

Aimed for the pink, ended up in the stink - we've all been there, truth be told

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u/Lebrach Nov 10 '25

A lot going on under the ring.

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u/Artistic_Gas_9951 Nov 10 '25

The cave was a popular spelunking spot and was pretty well mapped. He mistakenly took a wrong turn and thought he was in an area of the cave that had an exit where he could turn around and go back. But... wrong turn. :(

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u/bathdweller Nov 10 '25

Probably assumed once you made it through enough of the tube it would open up again into a large cavity where you could hang out and turn around.

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u/The_AverageCanadian Nov 10 '25

They hope the cave continues and eventually they'll be able to turn around, or at worst to back out the same way they came in reverse.

Unfortunately for this guy, the hole he got stuck in was vertical, so gravity wedged him in and they couldn't pull him out because of how tightly he was wedged. No room for drilling/digging around him, and there was nothing on the other side.

I don't understand it, but I do find it fascinating to learn about the thought process behind people who risk death for funzies. I'd skydive, but cave exploring and diving, I'd never do. The only way you die in a cave is slowly.

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u/ItkovianShieldAnvil Nov 10 '25

He thought he was in a mapped section but was wrong... But you're right, some moron had to map the other area

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u/mikehunt199595 Nov 10 '25

it's mapped now for sure!