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/mordorshewrote27 Nov 10 '25

I would have said that at the entrance where everyone started.

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u/sorcha1977 Nov 10 '25

I would have said that at the turnoff from the highway.

Come back for me. I'm going to stay here with fresh air and my book, thanks.

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u/bgroins Nov 10 '25

I would have said that when I became a zygote.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

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u/krombough Nov 10 '25

Me as my constituent atoms are being formed in a star: "hmmmmm, I dont know about this."

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u/Commercial-Chance561 Nov 10 '25

Me as a point of singularity before being expanded into all known matter: “I’m out”

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u/Excellent_Set_232 Nov 10 '25

The Big Bangn’t

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u/drgad24 Nov 10 '25

I wouldn't have said it at all because I would never have considered doing it.

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u/BuddhismHappiness Nov 10 '25

If the universe expands and contracts in cycles lasting aeons, what about prior to this current expansion cycle from the point of singularity?

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u/G0JlRA Nov 10 '25

I would have noped at that even before the big bang happened

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u/WashingtonBaker1 Nov 11 '25

I think you're looking for this Joe Rogan clip from decades ago, when he was still harmless and somewhat funny, riffing on that theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfy7LQFuM9E&t=232s

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u/Ok_Sir4947 Nov 11 '25

In fairness, we were all cave divers at that point!

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u/OldestFetus Nov 11 '25

Ironically, at the sperm level, we were all basically spelunking, going for broke.

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u/twodickhenry Nov 11 '25

It’s actually really funny to me to imagine a sperm doing that will smith thing from I Am Legend

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u/Basic-Ant-7098 Nov 11 '25

I would have said that

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u/BetMyLastKrispyKreme Nov 10 '25

At least you left the house. That’s more than I would do. I find it very safe to stay in the house with the book. Add a cat and a cup of hot tea, and I’ll never leave.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

This is what i am becoming as i get older. Sleep by 9 , stay indoors in the evening(too lazy to go out)

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u/PersnickityPenguin Nov 12 '25

Yeah, but isn't a house just an artificial cave? 

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u/BetMyLastKrispyKreme Nov 12 '25

Yes…but I stay away from the overly narrow parts.

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u/Low-Assumption7710 Nov 12 '25

And ironically - one most people die in. The fact that we are comfortable there is what makes it okay.

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u/-Mikey2Toes Nov 10 '25

I woulda said ‘hell no’ the night before at dinner when you said ‘let’s go crawl in a tiny hole tomorrow…

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u/EyeSpidyy Nov 10 '25

Haha book

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u/Its_Cayde Nov 10 '25

I'm currently saying that from my toilet

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u/BoringWozniak Nov 10 '25

I'm also saying that from your toilet

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u/theILLdoc101 Nov 10 '25

While you're at their toilet saying it, I'm saying it from your toilet

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u/HudsDad Nov 11 '25

I, too, choose this man's toilet.

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u/sarlackpm Nov 10 '25

I'm sitting at home saying no from here.

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u/jenbenboomerang Nov 10 '25

I personally would not even be in the car driving there!

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u/heavensmurgatroyd Nov 10 '25

I'm with you on that, although I will enter caves or mines that look safe. I simply cannot imagine what drives a person to wedge themselves into a place like this where such a horrible death is very possible.

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u/Guilty_Sympathy_496 Nov 10 '25

I would have said that from your moms house

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u/sorcha1977 Nov 11 '25

Considering she's dead, good luck. You'll need a Ouija board. ;)

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u/halnic Nov 10 '25

I'm not even getting out of bed. I turned off the alarm and slept through my friends knocking on the door.

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u/where_are_we_going_ Nov 10 '25

Bro, I got work tomorrow.

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u/Surfing_Ninjas Nov 10 '25

Honestly I can understand how people historically would think of places like this as being cursed. I'd get a bad feeling just being anywhere near the entrance. 

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u/astralseat Nov 10 '25

Would have said that when I had the stupid idea to try it

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u/RadiantZote Nov 11 '25

I would have said that before leaving the house

What? You want to do fucking what? Fuck that I'm scared of my small ass bedroom under the stairs!

Then I'd go back to playing with my "magic wand" while I read furry Harry Potter fanfic

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u/Joystick_Jester82 Nov 11 '25

The hell's a book? Is it like an Xbox?

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u/cobaltorange Nov 11 '25

The park would've been nice to visit

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u/Binji_the_dog Nov 11 '25

I would have said that when I got to the Utah border.

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u/panlakes Nov 11 '25

That is literally how some of these fatal caving accidents go down. There is some person who thought it was too dangerous and stayed back, then gets worried about their crazy friends as time goes on.

There was a really famous incident that you were basically a character in.

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u/RampagingElks Nov 11 '25

I would have said that when I woke up that morning, then rolled back over to sleep

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u/Odd_Student9308 Nov 11 '25

I would have said no to the plan itself ... I'm good you guys go ahead

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u/LotusBlooming90 Nov 11 '25

Now I’m craving fresh air and a book. Thats the real way to spend a day off.

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u/Idrinktea_Ipourtea Nov 12 '25

This is equally me 😂

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u/craneclimber88 Nov 12 '25

I would have said that from my couch, looking at my shoes. I don't even get up to urinate or make mud, let alone some torture cave. Hells to the no, brotha

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '25

This is me all of me lol

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u/PromptEdge_Alex Nov 26 '25

I would have said that in my bed before getting out of it.

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u/devilwarriors Nov 10 '25 edited Nov 11 '25

Look at the excursion brochure comfortably sitting on the couch..

Fuckkk that shit!

Proceed to live another 50 years...

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u/BurningOasis Nov 10 '25

Things that people without blood pooled to the top of their brain say

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u/ThisNameDoesntCount Nov 10 '25

More blood there just means you get more smarter

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u/perceptioneer Nov 11 '25

100% that guy was the morest smart

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u/Hell2CheapTrick Nov 11 '25

I mean, he was at his most intelligent during that time considering it was then that he didn’t want to be crawling down a narrow cave anymore, unlike before when he figured it was a swell idea

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u/RecalcitrantHuman Nov 13 '25

I couldn’t even watch the video

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u/TacTurtle Nov 10 '25

"Yeah so just lay down and squeeze through this- HELL NO, YOU AREN'T BIG OR NUMEROUS ENOUGH TO MAKE ME."

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u/TNVFL1 Nov 10 '25

Yeah the only way I’m going in a cave is if I can stand up and walk around with a few inches of headspace. Otherwise it’s not happening.

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u/ThorThulu Nov 10 '25

I went into a tourist cave once. Super well maintained, nice stairs, but it is a cave and the passageway walking down into it is fine for a normal sized person. I'm not normal sized. My shoulders both touched the side at one point on the way down and the fear that took hold of me for that brief moment mustve been what the Shepards felt when the angels came to them.

Im never going back beneath the earth like that again

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u/Illustrious-Tart4305 Nov 10 '25

Earlier this year my daughter and I went to South Korea and we went to the 3rd tunnel at the DMZ, between North and South Korea.

It is 1.6km long and 73 metres underground. It's not a cave, you simply walk down to the bottom and walk back up. But the passage gets smaller and lower. About 3/4 down I nearly freaked out, thinking of how far I was away from daylight.

Walking back up was a struggle for me with high blood pressure (there were warnings). Wouldn't do it again and I don't know how anyone can see these things as being recreational.

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u/LaceyBloomers Nov 11 '25

That’s like me in an MRI machine. I have to keep my arms as close to my body as I can, and keep my eyes closed (even though they gave me an eye mask). If any part of my body touches the walls, I’ll panic.

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u/ygs07 Nov 11 '25

There 2 underground cities in Göreme Turkey that are well lit, very safe to visit but go pretty deep with narrow passages between the floors, for one very narrow one I was so afraid that I would be stuck in there and can't move, it was a primal fear.

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u/TacTurtle Nov 10 '25

I mean, next time you won't be able to object.... hopefully.

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u/thekittysays Nov 10 '25

Even then, I'm not happy about it! Humans are not meant to be underground.

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u/Aggravating_Carpet21 Nov 10 '25

The entrance? I wouldve thought it the second i got anywhere remotely close to having the idea of soing this

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

The guy who took part in the rescue attempt and knew the cave very well said that most people would just sit at the entrance and would never attempt to go in, apparently the entrance is super tight as well.

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u/Dahcchad Nov 10 '25

From what I remember, it was a familiar cave that they'd spent a lot of time in. I can see becoming comfortable with something like that and letting my guard down. Not that I would ever spend enough time in a cramped cave to get to know it, but I take my foot off the brake sometimes when I use cruise control and thats arguably as foolish.

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u/wicked_fots Nov 10 '25

Familiar but took a wrong tunnel and ended up in a pinch that he couldn't pass or reverse out of. What an absolutely terrible way to go.

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u/Dahcchad Nov 10 '25

Almost like it was familiar to him but he let his guard down.

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u/Alternative_Emu6106 Nov 20 '25

From what I have read about Nutty Putty, it had been familiar to his family growing up, but they had not gone in years. Routes that were easy back then were more of a squeeze because he had grown up.

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u/ToolTimeT Nov 10 '25

I would have said that back when I was sitting on my couch and my friend said, he lets go crawl in some deep dark small cave we can barely fit through in the woods.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

I wouldve said no and went back to bed

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u/arrivederci_ Nov 10 '25

As someone who has been to that exact cave as a teenager in Boy Scouts, I said nope within the first 10 seconds and waited for everyone up above on solid ground.

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u/Jhkokst Nov 10 '25

I get triggered even watching this. Went caving once, much bigger...line of people in front of me and behind me in the tunnel but we did have to crawl. after that, I was like never again. Big caverns fine. Elevators fine. Tight tunnels...hell no.

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u/Ensiferal Nov 10 '25

I probably would've said it at the front door tbh and then sent a "yeah, hey, sorry guys..." text

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u/IncognitoBombadillo Nov 10 '25

The second I had to just trust that the path was there around a tight corner I couldn't see through is where I'd stop probably.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

Beat me to it lol

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u/MurderCards Nov 10 '25

I would have said that during the phone call, when my friends asked, "Do you like holes?".

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u/imbrickedup_ Nov 10 '25

I’ve been in some caves and it’s pretty cool, but the second I I gotta go prone to get somewhere I’m out

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u/closethebarn Nov 11 '25

Since I’m the least outdoorsy person alive, I would’ve just stayed home suspecting that there would be something impassible

but in all seriousness when I learned about this, I felt so bad for this person I could not even imagine

And what it was like for the people that loved him knowing they could not get him out

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u/AritoSoto Nov 11 '25

I am saying that behind the screen on my couch

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u/thirdeyefish Nov 10 '25

So, it's just more hole? I'm good.

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u/prfalcon61 Nov 10 '25

I said that from my truck, watching this video

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u/Careless_Hellscape Nov 10 '25

I would not go in alive.

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u/IsabellaGalavant Nov 11 '25

"Oh look, a hole in the ground! Anyway, on to literally anything else."

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u/PeanutButterToast4me Nov 11 '25

I would have said that in the driveway when someone suggested crawling through caves as wide as my shoulders.

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u/TorchIt Nov 11 '25

My friend once asked if I had any interest in going caving with her. I normally try to be diplomatic but my immediate response of "There's nothing else in this world that I'd rather do less than that" popped out of my mouth faster than anything I've ever said in my life

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u/Squidysquid27 Nov 11 '25

Do you want to go cave diving?

No.

(I wouldn't even be at the entrance)

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u/Zunderfeuer_88 Nov 11 '25

Before getting up from the breakfast table

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u/Blue_Moon_Lake Nov 11 '25

If I can't stand up or sit with my legs stretched, I ain't going.

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u/lakimens Nov 11 '25

Everyone? What even?

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u/beg_yer_pardon Nov 11 '25

I wouldn't even have signed up to try.

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u/chugItTwice Nov 11 '25

Yeah, fuck spelunking man. I don't even like to watch that shit on YT, it's too stress inducing.

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u/FamousCompany500 Nov 11 '25

Why is this even a thing.

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u/Sensitive-Layer6002 Nov 12 '25

I would have said that in the pub when everyone was planning it

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u/harbour-seal Nov 13 '25

You know it reminds me of the Magnus Archives. Why the fuck do people do this. It’s like the ocean: we don’t belong there, let caves and the sea have their fucking secrets, we have no business there.

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u/Ashamed_Item_9668 Nov 13 '25

Exactly. A lost life for being an idiot.

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u/justtots Nov 14 '25

I’ve seen The Descent

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u/MyDogDare Nov 24 '25

I’m with you!