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Made possibly even worse by its ridiculous, sort of sinisterly twee name... The Nutty Putty Tragedy!
I dunno how well known this, or if any of you will know it or what, but basically Nutty Putty is or in fact was the name of a cave in the wilds of Utah. Apparently most of it is a relatively easy cave for amateurs to explore, but there are a couple of bits which should send anyone with claustrophobia into palpitations just by description, maybe even by name alone. One of them is called the Birth Canal is an extraordinarily narrow crack which ultimately takes the form of a long tube through the rock which people - as long as they are short enough and thing enough - are able to traverse by kinda wiggling, twisting and bending. It seems to be so narrow that you have align your body parts in different directions at different parts of the journey... well, it sounds an absolute nightmare, but some total fucking psychos do it for fun. Anyway, on the occasion that I happened to read about today, it seems that a couple of brothers decided to go caving for their thanks giving or whatever, seems that they did it fairly often and were pretty good at it. I guess they were mormons so perhaps all actual fun stuff was prohibited I dunno. Anyway, he went through the birth canal I think and then took some kind of wrong turn and then basically he got completely wedged, face down and had to call his brother for help, so he managed to crawl through the first bit and get hold of his legs but he couldn't pull him out so in the end they got all these rescuers and they took turns going through and trying to pull him out and they set up a pulley system going all through the rock just to fucking pull him out but it broke and after basically twenty odd hours stuck face down in a really tight hole, unable to move or breathe properly or anything he just fucking died.
I'm not properly claustrophobic I don't think but just the idea of going through the birth canal thing safely gives me the howling fantods. And to be stuck like that, miles from air, in a hole from an all but unreachable chamber. Jesus Christ. At least, I suppose, I know it will never happen to me, well, I hope. I mean if your fear is heights then you might fall or whatever, but I know I"ll never get stuff like that cos I will never ever ever ever go caving like that. Although I am thinking of that Edgar Allen Poe story where his one fear is being buried alive and he spends his whole life trying to work out how to avoid that happening to him, rigging up bells in his crypt and so on and yet, somehow.... but I digress.
So if you really want to have nightmares, watch the video below, I may have got some of the details wrong cos of being too horrified to concentrate properly... enjoy!
I dunno how well known this, or if any of you will know it or what, but basically Nutty Putty is or in fact was the name of a cave in the wilds of Utah. Apparently most of it is a relatively easy cave for amateurs to explore, but there are a couple of bits which should send anyone with claustrophobia into palpitations just by description, maybe even by name alone. One of them is called the Birth Canal is an extraordinarily narrow crack which ultimately takes the form of a long tube through the rock which people - as long as they are short enough and thing enough - are able to traverse by kinda wiggling, twisting and bending. It seems to be so narrow that you have align your body parts in different directions at different parts of the journey... well, it sounds an absolute nightmare, but some total fucking psychos do it for fun. Anyway, on the occasion that I happened to read about today, it seems that a couple of brothers decided to go caving for their thanks giving or whatever, seems that they did it fairly often and were pretty good at it. I guess they were mormons so perhaps all actual fun stuff was prohibited I dunno. Anyway, he went through the birth canal I think and then took some kind of wrong turn and then basically he got completely wedged, face down and had to call his brother for help, so he managed to crawl through the first bit and get hold of his legs but he couldn't pull him out so in the end they got all these rescuers and they took turns going through and trying to pull him out and they set up a pulley system going all through the rock just to fucking pull him out but it broke and after basically twenty odd hours stuck face down in a really tight hole, unable to move or breathe properly or anything he just fucking died.
I'm not properly claustrophobic I don't think but just the idea of going through the birth canal thing safely gives me the howling fantods. And to be stuck like that, miles from air, in a hole from an all but unreachable chamber. Jesus Christ. At least, I suppose, I know it will never happen to me, well, I hope. I mean if your fear is heights then you might fall or whatever, but I know I"ll never get stuff like that cos I will never ever ever ever go caving like that. Although I am thinking of that Edgar Allen Poe story where his one fear is being buried alive and he spends his whole life trying to work out how to avoid that happening to him, rigging up bells in his crypt and so on and yet, somehow.... but I digress.
So if you really want to have nightmares, watch the video below, I may have got some of the details wrong cos of being too horrified to concentrate properly... enjoy!