Coffee, a caffeinated diuretic. Definitely great for hydration. Not to mention your body heat is sapped to cool it down to actually process. Yep. The best options. For sure.
@@zeallust8542 You can, but their idea is like 50% keep him awake and aware, 50% try to get this done ASAP so long-term issues cannot set in. And coffee helps with keeping awake a _bit_ better than boiled water. Retroactively, with more knowledge of things, sure, it seems foolish, but it’s coming from being in that situation and lacking a wealth of options.
When Internet Historian really wants to tell a story, he REALLY commits. The last of his videos that engrossed me so thoroughly as this one was the one about No Man’s Sky, which had me actually cheering at the end. Next to that one, this is easily his best video yet. Can’t wait for what he makes a documentary on next.
Wait cheering at the end? The end of the NMS Video was a erotic fan fiction reading... Man broadcasted yourself in 4k! . . . 🤣 jkjk the opportunity was right there
When I found out yesterday that he plagiarized the script I was so angry… I literally thought the same thing, although I’ve never seen his other videos. Just this one. Whoever wrote the script is the real storyteller here.
I can empathize with how that light bulb was his last ray of hope, and when it went out so did his hope. It's kind of sad, I hope he realized how hard everyone tried to save him.
More like how a few people tried to save him and how many of the ten-thousand people either did nothing or exploit the man for personal gain in life and death...
A lot of people ask why they didn't give him water instead of coffee - apparently water quality was shit in the 20s, so boiling it was the best option, and the warmth from the drink (as well as the caffeine) would've perked him up and kept him lucid.
@@NotoriousLINCOLN The word "warm" is very important there too. Hot drinks are not great, ice cold drinks are not great, and warm drinks are just right
@@zeallust8542 | I think this was because they believed drinks like Coffee and Whiskey were better for your health because they didn’t know about the drawbacks at the time. You got to remember that this was the 1920s, a time when stuff like cocaine and heroin were still being prescribed by licensed doctors to everyone
@@edim108 Yeah the guy was trapped headfirst down a hole. Turns out being upside down for a prolonged period of time for too long can actually kill you.
Kentuckian here. We’ve got the best horses in the world (not an exaggeration), we supply 95% of all bourbon, and we’ve got mammoth cave. I think that about covers our noteworthy contributions. Also as a note I personally resent KFC for being named after my state because being immediately and heavily associated with mid-tier fast food as the only cultural touchstone for my home is a smidge insulting.
KFC used to be top tier fast food. They're doing great in Japan and China, but they're on real struggle butter in North America and Europe. Plus come on, your state literally looks like a fired chicken drumstick...
Everywhere outside the USA KFC is considered top notch food. The highest of the high. I heard people talking about how Bad the US versions of fast food chains were.
@@skomolowski People from all over the world, including Saudi Arabia come to Kentucky to purchase horses. Yes, the Arabian horses are top notch, but they aren’t better or worse than ones here.
33:05 Also raw water in that part of Kentucky back in the 20's teeming with germs I'd bet but the coffee was boiled so less of an issue plus helps keep him awake and lucid. Same with the whisky cleaner and probably helps with the pain since was often used as a makeshift painkiller back then.
@@glockenspiel604 Or any alcohol, really! It acts as a vasodilator, allowing more blood to flow in your skin, thus making you feel warmer. However, that also directs heat away from your core and makes it radiate more quickly, lowering your body temperature overall. A temporary comfort, but makes you worse off in the long run.
Gotta say I love the extra editing you do, especially when you pause to add something or respond to the live chat. Not that other reaction channels are worse for not doing it, but your videos end up being a lot more engaging and help justify watching through the entire featured video again. Good work, keep it up!
Some other troubling aspects to this story that weren't touched on in the vid.. Floyd was all scratched up and had open wounds which were constantly being exposed to water that was mixing with his poo. If he didn't die in the cave, he may have died anyway from disease or perhaps blood clots from remaining locked in place for so many days, especially with 1920's medical. Also, that whole 4hr moment with Miller trying to free the leg just had me thinking of what the smell must've been like for him in that spot @_@ (in addition to trying to concentrate while doing a full body stretched contortion while upside down)
Geez… I mean, I was definitely wondering about those things, but I didn’t want to think too hard about it because his circumstances were horrific enough. Poor guy…
This video really had me get hope in humanity in the first part, put the fear of Mother Nature into my soul in the second part and then crush all of that hope in humanity in the third part. What a fucking rollercoaster!
So, if my assumption is right-- they give him coffee to give him heat, since he was being exposed to the water beneath him. He's soaked there for quite a long time, and whiskey and coffee gives off a "heated" feeling when you consume it.
This needs an anime adaptation, like One Piece. But instead of ships and pirates, there will be tourists going into caves trying to find the Sawed off foot and fight eachother in tight spaces.
"Don't they drink water?" 🤣That's always such a wild part. It's shocking how many things go wrong with animals due to poor hydration. Whether it's humans or pets, a massive amount of problems can be preemptively avoided with having proper amounts of clean water throughout the day.
William Miller's face kinda looks like Benedict Cumberbatch at a glance. Would like to see him feature if they somehow made a movie of this. Physique could be a problem tho since Miller's described to be slender
@@bluebros.7266 I've seen plenty of "Based on a true story" movies where the actor looks nothing like the real guy. Not saying I agree w/ that, just sayin.
I be leave there was an attempt to do one many years ago based on the book but went no where, although there was a Broadway theater/musical type rendition of the ordeal but as to whether its still going or not i have no idea.
There were different iterations of traffic lights even before Garrett Morgan too. He also patented the more modern gas mask, although there had been multiple iterations of that as well.
tfw you only just realized chill zone does streams. also 2 things, 1: they shoulda given my boy some water, coffee's keeping him warm sure but it's also a diuretic. 2: lets all just take a second to appreciate miller and gerald. gerald is just a pure chad and miller was a young dude from the city completely ready to just squeeze himself into a tunnel bigger than most dude's d's... and after getting his story... kept going back to help.
Coffee in early 20th was waaaaay more watery... And actually more safe due to being boiled and stuff - regular water of that time most likely would've ended up giving him diarhea. Yes it is "good ol' times" but it was already time when people had at least some knowledge what is better to give as emergency food considering current "technology" at hand.
@@Ghostel3591 yeah you're right, i guess it slipped my mind, that's the reason for centuries beer was the drink of choice too, it was just safer than water.
While my claustrophobia isn't as bad as it used to be, this first few minutes of this made me *very* uncomfortable. I had to stand up for a few good minutes before continuing the damn thing, lmao.
People in the old times drank a lot of water but also you have to keep in mind that hygiene in this period was still nowhere close to the modern standards. Alcoholic beverages was one of the most typical ways how one acquired decent quality drink and these were frequently far more diluted than what is served in the modern times. Beer used to have per volume alcohol content of circa 1-2%, for example. It's basically just flavored & disinfected water by that point.
Methods of cleaning and purifying water still had ways to go during that era. Before water was safe enough to drink without getting sick from it. It was much safer to drink either coffee, since it was boiled or alcohol since was distilled, and it was completely safe to drink milk because it was pasteurized. Having safe and clean drinking water is a thing, we take for granted in modern times.
I used to like poking about in woods and caves, but I'd never, never, have the nerve to squeeze myself through gaps like that. Getting stuck, unable to get myself out, makes my skin crawl...
I listened to the original video at work and got chills. I’m rewatching this and actually seeing the reference images of the squeeze and I nearly had a panic attack. You will never catch me going down into a cave that I can’t stand up and spread my arms in, and even then it better be a damn good cave.
Claustrophobia is one of my greatest fears but Thalassophobia might be even greater then that. The fear of the deep ocean. The vastness of it. Plus I have read an acount of a Nigerian guy who was stuck underwater in a capsised ship for 3 days. His account was bone chilling.
My guess would be that it wasn't readily available as it would be highly situational to need such things and require time to manufacture which was something they where very much running out of, the real matter would be is why didn't this cross there mind in the first place as they been there for hours and would of noticed the air flow before even starting construction cuz if they had started digging right away they could of narrowly made it at the very least.
@@vector3042 it's all fair in love and war. To be fair IH mentioned a lot of other things I couldn't think up. Hindsight being true sight and all that. This also reminds me of that incident where a little girl fell down and was stuck at the bottom of a long pipe that went straight down. Simpsons also aped it with the episode was stuck at the bottom of the well.
If you're going to do another long reaction video, I highly recommend another one from Incognito Mode called "The Gentleman Pirate". I'm not sure how much input you can give since it's about pirates, but it a great video and tells a very interesting story. That or some videos from Pyrocynical, who also makes great videos, though most of them now are quite lengthy. Still, even if you don't record it, check him out in your free time. Really cool videos. The "The Best Game You Should NOT Play" video is a good place to start, and it's pretty recent.
this whole thing just makes my skin crawl, i couldn't even imagine crawling through a hole twice as big, what i don't understand though... and im obviously not a caver so bare with me but... why didn't he start tunneling it out earlier in the cave ? like there's the whole turnaround room he could've done first.
Part of it is that a lot of people then wanted to preserve the "purity" of the experience by making it a bit of a struggle to move around. Part of it was probably to impact the stability of the cave as little as possible. And honestly, he was probably hoping to make his job easier by opening up the cave to tourism first and using the proceeds to open up the pathway more.
My guess is that the main entrance was more or less a security deterrent as no one was willing to go past the turnaround but him thus if he got to where he needed to be he could easily look around for better points of interest to make it more accessible instead of his way of entry.... or he was an idiot who thought everyone would be super willing to crawl in a 9in non-supported hole to look at some fancy white rocks for a silver doller, idk 1920s where wild after The Grate War.
@N7 to be honest, I live in a county where 6° earthquakes happen every week and I have never heard of any cave systems in here. Maybe they collapsed centuries ago lmao
Why didn't he make the entrance bigger? I mean he could still end up trapped due to falling debris. But why not give yourself space if u can? Make the squeeze area bigger give yourself room to work.
Probably in part to deter other cave entrepreneurs from pulling anything before he was finished. They were willing to beat him and stopped only at the threat of death by shotgun, I wouldn't be surprised if someone back then was willing to sabotage a cave to kill him and get their hands on it.
I had to have this on double speed, and hopefully my meds for PTSD nightmares will help with this being the last thing I watch before bed. When it reached Calvin Coolidge and Hoover, I slowed it down to 1x speed, and now it sounds like he’s drunk reading/reciting the script
Stimulants like caffeine can cause the heart to beat faster and hasten the effects that the cold has on the body. Sweet, warm, non-caffeinated and non-alcoholic drinks are best for combatting hypothermia.
20:26 Back then water purification was difficult and pften times not very good. Therefore, it was safer to drink things like coffee and wisky. Wisky is safer because the alcoholic nature killed most bacteria and stuff. Coffee is safer because it was boiled. Also, both would gove you a slight energy boost in times like this.
You've probably already learned this from researching yourself or the comments section, but back then water purification was not as prevalent as it is today. It also wasn't shoved down everyone's throat with the constant "You need to drink more water" rhetoric that goes around today. (as if water is a cure-all.) So the question of "why not water?" is because it simply didn't come to anyone's mind for it to be the first thing to think of. Coffee, alcohol, etc were the main drink's mostly because of all the processes they went through to create them. They were seen as 'healthier' because there would be a lack of parasites, diseases in it, etc... that un-purified water can carry. I mean even where I live, in Kentucky, we're constantly advised to boil our tap water before drinking it. (Because the government is far too lazy to do any decent repair work on the main water pipes) So people either buy bottled water at the store, or just don't drink water here. (Cause the water in kentucky (in most places) still contains rust, lead, dirt... whatever is in the ancient pipeline. They only repair and/or replace the main pipeline when it finally breaks and they "have" to do it. So, it makes sense that water was not a "go to" thing at the time (it probably still wouldn't be, even in modern kentucky)
I'm not claustrophobic, but if I was trapped with my arms and legs stuck, I think I would rather bash my head open on the rocks and bleed out instead of waiting to die.
I mean yeah. This is the internet. I was first thinking that the telegram thing is a real 4chan thing to do. But even 4chan probably wouldn't stoop so low to contact the mother herself. Or they simply wouldn't care.
It says it in the original video at the bottom, but Floyd's mother was already dead at the time and they didn't know he had a stepmother. They were basically just sending a message with the intent for it to be reported on and believed to be real.
Mother nature be like: "No no no. He stay, you leave. I still have personal business to discuss with him. " Just wow to how humanity is willing to pay, just to see someone in suffering and know the story on how it gets in to that point. Remember guys, Stories can moves civilization.
It wouldn’t happen in world of tanks. A shit ton of tanks moving around and sitting stationary all the time over those caves would probably crush the cave system down
Fr, I feel for Floyd but let's not pretend that he and all of these other cave entrepreneurs weren't totally up for ruining those caves for profit. The formations he was trying to guide people to would rapidly deteriorate after constant human contact/traversal. That's by no means to say that he deserved _anything_ that happened to him, but the guy was grinding from age six to profit from native artifacts and natural formations like those caves and the greed was what killed him in the end.
This video is an hour long, but it goes from "do you want coffee" to "do you want eternal peace" way too fast. The fucking pharaohs had more choice in that and they didn't even have a choice.
Having read the article, I can say that he did not. The only thing he "copied" was the facts of the story, which are not copyrighted. Hbomberguy is a hack fraud and is the last person to throw accusations of plagiarism at anyone given how he routinely takes credit for other people's work.
It's amazing how he can put so much work into telling the story in an engaging and compelling way, yet terminally online asshats think he's just a plagiarist because he didn't reword some things first. What weirdos.
Aleks Jones believes his madness. And he is staunch believer of several large conspiracy theories. Like the illuminati, lizard people, alternate dimension aliens... the list goes on. His most famous clips are generally about poor oversight of big businesses dumping chemicals freely into freshwater rivers. He also has a few interesting news type journalists working for him that are down to earth. I wouldn't put him into a bag of people who exploit the dead by digging upntheir corpses and patading them around.
"What's with all the coffee?! Give him water!" This is middle of Winter he's freezing and in cold water, coffee and tea are their best options.
Also no water treatment yet so boiling water to get rid of anything in it is best option.
Coffee, a caffeinated diuretic. Definitely great for hydration. Not to mention your body heat is sapped to cool it down to actually process. Yep. The best options. For sure.
@@zeallust8542 Absolutely. Why have coffee when you can have dysentery?
@@Ignas_ You can boil water without adding coffee beans to it
@@zeallust8542 You can, but their idea is like 50% keep him awake and aware, 50% try to get this done ASAP so long-term issues cannot set in.
And coffee helps with keeping awake a _bit_ better than boiled water. Retroactively, with more knowledge of things, sure, it seems foolish, but it’s coming from being in that situation and lacking a wealth of options.
I actually visited Mammoth Cave as a child and saw that gate. No one else paid it any mind but I felt uneasy and a deep sense of dread from it.
You felt the peril of it!
Watch out, it's the cave calling out for another sacrifice.
The Cave was watching you
They ghost of Floyd! He returned to give a warning!
is it ironic that Floyd wanted to bring tourism to his cave and in his death he accomplished his dream
Ironic in a very messed up way, it's like he made a Monkey's Paw wish
I would say it’s more ironic that getting the tourists he wanted killed him by melting the cave
I didn't want to make the joke, but the Cave was like "Oh you want Me to be a Tourist Attraction? I'll Give You A F**king Tourist Attraction!"
His sacrifice made his town popular, grow in population, form enough land to be farmable, he should be considered a hero really.
i'd say he wanted to make money first and foremost, which he himself didnt do
When Internet Historian really wants to tell a story, he REALLY commits. The last of his videos that engrossed me so thoroughly as this one was the one about No Man’s Sky, which had me actually cheering at the end. Next to that one, this is easily his best video yet. Can’t wait for what he makes a documentary on next.
Wait cheering at the end? The end of the NMS Video was a erotic fan fiction reading... Man broadcasted yourself in 4k!
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🤣 jkjk the opportunity was right there
Commits plagiarism, more like
@@IanCordingley Oh shut up already.
@@IanCordingley Who doesn't
When I found out yesterday that he plagiarized the script I was so angry… I literally thought the same thing, although I’ve never seen his other videos. Just this one. Whoever wrote the script is the real storyteller here.
I can empathize with how that light bulb was his last ray of hope, and when it went out so did his hope. It's kind of sad, I hope he realized how hard everyone tried to save him.
I just hope he died before it went out tbh. Or at least soon after.
More like how a few people tried to save him and how many of the ten-thousand people either did nothing or exploit the man for personal gain in life and death...
@WillTBear1 well I mean the people that mattered. They did everything they could.
"Oh the body turn dark to be respectful to the dead"
5 minute later *body flying up to the star*
To be fair, that was a beautiful made scene. Just to give this failure ending.
A lot of people ask why they didn't give him water instead of coffee - apparently water quality was shit in the 20s, so boiling it was the best option, and the warmth from the drink (as well as the caffeine) would've perked him up and kept him lucid.
You know you can boil water without adding coffee to it, right?
@@zeallust8542 clearly you didn't read.
Stimulants like caffeine actually speed up heat loss.
Warm, sweet, nonalcoholic and non-caffeinated drinks are best for combatting hypothermia.
@@NotoriousLINCOLN The word "warm" is very important there too. Hot drinks are not great, ice cold drinks are not great, and warm drinks are just right
@@zeallust8542 | I think this was because they believed drinks like Coffee and Whiskey were better for your health because they didn’t know about the drawbacks at the time.
You got to remember that this was the 1920s, a time when stuff like cocaine and heroin were still being prescribed by licensed doctors to everyone
I had slight panic attack just watching this. I will never go inside cave. Any cave. Never. Ever.
Then you learn about the man who died in Nutty Putty cave
@@ShadowFox178 Imagine dying in something called "Nutty Putty" 💀
@@edim108 Yeah the guy was trapped headfirst down a hole. Turns out being upside down for a prolonged period of time for too long can actually kill you.
Cave exploring is "safe" for the most part. this the guy was just highly irresponsible.
@@edim108 The Nut cave 💀💀
Kentuckian here. We’ve got the best horses in the world (not an exaggeration), we supply 95% of all bourbon, and we’ve got mammoth cave. I think that about covers our noteworthy contributions. Also as a note I personally resent KFC for being named after my state because being immediately and heavily associated with mid-tier fast food as the only cultural touchstone for my home is a smidge insulting.
KFC used to be top tier fast food. They're doing great in Japan and China, but they're on real struggle butter in North America and Europe.
Plus come on, your state literally looks like a fired chicken drumstick...
Everywhere outside the USA KFC is considered top notch food. The highest of the high. I heard people talking about how Bad the US versions of fast food chains were.
dont worry about KFC, in germany we call it "Kentucky schreit Ficken!" ("kentucky shouts lets fck" basically) x)
From what I know, best horses in the world in general are arabian stouts with polish training, though I have heard mustangs are their own league.
@@skomolowski People from all over the world, including Saudi Arabia come to Kentucky to purchase horses. Yes, the Arabian horses are top notch, but they aren’t better or worse than ones here.
33:05 Also raw water in that part of Kentucky back in the 20's teeming with germs I'd bet but the coffee was boiled so less of an issue plus helps keep him awake and lucid. Same with the whisky cleaner and probably helps with the pain since was often used as a makeshift painkiller back then.
Whiskey also makes you feel warmer but it doesn't actually warm you up so it helped him not feel as miserable
@@glockenspiel604 Or any alcohol, really! It acts as a vasodilator, allowing more blood to flow in your skin, thus making you feel warmer.
However, that also directs heat away from your core and makes it radiate more quickly, lowering your body temperature overall. A temporary comfort, but makes you worse off in the long run.
Maybe just, idk, boil water and DONT add coffee to it. Idk maybe im crazy.
@@samuelberz1476 depends how much they gave him, cause alcohol is a vasoconstrictor at higher levels.
Casey Jones's report is absolutly fucking bone chilling.
Gotta say I love the extra editing you do, especially when you pause to add something or respond to the live chat. Not that other reaction channels are worse for not doing it, but your videos end up being a lot more engaging and help justify watching through the entire featured video again.
Good work, keep it up!
Some other troubling aspects to this story that weren't touched on in the vid.. Floyd was all scratched up and had open wounds which were constantly being exposed to water that was mixing with his poo. If he didn't die in the cave, he may have died anyway from disease or perhaps blood clots from remaining locked in place for so many days, especially with 1920's medical.
Also, that whole 4hr moment with Miller trying to free the leg just had me thinking of what the smell must've been like for him in that spot @_@ (in addition to trying to concentrate while doing a full body stretched contortion while upside down)
A perfect recipe for sepsis. I hope the cold meant he didn’t have to feel any of the inevitably infected wounds for long.
Since apparently the cave had an inward air pull, it may not have smelled too horrible.
Geez… I mean, I was definitely wondering about those things, but I didn’t want to think too hard about it because his circumstances were horrific enough. Poor guy…
Wendigoon really gave the performance of his life for this
yaaaaaayyyy...
This video really had me get hope in humanity in the first part, put the fear of Mother Nature into my soul in the second part and then crush all of that hope in humanity in the third part. What a fucking rollercoaster!
So, if my assumption is right-- they give him coffee to give him heat, since he was being exposed to the water beneath him. He's soaked there for quite a long time, and whiskey and coffee gives off a "heated" feeling when you consume it.
This needs an anime adaptation, like One Piece. But instead of ships and pirates, there will be tourists going into caves trying to find the Sawed off foot and fight eachother in tight spaces.
Made in Abyss is about as close where going to get, other option would be a Deep Rock Galactic by replacing Floyd with Karl.
That's what I thought the mention of cave wars was going to be, lol.
"Don't they drink water?" 🤣That's always such a wild part. It's shocking how many things go wrong with animals due to poor hydration. Whether it's humans or pets, a massive amount of problems can be preemptively avoided with having proper amounts of clean water throughout the day.
This needs a movie.
William Miller's face kinda looks like Benedict Cumberbatch at a glance. Would like to see him feature if they somehow made a movie of this. Physique could be a problem tho since Miller's described to be slender
@@bluebros.7266 I've seen plenty of "Based on a true story" movies where the actor looks nothing like the real guy. Not saying I agree w/ that, just sayin.
I be leave there was an attempt to do one many years ago based on the book but went no where, although there was a Broadway theater/musical type rendition of the ordeal but as to whether its still going or not i have no idea.
Theres like 10 movies about it but theyre mostly documentaries
@@zeallust8542 Like what?
There were different iterations of traffic lights even before Garrett Morgan too. He also patented the more modern gas mask, although there had been multiple iterations of that as well.
Yeah, garrett didnt really invent shit lol. Its like adding an extra wing to a dart and calling it a new invention
tfw you only just realized chill zone does streams. also 2 things, 1: they shoulda given my boy some water, coffee's keeping him warm sure but it's also a diuretic. 2: lets all just take a second to appreciate miller and gerald. gerald is just a pure chad and miller was a young dude from the city completely ready to just squeeze himself into a tunnel bigger than most dude's d's... and after getting his story... kept going back to help.
Coffee in early 20th was waaaaay more watery... And actually more safe due to being boiled and stuff - regular water of that time most likely would've ended up giving him diarhea.
Yes it is "good ol' times" but it was already time when people had at least some knowledge what is better to give as emergency food considering current "technology" at hand.
@@Ghostel3591 yeah you're right, i guess it slipped my mind, that's the reason for centuries beer was the drink of choice too, it was just safer than water.
@@skyguyflyinghigh Normal water would also lower his temperature faster.
@@Ghostel3591 You know you can boil water without adding coffee to it, right?
Cholera was another risk to avoid with water.
perfect pronounciation of "Scheisse", had me crack up
Helps that he is Danish. Haha
While my claustrophobia isn't as bad as it used to be, this first few minutes of this made me *very* uncomfortable. I had to stand up for a few good minutes before continuing the damn thing, lmao.
Same
Same lmao, f*ck caves honestly
im not claustriphobic but i refuse to enter a space that actively requires you to hold your breath and slither around to get through
That's not claustrophobia, that's common goddamn sense. The idea of crawling into THAT small a passage would terrify anyone, and RIGHTLY SO.
This is horrifying. I would rather die than go inside there and die anyway.
Yes of course, because then you can choose
People in the old times drank a lot of water but also you have to keep in mind that hygiene in this period was still nowhere close to the modern standards. Alcoholic beverages was one of the most typical ways how one acquired decent quality drink and these were frequently far more diluted than what is served in the modern times. Beer used to have per volume alcohol content of circa 1-2%, for example. It's basically just flavored & disinfected water by that point.
Methods of cleaning and purifying water still had ways to go during that era. Before water was safe enough to drink without getting sick from it.
It was much safer to drink either coffee, since it was boiled or alcohol since was distilled, and it was completely safe to drink milk because it was pasteurized.
Having safe and clean drinking water is a thing, we take for granted in modern times.
I used to like poking about in woods and caves, but I'd never, never, have the nerve to squeeze myself through gaps like that. Getting stuck, unable to get myself out, makes my skin crawl...
1:09:55 absolutely breaks my heart whenever I see this photo.
"I think he was covered in the news" Damn, you're that old?
What people don't get about the coffee is that, even if WE know that coffee dehydrated you, it doesn't mean that back then THEY would all know that.
I listened to the original video at work and got chills.
I’m rewatching this and actually seeing the reference images of the squeeze and I nearly had a panic attack. You will never catch me going down into a cave that I can’t stand up and spread my arms in, and even then it better be a damn good cave.
Claustrophobia is one of my greatest fears but Thalassophobia might be even greater then that. The fear of the deep ocean. The vastness of it. Plus I have read an acount of a Nigerian guy who was stuck underwater in a capsised ship for 3 days. His account was bone chilling.
Yeah that dudes story is insane. So incredible he survived.
I don't understand why they didn't use a hose to carry the exhaust elsewhere, or ducting/ piping.
My guess would be that it wasn't readily available as it would be highly situational to need such things and require time to manufacture which was something they where very much running out of, the real matter would be is why didn't this cross there mind in the first place as they been there for hours and would of noticed the air flow before even starting construction cuz if they had started digging right away they could of narrowly made it at the very least.
@@windowsux I mean you could use guttering for example.
I think they had no one who could think outside the box on site.
@@ShadowFox178 Why weren't you there!? Nah but seriously it's easy to know what to do with the benefit of hindsight.
@@vector3042 it's all fair in love and war.
To be fair IH mentioned a lot of other things I couldn't think up.
Hindsight being true sight and all that.
This also reminds me of that incident where a little girl fell down and was stuck at the bottom of a long pipe that went straight down. Simpsons also aped it with the episode was stuck at the bottom of the well.
If you're going to do another long reaction video, I highly recommend another one from Incognito Mode called "The Gentleman Pirate". I'm not sure how much input you can give since it's about pirates, but it a great video and tells a very interesting story. That or some videos from Pyrocynical, who also makes great videos, though most of them now are quite lengthy. Still, even if you don't record it, check him out in your free time. Really cool videos. The "The Best Game You Should NOT Play" video is a good place to start, and it's pretty recent.
You should actually react to some of Wendigoon's content. His 'The Divine Comedy' trilogy videos were very good.
this whole thing just makes my skin crawl, i couldn't even imagine crawling through a hole twice as big, what i don't understand though... and im obviously not a caver so bare with me but... why didn't he start tunneling it out earlier in the cave ? like there's the whole turnaround room he could've done first.
I guess the logic was that he could fit through the squeeze, therefore it's fine. It's the part where he can't fit through that's a problem.
@@xenowarrior282 well yeah but he's trying to clear it out for tourism, and tourists aren't quite as spunky
Part of it is that a lot of people then wanted to preserve the "purity" of the experience by making it a bit of a struggle to move around. Part of it was probably to impact the stability of the cave as little as possible. And honestly, he was probably hoping to make his job easier by opening up the cave to tourism first and using the proceeds to open up the pathway more.
My guess is that the main entrance was more or less a security deterrent as no one was willing to go past the turnaround but him thus if he got to where he needed to be he could easily look around for better points of interest to make it more accessible instead of his way of entry.... or he was an idiot who thought everyone would be super willing to crawl in a 9in non-supported hole to look at some fancy white rocks for a silver doller, idk 1920s where wild after The Grate War.
this god damned video took me from no having interest in caves at all to being scared of them
@N7 but if you think about it, caves in a country where earthquakes are a regular thing are probably stronger and more firm because of it
Look up Nutty Putty cave.
@N7 to be honest, I live in a county where 6° earthquakes happen every week and I have never heard of any cave systems in here. Maybe they collapsed centuries ago lmao
It's called the "Turnaround Room" because people get there...and turn around. :D :D :D
In answer to your water question... No. Not really. There was uh... Problems with water quality. So they drank things known to be clean.
Some Wendigoon videos would make for a decent reaction as well now that I think about it.
57:44 that "medal of honor" music gave me some PTSD (and best memories i have from a game)
What is your accent?!?! I've never heard it before! I love it!
Why didn't he make the entrance bigger? I mean he could still end up trapped due to falling debris. But why not give yourself space if u can? Make the squeeze area bigger give yourself room to work.
Probably in part to deter other cave entrepreneurs from pulling anything before he was finished. They were willing to beat him and stopped only at the threat of death by shotgun, I wouldn't be surprised if someone back then was willing to sabotage a cave to kill him and get their hands on it.
After watching the video a thought came to my mind is that we, as a species, have a strange case of morbid curiosity.
I find funny the idea of throwing a body back to his tombstone like a rag doll
I had to have this on double speed, and hopefully my meds for PTSD nightmares will help with this being the last thing I watch before bed. When it reached Calvin Coolidge and Hoover, I slowed it down to 1x speed, and now it sounds like he’s drunk reading/reciting the script
Actually, hot coffee was the best thing to give the man. The warm liquid served to beat back hypothermia and give him a little more time.
Stimulants like caffeine can cause the heart to beat faster and hasten the effects that the cold has on the body.
Sweet, warm, non-caffeinated and non-alcoholic drinks are best for combatting hypothermia.
As a Kentuckian, I find it insulting that kentucky is known for only one thing (even though there is alot from here including Johnny Depp)
From what I've heard, coffee and alcohol was actually more healthy than the water lol
20:26 Back then water purification was difficult and pften times not very good. Therefore, it was safer to drink things like coffee and wisky. Wisky is safer because the alcoholic nature killed most bacteria and stuff. Coffee is safer because it was boiled. Also, both would gove you a slight energy boost in times like this.
You've probably already learned this from researching yourself or the comments section, but back then water purification was not as prevalent as it is today.
It also wasn't shoved down everyone's throat with the constant "You need to drink more water" rhetoric that goes around today. (as if water is a cure-all.) So the question of "why not water?" is because it simply didn't come to anyone's mind for it to be the first thing to think of.
Coffee, alcohol, etc were the main drink's mostly because of all the processes they went through to create them. They were seen as 'healthier' because there would be a lack of parasites, diseases in it, etc... that un-purified water can carry.
I mean even where I live, in Kentucky, we're constantly advised to boil our tap water before drinking it. (Because the government is far too lazy to do any decent repair work on the main water pipes) So people either buy bottled water at the store, or just don't drink water here. (Cause the water in kentucky (in most places) still contains rust, lead, dirt... whatever is in the ancient pipeline. They only repair and/or replace the main pipeline when it finally breaks and they "have" to do it.
So, it makes sense that water was not a "go to" thing at the time (it probably still wouldn't be, even in modern kentucky)
The story of twitter is older than I thought.
HE CAN'T DRINK WATER IT WOULD LOWER HIS TEMPERATURE TOO MUCH
As weird as it sounds drinking hot coffee actually makes your body temperature drop processing the heat.
Omg I didn't even think of that at 30:00. That makes it so much worse that he has to go to the bathroom in that spot.
Been to a cave once on a trip. We saw a tiny bat.
Aw, poor Wendigoon...
He dug too deep
I kinda get randomly going out and biking 100km one day. I will sometimes randomly go out on a whim on the weekends and run a half-marathon.
I didn’t expect you to say scheisse 😂😂
I'm not claustrophobic, but if I was trapped with my arms and legs stuck, I think I would rather bash my head open on the rocks and bleed out instead of waiting to die.
The dentist was on that grind can’t hate
You can make money without being a total scumbag.
They were so close. If they just could have gotten a better lever than the crowbar.
i felt legit anxiety while watching that vid dude
I don’t know why your surprise,It not surprising that people will do bad or risky things to get ahead in business.
I felt so uncomfortable watching the video that I had to look for a good watchalong to watch it with.. You have my thanks
You Heard of *"Ace in the Hole",* has the same premise.
The only real change was the level of human nutrition. Humans still human.
I mean yeah. This is the internet. I was first thinking that the telegram thing is a real 4chan thing to do. But even 4chan probably wouldn't stoop so low to contact the mother herself. Or they simply wouldn't care.
It says it in the original video at the bottom, but Floyd's mother was already dead at the time and they didn't know he had a stepmother. They were basically just sending a message with the intent for it to be reported on and believed to be real.
@@sleepythemis The forger had no idea about the family structure. So maybe they didn't know it's not his real mother.
Nah, 4chan wouldn't do that. They'd instead dox the person who sent the letter, lol.
Sometimes i hate humanity
It's sad that there was a chance that Floyd would have gotten out of there if people weren't fucking around up at the entrance
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Mother nature be like: "No no no. He stay, you leave. I still have personal business to discuss with him. "
Just wow to how humanity is willing to pay, just to see someone in suffering and know the story on how it gets in to that point. Remember guys, Stories can moves civilization.
It wouldn’t happen in world of tanks. A shit ton of tanks moving around and sitting stationary all the time over those caves would probably crush the cave system down
crazy if he reacted to that 2 hour hbomberguy video on the roblox oof, could be a subscriber goal or something
alcohol and boiled drinks were safer than water before being able to effectively filter or check water afaik
We're going away from the somber stuff.
Dives headfirst into the documentary of Floyd's tomb.
Hearing him pronounce Louisville hurt me.
bro why do u use the uncle ruckus tuba music 😭
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a carnival? na he wasn't a clown for going down there ................. he was the entire circus
If only they started with the chisle much ealier
Wdym
'man in a cave' has been removed from ''IH's'' channel.
When you want to exploit the cave’s beauty for profit just for it to make you its main attraction.
Fr, I feel for Floyd but let's not pretend that he and all of these other cave entrepreneurs weren't totally up for ruining those caves for profit. The formations he was trying to guide people to would rapidly deteriorate after constant human contact/traversal. That's by no means to say that he deserved _anything_ that happened to him, but the guy was grinding from age six to profit from native artifacts and natural formations like those caves and the greed was what killed him in the end.
@@sleepythemis bruh it was a cave. Literally just a bunch of rocks.
@@OneFinalAutumn Okay? I don't really get what you're trying to say here.
F for the mad cave lad
Ya´ll playing. it took them 100 hours to come up with a bucket line. Oh hell no
Highly recommend to go watch Wendigoon.
I do not have Claustrophobia but i'd rather be begging in the streets then do this BS. F-ck that o7
If you weren't claustrophobic before by the end of the video you might be
This video is an hour long, but it goes from "do you want coffee" to "do you want eternal peace" way too fast. The fucking pharaohs had more choice in that and they didn't even have a choice.
I'm surprised he didn't get Jontron to play any or all the conspiracy theorists.
Brother who sees you after you are trapped over 30 hours
"Sub"
Feels weird going back to this knowing that I.H copied his entite script from an article.
No one gives a damn & editing a 1hr+ video with different VAs adds more than just a little value. People trying to cancel IH are cringe asf.
Having read the article, I can say that he did not. The only thing he "copied" was the facts of the story, which are not copyrighted. Hbomberguy is a hack fraud and is the last person to throw accusations of plagiarism at anyone given how he routinely takes credit for other people's work.
It's amazing how he can put so much work into telling the story in an engaging and compelling way, yet terminally online asshats think he's just a plagiarist because he didn't reword some things first. What weirdos.
Yeah, making a peepee joke there, not good.
After all, there's not enough space for the joke to fit in!
Haha take my like and get out.
1:03:59 Is this Alex Jones' ancestor?
Aleks Jones believes his madness. And he is staunch believer of several large conspiracy theories. Like the illuminati, lizard people, alternate dimension aliens... the list goes on.
His most famous clips are generally about poor oversight of big businesses dumping chemicals freely into freshwater rivers.
He also has a few interesting news type journalists working for him that are down to earth.
I wouldn't put him into a bag of people who exploit the dead by digging upntheir corpses and patading them around.
Also, watch dissing where people came from.
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