The Game Puzzle Hunt Incident | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
- "On the 26th of October 2002, while participating in an elaborate treasure hunt software engineer Bob Lord entered an abandoned mine shaft..."
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As a Nevadan I can tell you *Do not mess with mines* do not go near open mines don't go in open mines unless you're a professional and don't even think about touching abandoned mines unless you really want to die. They're deathtraps and the thought of it makes me shiver, I can't believe they just let people go in and potentially get lost and die
As someone who has extensively played Minecraft I can absolutely confirm mines are deadly
Its like the M mine up off of 95 by Cold Creek, and the disappearance there, and the ones who go out to Pahrump to the Devil's Well. There's a reason people disappear in caves.
Yeah Nevada mines are dangerous as hell.
As a Montanan I couldn’t agree more.
*Mines are abandoned for a reason.*
Has the location of the M cave been found then??? More infos please!! Xx
[cave entrance with "NO!" written in red spraypaint]
Bob: This is fine
Going by the infos we got, the clue had something to do with "NO" before that step, so he thought it was right. And i cant blame him in this case.
More like Game Control said "this is fine" and Bob said "I'm sure they wouldn't have planned this if it wasn't safe."
Yeah I wrote that before I got all the way through the video lol. I don't blame Bob in the least.
Sarah Riedel true. I agree. Had he not been playing a game. In this instance it sucked how this worked out because it’s easy to see why he thought he was on the right trail. Devastating how this turned out.
I wonder if he's even still alive today?
Making “no” an important clue in a game where at any point you can wander off a tiny bit and end up in very dangerous areas is quite the decision.
With the paint you would figure "death trap, 30ft hole" would've been more appropriate
Or buy a couple of actual danger signs from Lab Safety Supply, and post them dead center of the entry to the mine.
The whole "game" is pretty stupid to begin with
@@Kspice9000 or block the damn thing off
Probably should’ve just roped off the entrance with a note that read “yeah not here, mate. Try again”
My biology teacher was a first responder to the Nutty Putty cave tragedy, and he TOLD us that caves are much safer then mines, and if you want to go exploring the inside of the earth, he'd rather we go into caves. Coming from him, that means a lot.
I'm just some layman but from what I understand mines are prone to toxic gas buildups, collapses and you might get lost.
because mines are man made, while caves are nature made
Wow that’s so interesting! The nutty putty cave incident makes me shiver 🥶
@@HEROS9GIRL truly a thing of nightmares. That story is so heartbreaking.
Caves existed for thousands maybe million of years so you can tell they are more stable than a mine which is at max 200 years old
Thanks for making videos that make us feel good about not going outside.
Googoo123450 lol
Lol 😃 for real
Amen to that brutha'.
While laying in bed on a chilly morning under two blankets and a hoodie.
I approve of this statement.
I GO OUTSIDE EVERY. DAY.
Sorry you broke your back, here’s some balloons and a gift card.
And $10,6 million. They're probably still having their paychecks docked today.
@@Ozymandias1 and it only took the husband becoming a vegetable to accomplish it. gg ez
Don't forget your next time free admission ticket.
Excluding holidays, of course.
They said “get well card”* not gift card. Lol
Yeah my thoughts exactly
How this man can make the word Barf sound elegant is beyond me
Binarily Augmented Retro-Framing.
Tony Stark
Bahhhhhf
Right?
I thought the same thing! 🤣🤣
Well it's not far off. The train system around SF is called BART.
I had a friend who's husband accidentally shot himself in the head. He lived, but was very disabled, she had to pretty much do everything for him. She started going to counseling a few years after it happened. She told me that her counselor told her "The man you married is dead, you have to mourn him and let him go so you can begin to accept the man he is now". It was one of the saddest things I'd ever heard.
Dear god that is a tragic story
USA Needs More Guns 🔫
So you're telling me if this accident didn't happen, we may have had a better Microsoft search engine instead of Bing? Thanks The Game.
There's Duck Duck Go which doesn't track you and fill your searches with advertising nor keeps records of your searches.
*Good one, Bob*
It was on that day that the world collectively lost "The Game"
I think Ecosia is pretty great. It states not to track data and with every 45 searches, they plant a tree.
Mina The Raichu I use Ecosia too :) my friends make fun of me for it but at least it looks so much cleaner than google :,)
As someone from South Australia Where unmapped mines are everywhere, just stay out it’s not worth it. It’s not just the winze or false floors you have to worry about it’s falling debris from a stope or still water collecting in the adit and the poisonous fumes trapped below that can be dangerous.
Well you've also got critters like rattlesnakes in mines out West. I imagine Australia has a few mine dwelling snakes.
@@soxpeewee yep and you can't forget our lovely spiders there fun as well....
Wonder if ppl live there... like in the hills have eyes
@@becgould3772 fucking horrendous facehugger spiders in Aussieland.
@@soxpeewee I've been in a lot of mines and have never seen a snake. Bendigo Victoria Australia. I have an interest in both snakes and mines.
It’s so chilling and saddening to me that this mans thrilling and exciting treasure hunt experience was ended by never being able to move or see again
Play stupid games win stupid prizes
@@walterbrunswick This particular event has to be the origin of that saying. What else could you possibly say about it ?
Dark Souls
just after he launched his own search engine too. It could have been the next Google, and he could have been famous and admired. now he is just a mind trapped inside an inmovable shell, forever in the dark.
@@walterbrunswick to be fair, it was really the organizers fault to lead people into an abandoned mineshaft. I understand it should be common sense not to go into a place with “no no no no no” spray painted on the walls but you can’t say that he knew what he was doing. A Mineshaft should’ve never been used as a clue location but the organizers had used it for fun over safety. Anybody with basic human decency would’ve steered away from using a mineshaft if they wanted people to be safe.
At first I was like "why on earth did this guys believe a scanger hunt treasure would be in the complete darkness" then you mentioned being kidnapped. He probably didn't even doubt himself while he started falling down the shaft.
This gave me chills for some reason
nevermind that these people were sleep deprived to no end… if warning signs start looking like no discouragement to you, maybe stop, sleep some, and miss out on the abandoned mine.
What a thought...
this is just another part of the game.
Thud.
This whole thing sounds like a nightmare. Animal cruelty, kidnapping, going in an abandoned mine? No thanks!
A Microsoft Mac Programmer!?!?
@dorothydreams oftornadoes simple, feed the animal a safe natural mild laxative. Like a equivalent of fibre, The animal defecates a ton already, it wouldn't take to long
@dorothydreams oftornadoes The rat, Templeton, had the code written in his microchip, the teams simply had to take him to a vet to get it scanned.
No aninal cruelty involved
I'd have just stopped. I know it's like you could get swept away by the excitement but I don't think I would. I'd have heard about a team getting kidnapped and said "nah"
Just wanted to say, these mini-documentaries are the perfect bite-sized length. Simple, straightforward, and to the point. Well done. I enjoy listening to them on my way to work.
I always feel like most documentaries are edited in a way that makes them unnecessary long just because they want to be 1 hour formats. They repeat information endlessly.
Aren't they fabulous? I'm an artist and I like to listen while I work. I wish some of them were longer. I could listen to his voice all day long!
ADHD
Agreed, FH's narration style is excellent.
i'm guessing this is about as close to a happy ending as this channel's gonna get? at least he didn't die horrifically upside down or drowning
I remember in high school my psychology teacher told the class about the time his friends died while exploring abandoned mines in Virginia City, Nevada. Normally he and his friends would explore these caves and mines together but that day he still had papers to grade or something so he didn't go with. Everything was fine when the two men entered the shaft but when they made their way back, that's when things got bad. While they were walking they had disturbed the air in the shaft, causing the dangerous carbon monoxide gas to "break loose" and mix in with the rest of the air in the shaft. (I'm not sure how else to describe this part). The men quickly realized what was wrong and made a run for the entrance, however one of the men collapsed and the other man ran back to help him. Unable to help him, the other man tried to run out but it was already too late. He collapsed and died a couple feet away from the entrance.
When officials reached the mine, one of the officials saw how close the man had been to the entrance and decided to walk in. He only made it a couple of feet inside before collapsing and having to be dragged out, that's how bad the gas was.
Anyways the moral of the story is, don't go into abandoned caves or mine shafts because you will die.
Basically the gas seperated out by density, as pulp would from orange juice. Them walking through the cave was enough to start an air current. The gas got mixed. And they were fucked.
So didn’t disturbed the air walking IN but did walking OUT? That’s crazy - had no idea this could occur wow!
As an ICU nurse in the seventies and eighties I took care many head injuries. I remember one who was a young woman, she was the high school valedictorian, beautiful, talented, athletic etc. She was in a MVA with her friends and suffered a head injury. She seemed to make a tremendous recovery, was discharged from the ICU in a month. I ran into her father about a year later and asked how she was doing? His answer has always haunted me. He said “she doing well, but she’s not the same person.” I had a friend who ran into a column refereeing a basketball game. He recovered in a couple of weeks, but he completely lost his sense of humor. The joke on the unit was that to a neurosurgeon a full recovery meant a person could feed themselves.
I work in an active silver mine. Stay out. There is nothing interesting down there. Whoever dug the abandoned mine stopped working it for a reason. If you want to look for gold, do it on the surface. I pan for gold on the surface as a hobby and it's way more fun to immediately see the gold as a shiny metal. If there is gold in a mine, it usually doesn't look like much until the ore has passed through a complex refinement process. In abandoned mines, there is nothing down there but water, rats, bats, and poison gas.
This guy is lucky (?) he didn't die. Even outside of the mine, the game sounded pretty stupid at this point. Cutting open a live rat? Come on.
Apparently they didn't have to cut open the rat to get the clue but everything else you said is on point.
Thanks for the info.
The video said that the challenge was to get the clue out of the rat without hurting it. The mine was absolutely stupid but I can see how this game was fun and why people loved it so much.
@@bluesira Yeah, but they didn't know that. Who wants to bet at least one mouse died as a result of them trying to extract the chip?
Frankly, I think he should have died. I wouldn't want to linger on in that state.
It's weird that "1306" looks like "Bob."
Omg it so does 👀
@John the Skub miner It is but it looks like "Bob" as well
“Bub”
How observant of you. I would have never seen that
thats kinda freaky
Bob: *falls down a 30 foot hole, breaking his back and injuring his limbs*
Game Center: Here’s some balloons and a ‘Get Well’ card!
My biggest fear isn't death. My biggest fear is aquiring an injury like this man and becoming a burden to my family. Atleast, if I die, my family will be sad for a time but eventually they can move on without hindrance.
What his wife said is chilling: “the man I married died in that mine, he’s not the man I know anymore”.
Yep. This is the reason I've given up my risk taking after having a child.
I'm severely disabled ( M.S. ) the amount of money and time and emotional support I need yearly is staggering, the suffering I and my love ones go through has no limits, and it wasn't even my fault! Thrill seekers get no sympathy from me
Awful how we would rather die because we know that most people would never provide the support we need after something like that, when the alternative is unconditional love
@@OliveR-lv7vo It’s not all about love, the man is living in the shell of a human body with little to experience other than pain. I’d rather die
jeez dude, where are your subscribers/views?? this is some good content
I think the same thing. He should have a million subscribers!
Agree
I was just gonna see this is really excellent I can't believe I've never heard of this story
The channel is not well-promoted at all. I've been streaming UA-cam as my primary entertainment/edutainment source for over a year and was directed to my first video (the Action Park one) just yesterday
@@nkwhite Same here
I've spent more time underground in abandoned mines than most people have spent outside. There is a list of gear that is REQUIRED to be safe inside of a mine. A bump cap/climbing helmet with multi-point chin strap. Head lamp, with plenty of extra batteries. Handheld flashlight, with extra batteries. Heavy duty harness. Multiple 60M lengths of climbing rope fastened to a secure anchor point outside of the mine, or near the winze/shaft/decline you're rappelling down. Enough carabiners to hang a tank. Multiple Ascenders. A fall limiter. Heavy closed toed boots. A backpack with 3 days of food, water, and painkillers as well as an IFAK. Impact gloves. Long, heavy duty trousers. Heavy duty shirt or blouse. Pulse oximeter. Oxygen meter. Multigas detector and/or Geiger counter if you're in a Uranium mine.
Most importantly, multiple people and radios. If you fall, you can still reach someone on a line of sight radio. That person can reach someone else over a line of sight network of handhelds or even a cross-band repeater, and someone else can start the rescue. All of the aforementioned gear is meant to prevent a fall and rescue, or to help you survive in the event that you need rescuing. Preparedness is the only way to survive in abandoned mines. Otherwise, you're just setting yourself up to become the next Susan Powell.
If you're not extremely experienced in caving, rappelling, roping, mountaineering, and even Search and Rescue/First aid don't enter mines. I have certifications upon certifications upon certifications that give me the confidence and ability to safely navigate mines with relative ease. I only enter mines with a real purpose, such as recovery of artifacts, people, or prospecting. If you don't have a real reason to go into the mine, maybe don't go into the mine.
I have many years of caving experience and I would not enter a mine. Too many safety issues I have no experience of. They are very different from most cave systems. As for people with no experience at all ........ well that one too often does not end well.
@@markgohl2660 mines are less likely to cause injury to an experienced caver than caves are. Mines are designed not to collapse and are built within structural limitations. Caves are eroding naturally, which means lots and lots of water and delamination, as well as lots of slipping hazards and stuck hazards.
I've found mines to be safer and easier to navigate than caves.
Yes, but he wanted to win the $100!
@@semperfidelification I've been in 400 year old mines that showed minimal signs of weathering. It depends on water content and sorting/metamorphism of the rock and soil more than anything else.
@@semperfidelification Believe it or not the greater threat caused by rotted timbers is toxic gasses.
"The man I married died in the bottom of that mine. In his brain, he has the chip that holds the memories of us, of our life of our children but he is not the same man."
Fuck, that's heavy.
Sounds like the awesome beginning of a new Game
@@hansjuker8296 "you must remove the chip without killing him"
i think she left him.
@@xtdycxtfuv9353 right, used the last of the insurance to get fixed up for some new deep dikking
@@hansjuker8296 nvm he died instead
Having been part of a group of people who delved in to abandoned mines in our youth (and other really stupid things) I can confirm that it is horribly dangerous; We were deep in one working that had been abandoned about a hundred years earlier and the mine floor was covered with slabs of rock that had peeled off of the roof. Walking over this broken terrain and I nearly fell in to a winze (vertical shaft) to a level that we did not know where the adit (horizontal entrance) was at. At the bottom was a pile of broken and rusty iron machinery that would of impaled anyone who fell in.
We had plenty of lights, wore helmets, pads, gloves, and worked as a team, but still, it was insane what we did in the 1980's.
The whole premise here sounds like a horror movie, even the enigmatic name "The Game".
There was a David Fincher movie literally called that.
A mine outside Goodsprings Nevada? Sounds like "the game" was rigged from the start.
🤣
New Vegas
I was thinking of FNV when he said goodsprings lol
What in the goddamn!?
D:
This is funny and ironic at the same time 🤣
The fact that the 1306 looks like it says Bob creeps me out for some reason
Now I can't unsee that!!! 😅🤣😂❤
"...capture a live mouse and extract a clue from its stomach without hurting it..." That, chronologically, was the first part of this video where I had to say, "What."
Indeed, that's weird, presumably it was a play on words though, and it wasn't an actual mouse.
I mean I think you just have to capture a mouse and wait for it to poo…
@@DoubleMonoLR Play on words? How so? Are you thinking it was a computer mouse?
These games are the literal embodiment of “that escalated quickly”
I personally cannot imagine doing all this for a FRICKIN GAME. To save someone’s life I would. Never for a dumbass GAME.
Well there was money involved. Didn't sound like much money though.
I don't I don't really care how much money is involved, I don't go in a fucking mine shaft.
I mean how bored could these people be? Finding something from a mouse? Just a fun time for the psycho club.
you mean descalated?
different strokes for different folks. I would love to do it
Respect for Bob's wife for standing by him.
Too bad he can’t.
Yes, good for her!
I tried to look them up to see where they are now but I can’t find anything. God I feel so bad for that poor guy. If i was his wife I would have murdered those people
@@sabrinatscha2554 The man has to except his responsibility too. It was akin to someone trying to clime Mt Everest without ropes, an ice ax, or winter clothing.
@Jack Rabbit lol!
"Play stupid games, win stupid prizes" really resonates with this one.
Is that a reference to Kraut? Or am I being stupid
Oh boy that used to be something I heard on a weekly basis…
Go back to reddit.
As a child I went camping in the Australian outback with my best friend and his family. His Dad showed us some abandoned mine shafts, and I vividly remember picking up a big rock and dropping it into one. Never heard it hit the bottom. It was like the earth just swallowed it.
"balloons and a card!? Oh gee how thoughtful! Perhaps I can sell them to pay for the vast medical bills and years of assisted living!"
Oh heck. I thought he said “blooms” - like they sent flowers. 😂
Right?? How friggin insulting! They're ridiculously wealthy, their own arrogance resulted in his condition, and all they do is give him some stupid balloons?
Evil rich people, I hope they never get to play their stupid game again
well maybe don't ignore the signs say NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO and ONLY GO IN 1306!!!!!!!!!!! This is a fucking Darwin Award, dumbass ignored what he was told in the last clue, that shit is all on him.
@@WobblesandBean *HIS own ignorance thinking he knew better when he was told not to enter ANY OTHER SHAFTS then 1306 is what got HIM in trouble, take some responsibility for your own stupid actions and stop always wanting to blame other people..
I’m from Nevada as well, there’s actually quite a few abandoned mine shafts in the desert but trust me, THEY ARENT WORTH IT. They can literally collapse with no warning and drop off suddenly like this one. There’s nothing in there worth dying for.
We have a lot of abandoned mines in AZ too. The shafts are usually full of snakes that have fallen in.
Except treasure and adventure.
Around Vegas there are literal holes in the ground.
We were never allowed to run around alone out in the "woods".
The old ghost towns are seriously dangerous.
I just watched two different caving horror story videos (nutty putty and some English one that flooded). Having thoroughly screwed with my own claustrophobia, I saw this recommendation and thought the name seemed like a nice interesting change of pace. Just got to the part of this video where, “AND THEN THEY WENT TO A MINE.”
Damnit. Just, damnit.
I did literally just the same thing yesterday.
That Nutty Putty Cave incident is one of the worst things I've heard in my life. I read in a comment section that the poor guy who died there (RIP, good man) was a doctor or at least a medicine student. Basically, he knew what was happening to him and what would be coming for him. It just made it all so much worse. I swear I didn't bathe for the next two days because even closing the damn bathroom door made me scared by then. Don't know how people look at these dark, godforsaken, tiny-ass things and decide, "yep, this is where fun lies".
Mossdale. That was a sad story.
"extract a clue from the stomach of a live mouse without hurting it"
I'm sorry, HOW?
Someone else commented that the mouse had a chip in its stomach which could be scanned by a vet to reveal ("remove" probably being a bad choice of words) the clue. Probably the same kind of microchip that people put in their pets, in case they get lost or go missing.
So yeah, the mouse came pre-harmed I suppose. Yay.
@@1tychoma You’re not harming your dog or cat when you get them chipped, same with the mouse. Especially since it was in their stomach, meaning it had been small enough to be consumed and would likely pass through their stool.
Ikr??
You people are stupid. "Pre harmed" what a moron. Chipping is a moral thing to do for your pets
I am searching an update on Bob Lord. Cannot find anything recently. What a tragic story.
Sounds like it evolved to less of a treasure hunt with clever clues requiring intelligence, and more into a game of dare, to get to the next step. This doesn't shock me in the least, in the 21st century.
Remember Fear Factor and Jackass were some of the top-rated shows of the time.
Hadn’t heard of this but it seems like this is inevitable with activities like this; just takes one serious injury or death to remind everyone that it’s not all fun and games.
It is all fun and games though. Don't matter how many die . Fun and games have to happen
@@HeyGuy4321 Fun and games is playing games on the computer. Nothing about this "the game" sounds like fun or a game to me.
fun and games until some one loses an eye... then it's a sport
@@MrUranium238 It clearly started as fun, but as the teams got to host the next event, it became a pissing contest.
"It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye." - Everyone's mom or grandma at some point
The second you said "the game" I realized I just lost the game.
god damn it
now you’ve lost the game again
Yep 😭
Since you made me lose the game I hope you come back to this comment and lose the game again. Have a great day sir! 😠😂😂
"Dishonor on you! Dishonor on your family! Dishonor on your cow!"
3:19 How in the bloody hell does anyone "catch a live mouse and extract a clue from its stomach without hurting it"?!?!?!
Apparently the mouse had a microchip in it, so people had to take the mouse to a vet and have it scanned....but I'm thinking there would have been a huge risk of someone hurting the mouse because they couldn't figure out the chip clue.
Peroxide.
Absolutely in bad taste to say the least. Harm yourself all you want but leave the animals and everyone else in peace.
wait for it to crap it out lol
@@thelogicaldanger on top of being harmful and stressful to the mouse, that’s such a waste of veterinary time. Where I’m from veterinary hospitals are always completely packed and waiting times can be hours. Imagine your dog gets hit by a car and you have to wait to be seen because some dumbass is having a mouses stomach inspected.
I've watched enough videos about abandoned mines to know that the best course of action when dealing with one is to never enter it. There are so many ways that they can kill you, including toxic gases, drowning, suffocation, falling, collapse, and even wild animals.
I’ve actually never heard a story of a wild animal in a mine actually killing someone it’s always just weird noises they make and people get outa there
the moral of the story: sleep 8 hours a day and stay hydrated
Moral of the story: don't do stupid shit
And don't go into abandoned mines with NO! spray painted at the entrance.
Yes that is what my doctor said in regards to avoiding being vegetabilized by dangerous mine shafts
@@happyfacefries Tiktok community: NO!!!
@@frankieb9444 lol so true
Cave spray painted NO NO NO!
Bob: Dont worry guys, today is opposite day.
@Arthur Narinyan Were you not listening to the video? The word "NO" was a key part of a previous clue, so that made Bob Lord and his team think this was the correct way to enter. It wasn't so much about his common sense.
Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!
YES!
"Hold up, saying it's opposite day ON opposite day mean that it's not opposite day!!!!"
@@Neckromorph Oh yeah thats right. Makes things so much better lol.
He looked down on gravity, this is what happened. The most dangerous thing in the mine is the depth of the mine and the risk of falling into one. Never disrespect Newton law.
This is not in any way meant as victim shaming but more as a warning to people in these crazy times: NEVER enter abandoned mines. To do so with only the glow of a GPS screen was just a tragedy waiting to unfold in perhaps a dozen different ways. God bless his family. His wife is a hero
And so, the treasure hunter who cheated death in a cave outside Goodsprings, cheated death one more, and Nevada was forever changed.
The game was rigged from the start
It's sad, should have never happened, something fun and light hearted got ruined by reckless idiots that put people in grave danger so they could one up others in a game. Reminds me of the gender reveal situation, it should never be so serious that you do something that could kill or injure people because you have no control or necessary knowledge to execute it safely.
Or start wildfires
"Hey, we're having a baby! How should we announce it to the world?"
"Announce it? We're doing the same thing that humans have been doing for thousands of years, why do we need to 'announce' it?"
"Oh, you old fuddy-duddy! We need to do SOMETHING to get attention and show the world how special we are!!"
"Uhhhh..."
"I know! Let's burn down California!!"
Thora Friganza easy fix: ban social media
Thora Friganza the original gender reveal party was done by a woman who suffered multiple early miscarriages while trying to have a child, the party was to celebrate making it far enough into the pregnancy to even learn the gender. she actually wants all this to stop after seeing what’s happened in cali.
@Dr. Flug That's my point, people take something that is supposed to be fun and light hearted and turn it dangerous because they want to one up everyone else and it ruins it for everyone.
This Chanel is underrated af
I’m more a Hugo Boss person but I’ll take your word for it.
it's like Horror Stories without the good stuff
@@IcarusHollow Yeah! I came from horror stories! This channel is very entertaining.
Didn't realize how much I needed to hear you say "barf" until this moment
In colorado we have massive amounts of abandoned mines. The fact that someone ignored warning not to make people go in there is asinine. They are so unbelievably dangerous, there's a reason they're abandoned, usually a very good one.
This reminds me of when I went on a night hike once. The goal was orienteering, and every so often there were checkpoints that would grade you on how conspicuous you were as you approached, encouraging a stealthy progress with minimal light. After one checkpoint, my group misread the next direction on the sheet and ambled straight towards a quarry entrance. Fortunately, although the quarry was closed for the night it wasn't abandoned, and the warning sign at the (wide open) entrance was well-illuminated. We realised we must have made a mistake and backtracked to the checkpoint, re-read the directions and went on our way along the correct route. I shudder to think what might have happened if the quarry lights had been switched off.
If you don’t mind my asking, where was that? That’s sounds pretty cool..minus almost entering a mineshaft.
Ok that was extra depressing. I’m never going in a cave or rollercoaster again
Rollercoasters are very safe you shouldn’t worry about them
@Frizzurd haha nightmare
@@bottledit5379 True, but it's still scary. I remember going on that crazy, crazy ride in Circus Circus (Las Vegas) thinking that I was gonna die. Luckily the ride was actually very safe, and fun ngl.
I genuinely prepared myself for death on the Jurassic Park ride at Universal Studios, you drop into the Trex mouth and my 8 yr old mine was like “yup I’m gonna smash my head into his schnoz”
@@Flowerhag You guys have the craziest rides in the USA. I'm envious. Although we did get the Yukon Striker which has a vertical drop into an underwater tunnel.
Mine: "No! No! No!"
Beverly Hills Ninja: Ah! Very Clever Martin Tanley!
Crazy how the game grew from its beginnings! Also stay out of old out-of-service mines! They are abandoned for a reason. It's not like a mining company lost money and ditched it. They aren't like an abandoned building, which are often times abandoned due to a financial reason. Oh no, mines are abandoned because all the precious metal was mined OR it became too unsafe. In many cases its both...the precious metals remaining could no longer be safely mined. I wish people knew the nature on why mines become abandoned. It really is for totally different reasons than other abandoned sites.
You see those questions about "what's a good piece of life advice?" This is one. Abandoned buildings and such are one thing to explore. But abandoned mines are absolutely off-limits. I'd explore Chernobyl before I'd explore an old deserted mine. Not even kidding.
I feel for that guy but who in there right mind walks into an abandoned cave with only a GPS for a light not me idc how much $ was on the line I'd at least be finding some good flashlights and other supplies b4 I set foot in there its crazy how much 1 bad choice can destroy someone else's life
I mean even if you're not prepared for a mine shaft, you'd think a flashlight might be handy for this "game."
Justin Bush He probably thought the game organizers had made sure it was all safe beforehand. But yes, individuals do have to take personal responsibility.
But... but... but someone else might get to the clue first if you went to get a flashlight. But I would also think he'd be scanning the floor and see that big hole, right?
A bunch of people who think they're smarter than everyone else running a game to show that they're "cool" by doing stupid and dangerous things. I honestly don't even feel a little bad about what happened to them.
@@ferrari250tr I feel bad, but admittedly not as much as if he had been an innocent bystander. I did, however, get very angry that the courts refused to hold the game makers accountable, especially considering that they were warned not to take the players anywhere near that mine.
I hate this one. How he made no sound as he fell. How sudden it was. How he will never be the same. Imagine falling that far in the dark.
A strange story. I feel for the family of the guy who was badly injured, but to enter the mine without safety equipment of any kind was mad. But credit to his wife for standing by him
I’m from Vegas and I remember the story from decades ago. To walk into a mind without a flashlight or proper equipment or clothing is ludicrous. No amount of money is worth your life.
What a shame. It started out as a fun game then a bunch of wealthy assholes took it over and turned it into a dangerous, inaccessible mess that regular people couldn’t enjoy anymore anyway. It was inevitable that something terrible like that was going to happen.
the one who got hurt was a "wealthy asshole". he was a software engineer xD
YAWN. You are a hateful bigot.
NO ONE IS STOPPING anyone from making their own version of the Game.
@@dezznutz3743 LOL what? You can't be bigoted against someone for being a rich, spoiled dbag. I'm guessing you're a child, and a rich, spoiled dbag, yourself. Defensive much?
@user name eeeeeeeehhh...
@@mmm_mmm4935 this fight is interesting
But here’s my hot take
The wealthy get too much hate
But sometimes it’s warrented
Once I got to the part about the mouse I realized that this is simply a group of not so smart people.
Aren't IT programmers supposed to be smart? Doesn't their salary reflect this?
@@mikshinee87 I should have said "common sense smart" Just because they're smart enough to program a computer doesn't mean they're smart enough to live through today to see tomorrow.
@@mikshinee87 Justin Bieber makes a lot of money, does that make him smart?
@@kingssuck06 Human life in general is quite miserable. After a day of hard work many of us dream of escaping somewhere, anywhere. Music is just one of the ways to get us there. And we are willing to pay for it. This is the only reason why artists make so much money. You can be as sharp as a bag of hammers but have a beautiful voice which equals $. Now being an engineer and a doctor, or an IT specialist is quite different as you need to be well-versed in the sciences to study those areas. Only a small percentage of population can do it which is why they get a lot of $ in a technologically advanced society. So yes, a stupid IT specialist is pretty rare.
@@mikshinee87 "This is the only reason artists make so much money".
The music industry isn't as easy or glamorous as you think it is. The amount of people actually have the ability to make good music is miniscule. There's a reason it's called "art": It's an art form, with techniques and conventions you have to master just to something halfway decent. Even if a musician is as sharp as a brick, you still have to recognize the skill it takes to master that art.
The same goes for other specialty fields. It's not rare, it's human nature. You can be sharp in one field, and completely numb-skulled in others. Knowing the sciences doesn't make you an expert at navigating the world or human interaction, it makes you an expert in a specific field of applied knowledge. Otherwise every IT Specialist would be a CEO.
You don't make your point any stronger by downplaying the effort that's required in other fields that you don't like as much as the sciences. If they were as easy as you make them sound, everyone would do them. People try, countless fail, the small few who succeed rise to the top.
Its terrible that this happened to this guy and the facilitators do hold a lot of the blame but its shocking that anyone would walk into a mine and NOT pay attention to the floor. Part of the blame lays with himself.
We used to do auto scavenger hunts in the 80s in San Francisco but they weren't ever dangerous. No one got hurt, lost, yeah, but we all had a blast.
i’ve been on the road for 19 hours before when i was moving once, it was hell. can’t imagine being on the road for 28 hours all for a scavenger hunt.
Okay but the "No!" doesn't look like a warning, it looks like a challenge or graffiti or something. Why were there not legitimate warning signs?
@@Belltogo3000 And die? The game designers were telling people only to go into the certain cave (they missed telling this guy that though).
In mining areas there are often hundreds and even thousands of adits, open stopes, inclines, and shafts, of which very few are covered or have warning signs. Most abandoned mines in the western U.S. aren't mapped, and aren't even known about unless you dig through old geological reports from 100+ years ago. States have bureaus of mining that place warning signs and put bat-safe covers on mine entrances, but as someone who used to explore mines in Colorado... they can really only do so much when hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines exist. It doesn't help either that they're often in remote or extremely difficult to access regions, like the mines in CO which often had entrances above 13,000ft - getting equipment and personnel to those locations often exceeds the budgets of those institutions. tl;dr, most western states don't care enough about abandoned mining hazards and those that do have too many mines to deal with.
@@thelogicaldanger they gave him the right mine # AND painted 'no' on this mine..Bob is the guy who didn't pay attention to the directions, ignored the warnings and entered WITHOUT a flashlight
@@windage And as explained, he thought the NO was part of the game to throw off people. Organizers had warnings that the area was dangerous, it was stupid planning to hold it there....especially near the end when they know people would have been without sleep for over a day and thereby very prone to accidents. Bob was indeed stupid to participate, but the organizers hold the blame for setting up this dangerous challenge.
Why would anyone with rational thoughts even go into an abandoned mine in the first place willingly for a fricking game? 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
This sounds like a disaster that was only a matter of time. That there will be a bad accident at some point was already certain when they started trying to outdo each other every year in this game. This meant that the tasks had to become more and more extreme, which automatically increased the risk.
I've been in a mine as a kid as part of a tour with my family and even though that mine had been made safe I still just think back on those memories as I could have gotten lost just by turning around in the pitch black darkness. I can't imagine what kind of lunatic would actually venture into a mine, and an abandoned one to boot.
Yeah. Three red spray painted “No!” isn’t a red flag at all.
Player: Should I go in?
Mine: No, No, No!
Player: Goes in.
@@EmeraldAshesAudio No No No No No No NO!
Oh Mama Mia, Mama Mia
Mama Mia let me go!
Probably put there after incident
Maybe he thought it was intentionally put there as part of the game
Edit: yeah it's because they thought it was part of the game
It seemed like a clue since “no” had played a big part in another quest in the game.
Nothing is scarier than real life itself.
...and the background orchestration in this video.
Life isn't real. This is a simulation, 50% chance we are just in the matrix. Not fiction, I read this in scientific american
This is real. No Heaven, nor Hell. No soul. Just oblivion.
Goes to a mine near good springs, gets attacked by a bunch of giant geckos, a ton of ex cons and a old geezer obsessed with dynimate.
I love the way you narrate these videos. Amazing job
If you look at the 1306, the way it is written almost looks like a stylized Bob.
Wooooo what that’s mad! good observation
I was looking for this comment!
*Foreshadowing*
that’s what i thought it said 😭
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Thanks! Great to have you on board.
AWESOME!! Bro. You got me hooked. I'm a History buff. And finding this was freaking cool. Thank you.
H: "He had his own search engine"
Me: MYSTERY SOLVED
A Microsoft employee who had created his own search engine? I don’t know man that sounds like an assassination attempt to me
What ever do you mean by that? That Bill Gates has enforcers & doesn't care who he has to kill to get what he wants? That's a lie started by Steve Jobs & proliferated by MAGA racists!
Now take your vaccine like a good test subject for Globalist World Domin --- er, I mean, valued citizen.
tee hee
@@emilyadams3228 in today's day and age I can't even be sure if this is a joke or not.
Emily Adams It must be fun to be this crazy.
@@ricflairsayswooo2457 Actually...yeah, it is. And it's a great survival mechanism. Unless, of course, I die laughing. Then, not so much.
@@mrreisskeks3441 it’s pretty obviously a joke
The Michael Douglas movie “The Game” makes much more sense now.
Love the subjects you cover! I'm learning daily!
That "No" Coincidence is next level bad luck. If I ever mark a unsafe mine Ill write "danger, extream risk of harm or death"
I did one of these games back in Palo Alto in 2003. It was safe and they did not ask us to do anything I would consider exceptionally dangerous. It was more of a mental pursuit than a physical one. I rather enjoyed myself. It's a shame some game holders took it so far.
I feel like my dad had to have told me this story when I was younger. We’re from vegas and he’s a civil engineer so he’s always reminded me to be mindful of mines.
Death I can handle, but becoming invalid is something I don't know if I can bear.
Me too!
This is an amazing channel and you are an amazing story teller!
when you talked about the movie spinoffs, I can't believe you didn't mention the hollywood movie literally called "The Game" starring Michael Douglas. classic thriller on this exact type of scavenger hunt. never heard of that disney movie lol
I’m just going around giving you likes and comments to help that UA-cam algorithm. You deserve all the views! I love your videos and your voice is very soothing.
UA-cam randomly recommended this to me last night. Binging the videos now. Thanks for helping its visibility!
doing gods work brother i only just now found this channel 🙏🏻 feeling obligated to do the same now. hope you are having a good day
Get a life
you'd think an entire team of ivy league graduates and big tech software engineers would be able to figure out the dark scary hole that says "no" isn't the right spot.
When "No" is a clue from earlier in a game that's meant to be mind-bending and extreme and you see other clues pointing you toward, "no" and no other clues pointing in another direction it's reasonable to think your friends are going all out
@@bufficliff8978 then maybe don’t play such an extreme game when you have a wife and kids to take care of?
My thoughts exactly! SMART guys ????? NOT !!
I used to live out West, and there’s tons of old abandoned mines and ghost towns. Everyone out there just knows not to go into old mines that that. They’re suicide.
It happened near Goodsprings? Last I heard, a courier got shot in the head at the old cemetery there. Something about a platinum chip.
ain't that a ki-
Caves and abandoned mines freak me the hell out....especially after watching The Descent. Much sympathy to Bob and his family. What a tragedy.
There's no amount of MONEY in the world that would convince me to go SPELUNKING!! Right now I'm having flashbacks of The Descent....😦😰😵
Abandoned mines are super dangerous! Don't go into it! Professionals who know what they are doing will work their way very slowly through the mine, constantly evaluating the stability of the support beams and the condition of the ceiling. Often parts of the support beams need to be replaced before going deeper into the mine. Thus, securing a part of the mine usually takes months or years. Sometimes even decades. (Which is why it's only being down by highly motivated hobbyists or companies which can make a monetary benefit from it.)
Secondly, if you still wander into a mine, at least take a proper flashlight with you to see a shaft BEFORE you fall into it. Also be aware of broken or rotten support beams and check the ceiling for loose rock. Sometimes, big chunks of rock can fall from the ceiling. They're called "tombstone" for a reason and your hardhat won't help anything against it. Moreover, tell somebody (who is not coming with you) that you are about to make such a tour. Should you get lost or otherwise incapacitated, someone outside should know where you are, so he can call professionals in case you don't report back after a while.
How those guys thought they were going to get by with just some Balloons and a get well card is comical. Using a mine for any part of anything is a foolish undertaking.
Proposal for The Game 2.0 - AKA: The Game of Life
Rules Regarding Tasks:
Rule 1: Nothing that would pose a significant risk to human safety nor sanity
Rule 2: No animals
Rule 3: No sexual requirements (see Rule 1)
Rule 4: Maximum of $1,000 USD required to complete any single task, per person; strongly encouraged to keep it as cheap as possible
"As cheap as possible" is really the antithesis of the idea these guys were playing with. This wasn't supposed to be like an escape room type puzzle, or family friendly, more like a real version of The Amazing Race. Something for people who don't have a lot left to accomplish in life. Something besides Adderall to give flavor to the lives of silicon Valley trust fundies.
@@phillip5505 Yeah, I totally agree, which is why I added that as a rule. It clearly spiraled into an elite private club of super wealthy meatheads, since most people couldn’t afford to complete the game, leaving just them to try and out-$pend each other.
"Extract the clue from the stomach of a mouse without hurting it"
Those poor mice. How many died? Even extracting something from its stomach w/o hurting it seems like it would create so much trauma, and I doubt that every single person succeeded without mortally wounding them 😭 I know that this is a channel/video where people die, but those poor mice!
@wargent99 lol wtf?
I think this has to be a misinterpretation by the video author. I think it must have been written on or taped to the belly. Rodents can't vomit, so unless they intended for the mouse to poop in fear for the participants to receive their clue... They're not getting anything out of a mouse
@wargent99 lol i imagine these were petstore mice, but sure 🙄
@@ShinySavvy that definitely makes more sense
@wargent99 "enemies"
Yeah, they regularly get together and their leaders plot attacks on humans. We should not just control their numbers humanely, but you know, torture them unnecessarily by making them part of a stupid game 🙄
That danger sign above the tunnel is pure genius. NO!
I have property with three gold mines (all spent and now abandoned) in the Rockies. Two are in the side of a mountain, the third is a vertical shaft that (prior to my ownership) came out of the top of the mountain. There's no sign of a hole being there until you're almost on top of it. We filled it with junk cars and rocks many years back so snow mobilers or dirt bikers wouldn't die a horrible death. But there are many mines, especially those dug by prospectors and private parties, that dot the land out there. Be very careful and look down frequently when you're walking around an area you are not familiar with.
What a sad, sad story! I have a hard time with the choice to continue using the caves after being so sternly warned off. Going into a cave like that is crazy, especially without any experience. I'm guessing it was really easy to get wrapped up in the moment, in the excitement of the game, and lose your common sense.
Anyone ever see the movie, The Game? Not associated with these Games that I know of. Great flick.
This is a really cool channel. I'm so glad I found it.
Worse than a cave, an abandoned mine has unique hazards and unlike caves that are often stable if they've been there a long time, abandoned mines may have deteriorated supports which also release toxic gas as they rot (caves can also have bad air though to be fair), and wooden "false floors" that are rotted through but still are covered in dirt or rubble, hiding (even if you have a proper light) the fact that you're really about to suffer Bob's fate if you step there and fall through into the shaft below. They can and should be explored by experts to document the history or even prospect in some cases, but I'll stick to the tours in ones guaranteed to be safe. Of course same with caves for me, but I'd like to try some beginner spelunking at some point. I have a hard time with the organizers' choice to use this mine too, after being warned. It ultimately lead to the ambiguity, confusion, and misplaced trust that cost Bob so dearly.
Why are people so stupid?? Why take these unnecessary risk??
'coz they are...
Three years ago group of geocachers went into underground stream / severs in Prague in time of actual heavy rain and local flood warnings... Two died there...
I'm just finding your videos ...they are perfect length and unlike many youtubers ...you have a very listenable voice !!!
That poor man, one second he was fine and the next paralyzed for the rest of his life, all because of the recklesness of others....My heart goes to him and his family, I can't imagine the pain of that ever happening to you or someone you love.
He chose to walk into a pitch black mining tunnel without a light, no one held a gun to his head. Most of the fault is his own.
@@anonz975 yea i have to agree. It seems like a very dumb thing to participate in. I think the people who organized it are also just as dumb too tho.
Despite the fact the mine clearly had "NO" written all over it? Sure, the gamemasters are at fault too but he was 37 years old and old enough to know better than to wander into a random abandoned mine.
@@annistar9693 It said "NO" and had the wrong number on it!
@@annistar9693 Did you even watch the video? "NO" was a crucial part of the previous clue beforehand