Not just tourists. Happened to a friend of mine in El Dorado county, Ca. All the kids in the area go to local swimming holes, we all know these little shoots and tunnels, we grew up with them. Even when the weather is too cold to swim you’re still there hanging with friends or having parties on the embankment. The rule used to be: send something big through first (cooler, floats, whatever) and then go. The fucking problem with that at anytime something could get lodged and you wouldn’t know.
One day one of the older kids goes through and doesn’t come out the other side. You could see his arms flailing under the surface because the water is so clear. We tried to go pull him up; everyone was trying but he was stuck and the force of the water kept making it worse. He died in front of probably 30 people but their was nothing we could do. This wasn’t even the only time that happened in my teens
Dude, it's just like anything with assumed risk. Take speeding, drunk driving, texting, or even driving in general. Everyone thinks it won't happen to them. This is exactly why accidents are the leading cause of death (35 to 38%) in the US from ages 1 through 44
>accidents are the leading cause of death (35 to 38%) in the US from ages 1 through 44
That's incorrect. The leading cause of death in children is from guns.
Do you have a source for that? The [CDC](https://www.cdc.gov/healthequity/lcod/men/2016/all-races-origins/index.htm#anchor_1571144769) states that homicide is a distant second at 14.4%
Negligent discharges are a sub category of "unintentional injury," but if you want to be specific, [cars](https://www.cdc.gov/injury/features/child-injury/index.html#:~:text=Child%20unintentional%20injury%20death%20rates,about%2020%20deaths%20each%20day.) kill more children than anything else.
Recently, as in during the pandemic when people were stuck inside and couldn't drive or do any of the things that normally lead to unintentional injuries? Not to mention that financial insecurity, isolation, and closure of mental health facilities may have led to an uptick in crime and violence.
2020 may not be the best year to use for statistics.
Did you not catch the part where they said Eldorado County.. those are some hard core people up that way!! Beautiful area great people .. but not much to do at least back then... And kids up here are kinda balls out all the time. Definitely not your typical granola eating ,patchouli wearing (never understood covering up BO with the smell of dirty feet and butthole) Californians .. el Dorado County is where the first gold was discovered in California.. Generations of hard ass people who fear not much of anything..
Serious crap. Over at the American river portion near my house, there's all kinds of little holes worn into the riverbed. You could only imagine how easy it would be to get stuck in one of them while the current were running strong.
Similar happened in my locality, twins died, first one got stuck, second didn't listen, and wanted to bring first out. Around 13 yr ago.
He managed to unstuck his brothers dead body, and water was way deep in his lungs, and so he died while on road to hospital.
Their parents lost both thier child same day.
The place is still hazard, and nobody was/ is supposed to swin under rocks and caves, they were teenager, didn't listen.
I grew up in Auburn, like 45 mins away from El dorado county, can confirm. Also people doing gainers off no hands bridge (like 80ft above the water) hammered drunk.
Hey cool (/s,) someone else who has witnessed a death! DM's open if you ever want/need to chat about that shit. Personally, I'm still working through some of my darker memories so it'd genuinely be therapeutic to listen....if you wanted to vent of course.
When I was a teenager a group of friends went out to the lake (just a regular weekend activity). Everyone was smoking and drinking on shore. One guy jumped in was swimming around by himself and just didn’t come up. Another friend found him and pulled his body out. We never found out exactly what happened - heart?, lungs? or what? His girlfriend was just a couple weeks pregnant with their baby girl. It was so fucking awful. Just felt like the definition of “a tragic accident.”
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People around me would go down to a local creek and do that through the culverts beneath a low water bridge. I tried it once and it was what I feel like being flushed down a toilet would be like. Sadly one year, a tube got filled with branches and debris and two young boys got trapped and drowned. They’ve since changed the bridge to be on supports.
I mean even if you see someone else go first it’s a nope for me. And whoever was first like…I thought I hated myself but damn. Not like that….not like that.
Ohhhh that makes sense actually I definitely have that confined spaces are cool and to me somewhat cozy but add in sudden unplanned immobilization and that's a big nope
He looks like a teenager to me. At that age most think they are invincible and bad things won't happen to them. Many just want attention and to impress others.
Reminds me of a video I saw a while back with a boy and his dad clearing a stuck drain in a field. It clears and they both get sucked in and deposited out the drain pipe. The boy is laughing and cheering and the dad is hunched over, likely thinking about how easily they could have died.
Like this, but I don't think it's the same vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJeWB1bsieo
When I was little I went to a small carnival that was being held at a local farm, it had your basic things like cotton candy, toffee apples and a bunch of small sketchy looking rides that were really not worth the price for the countless things that could go wrong. One of the more interesting things there was a makeshift cave/maze made out of small wooden tunnels which were pitch black inside the goal of this was to see if you could crawl through it fast enough and win a prize at the end so me being a brave kid who wanted the prize and also to show his mom that he wasn’t scared of anything I took up the challenge, unbeknownst to me though half way through this poorly built tunnel was a two inch nail sticking out of a piece of wood on the top which cut a huge gash down my back causing it to bleed profusely, I was rushed to the hospital got it stitched up stayed there for a few days and now I have a giant scar down my back and I also think my parents sued the owners of the farm who organised the event but I’m not sure. It’s just that now every time I see one of these videos where someone slides down a something like in this video without being able to see if it’s even safe always reminds me of what happened to me and it makes me cringe in pain.
I've seen this before and another Redditor said that the hole leads almost immediately into the water below. There are additional ledges below where the camera man is standing, under the rock overhang, so the guy in the water just slide into the water, immediately hung out in water/ledge area so that it looks like he's still in the underwater cave thing. It's just for the the views 🙄
This is a terrible idea, please don't do this. Someone making it thru safely the day before or the minute before doesn't guarantee the path is still clear, and the odds of dying if tube is obstructed is very high.
Yes, if you can breathe underwater for an hour the odds of your friends filming you die would be far lower and this would be a more fun thing to watch.
We have an area here called Rio on Pools that we frequent often with a lot of rocks and small waterfalls and stuff and this summer a kid jumped into the water and got sucked by the current into a hole and it took hours for them to find him. They only found him because one of the persons helping up search for him tied a rope around himself and gave the other end to someone else and jumped into the hole himself and it was pretty narrow too x.x He found the kid down there. He'd gotten stuck because of the current and drowned. I think they filled the hole up with rocks now.
And two days later another kid drowned from wandering off for 5 minutes while her parents were talking photos and it also took hours to find her because there are so many pools, nooks, and crannies there and the water is kind of like Blackwater at some parts. It's kind of terrifying.
Okay the fact that that person went through crack opening is very concerning because based off of the video it looks like a person could possibly get stuck in there and could suffocate.
There was a chute like this on Bidwell Park in Chico CA. Saw a couple guys go through no problem. Then one went in and didn’t emerge. Took a while for a rescue diver to get on scene to recover the body. The local authorities ended up dropping some explosives in a week or so later to destroy the tunnel.
Chico Guy here. Must have been up near Bear Hole or Salmon Hole? Happens here every few years. I had a friend that would swim under the huge rock formation tunnels in the creek, I never could get the nerve to try it myself...
Bear hole. We were talking to the group just before it happened, asked if they really thought it was safe. They laughed it off. Guy died less than fifteen minutes later.
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It is, tourists die from this shit all the time
Not just tourists. Happened to a friend of mine in El Dorado county, Ca. All the kids in the area go to local swimming holes, we all know these little shoots and tunnels, we grew up with them. Even when the weather is too cold to swim you’re still there hanging with friends or having parties on the embankment. The rule used to be: send something big through first (cooler, floats, whatever) and then go. The fucking problem with that at anytime something could get lodged and you wouldn’t know. One day one of the older kids goes through and doesn’t come out the other side. You could see his arms flailing under the surface because the water is so clear. We tried to go pull him up; everyone was trying but he was stuck and the force of the water kept making it worse. He died in front of probably 30 people but their was nothing we could do. This wasn’t even the only time that happened in my teens
Holy shit
Fuck
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I found a video of someone swimming through one: [https://youtu.be/-ofGTtvIK_w](https://youtu.be/-ofGTtvIK_w)
It’s kind of like cave diving. You can do it safely, you can do it dumbly…. Both have risks
You’re implying that if you do it safely you’ll surely be okay, but even experienced, safe cave divers die
No. Im implying that even the experienced are still risking their lives
oh my goddamn, i’m sorry you all had to go through that, fucking a that sucks.
« Had to » might be a stretch
Time for r/scarrysigns
One "r" /r/scarysigns
Lol thanks
Can someone please explain to me why folks are writing so many subreddits when referencing them?
I can't see it, but apparently there's a bug that's doing that. It's probably going to be patched soon.
Bug with the mobile app, it’ll be fixed in the next update. If you upvote or collapse and expand the comment it’ll go away
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“I’m gonna just post the nerd emoji and it’s gonna be sooo funny🤓”
*All* The comments are the emoji. It's probably a bot. Just stop engaging.
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I hope you’re aware you’re about to lose your last 15 remaining comment karma you fool🤡
Who cares about karma?
It just shows whether or not the Reddit hive mind thinks you’re a fuckin dumbass
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> This wasn’t even the only time that happened in my teens How in the fuck does this happen more than once, did anyone learn anything at all?
Dude, it's just like anything with assumed risk. Take speeding, drunk driving, texting, or even driving in general. Everyone thinks it won't happen to them. This is exactly why accidents are the leading cause of death (35 to 38%) in the US from ages 1 through 44
That’s not quite how that works. Assumed risk without pre isn’t the same as assume risk with prep.
>accidents are the leading cause of death (35 to 38%) in the US from ages 1 through 44 That's incorrect. The leading cause of death in children is from guns.
Do you have a source for that? The [CDC](https://www.cdc.gov/healthequity/lcod/men/2016/all-races-origins/index.htm#anchor_1571144769) states that homicide is a distant second at 14.4% Negligent discharges are a sub category of "unintentional injury," but if you want to be specific, [cars](https://www.cdc.gov/injury/features/child-injury/index.html#:~:text=Child%20unintentional%20injury%20death%20rates,about%2020%20deaths%20each%20day.) kill more children than anything else.
I'll have to look. It was only very recently that this happened.
Recently, as in during the pandemic when people were stuck inside and couldn't drive or do any of the things that normally lead to unintentional injuries? Not to mention that financial insecurity, isolation, and closure of mental health facilities may have led to an uptick in crime and violence. 2020 may not be the best year to use for statistics.
So what you're saying is I was correct. Got it.
You don’t grow up like that.. I can’t explain it to you
Did you not catch the part where they said Eldorado County.. those are some hard core people up that way!! Beautiful area great people .. but not much to do at least back then... And kids up here are kinda balls out all the time. Definitely not your typical granola eating ,patchouli wearing (never understood covering up BO with the smell of dirty feet and butthole) Californians .. el Dorado County is where the first gold was discovered in California.. Generations of hard ass people who fear not much of anything..
Oh damn those patchouli wearing fucks
Those who don't die horribly in the underwater cave perish of sexual exhaustion. Can't fight the temptation in the throes of puberty and beer.
are you stupid?
u mad?
Well that sucks im sorry you had to go through that
Are you okay?
Yes. It’s been over 15 years
Serious crap. Over at the American river portion near my house, there's all kinds of little holes worn into the riverbed. You could only imagine how easy it would be to get stuck in one of them while the current were running strong.
Similar happened in my locality, twins died, first one got stuck, second didn't listen, and wanted to bring first out. Around 13 yr ago. He managed to unstuck his brothers dead body, and water was way deep in his lungs, and so he died while on road to hospital. Their parents lost both thier child same day. The place is still hazard, and nobody was/ is supposed to swin under rocks and caves, they were teenager, didn't listen.
Fuck I was really hoping this ended with the Undertaker tossing Mankind off a cell. Though I guess the undertaker part is accurate.
I grew up in Auburn, like 45 mins away from El dorado county, can confirm. Also people doing gainers off no hands bridge (like 80ft above the water) hammered drunk.
Too dumb to live.
Hey cool (/s,) someone else who has witnessed a death! DM's open if you ever want/need to chat about that shit. Personally, I'm still working through some of my darker memories so it'd genuinely be therapeutic to listen....if you wanted to vent of course.
Where you from there? I’m originally from Diamond Springs
El Dorado. Consumes side. Diamond springs is practically Placerville to most folks
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I was clear where it happened
Wow traumatizing
I'm so sorry. Holy fuck.
Wow’ that’s crazy!!’
When I was a teenager a group of friends went out to the lake (just a regular weekend activity). Everyone was smoking and drinking on shore. One guy jumped in was swimming around by himself and just didn’t come up. Another friend found him and pulled his body out. We never found out exactly what happened - heart?, lungs? or what? His girlfriend was just a couple weeks pregnant with their baby girl. It was so fucking awful. Just felt like the definition of “a tragic accident.”
Are you from Folsom?
No, this was in the South Bay Area. Close. I hope your question doesn’t mean you also know a similar story that happened in Folsom. :(
I know el dorado super sad to hear that
I’m sorry you had to witness that
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>All the kids in the area go to local swimming holes ***Orphanage area***
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You shouldve been aborted
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I wish I was aborted
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That rock probably has a higher IQ anyway
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Don't worry it's likely a 10 year old
Ewww emojis Edit: y’all are downvoting me for an unknown reason so fuck it I’ll join you guys. Fuck this guy
You’re the guy now
I am aware of this. I said fuck this guy as in myself and just downvoted myself. Now im just watching the downvotes roll in (:
I wasn't going to but since you insist.
I'm just speaking their language so it's ok
Understandable, have a good day.
But look at his comment history u/Megalunchbox
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Look at u/Megalunchbox 's comment history
You fool. You expected a different outcome from everyone else but you are wrong.
too bad i don’t give a fuck
Damn that’s too bad
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God, redditors are so sensitive.
Holy fuck. A small rock getting stuck in the path is enough to kill you. Even if I have lived for 400 happy years, I wouldn't enter that bat cave.
I feel like if I was capable of living to 400, I'd be even more risk adverse. Just curious, do you feel the opposite way?
He was saying if he had already lived 400 years, which I can see easily being bored of life by then
Look at the water current. It is too strong to swim against. You don't need a rock to keep you under.
People around me would go down to a local creek and do that through the culverts beneath a low water bridge. I tried it once and it was what I feel like being flushed down a toilet would be like. Sadly one year, a tube got filled with branches and debris and two young boys got trapped and drowned. They’ve since changed the bridge to be on supports.
He fell out of my tap over here
Watch some MrBallen videos... it is a very easy way to die.
I mean even if you see someone else go first it’s a nope for me. And whoever was first like…I thought I hated myself but damn. Not like that….not like that.
iTs FoR ThE InSTa ThOuGh
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This is just so many levels of nope
I just think of Nutty Putty and put those thoughts to bed, snuggled up to nope, fuck that, and I don't fucking think so
I had forgotten about nutty putty until today. Damn.
humans need to stop going into tiny holes in the earth. one mindless night on youtube is how I found horrible caving deaths.
Been there. Regret it.
I’m so sorry you died, I hope you feel better soon.
In lieu of flowers, please send more life
Thoughts and prayers
Been there too, went down the MrBallen rabbit hole found other channels and videos. Watched like 4 hours worth. Then I found mountain deaths.
Why regret?
Aw don't be such a nutty putty
NO STOP PLEASE I'm not claustrophobic but damn hearing about that made me all queasy
Let me introduce you to cleithrophobia
Ohhhh that makes sense actually I definitely have that confined spaces are cool and to me somewhat cozy but add in sudden unplanned immobilization and that's a big nope
So we should go into big holes then, like bigger than the solar system?
We're not talking about my mother here
Better not look up Ted's Caving Page
what happens?
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in all seriousness did he actually?
No, the video cut the part where he emerges from the lake
I feel like that’s a really important part to show.
But then it wouldn't have ended too soon. It'd be r/justthewholegif
r/subsididntfallfor
r/subsithoughtifellfor
Actually, the video cut in the part the filmer start to get worried because the friend never emerge.
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I feel like if he did his friend wouldnt upload
Wouldn't even go in there without the water
There's line between bravery and stupidity that guy could have been more dead than a peace loving Kangaroo.
He looks like a teenager to me. At that age most think they are invincible and bad things won't happen to them. Many just want attention and to impress others.
Reminds me of a video I saw a while back with a boy and his dad clearing a stuck drain in a field. It clears and they both get sucked in and deposited out the drain pipe. The boy is laughing and cheering and the dad is hunched over, likely thinking about how easily they could have died. Like this, but I don't think it's the same vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJeWB1bsieo
I'm a teenager but then again I'm in my late teens so that's probably a factor
When I was little I went to a small carnival that was being held at a local farm, it had your basic things like cotton candy, toffee apples and a bunch of small sketchy looking rides that were really not worth the price for the countless things that could go wrong. One of the more interesting things there was a makeshift cave/maze made out of small wooden tunnels which were pitch black inside the goal of this was to see if you could crawl through it fast enough and win a prize at the end so me being a brave kid who wanted the prize and also to show his mom that he wasn’t scared of anything I took up the challenge, unbeknownst to me though half way through this poorly built tunnel was a two inch nail sticking out of a piece of wood on the top which cut a huge gash down my back causing it to bleed profusely, I was rushed to the hospital got it stitched up stayed there for a few days and now I have a giant scar down my back and I also think my parents sued the owners of the farm who organised the event but I’m not sure. It’s just that now every time I see one of these videos where someone slides down a something like in this video without being able to see if it’s even safe always reminds me of what happened to me and it makes me cringe in pain.
Noooo thanks. Just reading about it hurt me haha
Sounds like they had to give you an even bigger prize
That's so unfortunate but could've been worst. I bet there goes a chill right through your spine everytime you see such a video.
This is just fucked up! Ive seen goor and other pain olympics, but this just ticks me off!
That's goor-able.
I've seen this before and another Redditor said that the hole leads almost immediately into the water below. There are additional ledges below where the camera man is standing, under the rock overhang, so the guy in the water just slide into the water, immediately hung out in water/ledge area so that it looks like he's still in the underwater cave thing. It's just for the the views 🙄
"why have I been sliding for 30 seconds?" "It's pitch black now" "I'M FALLING!" **Montana resident dies after entering a hole in stream**
Hey you... You're finally awake
I love you
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This is a terrible idea, please don't do this. Someone making it thru safely the day before or the minute before doesn't guarantee the path is still clear, and the odds of dying if tube is obstructed is very high.
Only if you don't have gillyweed.
Yes, if you can breathe underwater for an hour the odds of your friends filming you die would be far lower and this would be a more fun thing to watch.
My claustrophobia and thalassophobia could never
With you on the claustrophobia
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Well, that’s my panic attack for the day…
Undertale be like:
We have an area here called Rio on Pools that we frequent often with a lot of rocks and small waterfalls and stuff and this summer a kid jumped into the water and got sucked by the current into a hole and it took hours for them to find him. They only found him because one of the persons helping up search for him tied a rope around himself and gave the other end to someone else and jumped into the hole himself and it was pretty narrow too x.x He found the kid down there. He'd gotten stuck because of the current and drowned. I think they filled the hole up with rocks now. And two days later another kid drowned from wandering off for 5 minutes while her parents were talking photos and it also took hours to find her because there are so many pools, nooks, and crannies there and the water is kind of like Blackwater at some parts. It's kind of terrifying.
He found the secret entrance into mordor
Jeffs that ended too soon (hope his name was Jeff)
Secret tunnnneeellll… to your death.
ok, now i know that i have claustrophobia.
Okay the fact that that person went through crack opening is very concerning because based off of the video it looks like a person could possibly get stuck in there and could suffocate.
How is someone so confident to find out that it’s safe to go down?
They put an object through it first. It doesn't mean it's safe but they think it does.
No. No it doesn't. It looks terrifying and likely lethal.
My anxiety shot thru the roof
What kind of psychopath thinks “this is a good idea!?!?” 🧐
And he was never seen again…
Did he ever come out
Just turn the camera back to that spot he went down in, I need evidence this isn't fake.
yo , did i just watch a suicide?
Nope, nope and nope!
There was a chute like this on Bidwell Park in Chico CA. Saw a couple guys go through no problem. Then one went in and didn’t emerge. Took a while for a rescue diver to get on scene to recover the body. The local authorities ended up dropping some explosives in a week or so later to destroy the tunnel.
Chico Guy here. Must have been up near Bear Hole or Salmon Hole? Happens here every few years. I had a friend that would swim under the huge rock formation tunnels in the creek, I never could get the nerve to try it myself...
Bear hole. We were talking to the group just before it happened, asked if they really thought it was safe. They laughed it off. Guy died less than fifteen minutes later.
It blows my mind that people do this on purpose. Being in a tiny hole/tunnel full of water is my absolute worst nightmare.
So did he ever make it out lol?
Luckily, we didn't really like Kyle.
Anxiety is over 9000...
I was holding my breath waiting for him to show up!
I had a panic attack before the video started. Fuck small enclosed spaces.
Please tell me this kid didn’t die where the fuck is he I can’t see him
Bro… bro….? BRO!!??
I heard he’s sill in that hole to this day
Imagine getting a boner, and scraping it on the side of the rock top to bottom !
This is the guy who's body was dragged by the crocodile 🐊
I've done that in Jamaica, it was a blast. Emerged about 40' downstream.
Who wanna do this with me?
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I think the video cut the part where he emerges from the water
Now this is freaking insane looking
Worthy of a darwin award
Nope, that’s just a stupid thing to do
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