Man, it's heartbreaking with how it ends. But the cave, strangely enough, it's almost as if it's a giant, living monstrous being that just refuse to let this man go nor rest. Parried away whenever people attempted to rescue Floyd. Scary to think about tbh
Honestly though, you're 100% right if something like this happened now, every big time influencer would be there trying to get in that cave to milk a dying man like "Hey guys i snuck in this creepy cave at 3AM to see wild coyote's tear a trapped man apart, this is so poggers".
He finally gave himself peace and surrendered hope when the light literally went out. Thing is, he might have pulled through if they had put a radio down there to give him some hope once the lights went out.
This has to be one of the biggest monkey's paw stories ever. All he wanted was to make his cave famous and it did become famous. All it cost was his life and death.
I've heard my fair share of cave exploration deaths and accidents but this one is more painful because of how FAST he could've been rescued had anyone stopped, used their heads, and consider what's the best course of action to save the guy. It's even more disturbing that people at the time had such a morbid fascination with death let alone treated this like an attraction. I cannot help but wonder how fast he could've been rescued if they contacted the right people and kicked the onlookers out of the area since it's clear they were a factor for the cave collapsing.
Hell, if they had gotten Gerald the same day that it was discovered that Floyd was stuck there he wouldn't have to die in that cave, alone and likely so scared. A shame that Floyd's dad was a useless bag of potatoes and people were more than happy to desecrate his body. I sure hope the man has found the freedom of eternity after suffering so long in the dark.
This was the most intriguing story I've heard in a while. I'm so used to Internet Historian being satirical, but he was overall honorable to the memory of this poor guy.
As weird as this might seem, that you for reacting to this. When I scrolled the comments watching it on IH’s channel and found out he didn’t survive, it became really hard to watch until I realized I could, essentially, watch it with someone else. 😊
I was thinking about this story again today and just realized something. If Floyd had simply stayed completely still the moment he broke his lantern, everything would've been completely different. His brother still would've showed up and found Floyd simply chilling in complete darkness. No trapped leg, no cave in, also no story and we would've never heard about it but yeah. Hindsight is 20/20 of course. Crazy story though.
You wanna know something that makes it even more messed up? The whole reason he was there was in the hopes that he could make the cave a popular attraction. He got exactly what he wanted and it killed him…
Yes, the good old days in america. When people had value and help eachother… The fuck!? That was the most popular dude back then and look what they did with him!? Yeah this is now where him sending anyone that prattle on about the does good days.
Regarding that question about where Johnnie Gerald had been before he showed up, I checked out a different documentary about this whole thing on a channel called Scary Interesting, which sheds a bit of light on that.
The thing is, Floyd was really good at cave exploring. He was so good at it, he legitimately didn't understand why so few people could get to him, because he didn't see any of that whole route as that big of a deal. When Johnnie first heard about Floyd, he basically thought "Well, it's Floyd. He can handle it." It was only after a couple days passed and Floyd was still stuck that he realized "Oh shit, this is actually serious" and made his way over.
Another thing I felt was interesting that Internet Historian didn't get into was that Johnnie was a bigger guy than Homer, Miller, and Burden, and at first couldn't get through that last tunnel. He had to spend three hours widening it just to reach Floyd in the first place.
I don’t think anyone said it yet, but you are thinking of the nuttyputty cave fatal incident. It was John Jones and his brother Josh. John got turned around and stuck, but could not be rescued. He was also stuck upside down which contributed to his much faster decline. His wife was heavily pregnant at the time. He was able to say goodbye to her. It was sad because toward the end when his heart was failing he was too exhausted to keep trying, and his wife gave him permission to “rest” 🙁 They couldn’t get him out after, so they opted to seal the cave off as a memorial. Thing was extremely dangerous, anyway.
So yeah you won’t catch me anywhere near a cave like that lol
It is so sad every time I watched the video, watched him being tortured AFTER the "incident" too? It's a fucked up story with a bittersweet ending.
3:06 sounds like Chris Rock
54:14
So few people notice the Creeper lol
The cave said “Oh so you want to mess about and find out, alright; bet.”
This is one internet historian video I simply cannot watch more than once.. can barely watch reactions of it
QUEENBLAZE! I love your reaction to Internet historian!
Humans… The most intelligent species on earth!
Idefinitelyy see that yes..
1:09:30 "Am I really gonna defile this grave for money?…. Of course I am!"
Man, it's heartbreaking with how it ends. But the cave, strangely enough, it's almost as if it's a giant, living monstrous being that just refuse to let this man go nor rest. Parried away whenever people attempted to rescue Floyd. Scary to think about tbh
Honestly though, you're 100% right if something like this happened now, every big time influencer would be there trying to get in that cave to milk a dying man like "Hey guys i snuck in this creepy cave at 3AM to see wild coyote's tear a trapped man apart, this is so poggers".
This isn't just spooky this is full throttle existential dread. You really tryna scare us damn.
Gerald is a real one frfr holyy. my heart broke when he tried to go back in just to see that it was blocked off again 🙁
He finally gave himself peace and surrendered hope when the light literally went out. Thing is, he might have pulled through if they had put a radio down there to give him some hope once the lights went out.
This has to be one of the biggest monkey's paw stories ever. All he wanted was to make his cave famous and it did become famous. All it cost was his life and death.
What an absolute Chad Miller was. he just went to get the story for his paper and ended up repeatedly risking his own life in the rescue effort.
I couldn't watch the original in one sitting, I had to step away when the lantern first broke.
To be honest, the first time I saw the Squeeze in the video I too went:
NOPE!
Oh yay MORE INTERNET HISTORIAN PEOPLE
I've heard my fair share of cave exploration deaths and accidents but this one is more painful because of how FAST he could've been rescued had anyone stopped, used their heads, and consider what's the best course of action to save the guy. It's even more disturbing that people at the time had such a morbid fascination with death let alone treated this like an attraction. I cannot help but wonder how fast he could've been rescued if they contacted the right people and kicked the onlookers out of the area since it's clear they were a factor for the cave collapsing.
Hell, if they had gotten Gerald the same day that it was discovered that Floyd was stuck there he wouldn't have to die in that cave, alone and likely so scared. A shame that Floyd's dad was a useless bag of potatoes and people were more than happy to desecrate his body. I sure hope the man has found the freedom of eternity after suffering so long in the dark.
This was the most intriguing story I've heard in a while. I'm so used to Internet Historian being satirical, but he was overall honorable to the memory of this poor guy.
As weird as this might seem, that you for reacting to this. When I scrolled the comments watching it on IH’s channel and found out he didn’t survive, it became really hard to watch until I realized I could, essentially, watch it with someone else. 😊
I was thinking about this story again today and just realized something. If Floyd had simply stayed completely still the moment he broke his lantern, everything would've been completely different. His brother still would've showed up and found Floyd simply chilling in complete darkness. No trapped leg, no cave in, also no story and we would've never heard about it but yeah. Hindsight is 20/20 of course. Crazy story though.
You wanna know something that makes it even more messed up? The whole reason he was there was in the hopes that he could make the cave a popular attraction. He got exactly what he wanted and it killed him…
Why is it Wendigoon?
Queen Blaze can you watch the entirety of Wendigoon's conspiracy iceberg series?
You told us what would happen before it started. Lol still awesome though!!! Great job!!
If they would have dug down on top of him fro m the start, it would have been a different story.
Oh this story. Damn
59:10 😂😂😂😂
Fuck man so many feelings 😮💨
Sam o nella is back
We need more true stories.
We were both thinking of Nutty Putty cave in the beginning lol. Such a sad story. Also sucks to die to a cave with such a stupid name.
I'm subscribed to his channel but I always wait for your reaction before I watch it. You always make the story so much better Queen.
Yes, the good old days in america. When people had value and help eachother… The fuck!? That was the most popular dude back then and look what they did with him!? Yeah this is now where him sending anyone that prattle on about the does good days.
59:57 the forgor 💀
Regarding that question about where Johnnie Gerald had been before he showed up, I checked out a different documentary about this whole thing on a channel called Scary Interesting, which sheds a bit of light on that.
The thing is, Floyd was really good at cave exploring. He was so good at it, he legitimately didn't understand why so few people could get to him, because he didn't see any of that whole route as that big of a deal. When Johnnie first heard about Floyd, he basically thought "Well, it's Floyd. He can handle it." It was only after a couple days passed and Floyd was still stuck that he realized "Oh shit, this is actually serious" and made his way over.
Another thing I felt was interesting that Internet Historian didn't get into was that Johnnie was a bigger guy than Homer, Miller, and Burden, and at first couldn't get through that last tunnel. He had to spend three hours widening it just to reach Floyd in the first place.
The real Sand Cave was the profit we made off of our "friends'" corpses along the way.
1:34 did you think he was talking about the one where the man was stuck cause he went the wrong way? I thought it was that story at first as well.
I don’t think anyone said it yet, but you are thinking of the nuttyputty cave fatal incident. It was John Jones and his brother Josh. John got turned around and stuck, but could not be rescued. He was also stuck upside down which contributed to his much faster decline. His wife was heavily pregnant at the time. He was able to say goodbye to her. It was sad because toward the end when his heart was failing he was too exhausted to keep trying, and his wife gave him permission to “rest” 🙁 They couldn’t get him out after, so they opted to seal the cave off as a memorial. Thing was extremely dangerous, anyway.
So yeah you won’t catch me anywhere near a cave like that lol
I didn't want to watch the original video before I knew if you were gonna react to it or not, worth the wait! 😀
Oh so he STUPID stupid 🤣
This is so sad and pisses me off. I couldn't imagine this happening to any my siblings (I doubt they'd do smth as risky and dumb as Floyd has tho)