Buried Alive: the Nutty Putty Cave Incident

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Published 2021-06-28
In November 2009, a family trip down to the Nutty Putty caves turned into a hellish nightmare, causing one of the most unusual and arguably terrifying deaths in caving history, leading to the Nutty Putty caves being sealed shut forever.

This is the story of the Nutty Putty Cave incident.

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All Comments (21)
  • @OregonPacifist
    I will never understand why anyone would want to squeeze their bodies into spaces inside the ground in the pitch black darkness.
  • I genuinely think phobias are not weaknesses, but rather a system in the brain that keeps you away from dangerous things that may put you in harms ways
  • @sidekickz2180
    Tragic story. It really is. But listen, guys: once you have a family, it's time to stop the risky stuff.
  • @bontki9318
    I'm not afraid of death, I'm afraid of such a death.
  • @Sukkulents_
    it’s just crazy to me to think that a cave labelled as ‘beginner’ would have holes that accessible yet that damning, still unexplored
  • @ai-wf6ls
    The way some people were pushing for this cave to not close down when so many incidents had occurred is beyond me
  • @vanesap2368
    I know he's long dead but the fact that he really wanted to get out but he never got to and never will is just so heartbreaking. He's still there, completely alone in that awful tunnel even after 14 years and will be there forever and never will be properly laid to rest. It's just a terrible way to go and I can't imagine how his family is feeling knowing all that. I'd probably never know peace if I was them.
  • @jacobcluff7994
    My dad was one of the lead rescuers on the Utah County Search and Rescue team that responded to Nutty Putty. My dad was one of the last people to talk to John alive. He seemed to come to terms that this was the end, and fell unconscious shortly after. After he became unresponsive the rescue efforts went from astronomically difficult to impossible. The rescuers left the cave after more hours of trying with anything they could, and shared in a prayer with the family. Every year on Thanksgiving weekend you can always catch my dad in some corner of the house by himself thinking about John. Rest in Peace John. It is because of you that my dad and many members of that Utah County team felt inspired to pay many thousands of dollars to go to the most advanced trench, collapsed, and cave rescues courses and schools that exist within the United States, and as a result, dozens of people were saved.
  • The people arguing that it should stay open and it’s their choice to risk their lives seem to be forgetting about the ones who will have to risk their own lives saving them or recovering their bodies.
  • @jellybean7993
    Can we applaud the rescue team that put their lives at risk, knowing they had families of their own to save this one man. They are heroes honestly
  • @sarah6292
    The fact that they just had to leave his body there is harrowing, it must have felt so counterintuitive to seal the cave with him inside. Not to mention his wife, who would have undoubtedly found it incredibly difficult to get closure without being able to see for herself that he was gone. What a tragedy.
  • @luhole
    Literally my worst nightmare. You couldn’t have paid me to go down there, how anyone thought this was a fun idea is beyond me.
  • @tabula.rasa.
    Just watching this makes me feel like I'm on the verge of a panic attack, I can't even imagine how hellish experiencing something like this would be.
  • @SwankyNosh
    I think the most terrifying part of this story was the idea that John was right in his knowledge that he needed to keep going through the small hole before it opened right up … IF it was the birth canal. But it wasn't. I can’t imagine the confusion followed by sheer terror that must have struck in realising he’d taken a wrong turn and was now wedged stuck in a nightmare position
  • @RyanSprkl
    I can't even begin to comprehend that someone actually experienced this. Just imagine the glimmer of hope John would have had each time the rescuers devised a new plan to get him out only for said plans to fail one by one and the soul crushing reality sinking in that maybe this will be the end. It's truly horrific. The fact his body will stay down there forever is haunting.
  • It's crazy how differently wired some people are. Can't believe anyone would be okay with wriggling through a tiny passageway where you can't turn around.
  • @CerebroLDN
    Being one pull away from surviving must have been devastating when it failed
  • @napmaster383
    He was 6ft. 200lbs. I don’t understand how he thought he would be able to cave in such narrow space.
  • @accurateevents9
    I got stuck in a small hole in a funhouse, an underground dug path. It caused me to have slight claustrophobia later in life. That feeling of being stuck, even only for a second or two, can leave a real impact on the brain.