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TERRIFYING Things Found In Caves · Be Amazed

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  [SPEAKER_01]: As amazing as the world can be, it's also full of terrifying places that avoid like the plague.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: My caves, with over 45,000 caves in the US alone, and thousands more worldwide, and never know what horrors could be lurking within them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, unless you decide to go inside, of course, it's time to descend into the darkness and look at some of the most terrifying things ever found in caves.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: When American photographer and wildlife enthusiast Cory Arnold was invited on a little adventure to Bryce Canyon National Park Utah with wildlife biologist West Larson, he jumped at the idea.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The mission was simple.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: West was studying bears and needed to swap the
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The bear was hibernating in a cave, so wouldn't pose a threat.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: All Cory had to do was take a snap of it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Only things wouldn't turn out to be quite so simple.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: On a cold day in February 2019, Cory Wes, Wes's brother, Jeff, and their assistant Jordan set out through the snow end into the wilderness, following the GPS coordinates from the bear's collar.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Eventually, they came upon an eerie sandstone cave, as had to be hit, and peering into the darkness quarry saw that it gradually narrowed into a small tunnel barely wide enough for a person to crawl through.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The stench of wild animal was on the stakable.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: West and Jeff didn't hesitate, clamoring straight in one after another.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: West led the way armed with a long stick with a tranquilizer dart on the end to be extra careful.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Corey watched as they moved through the tunnel, then disappeared as it came to off to the left.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Silence.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But before even a minute at pass, they both suddenly came flying backwards out of the opening again.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They'd managed to jab the 350 pound bear, but apparently, now he was awake.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The 10th group waited in the cave for the drug to take effect, then nervously climbed back into the tunnel.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This time, Corey followed with his camera.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: claustrophobic is an understatement, growing through the cramped dark shaft would have been bad enough without knowing what was at the end of it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And when they rounded the bend, Corey saw it, a pair of inhumanized staring directly at them from the far end of the tunnel.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They hadn't waited long enough and it was still awake.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: After taking a quick panic photo, Corey started backing away, but the huge bear was crawling towards them, vast.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: frantically they scrambled out of the tunnel and started blocking the exit up with their bag bags.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If the bear escaped half-sadated it could fall into the canyon below, but the bag bags weren't enough.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The bear easily batted the makeshift barrier down and erupted into the cave proper, even sedated it was a terrifying side.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Luckily it seemed more interested in escaping than attacking, and as it made its way for the exit west managed to jab it again.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Even so it couldn't be allowed to run away and fall into the canyon, so as it gruggly left the cave west, Jeff and Jordan all leapt on to it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Just as they did, so the tranquilizer finally kicked in in the hooking beast collapse, sliding down the hillside and bringing the three men down with it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Fortunately, the furry Debuggin was stopped by the branches of a pine tree before he'd go too far.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Wes and his brother relievedly changed out the batteries on his track in color, but the urdeal was far from over.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The group then had to painstakingly haul the colossal beast back up the hillside and into
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Eventually, however, they managed to do it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Phew, remind me to adamantly refuse if I ever get a call from a wildlife biologist about going on some adventure.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If you've ever been to Bolivia, you may have heard of the Potosy mines in Cerrico, Mountain.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The largest silver deposits in the world, this vast underground network has been mined since way back in the 16th century.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But the cave and tunnel systems hold secrets for a creepier than silver.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Indeed, if you venture down into just the right part of them, you'll stumble across LTO, a devil-like spirit who Locke was believed to be the Lord of the end of the world.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Despite the area being strongly Catholic, LTO is believed to rule over the mind's offering both protection to miners and destruction if he is not pleased.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So to keep LTO happy, miners routinely bring him offerings of cigarettes, Coca leaves, and alcohol, which they place on his effigies.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The minds are full of refugees to LTO as the underground passages are seen as his realm.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Because of this, Christian symbolism is forbidden within the mountain and images of LTO are banned from outside.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This juxtaposition of Catholicism with something akin to devil worship makes sense when you understand how insanely dangerous the minds are.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Every single month disasters like cave ends claim an average of 14 lives, and miners believe the disasters are caused by
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So, they play Kaden with offerings, and as creepy as those evades are, it's the minds themselves that are the real horror, and the terrible conditions might as brave to work in them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, count me out.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: A top of hell over in the UK's beautiful Buckinghamshire countryside stands an impending stone structure, the Dashwood Mausoleum.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Built in 1765, it houses the remains of the prominent Dashwood family,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: which is macabre enough until you realize that the man-made caves beside it are far, far, spookier.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Known as the Hellfire Caves, they were excavated some 13 years before the completion of the mausoleum by Lord Francis Dashwood, who helped clan Destin meetings inside the caverns with members of a secret society called the Hellfire Club.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Though outwardly political in nature, this was allegedly a cover for much more sinister goings on, the likes of witchcraft, a botry and even satanic worship.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Looking at the dark winding passages and claustrophobic chambers with strange wallmarkings, it's not hard to imagine.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: In more recent times, many people have claimed to see the ghost of the White Lady here, the story goes that a bar made called Suki worked in a local inn where she fell in love with a rich gentleman.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: One day she received a note from him asking to meet her in a secret tunnel that runs from the pub to the caves, so she dressed up in a wide wedding dress and rushed into the tunnel.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Only the note was a farce and had been written by some local boys that were pulling a prank on her.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Upon realizing this, she started to run away but the boys through stones had her making her trip and fall.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: She didn't get back up.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Ever since her heartbroken ghost is set to haunt the caves.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Whether or not you believe it is up to you, but if you ever want to brave the Hellfire caves, they're now a popular tourist attraction.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: With such a sorted history though, I'm going to give this particular day out a pass.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Back in 2022, Redditor S.G. Nielsen was out exploring the Estonian wilderness when he stumbled across a cave.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And a move I'd never contemplate in a million years he went inside, and after making his way through it found a disturbing side at the back.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: A strange assortment of household objects and flags surrounding what looks like some kind of altar.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: A hasty exit later he posted the pick online where come and are supposed to theories ranging from dark magic to the remains of some shady person's hideout.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Either way, it wasn't looking like anything good.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Turns out it might not be anything quite so creepy though.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: One commenter recognized the flags as Buddhist prayer flags.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: In Southeast Asia, it's common to find Buddhist settlements and mountains and caves and the altar chair and flags all point to a monk using the space for isolated meditation.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: There's only one problem, this cave isn't in Southeast Asia, it's in Europe where Buddhism is significantly less widely practiced, and all of those flags are supposed to channel good energy as she kneels and said the energy in there felt anything but good.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Which yeah, I can totally believe.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Hmm, I don't know about this one.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: What do you think?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Just an innocent Buddhist or something holy more sinister?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: In the vast rolling plains of Nevada, north of Humboldt's sink, there's an out-crop of limestone with a small dark crack in it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This is the entrance to Love Lock Cave, a mysterious cavern drenched in morbid history.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Back in 1911, a group of miners are said to have been digging in the cave when they uncovered the mummified remains of a huge human, far bigger than any ordinary man.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: According to the Bayou Day, a Native American people who inhabited the area for thousands of years, there were once giants that roamed the lands.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And the Scytica, these formidable men were red-haired stood menacingly high and had a pinch and for human flesh.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Sheepers!
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The legend goes that they were engaged in a war with a Paiute Day for many years until eventually the last of the Scytica were driven into La Vla Cave.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Here the Paiute Day finished them off by lighting a fire outside the cave, smoking it out and making it their tomb.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a wild story, sure, but how much of it is actually true.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: While at the start of the 20th century, ancient mummies were found in Lovelock Cave along with about 10,000 artifacts dating as far back as 1450 BC.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So, there's no doubt it's a very important historical site.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But despite reports that the remains of giants were found, there's no real evidence to support those claims.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Indeed, his story on Adrian Mare argues that the many mammoth and cave bear fossils found in the area could have been mistaken for giant fossils to the untrained observer.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This might have burnt the legend, nor didly support its propagation when the cave was excavated in the 20th century.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Of course, we can never know for sure, though, maybe just maybe somebody hid the evidence.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If there's one thing I've learned from horror movies, it's not to go hiking in secluded areas.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Nothing good ever comes of it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, Reddit user Wiggenhiker throwaway and his friends were hiking in New York's Catskill Mountains when they came across a cave off the beaten bat.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Curiosity got the better of them so they headed inside to check it out and immediately saw something disturbing.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: A strange wooden figurine was nestled in an alcove depicting a humanoid figure with nails in its eyes and a new surrounded snake.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Wiggid suddenly felt incredibly uneasy and wanted to leave without touching the figure, but his friend shrugged and put it in his bag as a souvenir.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They went home and Wiggid thought a little of it until two days later when he received a phone call.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It was his friend.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Clearly panic, he told him that the statue kept appearing in different positions around the house.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: and weird banging noises have been waking him up at night, as well as this, the whole place had started stinking of pond water.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Of course, although he'd been woken up the night before by his dog barking, when he went into his hallway, there were muddy footprints everywhere, and the statue had moved again into the living room.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: cautiously he walked over to it hard-pounding in his chest, but as he got near the room was suddenly filled with loud, rasping breathing, safe to say he got the heck out of there.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Wegged let him stay around his place that night then posted on Reddit looking for advice.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Eventually, self-replanned, paranormal expert Greg Newker commented and offered to take the statue of the two friends' hands.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Six months later, an update was finally posted to Reddit, though this time it was from Greg, and he had a lot to say.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Apparently, the hauntings had carried on in the apartment he shared with his wife and fellow paranormal investigator Dana.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: A figurine of Christ had been ripped off the wall, wet footprints had appeared on the couch.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The ponds smell was ever present, and the figurine had been mysteriously moving around the apartment on its own.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Things have gotten so bad that the couple locked the statue in a case following which the strange event subsided, but never completely went away.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Now the statue, which had been nicknamed the Cron of the Catskills, is a well-known attraction at Dana and Greg's traveling museum of the paranormal in Kentucky.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So if you want to go and see it, you can!
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Me!
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'll stick to talking about it on the internet at a very safe distance, thank you very much.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: There's something inherently creepy about a man in places.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They just feel off.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, and Northeastern Colorado Springs hidden amongst the loot of Rubble is the entrance to an abandoned tunnel that makes my skin crawl.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: dozens and dozens of ghastly images of zombies that dorn the walls on either side.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Who painted them there?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Nobody knows, but considering the amount of ever that clearly went into them, it's supremely odd that the artists would hide them away and never claim ownership.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Perhaps they weren't of sound mind.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, just whatever you do never enter that tunnel, as well as being susceptible to a possible collapse, there's no telling who you might meet down there.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: YouTuber exploring with Josh makes content where he explores interesting places from haunted hospitals to spooky forests.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: In one video uploaded in August 2016, Josh sent out to explore a deep underground cave at Mount St. Helen's Washington.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: After pushing further into the cave and into a claustrophobicly cramped out on near the back, Josh suddenly stumbled across something shocking.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: A little girl had got lost inside the cave and ended up right at the back stuck.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Thankfully, Josh and his team were there on hand and led the friend girl back out to her parents, but if they hadn't been there, things could have turned out very differently.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Here's to you, Josh.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: After watching the horror movie The Descent, I realized I hate everything about caving.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's cramped, dark, dangerous, and there might be monsters down there with you.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well popular YouTube adventure, my Corey apparently doesn't share that sentiment.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: In 2021, he ventured to Ukraine to explore the sixth largest cave in the world, optimistic cave.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Little did he know he'd find something seriously ominous down there.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Mike had it through the eerie door with a couple of fellow adventurers and began his descent, and over 140 miles long, optimistic cave is huge and full of tiny twisty tunnels to navigate.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Almost immediately Mike had to squeeze through narrow crevices and past roosting bats, but after five grueling hours of exploration the team stumbled upon a chamber with something
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  [SPEAKER_01]: What was it doing all the way down here?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Who knows?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Another chamber with more statues.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This time of the Grim Reaper beside one lone miner.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, now that's super weird.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But at some 650 feet below the surface, there was no escaping if whoever had carved the freaky statues decided to show their face.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Ha ha ha.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Unpreterbed Mike and the rest of the team carried on,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Phew, so what the heck were the statues all about?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, according to one of the locals they were made by Spelliologists.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That is, cave experts who were mapping optimistic cave back when it was first discovered in 1966.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Apparently, with little else to do in their spare time, they became quite skilled at carving.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Hmm, I don't know though.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Why the grim reaper?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Does anyone know for sure that was made by a spellingologist?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Or do the locals just say that to hide a darker truth?
• 15:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: The beneath the streets of Paris lies a colossal twisting network of caverns and tunnels housing the remains of over 6 million people.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This is the Paris catacombs.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: and it's widely recognized as one of the creepiest places in the world.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot more than just exhumans down there to spook you though.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Passing through one of the tunnels you'll be greeted with a sculpture though, mysteriously, nobody knows who made it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Known as the Passa Moral, it's a reference to an old French story about a man with the power to pass through walls.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The story goes that at first the man didn't want this power and went to his doctor who gave
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But the man didn't change his lifestyle and one day realized he could use his power for ill-gain.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He terrorized his annoying boss so much he sent the man and saying.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Then he began to wrap banks and jewelry stores, but eventually his reign of terror ended when he woke up one morning with a headache and took a pill for it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: only he didn't realize he'd taken the wrong pill.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It was the medicine the doctor had prescribed him.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: As he was passing through a wall that day, it suddenly kicked in and the man was trapped where he remains to this day.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Pretty bleak story, right?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The sculpture down in the bear's catacombs can't actually be him though.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Right, on the border between Derbysher and Nottingham in England, UK is an enclosed limestone gorge called Creswell Cracks, tucked away in the ravine's cliffs lies several mysterious caves, and in one of them there's a small hole with a collection of marks hewn into the stone around it warning of an entrance to the underworld.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Keepers!
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  [SPEAKER_01]: These scratches are known as witch marks, and are believed to have been carved between the 17th and 19th centuries to ward off evil.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Indeed, back then belief in evil spirits was widespread in Britain, and the protective marks were etched in churches and houses, too.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Some are shaped like boxes or mazes to trap the demons or spirits while others include the letter V twice representing virgin of virgins, the mother Mary.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so what are they doing in the caves at Creswell Cracks?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's likely that the hole in the caves was blamed for a series of unfortunate events like crop failures or illnesses.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: People at the time may have believed evil forces were crawling out of it from the depths of the underworld and so in chaos, so they carved the lines into the rock to keep the demons at bay.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Ah, that's super creepy.
• 18:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: Let's hope those marks continue to do their job, eh?
• 18:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Back in September 2017, Reddit user Grunnerman 28 went hiking with his friends to an inactive volcano near their town in Mexico.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It has a deep cavern system within it, and because Grunner and his friends are clearly unhinged, they find mapping deep uncharted caverns of fun weakened activity.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So in they went.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Despite the oppressive atmosphere, the vibe was easy going, and as they progressed deeper, Grunner started playing some black metal through a speaker to add to the ambiance.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It was a good time when the tour came to its end, the group quickly posed for a photo at the cave entrance and went home.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Only when Grunner got back that evening something felt wrong.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Usually he fell asleep easily after a day out hiking, but tonight was different.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: he felt uneasy and hardly slept.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The next day one of his friends posted the photo they take it online and when Grunner saw it his blood ran cold.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It was something next to him.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Or some one.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But whoever they were, they hadn't been there when the photo was taken, at least not visibly anyway.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That night, Grunner couldn't sleep at all.
• 19:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: He kept thinking he could see the shadow we figure in his room staring at him with those piercing black eyes.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And all got too much.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He panicked cursing and screaming at it to leave.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And suddenly, thankfully, it did.
• 19:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm able to rest, Grunner ranked his brain for any clue as to what might be happening and
• 19:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that was it, there were rumors they didn't dark-spirit summoning rights in their recordings.
• 20:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was something he'd heard but never actually believed, now it seemed more believable than ever.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: What could he do, though?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Nothing.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: For the next couple of weeks, what sounded like Pebbles being thrown at his window woke him up every night, yet nobody was ever outside.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And little by little the strange happening stopped, Gunner never saw the figure again but
• 20:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: Huh, and I'm sure about this one, is the whole thing just a hoax or did Grenner really accidentally summon something that day?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for listening to the podcast, we'll see you again next time you'll want to be amazed.