You must have never been stalked by the great white shark that lived in the deep end drain of my mawmaws pool. There is a tunnel system and he could appear in any pool though.. 😂
Let's see, 6 years old... that would be 1975 for me. I was definitely afraid of quicksand, and the Bermuda Triangle. Two years later, however, I found something else that put these two on the back burner for me. In 1977, thanks to Leonard Nimoy and "In Search Of..." I had a fear that was much worse BIGFOOT.! Every night I thought for sure, bigfoot would reach through my window, pull me out of bed, and eat me up. 🤣
In Afghanistan I fell into quicksand during one of our longest patrols. It looked almost exactly like the rest of the ground around it initially. (Until it completely gave way underneath me.) Like cracked dried mud. I was wearing a ton of gear and sank chest deep almost instantly. (It slowed down when I put my arms and weapon up on top of the quicksand to support my weight.) This stuff IS actually dangerous. And not necessarily always easy to spot. Not saying this video is nonsense. It's not just going to swallow you up under normal conditions. But when you're loaded down with gear in a territory you're not familiar with, it's a very different story. Didn't take that long to get out of with some help. At no point was I worried for my life. But I was still sinking the entire time before my squad started pulling me out, and it wasn't difficult to imagine a similar situation if I was on my own that would have made it impossible to survive.
I actually experienced slipping on a banana peel on a sidewalk. I looked and felt like an old cartoon. I am the only human I know who in fact slipped on a banana peel
@@laurashook85 LoL. Thanks for that comment. It made my day. Of course I was thinking about all the cartoons I saw as a kid where the characters were always falling on a banana peel and thought yeah, I should watch out for that in the future. Luckily I've never had that misfortune.
I was a kid in the 1980s. So the movies and syndicated television shows I watched were from the 1960s and 1970s. In about 40% of them, quicksand was a plot device. I dream of Genie, the Wild Wild West, The Monkeys, Gilligan's Island, Star Trek, the Six Million Dollar Man, etc having quicksand episodes. So I believed that I had a 50/50 chance of encountering quicksand daily.
@@Neenerella333 Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Little House on the Prairie, Grizzly Adams, Lost in Space. Now that I think about it, it was beyond ridiculous to have that many episodes revolving around quicksand. It was simply lazy writing. They had to produce 24 to 28 episodes per year, so some tropes just repeated
Yep! Quicksand, amnesia, discovering that you have an evil twin/identical cousin, and randomly falling asleep every few minutes because you’ve been bitten by a tsetse fly… Standard plot lines, but the terror was real. 🫣🤣
I live in Alaska near Turnagain arm where the young man drowned. The substrate in the Arm, which is part of the Cook Inlet, is actually silt, which is a soil with particle far smaller than sand. So when wet it is like thick gumbo and can create a suction force around a person’s leg so great that they cannot free themselves even with a lot of help. The Alaska rescue squads in the area use high pressure hoses to push water into the hole and break the suction. However, the area has some of the highest tides in the world and the water comes and goes incredibly fast. In more than one tragic case, the rescuers could not get to the victims fast enough to save them. It’s horrific, and the locals known about the danger of the mucky silt.
I admit it’s like a wave of relief when I click on a video and hear his voice. It doesn’t even matter what the topic is, I know I’m going to watch. I’d settle in for 15 mins about fleas, lol
I live in the desert, I've never seen any in all the hiking I've done around Las Vegas, but it certainly seemed a thing when I was a kid. It simply does not rain enough here for that to be a thing.
"Relax, Gentlemen... it's just leisurely-pace sand." -Sir Reginald Piddles, Expedited Exploratory Expedition, just before hiking 5 miles to camp to fetch a rope. (He was back in plenty of time, but Jenkins had pretty severely pruned toes.)
I got stuck in a mud slurry while hiking once. Luckily it wasn't that deep but I was up to my waist for over an hour until two ppl found me and pulled me out. It's a non Newtonian fluid. You try to get out and it turns solid.
I was once stuck in quicksand. It was in a water saturated meadow, where road construction was going on. One of my legs sank in the stuff up to my knee, very quickly. However, my other foot had solid footing, so I was able to get myself out of there. It felt more like an inconvenience than a life threatening situation, actually - even though the place was deserted.
That sounds more like typical deep mud. The meadow would have had a soil mixture from plant decay, so it wouldn't have been entirely sand. Quicksand happens when *sand* (sometimes silt) is saturated with water or fine with very little friction between the sand particles.
@@mynameishuman4582 You can't build a road on moor - as you correctly assumed - so a significant amount of sand had been deposited. Also, I saw the signs (danger - quicksand) when I left the area. But then again, I *wouldn't* discard your hypothesis altogether and claim with absolute certainty it *wasn't* mud. Gee, it was decades ago - at a time when I tended to wander the meadows freely (called "polderen" in the local jargon).
As a kid I was playing next to a brook that had (I thought) very little water. The next thing I knew I was sinking into the mud fairly rapidly or so it seemed. I was wearing wellington boots and I had sunk far enough for the mud to reach the top of my wellies. I managed to free one leg but my other leg was stuck firm.I resolved that the only way to free myself was to take my stuck leg out of the boot. I hobbled home with one wellington boot on. Once home I explained to mother how I nearly died in the mud. However, all she cared about was the fact I had lost one boot and how much a new pair was going to cost! Now I am trying to imagine if I knew the proper technique to to get out and had laid back on the mud what my mother would have said about all my muddy clothes!!!
You could probably make a TV series out of debunking Mythbusters episodes. Not just the times they were flat out wrong, but also all the times their testing methods were simply bad or otherwise unrepresentative.
Quicksand a slirry of fine sand and water can and has taken lives of those who have fallen into such. In Missouri USA, in what is known as the leadbelt where lead mines were prevalent there were also what were called Slime ponds which were retaining areas where the tailings from the mines which were mostly powdered limestone was pumped with water into what became our local quicksand. In the 1950s a man riding a horse got stuck and his horse perished, he survived, in the 1980s a couple juveniles were riding an ATV when they went in the tailings pond, one kid was thrown clear of the pit, the other survived due to the one who was not trapped using a limb, assisted his friend in getting out of the slime pond the same couldnt be said about their 4 wheeler ATV they were riding. It sank deep enough the a fire department pole with the hook on it shoved as deep as the fire department could insert it, failed to make contact with the ATV that the two boys had been riding. It was never recovered.
There is one exception to the quicksand. There is a type found in rivers where there's a lot of rotting plant matter interspersed within the sand. This releases a lot of gas high in methane which essentially aerates the sand with gas lowering it's density so you drop like a stone up to your knees and it's really difficult to get out. I've come across this a few times out on the sand bars in the Econlockhatchee River in Florida. If you're smart about it and follow the steps outlined in the video you'll be fine. But if this low density sand happens to be unusually deep I can easily see it killing someone. Of note there is another deadly phenomenon that works on a similar principle. Some areas of water treatment have what's called deep areated water and it's incredibly scary. You'll sink like a stone and be unable to swim due to so much air in the water.
Grew up near the Little Econ. Experienced quicksand patches there too. Since you know about the methane gas, bet you're familiar with the Oviedo Lights. I've seen those too.
@@fightinginflipflops7731 Oh really? My father wrote a book on his paranormal experiences in the Oviedo area. He was always down by the main bridge between Oviedo and Chuluota during the 1970's, yet he never saw any unfortunately.
@1TakoyakiStore How interesting! Would love to read his book. Was he a local? My parents lived in Oviedo and later Chuluota. Was always crossing that bridge to see them. As a teenager, saw the lights off of Willingham Rd. Remember Taintsville? And the glider airfield? So much has changed since the 70s. Don't know if anyone tries to see the lights anymore.
My grandfather lost his boot in quicksand/mud while hunting it was covered with leaves. He had to walk back to the car with one boot. ROUDS are true have you ever seen a Capybara or a Opossum (I known it's not a rodents but it not from a lack of trying)
Ummm I almost died from sinking in quicksand when I was 10. Me and three other kids. Thankfully the adults partying that were supposed to be supervising us heard our screams or we would’ve been fd
There is a need to have a guide to walk across Morecambe Bay in the NW of England. Due to the nature of the tide and bay itself, it can be very dangerous. Some years ago (this century IIRC - time flies!) around 20 cockle pickers were drowned up there because of illegal work practices (understatement of the year). The guide is the monarch's official guide should he/she ever wish to cross the bay. There are different kinds of quicksand, it absolutely exists, but not "Hollywood style". If you have anything standing on sandy or otherwise "loose" ground conditions, an earthquake will bring water up to mix with the soil, and it will suck whatever's on it down. It's called liquifaction and there's even film of a (Japanese?) building sinking into the earth as water rises. It's not to be taken lightly! But you're absolutely right that the Hollywood sawdust and water mix is rubbish!
got my foot stuck in a mudpit once on a playground. was a strange pot, had just constantly been wet in this hole. foot slipped in, just about felt like it was trying to eat you getting out. it is just strange for the earth to not be solid.
Anybody who grew up in the 80's and early 90's was afraid of quick sand because of tv 😂 I myself had few tricks in mind of how I was gonna get out of a quick sand situation 😅
What do you mean? They understand the extremely basic concepts that water filled with pretty much anything means you can't sync in it. I've been in salty water that you literally couldn't sink all the way into even if you stood straight up with your arms down at your sides, and didn't move a muscle. Mud is so much more buoyant than water it's ridiculous. If you stay still, you absolutely cannot sync into it end of story..
But keeping a really big guy with Really pretty hair the same weight for the entire show... Stranded on a desert island. Who did that guys laundry.. and fluffed his hair?? On a deserted island!
I spotted quicksand in our ohio backyard when I was 6, I warned my mom but she didn’t heed my warning, and we lost our parakeet that spring. Still makes me angry.
I've been trapped in quicksand. I was with friends and we were wading in a shallow river with a sandy bottom. All of a sudden I stepped in a hole and could not go any further nor could I get out. I was up to my waist. No, I was not in any danger of sinking but I could not move, and that was frightening enough. I called out to my friends and they were able to get me out of the hole, otherwise who knows how long I would have been there. I have had great respect for quicksand ever since. It's not something to play around with.
My mom’s dad (died way before I was born) was a mortician and he had prepared bodies of children that were sucked into an air pocket in a dirt mound by construction sites. It can happen, yeah. 7:48
I would sometimes get stuck in the mud flats when the tide would go out, had to be rescued from my father, lost a lot of sandals and rubber boots throughout the years lol.
I've seen dangerous quicksand. There is a few areas on my lake in Appalacia that are prone to quicksand. Downwind of a point there is a sand shelf with a dropoff that gets quicksand after certain weather. I started getting sucked in but the whole bank started to give so it was literally sucking me down. It is more like a quicksand landslide but it will suck you under and potentially trap your head under.
QuickSand....Whirlpool....Stop Drop Roll...those were all discussed and shown in kids media, school, and books way more than it actually happens IRL. I think I was near adult age when I realized I've never seen quicksand in my life (Still haven't).
When I was a child, a local television station showed Tarzan movies every Saturday morning. At the end of one of the movies, the bad guys fell into quicksand. The last thing you see is their hands grasping for anything before sinking out of sight. That scared the bejeezus out of me.
I stepped in quicksand once while walking in a creek. Suddenly I was knee deep in loose sand with water up to my waste. I reacted by frantically scrambling forward. It only took several steps and then I walked right up out of it. I had to go back through that same spot on my way back out. It really wasn't a big deal, but it did scare me a bit.
My good sir I can tell you for certain that quicksand does indeed exist. I know this because in my hometown of Natchez Mississippi a woman and her horse were caught in, and died, in a patch of quicksand on a sandbar in the Homochitto River. They were riding down the river when the horse and rider walked into a part of the sandbar that was super saturated and began to sink. As a local of the area I can attest first hand to quicksand being present on parts of the Homochitto River and many many creeks in the area…often frequented by families and children…including mine. I have once been caught in such a part of the sandbar. And indeed the more to work against it the deeper you sink. It is said that the horse was coaxed by the rider to exert itself to get out. Once this happened it started to sink and panic. They both died. A section of the river, which is honestly a glorified creek, was sectioned off and the horse and rider were dug out. The rider was hugging the neck of the horse her head and mouth close to its ear. It’s not known if the rider was trying to calm the horse of attempt to command it to get out.
I am going to watch the videos: x The Most Dangerous Islands in the World (1st Recommendation, second time watching) x 10 Movies That Got History All Wrong (2nd Recommendation, second time watching) x 10 Illuminating Facts About The Knights Templar x The Real Five Points, The Neighborhood That Inspired 'Gangs of New York' x D.A.R.E. Was a Bigger Failure Than Most People Realized
Wrong. So wrong. I've lived on the Mississippi River my whole life. Quicksand isn't everywhere all the time, but you run into it often enough, especially in receding flood waters, to check before you step off your boat and try to avoid ANY flat sand areas. Regular sand, wet and dry, drifts, collects, and has features. Quicksand does not, at least not in my experience. How do I know what quicksand is?? Tie on a 1 ounce lead weight and toss it out. It sinks in quicksand.
Yeah, I was afraid of quicksand when I was five, but I was also scared of monsters lurking in my bedroom closet! BTW, ". . .What is it that's not exactly water, but it ain't exactly earth? Quicksaaaand!"
I grew up by a tide-washed shoreline, which featured areas where quicksand could be found. I recall a teenager on a motorcycle got stuck in one while still on the vehicle. By the time emergency services got to him, he and the motorcycle were too deep in to be extracted. Not sure how you can claim quicksand is an overstated danger?
When I was 30 years old, I walked into quicksand in Maryland. Fortunately, I wasn't alone. I did lose my shoes. It was not a normal thing there. Not even a storm trench. There had been recent heavy rainfall and above average seismic activity. OOPS!
Don't understand why this narrator doesn't do all the videos like he used to can't stand the one that sounds like he's all nasally makes me think of somebody taking their fingernails and scraping it down the chalkboard just irritates me that much... I really like this narrator 100%
This topic splits 80s babies and 80s kids, supposedly we're of the same generation, though they DID change that definition. All my greatest fears came to fruition on September 11th, 2001.
Actual quicksand is more complicated then the mud most "experts" claim it to be. Firstly, what we refer to as quicksand behaves differently depending on the type of soil, and manner in which it becomes the supersaturated nonNewtonian fluid that we know as quicksand. The one thing these factoids get right is that you are unlikely to vanish in quicksand due to your body's buoyancy and the fact that there are only a few ways quicksand can form, of which only two are even capable of swallowing you up, but even those aren't likely to since they are the least likely to be more than a few feet deep. There are two legitimate concerns with quicksand, and none of them would apply to the fake form as the muddy pool they used as quicksand on mythbusters. (Sorry, but the idea that mythbusters ever properly busted a myth is itself a myth, given they usually didn't even get the myth right that they were attempting to bust.) The first is just being trapped. Unlike these movie effect manufactured puddles of quicksand, the mucky black variety that might be in or around a swamp or lake is both the fastest variety to draw you in (Usually 1-3 feet at first stride) and also the most difficult to wiggle your way back out of (due to it's viscus heavy nature that fills gaps easily, but it's weight does not allow it to create gaps, as the beach sand variety easily does in mythbusters, but that clean sand version never occurs naturally, and even if it did, it looks different than the ground around it making it easy to avoid, and impossible to be very deep due to how sand settles and does not dissolve). The inky black variety, will allow sediment on it's surface, and occurs in places where the ground is normally saturated, making it indistinguishable from the more solid ground around it. Even where this stuff forms, it's pretty rare. And yeah, if you don't fall face first, your not likely to suffocate or drown in it, but if you've ever twisted your ankle in a mis-step, imagine the damange your toes, ankles, knees or hips might be subjected to when the solid land you think you are stepping onto allows you to basically free-fall 1-3 feet while gripping onto every bit of you that ends up in the stuff. That would make it fairly easy to fall face first, and then have nothing solid to push or pull against in order to turn yourself over or pull yourself out. THAT is the other danger. Since it generally forms in remote places, and is rare to form at all, you could be injured and trapped in an instant. No, it's still not likely to swallow you whole, but dead is dead no matter if your half buried or all the way buried. The other variety has more to do with underground waterways and is generally a precursor to a form of sinkhole, which depending on it's size and location, could be potentially dangerous even without a quicksand phase. This variety is closer to the movie/mythbuster version (or could be) and is the only variety that is likely to have the depth to swallow you whole, BUT for the before mentioned reasons (and the geology behind it's formation) having the depth to swallow you, doesn't mean it's likely to happen. The odds are about the same as being swallowed up in a sinkhole. Can it happen? Yes. It's been known to happen, but your more likely to win the lotto jackpot, get struck by lightning, and eaten by a shark all at the same time. This type is usually easier to get free from than common deep mud is, and the sinkhole that will develop after the underground chamber empties and dries out is far more likely to bring harm than the mucky swells that may potentially erupt years before that happens. Now you know.
My cartoon training has me well prepared for any quicksand emergency. And I keep a vigilant eye for any precariously suspended 10 ton weights,eo thereR....?.?
Lawrence of Arabia had the most iconic quicksand scene, and the driest as well, because usually they feature sandly soil oversoaked with water. I heard a Reddit story about this one guy's strange encounter with it, when he really didn't believe what he was going through....he thought if he just relaxed in his wading boots, he'd hit a solid bottom and then he could paddle his way out, but someone actually had to save him. Kind of like spontaneous human combustion, it's rare, we don't believe it occurs actually, but yet occasionally something happens that makes us doubt everything.... ruclips.net/video/FrLba1rE4sY/видео.htmlsi=ZEcUy0HQ_t0k5TZV
Quicksand and the bermuda triangle seemed like the worst problems in the world when you're 6.
Don’t forget about acid rain and the oncoming ice age.
Consider yourself lucky
You must have never been stalked by the great white shark that lived in the deep end drain of my mawmaws pool.
There is a tunnel system and he could appear in any pool though.. 😂
Let's see, 6 years old... that would be 1975 for me. I was definitely afraid of quicksand, and the Bermuda Triangle. Two years later, however, I found something else that put these two on the back burner for me. In 1977, thanks to Leonard Nimoy and "In Search Of..." I had a fear that was much worse
BIGFOOT.!
Every night I thought for sure, bigfoot would reach through my window, pull me out of bed, and eat me up. 🤣
& the fact that the sun will “explode” and destroy the earth billions of years from today
Well, I must admit when I was a kid, the idea of quicksand scared the absolute life out of me 😮
Yo! big stack. What up!? History guy huh?
@@AntonioHernandez-rh3wx only when I get the time 👌🏻
I also thought I would need to Stop, Drop, and Roll way more often.
Fr. I was terrified of spontaneous combustion!
While screaming no to drugs
Quicksand, acid rain and whirlpools never got in the way of life like i imagined them as a kid.
Show ain't over yet! Stay vigilant cowpoke 🤠
This and factories filled with open vats of acid, were valid fears of mine growing up in the 80s
Factories can be very dangerous, even deadly places. Giant open vats of acid may be unlikely, but there are so many ways to get hurt in a factory.
Yup I remember those days
In Afghanistan I fell into quicksand during one of our longest patrols. It looked almost exactly like the rest of the ground around it initially. (Until it completely gave way underneath me.) Like cracked dried mud.
I was wearing a ton of gear and sank chest deep almost instantly. (It slowed down when I put my arms and weapon up on top of the quicksand to support my weight.) This stuff IS actually dangerous. And not necessarily always easy to spot. Not saying this video is nonsense. It's not just going to swallow you up under normal conditions. But when you're loaded down with gear in a territory you're not familiar with, it's a very different story.
Didn't take that long to get out of with some help. At no point was I worried for my life. But I was still sinking the entire time before my squad started pulling me out, and it wasn't difficult to imagine a similar situation if I was on my own that would have made it impossible to survive.
"When I was a little boy, we had a sandbox made out of quicksand. I was an only child...eventually" Steven Wright.
It took me a few reads to get that lol.
Growing up I thought slipping on a banana peel was going to be a bigger problem than what it has been.
I actually experienced slipping on a banana peel on a sidewalk. I looked and felt like an old cartoon. I am the only human I know who in fact slipped on a banana peel
@@laurashook85 LoL. Thanks for that comment. It made my day. Of course I was thinking about all the cartoons I saw as a kid where the characters were always falling on a banana peel and thought yeah, I should watch out for that in the future. Luckily I've never had that misfortune.
😂
Let's not forget that episode of Perfect Strangers where Larry and Balki are in quicksand
I was a kid in the 1980s. So the movies and syndicated television shows I watched were from the 1960s and 1970s. In about 40% of them, quicksand was a plot device. I dream of Genie, the Wild Wild West, The Monkeys, Gilligan's Island, Star Trek, the Six Million Dollar Man, etc having quicksand episodes. So I believed that I had a 50/50 chance of encountering quicksand daily.
Fantasy Island. 6 million dollar man. We can go on.
@@Neenerella333 Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Little House on the Prairie, Grizzly Adams, Lost in Space. Now that I think about it, it was beyond ridiculous to have that many episodes revolving around quicksand. It was simply lazy writing. They had to produce 24 to 28 episodes per year, so some tropes just repeated
Yep! Quicksand, amnesia, discovering that you have an evil twin/identical cousin, and randomly falling asleep every few minutes because you’ve been bitten by a tsetse fly… Standard plot lines, but the terror was real. 🫣🤣
If you think it was bad for the horse in the movie The NeverEnding Story in the book, he could talk. Let that sink in🥁🥁🥁
[narrows eyes and clicks the up thumb]
@@vtmariklol
I live in Alaska near Turnagain arm where the young man drowned. The substrate in the Arm, which is part of the Cook Inlet, is actually silt, which is a soil with particle far smaller than sand. So when wet it is like thick gumbo and can create a suction force around a person’s leg so great that they cannot free themselves even with a lot of help. The Alaska rescue squads in the area use high pressure hoses to push water into the hole and break the suction. However, the area has some of the highest tides in the world and the water comes and goes incredibly fast. In more than one tragic case, the rescuers could not get to the victims fast enough to save them. It’s horrific, and the locals known about the danger of the mucky silt.
Our good old mud flats
Duck hunting nightmare.
@@rotaman8555 that is terrifying!xx
I was terrified of quicksand due to the movie "The never ending story"... Poor horse
Yeah, that messed me up for a while.
😂
The never ending story was my FAVORITE book as a kid. In it, unlike the movie, the horse can TALK.
That scene gave me PTSD
For me it was the Jungle Book… the first live action. Argh… couldn’t forget it in awhile
So glad you showed a picture of Blazing Saddles. That scene is hysterical!!
Nice. He's back. Saving
Thank you narrator for blessing us with your voice once again. Please forgive us, we have forsaken you. Please continue to do all videos again.
I admit it’s like a wave of relief when I click on a video and hear his voice. It doesn’t even matter what the topic is, I know I’m going to watch. I’d settle in for 15 mins about fleas, lol
I'm here for the content. So many RUclipsrs have a gravely voice these days, I can't stand it.
This channel started with a different narrator, and I've been here nearly the whole time.
As someone who's here for the content: the voice is great and appreciated, but I still watched with the other narrator.
Definitely thought quick sand was gonna be a big issue growing up.
😂
And the Bermuda Triangle..
@@maevependragon Yes! I doubt I would ever go near there!
I live in the desert, I've never seen any in all the hiking I've done around Las Vegas, but it certainly seemed a thing when I was a kid. It simply does not rain enough here for that to be a thing.
“Dang near lost a $400 hand cart!”
That is one of my favorite lines from the movie.
I was definitely scared of quicksand when I was a kid in the 80's!!!
"Relax, Gentlemen... it's just leisurely-pace sand."
-Sir Reginald Piddles, Expedited Exploratory Expedition, just before hiking 5 miles to camp to fetch a rope.
(He was back in plenty of time, but Jenkins had pretty severely pruned toes.)
Growing up, i thought there was a 40% chance i'd be killed by quicksand or killer bees
I got stuck in a mud slurry while hiking once. Luckily it wasn't that deep but I was up to my waist for over an hour until two ppl found me and pulled me out.
It's a non Newtonian fluid. You try to get out and it turns solid.
We encountered some in our youth. My dad had us step in to see how you start sinking. Warned us to avoid areas like it, we never forgot his warning.
I was once stuck in quicksand. It was in a water saturated meadow, where road construction was going on. One of my legs sank in the stuff up to my knee, very quickly. However, my other foot had solid footing, so I was able to get myself out of there. It felt more like an inconvenience than a life threatening situation, actually - even though the place was deserted.
That sounds more like typical deep mud. The meadow would have had a soil mixture from plant decay, so it wouldn't have been entirely sand.
Quicksand happens when *sand* (sometimes silt) is saturated with water or fine with very little friction between the sand particles.
@@mynameishuman4582 You can't build a road on moor - as you correctly assumed - so a significant amount of sand had been deposited. Also, I saw the signs (danger - quicksand) when I left the area.
But then again, I *wouldn't* discard your hypothesis altogether and claim with absolute certainty it *wasn't* mud. Gee, it was decades ago - at a time when I tended to wander the meadows freely (called "polderen" in the local jargon).
what if it was both of your legs up to the hip? Is it still just an inconvenience?
@@brnfn4 Without proper footing it wouldn't have felt okay. Especially since the place was deserted.
I've seen Blazing Saddles, and I know how dangerous quicksand can be! "Dang near lost a $400 handcart!"
As a kid I was playing next to a brook that had (I thought) very little water. The next thing I knew I was sinking into the mud fairly rapidly or so it seemed. I was wearing wellington boots and I had sunk far enough for the mud to reach the top of my wellies. I managed to free one leg but my other leg was stuck firm.I resolved that the only way to free myself was to take my stuck leg out of the boot. I hobbled home with one wellington boot on. Once home I explained to mother how I nearly died in the mud. However, all she cared about was the fact I had lost one boot and how much a new pair was going to cost! Now I am trying to imagine if I knew the proper technique to to get out and had laid back on the mud what my mother would have said about all my muddy clothes!!!
I'm sorry to hear that. I had a mother like this too. I'm glad you got out that quicksand safely though.
Can we bring back the graveyard shift channel please? It was so good why did yall stop it? 😢
I’ve seen mythBusters bust myths I’ve seen to actually be true.
You could probably make a TV series out of debunking Mythbusters episodes. Not just the times they were flat out wrong, but also all the times their testing methods were simply bad or otherwise unrepresentative.
So very glad this great narrator is back!!!😊
C'mon now. We all know the reason we were terrified...BECAUSE OF WATCHING ARTAX! 😂
Quicksand a slirry of fine sand and water can and has taken lives of those who have fallen into such. In Missouri USA, in what is known as the leadbelt where lead mines were prevalent there were also what were called Slime ponds which were retaining areas where the tailings from the mines which were mostly powdered limestone was pumped with water into what became our local quicksand. In the 1950s a man riding a horse got stuck and his horse perished, he survived, in the 1980s a couple juveniles were riding an ATV when they went in the tailings pond, one kid was thrown clear of the pit, the other survived due to the one who was not trapped using a limb, assisted his friend in getting out of the slime pond the same couldnt be said about their 4 wheeler ATV they were riding. It sank deep enough the a fire department pole with the hook on it shoved as deep as the fire department could insert it, failed to make contact with the ATV that the two boys had been riding. It was never recovered.
My guy. Please learn how to use commas 🫡
Ah the narrator is back.
Aside from The Neverending Story, one of my first exposures to the concept was from Gilligan's Island and some old (40's - 60's) movies.
OMG I came here for this comment! I saw it in the 70’s (on rerun) when I was a kid.
@DS-re4vs Hahaha remember how soupy it was? Like, mostly water!🤣
It's not as bad as lava. The floor is made of that stuff.
You’re the best narrator.
The ONLY narrator for this channel! Stop with the others. They’re lame
There is one exception to the quicksand. There is a type found in rivers where there's a lot of rotting plant matter interspersed within the sand. This releases a lot of gas high in methane which essentially aerates the sand with gas lowering it's density so you drop like a stone up to your knees and it's really difficult to get out. I've come across this a few times out on the sand bars in the Econlockhatchee River in Florida. If you're smart about it and follow the steps outlined in the video you'll be fine. But if this low density sand happens to be unusually deep I can easily see it killing someone.
Of note there is another deadly phenomenon that works on a similar principle. Some areas of water treatment have what's called deep areated water and it's incredibly scary. You'll sink like a stone and be unable to swim due to so much air in the water.
Grew up near the Little Econ. Experienced quicksand patches there too. Since you know about the methane gas, bet you're familiar with the Oviedo Lights. I've seen those too.
@@fightinginflipflops7731 Oh really? My father wrote a book on his paranormal experiences in the Oviedo area. He was always down by the main bridge between Oviedo and Chuluota during the 1970's, yet he never saw any unfortunately.
@1TakoyakiStore How interesting! Would love to read his book. Was he a local? My parents lived in Oviedo and later Chuluota. Was always crossing that bridge to see them. As a teenager, saw the lights off of Willingham Rd. Remember Taintsville? And the glider airfield? So much has changed since the 70s. Don't know if anyone tries to see the lights anymore.
Love that Colin Baker made it into the clips 💙
Loved when John Mulaney brought this up.
Quicksand IS NOT fake
Tarzan movies, I think. (The Johnny Weissmuller ones.) Then too, Frankenstein, The Mummy and other horror movies scarred me for life as well...
Tarzan was my first thought.
@brj_han, Tarzan was my first thought also. I can't believe that was not mentioned.
Rodents of unusual size still scare me, thanks Princess Bride 😂
My grandfather lost his boot in quicksand/mud while hunting it was covered with leaves. He had to walk back to the car with one boot. ROUDS are true have you ever seen a Capybara or a Opossum (I known it's not a rodents but it not from a lack of trying)
Ummm I almost died from sinking in quicksand when I was 10. Me and three other kids. Thankfully the adults partying that were supposed to be supervising us heard our screams or we would’ve been fd
There is a need to have a guide to walk across Morecambe Bay in the NW of England. Due to the nature of the tide and bay itself, it can be very dangerous. Some years ago (this century IIRC - time flies!) around 20 cockle pickers were drowned up there because of illegal work practices (understatement of the year). The guide is the monarch's official guide should he/she ever wish to cross the bay.
There are different kinds of quicksand, it absolutely exists, but not "Hollywood style". If you have anything standing on sandy or otherwise "loose" ground conditions, an earthquake will bring water up to mix with the soil, and it will suck whatever's on it down. It's called liquifaction and there's even film of a (Japanese?) building sinking into the earth as water rises. It's not to be taken lightly!
But you're absolutely right that the Hollywood sawdust and water mix is rubbish!
got my foot stuck in a mudpit once on a playground. was a strange pot, had just constantly been wet in this hole. foot slipped in, just about felt like it was trying to eat you getting out.
it is just strange for the earth to not be solid.
For me it was the jungle book (1994) there’s some death scenes involving quicksand that always made me nervous about ever encountering it 😅
I view the quicksand phenomena as similar to the LaBrea Tar Pit....which is close to Hollywood
Anybody who grew up in the 80's and early 90's was afraid of quick sand because of tv 😂
I myself had few tricks in mind of how I was gonna get out of a quick sand situation 😅
Lol, Mythbusters doesn't know shit about quicksand.
What do you mean? They understand the extremely basic concepts that water filled with pretty much anything means you can't sync in it. I've been in salty water that you literally couldn't sink all the way into even if you stood straight up with your arms down at your sides, and didn't move a muscle. Mud is so much more buoyant than water it's ridiculous. If you stay still, you absolutely cannot sync into it end of story..
This video was put together by the quicksand lobby. Don't believe it. Quicksand is everywhere!
A lady just fell into quicksand walking on the beach.
Then there's sinkholes. Both terrify me.
Definitely quicksand was on my mind. I also thought I'd be on fire way more due to all the stop drop and roll we had to do!
But keeping a really big guy with Really pretty hair the same weight for the entire show...
Stranded on a desert island. Who did that guys laundry.. and fluffed his hair??
On a deserted island!
I don't know why they call it 'quick'-sand.....it works so slowly, a long drawn out process....that's not quick
I spotted quicksand in our ohio backyard when I was 6, I warned my mom but she didn’t heed my warning, and we lost our parakeet that spring. Still makes me angry.
Sounds like something quicksand would say
So it’s true ! This channel is totally aimed at people born between 1965 and 1975. I love being Generation X
I've been trapped in quicksand. I was with friends and we were wading in a shallow river with a sandy bottom. All of a sudden I stepped in a hole and could not go any further nor could I get out. I was up to my waist. No, I was not in any danger of sinking but I could not move, and that was frightening enough. I called out to my friends and they were able to get me out of the hole, otherwise who knows how long I would have been there. I have had great respect for quicksand ever since. It's not something to play around with.
My mom’s dad (died way before I was born) was a mortician and he had prepared bodies of children that were sucked into an air pocket in a dirt mound by construction sites. It can happen, yeah. 7:48
Answer: 'The Neverending Story' and 'The Princess Bride.'
Done.
I always wondered if I would find water a couple inches under the sand. Sand was scary.
haha! Yes! I was very afraid of quicksand when I was little.
The fact you had to give a short explanation as to what _Mythbusters_ was, made me feel so, so old. 😂 💀
I would sometimes get stuck in the mud flats when the tide would go out, had to be rescued from my father, lost a lot of sandals and rubber boots throughout the years lol.
If I were to inherit a ton of money, I'd build a modern castle with a quicksand moat.
So the old guy came back ❤
The quicksand scene from Blazing Saddles was the best!
I am 67 and have been all over the U.S. and other countries and have never even seen quicksand anywhere.
Talk about childhood trauma- all of those pics of Artax honestly made me a little wispy
My first death dream at around 5 years old was quick sand. It was from movies.
😂 , what bs
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The narrator is back.
This video reminds me of the YT video "80s Childhood Fears" by Holderness Family Laughs
Very funny and thought-provoking video!
ROUS do exist n Portland, Oregon. They’re called nutria and they’re the size of a beaver but with a rat tail.
Holy crap! Those things are REAL?!? I once heard of them and always thought they were like chupacabras...
I blame "Never Ending Story".
The 80’s was a weird time
Blazing Saddles
"The sheriff is near!"
@@MrFlintlock7the sheriff is a ni-*bong*
@@MrFlintlock7 😂😂😂😂😂
@@MrFlintlock7 my foot’s on the rail!!
@@BertLancaster-wl5mq "Tell them I said: Owwww!"
Notice how when trolls complain about the narrator not being o.g. in comments they post one with him quick 😂❤
People who have an opinion are trolls? Explain.
That’s all good, but what about tar pits???
My great great grandfather died in quicksand while serving in the Austria Hungry calvary. He was on his horse ...as per great grandma.
I can tell you why I’m afraid, The Never ending Story. Enough said
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I've seen dangerous quicksand. There is a few areas on my lake in Appalacia that are prone to quicksand.
Downwind of a point there is a sand shelf with a dropoff that gets quicksand after certain weather. I started getting sucked in but the whole bank started to give so it was literally sucking me down.
It is more like a quicksand landslide but it will suck you under and potentially trap your head under.
- 78 florida man fell into a quick sand trap.
- Did he survived?
- Didn´t I say florida man?
QuickSand....Whirlpool....Stop Drop Roll...those were all discussed and shown in kids media, school, and books way more than it actually happens IRL. I think I was near adult age when I realized I've never seen quicksand in my life (Still haven't).
When I was a child, a local television station showed Tarzan movies every Saturday morning. At the end of one of the movies, the bad guys fell into quicksand. The last thing you see is their hands grasping for anything before sinking out of sight. That scared the bejeezus out of me.
I stepped in quicksand once while walking in a creek. Suddenly I was knee deep in loose sand with water up to my waste. I reacted by frantically scrambling forward. It only took several steps and then I walked right up out of it. I had to go back through that same spot on my way back out. It really wasn't a big deal, but it did scare me a bit.
My good sir I can tell you for certain that quicksand does indeed exist. I know this because in my hometown of Natchez Mississippi a woman and her horse were caught in, and died, in a patch of quicksand on a sandbar in the Homochitto River.
They were riding down the river when the horse and rider walked into a part of the sandbar that was super saturated and began to sink.
As a local of the area I can attest first hand to quicksand being present on parts of the Homochitto River and many many creeks in the area…often frequented by families and children…including mine.
I have once been caught in such a part of the sandbar. And indeed the more to work against it the deeper you sink.
It is said that the horse was coaxed by the rider to exert itself to get out. Once this happened it started to sink and panic. They both died.
A section of the river, which is honestly a glorified creek, was sectioned off and the horse and rider were dug out.
The rider was hugging the neck of the horse her head and mouth close to its ear. It’s not known if the rider was trying to calm the horse of attempt to command it to get out.
This and hot lava kept me constantly worried.
Adventure movies, especially Tarzan movies from the 30s, 40s, and 50s used it as a stock obstacle, too.
I am going to watch the videos:
x The Most Dangerous Islands in the World (1st Recommendation, second time watching)
x 10 Movies That Got History All Wrong (2nd Recommendation, second time watching)
x 10 Illuminating Facts About The Knights Templar
x The Real Five Points, The Neighborhood That Inspired 'Gangs of New York'
x D.A.R.E. Was a Bigger Failure Than Most People Realized
Tarzan movies always had quicksand pits! Scared the heck out of us kids
Wrong. So wrong. I've lived on the Mississippi River my whole life. Quicksand isn't everywhere all the time, but you run into it often enough, especially in receding flood waters, to check before you step off your boat and try to avoid ANY flat sand areas. Regular sand, wet and dry, drifts, collects, and has features. Quicksand does not, at least not in my experience. How do I know what quicksand is?? Tie on a 1 ounce lead weight and toss it out. It sinks in quicksand.
Yeah, I was afraid of quicksand when I was five, but I was also scared of monsters lurking in my bedroom closet! BTW, ". . .What is it that's not exactly water, but it ain't exactly earth? Quicksaaaand!"
I grew up by a tide-washed shoreline, which featured areas where quicksand could be found. I recall a teenager on a motorcycle got stuck in one while still on the vehicle. By the time emergency services got to him, he and the motorcycle were too deep in to be extracted. Not sure how you can claim quicksand is an overstated danger?
When I was 30 years old, I walked into quicksand in Maryland.
Fortunately, I wasn't alone. I did lose my shoes.
It was not a normal thing there. Not even a storm trench.
There had been recent heavy rainfall and above average seismic activity.
OOPS!
Don't understand why this narrator doesn't do all the videos like he used to can't stand the one that sounds like he's all nasally makes me think of somebody taking their fingernails and scraping it down the chalkboard just irritates me that much...
I really like this narrator 100%
This topic splits 80s babies and 80s kids, supposedly we're of the same generation, though they DID change that definition.
All my greatest fears came to fruition on September 11th, 2001.
Actual quicksand is more complicated then the mud most "experts" claim it to be.
Firstly, what we refer to as quicksand behaves differently depending on the type of soil, and manner in which it becomes the supersaturated nonNewtonian fluid that we know as quicksand.
The one thing these factoids get right is that you are unlikely to vanish in quicksand due to your body's buoyancy and the fact that there are only a few ways quicksand can form, of which only two are even capable of swallowing you up, but even those aren't likely to since they are the least likely to be more than a few feet deep.
There are two legitimate concerns with quicksand, and none of them would apply to the fake form as the muddy pool they used as quicksand on mythbusters. (Sorry, but the idea that mythbusters ever properly busted a myth is itself a myth, given they usually didn't even get the myth right that they were attempting to bust.)
The first is just being trapped. Unlike these movie effect manufactured puddles of quicksand, the mucky black variety that might be in or around a swamp or lake is both the fastest variety to draw you in (Usually 1-3 feet at first stride) and also the most difficult to wiggle your way back out of (due to it's viscus heavy nature that fills gaps easily, but it's weight does not allow it to create gaps, as the beach sand variety easily does in mythbusters, but that clean sand version never occurs naturally, and even if it did, it looks different than the ground around it making it easy to avoid, and impossible to be very deep due to how sand settles and does not dissolve).
The inky black variety, will allow sediment on it's surface, and occurs in places where the ground is normally saturated, making it indistinguishable from the more solid ground around it. Even where this stuff forms, it's pretty rare. And yeah, if you don't fall face first, your not likely to suffocate or drown in it, but if you've ever twisted your ankle in a mis-step, imagine the damange your toes, ankles, knees or hips might be subjected to when the solid land you think you are stepping onto allows you to basically free-fall 1-3 feet while gripping onto every bit of you that ends up in the stuff. That would make it fairly easy to fall face first, and then have nothing solid to push or pull against in order to turn yourself over or pull yourself out. THAT is the other danger. Since it generally forms in remote places, and is rare to form at all, you could be injured and trapped in an instant. No, it's still not likely to swallow you whole, but dead is dead no matter if your half buried or all the way buried.
The other variety has more to do with underground waterways and is generally a precursor to a form of sinkhole, which depending on it's size and location, could be potentially dangerous even without a quicksand phase. This variety is closer to the movie/mythbuster version (or could be) and is the only variety that is likely to have the depth to swallow you whole, BUT for the before mentioned reasons (and the geology behind it's formation) having the depth to swallow you, doesn't mean it's likely to happen. The odds are about the same as being swallowed up in a sinkhole. Can it happen? Yes. It's been known to happen, but your more likely to win the lotto jackpot, get struck by lightning, and eaten by a shark all at the same time. This type is usually easier to get free from than common deep mud is, and the sinkhole that will develop after the underground chamber empties and dries out is far more likely to bring harm than the mucky swells that may potentially erupt years before that happens.
Now you know.
My cartoon training has me well prepared for any quicksand emergency. And I keep a vigilant eye for any precariously suspended 10 ton weights,eo thereR....?.?
Lawrence of Arabia had the most iconic quicksand scene, and the driest as well, because usually they feature sandly soil oversoaked with water. I heard a Reddit story about this one guy's strange encounter with it, when he really didn't believe what he was going through....he thought if he just relaxed in his wading boots, he'd hit a solid bottom and then he could paddle his way out, but someone actually had to save him. Kind of like spontaneous human combustion, it's rare, we don't believe it occurs actually, but yet occasionally something happens that makes us doubt everything....
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