Quicksand and the bermuda triangle seemed like the worst problems in the world when you're 6.
@gsdfan8455
3 ай бұрын
Don’t forget about acid rain and the oncoming ice age.
@WhatIsayIsStupid
3 ай бұрын
Consider yourself lucky
@kimberlyhogan3083
3 ай бұрын
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.. 😂
@scottbubb2946
3 ай бұрын
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. 🤣
@notadvertiserfriendly6084
3 ай бұрын
& the fact that the sun will “explode” and destroy the earth billions of years from today
@bigstackD
3 ай бұрын
Well, I must admit when I was a kid, the idea of quicksand scared the absolute life out of me 😮
@AntonioHernandez-rh3wx
3 ай бұрын
Yo! big stack. What up!? History guy huh?
@bigstackD
3 ай бұрын
@@AntonioHernandez-rh3wx only when I get the time 👌🏻
@eyeballroomer
3 ай бұрын
I also thought I would need to Stop, Drop, and Roll way more often.
@maevependragon
3 ай бұрын
Fr. I was terrified of spontaneous combustion!
@tarawright1513
3 ай бұрын
While screaming no to drugs
@terrencehamm4662
3 ай бұрын
This and factories filled with open vats of acid, were valid fears of mine growing up in the 80s
@adamsmall5598
3 ай бұрын
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.
@hectorjinx3433
2 ай бұрын
Yup I remember those days
@razzaus1570
3 ай бұрын
Quicksand, acid rain and whirlpools never got in the way of life like i imagined them as a kid.
@Skate-n6w
Ай бұрын
Show ain't over yet! Stay vigilant cowpoke 🤠
@rakkasaniron1696
3 ай бұрын
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.
@nascarsteve
3 ай бұрын
"When I was a little boy, we had a sandbox made out of quicksand. I was an only child...eventually" Steven Wright.
@davidmitchell6873
3 ай бұрын
It took me a few reads to get that lol.
@WPA33SC
3 ай бұрын
Growing up I thought slipping on a banana peel was going to be a bigger problem than what it has been.
@laurashook85
2 ай бұрын
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
@WPA33SC
2 ай бұрын
@@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.
@cristinaf3844
2 ай бұрын
😂
@truecrimejunki5357
3 ай бұрын
I was terrified of quicksand due to the movie "The never ending story"... Poor horse
@Nipplator99999999999
3 ай бұрын
Yeah, that messed me up for a while.
@Dave-bj3pq
3 ай бұрын
😂
@lovetolovefairytales
3 ай бұрын
The never ending story was my FAVORITE book as a kid. In it, unlike the movie, the horse can TALK.
@N.n.i.k
3 ай бұрын
That scene gave me PTSD
@philip9566
3 ай бұрын
For me it was the Jungle Book… the first live action. Argh… couldn’t forget it in awhile
@theylied1776
3 ай бұрын
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
3 ай бұрын
Fantasy Island. 6 million dollar man. We can go on.
@theylied1776
3 ай бұрын
@@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
@vjc2270
2 ай бұрын
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. 🫣🤣
@jonathanfeldheim6554
3 ай бұрын
Let's not forget that episode of Perfect Strangers where Larry and Balki are in quicksand
@grapeshot
3 ай бұрын
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🥁🥁🥁
@vtmarik
3 ай бұрын
[narrows eyes and clicks the up thumb]
@WhatIsayIsStupid
3 ай бұрын
@@vtmariklol
@rotaman8555
3 ай бұрын
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.
@jasonfedeli
3 ай бұрын
Our good old mud flats
@sherlockbonez
3 ай бұрын
Duck hunting nightmare.
@susanlansdell863
2 ай бұрын
@@rotaman8555 that is terrifying!xx
@1.2.1.0.R.I.O
3 ай бұрын
Nice. He's back. Saving
@Kati-did
3 ай бұрын
Definitely thought quick sand was gonna be a big issue growing up.
@Dave-bj3pq
3 ай бұрын
😂
@maevependragon
3 ай бұрын
And the Bermuda Triangle..
@Kati-did
3 ай бұрын
@@maevependragon Yes! I doubt I would ever go near there!
@jimmym3352
3 ай бұрын
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.
@lindacoolbaugh962
3 ай бұрын
So glad you showed a picture of Blazing Saddles. That scene is hysterical!!
@markfigueroa1681
3 ай бұрын
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.
@fashiondiva6972
3 ай бұрын
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
@MajorJakas
3 ай бұрын
I'm here for the content. So many KZitemrs have a gravely voice these days, I can't stand it.
@MajorJakas
3 ай бұрын
This channel started with a different narrator, and I've been here nearly the whole time.
@mikearisbrocken8507
3 ай бұрын
As someone who's here for the content: the voice is great and appreciated, but I still watched with the other narrator.
@MomentsInTrading
3 ай бұрын
“Dang near lost a $400 hand cart!”
@bamacopeland4372
2 ай бұрын
That is one of my favorite lines from the movie.
@NewMessage
3 ай бұрын
"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.)
@trevander1able
3 ай бұрын
I was definitely scared of quicksand when I was a kid in the 80's!!!
@peterinbrat
3 ай бұрын
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.
@Chris_0803
3 ай бұрын
Growing up, i thought there was a 40% chance i'd be killed by quicksand or killer bees
@Horhne
3 ай бұрын
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!!!
@MegaDanianna
3 ай бұрын
I'm sorry to hear that. I had a mother like this too. I'm glad you got out that quicksand safely though.
@HansBezemer
3 ай бұрын
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.
@mynameishuman4582
3 ай бұрын
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.
@HansBezemer
3 ай бұрын
@@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).
@brnfn4
6 күн бұрын
what if it was both of your legs up to the hip? Is it still just an inconvenience?
@HansBezemer
6 күн бұрын
@@brnfn4 Without proper footing it wouldn't have felt okay. Especially since the place was deserted.
@maedeandeaniewingertparkin3194
3 ай бұрын
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.
@Rick_King
3 ай бұрын
I've seen Blazing Saddles, and I know how dangerous quicksand can be! "Dang near lost a $400 handcart!"
@patf1288
3 ай бұрын
Can we bring back the graveyard shift channel please? It was so good why did yall stop it? 😢
@MyChemRomance
3 ай бұрын
C'mon now. We all know the reason we were terrified...BECAUSE OF WATCHING ARTAX! 😂
@wirelessdirk
3 ай бұрын
Ah the narrator is back.
@nealdavis9259
3 ай бұрын
I’ve seen mythBusters bust myths I’ve seen to actually be true.
@BainesMkII
3 ай бұрын
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.
@tremorsfan
3 ай бұрын
It's not as bad as lava. The floor is made of that stuff.
@RonnieGreher
3 ай бұрын
The ONLY narrator for this channel! Stop with the others. They’re lame
@jonathanhall1825
3 ай бұрын
So very glad this great narrator is back!!!😊
@NoMoreHandlesAvailable.
3 ай бұрын
You’re the best narrator.
@WeChallenge
3 ай бұрын
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.
@aproxamillionwasps474
3 ай бұрын
My guy. Please learn how to use commas 🫡
@whispersignal1
3 ай бұрын
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.
@DS-re4vs
3 ай бұрын
OMG I came here for this comment! I saw it in the 70’s (on rerun) when I was a kid.
@whispersignal1
3 ай бұрын
@DS-re4vs Hahaha remember how soupy it was? Like, mostly water!🤣
@daraf5489
3 ай бұрын
Love that Colin Baker made it into the clips 💙
@Kimberly-xi5fc
3 ай бұрын
Loved when John Mulaney brought this up.
@brj_han
3 ай бұрын
Tarzan movies, I think. (The Johnny Weissmuller ones.) Then too, Frankenstein, The Mummy and other horror movies scarred me for life as well...
@jchiliw
3 ай бұрын
Tarzan was my first thought.
@shelleywalker6225
3 ай бұрын
@brj_han, Tarzan was my first thought also. I can't believe that was not mentioned.
@robintauber9994
3 ай бұрын
I view the quicksand phenomena as similar to the LaBrea Tar Pit....which is close to Hollywood
@DaFactsNoNonsense1713
3 ай бұрын
Quicksand IS NOT fake
@brianrowan3584
3 ай бұрын
Lol, Mythbusters doesn't know shit about quicksand.
@jasondashney
3 ай бұрын
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..
@justmejenny7986
3 ай бұрын
A lady just fell into quicksand walking on the beach. Then there's sinkholes. Both terrify me.
@growingmelancholy8374
3 ай бұрын
This video was put together by the quicksand lobby. Don't believe it. Quicksand is everywhere!
@albertchehade9916
3 ай бұрын
I don't know why they call it 'quick'-sand.....it works so slowly, a long drawn out process....that's not quick
@TakabIghe
3 ай бұрын
For me it was the jungle book (1994) there’s some death scenes involving quicksand that always made me nervous about ever encountering it 😅
@jenessawade4325
3 ай бұрын
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
@ravensshadow2179
3 ай бұрын
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)
@BlackyK
3 ай бұрын
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!
@orenmontgomery8250
3 ай бұрын
Answer: 'The Neverending Story' and 'The Princess Bride.' Done.
@elibeth06
3 ай бұрын
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 😅
@markedis5902
3 ай бұрын
So it’s true ! This channel is totally aimed at people born between 1965 and 1975. I love being Generation X
@rebeccataylor2049
3 ай бұрын
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!
@thejudgmentalcat
3 ай бұрын
Rodents of unusual size still scare me, thanks Princess Bride 😂
@1TakoyakiStore
3 ай бұрын
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.
@fightinginflipflops7731
3 ай бұрын
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.
@1TakoyakiStore
3 ай бұрын
@@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.
@fightinginflipflops7731
3 ай бұрын
@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.
@paahl1572
3 ай бұрын
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
@ItsJoKeZ
3 ай бұрын
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.
@mikelundquist4596
3 ай бұрын
If I were to inherit a ton of money, I'd build a modern castle with a quicksand moat.
@FranciDelossantos
3 ай бұрын
So the old guy came back ❤
@abxorb
3 ай бұрын
The fact you had to give a short explanation as to what _Mythbusters_ was, made me feel so, so old. 😂 💀
@cattibingo
3 ай бұрын
Sounds like something quicksand would say
@y_fam_goeglyd
3 ай бұрын
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!
@theresemalmberg955
3 ай бұрын
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.
@Will-ll4gv
3 ай бұрын
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.
@toby099
3 ай бұрын
The 80’s was a weird time
@pheona1164
3 ай бұрын
I always wondered if I would find water a couple inches under the sand. Sand was scary.
@jbills3000
3 ай бұрын
haha! Yes! I was very afraid of quicksand when I was little.
@trinomial-nomenclature
3 ай бұрын
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.
@danidavis7912
3 ай бұрын
The quicksand scene from Blazing Saddles was the best!
@Xzor
3 ай бұрын
I blame "Never Ending Story".
@roberthiltz2741
3 ай бұрын
Talk about childhood trauma- all of those pics of Artax honestly made me a little wispy
@davidlist7507
3 ай бұрын
I am 67 and have been all over the U.S. and other countries and have never even seen quicksand anywhere.
@jennyvillarreal5490
3 ай бұрын
ROUS do exist n Portland, Oregon. They’re called nutria and they’re the size of a beaver but with a rat tail.
@ArcherSuh4721
3 ай бұрын
Holy crap! Those things are REAL?!? I once heard of them and always thought they were like chupacabras...
@btetschner
3 ай бұрын
This video reminds me of the YT video "80s Childhood Fears" by Holderness Family Laughs Very funny and thought-provoking video!
@philipchurch8772
3 ай бұрын
My first death dream at around 5 years old was quick sand. It was from movies.
@Dave-bj3pq
3 ай бұрын
😂 , what bs
@philipchurch8772
3 ай бұрын
@@Dave-bj3pq 🧐
@COBO2
3 ай бұрын
The narrator is back.
@travisr6843
3 ай бұрын
Notice how when trolls complain about the narrator not being o.g. in comments they post one with him quick 😂❤
@jasondashney
3 ай бұрын
People who have an opinion are trolls? Explain.
@yurdp
3 ай бұрын
That’s all good, but what about tar pits???
@BertLancaster-wl5mq
3 ай бұрын
Blazing Saddles
@MrFlintlock7
3 ай бұрын
"The sheriff is near!"
@leonardticsay8046
3 ай бұрын
@@MrFlintlock7the sheriff is a ni-*bong*
@BertLancaster-wl5mq
3 ай бұрын
@@MrFlintlock7 😂😂😂😂😂
@BertLancaster-wl5mq
3 ай бұрын
@@MrFlintlock7 my foot’s on the rail!!
@MrFlintlock7
3 ай бұрын
@@BertLancaster-wl5mq "Tell them I said: Owwww!"
@coolgirl312
Ай бұрын
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).
@moonbeammama22
3 ай бұрын
My great great grandfather died in quicksand while serving in the Austria Hungry calvary. He was on his horse ...as per great grandma.
@TheAnimeMangaClub2121
3 ай бұрын
I can tell you why I’m afraid, The Never ending Story. Enough said
@Dave-bj3pq
3 ай бұрын
😂
@ridureyu
3 ай бұрын
Adventure movies, especially Tarzan movies from the 30s, 40s, and 50s used it as a stock obstacle, too.
@triadmad
Ай бұрын
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.
@SwampyColorado420
3 ай бұрын
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.
@RidingwithStymie
3 ай бұрын
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.
@btetschner
3 ай бұрын
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
@creepycraiyons3519
3 ай бұрын
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.
@mrs.g.9816
3 ай бұрын
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!"
@martinbones681
2 ай бұрын
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....?.?
@f1guremeout
3 ай бұрын
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.
@intheshell35ify
3 ай бұрын
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.
@nazfan01
3 ай бұрын
The movie Blazing Saddle comes to mind. They almost lost a #400 caet in that quicksand
@Pikaroth
3 ай бұрын
As a child up through mid-teens in the 80s, everything was quicksand and amnesia.
@tomorrowhowever7488
3 ай бұрын
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!
@treboris
2 ай бұрын
Before watching. Quicksand is 100% real. I've been stuck in it before. It's more like mud than sand though.
@WAFFENAMT1
3 ай бұрын
I think female thong Bikini Jello & Mud Wrestling was a thing in the 1980's....Yes I miss this Decade...
@dalriadajohannsen
3 ай бұрын
Growing up in the 80s, quicksand was on tv A LOT. Lol I thought it would be a real world problem, along with spontaneous human combustion.
@autonomouspublishingincorp8241
3 ай бұрын
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.
@adamcolbertmusic
2 ай бұрын
You forgot to mention video games! Super Mario Bros 3 put the fear of quicksand into me.
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