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@rngwrldngnr

4 жыл бұрын

You might want to put a comment in the description describing when this was filmed, as I'd imagine there wilould be a lot of people asking in the comments, re:quarantine.

@JacobGeller

4 жыл бұрын

@@rngwrldngnr cavers actually kinda keep quiet about these sorts of things, so I'll just say to look into your local speleological society, especially in NC or Virginia!

@beardbeardedbeardsbeardedh9374

4 жыл бұрын

I'm surpised you didn't talked about the game Below, it's would've fit perfectly in this video. If you don't know the game, I sugest you check it out and play it, it's a fantastic game and right up your alley, it feels very claustrophobic and atmospheric, also the music is absolutely stunning. (If you do play it, I would advice not watching any trailers for it, I played the game without knowing anything on it and I really think it made my experience that much more enjoyable and intense).

@IDaiszy

4 жыл бұрын

I just found your videos like a month ago and this channel is legit art keep it up

@turkeyhamman4111

4 жыл бұрын

I thought you would mention that junji ito story

1 minute in - Ah fuck he's talkin about the cave 4 minutes in - AH FUCK he's IN the CAVE.

@paulagodebrito

3 жыл бұрын

HAHAHA YEAH I HAD THE SAME REACTION. I was like "oh yeah that's scary- wait hold up he WAS THERE?"

@bluebaconjake405

2 жыл бұрын

i was like. "woah... he sounds like he's in the stock foota- WAIT HE'S IN THERE?"

@montlejohnbojangles8937

2 жыл бұрын

Fuck that's a mood and a half

@pissapocalypse

2 жыл бұрын

@@montlejohnbojangles8937 two whole moods

@wolfywlf3983

2 жыл бұрын

10 minutes in - *AH FUCK HE IS THE CAVE*

The Void does not call me. It says "stay the hell out" And I say "you got it, Void"

@TheSlammurai

3 жыл бұрын

The Void and I have a gentleman's agreement.

@CrescentUmbreon

3 жыл бұрын

Can't relate, but I'm glad someone out there has some sense!

@WaldoBagelTopper

3 жыл бұрын

"You want me to close the door on my way out Void?"

@marioconte6223

3 жыл бұрын

Based

@jenniferskweter

3 жыл бұрын

this made me laugh

hey massive shout-out to jacob geller for covering the Floyd Collins event while citing each of his sources clearly and not restating any of the content word for word or anything like that. would that be a weird thing to do or what

@haemilee8875

5 ай бұрын

after that video came out I started looking back into all my favorite video essayists and thank fucking god they actually have integrity and something actually profound to say instead of clout chasing

@awildsylveon9896

5 ай бұрын

So it IS possible to recount the same historical event using different words and framing?!

@Charlie-ik3wv

4 ай бұрын

​@@haemilee8875 wait fill me in here what happened?

@scj6693

4 ай бұрын

IH would have been fine (or at least slightly better off) if he just… cited his main source and said he wanted to bring it to a new medium. asking for permission would have been even better. but to just pass it off as his own is so disappointing and disrespectful

@MasDouc

4 ай бұрын

Yeah really lost a lot of respect for internet Historian after that. When I first watched it I thought it was a work of art and considered it it to be one of the greatest KZread videos ever made... Now it's just completely tainted after reading the original Mental Floss article. I've never seen a more clear cut case of obvious plagiarism.

When you revealed that Collin’s cave was Mammoth caves, my jaw dropped. I’ve been there before and I had NO IDEA that’s how that cave started out. Really creepy that an origin story like that can just be missed so easily in the modern age.

@versesZero

Жыл бұрын

I just took a trip to Mammoth cave a few weeks ago and came back to watch this video again. On our way out we spotted a 'Sand cave trail' and pulled off the road to check it out. It did indeed lead to the infamous entrance shown in those old photos, with some information about Floyd Collins and the rescue attempt along the path. There was no easy way to get down to poke around and see the full entrance from the trail, but I guess that's for good reason. A testament to the theme of the video that my first thought was "Ooh how can I get down there and how far into the cave can I get?"

@haoxinlinying5278

Жыл бұрын

Internet historian just made a video about it

@versesZero

Жыл бұрын

@@haoxinlinying5278 His video was good too. The bit at the end about the journey his remains took was wild.

@Fatvod

Жыл бұрын

Mammoth cave is a system of caves across a wide area. Sand cave isn't specifically the exact same cave.

@arrow_awsome

7 ай бұрын

right?! my parents took me there as a kid. would not have expected it to have started as a place someone died; but i guess it does make sence

The only thing I can think of that is scarier than cave diving is underwater cave diving

@briannawarren4174

4 жыл бұрын

I remember getting lost in a cave while playing subnautica, I freaked out so hard when my character started running out of air. I was perfectly safe in my home playing on my computer, but I felt like I was the one running out of oxygen

@yegor2

4 жыл бұрын

fighting Pablo Eskobear, AKA the cocaine bear would be the scariest thing i could think of

@jameslangbein1471

4 жыл бұрын

@@briannawarren4174 Yes! I love that game, gives you chills. I've freaked out like that exactly the same.

@Riflery

4 жыл бұрын

Or underwater cave diving in a confined space, in space, at night, upside down, backwards, inside out, while drunk, deaf, mute, and gay. *Shivers* Terrifying.

@arcticsaxifrage1000

4 жыл бұрын

Riflery I breach the depths. There is no up from here - though every part of me is screaming for fresh air, I’m trapped. I can only go forward. I have nothing but hope. I close my eyes for just a moment, and the sudden loss of sight is like nothing else. I look around, frantically, and suddenly I can’t focus. Girl in Red’s ‘Girls’ echoes in my head.

"Why does this cave seem...made for me" yeah nah i read this manga before i'm outta here

@nemo9864

4 жыл бұрын

What manga, may I ask? I really want to scar my mind.

@michaelhessel8086

4 жыл бұрын

@@nemo9864 "The Enigma of Amigara Fault" by Junji Ito

@hawk_zero6531

4 жыл бұрын

It triggered my bloody PTSD

@thesaviorofsouls5210

4 жыл бұрын

@@nemo9864 the enigma of amigara fault i think ^^ enjoy! Oh someone else beat me to it, my bad.

@001Brunix

4 жыл бұрын

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I can’t stop revisiting this ‘Fear of-‘ miniseries. I seriously hope more are to come.

@fayhay8011

7 ай бұрын

I hope there will be "Fear of heat"

@joet7458

29 күн бұрын

I hope that one day Jacob will give his fans what we really need; “Fear of Going Outside”

This and fear of cold are like epic, viscerally frightening poems to me. It's been years but I find myself coming back over and over to feel all of these threads of sories weave into this beautiful, horrifying, heavy blanket of a video. There isn't another channel on youtube like Jacob's. Incredible stuff.

@Julio_Gomes

Жыл бұрын

Truly a great story teller. You just get immersed in anything he's talking about. If he made a 50 minute video called "fear of cup noodles" I'd watch the shit out of it. And 2 million other people would too.

@MyChannel773

Жыл бұрын

i recommend some of wendigoon’s videos if you like this style!! imo he’s pretty similar, he also has a really great way of telling stories

@Julio_Gomes

Жыл бұрын

@@MyChannel773 nice recommendation dude, never heard of that guy before and seems like something I'd like. Gotta love a good fanbase.

@Fresh_yams

11 ай бұрын

there are no other creators quite like him, I found him with fear of cold and was captivated right away

@Hysterii

10 ай бұрын

Also Fear of Big Things Underwater, gives me the chills in an existential, poetic way

"Why would this corridor be EXACTLY this size?" -Tiny ants crawling under your door in summertime

@14zachay14

3 жыл бұрын

I am become Cave! beckoner of the Lost. Keeper of the found.

@woulfhound

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly! So much of *staring into the void* is really just a combination of irrational fear, paranoia, panic attacks and just reading too much into places and things that you really don't know shit about. Sure, there are _real_ psychological components to perceiving a void such as outer space or the ocean as well as dark spaces such as caves and tunnels, and there definitely is a correlation to the reptilian brain, but beyond that it's mostly self-induced phobias. Scientifically speaking on the other hand, is there more to a void or a cave than meets the eye? Absolutely. Does that mean that you have to watch out for evil spirits or sleeping eldritch gods? Not unless you can tell the difference between the ones that were discovered using the scientific method and the ones in your own run-away imagination.

@woulfhound

3 жыл бұрын

@@cyber774 If it is then this is why its funny...

@MoeMoon

3 жыл бұрын

Having flashbacks to Amigari Fault. 😓

@cmen6895

3 жыл бұрын

Wolf Hound Yo. Who the fuck are you tryna educate?

even just exploring caves in Minecraft is scary enough for me

@Hijiri04

3 жыл бұрын

Cave noises

@Crylorz

3 жыл бұрын

the panic when you hear a creeper is about to blow up behind you.

@bigdaddy1695

3 жыл бұрын

Play the forest that will put hair on your balls 😂

@sombrs44

3 жыл бұрын

I straight up refuse to go caving in minecraft. Freaks me out

@bigdaddy1695

3 жыл бұрын

It’s a kids game Minecraft ☺️ the forest is something else creepy as crap😟😟

The thing about caves swallowing sounds is the scary part to me. I went on a lantern tour in a cave about a week ago. Me and my party's only source of light was a candlelit tin can. I couldn't see 5 feet ahead of me. At one point, I was in a narrow passage, and my party got ahead of me. They were only about 15 feet away, but I felt like I was completely alone and had lost everyone.

This reminds me of Junji Ito's short story "The Enigma of Amigara Fault". It is a manga story about a cave with holes that specifically fit those that are called to it, and as you keep moving down your personalized hole, it shapes you into something completely grotesque, without any hope of escape. It is one of my favorite Junji Ito stories and fits the themes of this video. Go give it a read!

@friday3592

Жыл бұрын

exactly my thought too, especially at around 10:48 I was like NOO that's how amigara fault gets you!!

@debjeetbanerjee9027

Жыл бұрын

EXACT-FUCKING-LY

@ChaseFace

Жыл бұрын

Overrated, most people just know that one. Long Dream is better.

@MaticTheProto

Жыл бұрын

„This is my hole, it was made for me!“

@keltzar1

10 ай бұрын

Jacob shows an image of that in the video.

I once went on a small cave tour on my island, at one point our guide told us all to shut off our lights and remain silent. He then said, "Humans were not meant to be here."

@James11111

2 жыл бұрын

"Then why the fuck did you bring us here???"

@shadeabout

2 жыл бұрын

what happened after that?

@Joaosantos22114

2 жыл бұрын

@@shadeabout nothing lol, we just lit our flashlights again

@connorp3764

2 жыл бұрын

I remember long ago going with my old scout troop to a caving place, and at one point there was this part that was essentially a big uphill circle around this huge stone. But we were told to shut our lights off and try to navigate in a line around the rock. But some bastard kept on turning their light on so the effect was ruined.

@gadielgonzalez2755

2 жыл бұрын

Ok that sounds like a good creepypasta intro.

"A man in central kentuky is stuck in a cave!" "HEY!!"

@Brain-washed2

4 жыл бұрын

Wurm LOL

@Thomasscnz

4 жыл бұрын

BUILD THE NEW RESCUE TUNNEL !

@alessandromangaXD

4 жыл бұрын

HEY he fucking dead lmao :(

@andrewmiller8456

4 жыл бұрын

And off to the rescue!

@helper_bot

4 жыл бұрын

this is bad but i absolutely love it

the magnus archives hits hard with the concept of the vast. that if we look hard enough, the sky, the ocean, the caves and the forests are all too large to comprehend. nothing is small enough for us.

@not_them

Жыл бұрын

The Lost Johns Cave episode is phenomenal too, I love how they explore fear

@elimaloney2025

Жыл бұрын

@@not_them still think that's one of the scariest episodes

@aspen8544

Ай бұрын

I feel this video is more The Buried, especially when talking about caves specifically. Kentucky route zero especially seems like a game made entirely about The Buried, especially with the characters fear of debt as well.

@elimaloney2025

Ай бұрын

@@aspen8544 thats fair. i felt the kind of claustrophobic feeling, but also the weird blankness of the vast. kinda like how the daedalus was a combination of vast/dark/lonely?

10:01 I wanna mention something that I haven't seen many people talk about and something that's always unnerved me about this video. Look at the shape of the way to the dream, it looks so much like it was made for someone, with room for their head and shoulders, I'm supprised it isn't mentioned much. It sticks in my head, that specific image, and no one I talk to seems to understand what I'm saying about it

@den93050

Жыл бұрын

I get it. Gotta wonder how erosion caused that exact shape.

@awanderer3047

Жыл бұрын

Another one that struck me like that was the background footage where the group was walking through the cave and the rocks sticking out of the walls 10:50 seemed just spaced out enough to let a human walk through without trouble

@fyrebirdd

Жыл бұрын

i saw that picture and instantly said “oh god that gives me junji ito vibes” only for him to put that very same manga on screen

@noahatlas5240

Жыл бұрын

Jesus Christ. Read this and went to the time stamp. Chills EVERYWHERE

@gothtechsupport2337

Жыл бұрын

noticed that too and it made my stomach drop

"This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... " The long-term nuclear waste warning message is actual poetry.

@dolores111

2 жыл бұрын

One of humanities most revolutionizing ahcivments must be kept hidden and dishonored

@SteveChisnall

2 жыл бұрын

I think one thing we could do that would be the best way to underscore the seriousness of the danger posed by radioactive waste, and to make it clear to would-be intruders that they need to stay away is to end the warning with, the message, "Please forgive us. We're sorry."

@galacticupfan7386

2 жыл бұрын

@@SteveChisnall as terrible as it is to consider, it must be said that that is a lie. If we truly were, there would be no plant in New Mexico. Humanity’s greatest sin is too valuable to relinquish.

@casacara

2 жыл бұрын

@@SteveChisnall the most painful part is knowing that more advanced reactor design can make waste far less dangerous and squeeze more power out, but we keep just piling up waste cuz' it's cheaper.

@wojciechniemirski1782

2 жыл бұрын

I personally hate this "message". It's so needlessly convoluted, hard to grasp even with knowing the language - it's the opposite of what eternal message should be. The one Jacob presented in the video is not as bad, but still I feel it should be just "DANGER" or "DEATH" and universal symbols associated with it - propably the best would be the image of human skull. Also I think "hostile architecture" around the place just draws needless attention and it seems more like people of the past were trying to scare us off to protect their treasure, not convey actually true message.

When you stand at the cliff's edge, staring into the chasm below, the most horrifying realization is not that you might slip, but that you could leap.

@numbdigger9552

3 жыл бұрын

We truly are a strange species...

@cowboysandallthegoodstuff3713

3 жыл бұрын

This is such a wonderful sentence, it's so inspiring and haunting. Thank you!

@snowmanapocalypse497

3 жыл бұрын

That gives me chills

@operatorchaos6931

3 жыл бұрын

Truee

@bradley2349

3 жыл бұрын

Brain Confusion, most likely. It's such a dangerous place to be in - the equivalent of just walking up to a grizzly bear. Your brain knows this isn't safe, but feels like you're clearly ok with the situation, so maybe you should just jump, even if it seems dangerous.

Watching "made in abyss" gives me a similar feeling of wanting to know what's at the bottom of the depths. Despite knowing there's no easy way back up, and that each level of the abyss lies beings that could kill you if you make one wrong step, there's still the desire to know whats at the bottom despite the dangers

@justarandomperson4296

Жыл бұрын

such a good anime

@yassersolaiman2313

9 ай бұрын

Yooo am a made in abyss fan too

@kneegoblin4352

7 ай бұрын

greetings fellow made in abyss enjoyer 🗿🍷

@drouseyman

7 ай бұрын

yoooo made in abyss enjoyers in the comments i love made in abyss favorite manga/anime of all time personally

@SeptimusTSS

Ай бұрын

its an absolute travesty that the author increasingly started using his manga to explore his sick poop/CP/amputee fetishes, making it absolutely unreadable at the end. I agree though, the abyss concept is amazing.

The warning for the WIPP is genuinely terrifying. It sent a shiver down my spine.

This guy sounds like he writes A++ essays

@malink2658

3 жыл бұрын

Can’t say the same

@ScabbyCrab

3 жыл бұрын

I dunno man I think he sounds like he thinks he writes A++ essays.

@esmeraldagarcia1583

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@louisb.6149

3 жыл бұрын

Your voice is the most important tool you have in life, honestly. Learn to use it, to convey what you need, or to help people. Never neglect your vocabulary, and it will carry you anywhere. Or write dank papers

@breadbeard9728

3 жыл бұрын

Trust me, if you’re writing an academic paper, sadly, most English teachers don’t appreciate feelings or personality

Jacob is one of the most terrified men on the planet and is shouting for everyone to be as frightened as he is. His fear is infectious and fascinating

@dazza2350

3 жыл бұрын

Most terrified is a stretch

@superbuneary8819

3 жыл бұрын

@@dazza2350 actually pretty accurate. hes decribing all this things in some sort of horror esque type of way when in reality its just nature and its pretty cool and (rationally) dangerous but its the thrill of it. he makes it supernatural when it isnt and it can be annoying but i guess thats what his content is about.

@morganrobinson8042

2 жыл бұрын

So like a non-racist Lovecraft. There are worse places to be standing, really.

@keithsimonh

2 жыл бұрын

@@superbuneary8819 as a GM, I'm terribly jealous of his talent/skill

@furrycircuitry2378

2 жыл бұрын

@@keithsimonh his combinations of words and tone are literally the best I've ever heard he can paint multiple different pictures even if he uses the same words

Coming here after the H. Bomberguy about plagiarism. So glad to see the Collins story is sourced to MentalFloss 🤗🤗

@jamessmells123

5 ай бұрын

And now I’m once again re-absorbed into one of Jacob’s videos…

@tovarishcheleonora8542

3 ай бұрын

This is just a random youtube video. Not a scientific research paper publication, so no one cares about "plagiarism" also there will be more than one people covering the same topic so calling a video "plagiarism" is just stupid.

@logicalnonsense0058

3 ай бұрын

​@tovarishcheleonora8542 you can plagiarize outside of academia dumbass. copying shit and not giving the creator credit is bad even disregarding the fact that you're essentially stealing money from them

@maxwellwhite5762

3 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@tovarishcheleonora8542plagiarism exists outside of scientific research and papers… You aren’t informed enough to be commenting. The ignorance on display in your comment is genuinely hilarious.

@maxwellwhite5762

3 ай бұрын

@@tovarishcheleonora8542of course you have an anime profile picture LOL

i really like how you added hollow night into this video even if it was only for a single second the feel of the game is just like a big open cave. one the creepyist things i know

@thebighurt2495

Жыл бұрын

It *is* a big, open cave.

@somedragonbastard

Ай бұрын

Except for deepnest, which is mostly a rather cramped cave

Could y'all imagine being grouped with Jacob in this expedition while he records himself saying all this shit...

@RodIII1000

4 жыл бұрын

(Jacob accidentally begins to read lines intended for his Bloodborn review at the bottom of the cavern... grizzled splunkers slowly back away.)

@zenrelaxation9940

4 жыл бұрын

I’d shit myself

@marisseandgale5365

4 жыл бұрын

I honestly might just get annoyed by the fact that a guy wouldn't shut up about a damn cave. I'll leave.

@mexa_t6534

4 жыл бұрын

Honestly that would have been fun

@argelisplanchart9438

4 жыл бұрын

I honestly would smack him right in the face.

This guy permanently tries to teach us true horror, the scary without a scare, the thrill that comes only if there is no thriller.

@ChuckyMarks

4 жыл бұрын

His videos like this are my favorites.

@turbofoams

3 жыл бұрын

well put!

@DieReweEmskirchen

3 жыл бұрын

There's a great book by Mark Fisher about these weird and eerie forms of horror in which he talks about Lovecraft, the Strugatzkis and others called The Weird and the eerie, it's definitely worth a read

@ThatReplyGuy

3 жыл бұрын

I got the same sort of vibes from Marble Hornets, SCPs, and The Russian Sleeper Experiments.

@robokill387

3 жыл бұрын

@@ThatReplyGuy The russian sleep experiment creepypasta is so cheesy and impossible to take seriously, it's hilarious.

Who else coming back after The internet historian cave vid?

Seems the right time to rewatch this video

This video is like VSauce, but for afraid people.

@umangmalik

4 жыл бұрын

That's the whole channel

@ElijahShawn

4 жыл бұрын

@@umangmalik I don't know, I usually view it as VSauce but for hyper-analytical artsy types, but I guess that is covered by the umbrella of "afraid people."

@lmao.3661

4 жыл бұрын

No I’m just heavily interested in things that cause unhealthy levels of anxiety and dread

@frostynoms5517

4 жыл бұрын

VSauce, but for Magnus Archives fans. Lost Johns' Cave, anyone?

@1SweetPete

4 жыл бұрын

​@@frostynoms5517 I didn't need to know what that was right before sleeping TT___TT

"Bro it's easy not to get stuck in a cave just break the stone with your fist and put the torches on one side of the wall."

@UhKimboze

3 жыл бұрын

No replies to this comment, I'll be the first.

@megumiseyelashes6706

3 жыл бұрын

I'll be second

@bill8383

2 жыл бұрын

I will also.. comment

@sleepycoffinraido8169

2 жыл бұрын

me to

@nick12_29

2 жыл бұрын

I'll drop one as well...

I don't know why but that last song really struck a chord with me. I cannot find words to say how melancholy it sounded. It just felt so... sad. And ever so relevant to the topic of the video.

@jacoblynam923

5 ай бұрын

:)

@jimmybean420

2 ай бұрын

that's most of kentucky route zero's ost. recommend listening to it. so good.

First of all, I really just want to talk about media and content like this. The production quality, the research, the analysis, and the smithing of words in a string that truly touched some deep part of me, all of it, was fantastic. I never know if it is the chills that I feel when I watch something like this. My body seems lighter, but I feel more aware of every bone and muscle that makes up who I am. I can hardly critique anything because in the face of something like this I feel like I am surrendering myself to the journey. That the person who made this media, whether book, video, or movie, knows more about the subject matter and I could not possibly hope to contest their delivery in any meaningful way. I don't often feel that but I love when it happens, I don't feel afraid anymore, I'm just giddy, with excitement, anxiously holding on to my seat as I plunge into the depths that they are so fervently talking about. Secondly, speaking about the depths themselves and those tight, narrow, passageways has such an intense fear for me. I am by no means claustrophobic. But when I imagine myself trapped like Collins was, I can hardly breathe. I can see the darkness, the empty void, I can feel the desperation, the heavy breathing, I can sense the rage, the inability of anyone to save him, but more than that I feel terrified that it was all my fault. That it was me, knowingly, who fell into this trap laid out by the Earth. Almost as if some sadistic siren has entranced me into following her down into the waters, and now as I tried desperately to swim back to the lifeboat, she was holding on to me, unwilling to let go. I've felt this feeling before, and it was when I played Bloodborne. This amazing Fromsoftware game is a brother to the Dark Souls series. There are numerous sections where we explore dark dense castle superstructures, but also times where we go deeper and deeper into caves. The depths, the pull of the darkness, and the eventual greeting of an eldritch horror at the end. It resonates with me and I can't help but be enamored by it. Thirdly, something that stuck with me that Jacob discussed in the video was the burying of radioactive waste. Deep so many thousands of feet below the ground, with jagged structures that warned of what was contained within, and writing that told of the horrors that we conjured. It reminds me of a very popular trope in video games, perhaps it is popular in books as well - you would be able to tell me if it is since you read way more than me - but the trope is of the lost civilization and the secrets they buried deep underground. They set up traps and so many obstacles in your way to dissuade you. They are screaming, begging, pleading, please don't come any forward. This is not where we left our power, this is where we left our demise. This is where we died. And yet, almost unflinchingly, not dissuaded at all, we rush forward. And overcome every single challenge. And at the apex of the discovery, we usually even in those games find out demise. I remember the Assassins Creed games were one of the first that introduced me to these types of stories, and as a teenager, I was so utterly engulfed in them. I desperately wanted to know more, about the civilization that never was, their wisdom, and their demise. Ultimately, I shudder to think of a time when hundreds of thousands of years later. Strange alien future civilizations will find the remains of us. You and me, and the waste of our civilizations and the power we once wielded. They will not be deterred and will go deeper and into more dark places. The same ones we locked our mistakes behind. And they will find, the horrors we could not defeat. I wonder if they'll be stronger than us, or if we'll be the downfall of a people that breathe so long into the future.

@aisha3517

Жыл бұрын

I genuinely hope you’re a writer otherwise seeing this gem in a KZread comment sections feels like getting to see a glimpse of someone potential and then watching them let it go to waste, I usually pirate for all pieces of entertainment but I would be willing to pay for any piece of literature you’d put out. not everyone can write like this.

@ebrahimnaeem757

Жыл бұрын

@@aisha3517, This is such a massive compliment. Thank you very much for saying this to me. I, unfortunately, am not a writer, but I am tremendously grateful for you saying this. Honestly, these were just thoughts that were evoked by Jacob's spectacular video. So he's the real writer here.

@555diggs

11 ай бұрын

“I can hardly critique anything because in the face of something like this I feel like I am surrendering myself to the journey.” You’ve written such a beautiful statement that it made me reread this sentence multiple times. Love this response

@Vulpilux

3 ай бұрын

I know this comment is a year old, but I just wanted to say that, personally, I do not fear for the alien civilizations - from other planets - that may find our remains and this waste, they will have figured out space travel. I fear for the ones that come after us, from earth, wether they be humans, insect people or octopeds or whatever because in a way they are also our descendants, as they will receive our legacy, our planet, how we left it and all the dangers that come with it.

In Texas, in the late fifties, the was company, having a company picnic. While just standing around, a guy fell in well, or mine air shaft. My grand father, who told me this, didn't know, it was just a deep hole in the ground. The guy just fell in, and they could hear saying, "I'm okay. I'm just stuck." The hole was wider at the top, but narrored down. The guy was just snugged up tight in the hole. The guy's family was there, and his brother where the first to go down the hole. The problem was, the hole was to small. You couldn't go down feet first, because it was just wide enough for a person to go down, but not turn around. Worst, a person had to go down head first, with the wall touching the sides of the hole. Everytime a person went down, dirt and junk fell, buring the man deeper. His brothers went down, but it was so frightening, that they paniced, and were dragged out screaming. The was a local military base near, and the town asked for help. Many military personal showed up, but going head down a collasping hole in the ground was to much everyone. There was one British soldier there with a bunch of other people from Britian. One small British man said, "I've been coal mining since I was fourteen, I don't mind tight spaces. They tied the guys feet to the rope, and sent him down with two buckets. While the guy stuck in the hole, was digging himself out, the coal miner was going up, and down with the a bucket. The trips, up and down, at frist, seem to make to much stuff fall down the hole, and they were slowly buring the guy alive. The ended up going slower. Working together, the stuck man, and the coal miner, got free. My grand father said, it never even made the paper, but the courage it took, to go down that hole, was heroic. My grand father said, "No one cheers you on, when you do the right thing. They don't even remember."

@lileijon3452

3 жыл бұрын

that seems terrifying...

@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan

3 жыл бұрын

You remembered though

@cocksukinmobile5756

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry nigga I am too claustrophobic to even continue reading after maybe 10 percent but rest in peace in advance ✋✋

@krustenkaese3905

3 жыл бұрын

Cocksukin Mobile the story has a happy ending if that helps :P

@BChan1991

3 жыл бұрын

@@cocksukinmobile5756 nigga? Really?

If Jacob is going to a cave for his cave essay then I challenge him to write an essay about Mars

@slimykit3816

4 жыл бұрын

Jacob should make a video of the endless limited space and talk about No Mans Sky

@AnonymousYoutuber69

4 жыл бұрын

I challenge him to write an essay about Fort Knox and then one about carrying heavy metal bars to my house.

@pip4708

4 жыл бұрын

he kinda already did. I don't remember the name but the game was outer wilds

@robertinogochev3682

3 жыл бұрын

I challenge him to write one about Uranus.

@malaizze

3 жыл бұрын

@@robertinogochev3682 I mean have you SEEN him? I'd welcome it

I grew up with my father and brother, my father owns an old gold and silver mine. He used to take us there every weekend. At first, I was scared shitless, he used to prank us by switching off every light, and letting the silence fill the stone walls. It was terrifying. After I grew up with the cold and wetness of those caves and hallways, I found comfort in the stilness and darkness. There was something in knowing that I could always just walk in, and never walk out. It was more then once when my father told me about cave ins. I still love the place, I love to visit and take care of it. We even got a small railway working with a small train. Even if the most popular trails are well taken care of, I still come to the parts that are off limits for visitors and take care of the buckets and buckets of stone that needs to get carried out. There are multiple pools of water they are small ponds I think. I come to them often. They are beautiful, still, silent and so beautiful. Most of them are clear, if no one would throw rocks into them, they all would be. We even found multiple old wooden pillars from medival times. It's so strange running your hand across something centuries old. I swear it never cesease to scare me thinking of falling into some of those water pools and wondering how deep they go, how long would I stay under there until someone found me. It could be hundreds of year's. I m still not sure if im scared of fascinated by it. I still love the place, but I hold deep respect for it. It could kill anyone who doesn't know how to play by the rules.

I’ve shown everyone I know this video, friends, family and coworkers; they all say the same thing “this is amazing” “this is literally a Harvard essay” and it’s so true. It’s not often I find things on KZread that really galvanize me but your intellect and creativity really shine here on your channel and all I can say is please don’t ever stop!

now imagine a speculative fiction about a future race of humans stumbling upon that waste disposal and all the horrors of attempting to unearth it

@James_Wisniewski

3 жыл бұрын

Marking like that really seems like it invites curiosity and exploration. Maybe some things are better left simply unmarked and forgotten.

@TucsonHat

3 жыл бұрын

My dad advised on/supervised the building of a nuclear weapon assembly bunker. At face value it's basically a very large dome/pile of graded (similar sized), white rock that was shipped in from somewhere off site (it's designed with the rock pile as the roof, should a criticality/meltdown/detonation occur, a web of cables supporting the rock will melt, the rock will bury the bunker). No large, foreboding monument that will accurately depict the danger, transcending language and time. To an outside observer, It looks exactly like the type of ancient site we love to dig up looking for answers..

@BagelBagelB1

3 жыл бұрын

@@TucsonHat bruh

@theB0sSPr0

3 жыл бұрын

someones probably made some creepypasts from this before not that I could find it

@hinducroat9838

3 жыл бұрын

They will probably mark our warning off as a mere superstition just like we do when we unearth a tomb from a long forgotten civilization with a supposed curse attached to it

"A few people had made it to him... A reporter" bruh the dedication i'm here watching KZread at work while thes reporter risked his life in a freakin pitch-black sand cave?

@guygex31

3 жыл бұрын

He received a Pulitzer Prize according to Wikipedia

@fifthofascalante7311

3 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile, in 2021 being a reporter is far, far more dangerous. In involves descent down the deepest of rabbit holes on... Twitter.

@dylanhaugen3739

3 жыл бұрын

FifthofAscalante tell that to the poor reporter who got murdered and dismembered on the orders of Saudi royal family.

@fifthofascalante7311

3 жыл бұрын

@@dylanhaugen3739 how? He ded.

@Hydrauliskk

3 жыл бұрын

@@fifthofascalante7311 40keks

Been thinking about this with that whole submarine thing

Watching this after playing tears of the kingdom. That underground is TERRIFYING 😢

I guess this is the reason why Mojang ain't giving us a cave update Edit: _This aged like Milk........_

@Magmava

3 жыл бұрын

:))))))

@user-pj1ec5om5g

3 жыл бұрын

Fufufufu *HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA*

@princefreddo5044

3 жыл бұрын

Man oh man do I have news for you

@TsegyalBhutia

3 жыл бұрын

Oh boi, you have no idea

@eggrolltheillegal6201

3 жыл бұрын

You are right doh

I've never listened to something that filled me with such levels of attraction and discomfort at the same time.

@firmanhandipratama8414

4 жыл бұрын

So how was it ? Did it feel like it was calling you?

@jumpander

4 жыл бұрын

you should read junji ito mangas

@Username-1939t9

4 жыл бұрын

ive never been so comforable listening to something so uncomforable

@Username-1939t9

4 жыл бұрын

as i wrote this i was jumpscared by giant mosquito decending towards my face

@cirlu_bd

3 жыл бұрын

@jirris fascination for the disturbing, I love that feeling. I'm not having a good time yeah, but I enjoy the experience a lot, so strange to try to actually describe it, I think your words are better than mine here.

Then Tears of the Kingdom comes out and...

Came back to rewatch this masterpiece after Internet Historian's video on Floyd Collins.

The fact that these formations can be perfectly small enough that someone can only just squeeze through, and be taken as not only a challenge, but an invitation, is so strange

@Zejoant

2 жыл бұрын

my worst nightmare

@DarshanBhambhani

2 жыл бұрын

Junji Ito amigara fault intensifies

@UACLive

2 жыл бұрын

"This hole, it was made for me"

@CharinVZain

2 жыл бұрын

@@UACLive Things to say during sex.

@salhb737tm2

2 жыл бұрын

"Oh boy look at all these cool spikes coming out of the grounds.I sure hope the thing I'll found in there wont give me erectile dysfunction!"

Y’know, weirdly enough, I always found Minecraft to be amazing at conveying this feeling. The caves felt endless, and back when I was little, I sometimes got completely stuck in them. Sometimes I’d try to just dig out, but ended up finding it to be too much effort, and just kept looking around blindly for an exit. I’d attempt to use glitches to escape, like the one where quitting and joining the world would teleport you through the ceiling above, but that would always end with me dying. It honestly felt like it was meant to be a deep, dark prison.

@deadmemer5150

2 жыл бұрын

I leaned to bring a stack of logs with me into the caves for that very reason

@drlostcause4427

2 жыл бұрын

Those caves are much creepier now

@reynaclarke2110

2 жыл бұрын

i still get lost in them, and i am also a very soft little man and so i go into creative and punch my way out then switch back when i reach the surface

@Nacanaca12

2 жыл бұрын

I used to know the caves in Minecraft. I've played the game since I was a child. I was frightened at first, but with time I got to know how the caves worked and what to expect within them. Unlike caves in real life, these were made by people. With computers, yes, but there was a subtle logic to them which I could remember. With the recent cave update, all my experience is worthless. It's new. It's deep. It's dark. It's beautiful. I want to see more, to live more, to go deeper. That is how I die.

@lorenzopacheco6651

2 жыл бұрын

There's something so enchanting yet terrifying when the new Cave update came out. Minecraft caves back then were pretty simple, maybe a big tunnel and a mineshaft here and there. But now, you'd have these insane expanses or claustrophobic crevices. Exploring those entirely fresh and unique caves was an amazing experience. Seeing all the weaving tunnels and underwater rivers. But what really struck me was how it felt like there was something calling you down there. The urge to dig deeper, to see how far it goes. Especially if you weren't aware that the new depth limit went into the negatives. I don't know if others had a similar experience, but I was deep in this cave and I was running out of food but there was this huge pit that came out of nowhere and it's like when you look at it, it calls you.

When you started speaking about "the call of the void" and how the fact the caverns feel just made for someone to walk through, it starkly reminded me of my own "calls" of random pathways. My friends and I joke about a saying in our language that roughly translates to "dont lose your way for a pathway" and how I would absolutely literally do that (the saying itself is symbolic). I feel like these two things are quite connected and I feel like the answer is just behind a few more doors of knowledge that I've yet to open for myself

Internet Historian should come take notes on how to tell the story of Floyd Collins without being a thief 😊

@zazikikomo7796

3 ай бұрын

His video has over two million views. He doesn't need to take any notes, he's too busy stacking them.

"Why did it feel made for me?" Junji Ito Fans: Uh oh

@ninasoto2274

4 жыл бұрын

Tobias Reilly who gon tell him

@xtrashocking

4 жыл бұрын

junji ito fans: 👀👀👀

@ivonjonsoncavalcanti1053

4 жыл бұрын

I literally said that out loud when he said that

@nickPOPmusic

4 жыл бұрын

I love how he actually flashed Enigma of Amigara when he said that lol

@avatar5058

4 жыл бұрын

My heart stopped when the picture popped up

i love how it starts with “we cannot resist the call of the void”, because all i could think was “yeah i can resist that call for sure, thank you so much though”

@words_on_a_screen

3 жыл бұрын

Join us in the void. Don't resist us, for the void always gets what it needs... You.. 😈 Sorry for making you scroll into the void! 😂

@Spar7anProjec7

3 жыл бұрын

I agree, you either push me down the pit or I won't ever enter it, lmao.

@MrBioWhiz

3 жыл бұрын

See i thought the same thing. Then i started watching vids like this. And the mystery, the pull of the unknown. I can understand the call now. I've actuall6 applied for diving lessons. I will see what lies below

@alexanikolas9172

3 жыл бұрын

Made me immediately think of Ito Junji's comic "The Enigma of Amigara Fault"

@lukeofender2071

3 жыл бұрын

I can't lmao, I love caves

The Enigma of Amigara Fault by Junji Ito deserved a whole section for me, especially compared to some of this media and especially with the references to the "pull" and or "draw" of the earth's hollow bodies. With some of these works it's subtext or no small amount of projection. But in Ito's The Enigma of Amigara Fault it is the defining narrative and explored to a degree some of these pieces only scratch the surface of. Beautiful video tho

Here again after Internet Historian's hour long video about Floyd Collins.

@excalibirb9204

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it rang a bell and brought me back here

The scariest part of going deep into a cave is dropping into lava and losing gear

@skythedragon7897

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly yea. That's why i always bring extra cobblestone

@iwantgojo

3 жыл бұрын

Duuuudeeee and when you lose the precious mended diamond sword UghHHh!!!

@Adomas_B

3 жыл бұрын

@@iwantgojo Or when skeleton shoots you into it Oh and here's some tips: mine a 2×1 hole and stand in the middle so you can see lava beforehand Always cary a water bucket Don't bridge across lava, extinguish it with water

@iwantgojo

3 жыл бұрын

@@Adomas_B tanks!

@taco2728

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

Why does this sound like an SCP tale. Plot twist: Caves are horrible eldritch creatures that attracts adventurers so that it can consume them.

@toothpasteman3400

3 жыл бұрын

there are actually a few cave SCP's

@hombreg1

3 жыл бұрын

The bowels of the earth demand a sacrifice. Their unquenchable thirst drinks rivers into nothingness. And from its lifeblood, deep below, sprout flame and brimstone. It hungers for you and it beckons. Through stupidity, curiosity or bravado, we're all swallowed whole and made one, under the biggest ossuary humanity has ever known, the cold soil under which we rest.

@evanabbott2737

3 жыл бұрын

hombreg1 uh huh.

@jaytea4390

3 жыл бұрын

I'm actually writing one right now because I was so inspired by this video lol. It's a bottomless cave that people are drawn to throw themselves in. They are then 'reborn' as people exiting the cave, but have no memories of their past life and are wildly different in appearance etc. There's more to it but just go summarise lol.

@IndrasChildDeepAsleep

3 жыл бұрын

X-Files Season Six Episode 21, Field Trip

After hearing the oceangate titan submarine incident, this video gave me more chills

I love that all of what you describe, Jules Verne wrote of in “Journey to the center of the Earth” without leaving his house in France with the same detail. Your video made me feel the same as when I first read it. It’s just… fascinating.

Did anyone else stop and read the articles on screen? One said: "Mother earth after clinging grimly, in life and in death, to Floyd Collins for more than 17 days, finally surrendered and, without warning, opened a tiny hole between a rescue shaft and the natural tomb of the cave explorer." This reads like the opening to a fucking horror story...

@MontySlython

4 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of Lovecrafts writing style

@artillery8188

4 жыл бұрын

people always had a way with words in those days that you just cant see anymore.

@jollystrangers

4 жыл бұрын

if you back and read obituaries in the early 1900's, you will be quite surprised how frank or poetic they will be.

@jollystrangers

4 жыл бұрын

@@mustapleko to be fair, i think people might be saying that about our news in 100 years

@Belenus3080

2 жыл бұрын

People were so well spoken back then. They’re busy teaching us useless shit nowadays.

imagine that, a horror story where its just you, a cave, and lantern. no monster, no villain, just the vast abyss ready to swallow you whole..

@tadghgibson4523

2 жыл бұрын

Your pfp is true horror

@yeethittter1285

2 жыл бұрын

Minecraft on peaceful mode

@mistwalkerwabalubdub6250

2 жыл бұрын

Try looking up the magnus archives there's a few horror stories in there that depicts this really well

@dalecal1129

2 жыл бұрын

@@mistwalkerwabalubdub6250 "Take her, not me."

@flamingaish

2 жыл бұрын

I'd kms 💀

20:15 fun fact, we figures this out. We melt it down, mix it with glass, concrete and silica, confine it all in a barrel and then bury it. The result is strong enough to suffer a run-away train without leaking radiation. It's pretty much rendered inert.

tfw you know how the new internet historian video ends bc you watched this video years ago

"We can't resist it" Uh speak for yourself fam, I find it absurdly easy to resist the urge to go underground ahahah, another masterpiece though, great work.

@sosig9254

4 жыл бұрын

It's either you're dying to go explore it. Or you're dying for someone else to go explore it and tell you about it.

@brandonclarke436

4 жыл бұрын

@@sosig9254 well said

@uncomfortablyclose8481

4 жыл бұрын

Sosig I just don’t really relate to that personally. I’ve always preferred the ocean as that sort of deep unfeeling mysterious cavern. But I do see why people are interested in them and I respect that, I wouldn’t have watched this video if I didn’t respect it.

@t0ri178

4 жыл бұрын

Bruhh ocean is wayyy wayyyy worse than caves in my opinion

@DoselH

4 жыл бұрын

Really I feel what I would like the most is explore like an old abandoned soviet factory or somewhere with a lot of abandoned Busses,cars etc

Underground miner here! Though it's not a cave, the deepest I've been underground is 9900 feet, Almost 3 km.

@lowprofbeats5280

3 жыл бұрын

What.. is it hard to breath that far down?

@firepingun1236

3 жыл бұрын

@@lowprofbeats5280 Well what ever the material he mines is hes probably used to having a lack of oxygen like if he mines coal.

@lowprofbeats5280

3 жыл бұрын

@@firepingun1236 thats true.

@Highmelon

3 жыл бұрын

@@lowprofbeats5280 everything is ventilated, but if you run a lot of machinery on the level, it can get hard to breath with all the heat and fumes in the air. the hardest thing to deal with is usually the heat.

@Highmelon

3 жыл бұрын

@@firepingun1236 we mine copper/zinc

Rewatching this one after IH's video: "Hey! I've seen this one!"

Unlike his video 'Fear of Cold' this is actually makes me shiver out of fear. I honestly love Fear of Cold, it's my favorite video out of his entire repertoire, but this one makes me feel genuinely afraid.

In Minecraft I recently went exploring with a singular goal in mind: Find cows to breed them for leather. After about a day of walking and the worst luck imaginable, I stumbled upon a sheer vertical chasm in the center of an abandoned village. There were other caves in the area that I hadn't yet explored, more accessible ones, closer to home. There was a straight offshoot tunnel from our stone quarry that I had only gone about 100 meters down before deciding to save it for later. But this one was *interesting.* Why was it so unusually steep? Had it killed all the villagers who wandered into it? And most importantly... what lay at the bottom? The next thing I knew I was cautiously throwing down ladders, slowly working my way down the 50 meter drop. It turned out to be one of the most expansive, lucrative cave networks I'd ever seen. I lost track of time a while ago, but if I had to guess, I'd say it's been about a week and a half. I've long since forgotten my original objective. I have a chest of valuables I've excavated down here in my camp at the end of a tunnel I thought I'd memorized the layout of, but now I can't find it for the life of me. At this level, there are lava beds around every corner, and I know I can hear monster spawners I haven't yet destroyed in the adjacent tunnels. I need to return to the surface and bring everything I can carry back home, but I don't think I've explore even a fraction of this maze, and I want to go deeper. I know I'll run out of food eventually. But those depths just keep calling me...

@enginardus

4 жыл бұрын

you haven't forgotten your original objective... it was to breed cows for leather

@nemo9864

4 жыл бұрын

Eat the creepers.

@aletec96

4 жыл бұрын

You know, I played Minecraft for a few months when I was 13, during the free beta period. One of the first things I did as soon as I got a pickaxe was to just dig down, down into a deep and vertical shaft, looking for minerals for crafting. And then I found some dark empty space. It was one of those underground cave networks. I still hadn't learnt how to craft torches so I was just there, in the dark, with my last torch shining a few blocks over me in my mining shaft. I don't know precisely why, but the experience scared child me so much that I ran back up and I never got back into the pit until much much later. And in the meantime it always stayed there, in the back of my mind, with it's neat little entrance, a cabin, some torches and a ladder going down. Thank you for bringing this memory back with your comment, I really appreciated it!

@darya4512

4 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of when I first played minecraft Java Edition. I was really young and didn't know how to build anything or basically do anything other than place dirt blocks. I got trapped in a cave under my dirt hut and at that time I was trully scared. Were there mobs going to kill me? How to I get out? I know these things now and every minecraft cave is basically the same to me. Its just that minecraft caves held so much more wonder and fear when I had no idea how to play the game.

@slappy8941

4 жыл бұрын

How about you grow the fuck up and be a man you fucking pathetic soy boy.

"We just can't resist it." Uuuh, yes we can. I'm doing it right now. It's not even that hard.

@Red_Eyed

2 жыл бұрын

I'm fucking chillin. Miss me with that bullshit.

@aussieseal9979

2 жыл бұрын

What??

@pissapocalypse

2 жыл бұрын

It's actually extremely easy to not go exploring a cave lol

@MrCmon113

2 жыл бұрын

I don't even have anything against caves frequently hike and I never thought about exploring caves.

@Kikiapina

2 жыл бұрын

You don't know it then, you don't truly realize what the void is and in your ignorance you think you've conquered it.

The term "welcoming hostility" immediately brought me back to Made in Abyss. Perhaps it's no coincidence that it of all media captures the feeling of caving so well, it might not look like a cave all the time but it never lets you forget that you're underground and never abandons that inherent uneasiness of being somewhere you don't belong but still seems made for you to explore

Back here again after man in cave.

Just install the brightness mod on Optifine

@allgodsnomasters2822

4 жыл бұрын

lol haha

@001Brunix

4 жыл бұрын

Gamma 100

Me, an intense claustrophobe: "this seems like the perfect video to watch"

@barkingdoggo3331

3 жыл бұрын

I wasn't claustrophobic until I watched this

@NoSubsWithContent

3 жыл бұрын

Everybody gangsta till they get stuck under billions of tons of rock in a 2 foot hole with mini knives everywhere

@Companion92

3 жыл бұрын

I personaly feel like the wide underwater place was even scarier

@sorcierenoire8651

3 жыл бұрын

@@MasterLobster waa that a fucking Junji Ito reference?

@laniakeas92

3 жыл бұрын

Um fear of depths it's a bit different thing

One of my favorite concepts is discovering the unknown, especially when there is no going back. Stories like Made in Abyss and Promised Neverland are unexplainably fascinating to me.

This topic resonates. I did a few deployments on a submarine and that environment is definitely claustrophobia inducing. The worst part though, was having to clean up around the vessel. You crawl into impossibly tight spaces looking for dust and grease, looking to hide from your supervisors and catch a few minutes rest. Sometimes you get stuck and there are horrible moments of frantic scrabbling, looking to clear your shoulders so you can breathe, begging for help from friends who are often times just feet away. Those couple feet might as well be miles if you've gotten yourself well and truly stuck

The connections he made between a future species uncovering these monuments despite the "cries" of the past civilization while showing the human race's own drive to explore the Egyptian monuments were mind-blowingly genius and absolutely bone-chilling.

@Shauniiiiiiiii

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe this future civilisation will consider radiation as harmless as modern day humans consider ancient Egyptian curses

@crookedintelligence2421

3 жыл бұрын

Yea like the movie (Decent)!

@JJMomoida

3 жыл бұрын

It's really rather depressing to see that as a cycle of sorts, to be honest. The idea that, despite the warnings, people might go "nah fuck that LOL" and dig as their nature compels them to.

@spookyho5994

3 жыл бұрын

@@Shauniiiiiiiii oh god

@luigivercotti6410

3 жыл бұрын

@@JJMomoida Honestly I find it somewhat inspiring myself. That we can know, no matter how many millennia of death separate us, as long as there is humanity in some form, there will always be someone brave enough and stupid enough to seek the truth, to explore and discover at any cost. Because we know, we just know, if we keep exploring, if we just keep delving through the horrors, through the darkness and the peril, downwards into the earth or upwards into space; In our very being we are certain that one of these dark abysses will open into something truly wondrous on the other side. Something, that will make it all worth it. Because it could be there, and therefore it must be. Humanity is a gambling addict, continuously and without fail dropping coin after coin after coin into the pachinko machine of the unending cosmos, because as long we have quarters, we can get a jackpot, and if we never run out, then we're bound to get it, eventually.

The anime “Made in Abyss” is one of the only shows that I’ve found perfectly captures the call of the depths, probably because that’s its very central theme. Despite the darkness and dangers below the earth, the abyss calls to adventurers and they continue to throw their lives to it generation after generation simply to have the chance to explore it.

@LTGSStrophox

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I thought of as well!

@GeronimouxIII

4 жыл бұрын

bruh, that broke me

@snowboundwhale6860

4 жыл бұрын

There's of course also the factor that in Made in Abyss, those humans who descend into the abyss become "sick" if they try to climb back out, with the effects of that "sickness" growing exponentially the further down they'd gone, which itself can be seen as a parallel to the way things that live or are acclimated to "the deep", such as the sea creatures in the ocean depths, literally can't survive outside of those depths, or how we get altitude sickness if we try to climb too high without waiting to adjust to the thinner air.

@radikaldesignz

4 жыл бұрын

@Yggdrasil Burnes get back? She never intends to, nor could she. They call it a "last dive" for a reason.

@radikaldesignz

4 жыл бұрын

@Yggdrasil Burnes I appreciate the optimism, I really do. I just don't think this is one of those stories, friend.

All I can see is wendigoon stuck in the cave

Thank you, KZread Algorithm, for recommending me this channel after Internet Historian's latest video about Collins and the Sandy Cave incident.

@adolflinkler8244

Жыл бұрын

Amazing lol

Imagine millions of years later, aliens come upon a dead planet and decide to try to scavenge materials and come across hundreds of towering spikes and an ominous granite room with strange pictographs and warnings. That would actually be a good plot to a story, but eh.

@KoeSeer

3 жыл бұрын

not millions, pick thousands. I mean, people raid the tomb of pharaoh just 2000 years after ancient egypt gone and the people lived there had a disconnect with what pyramid did back then. "good thing" it's just tomb of long dead king, not a storage for radioactive material. When... say in year 5000, when humanity has culturally evolved into something new, the human lived there had no idea what is english, chinese, arabic, or spanish. All they saw is just mysterious scribble on a metal plate or concrete slab and wonder what that means. The radioactive logo won't mean anything, the big red font would mean nothing, heck, even the obvious skull pictogram on the sign would mean nothing to them. In the end, nothing would stop future explorers blowing a hole and dig down into the storage chamber after they thought it's a treasury chamber or at least common goods storage chamber.

@ganondalf8090

3 жыл бұрын

@@KoeSeer actually, the reason that skulls are used like that is because they universally represent death

@KoeSeer

3 жыл бұрын

@@ganondalf8090 yeah, but the seriousness of the meaning has been shifted. I mean, if kids playing pirates and they draw a skull over a cardboard to depict a pirate ship, you don't take it seriously by thinking something deadly is inside the cardboard, right?

@kaedyn3174

3 жыл бұрын

sounds kinda like The Forest

@felipealarcon4622

3 жыл бұрын

@@KoeSeer technology will

10:38 When he showed the Junji Ito drawing I literally said out loud, Oh my god don't even fucking start'

@Lucs21fRecorder

3 жыл бұрын

dude same, i just skipped right ahead in the video just to be safe

@Crowborn

3 жыл бұрын

@@Lucs21fRecorder why did you skip? That part of the video was made for you ;)

@paulagodebrito

3 жыл бұрын

@@Crowborn _smooth_

@oyasumilunlun

3 жыл бұрын

made me remember that one comic so well i became horrified of the thought that it might come true.

@Greippi10

3 жыл бұрын

D: I wasn't looking but got ptsd just from hearing that. drrrrrrrr drrrrrrrr drrrrrr.......

“Hollow Knight-mare fuel”. Triple entendre That wordplay really pleases me

I come back to Jacob's videos incredibly often and, although this is not my favorite of his library of incredible work, I find it kind of astounding that I have not yet seen anybody comment that Jacob went to a whole ass cave to recite pieces of this essay. Seriously so fucking cool. At the very least, it goes to show if you tell such a grossly captivating collection of words, that gnarly shit transcends into the realm of contextual normalcy.

Getting trapped in a cave is the most terrifying thing I can imagine

@zigguratdemetrius5984

2 жыл бұрын

Na… trapped in an underwater cave

@MM-qj8ys

2 жыл бұрын

@@zigguratdemetrius5984 that’s... still getting trapped in a cave but yeah lol

@zigguratdemetrius5984

2 жыл бұрын

@@MM-qj8ys yeah but... in water...

@CC-ok2kt

2 жыл бұрын

@@zigguratdemetrius5984 but it’s still a cave…

@zigguratdemetrius5984

2 жыл бұрын

@@CC-ok2kt but, with water...

What a reassuring way to end this video. Not only did you show yourself leaving the cave, but also a glimpse of two people just waiting outside. Like returning to society after experiencing the loneliness of the depths.

@Tuniphero

Жыл бұрын

Great Ending

And we wept, Precious. We wept to be so alone. And we forgot the taste of bread, the sound of trees, the softness of the wind. We even forgot our own name. My Precious.

kinda wild that the algo is reccomending this right now

There's just something unnervingly Lovecraftian about caves.

@derekw9724

3 жыл бұрын

true, minus the horrid racism

@jackreid2664

3 жыл бұрын

The way they seem to call people into them

@derekw9724

3 жыл бұрын

@@Joe-sr6de no seriously, look up the name of lovecraft's cat. Don't wanna debate, the man just really hated immigrants and people of color. His stories are sick nonetheless

@elliot5210

3 жыл бұрын

Joseph Totzke it’s literally not political to say that lovecraft was racist wtf

@tratata8199

3 жыл бұрын

@@elliot5210 But is completely irrelevant.

The fact that Collins reached a part of the cave that pretty much no one else could, and that's what killed him, really resonated with me. I am an avid caver and I live in a county that is swiss cheese when it comes to the amount of spelunking possible. Heck, I work as a tour guide at one of these caves. But one of the rules we have about caving is never do it alone. Rule of three: Three people, three redundant sources of light. Even still, it takes everything in me not to go out caving ALONE in the midst of a time where social distancing and stay-at-home guidelines abound. Never, ever underestimate how tantalizing the unknown can be. The same tunnels that feel inaccessible and unwelcoming to some are, to me and other cavers, one of the world's last frontiers. The call of the void indeed. I often wonder if there are even words that capture the feeling. Then Jacob Geller goes and does this. God bless it, thank you for making this video. Like, I needed this to explain to myself why I'm having to mentally chain myself to the idea that I CANNOT go out caving alone while wanting nothing more than to get out of the house and delve into any one of the hundreds of entry points into my county's circulatory system.

@wesleygaray2666

4 жыл бұрын

Man I wish I was brave enough to go into caves, I have the biggest fear of dark places like caves and deeper sections of water but they have always intrigued me at the same time something about it just makes me want to walk in and explore as far as I go, but I am also to scared to even fare even with 3 others I don't think I could.

@user-dd4fv6qj8g

4 жыл бұрын

@@wesleygaray2666 I do not know if it is possible for you geographically, but Mammoth Caves mentioned in Jacob's video is a great place to start. That was my first cave: it is massive, and at least for the tour I started with, there's little claustrophobia to deal with. That comes in other parts of the cave. Otherwise, google local showcaves in your area, just visiting and doing a simple walking tour of a cave will often give you an idea of how much hunger you have for more of it.

@user-dd4fv6qj8g

4 жыл бұрын

@@rsh650 To me it means "hopefully don't need this, but have it along with me anyway". You don't WANT to need any of the other sources of light.

@user-dd4fv6qj8g

4 жыл бұрын

@@mustapleko darwing? symphaty? Spell-checking aside, I feel like commenters like yourself are missing my point. I consistently resist the urge to go out and cave alone; I know better, that's the point. My experience is the coexistence of knowing better and still wanting to follow what I can only describe as an INSTINCT to go deeper. I only commented because I believed that my experience of that dichotomy would be supplementary to Jacob's thesis. But, this is the internet--for some reason, a couple folks find it funny to laugh at my imagined death. Cool. Whatever floats your boat. But I would really like to hear how you feel that adds anything to the conversation surrounding Jacob Geller's incredible video essay. He put his work in, literally recorded parts of this video IN A CAVE to assist in his points. And you can't even be bothered to check your comment for spelling errors. Give me a break.

@szuzmariacsatkai3496

4 жыл бұрын

What country are you from?

IH, Jacob and wendigoon need to make a video together

I know what he's talking about. I once saw a nature documentary about glaciers and they showed a massive chasm that was all smooth and glassy and perfectly dark and the more I looked at it, the more I felt this growing temptation to just fall in. Also, kind of impressive that Jacob did a whole video on fear of caves and without mentioning Ted the Caver, one of the most famous creepypasta stories on the internet

"Why does this cave seem _made_ for me?" ...yeah fuck that. i still get nightmares about Amigara Fault. no thanks.

@smallasaurus4200

3 жыл бұрын

I just read amigara fault... I haven’t been that unsettled in a very, very long time.

@paulagodebrito

3 жыл бұрын

junji was on my mind the whoole time watching this, omg im still traumatized

@Liliputian07

3 жыл бұрын

why

@cyberwolfy37

3 жыл бұрын

@@Liliputian07 imagine being put in a gingerbread man mold in the side of the mountain. you go into the human shape hole that shape just like your silhouette, exactly like your silhouette. then it sucks you in, deep deep deep into the mountain, then you stop. you're stuck in place, unable to move your limbs because that's how precise this mold was to fit you. you wait, then slowly feels the earth moved, tectonic movement, erosion, your hole began to shift, it sloooowly, and graaadually contort your limbs in weird shape, your arms and your legs is being slowly broken for the course of what feels like weeks or month, your body is being pushed sideway, constricting your ribs and bending your spines like a piece of licorice. what's worst is your head, you can feel the rock slowly squeezing your head, slowly fracturing your jaw, sliming down your neck where it feels like your head is going to get yanked off, but extremely slowly. that is the horror of amigara fault.

@Liliputian07

3 жыл бұрын

@@cyberwolfy37 eh he's made spookier stories

Turn back Turn back from this cave You said, "Let me prove that I'm brave Let me keep going" But the cave goes for miles And miles and miles And you're so tired But I know that you're strong

@psoda.

4 жыл бұрын

...But I know you're strong... I know you can....keep going

@feverprole

4 жыл бұрын

@@psoda. sorry to break the mood, but this wasn't an attempt to come up with a poem on a spot, it's a song

@o2xide503

3 жыл бұрын

So You too are on board with the theory that chell is Cave Johnson's daughter

@AlexRedacted

3 жыл бұрын

@@o2xide503 I'm just old and lazy. I was on board with it 8 years ago.

I’m sure you’re absolutely loving Tears of the Kingdom right now

Still one of my favorite essays to go back and listen to before bed, I love the “Fear Of” videos so much

“Like it was . . . made for me” And that’s when I had to walk away and breathe in the sunshine for a while

@thawedantarctican2171

2 жыл бұрын

Ah...good ol Amigara Fault...

@sauviel6296

2 жыл бұрын

Junji ito?

@thawedantarctican2171

2 жыл бұрын

@@sauviel6296 Precisely

You know, Subnautica really plays on this fascination and fear. It's a game set almost entirely underwater, and you spend a lot of time in underwater caves. Sometimes, you'll be in a place where you can't see the bottom and you have to decide whether to turn back or keep going down.

@puckmanstudios2172

3 жыл бұрын

And the fact you never know what's around the corner, a wonderful ecosystem of fish and plants, or an eldritch abomination

@OneBiteoftheCherry

3 жыл бұрын

Great game

@Dingus_Khaan

3 жыл бұрын

When he brought up the creatures living in the deep ocean, I was really hoping he'd cover that game.

@Wimpiethe3

3 жыл бұрын

I get really on edge with that game. Quite fantastic. My friend is always amused when we play it and I inevitably give myself a jumpscare, jerking the mouse about. Good times.

@Khymeira

3 жыл бұрын

That game makes my nips hard. Best game I've played in a long time.

I’m convinced that someone at Nintendo watched this video.

Internet Historian just released a really good video about the floyd collins situation

Imagine how Gollum felt, literally stuck down there in the crushing, blinding darkness for centuries

@atlantethan

3 жыл бұрын

"And we wept, Precious, we wept to be so alone. And we forgot the taste of bread, and the sound of trees, the softness of the wind. We even forgot our own name."

@gokhandemir7917

3 жыл бұрын

Cringe

@coito5307

3 жыл бұрын

Oh my god i was thinking exactly that lol, everyone in these conditions would turn into a Gollum

@Rynewulf

3 жыл бұрын

@@gokhandemir7917 oh f off

@Fleurig-xr5mm

3 жыл бұрын

Gökhan Demir You must be very sensitive

Being somebody with Thalassophobia, i don't especially find "solid" depth this much scary, but the ocean/water depth is what trully scares me. It's a mix of the infinite space, the ocean literally spread throughout the entire planet, and the fact that you just can't see the end. These two things make for me any body of water where the bottom can't be seen a true nightmare. Add an unhealty amount of creepy imagination and my brain is going off, seing an "infinite" space that could be filled with anything, anything that can't be seen and that may never be seen. It gives me nausea, it make me feel anxious. I also guess that, the fact that in the water, you don't have any footing. Yes, you're "floating", but if somebody or *something* is a better swimmer than you, it could just grab you and pull you wherever they want. For me, Thalassophobia isn't the fear of body of waters, it's the fear of the seemingly infinite possibilities that lay there, untouched, ungazable.

@uncomfortablyclose8481

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I feel like you’re either an ocean type or a cave type when it comes to this stuff. Unless you like underwater caverns.

@lukasi.v4269

4 жыл бұрын

When I see the shit they pull out from the abyss of the oceans I get what you're saying. Creatures so alien that might freak out even the most brave humans. Can't even imagine what is yet to be discovered.

@Can-uj5pv

4 жыл бұрын

@@uncomfortablyclose8481 I like the idea of both, caves seem like they can be nice and cozy while water always has this calming, serene feel about it to me when I don't need to worry about drowning, but I would preferably not have to crawl through tight spaces, that seems like a disaster waiting to happen. And I haven't had the chance to explore neither the underground nor the underwater yet because even simple camping and caving gear costs a lot of money, let alone scuba diving gear and permits, so my preferences maybe yet to change if/when I get actual 1st hand experience.

@uncomfortablyclose8481

4 жыл бұрын

I meant in terms of fears but It’s cool that you’re open to both. Personally I was forced to go caving in school trips and absolutely hate it.

@uncomfortablyclose8481

4 жыл бұрын

Honestly my prediction for whats at the bottom of the ocean is either a really deformed looking thing that makes you pity it’s existence or Cthulu. Probably the first one but I have hope.

3 years after stumbling upon this video, I keep returning to it for some reason. There is just so much to it, and it is so perfectly composed. The material, the story, the seemingly unrelated things that you manage to tie together, the voice, the intonation even, the whole... idea. Even though I watched the video multiple times already, and I know what and you will talk about, it is still fascinating to just rewatch it again. "The inevitability of these stories was part of their power. Some tales could never be told too often"(c)