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Location: Canada
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Ted's caving story
I ran across this story a few days ago. Its a very well written account of what happened when two cavers decided to explore a tiny hole in a cave. Then expanded and expaned the whole until one person could squeeze through. And then, weird stuff begins to happen....
The debate is wheather on not the story is true. Either way, its a very good story. Its super long, but very entertaining. http://www.holyshiite.com/caver/page1.html Enjoy..
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Junkie
Location: Louisville, KY
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Definitely creepy. Could really be something living in the cave... Then again, a person's state and fear of the unknown can paint some weird pictures in their mind's eye...
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The one that got away
Location: Over the hill and far away
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Wow, that was an awesome story! Pure Lovecraft, if any of you have read his work - it has the same dread, fear of the unknown and terror that this story has.
It's very well-written, and has a feasible aspect to it - you get dragged into the mood, and you're eager to know what will happen. I just don't think anyone updating a page would put a link to a page that is not there yet, and here I am talking about the last page which has a broken link on it. I'm going to recommend this to some people, it's very well written and scary as hell! |
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Misanthropic
Location: Ohio! yay!
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Damn, what happened to ted? Maybe this is what was down there... http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/CaveBeing.html
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Location: New England
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Hello, good evening, and bollocks.
Location: near DC
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I'm about halfway through and I'm pretty sure I know what happens based on hu-man's comment -- the last journal entry tells of some seriously creepy shit and then the next link where they're finally supposed to have gotten in leads to no where, meaning they were never to be seen again
![]() You must also consider that he was writing for a specific audience since, for example, he devotes a page to explaining the details of caving. It's probably just a piece of well-written, compelling fiction, just as I suppose John Titor is. Just like that, for those who "want to believe" it's even more compelling! Oh yeah, the design's real annoying because of the color scheme. Which leads you to pay more attention, and perhaps tend to get more freaked out!! I wonder if that was intentional.... EDIT: I forgot to mention that the fact that he nicknamed it "The Tomb" seems overly constructed to create suspense... Last edited by Fearless_Hyena; 11-24-2003 at 04:28 PM.. |
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Location: New England
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OK, I've read the whole thing now, and I will definately say "fiction". Also, I will strongly re-recommend House of Leaves to people who enjoyed this caving story.
I also checked the pages themselves: all of them were "last modified October 4, 2002", significantly after the "5/19/01" date on the first page. I also looked at the source of the first and last pages, but nothing interesting there.
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Psycho
Location: Massachusetts
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conveniently forgets the camera....conveniently the pictures dont develop. Personally I'm a skeptic, but that was damn creepy anyways.
Whats the deal with the non-existant page after he leaves for the second trip with Joe into the cave? Did anyone get anything after that, or what?
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is you wicked?
Location: I live in a giant bucket.
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That was a pretty cool story. I started reading it last night, but couldn't finish, so I read the end this morning. There is no doubt in my mind that it's fiction, but like many of you have already said it's very entertaining anyway.
I find it a bit far-fetched though. Why the need for such panic? He didn't even see anything. The abrupt ending was great though. The reader is ready to finally get some closure after reading the story, and there is none. I was a little bothered at the beginning of the story, though. There was no mention of what the weird occurences were until about halfway into it. But since it's written for entertainment, it makes sense to keep the suspence high. It's just not something I think a real person would do if it were an actual website. Eitherway, I'll recommend this site to a few friends as well. I bet they would enjoy it.
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I think someone is taking a creative writing class and decided to post it here. I got sick of reading it and when I finished I was dissapointed, needs work but I'm sure that during the critique it git shredded.
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That guy is a Very Bad Caver. Bad bad bad....Sledgehammers...what was he thinking! Ass...and I've been through tighter spots than that 'tomb' thing...the limit to where you can pass is almost alway your pelvis, (shoulders bend, fat moves) and most cavers will measure that before they go in so as not to attempt anything too small.. Nice story though.
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Location: at home
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Insane
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Yup, and I actually saw the story a little over a year ago on the old Snopes board. |
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