On November twenty-fourth, two thousand and nine, twenty-six-year-old medical student John Jones crawled headfirst into an unmapped crevice in Nutty Putty Cave in Utah and became trapped upside down, roughly eighteen inches wide, one hundred feet underground. Rescuers reached him. They got an IV into him. They let him speak to his pregnant wife by radio. After twenty-seven hours underground, a rope-and-pulley system almost pulled him free. Then the anchor failed and he slipped back. He died that night, still in the crevice.

In this episode of 5 Minute Strange, we cover the full rescue attempt at Nutty Putty Cave — the physiological reality of being trapped inverted for hours, the brief moment when it looked like he was going to make it, and the decision that followed his death. Recovering his body was deemed too dangerous. The cave was sealed with concrete. John Jones is still inside it. He has never been brought home.

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