How an explorer stuck in a Kentucky cave for 17 days captured the world's attention
When Floyd Collins ventured into Sand Cave in Kentucky on Jan. 30, 1925, he was searching for the next big attraction. But he ...
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Sand Cave Incident: The “Greatest Cave Explorer Ever" Met A Grim Fate In 1925
A lmost exactly a century ago, the “Greatest Cave Explorer Ever Known" entered a labyrinth of underground caverns in ...
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Recalling A Tragedy That Led To Mammoth Cave National Park
Floyd Collins entered Sand Cave a century ago today to explore its prospects as a visitor site and became trapped in a passageway not much wider than his chest, dislodging a 27-pound rock that pinned ...