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On January 30, 1925, Floyd Collins entered Sand Cave in Kentucky alone, searching for a new discovery that could become a tourist attraction. Deep inside a narrow, twisting tunnel, he slipped headfirst. A falling rock crushed and trapped his foot, leaving him wedged in a passage barely wider than his body — unable to move forward or backward. Despite popular diagrams, no rescue shaft existed at the time. Rescuers had to dig one from the surface while Collins remained trapped beyond multiple dead

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