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Cringe
Hmmm. I'll just leave that one alone.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 8, 2006 at 12:17 PM
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AG, you can't get me to step inside a broom closet, forget a cave.
Unless of course there's an incredibly good looking incentive.
posted by
Cringe
on August 8, 2006 at 11:35 AM
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Rcky
Thank you. I was rapt with attention as he told me about it. He is very plain spoken and did not hesitate to tell me it scared the hell out of him.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 8, 2006 at 11:32 AM
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Cee
It sounds like an adventure, until you face it. Then it's just plain crazy.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 8, 2006 at 11:31 AM
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YPunday
I've seen videos of people grabbing huge catfish under banks. They just reach in there and get a hold of them and pull them out. I'm not sticking my hands in there. No way.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 8, 2006 at 11:31 AM
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Blanche
There were many Native Americans in that region. No telling what that cave was used for.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 8, 2006 at 11:30 AM
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Wiley
Better you than me. They'd have to send someone in there to get me out.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 8, 2006 at 11:29 AM
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Mason
Thank you.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 8, 2006 at 11:28 AM
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TAPS
Well, I personally would not do it. It's too creepy. I've seen what's in that river. They didn't call the Red River the 'steamboat graveyard' for nothing. I can recall many people who swam in that river and drowned.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 8, 2006 at 11:27 AM
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Rumored
I'm with you. Some things need to be left alone.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 8, 2006 at 11:26 AM
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Well Avant in my opinion he was brave to go that far....
you couldn't pay me enough money to put myself in that situation. Maybe his intuition kicked in and told him to leave. Oh, that is creepy. I love these stories and as I said before you tell them so well. You are a very talented writer. These stories could be part of a book of short scary stories....I love it!
posted by
RckyMtnActivist
on August 8, 2006 at 9:33 AM
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I think he did the right thing,
getting out of there. He was listening to his inner voice, spirit guide, whatever you want to call it, that was warning him something there was not safe. I will always hear that warning word "snake" reverberating thru my head last month in Texas. That was as real a warning as I've ever received and that put a scare in me! His intuition warned him and he listened. He IS lucky there wasn't some gator or giant catfish waiting to snap off his head! It will take someone of a foolhardy constitution to check on treasure it would appear.
Cee
posted by
LadyCeeMarie
on August 8, 2006 at 12:22 AM
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A_G, Dave reminded me that folks down south go noodling--that's scary too
but they get big catfish--occasionaly bites from snakes, scorpions, alligators and snapping turtles. But this tradition lives on in the steamy bayous!
Come visit our goose and flower haiku--more like eider down, down there, in haiku corner. Shalom
posted by
ILLUMINATI8
on August 7, 2006 at 4:42 PM
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Avant-Garde, I'm not sure which is scarier, being underwater in murky water
or the cave. I'd have to call that a draw. Your post is as close as I want to get to being in either. The comment below about being in a Mayan sacrificial temple is scary to me for another reason. Death leaves it's own mark on a place.
posted by
Blanche.
on August 7, 2006 at 1:56 PM
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avant-garde
Great story, you had me hooked there and now I'd like to come and go in there myself
posted by
WileyJohn
on August 7, 2006 at 1:55 PM
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..fascinating!
posted by
MasonGarrett
on August 7, 2006 at 11:10 AM
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Personally, avant-garde, I think someone would have to be lacking in intelligence and common sense to go into a mud cave beside a river.
posted by
TAPS.
on August 7, 2006 at 7:12 AM
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by the sounds of it, avant-, I wouldn't decide to be the "hero"
or discoverer down there..let it be...
posted by
Rumor
on August 7, 2006 at 7:03 AM
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Justi
I knew people who swam in that river. Some drowned trying.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 7, 2006 at 1:07 AM
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Tanga
Natural. There's no rock to support it. It's red clay and sand.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 7, 2006 at 1:07 AM
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bel
That Red River is treacherous. It used to be called 'The Steamboat Graveyard' because so many ships sank there.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 7, 2006 at 1:06 AM
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Whacky
That's what I keep thinking. But, you know, I wasn't in there with him either.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 7, 2006 at 1:05 AM
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TAPS
I don't mind the rock caves. It's the ones made of mud and sand that would disturb me.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 7, 2006 at 1:05 AM
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YPunday
Yes. Obviously someone with enough courage hid something there.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 7, 2006 at 1:04 AM
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OFFBEATS
Perhaps it held treasure. It certainly was there, and the legend supported its existence.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 7, 2006 at 1:03 AM
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Avant Gard
I would never have gone into water to murky to see. No one would know more than before I thought about it. I am a coward!
posted by
Justi
on August 6, 2006 at 9:45 PM
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Intrigued
Is the cave man-made or a natural cave?
posted by
Tanga
on August 6, 2006 at 9:16 PM
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I don't like dark murky places
I'll pass on the caves.
posted by
bel_1965
on August 6, 2006 at 8:56 PM
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At least he had a good reason to be scared.But still if there is treasure?
Hummm...
posted by
Whacky
on August 6, 2006 at 8:34 PM
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Avant-garde, I don't blame him. I've been in a lot of caves--miles and miles underground and I will never ever be a real spelunker because all I can think of is getting back out and breathing fresh air and seeing sunlight. There is nothing worse than bats flying around in caves making those weird noises.
posted by
TAPS.
on August 6, 2006 at 7:40 PM
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Perhaps R Capt. got claustrophobic-- coincidences often help seal a mystery
when a cooler head might persist and remove the shroud of the past/tales/old wives tales. There must be someonewho has the courage of a Columbus or a Capt. John Smith --300-500 years old bodies and hearts?
posted by
ILLUMINATI8
on August 6, 2006 at 4:16 PM
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Avant
I think that would be really cool to see. There are places like that in Hawaii and in the Bahama's. Interesting indeed!
posted by
Offy
on August 6, 2006 at 4:15 PM
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Moon
I am totally fascinated by archaeology. I think if I went back to school, that would be my major. BTW, that story was freaky. I might not have liked that too much, either.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 6, 2006 at 4:10 PM
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blackcat
I don't think I would've gone through that hole. It would've just been too much.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 6, 2006 at 4:09 PM
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Avant, Several years ago my daughter went with her future husband on an archaeology dig in Maya land. The team accessed a series of cavern by diving into a river and emerging through an underground opening. She said that one room was the scene of a ritual sacrifice. The skeletal remains, ritual bowls and the stone execution knife all lay in place undisturbed since the time of the sacrifice. She said it totally freaked her out. MoonSpirit 
posted by
syzygy
on August 6, 2006 at 3:39 PM
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that story alone creeps me out... I'd get claustrophobic fast!
posted by
-blackcat
on August 6, 2006 at 3:16 PM
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