On August 18th, 2010, a 30-year-old scuba diver went for a night dive in the underwater caves at Vortex Springs in Ponce de Leon, Florida, and was never seen again.

Extensive searches of the caves, which go over 115 feet deep, by at least 16 professional recovery divers,

yielded absolutely no sign of the man and have left many questions over the years about what happened to him.

Did he get trapped underwater, run out of oxygen?

Was he really down in those caves when he disappeared or did something else happen to him that night?

You were listening to Creep It Real and today we ask, what happened to Ben McDaniel?

No. Today we ask, what happened to Ben McDaniel? Creep It Real is a weekly podcast where we present our theories of the subjects we cover based on our interest and research.

Some material may be graphic and disturbing, so proceed with caution.

Hey, everybody. It's Ashley is. Well, okay. Well, I'm not Ashley.

It's okay. That's shy over there. I'm shy. That's Ashley. We are.

It's me. Yeah, we are creeper real. Today, we're going to cover a story that, while the man may not have been as certified as he needed to be, the story itself is a certified doozy.

It is.

It's such a dumb joke.

It's creepy.

It is.

It's sad as well.

Like, I'm not trying to make a light of it, but there's just a lot of very weird.

It could have been avoided. Or something. I mean, I don't even know what happened. I mean,

truly. Well, maybe, maybe I shouldn't say that at the very beginning. At the very first, I'm like,

don't have any idea. Okay. But we're talking about Ben McDaniel. And, you know, it's also,

I don't know if I'm the only one that felt this way, but there were like certain times when

reading about the circumstances of cave diving and something like the things that can go wrong,

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