Crushed by Corn: Trapped in a Grain Bin
Real Survival Stories
NOISER
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:33.1 | It's late morning on June the 26th, 2013. |
| 0:37.2 | A scorchingly hot day in Hardin County, North Central Iowa. |
| 0:41.3 | The atmosphere is heavy and humid. |
| 0:44.3 | The gathering heat trapped beneath a wide, unbroken blue sky. |
| 0:49.3 | The fierce sun bakes the empty asphalt roads, |
| 0:53.3 | and the air shimmers over the patchwork of fields |
| 0:55.6 | that make up this pocket of America's Midwest. |
| 1:00.0 | Dotted across the landscape are indications of the area's thriving agricultural output. |
| 1:05.5 | Family farms own for generations stretch out over the fields. Here and there you'll find cattle barns, heavy duty machinery and crop storage facilities. |
| 1:16.6 | Among the largest of these are grain bins. |
| 1:21.6 | Enormous silo-like containers. |
| 1:24.6 | Inside these vast steel structures, thousands of bushels worth of harvested grain are kept, |
| 1:31.5 | lying undisturbed for months at a time. But within one such container, a few pieces of corn |
| 1:40.7 | slide down a slight U-shaped dip in the middle of a mountain of grain. |
| 1:47.3 | At first glance, there appears to be no reason for the disturbance. |
| 1:50.7 | The silo is dark and deathly quiet, seemingly devoid of human life. |
| 1:56.7 | But a closer look into the gloom reveals something else. |
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