Death in the Depths

Strange Matters Podcast

Campfire Audio Productions

Science, History, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.4 • 987 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Massive tax debt, divorce, the death of your brother, the collapse of your business… its enough to drive anyone mad. Ben McDaniel experienced all these things yet teetered on the edge of his sanity. To regroup he took a long sabbatical at his parents vacation home in Florida. During this period of recovery he rediscovered his lost passion of SCUBA diving. At Vortex Springs he began to log many hours of diving in order to gain an advanced certification. Vortex Springs had a checkered history. In the 90s, it has claimed the lives of many divers who thought themselves skilled enough to explore the deepest depths of the underwater cave. In order to prevent more deaths a gate was put up and a sign was posted at the entrance to ward off individuals who thought to highly of their own capabilities. McDaniel was one of those individuals. On August 18th he dove down into the abyss and never resurfaced. Most people immediately assumed he was simply another life to be claimed by the underwater cave but others suspect a variety of theories including murder and that maybe he even could have framed his own death to escape the burden of his previous life.

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0:00.0	And the Oh, Hello everyone and welcome to the Strange Matters podcast.
0:37.0	Here is Strange Matters we discuss everything that is mysterious, bizarre, and
0:41.7	unexplained.
0:43.0	I am joined with my fellow co-host Eric.
0:46.8	What's up everybody?
0:49.9	So today we're going to be introducing a new Patreon tier that we have added to our
0:55.1	supporters page. So for anyone who is willing to pledge $15 a month we will be
1:00.0	doing a full-length episode in that patron's name, answer any specific questions they may have,
1:07.0	and share any specific information that said patron wishes for us to share.
1:11.6	In this episode we will once again be diving into the story of a person who disappears under mysterious circumstances.
1:20.0	This is the case of Ben McDaniel, a man who is last seen scuba diving in an underwater cave.
1:26.6	Due to the circumstances, the common belief is that most people think he simply drowned in some way while diving.
1:34.0	However, his body has never been found, nor any trace of him at all discovered in the caves
1:38.7	in all the years that he's been missing.
1:40.6	So this has led many others to come up with alternative reasons and explanations for Ben Strange's appearance.
1:47.0	Before this episode we like to give a big shout out to Sean V, our preferred patron over at Patreon, who suggested we look into this disturbing
1:55.2	underwater case.
1:57.1	Thanks to Sean V. and all of the other patrons supporting the show, we are able to continually
2:01.6	grow our audience and prove the quality of the show, and hope to soon create
2:05.8	new content such as merchandise for all of our listeners all around the world.
2:09.8	Yeah, so the way the Tier 3 thing is going to work is that we'll have a maximum of five preferred patrons and we'll just kind of cycle through whoever is our Tier 3 patron and do a different request for them every month.
2:26.0	So if you're one of those people who likes to send us 10 requests for episodes and an email,
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