Nutty Putty Cave Incident

Morbid

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart

True Crime, Comedy, Paranormal, Dark History

4.4 • 100.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Discovered in Utah County in 1960, Nutty Putty Cave quickly became a popular destination for amateur and professional cavers and spelunkers as a kind of bucket list cave of considerable difficulty. Despite its popularity, beginning in the late 1980s, the cave became notorious for the number of explorers who became trapped and required emergency assistance to escape its twisting, narrow, and poorly mapped passageways. In late November 2009, the inherent risk and dangers of Nutty Putty Cave made national news when twenty-six-year-old college student John Edward Jones became trapped upside-down in an uncharted and perilously narrow section of the cave. Thank you to the incredible Dave White of Bring me the Axe Podcast for research assistance! References Ashton, Katie. 2006. "Nutty Putty Cave entrance getting a gate." Daily Herald, May 2: 23. Associated Press. 2006. "Utah's caves remain open one year after Provo tragedy." Daily Herald, August 14: 8. —. 2009. Man dies after day trapped upside-down in cave. November 25. Accessed October 12, 2023. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna34157005. —. 2009. Man dies after day trapped upside-down in cave. November 25. Accessed October 13, 2023. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna34157005. —. 2009. "Recovery of caver's body deemed too dangerous." Roanoke Times, November 28: 4. —. 2004. "Teen stuck in cave is rescued." Salt Lake Tribune, August 22: 20. Cabero, Alex. 2009. Nutty Putty Cave discoverer doesn't want it to be closed. November 27. Accessed October 12, 2023. https://www.ksl.com/article/8824435/nutty-putty-cave-discoverer-doesnt-want-it-to-be-closed. Canham, Matt. 2004. "BYU student freed from cave." Salt Lake Tribune, Septmber 5: 21. LaPlante, Matthew. 2009. "Popular cave draws ill-prepared adventurers." Salt Lake Tribune, November 25. Nokkentved, N.S. 2005. "State may close popular cave." Daily Herald, June 26: 21. Outside Magazine. 2002. Exploring Caving Accidents, Deaths, and Rescues in the United States. August 3. Accessed October 12, 2023. https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/exploring-caving-accidents-deaths-and-rescues-united-states/. Peterson, Chris. 2005. "Father says daughter died doing what she loved." Daily Herald, August 19: 1. Reporter-Times. 1999. "Deputies free teens from cave." Reporter-Times, July 29: 3. Tanner, Steve. 1999. "Teens spend long day in dark." Daily Herald, July 29: 1. Waqar, Jehanzeb. 2022. The Nutty Putty Cave and the untimely death of a young caver. December 15. Accessed October 12, 2023. https://interestingengineering.com/culture/nutty-putty-cave-death-young-caver. Whitehurst, Lindsay. 2018. Nutty Putty: ‘I really, really want to get out’. July 9. Accessed October 13, 2023. https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/07/09/nutty-putty-i-really/. —. 2018. Nutty Putty: ‘We’re going to get you out’. July 10. Accessed October 13, 2023. https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/07/10/nutty-putty-were-going/

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0:00.0	You're listening to a morbid network podcast.
0:07.0	Hey, weirdos, I'm Ash.
0:09.0	And I'm Elena.
0:10.0	And this is morbid.
0:17.0	is morbid. This is more bit and what a fucking day it has been.
0:28.0	You guys, we have had a day.
0:32.0	It started off awesome. We have had a day.
0:33.2	It started off awesome.
0:35.1	Yeah.
0:36.1	It started off with like
0:36.8	fucking yummy ass food,
0:39.1	fucking delicious coffee.
0:42.0	Like awesome coffees, yum, you know, friendship, camaraderie.
0:49.0	Friendship and camaraderie, wow listen to her.
0:51.5	And then a bird flew in my house.
0:55.0	And I think, like I'm, tell me if I'm wrong, I know you will.
0:59.0	I think that's supposed to be a bad omen and then I looked it up and it was like in some
1:05.4	places it's a good omen so I think it's just whatever the fuck you feel.
1:08.2	Well when you said that I was like okay well I'm choosing to look at it as a good omen because I think that's like you know that's that's it
1:16.9	I'm gonna take it as a good omen and let the record show that me and Mikey saved the bird it's true they did They got it out of the house safely and soundly. But that
1:25.7	happened so that was weird and it kind of interrupted the flow of the day but we were
1:28.8	kind of laughing about it being like oh my God that could have been so bad I'm so
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