Hello everyone and welcome back to Scary Interesting.

In this video, we're going to go over three cave stories that have all of the elements that

make cave exploring terrifying.

There are tight squeezes and horrific injuries, but they're going to be different than you expect.

You'll see what I mean, and as always, viewer discretion is advised.

New South Wales is an Australian state that sits on the country's eastern side, and

the very first people to reside there are believed to have arrived in the area around

60,000 years ago.

In what is now, New South Wales lived the Borough Borough people, and living in the area around 60,000 years ago. In what is now, New South Wales

lived the Borough-Burra people, and living in an area of about 4,100 square miles, they occupied

land that included the Blue Mountains, which is a range of deep valleys, high ridges, and

dangerous terrain. One particular spot that the territory includes is a system of caves

that the people

referred to by a word that translates to dark places, but today it's known as the Genolan

Caves.

The history of these caves goes back much, much further than the Aboriginal Australians

who explore them tens of thousands of years ago though.

Speleologists have determined that the cave's beginnings go back to around

340 million years, making it the oldest known open cave system in the entire world. They're

also some of the most visited too. With artwork left behind by Aboriginal people on the walls,

along with marine fossils and beautiful calcite formations, the things to see inside the Genilone

caves began drawing tourists and droves

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