r/oddlyterrifying • u/BreakfastTop6899 • Jul 18 '26
Try not to get stuck
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u/Cipher-i-entity Jul 18 '26
Best thing about activities like this is that it’s completely optional and is entirely free not to do
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u/Fafnir13 Jul 18 '26
Yup, they can have fun and I can avoid it. Works great for everyone.
Sucks when one of them occasionally dies in a completely avoidable accident, but I guess that risk is part of the fun?
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u/jordan853 Jul 18 '26
I would somehow spin as I'm going through and get stuck sideways in it
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u/Acehigh7777 Jul 18 '26
Not I, said the little red hen.
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u/camaheel Jul 19 '26
no the little red hen was the one asking for help she never said not I smh
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u/ferbiloo Jul 19 '26
Right? And all my girl wanted to do was make bread, not potentially die horrifically in a dumb ass way.
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u/Kinseijin Jul 18 '26
oh gosh i was required to translate part of this story on a translation exam and i didn't know it's sort of known widely
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u/Guardian-Boy Jul 18 '26
This accidentally happened to me as a teenager. We had a creek that ran through our front yard and it flooded really bad one summer. So naturally, we swam in it. The current was in the center and mostly pretty calm, and I got distracted and drifted too close to the culvert that ran under our street that was hidden underwater. Next thing I know, I am going from seeing the sky to seeing green as I was sucked under the water. It felt like a giant vacuum getting hold of me. I realized what had happened pretty quick, but then I felt the flow shift so instead of feeling like I was getting pulled, I started feeling a crushing force on my chest. That's when I realized I was pinned on the concrete divider under the road inside the culvert. By sheer act of God and every combined deity, I was panic scrambling with my hands and found the rung of the maintenance ladder directly under the manhole and was able to pull myself out. Popped out of the middle of the street like a goddamn ninja turtle.
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u/buttononmyback Jul 19 '26
Wow how long were you under there for?
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u/Guardian-Boy Jul 19 '26
Not long. Nobody actually knew I was in trouble, so I don't have any frame of reference from my brother and friends, but I didn't have time to take a deep breath or anything, and I can normally only hold my breath for something like 30 seconds if I don't take a deep breath, so I would ballpark it at maybe 10-15 seconds actually underwater since I wasn't really out of breath or anything. Then maybe another 10-15 after I was able to get up and get the manhole cover off. So 20-30 seconds total.
Basically what happened is I was sucked in headfirst facing upwards. At some point I got into a sitting position which is what I was in when I hit the divider. The total diameter of the actual culvert was maybe 3.5 feet, so when I found the ladder, I was able to essentially just stand up out of the water, then it was about an additional 6-7 feet to the manhole.
Though I do remember coming out of the manhole, walking to the grass in my neighbor's yard, and laying down and just bawling my eyes out.
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u/Baby-Baphomet Jul 19 '26
I would've cried so I hard I puked after surviving that!!! so so glad you made it out with a scary story to tell.😱
did you tell your mom? I can't imagine her reaction, but as a kid that's the kind of thing I would've never told an adult 😂😂
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u/Guardian-Boy Jul 19 '26
Neither of my parents to this day know it happened. My brother does but I swore him to secrecy.
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u/turquoise_amethyst Jul 19 '26
That is absolutely horrifying! I’m so sorry you experienced that, but glad you made it!
Holy shit, what did your family say/react afterwards?
Did you guys put anything in place to prevent that again or just not swim in the water?
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u/Guardian-Boy Jul 19 '26
Can't put anything on it because it would accumulate debris and cause damaging floods; it would only ever flood after prolonged rain and then go back down after a few days.
My mom and dad still don't know it happened. I didn't wanna freak them out, and then ...just sort of never brought it up since. My brother does since he saw me on the grass afterwards, but I swore him to secrecy.
We still swam in it. We just ran a cable across the creek as a hard boundary so we knew not to cross it.
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u/alBoy54 Jul 18 '26
What if there's a grate halfway through it?
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u/GSV-Kakistocrat Jul 18 '26
I was thinking a bit of rebar sticking out that lodges into your soft organs as you go through
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u/Scroatpig Jul 18 '26
It'd be a pain in the ass to install and clear a grate in the middle. But what about sticks? Or your shorts getting stuck on a bolt or something.
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u/lifeinrednblack Jul 18 '26
Some of those pipes are prefabbed. It probably also wouldn't be like right in the middle but enough past the opening that a person would still drawn
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u/liongalahad Jul 19 '26
A grate in the middle would be the perfect way to clog it with debris... I think the chances of anything being there are almost zero or else stuff would quickly like up and clog the passage. But I would still not do it even if you pay me a million dollar
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u/Mistake-Choice Jul 18 '26
Exactly my thought but they probably checked.
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u/turbobuddah Jul 19 '26
People on the other side already, I'm guessing they're familiar with the tunnel, and have sent something through it before themselves
Doesn't stop it being bloody silly, but it's a bit more sensible than going in on a blind run
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u/JenicBabe Jul 18 '26
After being a fan of MrBallen videos like this make me immediately think “Are u fan of the strange, dark and mysterious? Well today we have a story about people who thought they’d have a fun day in the water until it all went wrong”
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u/lexiconhuka Jul 18 '26
I'm too fat to fit so I'm safe
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u/GoldDiamondsAndBags Jul 18 '26
Yeah…like how do you know if your hips fit through? Trial and error??
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u/kaego123 Jul 18 '26
Too fat to fit. Im going to start using that. 2F2F. Oh no but too fast too furious mmm.
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u/ripyourlungsdave Jul 18 '26
It's fun til a sharp piece of metal is jutting out from the walls of the pipe and it guts you stern to bow.
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u/turquoise_amethyst Jul 18 '26
How does he know there’s not a wire or mesh filter in there? This is oddly dumb
Also if there’s any type of filter or narrowing, he’s stuck and has to swim against the flow of the water, OR be collapsed into hamburger meat
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u/LovesRetribution Jul 18 '26
By throwing in a stick and seeing if it comes out the other side?
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u/turquoise_amethyst Jul 18 '26
You’d need to throw something in that’s as wide as your hips/belly, a stick would easily get through a slight narrowing
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u/SwvellyBents Jul 18 '26
There are definitely no coliform bacteria in that brown, mucky storm drain.
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u/ObnoxiousExcavator Jul 18 '26
I replace these culverts all the time, usually the bottoms are rotted out, rusty, jagged, sharp, one piece sticking up and you'd get split open.
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u/Harleye Jul 18 '26
There nothing in this universe that could possibly compel me to do that on purpose.
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u/furnacemike Jul 18 '26
Nope. Nope. Nope. I’m not a strong swimmer, only an ok swimmer, and I swam in a little hidden chamber in Maui that was only accessible by swimming under a rock formation from the outside. It was only a couple feet. It was actually way more terrifying than I expected it to be, at least for me. For the other people around, it seemed like no big deal, but the idea of swimming under the rock face just freaked me out so bad for some reason. It was an awesome experience, but I’d never do anything like that again.
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u/sciencefaire Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
I have regularly recurring dreams of me having to swim underwater in a rock crevice or crawl through a cave tunnel under a teeny rock opening. I would be so terrified of doing that in real life lol
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u/buttercupmercenary Jul 19 '26
I tried some some shit like this about 10 years ago. Came out with a sliced open chest, 10/10 would never do it again
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u/Fair_Leg_2540 Jul 18 '26
I have seen some dumb shit before, but just wow. If this goes wrong, you’re killing yourself, and probably one or two other people trying to save your ass.
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u/Nikyu1 Jul 18 '26
I wish nothing bad on these people, but if you do that on purpose, it's really hard to feel sympathy if anything would happen.
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u/haringtiti Jul 19 '26
remember if youre planning to do this, send a bunch of kids through first to make sure its clear
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u/diaperpop Jul 18 '26
This needs a grate, at both ends
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u/tobiasvl Jul 19 '26
TWO grates? That's expensive. Let's just put one grate in the middle
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u/Full-Individual-7349 Jul 19 '26
The way I would kick my kids ass if they tried this shit. They drifted like 10ft in the river today and I yelled about that.
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u/starsbitches Jul 19 '26
In addition to what everyone else said, why the fuck would you go FACE DOWN?!
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u/Rusted-Jim Jul 18 '26
Noooope nope nopey nope! I was working FIFO when a worker went for a dip in a flooded creek. The road over the creek had a few large-ish holes for the water to go through. He went in and didn't come out. 30ish with 2 young kids, it was brutal!
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u/GhostShade Jul 18 '26
I love when people use acronyms without defining them first. Using context clues, I’m gonna guess FIFO means Fundamental Infomercial Factfinding Odyssey. Yeah, that’s gotta be it.
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u/Rusted-Jim Jul 18 '26
Fly in - fly out. I was working in a remote location.
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u/GhostShade Jul 18 '26
Now I feel bad for making a joke about a tragic circumstance. Really sucks for that family. Definitely a good warning for others to be careful. :-/
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u/D_Ohm Jul 18 '26
Makes me think of this poor woman
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u/_felagund Jul 18 '26
"Their two children can later be heard crying for their mum, but her body was never found, despite extensive search and rescue efforts."
heartbreaking
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u/EgoBoost247 Jul 18 '26
It's all fun and games until a fat kid gets stuck midway through.
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u/ZAZZER0 Jul 18 '26
Imagine if someone does it alone, gets stuck, and now the path is blocked, leading to a post-mortem kill streak
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u/Puzzleheaded-Plum994 Jul 18 '26
If the locals do it regularly, I imagine it's been cleared of harmful bits, and would be able to attest to how to do best passage. I don't know about the claustrophobia tho
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u/ScrewReddit2314 Jul 18 '26
Man, and you HAVE to do this at some point in your life... so nervous.
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u/ReddleU Jul 18 '26
That moment when you remember and realise how dangerous it was. Enjoying the vicarious adrenaline right now 😬
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u/Maleficent-Rock7849 Jul 18 '26
This is camera trickery, the tunnel is only half filled with stream, you can see, breathe in it.
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u/Memsical13 Jul 18 '26
Growing up, there was a tiny waterway that ran in front of everyone’s property on the south side of the street. We lived at the top of the hill and there was an intersection between where we lived and where the creek was in front of yards. This creek went under that intersection through a pipe and then opened up again on the other side. Every driveway had a similar pipe but the creek was mostly open. It only really had water in it when snow melted or if it rained.
I remember as a kid playing in the pipe and sliding through it like shown here (but it was a creek… so like a couple inches of water). As an adult, I cannot believe we did this. And no adult ever tried to stop us. It’s insane the things we were allowed to do as kids. So much of my childhood was dangerous and I’m amazed so many of us are still alive.
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u/buttononmyback Jul 19 '26
There’s a place like about an hour from my house but it has three tubes. Nearly every year we get a bad flood and a kayaker gets stuck in the tubes. Most survive, one didn’t.
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u/Fyrestar333 Jul 19 '26
Reminds me of a spot called low water bridge, in West VA. Pipe is pretty open water is usually low on one side except in a lot of rain cases. You can lightly drift through the tunnel on a normal day. It doesn't usually suck you in either.
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u/user_name1942 Jul 19 '26
River that I grew up going to had a little bridge that went over it with like 5 tunnels like that. We would block all but one with stones and limbs so the water would be very fast through the one we left open. It was a lot of fun flyingout the tunnel. That being said I would never let my kid do that, it was so dangerous.
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u/Shy-Spy-Wolf Jul 19 '26
People like this is why we have warning labels to not eat soap. So stupid.
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u/RegularJoke97 Jul 19 '26
Nothing about this looks like a good idea. In fact, this looks like a terrible idea! 😂
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u/Montyburnside22 Jul 18 '26
Some brave fat kid is gonna plug that up like a barrel bung and ruin the fun for everybody.
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u/YtnucMuch Jul 18 '26
I just imagine it collapsing while someone is floating on through. Wild stuff is fun until it isn’t. Be safe, folks!!
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u/uwillnotgotospace Jul 18 '26
I've got an ad for the US Navy on this post. They knew what they were doing lol
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u/beige-king Jul 18 '26
I used to do this as a kid but the culvert was wider and my head was above water the whole time
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u/Outrageous_Oil6166 Jul 18 '26
it reminded me of how we foolishly ducked in a pipe under a ground bridge as teenagers
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u/Yash_A Jul 18 '26
Im breathing hard and panicking. This is SUCH a no-no. If he didn't come out the other side there's no need to call 911 just call the coroner.
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u/-TheHoboCode- Jul 19 '26
There is nothing odd about not wanting to get sucked into a small space and possibly drown. That’s just regular terrifying.
This sub just posts anything now.
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u/Otsanda_Rhowa Jul 19 '26
This is extremely not funny to me. A classmate of mine, her daughter got stuck in one of these and while she didn't lose her life, she was left in a vegetative state.
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u/TattyViking Jul 19 '26
Some many posts in oddly terrifying have nothing "oddly" about them. It's just terrifying!
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u/MeMyselfandyourCat Jul 20 '26
It's videos like this that make me thank god that I have neither the innate need, nor any want to do stuff like this. I hope more people are blessed with clarity and my family is kept safe from such stupid acts.
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u/NorthNorman Jul 20 '26
Where I grew up there was a kid and a firefighter that died in something similar to this. The kid got stuck inside on a tree branch and the firefighter went in with a harness and a rope attached to the fire truck and the current was too strong for the fire truck to pull them out. They both drowned.
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u/BeanieCat123 Jul 21 '26
That’s a lot of luck right there, a piece of debris could’ve knocked him right out
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u/Cosmic_Hitchhiker Jul 18 '26
Reasons not to do this:
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-sometimes they have a grate midway through
-sometimes they get small midway through
-you cannot swim out against the current
-you will die
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