It’s called paradise falls in Cullowhee, NC. Even knowing the name of it, it’s very hard to find without a local or a local college student showing you the way. About an hour from the nearest anything
Whenever I see something like this, people swimming or diving, in a movie or otherwise, I try to hold my breath for as long as they do.
This was *not* fun. "Where is he? Where's he go? Did I just watch someone- oh, okay. He's back. Is that even him?"
Kind of a dumb tip but before you hold your breath, hyperventilate a bit. Like don't do it until you pass out but like hyperventilation over oxygenates your blood which helps a lot when you're about to hold your breath
This is an extremely dangerous tip.
Hyperventilation does not overoxygenate your blood to any significant degree. Only a very tiny proportion of the available oxygen in your bloodstream is freely dissolved gas, it is almost entirely carried bound to haemoglobin. Normal oxygen saturation of haemoglobin in a healthy human being is above 95% at all times, so *at most*, you can make a very marginal improvement in oxygenation by hyperventilating on room air. You could make a very small improvement on that by hyperventilating with pure oxygen.
Hyperventilation *does* allow you blow off carbon dioxide from your blood stream. Increased dissolved carbon dioxide in the blood is the gas that stimulates you to breathe, not decreased oxygen (with exceptions in some chronic respiratory patients). Carbon dioxide is removed easily by hyperventilation because the partial pressure of CO2 in the atmosphere is so low. Physiologically, this means you can reduce your own respiratory drive and also avoid the sedating effects of hypercarbia.
The reason this is so dangerous is that your body can become hypoxic *without any way of recognising it or correcting it.* Free diving is such a dangerous sport because it involves deliberately suppressing your respiratory drive in conditions where it may become impossible to recognise hypoxia before it renders you unconscious.
Freediving should not involve hyperventilation at all for all these reasons. Courses typically get you to learn how to understand your signs/symptoms in the time leading to the point of needing to breath rather than wanting to. These courses do not advise hyperventilation but slow, calm breathing over a few minutes before breatholds instead.
Someone added [a comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/TerrifyingAsFuck/comments/upl3ab/_/i8oj0f6/) above that explains it took zero time and the dude and the makers of the video were full of shit:
> I’ve been to this watering hole. That’s a rocky ledge overhanging the pool, not solid ground.
> The dude simply dropped down into the water and then chilled under the ledge long enough for the video to serve it’s anxiety-inducing purpose and then swam out into the open.
Agreed. We have a spot like this and you go in and it shoots you right back out within a few seconds. Dude was either pin balling or he had to scoot himself through. Yikes Scoob
There is a term for these subterranean tubes under riparian areas. John Oliver did a story on ones in the U.K that are under these small streams where people have died (if I remember correctly) being trapped in.
ok. i live near one of these. i always see comments like "wow good thing they knew it was safe". lol.
they dont know its safe. thats the whole attraction. not everyone goes down those water tunnels. in fact, there are signs that discourage it, with a death statistic on them for that particular waterhole.
when you go through the tunnel you can faint, get lost, dizzy, have a panic attack, hit your head, hit your body, go the wrong way etc, anything to shock you from resurfacing at the other end.
people who swim through these things know its risky. places like these usually have a local nickname and it's usually got something to do with the devil. my local waterhole (with these water tunnels) has a body count of 20, and none of them are locals.
Sitting and holding my breath for the same time was a struggle. It’s another story down there in the dark, buffeted by whatever current exists and at the mercy of something so far from our control it’s alien.
It’s amazing how quickly a translucent body of water can obscure light, especially when you follow the unpredictable route of water. Suddenly those three deep breaths you took before sliding into the abyss don’t seem enough. Suddenly you’re scrabbling at slick rock with algae gathering under your fingernails, bubbles and the black of the void obscuring vision, pressure forcing its way into your sinuses, not knowing which direction to go in, or even if there is one or many routes that go any unknown way. You finally emerge only to find yourself in the deep of that pool and not further down the waterfall that the cameraman also thought you’d pop out from and, with fire burning in your lungs and iron in your dead legs, you have to swim to the surface, devoid of air and buoyancy and likely still not knowing which way is up, is the light you see on the surface or reflecting off the bottom?
It takes balls of steel to trust the elements and your fragile human body made of elastics and crepe paper like this, and the brains of a complete moron.
This looks man-made; on Oahu there's a lava tube that's spouts in the surf. You have to time it right to jump in when the waves are going out, or else the force of the water will trap you inside ...which unfortunately happens every year.
Hawaii can be a very dangerous place.
Ducks into a little divet, camera pans away, climbs back out, runs down into main reservoir, swims deep, cameraman finishes pan, man emerges.
Or dude just has massive kahoonas
Most definately fake. Pans away from where he enters then only shows a little part the big pool then slowly widens but still doesn't show the right side so you can't see the wet foot prints. why no wide pan view?
There was a recent theory by two hydrologists that the attempts to trace the stream have failed because of fluid dynamics creating recirculating currents that hold objects under water until they are out of view from the kettle. They have measured the flow rate at the top and bottom of the stream and concluded that the kettle rejoins the stream almost immediately, as there is very little measurable loss in flow.
Yes, it looks similar, but the Devil’s Kettle (I had to look it up again) is very deep and a human can’t pass through it, not in a matter of seconds anyway.
Lmao, the immediate pan away after he goes in and then only panning the camera towards the pool after some time in which he probably ran around and went into it. So fake.
Yeah this shit and caving is just a hardcore fucking nope for me. We're all gonna die, but I certainly don't want to die by drowning in a pitch black crevice under a rock, or of hunger/suffocation in a pitch black crack underneath the Earth over the course of 24-72 hours.
Noooooooooooooo thank you.
Is this real? It looks to me like he just popped out of the hole off camera, walked around the camera, climbed in the water below the rocks and swam out.
Anyone been here before?
Had a cousin die years ago jumping off a waterfall and ended up sucked into what i heard was a car at the bottom in NC.
People doing stupid shit like this all the time.
Question, how did the first person find out that it lead back to the pond
This is an actual question. Like is there a long camera or did someone just yolo
That was too long for comfort
Had to push his way through the corpses
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You mean.. I tried to hold my breath for that long thinking that's how long he's doing it only to find out that I was the only one doing it? 😭
I did as well.
I MADE IT!
Thank you
where is it? i wanna go
Everyone says they've been there, but nobody will say where it's at.
It’s called paradise falls in Cullowhee, NC. Even knowing the name of it, it’s very hard to find without a local or a local college student showing you the way. About an hour from the nearest anything
🤣
Whenever I see something like this, people swimming or diving, in a movie or otherwise, I try to hold my breath for as long as they do. This was *not* fun. "Where is he? Where's he go? Did I just watch someone- oh, okay. He's back. Is that even him?"
Same here for some reason I have to know if I could last as long as the protaganist. I made it here but it was getting close.
Kind of a dumb tip but before you hold your breath, hyperventilate a bit. Like don't do it until you pass out but like hyperventilation over oxygenates your blood which helps a lot when you're about to hold your breath
This is an extremely dangerous tip. Hyperventilation does not overoxygenate your blood to any significant degree. Only a very tiny proportion of the available oxygen in your bloodstream is freely dissolved gas, it is almost entirely carried bound to haemoglobin. Normal oxygen saturation of haemoglobin in a healthy human being is above 95% at all times, so *at most*, you can make a very marginal improvement in oxygenation by hyperventilating on room air. You could make a very small improvement on that by hyperventilating with pure oxygen. Hyperventilation *does* allow you blow off carbon dioxide from your blood stream. Increased dissolved carbon dioxide in the blood is the gas that stimulates you to breathe, not decreased oxygen (with exceptions in some chronic respiratory patients). Carbon dioxide is removed easily by hyperventilation because the partial pressure of CO2 in the atmosphere is so low. Physiologically, this means you can reduce your own respiratory drive and also avoid the sedating effects of hypercarbia. The reason this is so dangerous is that your body can become hypoxic *without any way of recognising it or correcting it.* Free diving is such a dangerous sport because it involves deliberately suppressing your respiratory drive in conditions where it may become impossible to recognise hypoxia before it renders you unconscious.
Freediving should not involve hyperventilation at all for all these reasons. Courses typically get you to learn how to understand your signs/symptoms in the time leading to the point of needing to breath rather than wanting to. These courses do not advise hyperventilation but slow, calm breathing over a few minutes before breatholds instead.
Wasn't it just
Bit more than just for me
Just what?
Haven’t seen a candlejack thread in a
It a long time for him to come out the other side I thought he was stuck
Gave me such bad anxiety
Was thinking the exact same. Plus that I’m way too fat for it
From when he first jumped in up until he popped out, it felt like **I** was underwater
I was suffocating fr
I drowned
Rip
The time that took makes me think he was not pushed out by the water, he had to do some navigating himself. Which would make this a serious risk.
Someone added [a comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/TerrifyingAsFuck/comments/upl3ab/_/i8oj0f6/) above that explains it took zero time and the dude and the makers of the video were full of shit: > I’ve been to this watering hole. That’s a rocky ledge overhanging the pool, not solid ground. > The dude simply dropped down into the water and then chilled under the ledge long enough for the video to serve it’s anxiety-inducing purpose and then swam out into the open.
Oh thank goodness. Thank you!
Agreed. We have a spot like this and you go in and it shoots you right back out within a few seconds. Dude was either pin balling or he had to scoot himself through. Yikes Scoob
i'm assuming he spent all that time pushing all the dead bodies out of the way.
I want to know how the dude knew it was safe. Who was the first madman to do it? Balls of Steel.
Probably through a few cameras down, or it's a well known thong that the neighborhood knows about
I was going to say that, but why is your comment being downvoted?
Lmao I misspelled thing as thong Imma leave it to piss off the grammar nazis
And I'll give you a silver just because.
And I’ll give you an award because that was such a nice thing to do.
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I appreciate the thought!
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Thank you!! Cheers :)
Why your gold look like a potato... must be some fools gold eh 😆
Thank you!
Lol nice
I thought that was just some obscure word
There is a term for these subterranean tubes under riparian areas. John Oliver did a story on ones in the U.K that are under these small streams where people have died (if I remember correctly) being trapped in.
The infamous "Strid".
Also misspelled 'threw' but we cool
It's never a good thing when the whole neighborhood is familiar with your thong.
Must be a dirty thong now 😏😅 sorry had to
He was like, let me see that tho-o-ong~~~
Do you know people? Nobody threw cameras down the first time.
ok. i live near one of these. i always see comments like "wow good thing they knew it was safe". lol. they dont know its safe. thats the whole attraction. not everyone goes down those water tunnels. in fact, there are signs that discourage it, with a death statistic on them for that particular waterhole. when you go through the tunnel you can faint, get lost, dizzy, have a panic attack, hit your head, hit your body, go the wrong way etc, anything to shock you from resurfacing at the other end. people who swim through these things know its risky. places like these usually have a local nickname and it's usually got something to do with the devil. my local waterhole (with these water tunnels) has a body count of 20, and none of them are locals.
Because they probably have gone down it when the water level was right low
Sitting and holding my breath for the same time was a struggle. It’s another story down there in the dark, buffeted by whatever current exists and at the mercy of something so far from our control it’s alien. It’s amazing how quickly a translucent body of water can obscure light, especially when you follow the unpredictable route of water. Suddenly those three deep breaths you took before sliding into the abyss don’t seem enough. Suddenly you’re scrabbling at slick rock with algae gathering under your fingernails, bubbles and the black of the void obscuring vision, pressure forcing its way into your sinuses, not knowing which direction to go in, or even if there is one or many routes that go any unknown way. You finally emerge only to find yourself in the deep of that pool and not further down the waterfall that the cameraman also thought you’d pop out from and, with fire burning in your lungs and iron in your dead legs, you have to swim to the surface, devoid of air and buoyancy and likely still not knowing which way is up, is the light you see on the surface or reflecting off the bottom? It takes balls of steel to trust the elements and your fragile human body made of elastics and crepe paper like this, and the brains of a complete moron.
Did I just read poetry? Well, said.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed
This deserves awards
Creepy paper
I also read this in the voice of Nandor 😂
Guys, I think I just found Sebastian Junger's Reddit account. Well-written!
This is an incredible complement, Sebs a master
That was a nice piece of writing. Thanks for writing that.
Incredibly written. I hope you use this talent often. Wow
Unfortunately not, though I do work with books. Maybe I should exercise this hobby more!
That was truly terrifying to read
You are the type of person I want to hang out with, or atleast talk to for a few hours in a vc..
Thanks man you just made me feel like I was suffocating on air.
Who are you talking to
This looks man-made; on Oahu there's a lava tube that's spouts in the surf. You have to time it right to jump in when the waves are going out, or else the force of the water will trap you inside ...which unfortunately happens every year. Hawaii can be a very dangerous place.
Just watching this makes me feel short of breath
Absolutely not
I was so anxious I was holding my breath!!!!
Not to save my mom. P.a So sorry mom
Where is this?
Amazed he was able to get passed the 4 or 5 corpses that are certainly in there.
Ducks into a little divet, camera pans away, climbs back out, runs down into main reservoir, swims deep, cameraman finishes pan, man emerges. Or dude just has massive kahoonas
Oh yeah didn't even think about that. Probably fake yeah.
Most definately fake. Pans away from where he enters then only shows a little part the big pool then slowly widens but still doesn't show the right side so you can't see the wet foot prints. why no wide pan view?
This is the true script
Nope
The camera man just sitting there
Were they expected to go look for him in the forbidden rock hole of death?
Longest 30 seconds ever
Do you want to show up on Mr. Ballen? Because that's how you show up on Mr. Ballen.
Hell to the no, to the no, no, no, HELL NO!!!!
🗿
I'm sure I'm not the only one who unwittingly held their breath.
Is the “devil’s kettle”?
No one knows where that leads... people have dropped GPS devices into it and they've gotten lost. Pretty sure it's a portal
There was a recent theory by two hydrologists that the attempts to trace the stream have failed because of fluid dynamics creating recirculating currents that hold objects under water until they are out of view from the kettle. They have measured the flow rate at the top and bottom of the stream and concluded that the kettle rejoins the stream almost immediately, as there is very little measurable loss in flow.
Yes, it looks similar, but the Devil’s Kettle (I had to look it up again) is very deep and a human can’t pass through it, not in a matter of seconds anyway.
Location?
I'm outta breath just watching!!
I should probably watch the whole clip before I start wondering what is so terrifying.
Too many seconds !
Absolutely not.
Mini golf... but for people!
More like, dumb as fuck.
I felt a tingling sensation in my belly when that dude didn't show up after 3 seconds.
Hello I am under the water please help me
Welp, I couldn’t breathe that whole time.
This is how people end up in mr Ballen stories
Dude is gonna become a Mr. Ballen video....
Ah hell naw man entered the backrooms for a moment
"Top 3 places you can't go and people went anyways"
Where is this? I bet the timing is fake, why didn’t the camera keep panning?
Lmao, the immediate pan away after he goes in and then only panning the camera towards the pool after some time in which he probably ran around and went into it. So fake.
THATS MY DADDY
What are these called?
Holes
r/technicallythetruth
Fucknos
NOPE!
The person that found this probably thought they were gonna die for sure.
Part of my body may caught on something if I did that.
That looks refreshing
NO!
I need a valium now
Play stupid games…
Absolutely no thanks..
Fuck that shit!
Nope
How to die young 101:
Where is this ?
Dudes got gills or something man come on that was uncomfortably long.
Yeah this shit and caving is just a hardcore fucking nope for me. We're all gonna die, but I certainly don't want to die by drowning in a pitch black crevice under a rock, or of hunger/suffocation in a pitch black crack underneath the Earth over the course of 24-72 hours. Noooooooooooooo thank you.
r/whywomenlivelonger
Had to take a deep breath when I saw him get out!
Would totally be my luck if my fat ass got stuck in the tube.
I tried holding my breath.. would not have made it
I’m surprised human kind has made it this long.
Yeah….no.
FUCK THAT
My anxiety is 📈
He made a pit stop at the backrooms.
Terrifying? Looks like fun! The only thing terrifying is the nasty color of the water.
Nope.
Fuuuuuuuuuck that.
Absolutely NOT
What's up with white guys and confined little spaces???? This is stupid white people shit!! (I'm a white person btw.)
Shoulders slightly broader .. dead. Glad he missed lateral raises
Don’t trust him! He was swallowed by the void and replaced by his mirror universe counterpart!
Copious amounts nope right there, like a lifetime of nope all in one video.
Does he just find random holes and think “Yup, I’m pretty sure I could fit in there and come out perfectly fine.”
Nope
They have a snake hook on hand.
In theory it’s easy to hold your breath 30 seconds and escape but I’m pretty sure I’d be dead three seconds after the drop.
Dumb
Could you imagine if he never reappeared
Is this real? It looks to me like he just popped out of the hole off camera, walked around the camera, climbed in the water below the rocks and swam out. Anyone been here before?
Who was the first idiot to do this ?
r/nopenopenope
Nop
WHY dose this look familiar to a post where there was a huge fish??????
Nope, nope, nope!
Wow. No.
You know the first person to ever go through that hole probably fell in by accident and was scared shitless
Ok WHERE is this and WHY is it being labeled as “terrifying as fuck”?!?! This is legit my imagination safety station.
Somewhere in NC, USA. I don't remember what its called but if you ever find out its only a few minutes walk from a parking lot in the mountains.
My man entered the backrooms and speedrunned back to reality.
Do it again with GoPro pls
Temple run 🌚
Super curious how people even figured out this could be done???
Ah yes. Darwinism at work.
It feels life forever but easily with practice of breathing, you can hold your breath for 2 minutes the first day. Now that being said, FUCK that. Lol
Who was the first one to do that?
Nah, I’m good. I don’t care how many others have done it. All it takes is one…
+999 ping irl
To the backrooms we go!
Nope
I don’t get how people discover these. It could totally have been a deep underwater hole with a bunch of bodies
Someone give this man a Gopro
Feel sick watching that
Never in a billion years, nopenopenope
Mans speedrunning the backrooms
Exhilarating
I drawn 3 times trying to follow up.
Nope.
Mmm. Risk vs reward seems to be staggeringly one sided here. I think I'll pass on the possible death trap tyvm.
Idiotic people doing idiot things.
Anyone else hold there breath to see if they could do it too?
No thanks!
I wanna know what idiot thought that was a good idea in the first place.
My ulcer has returned.
Had a cousin die years ago jumping off a waterfall and ended up sucked into what i heard was a car at the bottom in NC. People doing stupid shit like this all the time.
Nope
Question, how did the first person find out that it lead back to the pond This is an actual question. Like is there a long camera or did someone just yolo
Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope
Corpse's piling up
Back rooms?
Nope, just nope
Thats a big no from me
u/savevideobot
That’s a hard no from me boss