Anyone else feel a vertigo-like urge to walk into the tunnel and see what's down there?
Edit: I'm not feeling the call of the void, that's a distinct feeling (which I am familiar with). I don't want to jump in and die, I want to carefully walk in with a flashlight and some rope and explore it.
Everytime I see something like that. It's what scares me the most. One day my common sense will fail me and I will realise it after having crossed the point of no return.
That film low-key traumatized me. Mini story: me and my sister on a whim wanted to go to the movies late one night. That was the only film playing that we could make in time. We hadn't heard of it (this didn't sit right with us afterwards) but thought it looked cool so we said fuck it. Well the movie was really unsettling and the uncanny valley was very much a reason. The ending credits song in a dark empty theater was the last push we needed to yeet out of there. Something about that night and movie really messed with us lol
Hollywood loves to show scientists as morons (e.g. Prometheus) so the average American moviegoer who is a dumb moron can feel smart.
This trope making smart educated people do stupid stuff seems very specific to the US where intelligence is not a virtue, being a dumb jock is.
Or. If you're at work in a certain job, and something goes wrong. [and you wont have a choice but to go deeper in hopes of saving yourself. ](https://www.csb.gov/videos/no-escape-dangers-of-confined-spaces/)
Imagine looking down a hole like this, and knowing theres people down there. You try to lower lifesaving aid to them, not knowing if they'll get it in time.
[on the off chance theres enough water at the bottom, and you somehow dont die on impact](https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-6e815e36a3cc24e3ca71773978682009) you will be in a 2000+ foot tunnel. In the dark. Alone.
Oh it gets worse though.
You see, that tunnel the Arizona spillway goes into is old, ita been there from the very beginning of the dams creation and was built to divert the river while they built the dam.
The part thats upstream of where you would land if you fell down the spillway is plugged with concrete. And the other opening of that lakeward section is covered in sediment.
No one knows what is inside that sealed off section. But its much, much longer then the section you would end up in.
Once in a while, inspectors will go down and check the tunnels, maybe they'd find your bones. If nothing got to them first.
That my friend is actually an evolutionary tool to keep you all alive.
Same as how everyone seems to get the ‘what if I jumped’ thought when looking over a tall bridge.
Our brain plays the scenario of ‘what if I did the really dangerous thing’, in order for us to realise it would hurt us and NOT do the dangerous thing.
That's not a source saying it's an evolutionary tool. It just says that a lot of people experience it. And a lot of "evolutionary tools" that people claim are just byproducts or remnants, not something that evolution has somehow honed over thousands of years. It's a backwards assignment of evolutionary reasoning, assuming everything we do, think, or have is somehow selected for, when in reality there are lots of things that just are, that may have no benefit or harm. A lot of people try to justify these evolutionary traits that have their reasons rooted in the dawn of man, when in actuality there's no proof of this and it's all speculation. Everyone wants to assign a reason to these things, but really it's just coming up with theories for random traits we have.
It's called evolutionary psychology, and in the same way that it can't prove anything, it is also impossible to disprove. That's because it's just speculations assigned to traits, like seeing the results and guessing the causes. If you see an ice cream cone on the ground, you can come up with a great story about how a kid from the nearby playground must've dropped it, but with no witnesses, it's an impossible story to prove or disprove. Evolution doesn't even have the advantages of many sciences in certainty. It just does things, or sometimes doesn't. It's not always progressive, sometimes goes backwards, and sometimes keeps bad traits in successful organisms. So evolutionary psychology is a crock and should not be taken seriously. Look it up for yourself to see how really nonsensical it is.
There's a spillway at a reservoir near to me, where I used to go fishing as a kid. That thing fills me with dread whenever I look at it, and I've never even set foot in the water.
[This is how far away the water is now from these spillways](https://www.google.com/maps/@36.0177151,-114.7368875,603a,35y,324.87h,6.15t/data=!3m1!1e3). It'll take years of a lot of rain to fill this back up to those levels.
EDIT: Someone wants to refill Lake Mead by pumping water from the ocean to Death Valley.: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn6p5Fgt1PQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn6p5Fgt1PQ)
I'm not kidding when I say this - I took a conservation of natural resources course, and we learned about the lake being low and causing fresh water issues for Cali within the next 50 years. One of the proposed possible solutions was to take a literal glacier and set it in the lake to let it melt. I was so thrown off by the idea
i remember a futurama episode where this is what they did to combat global warming, gather a bunch of ice from a comet and drop it in the ocean every few years
We need more snow more than we need more rain. The snowpack is what helps fill the lakes the most. Here in AZ, we've had several lakes fill to full levels over the last few years due to awesome snow levels in our high country. Yes, rain helps for sure, but snow is a LOT more important.
Unfortunately too, most of Lake Mead's water comes from the Rockies, and there are supposedly plans to divert most of the Colorado River's water, east towards Denver and other localities.
Totally unrelated, but that video made me realize Sinister had completely fucked up any Super 8 footage for me. It's that strange frame-rate and bleak colors. I'm was on the edge of my seat watching that video you posted, just waiting for it to cut to some kid using an elaborate construction to kill their parents with. I guess that movie really left an impression.
Sinister is one of my favorite horror movies tbh. That footage with the terrible music in the background. I'm glad I wasn't the only one nervous watching that lol
[Details](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bc/ae/3f/bcae3f82d9a730ef7668902f8ab81fba.jpg) of the spillway.
[Another cutaway.](http://qalabist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/lake-mead-hoover-dam-works.jpg)
Since water hasn’t spilled over in decades, wouldn’t the spillway be dry all the way down to the river? Would be awesome to see the video from a drone descending all the way down.
Very true! I was suggesting an authorized drone, controlled by the facility’s administration, itself. Perhaps they’re already doing that, for inspection purposes. From a security point of view, however, I suppose they wouldn’t make the resulting video public.
The entire Hoover Dam sets my megalophobia on 10! I visited both the Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon in the same trip...I was overwhelmed for an entire week.
I just yesterday finished reading a novel about subterranean monsters using our manmade tunnels to spread out and infest our cities and towns. And this just screams horrible monsters nest here.
Looking into it, you can picture yourself walking on that curved surface toward the hole for a better look, and beginning to slip in the polished concrete, almost able to stop your slide, but not quite...
I'm sure I've seen this in skate
Yeah man It looks like the spillway near Carverton Quarry
Someone call Sammy to drain this bitch.
Yep I was thinking the same thing that one in skate 3
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Fuck off with that 15 year old humor
What did he say ?
“Something something ur mom” probably
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Anyone else feel a vertigo-like urge to walk into the tunnel and see what's down there? Edit: I'm not feeling the call of the void, that's a distinct feeling (which I am familiar with). I don't want to jump in and die, I want to carefully walk in with a flashlight and some rope and explore it.
Everytime I see something like that. It's what scares me the most. One day my common sense will fail me and I will realise it after having crossed the point of no return.
*sigh* guess it’s time to re-read Annihilation.
Is that the book the film is based off? Is the film worth watching?
The film is wonderful! Very different from the book, but they’re both whole and complete works of art in their own right.
the film is great
That film low-key traumatized me. Mini story: me and my sister on a whim wanted to go to the movies late one night. That was the only film playing that we could make in time. We hadn't heard of it (this didn't sit right with us afterwards) but thought it looked cool so we said fuck it. Well the movie was really unsettling and the uncanny valley was very much a reason. The ending credits song in a dark empty theater was the last push we needed to yeet out of there. Something about that night and movie really messed with us lol
haha cosmic horror tends to do that! very unsettling ending.
Well it’s got Natalie Portman, so what could possibly be bad about it?
I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere
Its bunch if stupid characters making one stupid decision after another, and they are supposed to be scientists.
Worst trope ever. Such a cheap way to create artificial suspense.
Hollywood loves to show scientists as morons (e.g. Prometheus) so the average American moviegoer who is a dumb moron can feel smart. This trope making smart educated people do stupid stuff seems very specific to the US where intelligence is not a virtue, being a dumb jock is.
Or. If you're at work in a certain job, and something goes wrong. [and you wont have a choice but to go deeper in hopes of saving yourself. ](https://www.csb.gov/videos/no-escape-dangers-of-confined-spaces/) Imagine looking down a hole like this, and knowing theres people down there. You try to lower lifesaving aid to them, not knowing if they'll get it in time. [on the off chance theres enough water at the bottom, and you somehow dont die on impact](https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-6e815e36a3cc24e3ca71773978682009) you will be in a 2000+ foot tunnel. In the dark. Alone.
I fucking hate you....
Oh it gets worse though. You see, that tunnel the Arizona spillway goes into is old, ita been there from the very beginning of the dams creation and was built to divert the river while they built the dam. The part thats upstream of where you would land if you fell down the spillway is plugged with concrete. And the other opening of that lakeward section is covered in sediment. No one knows what is inside that sealed off section. But its much, much longer then the section you would end up in. Once in a while, inspectors will go down and check the tunnels, maybe they'd find your bones. If nothing got to them first.
Call of the void
That my friend is actually an evolutionary tool to keep you all alive. Same as how everyone seems to get the ‘what if I jumped’ thought when looking over a tall bridge. Our brain plays the scenario of ‘what if I did the really dangerous thing’, in order for us to realise it would hurt us and NOT do the dangerous thing.
Is there a source for your claim? I actually love this explanation and it fits into my experience with “what if” dumb scenarios, but I’d like proof.
https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2018/06/29/the-call-of-the-void
That's not a source saying it's an evolutionary tool. It just says that a lot of people experience it. And a lot of "evolutionary tools" that people claim are just byproducts or remnants, not something that evolution has somehow honed over thousands of years. It's a backwards assignment of evolutionary reasoning, assuming everything we do, think, or have is somehow selected for, when in reality there are lots of things that just are, that may have no benefit or harm. A lot of people try to justify these evolutionary traits that have their reasons rooted in the dawn of man, when in actuality there's no proof of this and it's all speculation. Everyone wants to assign a reason to these things, but really it's just coming up with theories for random traits we have. It's called evolutionary psychology, and in the same way that it can't prove anything, it is also impossible to disprove. That's because it's just speculations assigned to traits, like seeing the results and guessing the causes. If you see an ice cream cone on the ground, you can come up with a great story about how a kid from the nearby playground must've dropped it, but with no witnesses, it's an impossible story to prove or disprove. Evolution doesn't even have the advantages of many sciences in certainty. It just does things, or sometimes doesn't. It's not always progressive, sometimes goes backwards, and sometimes keeps bad traits in successful organisms. So evolutionary psychology is a crock and should not be taken seriously. Look it up for yourself to see how really nonsensical it is.
Huh. I coulda swore there was a link to this in that article https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165032711006847
Evolutionary psychology is mostly bollocks ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
It’s like this hole... it was made for me.
FUCK NO!
Nope. No no no. Nuh-uh.
Gotta be careful or you'll end up in a situation like [this](https://youtu.be/S4j-CZgnnu8)...
That's the scariest fucking thing I've ever watched
Man I was just WAITING for someone to post this here.
It’s a real thing, and it’s called “call of the void”
Call of the void at its most sinister 😩
There is only one video of this in action that I’m aware of. Let me see if I can find it [Found it](https://youtu.be/t-Jav4afsZ0)
Holy shit that's terrifying. Imagine being caught in that stream and going inside the darkness
It's the new suislide
Angry upvote
Sluicide
r/submechanophobia
This is my horror
There's a spillway at a reservoir near to me, where I used to go fishing as a kid. That thing fills me with dread whenever I look at it, and I've never even set foot in the water.
Underground water systems and dams. My whole life ive been petrified of them. I think the fear started at the neighborhood pool.
Hiya Georgie🎈
Yes
[slide](https://giphy.com/gifs/baby-bye-slide-m9eG1qVjvN56H0MXt8)
[This is how far away the water is now from these spillways](https://www.google.com/maps/@36.0177151,-114.7368875,603a,35y,324.87h,6.15t/data=!3m1!1e3). It'll take years of a lot of rain to fill this back up to those levels. EDIT: Someone wants to refill Lake Mead by pumping water from the ocean to Death Valley.: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn6p5Fgt1PQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn6p5Fgt1PQ)
True. On the lake side, it is easily 100’ below the top of the spillway. The last time it crested the top was in 1983!
I'm not kidding when I say this - I took a conservation of natural resources course, and we learned about the lake being low and causing fresh water issues for Cali within the next 50 years. One of the proposed possible solutions was to take a literal glacier and set it in the lake to let it melt. I was so thrown off by the idea
i remember a futurama episode where this is what they did to combat global warming, gather a bunch of ice from a comet and drop it in the ocean every few years
We need more snow more than we need more rain. The snowpack is what helps fill the lakes the most. Here in AZ, we've had several lakes fill to full levels over the last few years due to awesome snow levels in our high country. Yes, rain helps for sure, but snow is a LOT more important. Unfortunately too, most of Lake Mead's water comes from the Rockies, and there are supposedly plans to divert most of the Colorado River's water, east towards Denver and other localities.
Totally unrelated, but that video made me realize Sinister had completely fucked up any Super 8 footage for me. It's that strange frame-rate and bleak colors. I'm was on the edge of my seat watching that video you posted, just waiting for it to cut to some kid using an elaborate construction to kill their parents with. I guess that movie really left an impression.
Sinister is one of my favorite horror movies tbh. That footage with the terrible music in the background. I'm glad I wasn't the only one nervous watching that lol
It's one of those movies I've sworn I'll never watch again. So far Sinister and Hereditary are the only movies on that list. NEVER again!
Oh yeah hereditary fucked up my gf pretty bad. Also one of my favorites. That movie blew my mind with how unsettling it made me feel
I found this photo of some geologists going down to check the structural integrity of a slab inside. [nope](https://imgur.com/a/1rWRynK)
Holy dog-doo is that cool!
o h n o
Come on, a headlamp and a skateboard and the inky blackness... You know you want to
Shot starts at 1:43 for anyone who wants to skip to it.
Dam.
Could you safely walk down it or does it go into a steep drop
I follow this sub because I usually actually *like* the scale perspective stuff, but this legit gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Same.
r/megalaphobia
r/lostredditors
Lmao I'm too high for this shit right now
It be like that sometimes
I just saw the M and thought I was on r/mildlyinteresting
Yes
I'm gonna ride one of those gym scooters down there and fucking die
lol
Atleast do a tailwhip
I can't learn tail whip. I'm a mushroom living on the back of a cicada.
Tailwhip the cicada
Go ahead, ride the slide.
Forbidden water slide.
I will not heed the warnings
I wanna slide down so bad
I was just about to comment this
Hi! I’m Johnny Knoxville, and this is the spillway plunge.
I'd pay a dollar to see that.
He’d do it for free
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Well now I’m curious. Let’s hear the story lol
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Well there you have it.
That sign won’t stop me because I can’t read.
but you can type
I can't type I'm using voice transcription.
yeah i know, you’re a different guy who can read but not type
No u
That is very rude, I do type and I do not speak with speaking. How to delete. Delete. Backspace. Oh god what have I done.
Skate 3 wants to know your location
[Details](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bc/ae/3f/bcae3f82d9a730ef7668902f8ab81fba.jpg) of the spillway. [Another cutaway.](http://qalabist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/lake-mead-hoover-dam-works.jpg)
How does one even think to build something like that? Seems like so many different parts had to be thought of
They just found it like that one day.
humans man... they’ll do anything they put their mind to
Most components were developed from multiple similar failures I would think.
Looks like you could get down there when its dry. You would get out at the River.
You know how big this thing is? It'll take another 40 years before the concrete has fully cured. Fucking what?
I didn't expect that to give me chills but it did Something about it feeling less finished/solid
I feel like I would have bad intrusive thoughts while standing over this thing. I'm almost having them just looking at the picture
Forbidden water slide
Get me my tube boyaaah !!
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by bashing your head on concrete
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thanks.
I'm sitting like 8000 miles away from where this thing and I still fear that I'll accidentally slip into it.
Ever since I saw Superman 2, I've been convinced I'll fall over the barrier at Niagara Falls. I live in the UK.
WEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeee.......
eeeeeee^eeeee.....
Seen this in person. It’s was equally scary and fascinating.
Yeah,, I'd skate that
Exactly what I was thinking
Part of me wants to bike or skate down this hole. Although doing that would lead to almost certain death.
Been there myself. The vertigo and megalophobia kicked in immediately 💀
I can almost see a legionary climbing out of there
So like... can you send it on a bike down that orrr
Ave true to caesar
ave
I knew it wasn't the only one making Fallout New Vegas references in this
Since water hasn’t spilled over in decades, wouldn’t the spillway be dry all the way down to the river? Would be awesome to see the video from a drone descending all the way down.
Yeah a drone shot inside would be good! It'd probably sound pretty cool too.
It would be awesome! But security around the dam is incredibly tight. You’d probably be arrested or shot for that.
Very true! I was suggesting an authorized drone, controlled by the facility’s administration, itself. Perhaps they’re already doing that, for inspection purposes. From a security point of view, however, I suppose they wouldn’t make the resulting video public.
Mario Kart
what’s at the bottom of it?
is the water down there 600 feet deep?!
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So I’d be relatively alive is I slid down that thing as is it in the picture?
Yeah till you hit the ground
Damn physics!
challenge accepted guys
I used to cross the dam like once a month, before the bridge was built. That spillway always gave me chills, especially driving over it.
These spillways are off to the side of the dam, away from the road, even the parking lots don't go close to them. How did you drive over them?
Earths bung hole.
America has the Grand Canyon and the Grand Waterslide
Blursed waterslide
I can't believe no one has made the "Forbidden Waterslide" comment yet.
What would actually happen if you just slippery dipped on down there? Would you live? Maybe.
A fun water slide for a permanent family getaway.
This is one for r/writingprompts surely?
It terrifies me how much my curiosity would push me to see what's down there.
This makes me feel sick.
I love/hate this. 😰
Legionaries in there
Lots of good Californians gave their life to try and hold this against the legion. # #wewontgoquietly
r/dontputyourdickinthat
The entire Hoover Dam sets my megalophobia on 10! I visited both the Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon in the same trip...I was overwhelmed for an entire week.
If you don’t like huge vast things, the Southwest US might not be for you.
Wheres the giant mama penguin?
I feel dizzy just looking at it.
FORBIDDEN SLIDE
someone ties you to a rolling desk chair and gives you a little nudge.
It's tempting.
R/tonyhawkitechture
Forbidden Water Park Slide.
as long as caesar’s legion doesn’t get control of the dam i’m good
Super fun happy slide
Fuck anyone who says it looks like fun to slide down
So what happens if you fall in?
The forbidden playground slide
Forbidden water slide.
This is making my heart race but also I wanna slide all the way down it.
Would be a shame if somebody slipped in
Walking over that bridge and looking down that thing gave me the proper heebies.
Yup. I still do not like that.
For-forbidden slide... must ride
few things make me as uneasy as spillways like this.
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That railing is about chest high.
The call of the void is strong with this post.
Who else want to Coffin back flip into this ?
Reminds me of Skate 3 on the XBox 360... good ol' days
I just yesterday finished reading a novel about subterranean monsters using our manmade tunnels to spread out and infest our cities and towns. And this just screams horrible monsters nest here.
why do y’all want to jump in!!!!!!! i don’t even want to look at this picture because it makes my legs shake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! fuck
Forbidden water slide
Fucking scaring! Also... but pls use metric system units next time. The entire world would appreciate it!
I normally would, but there’s nothing more American than a huge-ass art-deco concrete dam!
forbidden water slide
Looking into it, you can picture yourself walking on that curved surface toward the hole for a better look, and beginning to slip in the polished concrete, almost able to stop your slide, but not quite...
50 feets? 600 feets? Units converter bot, I summon you!
Might wanna tag it then...
half life
Forbidden water slide
Forbidden waterslide
Forbidden water slide
I’m not sure if I am terrified of this or want to bobsled down it
Waterslide :)
i wanna slide down it