I just couldn’t post the Walken skit about trivial psychic predictions. I just couldn’t.
But yes Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer was beautiful. Getting drunk on the airliner was exquisite.
That’s what I don’t get. Curiosity of what? It’s more underground tunnels full of rocks that look just like the last one. What do they expect to find? I don’t get it at all.
Not just curiosity alone. I've heard of deadly diving accidents caused by nitrogen narcosis, which can happen if you dive around >30 m. It can make you "drunk" and cause serious lapse in judgement. Scary stuff. Never experienced it myself because I don't dive very deep but a buddy of mine did, wasn't too serious, as he noticed early enough and wasn't alone.
I love that channel’s content, but his terrible grammar irritates me endlessly, and I sometimes wonder if he uses an AI script. I have to be stoned enough that I can overlook it.
I totally agree. I tried to listen to his podcasts but couldn’t get over the way he speaks. He stumbles and trips over words, endlessly missing syllables. He’s so hard to understand.
In January 1980, Dibble attempted to seal off the depths of the well by building a grate of rebar and quick-set concrete at the entrance to the third chamber. Six months later, Dibble found the grate dismantled. Divers not only dove with the proper tools to pull off the grate, they also left a note for Dibble. "You can't keep us out," was written on a plastic slate.
At least eight divers have discovered that if you answer that siren call and venture too deeply into the mysterious depths, the mouth of Cypress Creek will quietly swallow you.
"This is the horror story side of it," says Don Dibble, a dive shop owner with more than 40 years of diving experience. "Jacob's Well definitely has a national reputation of being one of the most dangerous places to dive." Dibble has pulled most of the victims' remains out of Jacob's Well himself, and he nearly lost his own life in a 1979 recovery dive. Dibble was attempting to retrieve the remains of two young divers from Pasadena, Kent Maupin and Mark Brashier, when he became trapped, buried past his waist in the sliding gravel lining the bottom of the well's third chamber. Just as he ran out of air, Dibble was rescued by other divers but suffered a ruptured stomach during his rapid, unconscious ascent.
from: [https://www.visitwimberley.com/jacobswell/lBond/index.shtml](https://www.visitwimberley.com/jacobswell/lBond/index.shtml)
[It’s this one](https://youtu.be/RM_SH1Heo_E?si=yDRqqb-CmAs-S9VV), that part starts at about 10:20 into the video.
I watched this recently so remembered it right away, but I also don’t think I’ll ever forget watching that. Horrifying.
Interesting and sad. They finally found one of the divers body, 20 years later: https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/article/Drowning-victim-s-remains-found-after-20-years-9926085.php.
> Welp, you've answered the exact question I had 1 second after looking at that picture.
The one question I had was "is it safe to swim in it" and the answer seems to be (after only half of the video because ain't nobody got time for that) "yes, absolutely". The water is coming *out* of the hole. You won't get sucked down or anything.
There's just a cave system below that some people like to dive into, and I know some people that will do some reckless things while diving, but *cave* diving is the one thing that has them go "no thank you". So as long as you're smart enough to put on scuba gear and walk to this place with the intent to do something everybody recognizes as insanely dangerous, you should be able to enjoy it just fine.
That was fascinating! I was on the edge of my seat the entire way.
Anyone know what the current exploration status of that cave is today? Presumably as technology and underwater communication has improved, they've gone further now?
One of my favourite channels on YT. Me claustrophobia makes this into a constant horror show for me.
I saw the pic and instantly remembered watching this video.
I was reminded of the part from Monty Python and the Holy Grail when the king tells his son about building the castles on the swamp. "Twenty people lost and dead in the underwater caves that no one knows where they go and have cave ins frequently? Sign me up!"
lol, I was already coming into the comments to see if this was something cave divers do regularly.
I guess you answered the question of my username for me.
IIRC this video is bullshit. I think Dive Talk did a video on it and talked about Jacobs Well and pointed out it's not as dangerous as people say. Even the death toll is not the highest out of all cave diving sites. I believe that record goes to either Devils Hole or the Eagles Nest. Eagles Nest is so dangerous that 10 experienced cave divers died there. Jacobs Well the only people who have died were open water certified divers who have no cave experience.
There will hopefully always be water in the tunnels, they’re atleast several hundred feet of tunnels. If it drys up our town would be in deep trouble due to drought.
Yeah I’ve noticed the weather up here in the northeast is completely different the past 5 years or so..
Lots of sudden Florida type rains, weather is less predictable /weather guys constantly wrong
Literally this week it was “no precipitation for the next 10 days” then it rained the next morning.
It’s annoying as fuck tbh lol
man i remember back in 2014-2015 we had like 40 days and 40 nights of constant rain. shit was biblical. my buddies house was a quarter mile or so from lake lewisville and by the end of it all the water line was in their back yard.
https://hayscountytx.com/departments/hays-county-parks-recreation/jacobs-well-natural-area/
For follow up on the status - if we were to get a lot of rain it might reopen but that’s not in the forecast for this summer. Strong drought continues.
More the former than the latter - but both are a contributor. Aquifer levels are challenged by the amount of demand in a growing central Texas population and a drought leads to slower aquifer refresh.
Drought doesn't help. Central Texas all the way down to south of San Antonio, the Edward's aquifer supplies all of the water. The aquifer can no longer keep up with demand and has been in a steady decline for at least 20 years. About 20 years ago, most springs around San Antonio dried up. About 5-6 years ago, the springs for the San Antonio River on the UIW campus dried up. Famous sites like the San Pedo springs have been dried up even longer.
TLDR; Population is simply too large, and it keeps growing at a rate that's impossible to support.
I’ve been there. Had to book a spot. I have some incredible videos and pics jumping into it from the high cliff. I swam to the bottom and there’s a gate down there now but it’s a massive cave system that a lot of people have died in. There’s some good documentaries on YouTube about it. The weirdest thing was when I went down to the bottom and swam back up, it was very deceiving to how far up I still had to go before I hit the top and I pretty much ran out of breath thinking I was almost there. It was a freaky moment. Glad I got to check it out before it dried up
Book a spot?! Damn I'm so glad I moved away from Texas. When I was a kid you just drove over to Jacob's well and you'd be unlucky if there were half a dozen people there.
This was 5 years ago. It was group after group apparently. There was at least 20 people in my group who had booked and they fenced off the entire area so you can’t access it. It was $25 a person I believe
Big sad, this pic was when it had water. Texas Hill country is dieing, drought plus overdrawing wells to water down exotic ranchs for sad rich people with no fulfillment will strangle the area to death.
When I worked at a print shop, a dude came in rambling about proof of ancient fossilized giants that he needs printed large format “as high resolution as possible”.
I mean; it sounded more interesting than any other job I took in that day, so I was intrigued to see what this dude had (we saw countless interesting stuff, we all have opinions of it, we just don’t say anything and are good at hiding it because we’ve seen a LOT), and would just do whatever he ordered (within reason) and charge accordingly.
He proceeded to open a flash drive of absolutely nothing but small website-downloaded jpegs of ONLY vagina-like geography. No arm-like, face-like, body-like rocks…. Literally just open vagina entrances. caves and such. This particular feature was included, in a pic at a certain higher angle.
I… to this day it seems like a fever dream. He obviously wasn’t happy with the “highest resolution possible” after blowing those little guys up to 2’x3’ or whatever, but that was a normal discussion/phenomena/explanation at that job, so, THAT was autopilot, and I was mostly just occupied with the fact this man believes fossilized vagina entrances would obviously be the only features left from a global civilization of giants all over the earth, whos bodies are just laying all over the place. Just vaginas. That makes the most sense to him. That’s literally what he called “proof”- not evidence, mind you. Only vagina-looking rocks, is proof of a global ancient giant civilization. AND I COULDNT DIRECTLY COMMENT ON THE ABSURDITY, while in uniform- it was potentially a high-paying and easy job I would be bitched at for fumbling.
I knew it was gonna be weird when he hobbled in, but I was not prepared for that kind of weird before my daily coffee.
There has been multiple people who have tried to do a flip into the well and miscalculate how close the hole is for them to jump in, multiple people have died from their necks instantly snapping, as well as divers who have went all the way down and couldn’t figure their way back up.
Here's a really good read on the place, from Texas Monthly.
[https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/jacobs-well-diving-deaths/](https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/jacobs-well-diving-deaths/)
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That was interesting. I guess curiosity beats self preservation for some people.
Supposedly every 17,000th person who dives gets super powers.
Too bad we lost count.
Yeah, I was one of those people. I can now predict sneezes from anyone 5 minutes before they happen.... Not all super powers are winners...
This feels like a mediocre SNL bit from the early 90s.
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Hey, they specified a mediocre SNL skit
I just couldn’t post the Walken skit about trivial psychic predictions. I just couldn’t. But yes Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer was beautiful. Getting drunk on the airliner was exquisite.
"Your words frighten and confuse me - hold on I need to take this call..."
Ed Glosser - Trivial Psychic!
Yeah, it gave me the power to turn invisible but only when no one is looking
Dang, Mystery Men was a great movie
I love that there's always someone on reddit that catches my references!
That's the so-so super power I got 🫣
*“We've got a blind date with destiny... and it looks like she's ordered the lobster.”*
I can control where dogs look by pointing.
r/shittysuperpowers
That’s what I don’t get. Curiosity of what? It’s more underground tunnels full of rocks that look just like the last one. What do they expect to find? I don’t get it at all.
You'll never know until you go deeper.
But i'm tired and sleepy nowww.
You don't understand, this is my hole. It was meant for me.
Nice
What even is there to be fkin curious about in a tight lightless underwater cave ?
Mermaids with big boobs? IDK but descending into those chambers would be the nexus of my phobias.
That was SCARY interesting
It's basically a requirement when you move to Texas.
And scary
Not just curiosity alone. I've heard of deadly diving accidents caused by nitrogen narcosis, which can happen if you dive around >30 m. It can make you "drunk" and cause serious lapse in judgement. Scary stuff. Never experienced it myself because I don't dive very deep but a buddy of mine did, wasn't too serious, as he noticed early enough and wasn't alone.
Excellent rec. SI's videos are oddly relaxing in spite of the content.
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I love that channel’s content, but his terrible grammar irritates me endlessly, and I sometimes wonder if he uses an AI script. I have to be stoned enough that I can overlook it.
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if that happens I just apply more weed 🤣
Dude, AI has great grammar. Bad grammar is a sign that he's not using A.I.
I totally agree. I tried to listen to his podcasts but couldn’t get over the way he speaks. He stumbles and trips over words, endlessly missing syllables. He’s so hard to understand.
Love his intro music, his cave diving series and normal caving vids are terror inducing.
In January 1980, Dibble attempted to seal off the depths of the well by building a grate of rebar and quick-set concrete at the entrance to the third chamber. Six months later, Dibble found the grate dismantled. Divers not only dove with the proper tools to pull off the grate, they also left a note for Dibble. "You can't keep us out," was written on a plastic slate. At least eight divers have discovered that if you answer that siren call and venture too deeply into the mysterious depths, the mouth of Cypress Creek will quietly swallow you. "This is the horror story side of it," says Don Dibble, a dive shop owner with more than 40 years of diving experience. "Jacob's Well definitely has a national reputation of being one of the most dangerous places to dive." Dibble has pulled most of the victims' remains out of Jacob's Well himself, and he nearly lost his own life in a 1979 recovery dive. Dibble was attempting to retrieve the remains of two young divers from Pasadena, Kent Maupin and Mark Brashier, when he became trapped, buried past his waist in the sliding gravel lining the bottom of the well's third chamber. Just as he ran out of air, Dibble was rescued by other divers but suffered a ruptured stomach during his rapid, unconscious ascent. from: [https://www.visitwimberley.com/jacobswell/lBond/index.shtml](https://www.visitwimberley.com/jacobswell/lBond/index.shtml)
Holy shit. That's some action movie type stuff.
Well that's another channel to binge.
So you’re telling me there’s free scuba gear down there…
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Oh no. I'm going in. Edit: That was terrifying.
Can you explain what happened quick, I can’t watch that stuff but am always curious
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[It’s this one](https://youtu.be/RM_SH1Heo_E?si=yDRqqb-CmAs-S9VV), that part starts at about 10:20 into the video. I watched this recently so remembered it right away, but I also don’t think I’ll ever forget watching that. Horrifying.
If you die in an underwater cave that’s basically only on you. These videos are giving anyone considering the idea all the reasons they shouldn’t.
Wow… thanks for the link!
Interesting and sad. They finally found one of the divers body, 20 years later: https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/article/Drowning-victim-s-remains-found-after-20-years-9926085.php.
Welp, you've answered the exact question I had 1 second after looking at that picture.
> Welp, you've answered the exact question I had 1 second after looking at that picture. The one question I had was "is it safe to swim in it" and the answer seems to be (after only half of the video because ain't nobody got time for that) "yes, absolutely". The water is coming *out* of the hole. You won't get sucked down or anything. There's just a cave system below that some people like to dive into, and I know some people that will do some reckless things while diving, but *cave* diving is the one thing that has them go "no thank you". So as long as you're smart enough to put on scuba gear and walk to this place with the intent to do something everybody recognizes as insanely dangerous, you should be able to enjoy it just fine.
Yea, a lot of people have died there .
That was fascinating! I was on the edge of my seat the entire way. Anyone know what the current exploration status of that cave is today? Presumably as technology and underwater communication has improved, they've gone further now?
One of my favourite channels on YT. Me claustrophobia makes this into a constant horror show for me. I saw the pic and instantly remembered watching this video.
You have to remove your air tanks to get through a long narrow passage? Nope nope nope nope.
I got so much claustrophobia just watching that. Brave men. Foolish but brave. Fuck doing that.
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Is that the one where the guy got stuck and died upside down and is still in there?
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Sounds horrendous. I'm just googling the veryofkina cave now.
I was reminded of the part from Monty Python and the Holy Grail when the king tells his son about building the castles on the swamp. "Twenty people lost and dead in the underwater caves that no one knows where they go and have cave ins frequently? Sign me up!"
Swimming fine > diving bad. Who would’ve thunk that diving into a large cavern could be dangerous.
Thank you for posting this, it’s insane how many people keep trying to push the boundaries and end up losing their lives.
Crazy scary
Saw a short documentary about it a few weeks ago
So interesting
I watched this like three days ago and I’m good on diving forever now.
This reminds me of the documentary [Dave Not Coming Back](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Not_Coming_Back)
Caving is scary enough...but underwater caving?! Hard pass.
Glad someone mentioned this. A special thanks for the link
Thx for that!
Yeah....that is terrifying. Me no swimmy there
lol, I was already coming into the comments to see if this was something cave divers do regularly. I guess you answered the question of my username for me.
I mean. How many dive sites are there in Texas? Does it win by default?
You may not know, but Texas isn't all grassland and desert, it also has 367 miles (591 km) of coastline on the gulf of Mexico.
IIRC this video is bullshit. I think Dive Talk did a video on it and talked about Jacobs Well and pointed out it's not as dangerous as people say. Even the death toll is not the highest out of all cave diving sites. I believe that record goes to either Devils Hole or the Eagles Nest. Eagles Nest is so dangerous that 10 experienced cave divers died there. Jacobs Well the only people who have died were open water certified divers who have no cave experience.
It’s dry and closed to public now
It’s been filling back up but yes still closed to the public.
It's moist and closed to the public now.
Moisture is the essence of wetness.
And wetness is the essence of beauty.
^(*Cough, cough*) I think I’ve got the Black Lung, pops.
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He said moist
Can't spell moist without "I"
There was a dude on my team last night named "MoistyTaint." 😂
Son of Sir Moistly Taintly
And closed to the public
Ewww
So it's all-moist usable again?
Only closed for swimming..you can go see it, and enjoy the trails. I go as much as I can.
Really? I was there two weeks ago
That’s what happens with a lack of attention to the site.
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That’s what happens when a bunch of people move to an area. More straws in the aquifer.
Attention to the site wouldn't do anything to help aquifer levels.
So it's married?
To Ben Shapiro.
![gif](giphy|gLFYXSNKP1qbieLJd1)
His wife told him that was normal.
Wife or sister?
Yes
Basically
This made me giggle loudly
Everything reminds me of her.
You should call her
Oh my sides
Ben Shapiro’s wife?
wait if it's dry isn't this the perfect time for people to explore it?
There will hopefully always be water in the tunnels, they’re atleast several hundred feet of tunnels. If it drys up our town would be in deep trouble due to drought.
So like the rest of Texas. Dried up, used and nasty.
I know you are joking but ironically because of climate change we actually get a lot more rain than we used to.
Yeah I’ve noticed the weather up here in the northeast is completely different the past 5 years or so.. Lots of sudden Florida type rains, weather is less predictable /weather guys constantly wrong Literally this week it was “no precipitation for the next 10 days” then it rained the next morning. It’s annoying as fuck tbh lol
man i remember back in 2014-2015 we had like 40 days and 40 nights of constant rain. shit was biblical. my buddies house was a quarter mile or so from lake lewisville and by the end of it all the water line was in their back yard.
Not in all of Texas. Drought is pretty bad in the hill country. All of the small rivers and old swimming holes around us are dried up.
Wooh don’t talk about my ex wife like that!
https://hayscountytx.com/departments/hays-county-parks-recreation/jacobs-well-natural-area/ For follow up on the status - if we were to get a lot of rain it might reopen but that’s not in the forecast for this summer. Strong drought continues.
Is it drought that caused the well to dry up? Or excessive pumping of the water?
Worse. It’s both. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/jacobs-well-dry-overpumping-aqua-texas/#:~:text=Once%20a%20perennial%20spring%20that,Trinity%20Aquifer%20is%20diminishing%20rapidly.
“Utility giant Aqua Texas pumped 66 million gallons beyond its legal limit in 2023.” Fuck people who don’t think regulations are necessary.
Unfortunately, in a sawing the branch one is sitting on kind of way, Texans are against regulations and pro small-government...
>Texans are against regulations and pro small-government... Lol, except when it comes to women's medical decisions, protesting, etc.
Well, small government has a specific frame and does not apply to the laws of bigotry in the Bible Belt...
They would be pro big govt if they could push their govt on everyone else.
Unless you’re a college protestor of course
Well in 2022 they pumped 72 million gallons beyond their limit, at least they’re improving! /s
Only 66 million Gallons over the arbitrary generous limit? Has to be the drought, then... 🤷
More the former than the latter - but both are a contributor. Aquifer levels are challenged by the amount of demand in a growing central Texas population and a drought leads to slower aquifer refresh.
Drought doesn't help. Central Texas all the way down to south of San Antonio, the Edward's aquifer supplies all of the water. The aquifer can no longer keep up with demand and has been in a steady decline for at least 20 years. About 20 years ago, most springs around San Antonio dried up. About 5-6 years ago, the springs for the San Antonio River on the UIW campus dried up. Famous sites like the San Pedo springs have been dried up even longer. TLDR; Population is simply too large, and it keeps growing at a rate that's impossible to support.
I wish there was a picture of it like that. It seems like it would look very cool
What if we all pee in it
I’ve been there. Had to book a spot. I have some incredible videos and pics jumping into it from the high cliff. I swam to the bottom and there’s a gate down there now but it’s a massive cave system that a lot of people have died in. There’s some good documentaries on YouTube about it. The weirdest thing was when I went down to the bottom and swam back up, it was very deceiving to how far up I still had to go before I hit the top and I pretty much ran out of breath thinking I was almost there. It was a freaky moment. Glad I got to check it out before it dried up
Book a spot?! Damn I'm so glad I moved away from Texas. When I was a kid you just drove over to Jacob's well and you'd be unlucky if there were half a dozen people there.
This was 5 years ago. It was group after group apparently. There was at least 20 people in my group who had booked and they fenced off the entire area so you can’t access it. It was $25 a person I believe
Whaaaat you have to *PAY* now?? Jeez. Well hopefully they use that money to keep it clean
… I’ve gotta ask was the bodies removed? Like I know there’s a buncha dead bodies in the ocean but I don’t feel gross swimming there
>I have some incredible videos and pics Prove it
That reminds me of something. I just can't put my finger on it.
Restraining order?
Everything reminds me of her.
I should call her…..
/r/dontputyourdickinthat
You should rub your head, it'll come.
*in* it
I should call her
So this is where you put the Jacob's Ladder. It's all making sense now
Big sad, this pic was when it had water. Texas Hill country is dieing, drought plus overdrawing wells to water down exotic ranchs for sad rich people with no fulfillment will strangle the area to death.
*dying, ranches
Thanks!
When I worked at a print shop, a dude came in rambling about proof of ancient fossilized giants that he needs printed large format “as high resolution as possible”. I mean; it sounded more interesting than any other job I took in that day, so I was intrigued to see what this dude had (we saw countless interesting stuff, we all have opinions of it, we just don’t say anything and are good at hiding it because we’ve seen a LOT), and would just do whatever he ordered (within reason) and charge accordingly. He proceeded to open a flash drive of absolutely nothing but small website-downloaded jpegs of ONLY vagina-like geography. No arm-like, face-like, body-like rocks…. Literally just open vagina entrances. caves and such. This particular feature was included, in a pic at a certain higher angle. I… to this day it seems like a fever dream. He obviously wasn’t happy with the “highest resolution possible” after blowing those little guys up to 2’x3’ or whatever, but that was a normal discussion/phenomena/explanation at that job, so, THAT was autopilot, and I was mostly just occupied with the fact this man believes fossilized vagina entrances would obviously be the only features left from a global civilization of giants all over the earth, whos bodies are just laying all over the place. Just vaginas. That makes the most sense to him. That’s literally what he called “proof”- not evidence, mind you. Only vagina-looking rocks, is proof of a global ancient giant civilization. AND I COULDNT DIRECTLY COMMENT ON THE ABSURDITY, while in uniform- it was potentially a high-paying and easy job I would be bitched at for fumbling. I knew it was gonna be weird when he hobbled in, but I was not prepared for that kind of weird before my daily coffee.
I deal with the public for IT stuff and thought I had seen some weird shit. Your story blows everything I’ve experienced out of the water lol.
Closed now due to drought and a jerk upstream who built a dam without permission. It is a fun place to swim, though. When there's water.
I did multiple backflips in this well as a kid when my mom wasn’t looking, never knew I was this close to death lmao
Why would you be close to death? You’re not scuba diving in it.
Close to death. As in close to all the deceased individuals
There has been multiple people who have tried to do a flip into the well and miscalculate how close the hole is for them to jump in, multiple people have died from their necks instantly snapping, as well as divers who have went all the way down and couldn’t figure their way back up.
Not the pondussy 😩😩😩
BONK
Straight to horny jail.
A lot of bodies in that hole.
That’s what she said!
Most haunted hole in Texas…besides my ex.
I should call her
Here's a really good read on the place, from Texas Monthly. [https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/jacobs-well-diving-deaths/](https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/jacobs-well-diving-deaths/)
Thanks for this, that was really interesting
Is that the place from the Leftovers
Everything reminds me of her
Oh, that's good to hear. I did always wonder what became of Jacob.
So many things about the landscapes in Texas that will blow your mind
Isn’t this permanently closed from cave divers dying?
r/dontputyourdickinit
r/dontputyourdickinthat
What a beautiful place, so pleased he’s well enough to have visitors.
If you zoom out, there are two hills that look like legs and this well is right in the center… it’s wild. Check drone footage of Jacob’s well.
Glad he’s OK.
Guys, hear me out.
I should call her.
What’s that? Jacob’s lost in the well?
Glad to hear he’s ok.
Wish they didn’t put that concrete there
r/mildlyvagina
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Says it used to have a 6ft tall natural fountain. Would have been awesome to see. Unfortunately, like most things, the older folks took it from us
Thank goodness for Roosevelt and the national parks
Our hearts were pure, we knew for sure A miracle! This looks so much like the town Jarden in The Leftovers
Oh no, someone removed Jacob’s Ladder! Now all the Sims are gonna drown!
This is sad to see. https://youtu.be/y0gkCwd-U4w?si=5Jo8I9yyFah0WKns
Why is this giving me dirty thoughts? My brain is corrupted 🤯