When Floyd Collins ventured into Sand Cave in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky on Jan. 30, 1925, he was searching for a destination that would draw in people in from all over world. Remarkably, the cave ...

Cave explorer Floyd Collins got trapped in Sand Cave in Kentucky 100 years ago and later died. The incident drew national attention and helped lead to the creation of Mammoth Cave National Park.

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While scoping out nearby Sand Cave on Jan. 30, 1925, the 37-year-old got stuck on his way out. As he twisted and squeezed through tight passageways, his foot bumped against a loose rock ...

MAMMOTH CAVE NATIONAL PARK, Kentucky — On a wintery January day, the refrigerator-sized maw leading into Sand Cave drips with icicles amid the hush of a snow-frothed young forest — a bucolic though ...

who helped explore the depths of the world’s longest cave system. The "Floyd Collins History Tour" pays homage to Collins, who died in 1925 after getting trapped at nearby Sand Cave. “He couldn’t go ...

MAMMOTH CAVE, Ky. — During a late January tour of Mammoth Cave, the guide clapped his hands, and the already dim lights went out. He had brought our group to a stop in a flat area – like a small plaza ...