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bdawg
May 5, 2003, 10:22 PM
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Check this out if you have some time..... its a pretty surreal story, little long tho.
http://www.holyshiite.com/caver/
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jerrygarcia
May 5, 2003, 10:31 PM
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I call shennanigans.
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puellamontis
May 5, 2003, 11:56 PM
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what the hell is this? why is there no ending? how much time did i just waste reading it to find out what happens? dude! i don't care if it's true or not, i just wanna friggin know what happens! what's up with the webpage error message right before the ending? did anyone else get that?
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cloudbreak
May 6, 2003, 12:02 AM
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I got sucked into reading the WHOLE damn thing too!! Kinda sounds like a pre-cursor to, or a spin-off of, the Blair Witch Project, huh?
Maybe it'll be a movie sometime soon......Ha!!
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rob
May 6, 2003, 12:12 AM
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Heh. Nice story. It reminds me very much of the book 'House of Leaves'. If you're into non-conventional horror I'd strongly recommend it even though it's not about caving. And unless I'm mistaken, it started out getting passed around the internet as a collection of fragments and photographs before finding itself and a publisher.
I'm pretty sure the lack of an ending is the desired ending. He went back in the cave after reassuring all his loved ones (and internet readers) that he'd be back to let them in on the mystery, and never came back. It's only stories where the narrator survives that have an ending.
rob
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lizardsdb
May 6, 2003, 12:37 AM
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yeah that is a good scary story. deffinately just a story though. you can find the same tale with different dates at http://www.angelfire.com/rock/vegan/index.html.
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neeshman
May 6, 2003, 12:49 AM
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ok, holy dam, I found myself getting really stressed reading tht story, I guess I am a wuss. But I usually give up on reading things that long. Very interesting. Wonder how much validity it has. Anyone know how long its been since the last post? He said something bout the 18th... but of what month? Oh well, it has found its way into my growing bookmarks list. But there is no freakin ending!!! Pisses me off.
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telluridehiker
May 6, 2003, 1:09 AM
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That's a creapy story...I wonder why he hasn't updated the site?
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coldclimb
May 6, 2003, 1:48 AM
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Well duh! He went back into the cave with Joe and something got them both!
Or it's just a hoax. Choose one... ;)
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renobdarb
May 6, 2003, 1:58 AM
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you know, there's always one lonely sock left over from a load of laundry... maybe he'll come back with all our missing socks! :D
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superxris
May 6, 2003, 2:01 AM
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WHERE THE HELL IS PAGE 11?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! You can't just cut a story off like that...you just can't!
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xanx
May 6, 2003, 2:23 AM
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yeah hoax or not he could at least finish it... make up a good ending if you have to... "golum" from Lord Of the Rings comes to mind as a very good "monster" for the cave...
but yeah, it freaked me out...
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acrophobic
May 6, 2003, 2:35 AM
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yeah, notice he only has obscure photos, and no real "interesting" shots?
"strangely none of the pictures taken in the room turned out! Pictures of the round rock, and more importantly pictures of the "hieroglyphics" I saw. Pictures taken before and after the room turned out great, but the negatives of the photos taken in the room were clear!"
mm hmm.. how convenient :P
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tenn_dawg
May 6, 2003, 3:42 AM
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Bravo..Bravo!
What an outstanding story!!
Superbly written, I was on the edge of my seat, and my hands are sweating! Now it's bedtime, and there are Hodag's in the dark of my house.
I'm a pretty avid caver, and this story struck home for me in a big way. WOW!
Travis
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tenn_dawg
May 6, 2003, 3:55 AM
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Oh no, I hear something in the distance...Scraping down the hallway....It's muttering under it's breath. "sss...travissssss...why did you leave Roppel cave so eaaarrrrly last week. We have some un finissshed businessssss..."
What a great story, I just can't get over that. I want to read some more. This guy is a great writer.
Travis
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dlintz
May 6, 2003, 4:52 AM
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precious.........
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chalkmeupbaby
May 6, 2003, 5:11 AM
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I had an experience like that once...
Except some people refer to it as meeting your significant other's parents....
Only kidding....good story -- my hands were sweating almost as much as if I were thinking about climbing!
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cupton
May 6, 2003, 6:02 AM
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very good story, but i feel he sorta blew the realistic factor when he just encountered joe on the overlook. too cheese for me. the rest was great though.
the pictures really helped develop the story as real.
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rockclimbingpyro
May 6, 2003, 6:19 AM
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lizardsdb
the address is http://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/page1.html you inspired me to look it up
Benny
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bandycoot
May 6, 2003, 7:19 AM
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Well written! Props to the author for manipulating us all like that. You have to respect the author if you he was able to gain our attention for as long as he did. It's pretty obvious it was a hoax, but fun to read none the less! Don't start reading the link unless you have some TIME and patience.
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keinangst
May 6, 2003, 2:11 PM
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Wow, an hour (or more) of my time reading that... I was pretty pissed at first, but in retrospect, that was a good job!
Just enough spelling and grammar errors to make it quaint, believable, and non-professional.
If Blair Witch hadn't already been made, this might be a good screenplay.
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hoppinbig
May 6, 2003, 3:58 PM
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Oh my god - that story was amazing, it scared the Sh___ out of me....
Even though this story is fake - I don't ever want to go caving.... ever!
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mypeace
May 6, 2003, 6:32 PM
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wow! even after reading these posts that story was good.
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psych
May 6, 2003, 6:44 PM
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So just because I like debunking things like this, I did a very brief search for caving myths, and in particular this "hodog" he mentions. Notta...I had one sentance that mentioned that word "...the black hodog" and that's it. Hmm...
Is this actually an official cavers myth, or did he just misspell "hotdog"? I gotta admit it was an interesting read and had me pretty tense for the whole thing, but I can't actually buy into it...if his loved ones knew about the page, they would put something up there after a year of him missing. Also, now I can't remember where the cave was supposedly located (like, what state), but the domain www.holyshiite.com is registered to someone in Beverly Hills, and/or Canyon Country CA...
Others would go into the cave at some point and find their gear/bodies/whatever...still though...good stuff!
Mike...
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vertical_reality
May 6, 2003, 7:13 PM
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In reply to: So just because I like debunking things like this, I did a very brief search for caving myths, and in particular this "hodog" he mentions. Notta...I had one sentance that mentioned that word "...the black hodog" and that's it. Hmm...
The correct spelling is "Hodag", if you google that, you'll find a couple of references, I just glanced but the legend is not about a cave monster, more of a back country monster.
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