#mammoth caves

[myhauntedsalem]

Mammoth Caves

The Mammoth Cave in Kentucky is said to be haunted by Floyd Collins, an explorer who died there in 1925 after his leg was pinned under a rock. He was located shortly afterward, but rescuers weren’t able to get to him. He was stuck for two weeks and died just a few days before help managed to get through.

Cavers claim to have heard screams and pleas from the small cavern where he was trapped, which has now been sealed shut. There are even reports of whiskey bottles being thrown at people who approach. One woman claims that the ghost of Floyd saved her from a fall by catching her and pulling her back from a ledge.

America’s other Mammoth Cave—this one in Colorado—is also steeped in a history of bloodshed. Locals call it a “keeper,” which refers to the bodies of those who died there. It’s simply too dangerous to retrieve them, and so the cave keeps the corpses of the lost in its eternal clutches. The most dangerous spot is known as Angel Falls, a 23-meter (75 ft) drop that’s claimed three lives. Yet the most sinister part of the cave’s reputation is the claim that it was once home to a dangerous coven of witches.

The stories say that during the late 1970s, the cave was home to five evil warlocks, named Randy, Sunshine, Lobo, Patches, and Cowboy. The coven killed small mammals and drank their blood. Another report states that two girls saw the warlocks throwing a pregnant woman to her death in the cave. The cave was eventually sealed, and the witches were never found.

#Mammoth Caves #ghost and hauntings #paranormal #ghost and spirits #haunted locations #haunted salem #myhauntedsalem #paranormal phenomena

[cyeria]

sand cave

#naturecore #witchcore #cottagecore #nature #forestcore #forest #nature hikes #springtime #nature photography #flowercore #sand caves #sand cave #cave city #Kentucky #above mammoth caves #mammoth cave #mammoth caves #mammoth cave system #mammoth cave trail #400 mile cave system #cave system #caves #cave #nature aesthetic #bear habitat #habitat #ecosystem #rocks #stones

[eldritchdemonfox]

Found this little guy at Mammoth Caves

#Mammoth caves #fox’s rambles #lill guy #Just a lil man #salamander #cute #cute animals

[allgremlinart]

"why would artists commission other artists cant you guys just draw it yourself" see thats true we could. but whad u have to understand is. grug tired.... grug get carpal tunnel from . holding stylus...

#grug give gronk 5 berries to draw mammoth oc on cave wall for a fucking change...

[chickenoptyrx]

....I just wanted to draw gators :T at this point these 2 are more 'a representation of my last 2 brain cells' then they are actual characters 😅

#im living vicariously through the cartoon guys #because i want to A. pick up gator (strong man style) #and B. ..pick up gator (hug) #ok but so i recently found out an area where i take stupid little walks for my stupid little mental health #has! GATORS!! (potentially. theres signs.) #and this is great cause seeing gators would def heal me as a person #but ok so when i look for hiking places i always look north cause the terrains more hilly #but now im lookin south more cause turns out i AM in fact far enough south to see gators!! #and yeah looks like theres a handful of nature reserves w hiking trails the same distance away as the little mountain trails i go to #its flatter and the trails are less extensive so ill hafta see if i think its worth it #but then too theres a really big black water swamp that.. further away then i wanna drive.. #but also i drove 5 hrs once just to go to mammoth cave as a day trip so.. we'll see.. #my friend says he wont go w me tho :T he'll just report me missing #this has been a tag ramble about my sudden outset intrest in seeing a gator #my bullshit #lol barely but still #also- i told myself not to over do it drawin the scales or coloring it #and as you can see i dont listen to myself ever #lol they look outta place but idc i got to draw 2 of my favorite characters and also ALLIGATORS :U #living the dream rn

[artofmaquenda]

Naturalis in Leiden :))))

#museum #mammoth #megaloceros #cave bear #Naturalis

[endreal]

Are they, you know...

[clicks a button on my phone and bass-boosted Pacific Rim theme starts playing from speakers I've strategically hidden throughout the entire 686km of the Mammoth–Flint Ridge Cave System (longest known cave system in the world)]

...continental drift compatible?

#Drift compatible #continental drift #Pacific rim #Mammoth cave #Mammoth Flint Ridge Cave System #wordplay

[makairodonx]

Sketches of some Eurasian animals that were part of the famous Pleistocene Megafauna, from bottom to top: Crocuta crocuta spelaea, Bos primigenus, Elamotherium, Ursus spelaeus, and Mammuthus trogontherii

#paleoart #paleontology #pleistocenemegafauna #pleistocene #elasmotherium #cave hyena #cave bear #mammuthus #mammoth #mammal paleontology #mammoths #mammuthus trogontherii #aurochs

[polymorphiczooid]

I was asked to do some "cave paintings" for a book - they only needed black and white images, but I made some color versions for myself.

#my art #cave paintings #bison #smildon #giant sloth #mammoth #digital illustration #it was fun to break out the digital charcoals #I know sabretooth cats aren't represented in euro cave art but it was fun to cobble together depictions of cave lions with modern paleoart

[emilybeemartin]

Inktober Days 7-9

Day 7: "Drip"

Can you believe we live in a world where the tiny drip-drip-drip of water can carve vast caves deep underground? To wander through Mammoth Cave—or any of the caves protected by the NPS—is to appreciate the power of water and time. Geologic formations aptly named flowstone and dripstone ripple, drizzle, and cascade in a mirror of the water that created them.

Touring Mammoth Cave is one of the earliest memories I have of visiting a national park. I remember squeezing through tight passages after my dad, as well as experiencing true, utter darkness for the first time when the ranger switched all the lights off.

Day 8: "Toad"

There’s something so grand about toads. Whether it’s a teeny little gentleman perched on a wet rock or a great gargantuan grandee lolloping along a muddy path, it always seems like a blessing to spy a toad. Perhaps it’s a holdover from childhood, when toads were some of the only wildlife we could get our hands on, cradling their squishy bodies and staring into their ever-grumpy faces.

Most parks in the NPS host toads, even ones where it might seem improbable. In the high, cold slopes of Rocky Mountain, the boreal toad can be found in wet meadows and ponds. It’s considered the only alpine toad in Colorado.

Because toads and other amphibians are so sensitive to their environments, they’re often considered indicator species of ecosystem health. Healthy toads mean healthy land, water, and air. Unfortunately, like many amphibians, boreal toad populations are in decline due to chytrid fungus, a disease that’s been decimating amphibian populations across the Americas, Europe, and Australia. Biologists in Rocky Mountain are carrying out important work to study and save their little high-alpine gentletoads from collapse.

Day 9: "Bounce"

Recently, when I was helping my brother move across the country, our plans went awry due to freak bad weather across the southwest. We diverted north and found ourselves in Arches National Park. It turned out to be the highlight of our whole trip. It was late winter, and the vibrant red rocks were ribbed with snow. The air was crisp, the panoramas of frosted mountains undisturbed by dust or haze. And the park was quiet, utterly so—I’ll always remember the silence of our campsite, broken only by the croaking of ravens and distant coyote song.

To cap it all off, pressed into the red sand around our site were dozens of little footprints—the hopping marks of kangaroo rats. They were like getting a postcard in the mail from a faraway friend. Hello, hello, hello. We’re out and about. Have a nice stay.

#inktober #31 days of national parks #mammoth cave #rocky mountain #arches #national parks #inktober 2023

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

Excavated: my collection of vintage dinosaurs, mammoths, and other prehistoric imagery.

#mammoth #prehistoric #cave painting #vintage illustration #illustration #animal trap

[cyeria]

small clearing

#naturecore #witchcore #cottagecore #nature #forestcore #forest #nature hikes #springtime #nature photography #flowercore #forest aesthetic #mammoth caves #above mammoth caves #treecore #trees #tree aesthetic #cottage aesthetic #cottage vibes #Kentucky #cave city #summercore #summer vibes #summer aesthetic #summer #hot day #sunny day #sunny #hot #summertime #nature aesthetic

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 38: Pre-History Continued

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct earlier time grouping. Basically, I'd already moved on to human history, but I'd periodically get a pre-homin suggestion, hence the occasional random item waaay out of it's time period, rather than reopen the category.

In some cases a culture lasted a really long time and I grouped them by whether it was likely the later or earlier grouping made the most sense with the information I had. (Invention ofs tend to fall in an earlier grouping if it's still open. Ones that imply height of or just before something tend to get grouped later, but not always. Sometimes I'll split two different things from the same culture into different polls because they involve separate research goals or the like).

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.

#Time Travel #Friesenhahn Cave #Homotheriums #Mammoth #Megafauna #Pre-History #Ceratopsia #Dinosaurs #Carboniferous #Insects #Evolution #Jellyfish #Sea Creatures #Spinosaur #Hallucigenia #Lepidodendrons #Extinct Plants

[hellokittykiller]

revolving doors into cave system

#shoutout to the super kind rangers that let me stay to take the pics of the door after everyone exited #there should be a term for fear of these things #submechanophobia #but for things above water #but not mechanophobia either #because its not super big #anyways tags. #cave #caves #my pics #cavecore #mammoth cave national park #aesthetic #nostalgia #liminal #liminal spaces #nature #naturecore #photography #weirdcore #dreamcore #surreal #this felt unreal

[t0mserv0]

This one frame is probably the single funniest frame of any piece of media I've ever seen in my life. I was close to puking from laughing so hard. So few pixels have never brought me so much joy. And from there, it only got funnier.

The jacket. The microphone. The canoes. The dumpsters. The appliances, most of which don't work. The concrete picnic tables of which you must buy them all. The overgrown forklift. The buildings of which you were responsible of disassembly and removal. The "pretty classy" outhouse. The beautiful boarded up church with the beautiful stained glass windows filmed in the dark. The hard cut to black.

Few things have ever brought me so close to God. I am indebted to whoever found this.

Thank you.

#best of the worst #red letter media #mammoth cave national park

[planet4546b]

the beginner's guide, 2015/notes on the below, ada limon.

#pers #webweaving #the beginners guide #i have been meaning to make this post. for ages #i wanted to find more similar quotes but the sheer simplicity of how well these two match up #and the fact that this is from. of all poems. NOTES ON THE BELOW !!!!!!!!! THE ONE ABOUT MAMMOTH CAVE #is saying enough. Personally. For me. #anyways im working on a bunch of other webweaving posts. had to put this one out there.