John Jones was accompanied by various family members and friends, in particular, Josh Jones who was 23, his brother, and nine other friends and family members, and they had decided to explore Nutty Putty Cave as a way to connect with each other ahead of the holiday.Īt the time of the Nutty Putty cave incident John Jones was attending medical school in Virginia and this 6 foot guy was in the prime of his life, no doubt, with a beautiful family and promising career ahead of him.Ībout an hour into the caving expedition, John Jones decided to find the Nutty Putty Cave formation known as the Birth Canal, which is a tight passage that spelunkers must crawl through carefully and in addition to being extremely narrow and slippery, it is also extremely perpendicular to the ground, meaning that the person needs to go headfirst towards gravity, the opposite of what the human body is meant to do.
John Jones was 26 at the time of the incident, and he had a wife, Emily, a daughter of 1 year, Elizabeth, and a son on the way that would have been born in June 2020. 24, 2009, as a means of spending some time with his family right before Thanksgiving doing something they had always loved doing. John Edward Jones entered the Nutty Putty Cave at around 8 p.m.
Rescuers and people with knowledge of the area also said that even if John Jones could have gone forward into the cave it could not have mattered, as there wasn’t nearly enough space even further to do what John had been wanting to do, and he was going to be stuck either way because the chamber closed off after the point where he was at.
The reason this happened was because having his chest sucked in caused him to go into an even narrower portion of the cave, and because of this he was jammed at a point where he could not possibly go forward from and could not come back out either. John Jones felt in this part of the cave that he would perhaps not be able to move forward unless he sucked his chest in a bit, or perhaps he did it instinctively, it is not known, but rescuers believe that his sucking his chest in at this point was the reason he went farther than he could have had he not done so, and right after that, when his chest expanded again because of his natural breathing rhythm, he got stuck. When John realized that it was too narrow for him to turn back he decided to go a little forward because he felt that the chamber in front of him was a drop to a more open space where he would ideally have enough space to maneuver and turn back around, so he could head on up again.Īt this point, John Jones was crawling head first into a cave that was essentially getting narrower and more perpendicular to the ground, which meant that there came a point where he was at an almost 90 degree angle in the cave, and it was so narrow that he was held between the columns of the cave. While the family started together, soon after the start John Jones and his brother Josh Jones went a little ahead, and they found themselves in a slightly narrower part of the cave, where John Jones broke off a little further and headed down the crevasse that was at a tapered angle from the rest of the cave system. Right before the thanksgiving holiday in November 2009, the Jones family decided to take a trip to one of the nearby cave systems, known as the Nutty Putty cave, as a way of spending time with each other, and this huge group decided to explore this cave because they never had before. John Jones was no stranger to exploring caves, he had gone with his father and brother many times before, as a child, and exploration of caves was a well-liked activity in his family in general.
The story of John Jones getting stuck in the Nutty Putty cave is one of the most horrifying stories about spelunking and is sure to chill your bones even if you don’t have claustrophobia, which many people have said online in discussions about the episode, because it reminds us why human beings avoid dark and dangerous situations usually. John Jones was an average 26 year old married guy who went caving in the Nutty Putty cave in Utah on November 24th 2009 with his family and friends, but tragically got stuck and eventually died in the cave.
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