Miller had the best character development. At first, he went to the cave with the intent to make money by saving the guy, but in the end, he refused the money and just went back to his job.

Fun fact, in 1954, Miller went back to the cave with a group to study the gypsum formation Collins found before he got stuck and they spent a week exploring it. It's beautiful, but no one could get in now.

The fact that they think he died right as the light bulb went out saddens me to no end, man. He probably thought they had decided to leave him there and he gave up. That’s so freaking sad. 😞

I can't believe Internet Historian actually trapped Wendigoon in a cave for four hundred hours just to make this video. The man sure is dedicated to his craft.

Literally a story of the absolute best and worst humanity has to offer…

The most messed up part is that his suffering from trying to make a tourist attraction turned into multiple tourist attractions, none of which he could profit from due to him being immobilized or dead

I don't know what it is about Internet Historian videos, but every time a new one comes out not only is it a certified banger, but I'm always really eager to see other people's reactions to it, I wanna share this story!

From what other commenters were saying, They always feed him coffee because it's 1925 and water filtration is hot garbage. So Boiled water is the best they got, which is put into Coffee. The Caffine also helps give energy to stay lucid.

Floyd's brother, Miller and Gerald were the MVPs here
They tried so damn hard.

The fact that Miller came there for the story , but kept coming back to genuenly help was a show that he was a good human being

 Floyd's brother , even years later, just wanted to help his brother even if all he could do is give him a proper burial

And Gerald was such a BOSS that the cave had to sucker punch him so he couldn't get Floyd out.

If skitten is claustrophobic, she would love the ted the caver creepy pasta

The ironic thing is Floyd wanted to make the cave an attraction, only for the cave to make him an attraction.

The death of this man ultimately was caused by the lookie-loos. If it was just the brother, the reporter and Gerald (and maybe rope man) working on it and being allowed near the mouth of that cave they might have been able to get him out. There wouldn't have been that cave in and Gerald almost digging him out in one go was sign enough that that could have worked, they might have even realized 'we should go in the other side to remove the rock' or found another way to do it.
Poor Floyd. Rest in peace you brave and crazy man.

If only Floyd knew how many people were trying their hardest to save him, that there were people who never stopped caring about him.

"you should tell the cave to stop it" i laughed too 😂

My family is from Appalachia, and this story is still really commonly known in the area, especially where there are lots of mines (basically caves) and natural cave networks like the one he got stuck in. My dad took me into a cave in Tennessee, with the sole mission of teaching me "never go in a cave, ever" and it worked-- Never got hurt screwing around known cave sites, but I knew plenty of people who did.

Not only is the cave itself a hazard, but there is often abandoned TNT (decayed from age and therefore volatile-- wind caused by movement walking around can potentially set it off) which was left in place by miners/cavers, and other risks like hidden rusted tools and obviously unstable mine/cave walls and floors... Tons of gruesome stories. I'm glad IH's video has brought this story to a wider audience!

Miller returned to the cave ~30 years later with some other Journalists and Scientists to explore the cave Collins discovered. They where there a while and after that Miller said that the cave collin tried to reach was "a paradise of natural beauty"

Mammoth Cave, and the whole area around it, is sitting on large deposits of limestone. Limestone dissolves in water. All those people showing up, tearing up the vegetation, melting the snow, gawking in the entrance of the cave (adding the moisture of their breath), almost definitely caused the cave-in.

On another sad note
Did a bit of searching
Jewell Estes, the 17 year old that initially went into the cave and realized that the dude was stuck, ended up dying in 1927, at just 20 years old, in Texas.
He was buried back in Mammoth Cave Baptist Church cemetery.
RIP dude
You’re a legend for raising the alarm that he was in trouble.
Damn.
His parents and nearly all of his siblings died in the 19teens and 1920s. One died in the 1930s, and the last sibling (the youngest) died in 1990.
That’s crazy
I can’t imagine the hurt of losing your whole family so close together.

Have you tried turning the cave off then on again?

Also, Skitten isn’t alone in thinking “How about we send in a child?” I thought that too! It was the early 1900s! Kids were literally working in factories doing the same thing. Crawling into dangerous places they shouldn’t be to fix something.

When I watched this on my own I thought "Oh no, this is gonna break Skitten" 😭 And no matter how many times I watch other people react to this I still get that hopeful feeling that he could've made it.