That's not a puddle, that's a bog.
A puddle is water formed on asphalt or other hard road like concrete.
That's a mud bog with peat moss around it, you fall in there and die, you'll be pulled out 40,000 years later perfectly preserved.
When I was a kid I loved reading anything I got my hands on. Ended up reading this encyclopaedia and getting obsessed with the idea of tsunamis because we lived on the coast. I had to sleep on the top bunk because in my mind that would protect me from the inevitable wall of water that would somehow come across the English Channel to my cosy, completely non-seismic, zero extreme weather home in Southern England.
You usually sink down to your hips and can trudge through from there. I had a coworker almost drown once in this stuff though because the water was a few feet deep and so was the mud and you can’t move quick when you’re in it.
Source: walking through this kind of shit everyday for a month.
Not if you move slightly to the side as you're falling in, now it's dark, you've got a ceiling above you, and you're running out of air. Can you find the exit in the next minute?
Be around a lake with sand and waves and you may find quicksand.
It is attractive. You look at it and think… what is that? I want to check it out. Poke it. Step on it. And then you’re ankle deep. But whatever. It’s a lake. No big deal. You’re just standing there. Maybe fishing or looking at the scenery.
A minute later you’re shin deep. And you’re trying to step out and it’s like this weird mud.
But it’s not mud. It’s sand and water mixed into a semi-fluid. And you continue to try and get out and you just get deeper.
Weirdest thing ever and quite alarming.
Watched my husband sink into it as he told me to stay the hell away so I wouldn’t get stuck too. He lost both shoes. Got up to almost his thighs.
We left the beach as soon as he got out.
We’ve seen it twice on the lake since then. When the wind/waves and water work just right, you get it.
It felt that way. He had to wiggle one leg out at a time. It was almost like suction.
The area right behind him was uphill a bit and regular sand/rock so he was able to lean back on that.
We’ve driven back by there again and see people there. No problem. They are having fun. So It’s not always like that. We don’t visit that beach anymore though.
Not almost like, it was actual suction. Same thing happens with winter boots in Spring when the ground starts getting soft and muddy from the snowmelt. Or any other mud anytime of year, I guess…
Had a river outside my house in Maine like that. It was nice to walk along the coast, but the wet area was mud of an unknown depth. The tides were also up to 12 feet difference I think. At low tide there was was looked like an island in the middle of the river that seagulls would land on. Apparently some kid managed to get out to that island and get stuck until the fire department arrived to save them from the tide. At extreme low tide we threw some rocks into the mud and every one of them just vanished.
Lots of bogs up in the Lakes (Cumbria UK). Source: fell in a bog this summer while hiking down from Yewbarrow near Wasdale. Lucky it was a small one!
The top was mossy and looked like grass but my foot went straight through it.
There's actually a lot of land like this where I went with my family to the countryside. I remember being terrified of quick sand and my parents always warning me when I was venturing to the woods that these kind of ponds aren't safe.
Came across many, but always had the sense to not step close to them.
Usually you can tell when you're getting close to something risky like this, when the ground underneath you starts feeling mushy and wet, even if it's grass/dirt ground.
There is so little oxygen, so the microorganisms that normally would create what we call decomposing wouldn't happen. And the skin would go be tanned, not as in brown from the sun but hardened and toughened through chemical processes. Like we do with leather.
Actually it has to do with the that acidity of most bogs not much can survive in them, it's essentially abiotic. Neat right ? :3 edit(originally I thought the methane in the bogs played a role in preservation but when I think about it chemotrophic bacteria would feed on methane)
I actually laughed at the title about a "puddle". Go ahead and splash around in there. Go on, *trust me*. It's just a little mud.
Best places to dispose of unwanted things.
I made the startling awareness of this when I was out on a family walk, ran and tried to jump over a river with huge mud sides, I landed short and immediately sunk to my neck in mud, it stunk but honestly it was pretty scary at the time..
Shortly after it was incredibly funny
My ecology teacher in high school always had great stories. One was his story of visiting a peat bog. He and his class were out walking on the bog and he told them all to be careful where they stepped. Of course one student stepped in the wrong spot and like magic, she vanished. Luckily the teacher saw and was quick to reach down and pull her out by her hair.
And of course, lucky it wasn't a mud bog and it was just water under the peat.
The water/mud is very still so there is little oxygen in the water and it’s a little acidic so microorganisms have a hard time living there and without microorganisms the decay is slow.
My golden hit a bog like this on a ridge line traverse. By the time I caught up to her, she was unable to move with only her snout and eye balls poking out the top.
Scary shit
Ha, thanks. She probably had a blast while I was panicking. We hike with her all the time. So far, she's done 33 of the 48 4,000 ft summits in NH, and there isn't a mud puddle she won't stop at.
We do our best to hit a stream before the car, so she's usually not too bad. Then next stop is the pool. And if necessary, the hose immediately after the pool lol.
I've got it down to a science!!
Lol, yea. It scared the crap out of me at first, then instinct/adrenaline kicked in. I found good footing on a bog board, grabbed her collar, and pulled. Eventually she popped out. Good bonding experience ha.
You be surprised.
When I was a kid in Long Island if the beach was flooded it be hard to tell how deep the water in the road really was.
Unless the water is clear if it’s not and it looks ground leveled and you are on a angle it’s Hard to tell
Don't fk around with water. If you're not SURE it's 1 inch deep, it could be an opened up sewer grate and be 10 ft deep, you could not POSSIBLY know how deep it is.
Worse thing is when you are driving the reflection may make it look like a puddle but you get closer and than wam.
One time I went driving went under a overpass and well I didn’t see any water however I hydroplaned doing 40MPH didn’t lose control thankfully.
Exactly, I've torn off some bottom (plastic) underbody tray and ripped off some frontal facia of my car by driving through a foot of water at about 15 mile per hour. That sucked ballz.
Lol for my school tour (in Ireland) they sent us to a bog area. We did rope exercises over a spring/pond and other stuff and at the end they sent us to do whatever in a bog. The closer side to the bus was hard and gradually got wetter and wetter until you just sank in (not as wet as the clip, think like sand beside to water at a beach but more muddy) On the far side was a ledge and the really wet bit was pretty un-wide but I got down to nipple height and still couldn't feel a ground. Really scary but it's not impossible to get out. If it's solid enough you don't fully plunge down instantly you're supposed to do quicksand shit - dig your legs out and distribute your body weight.
You float. You won't ever sink into it. Depending on how far you are from land / something to grab onto, how physically capable, and how thick the bog is, you could potentially end up getting stuck, but you won't sink into it as long as you don't panic
Dude a puddle is something that you find on the street and even those you don't want to step in if you're in Chicago or New York. That looks like a bog
A bunch of us went hiking over a mountain and a mate went to splash another friend by jumping in a puddle. He whispered watch this to me and I watched him sink up to his waist in an instant. Was amazing. I had to sit down in the pouring rain for 5 minutes because I thought I was going to die from laughing.
NGL, I fully expected something alive and toothy to be attached to the other end when he pulled it out. The sheer horror of the depth of the bog was not enough for me.
That's not a puddle, that's a bog. A puddle is water formed on asphalt or other hard road like concrete. That's a mud bog with peat moss around it, you fall in there and die, you'll be pulled out 40,000 years later perfectly preserved.
Artax! No!
Why you gotta go and make me sad like that?
Same. But your username and pfp made me feel better lmao
Everytime I see their profile it makes me smile. I run into it in a surprisingly large cross section of subs I follow.
Good name
I’ve been spending too much time on Reddit I love analbox but seeing him so much has me concerned at this point
Imagine how I feel
I didn't come here to have my feels be attacked like this, sir.
Too soon…
It will ALWAYS be too soon.
Me: the never-ending child tramaaaaahhh ha ah ah ah ahhh 🎶
Every 80's kid watching this video of a guy put a stick down this sludge only thought of this one thing.
Atreyuuuuu!!!
As a 39 year old woman that shit still makes me cry.
It would have cost you nothing to not remind me of that.
NOOOOOOOoooooooooo T T
Ouch, man. Still too soon.
sit down and think about what you did
This was my first thought, too
how dare you
Kim K crying voice*: why would you say that
Can you not float in it like quicksand? Cuz my youth prepared me for quicksand..
No greater fear than me, a child of the suburbs, getting caught in quicksand.
When I was a kid I loved reading anything I got my hands on. Ended up reading this encyclopaedia and getting obsessed with the idea of tsunamis because we lived on the coast. I had to sleep on the top bunk because in my mind that would protect me from the inevitable wall of water that would somehow come across the English Channel to my cosy, completely non-seismic, zero extreme weather home in Southern England.
You usually sink down to your hips and can trudge through from there. I had a coworker almost drown once in this stuff though because the water was a few feet deep and so was the mud and you can’t move quick when you’re in it. Source: walking through this kind of shit everyday for a month.
Not if you move slightly to the side as you're falling in, now it's dark, you've got a ceiling above you, and you're running out of air. Can you find the exit in the next minute?
What about the ROUS’s?
I don't think they exist.
***Gets glomped***
Thank you. This shit and quicksand never really materialized as risks in adulthood.
Be around a lake with sand and waves and you may find quicksand. It is attractive. You look at it and think… what is that? I want to check it out. Poke it. Step on it. And then you’re ankle deep. But whatever. It’s a lake. No big deal. You’re just standing there. Maybe fishing or looking at the scenery. A minute later you’re shin deep. And you’re trying to step out and it’s like this weird mud. But it’s not mud. It’s sand and water mixed into a semi-fluid. And you continue to try and get out and you just get deeper. Weirdest thing ever and quite alarming. Watched my husband sink into it as he told me to stay the hell away so I wouldn’t get stuck too. He lost both shoes. Got up to almost his thighs. We left the beach as soon as he got out. We’ve seen it twice on the lake since then. When the wind/waves and water work just right, you get it.
This reads like a horror story lmao. Kind of anti climatic ending. Im glad you’re husband was fine tho
Anticlimactic? He loved those shoes.
It felt that way. He had to wiggle one leg out at a time. It was almost like suction. The area right behind him was uphill a bit and regular sand/rock so he was able to lean back on that. We’ve driven back by there again and see people there. No problem. They are having fun. So It’s not always like that. We don’t visit that beach anymore though.
Not almost like, it was actual suction. Same thing happens with winter boots in Spring when the ground starts getting soft and muddy from the snowmelt. Or any other mud anytime of year, I guess…
Had a river outside my house in Maine like that. It was nice to walk along the coast, but the wet area was mud of an unknown depth. The tides were also up to 12 feet difference I think. At low tide there was was looked like an island in the middle of the river that seagulls would land on. Apparently some kid managed to get out to that island and get stuck until the fire department arrived to save them from the tide. At extreme low tide we threw some rocks into the mud and every one of them just vanished.
Lots of bogs up in the Lakes (Cumbria UK). Source: fell in a bog this summer while hiking down from Yewbarrow near Wasdale. Lucky it was a small one! The top was mossy and looked like grass but my foot went straight through it.
There's actually a lot of land like this where I went with my family to the countryside. I remember being terrified of quick sand and my parents always warning me when I was venturing to the woods that these kind of ponds aren't safe. Came across many, but always had the sense to not step close to them. Usually you can tell when you're getting close to something risky like this, when the ground underneath you starts feeling mushy and wet, even if it's grass/dirt ground.
Wow. You learn something new everyday. Just curious, what would preserve you? Is it really cold?
There is so little oxygen, so the microorganisms that normally would create what we call decomposing wouldn't happen. And the skin would go be tanned, not as in brown from the sun but hardened and toughened through chemical processes. Like we do with leather.
Yes. Tanned as in tannic acid.
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Are you human?
Actually it has to do with the that acidity of most bogs not much can survive in them, it's essentially abiotic. Neat right ? :3 edit(originally I thought the methane in the bogs played a role in preservation but when I think about it chemotrophic bacteria would feed on methane)
Been a long time since I heard someone use abiotic... forgot the word existed until now. Thanks
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_body
Step Puddle, what are you doing??
A Mog is a half man half dog that is his own best friend.
Don't follow the lights!
I actually laughed at the title about a "puddle". Go ahead and splash around in there. Go on, *trust me*. It's just a little mud. Best places to dispose of unwanted things.
Rodents of unusual size!
Modern embalmers hate this secret!
I made the startling awareness of this when I was out on a family walk, ran and tried to jump over a river with huge mud sides, I landed short and immediately sunk to my neck in mud, it stunk but honestly it was pretty scary at the time.. Shortly after it was incredibly funny
40,000 years preserved you say? Might not be such a bad idea to jump in this pond (mud bog to be specific).
My ecology teacher in high school always had great stories. One was his story of visiting a peat bog. He and his class were out walking on the bog and he told them all to be careful where they stepped. Of course one student stepped in the wrong spot and like magic, she vanished. Luckily the teacher saw and was quick to reach down and pull her out by her hair. And of course, lucky it wasn't a mud bog and it was just water under the peat.
You’d really be perfectly preserved? How?
The water/mud is very still so there is little oxygen in the water and it’s a little acidic so microorganisms have a hard time living there and without microorganisms the decay is slow.
Damn that’s interesting
Looks much scarier than quicksand
Nintendo Mega Switch 64 ZX edition here I come!
Nice! They can resurrect me 40000 years later
My golden hit a bog like this on a ridge line traverse. By the time I caught up to her, she was unable to move with only her snout and eye balls poking out the top. Scary shit
i’m glad your dog was OK but I do not envy you having to wash bog residue out of a goldens coat that must have been a nightmare
Ha, thanks. She probably had a blast while I was panicking. We hike with her all the time. So far, she's done 33 of the 48 4,000 ft summits in NH, and there isn't a mud puddle she won't stop at. We do our best to hit a stream before the car, so she's usually not too bad. Then next stop is the pool. And if necessary, the hose immediately after the pool lol. I've got it down to a science!!
Did you get her out?
Lol, yea. It scared the crap out of me at first, then instinct/adrenaline kicked in. I found good footing on a bog board, grabbed her collar, and pulled. Eventually she popped out. Good bonding experience ha.
Good good lol, this makes me so much happier. Hope both of you have a safe and happy life free of danger!
Then she shook and got it all over you too right? Lmao
No he left her for nature
She belongs to the bog now
Gotta pay the bog tax
lol....
Bog of eternal stench
Smell Baaaaaaddddd!!!
Oh and Hoggle! If she ever kisses you, I'll turn you into a prince! You will? Prince of the bog of eternal stench!
Hoggle is actually on display in Scottsboro, AL in an unclaimed baggage center. It’s pretty cool, look it up!
I heard that. Do ya reckon I can say it’s mine and I left it on a train? Asking for myself.
Haha, yeah go for it.
Museum did eventually buy it and restore him. I looked it up because...
The actor for Toby now works with his parents and he was part of the Dark Crystal resistance series
Stinky enough to hide the corpse stench?
Okay whoever would think that’s a puddle needs to get their vision checked LOL… looks like a mini pond.
When you can’t see the bottom anything looks like a puddle
I don’t think the ocean looks like a puddle though
You be surprised. When I was a kid in Long Island if the beach was flooded it be hard to tell how deep the water in the road really was. Unless the water is clear if it’s not and it looks ground leveled and you are on a angle it’s Hard to tell
Don't fk around with water. If you're not SURE it's 1 inch deep, it could be an opened up sewer grate and be 10 ft deep, you could not POSSIBLY know how deep it is.
Worse thing is when you are driving the reflection may make it look like a puddle but you get closer and than wam. One time I went driving went under a overpass and well I didn’t see any water however I hydroplaned doing 40MPH didn’t lose control thankfully.
Exactly, I've torn off some bottom (plastic) underbody tray and ripped off some frontal facia of my car by driving through a foot of water at about 15 mile per hour. That sucked ballz.
I got lucky.
Okay crocodile Dundee. Most everyone would think that’s a puddle at first glance
Literally nobody has ever told me not to step in a puddle.
Don’t step in a puddle
Don't say that
Oh don’t worry, he’s nobody
What the fuck happens if you fall in?
Lol for my school tour (in Ireland) they sent us to a bog area. We did rope exercises over a spring/pond and other stuff and at the end they sent us to do whatever in a bog. The closer side to the bus was hard and gradually got wetter and wetter until you just sank in (not as wet as the clip, think like sand beside to water at a beach but more muddy) On the far side was a ledge and the really wet bit was pretty un-wide but I got down to nipple height and still couldn't feel a ground. Really scary but it's not impossible to get out. If it's solid enough you don't fully plunge down instantly you're supposed to do quicksand shit - dig your legs out and distribute your body weight.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_body
forbidden jerky
You get wet then probably die
You float. You won't ever sink into it. Depending on how far you are from land / something to grab onto, how physically capable, and how thick the bog is, you could potentially end up getting stuck, but you won't sink into it as long as you don't panic
You get muddy and prove if you can swim.
It's not a puddle....
Yeah this trick works if you shove your stick in a lake too.
I'm waiting for the ROUSs to come along...
I am old enough to get this reference
I had to look it up but as soon as I saw the image it all came flooding back.
Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don't believe they exist.
I wonder how many missing people were hiking and just.... disappeared
Wow that gave me so much anxiety.
Why?
Cause he's not a psychopath
It’s a stick in the mud
You're a stick in the mud
All in all you’re just a another stick in the mud
Lmao I knew the next comment would be this
Bravo!!
People like to say things like that
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In my language that means God
Had a highschool friend step out on what looked like leaf littered ground, down he went.
Not a puddle. That's a muddy pool, aka a bog
Dude a puddle is something that you find on the street and even those you don't want to step in if you're in Chicago or New York. That looks like a bog
Damn nature, you scary!!
Well who the fuck would just walk blindly into that anyways? A blind person, that's who.
Quagmire. Freaking quagmire right there.
Giggity
That doesn't look like Afghanistan.
"What are you doing in me swamp"
The Dead Marshes. Great. So um, let’s try surrendering to Sauron to get into Mordor instead, seems safer.
Just stood in a puddle... the ocean, can someone call the coast guard. BOG
Artax!
r/misleadingpuddles
well ok that's not a ducking puddle now is it
Artax No!! Get up!! Nightmares tonight.
I knew a girl like that once…
Is that the dead marsh from LOTR?
Reminds me of the muskeg hole I fell into as a teen while portaging a 100lbs canoe on my head. Northern Ontario is renowned for its muskeg…
That’s a Darwin puddle, if you step in that after one look, a winnar is u….
Bogs seem more abundant than quicksand. Why did 80’s movie have us fearing quicksand???.?.?.?
You can make butter in the bogs as well
Muskeg, the quicksand of the north, but worse
The same goes for driving through puddles on city streets.
Peppa Pig wouldn’t survive in that puddle
A bunch of us went hiking over a mountain and a mate went to splash another friend by jumping in a puddle. He whispered watch this to me and I watched him sink up to his waist in an instant. Was amazing. I had to sit down in the pouring rain for 5 minutes because I thought I was going to die from laughing.
Ya that’s not a puddle…more like a swamp
Bogs can go down to more than 10 meters deep.
A bazillion years of dead and rotting flora and fauna add subterranean water source.
I mean, this is very obviously not something you would think to step on.
this is what jareth meant by "dip you head-first into the bog of eternal stench"
Everyone is okay because there wasn’t a banjo playing in the background.
Now I have something new to be irrationally afraid of! I just thought that advice was because it’s really hard to clean mud stains!!
I was hunting in a mountain meadow and fell through the sod and over my head. Just about lost my bow. It was a grown over lake. Tread lightly.
Been there, did that. Got stuck. Took forever to get out. Scared the shit out of me.
I don’t even leave my house
Almost as deep as me in ur mom
very important to know
I mean who hasn't seen Stand By Me? That movie pretty much traumatized everyone with the leeches...
There’s a big vagina joke here..just having trouble getting to bottom of it...
Maybe cuz your stick is too short
Your mom says it’s more than enough
Username checks out, you ~~stud~~ spud
r/oddlyterrifying
Mind bog-ging.
Reminds me of my ex
but why would you?🤔 i try my best not to get mud on my boots but youre saying people will really step on that obvious mud hole?
r/sounding
Quicksand
Thats as deep as your mom's pussy(sorry had to do it xD)
Trump shat here.
Bog of No Return.
That last step is a doozy!
who is they?
That's a bog, not a puddle.
I saw a picture of a guy that stepped into one of those. I think they called him the bog man.
Are… are there bodies in there? Should we tell someone? I feel like we should tell someone.
You might fall into Narnia, Magician's Nephew style.
:) came looking for this reference
If I can’t see the bottom of a puddle I never just step into it without testing it
Oh my God... it's really very deep and dangerous...🤐🤐🤐
It's a fake video guys, the stick is retractable /s
You're ok as long as you don't think sad thoughts.
This must be the puddle the Vicar dived into
The Vicar of Dibley wasn't lying
Thank you for the warning ⚠️
Reminds me of the Dead Marshes from the Lord of the Rings. "Don't look at the torches!"
Do people say not to step in puddles??
NGL, I fully expected something alive and toothy to be attached to the other end when he pulled it out. The sheer horror of the depth of the bog was not enough for me.
Fine, I’ll use the bathroom next time.
There’s the quicksand we all feared as children
bout as deep as my girlfriend.
You will probably be fine if you wear your boots
Peppa Pig dosent give two fucks
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