The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxAlmost a century ago, the agonising death of a cave explorer became an unexpected tourist spectacle.Floyd Collins, 37, was an experienced spelunker who had discovered and commercialised one of the many caverns of Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky.But his 1917 discovery, Crystal Cave, was remote and didn't get many visitors.
He wanted to open up a new cave closer to the main road, and agreed on a plan with a neighbour to enlarge an entrance to Sand Cave.Hoping the new cave would prove profitable, they entered a business partnership together.While he'd been on many such expeditions before, on the fateful day of January 30, 1925,.
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