Western Kentucky became the site of a media sensation in 1925 when a man named Floyd Collins ended up trapped 200 feet underground.
A revised third edition of a book called 鈥淭rapped! The Story of Floyd Collins鈥� is being released this month in honor of the 100th anniversary of the disaster.
And a musical called 鈥淔loyd Collins鈥� opens on Broadway this month.
Roger Brucker is a cave explorer and co-author of the book He also is co-founder of the Cave Research Foundation, which found a connection between Mammoth Cave and the Flint Ridge Cave System making Mammoth the world鈥檚 longest cave.
On Cincinnati Edition, he talks with us about the story of Floyd Collins and his own decades of cave exploration.
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