Boggy Man's Dramatic Sink Videos! Updated Oct 12'th, 2025!!!

[Boggy Man]

On Friday, September 6'th, I finally had my second adventure of the season, as well as my first (and unfortunately last ) set of submergence sinks of the season, a couple caught on video (second during escape)! Enjoy!



Deadly Inescapable Mud - Quicksand!

A hiker decides to go off a closed trail in a dangerous meadow to go for a swim in a nearby lake, but discovers just how dangerous the meadow really is!





First Escape Attempt, From Deadly Inescapable Mud - Quicksand, Failed!

It looks like an ordinary patch of mud, but it is far from ordinary! It quivers, and farts out a large bubble of gas! But, it isn't swamp gas! It is the escaping breath from a human being that had been sucked below its surface! He then manages to fight his way back up to the surface and rise as high as his chest, before the deadly ooze sucks him back down again, his head resting on the surface for a short period of time before it too gets gulped back down, bubbles of his escaping breath once again farting out at the surface of the hungry, doughy morass! Will he ever escape?





Second Escape Attempt, From Deadly Inescapable Mud - Quicksand, Successful!

Here is a patch of bare, wet ground that looks innocent, until it suddenly farts out some bubbles! Methane? Nope! It is the bog passing gas from the escaping breath of a man who was consumed whole TWICE by the sucking quagmire during his futile struggles to escape! But, he manages to fight his way back to the surface, and then slowly works his way up higher and FINALLY manages to drag himself out of the batterlike slime to safety!





The following video is the previous two combined into one:

It Took Two Attempts To Successfully Escape From Deadly Inescapable Mud - Quicksand!

Here is a patch of muddy ground that looks not that strange, until it burps up a large bubble! Swamp gas? Nope! It is the escaping breath from a person that the voracious ooze had engulfed, and is slowly suffocating beneath the surface! But, he manages to fight his way back to the surface, to take in precious lungfuls of air, before struggling again, the deadly quagmire sucking him back down again, his head resting briefly on the surface before it too is gulped back down by the suffocating ooze! But then, after the bog passes the gas from his escaping breath in the form of more bubbles, he fights his way back up to the surface again, works himself up higher, and FINALLY manages to make his way to the grass behind him, where he FINALLY drags himself out to safe ground, free of the sucking clutches of the voracious quagmire!

[BeTELGeUSe]

I've been watching your sink videos for a while now. It's good to see some new ones.

[mhollan3]

You ever been caught, Boggy?

[Boggy Man]

You ever been caught, Boggy?

There have been a few times when I may have been seen:

Once was in the year I first found the mud in this area, but at that time, all the meadows were bottomless mudflats that resulted in painful leg cramps to traverse. I happened to have made my way a ways out into the bottomless mud on the north side of the pond, when a low flying airplane to the south was headed straight for me! I tried to get back to shore to hide in the trees as fast as I could, but both my legs seized up from cramps and I dragged myself onto solid ground using my arms just as it passed low directly overhead! All that season, the same airplane seemed to keep circling around that area for some reason , which annoyed me! But, since that year (or was it more ), it has been quiet.

Another time was at my Harris Creek quicksilt area. It was in early spring, when snowmelt had made my quicksilt slide area the most saturated and soft! I thought that would be the quietest time, with the least amount of people around the area relative to other parts of the spring/summer season, because certain stretches of the road were still covered in slushy snow, making traveling there awkward, and hopefully, a deterrent. I had to walk my bike past those stretches of snow to get to other parts of the road that were better. Anyways, I was in the mud, when I looked up and saw someone with an atv standing on top of the silt cliff a distance away! I stayed still, hoping he didn't see me. But, he just stood there, not moving. Finally, I couldn't wait any longer, and inconspicuously left the area, noticing that the guy left at the same time, making me wonder if he did see me!

Then there was another time at my Harris Creek quicksilt area. One of my forms of mudplay in the quicksilt would be struggling in a horizontal position. Below the cliffs, I was laying on my stomach in the soft quicksilt, struggling, with my arms worked straight down into the thick rubbery quicksilt, when all of a sudden, a helicopter turned around and headed towards me and passed overhead! From the helicopter's viewpoint, I would have appeared like someone that had fallen off the cliff and was laying face down on the ground at the bottom! Arms still stuck, I got partially up and frantically started to work to free my arms from the quicksilt, which took a bit of time because the mire flexed its muscles each time I tugged at my arms, holding them down tight (each time it tightened it grip, I would relax and it would relax and then the next pull would be higher before the mire locked up again, a gradual process)! I finished working my arms free, cleaned up, packed my things, and left the area, eventually passing a truck heading up the road that had a bunch of people on it that looked like they were on a search-and-rescue mission!

[gamwam]

fantastic to see you sink again,... did you get to record any deep breathing hose assisted sinks this year?

[Boggy Man]

fantastic to see you sink again,... did you get to record any deep breathing hose assisted sinks this year?

It felt really fantastic! Glad to hear you enjoyed it! I only had one breathing hose sink that day, but unfortunately it was not on camera. It didn't last very long anyways, because liquid mud kept on oozing into my nostrils each time I inhaled through the hose. So, I only sunk to only an inch or so over my head before resurfacing.

[jenny_up_to_no_good]

Just popping in to say I am deeply (pun intended) jealous of the pit you've got in that video, I would KILL for mud that deep and with that consistency

Thank you so much for sharing these videos, they are a joy to behold

[kwiksand1]

OMG!
Haven't been on the board for a while and wanted to let you know how very much I enjoyed seeing the latest videos!! Love to watch these when I have some private time, alone

Thanks so much for sharing!

[Boggy Man]

Thanks for the responses!

Uploading my huge files to YouTube used to be a real pain with DSL, with upload speeds a fraction of the download speeds, where I would have to initiate the upload in the morning, shrink the window to show only the upload progress bar, and let it run all day, before it would complete in the late afternoon or early evening! But, ever since we switched to a fiber optic service (home phone/tv/internet) in late September 2018, with its upload speeds matching its download speeds, I can upload the files to YouTube within minutes, which is substantially more convenient!

On Tuesday, August 4'th, 2020, I had my first adventure of the season, with a dramatic sink and escape captured on video! Last year, for my first outing, I had a personal sink first in my bog, only to have the bog flood over, ruining any shooting opportunities for that day! This year, I had a hunch that the bog would once again be flooded after my first sink, so I decided to use the first sink for a dramatic video this time! It was a good thing I did, because sure enough, after making that video and having the subsequent post-video mudplay and mixing, the bog flooded over and I couldn't mix the mud back up to the surface!

There was a bit of a problem with the stability of the undulating grass holding the pole my camera/Gorillapod was mounted on, and it shifted slightly after I walked away from it, resulting in the video being off-center, but I was still in the picture! Here it is, divided into the dramatic sinking part, and the escape part! Enjoy!

THE BIG GULP!

A hiker in a wetland is a bit amused by its name, "Big Gulp Marsh" , and then decides to go for a swim. But, something sinister lies between him and the water, and he finds out the hard (or should I say, soft ) way, why it was given that name!



ESCAPE FROM THE BIG GULP!

Here is a patch of mud that looks innocent enough, except that it is ever so mildly quivering, and bubbling! Swamp gas? Yes, most of it is, except for one larger bubble that bursts out of the jellylike ooze, which is from the bog passing gas from the escaping breath of a 6' 2" man that it had just gulped down moments earlier! But, the hungry mire won't be able to keep its food down, as its meal manages to fight his way back up to the surface, gasping for air, and then methodically works his way up and out of the bubbling ooze! I guess that the bog will have to wait for another victim to swallow!

[Chimerix]

GULP!!!