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Before iPhones and the internet, before television and radio, people went out of their way to find entertainment. If something newsworthy was happening, they wanted to be a part of it. 

Floyd Collins and the caves below Kentucky gave the nation just that in January 1925.  Hear how one man, trapped 60 feet below the surface, brought in thousands of onlookers from across the country for a two-week period. 

He wanted to be a winner in the Kentucky Cave Wars but may have sealed his fate while exploring one day. 

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