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In his stand-up comedy special "New in Town," comedian John Mulaney joked about the oversaturation of quicksand on childhood TV shows: "I always thought that quicksand was going to be a much bigger ...

As a child, I knew two things about quicksand: that it’s a go-to peril for cartoon characters in jungles, and that in real life, it’s only sticky if you treat it like a solid. Pretend it’s water, and ...

PHIPPSBURG, Maine (AP) - A Maine woman enjoying a walk on a popular beach learned that quicksand doesn’t just happen in Hollywood movies in jungles or rainforests. Jamie Acord was walking at the water ...

A schoolboy was rescued from deadly quicksands Bay this week by firefighters who were luckily training nearby. Kavan Humphreys, 13, was fishing around Morecambe Bay in Lancashire with his father and a ...

A hiker was stuck in chest-deep mud at the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah. Bureau of Land Management - Utah Quicksand sucked a hiker into chest-deep mud in a Utah gorge, park ...

On December 14, 2024, in Imbituba, Brazil, @andre_natrip shared a video of a suspected quicksand area near the seashore. In the video, the author notices a warning sign labeled "danger" near a small ...

Security forces in Egypt’s Daqahliya Governorate retrieved on Thursday the body of a security guard who died after falling in quicksand in the ancient area of al-Rabaa. Egyptian media published a ...