Floyd Collins entered Sand Cave a century ago today to explore its prospects as a visitor site and became trapped in a passageway not much wider than his chest, dislodging a 27-pound rock that pinned ...

When Floyd Collins ventured into Sand Cave in Kentucky on Jan. 30, 1925, he was searching for the next big attraction. But he ...

Floyd Collins got trapped in a Kentucky cave 100 years ago this week, an incident that led to the creation of Mammoth Cave National Park.

The Kentucky Cave Wars refers to a period when Western ... The earth shifted again, and several more months would pass before a team could retrieve his body. For as much fandemonium as Floyd ...

Kentucky cave explorer Floyd Collins became a national ... When I stumbled upon this gripping collection of stories two months before the 100th anniversary of his death, I genuinely couldn ...