![]() Read the full story by logging in or becoming a member of StrangeOutdoors. Within days, Nutty Putty Cave was sealed with concrete forever as a memorial to John Jones. They tried desperately to get him out of the position he was wedged in. John eventually died on the evening of November 25, 2009, stuck upside down, in the narrow passage from heart failure after a huge rescue effort by over 100 volunteers. The 6-foot-tall, 190-pound spelunker got stuck with his head at an angle below his feet. It was to be a fatal crawl in the deepest part of the cave and one that led to one of the most shocking and disturbing deaths imaginable. 18 inches wide, 10 inches high John Jones was part of a group of 11 people exploring the cave passages. When they got into Nutty Putty, John made the unfortunate decision to split up and explore an un-mapped route within the cave system. The cave is west of Utah Lake and about 55 miles from Salt Lake City. So John and Josh and several friends headed to Nutty Putty Cave at around 8 pm on Tuesday, November 24, 2009. He suggested that they head out there for a bit of spelunking to relive their childhood experiences. They were picked up by Josh, who told John that the Nutty Putty Cave had been re-opened for six months, after a long closure due to safety and erosion concerns. John, 26, his wife Emily, and daughter Lizzie arrived in Utah to see family over the Thanksgiving weekend in 2009 at their parents’ Stansbury Park home. The recreational pastime of exploring wild cave systems is known as spelunking in the United States and Canada and potholing or just caving elsewhere in the world. When John Edward Jones was a kid, he often explored cave systems with his father, Leon, and his brother, Josh, in Utah.
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