Floyd Collins

Floyd Collins spent countless cold, wet and cramped hours searching for his fortune underground, exploring caves in hopes of capitalizing on that craze of the time. One frosty afternoon he discovered the most glorious cave of all, bigger an’ better than any cave in history – the first man ever to set eyes on this magnificence of creation … A glory and a wonder all right, up until the moment the roof caved in hopelessly trapping him 100 feet underground.

Rescue attempts were launched but what ensued turned the small town of Cave City, Kentucky into the first real "Media Circus" in the United States. Covered by a cub reporter from the Louisville Journal the news about Floyd blossomed by way of the wire into full-fledged carnival coverage by every major AND minor newspaper in the country. Radio stations and movie makers came over the weeks to follow this drama … many people stopped reading newspapers altogether and DROVE to Cave City where a circus atmosphere ensued and hawkers made small fortunes raking thousands of dollars from the crowds of onlookers and gawkers … and this in the day of few roads and Model A’s!