Mystery Flesh Pit National Park

"98.6 degrees, and 100% humidity." Ah, Florida.

“So Jimmy where did you go for spring break?” “I went to see the m e l t e d c l o w n o r b”

>comes to Earth >takes a nap >wakes up only to realize that a bunch of weird, microscopic monkeys have built a national park inside your mouth >park collapses >vomits >goes back to sleep

The creepiest part of this is how children are naturally frightened of going into the pit and how the corporation had to put so much effort into making seem OK.

"humans aren't stupid enough to visit a place where the bodies of dead people are used as trail markers!" Mount Everest: Yeah, you see, about that....

the funniest thing, to me, about this whole thing is that in this universe there is the possibility that a documentary made by Defunctland exists in their world's youtube.

The 70s and 80s were wild times. You never hear about a person from the 1950s or 1990s digging up a giant Lovecraftian horror to turn into a themepark.

Much like deadly incidents in real life, the flesh pit catastrophe was the culmination of many smaller failures and poor decisions snowballing into a disaster greater than the sum of its parts. It all lends a vital touch of believability to an otherwise fantastical event. MFP has excellent immersion and world building in general, and the creator deserves so much props for that.

horrific flesh pit: "i sleep" 13 dollar bottle of water: "real shit?"

If i had a nickel for every artist named Trevor who made massively influential horror media, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

watching this 2 years later and the horror of 13$ for a water bottle didnt even faze me...

Imagine you're taking a nap and suddenly you cough after what you think is accidentally inhaling some spit, and then realize you can't close your mouth and then suddenly you puke. All this while you're still groggy af because you were just sleeping.

Imagine lying down for a nap, and then you get a really bad stomach ache. And you wake up, and ants have just made little tiny mounds all over your back and are actively crawling in your mouth and down your throat. I have leveled up and unlocked: A new Nightmare

“Dad how did you meet mom?” “Well son I met her in the flesh pit thermal springs”

42:02 yo the "petting zoo with the declawed lobsters" is a fuckin crazy sentence bro

I like the reason things went wrong sound like something completely realistic. Marketing/customer service folks allowing people to stay in the park after hours, trying to do the whole "customer is always right" thing but not aware of security or engineering aspects that make it dangerous, while you have more work crews on the other side trying to make numbers and unaware that there's already a power strain. Classic case of the left hand doesn't know what the right hand's doing, and is more realistic then some CEO purposely risking lives for a few more bucks.

Fun fact: mastication means chewing. Chewing. Those poor bastards were caught between some sort of teeth down there.

Another note on how massive this thing is: it takes six months to inhale and six months to exhale. Visitors were only allowed in the "lung" structures during Winter and Spring during its "inhale" cycle.

The 38 people returning to the Pit is a lot more tragic than sinister actually. According to Trevor's QnA from November 2021 they were just survivors who rushed back to desperately search for loved ones and friends who were still trapped (and likely already dead) in the Pit. That's something I like about the disaster. Ultimately the monster didn't really do anything wrong or malicious. The 2007 tragedy was all our own fault. It choked on water pouring into its lungs because our equipment failed, then got sick and threw up because we filled it drugs to make it stop coughing. None of which would've happened if park management hadn't extended operating hours. All those people died because of human error, not the Lovecraftian horror beneath the Earth.

About halfway through reading his page on it, I decided I felt worse for the Pit than the people who went in there. Even if the individual tunneling was relatively tiny, imagine all of these basically parasites digging bits out of you, putting stuff in you and even doing the deed inside you. Not fun