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comments →  [–]LuckeyHaskens 408 points409 points ago  The
Yorkshire Strid.  A thin little river with a 100% fatality rate
of anyone who's ever fallen in. Depth unknown. Scares the shit
out of me.  EDIT: I'm not 100% sure on all the specifics of why
they can't measure it, what they've tried, etc, but I imagine
that the current and rocks are too destructive to permit any
measuring. It remains one of the most terrifying places to me.
[–]StrangeLoveNebula 254 points255 points ago  ...while it's
only about 6 feet across, and appears to be no more than a few
feet at its deepest (as we tend to assume of all cutesy little
forest streams), nobody actually knows how deep the Strid goes.
We simply cannot measure it, because there's a powerful
undercurrent sweeping down into the vast, unseen caverns and
massive underwater pockets that hold all of the rest of the
river's water. All of that adds up to one simple, terrifying
fact: Nobody who has ever fallen