Hole related deaths?

[ColourODarkness]

Curious as to if anyone knows how someone might die involving a hole or something similar?
As a child I had horrific night terrors, but being the first child my parents didn't understand what I was going through and assumed I was being a pain in the backside or was just having nightmares. Thanks to this forum I recently discovered that night terrors may be linked to a trauma of a past life, and I was struck with something my parents told me when I was a child.
One of the first and most memorable night terrors my parents told me I had suffered was when I was 4 or 5. I had woken in the night screaming, they rushed into my room to find me pointing at the floor and screaming that there was a hole and that I was going to fall in, and they could do nothing to soothe me.
I developed a fear of holes when I was 8-12 years old, and I'm wondering if perhaps I had a traumatic experience in a past life that is related to my childhood night terrors, so I'm looking to find information on whether there has ever been any common hole related deaths of sorts.
Any comments would be appreciated!

 

[argonne1918]

You may have fallen into a well and died. That still happens on rare occassions even in modern countries like the U.S. Several years ago there was a sensational case where a 2 or 3 year old fell into an abandoned well and survived the fall. Someone heard them crying and called 911. It took more than 24 hours for the rescuers to get them out. Old water and oil wells are supposed to be capped with concrete to prevent that from happening. But there are thousands of old wells and septic tanks with rotting wooden covers that no one knows are there. About 25 years ago in my city there was a "sinkhole" that suddenly appeared in a parking lot behind an office complex. Investigation found it was a 80 year old hand dug water well. It still had a wooden ladder going down to the bottom. Before WWII the neighborhood had been farms.


I think falling into a well and dying would be enough to give one claustrophobia. Are you claustrophobic?

 

[ColourODarkness]

I think falling into a well and dying would be enough to give one claustrophobia. Are you claustrophobic?

Not particularly. I get a little uncomfortable occasionally, but not panicked or anything like my sister who suffers from claustrophobia and can't get into a packed train.


Just had a conversation with my mother and she told me that from 4 or 5 I would have night terrors every night for weeks on end, and I rarely spoke during them, just screamed and screamed. Every time anyone tried to get near me I'd start screaming "No! Go away!" or screaming louder, and when they left the room I'd panic and call for my her, and then the situation would repeat.

 

[Mere Dreamer]

Possibilities:


1. Wells (already covered)


2. Mines


3. Deep/narrow crevices, like in mountains


4. Caves


Oh! When I was very small I fell into a sewer through an open manhole. So there's that option, too.


So many types of holes to fall into. Heh.

 

[ColourODarkness]

Too bad there was no one like Carol Bowman around then.

:laugh: I often think the same thing. Neither of my parents (nor my extended family members) are spiritual like I am, so everything seemingly 'paranormal/spiritual' that has happened in my life has been dismissed or shot down.


It's a shame really, I think I would've looked into my past lives at a much earlier age had I been encouraged or at least listened to.

 

[ColourODarkness]

Possibilities:
1. Wells (already covered)


2. Mines


3. Deep/narrow crevices, like in mountains


4. Caves

I've never considered mines! I imagine my fear of the dark could be related to my fear of holes if the situation is right... There are far too many holes to consider :laugh:

 

[BriarRose]

What comes to mind for me is an earthquake. Soil liquefaction is a huge problem. A big Alaskan quake happened when I was a kid. I read that a hole suddenly opened, and "swallowed" people. I never quite got over the horror of that.

 

[helz_belz]

Don't forget sink-holes (either natural or collapsing old mine-shafts), that can suddenly open up in the ground, like happened in the States a while back under that house. Also (because they affect me pretty badly) trenches, dug-outs and shell-holes, but they're pretty specific.

 

[ColourODarkness]

Also (because they affect me pretty badly) trenches, dug-outs and shell-holes, but they're pretty specific.

Trenches is one to take into consideration for sure! I went to a WWII museum with my school as a kid and they made us go through the simulation trenches, I remember covering my ears and closing my eyes through parts of it. Couldn't get out of the museum fast enough after that.

 

[ColourODarkness]

A big Alaskan quake happened when I was a kid. I read that a hole suddenly opened, and "swallowed" people. I never quite got over the horror of that.

The 'swallowed' comment made something sorta click... I've always been fascinated by earthquakes, and now that I've thought about it I've been wanting to visit Alaska since a very young age.


I shall have to do some research on this earthquake methinks!

 

[argonne1918]

Cities like San Francisco have to worry about "liquefaction" during earthquakes because many areas were built on land fill. In the 1989 S.F. quake the Marina District suffered the most damage. That's where the ruble from the 1906 earthquake was dumped and covered over. The 1964 "Good Friday" Alaskan earthquake (happened the Friday before Easter) proved the theory of "Plate Tectonics". Before then no one really knew what caused earthquakes or why they happened in the same places.

 

[BriarRose]

A few years ago, a Florida man watched a sink hole swallow his house, and his sleeping brother. They could hear cries for help, but couldn't get him out.

 

[argonne1918]

Florida has as many sinkholes as California has earthquakes because Florida has large limestone and phosphate deposits. It dissolves in water. There are large limestone and phosphate mines there for fertilizer, etc. That may be one reason not many people lived there before the 1920's.

 

[obstacles]

Trenches is one to take into consideration for sure! I went to a WWII museum with my school as a kid and they made us go through the simulation trenches, I remember covering my ears and closing my eyes through parts of it. Couldn't get out of the museum fast enough after that.

I've still never been to a WWII museum. They actually do simulations at some of those? My god, I would have had an absolute panic attack, I'm pretty sure.


Other people in this thread have covered so many kinds of holes. The first thing I thought of was the well/manhole thing.


I'm having trouble thinking of more. The only other thing that came to mind is...holes in damaged buildings? Like when a roof/ceiling gives out suddenly. I think more people have been injured/killed by the ceiling collapsing ONTO them but I'm sure there have also been instances of people falling through the collapse.

 

[argonne1918]

...holes in damaged buildings? Like when a roof/ceiling gives out suddenly. I think more people have been injured/killed by the ceiling collapsing ONTO them but I'm sure there have also been instances of people falling through the collapse.

One of my uncles was in the roofing business before he retired. One time he was on the roof of an old house checking the condition so he could give an estimate of what a new roof would cost. When he stepped onto the roof over the front porch it collapsed from rotted wood.

 

[ColourODarkness]

I've still never been to a WWII museum. They actually do simulations at some of those?
The only other thing that came to mind is...holes in damaged buildings?

The Imperial War Museum in London did a trench walkthrough. I'm unsure if it's still around... You could also take a look inside subs and tanks and such. Interesting place


One of the first things I thought of when thinking back to my night terrors was perhaps a broken/burning building, but I also thought that perhaps it'd be more likely to be killed by parts falling than falling into a hole.

 

[Mama2HRB]

I, too, was thinking of the poor man and the Florida sinkhole. Imagine him coming back into the next life and his night terrors of being put into a bed ...


The horror of it all...