We've all seen the footage. In the 1960s, disastrous quicksand scenes appeared in one out of every 35 films. In the 1980s, quicksand's spotlight had dwindled, but it still appeared in roughly one out ...

After watching “The Alligator Man” being swallowed whole in Louisiana muck in a terrifying ‘50s B film, I began to wonder how often similar scenes have played out in the movies. IMDb (Internet Movie ...

Movies have made quicksand look like the ultimate doom trap—step in the wrong spot, and you’ll be sucked under in seconds, never to be seen again. But is that actually how quicksand works in real life ...

For the first 20 minutes that 34-year-old hiker Ryan Osmun was stuck in quicksand, he thought everything would be all right. “I pretty much thought it was mud,” Osmun says now, six months after he ...