SMITHTOWN, N.Y. (WCBS/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A man found himself in a scary situation when he sunk up to his waist in quicksand-like mud while walking his dog, prompting a police rescue. 24-year-old ...

The man was able to call 911 after he became trapped while hunting ducks off Wharton’s Point in Maine's Maquoit Bay Brunswick, Maine Police Department/Facebook Matthew Alexander of Topsham, Maine, ...

In his stand-up comedy special "New in Town," comedian John Mulaney joked about the oversaturation of quicksand on childhood TV shows: "I always thought that quicksand was going to be a much bigger ...

"The more he struggled, the deeper he became," local police said. A man who was duck hunting in coastal Maine had to be rescued by police after getting stuck in quicksand-like mud that reached up to ...

PASADENA, Md. (WJZ)—Firefighters raced to Anne Arundel County on Friday afternoon after a teen found himself trapped up to his waist in mud. Gigi Barnett reports the teen was sinking fast in a mud pit ...

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Though the threat of drowning in quicksand may be a core fear of any movie buff, some social media users have claimed it is "physically impossible to sink entirely in quicksand." One Reddit post, ...

Quicksand is not the fearsome geological feature movies have made it out to be. It is, however, an unusual substance. If you grew up in the 1980s or ’90s, you might fear quicksand. Evil characters in ...

A hiker was stuck in chest-deep mud at the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah. Bureau of Land Management - Utah Quicksand sucked a hiker into chest-deep mud in a Utah gorge, park ...

WITH more stormy weather on the way, a grim warning has gone out about the increasing risk of holidaymakers getting stuck in quicksand on Britain's holiday beaches. It's feared shifting tide patterns ...

If stumbling into quicksand ranks on your list of worries, don't panic. You won't sink in—at least not all the way. Real quicksand is certainly hard to get out of, but it doesn't suck people under the ...

Rescues worked for thirty minutes to pull children from quicksand in Washington. March 29, 2011— -- Four young adventurers in Spokane, Wash., didn't have to look far to find adventure—and it ...