The Texas Swim Hole That Still Has Bodies Trapped Below

One of the most beautiful places in Texas is also home to some of the deepest waters and darkest history.

What You Can’t See Beneath the Surface

The water may be calm on top, but just beneath lies one of Texas’s most dangerous natural formations; a giant and deadly cave system that has claimed the lives of multiple divers.

This isn’t folklore. It’s a real place with real victims and some of them never made it back to the surface alive.

A Four-Chambered Trap Beneath Texas

Divers say it starts innocent enough:

• Chamber One (30–55 ft) – Easy to access.

• Chamber Two (55–80 ft) – Still manageable for trained divers.

• Chamber Three (80–90 ft) – For experts only.

• Chamber Four (90+ ft) – Sealed off permanently after several fatalities.

The fourth chamber is so tight that divers have to remove their tanks to squeeze through, and that decision has proven deadly. Some went in and never came out.

Bodies Are Still Down There

In 1983, two college students, Richard Patton and Clark McConnell, entered that final chamber. Clark made it out, Richard didn’t. His body was discovered deep in a false tunnel that looked like an exit but wasn’t.

He’s not the only one. Authorities sealed off the chamber after about a dozen deaths. But they couldn’t recover all the bodies. Some remain down there; lost in a cold, pitch-black maze few humans have ever seen.

Locals Know. Reddit Knows. Now You Know.

Online forums are filled with posts warning others:

“This is the swimming hole… that still holds the unrecovered bodies of divers.”

“Go no further. There’s nothing past here worth dying for.”

Watch the video below to learn more about the dark history of Jacobs Well near Austin, Texas.