Ted's Caving Page: Difference between revisions

* [[Evil-Detecting Dog]]: B's Jack Russel terrier, Whip. To quote Ted, "I have seen her [[Cute Bruiser|square off with dogs twice her size]], but now she acted as if [[Satan]] himself was lurking in the darkness."

* {{spoiler|[[Genius Loci]]: Maybe.}}

* [[Hell Is That Noise]]: An in-universe example. Says Ted of the mysterious scream, "I would say it sounded like a cross between a man screaming in fear, and a cougar screaming in pain".

* [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place]]: Invoked, as Ted names the passage that they discovered "Floyd's Tomb". As if that weren't ominous enough, it's named after caver Floyd Collins, who died after getting himself caved in.

* [[Plagiarism]]: Inverted (?). A bizarre rumor spread after this story's popularity grew that it was stolen nearly word-for-word from a short story written by Thomas Lera called ''Fear of Darkness'' from the eighties. As it turns out, the story never existed until after ''Ted the Caver'' became widely known, and is simply ''Ted the Caver'' with the prose cleaned up to be a little more "scholarly" and a stereotypical ghost-story ending tacked on. Lots of people, sadly, bought it hook, line, and sinker.

* [[Primal Fear]]: Go ahead, read the bit about being in total, pure darkness, and see if you don't get at least mildly creeped out.

* [[Stylistic Suck]]: The story does a very good job of looking like an ordinary Angelfire page from the early 2000s (because [[Captain Obvious|that's exactly what it is]]).

* [[Ultimate Evil]]: It's obvious that there's ''something'' down there that doesn't want to be disturbed, but what it is, we never find out. Ted briefly mentions an old myth regarding the Hodag, a creature that dwells in caves, but nothing much comes of that.