If you get stuck in quicksand, remember it's impossible to drown in the stuff. Instead, calmly try freeing yourself by gently kicking your legs back and forth. This should loosen the dense sand around ...

Getting trapped in quicksand is a corny peril of old movies and TV shows, but it really did happen to one unfortunate hiker in Utah's Arches National Park. The park famous for dozens of natural, ...

Quicksand is a staple hazard of adventure movies, TV shows and video games. Whenever a minor character needs to be killed off quickly, the hero needs someone to rescue, or danger needs to be ...

Films of the Boys' Own genre had a satisfactory way of disposing of the villain when it was time to bring an adventure to a close. He would fall, because of his own clumsiness, into a pit of quicksand ...