You're dealing with one of the fundamental forces of nature here, but unlike a hurricane or even a landslide or a flood or somethin', you can't see it. It's lying there in wait all the time twenty-four hours a day. You might just be walking along minding your own business and once it's got you, it's going to hurt you. It conforms to every single nook and cranny of your body. You literally cannot pull yourself out even if you're just up to your ankles. People have always been just terrified of the idea of quicksand. Its that awful feeling that somehow the ground which you know is solid and you walk on is somehow not there, and you're going to take a step, and you're going to disappear. Since the earliest days of the cinema it was one of Hollywood's favorite ways to dispose of the bad guy. Or trap an innocent victim. Producers created bottomless pits of quicksand out of peat moss, oatmeal, even wine corks And helped make the soggy stuff legendary. But quicksand is more than just a clever plot device. It's real... It's dangerous... And it's more common than most people believe. Quicksand is found along coastlines, on riverbanks, even in our own backyards.