Why was quicksand a major peril in 1960s movies, but suddenly no longer scary in the 1990s? In an entertaining essay for Slate, Dan Engber explains how quicksand is getting sucked out of pop culture – ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Maine woman has lived to tell the tale after being sucked waist-deep into quicksand on a popular beach. Thankfully she was with ...

So, there’s the bad guy, stuck in a pit of quicksand, screaming his lungs out and sinking deeper and deeper into the muck. Finally, with a loud gurgle, he slips below the surface, only his slouch hat ...

The quicksand depicted in films, when a daring adventurer is suddenly ensnared in a life-threatening vortex of sand, is largely a myth. But that didn’t make it any less scary when Mitchell O’Brien ...