The life and death of Kentuckian Floyd Collins, a famous "caver" in the early 1900s, is exhibited in a museum display at the Market House Museum. Floyd had already discovered Crystal Cave, and was searching for a second cave, in order to augment his slender income. In 1925, he descended into the Sand Cave abyss, which was not really a cave but a slender chute leading down into the darkness. Floyd accidentally kicked a large rock hanging from the ceiling. The rock fell, pinning Floyd's foot in a V-shaped crevice. Two weeks of attempted rescue efforts culminated in Floyd's agonizing death in the wet, dripping cave. The event was exhaustively covered by the media and resulted in the largest news story between the two World Wars. The Market House Museum has photos of the catastrophe which took place 2 miles from Mammoth Cave, a 78 recording made by Vernon Dalhart of "The Death of Floyd Collins", and other memorabilia concerning the sad tragedy.