When Tessa, a fifteen-year-old girl, was playing in the sand at a beach in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on Sunday, she got it in her head to dig a hole as deep as she could.
As she dug deeper and deeper into the lush sand of the vacation spot, Tessa went deeper and deeper under the surface.
Suddenly, the sand around the edges of her hole collapsed and trapped her from the neck down – making it almost impossible for her lungs to expand with oxygen, nearly suffocating her. Read the full story here ▶