First, I will cut and paste part of the story that will give basic knowledge about this Death Trap. It is from
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"This last year, one of our own students went down to visit some friends in Mexico. While there, he did a little exploring on their property. After a couple days of exploratory treks, he discovered some large boulders with carved markings. Upon closer inspection,
he found that these were carved markings of snakes and circles. Some of the snakes pointed down and others were coiled. His curiosity increased. Now he began to look even closer, at the other boulders in the area.
A few yards below these snakes and circles, he came across a rather odd looking rock formation. To him, it didn‘t look like anything mother nature would have created. Propped against other support boulders was the carved head and shoulders “silhouette” of a man. crouching down as to lift something heavy. He also sees that the arm and leg
muscles have also been carved. On the left arm, there is a carved notch. Appearing to be where some kind of support was used, to keep the structure in place.
A couple of days later, he found an overgrown area of thick vegetation, rubble rock and a depression on the side of the one hill. This too did not look like the work of mother nature. (This area was approximately 50 yards to the left of the “silhouette”)
It took several days to clear away the vegetation and rubble rock. Under all the rubble rock, was a working Death trap. I will do the best I can, to describe their position and the workings of the trap. (After this photo was taken, the people working this site, decided to trip the trap and redirect the boulder downhill.)"
The first picture is the silhouette rock uphill from the Death Trap.
Next is tha actual Death Trap itself:
Here is Entranceway Death Trap #2 in picture.
1. Is the Trap Boulder
2. Is the "Death Mask" It is a rock carved into the shape of a face. It is notched to fit the Trap Boulder, and hold it in place.
3. is the Trip. It is a quadrilateral shaped rock beam about six feet in length that extends through the right wall of the mineshaft. It blocks the entrance to the mine.
4. Is the support. This is bedrock which, along with the notched "Death Mask" Rock balance the Trap Boulder. It also serves another purpose which I will describe later.
Here's how it works: Our sucker sees the mineshaft behind this big boulder.He is in such a hurry to get to the cache, he just races into the shaft. He finds his way blocked by the Trip. Being in a hurry to get to his fortune, he pushes the Trip out of his way. As he does this, the opposite end of the Trip moves the "Death Mask" rock, allowing the Trap Boulder to roll inward, blocking the entrance. Since the support is part of the bedrock, it prevents anyone (especially whoever is trapped inside) from pushing the boulder out from the entrance. The support would have to be broken up before the Trap Boulder can be moved. Impossible for one sucker inside the shaft (HINT! Don't go it alone!)!
The green lines are where the different rocks have been cut to fit.
