"I just dropped into the ground," Jamie Acord recalled. A woman is speaking out after sinking into quicksand along the Maine coast. Jamie Acord said she was walking with her husband near the water on ...

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PHIPPSBURG, Maine (AP) - A Maine woman enjoying a walk on a popular beach learned that quicksand doesn’t just happen in Hollywood movies in jungles or rainforests. Jamie Acord was walking at the water ...

Jamie Acord was with her husband, walking along the beach in Maine, when she suddenly got stuck in quicksand. Acord says the quicksand was up to her waist and her arms were on top of the sand.

A Maine woman enjoying a walk on a popular beach learned that quicksand doesn't just happen in Hollywood movies in jungles or rainforests. Jamie Acord was walking at the water's edge at Popham Beach ...

The mixture, which is a combination of sand and water, typically occurs in areas near water — but it can also be found in deserts Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working ...

It was one of our biggest fears in the 1980s. The urban legend that any time any of us could be walking on grass and suddenly get sucked into the ground by random quicksand. If you're a child of the ...