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While some have likened the festival situation following flooding to the savagery in the book "Lord of the Flies," many attendees have said spirits remain high.

Authorities continue investigation in the death of a man at the venue of the Burning Man cultural festival in the Black Rock desert in the US state of Nevada,

To add to the ongoing death investigation and the news of 70,000 festivalgoers being stranded, rumors regarding possible Ebola concerns began spreading on social media.

Roads out of the Burning Man festival could reopen Monday for the estimated 72,000 people trapped for a third day in the Nevada desert after heavy rains smothered the grounds with ankle-deep mud too thick to drive on.

One local nurse at the festival denied claims circulating online that the festival had been walled off to quarantine an ebola outbreak.

The man’s death is said to not be related to the uprecedented two to three months’ worth of rainfall which fell over the weekend

It’s normally a very dry, sun-soaked event, but this year’s Burning Man has been a massive washout… leaving 70,000 festival-goers literally stuck in the mud in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. The unexpected weather brought on severe rainstorms on the normally very dusty Playa flats, causing the grounds to be inundated with water and get so […]

BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev. -- An unusual late-summer storm turned a week-long counterculture fest into a sloppy mess with tens of thousands of partygoers stuck in foot-deep mud and with no working toilets in the northern Nevada desert, but some Burning Man revelers said Sunday that their spirits remained unbroken.

Around 70,000 people were stranded in the Nevada desert due to excessive rain during the Burning Man festival.

A Burning Man attendee walks his bike through mud near the exit after a severe rainstorm left tens of thousands of revelers attending the annual festival