Story Stories of Weird Deaths

[maniac116]

FALLING...

Bobby Leach was famous as the second person to go over the Niagara Falls in a barrel, surviving the falls with very serious injuries that took him 6 months to recover from. 15 years after the feat, he fell again, in a much less dramatic fashion this time. Leach slipped on an orange peel on the street. What, were there no banana peels around? As minor as it may have seemed, his fall caused an infection in his leg that was so serious that he eventually passed away from the medical complications it had caused.

 

[OnMyLast Legs]

Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin, 1915

Alexander Scriabin was a pianist and composer with a rather eccentric streak.
The composer wrote "I am God" in a journal, experimented with tone and harmony in his compositions, and designed a special organ that created projections of colored light instead of music when played. His final work was to be the Mysterium, a grandiose piece which would last seven days and be played at the foothills of the Himalayas in India. Scriabin believed that bells hung from clouds would gather people to this location and that the Mysterium would usher in an armageddon, transforming the earth into a world of total bliss. Alas, the earth kept spinning as usual because of an ordinary razor blade. Scriabin died at age 43 after nicking himself while shaving and becoming infected with sepsis or blood poisoning.

And if I went at my carotid with a razor I'd fail

 

[maniac116]

MEL IGNATOW...

Was tried and convicted for the murder of Brenda Sue Schafer in 1988 based on evidential photos that showed the woman being brutalized by an unidentified male. The moles on Ignatow's body provided a match to the man in the picture and became concrete evidence that he killed this woman.

He brutally beat her to death while he bound her to a GLASS coffee table, bludgeoning her body until it was lifeless on that glass coffee table. However, Ignatow got away with only ten years because of perjury and double jeopardy, whereas he would have served a life sentence otherwise.

Several years later, in a freak accident, he tripped and fell in his apartment... onto a glass coffee table. The coffee table's glass cut and maimed him so bad, that he lost too much blood for authorities to do anything about his situation. As he succumbed to the fatal cuts on his head and arms, his final thoughts must have been dominated by the fact that what killed him also killed his victim. The irony is, most likely, what killed him.

 

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This thread has really gotten a lot larger than I ever thought it might.

 

[maniac116]

This thread has really gotten a lot larger than I ever thought it might.

No kidding! I never expected the thread to last even a month.

 

[KlMeNw]

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We're all familiar with the fact that chickens can live after their heads have been cut off (sometimes for 18 months at a time) — but did you know that cobras can survive decapitation, too? It's true. In 2014, chef Peng Fan of China's Guandong Province died after being bitten by the severed head of a cobra. Peng had cut the head off the snake 20 minutes earlier in order to dice its body for soup; however, when he went to dispose of the head, it bit him. Unfortunately anti-venom was not able to be provided in time, and Peng died from the bite.

Source: https://www.bustle.com/articles/117...-10-years-show-that-anything-could-kill-us-at

Chickens cannot survive decapitation. That is a myth.

 

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Chickens cannot survive decapitation. That is a myth.

It's best if you check facts before speaking.

And just so we're clear......I did NOT say that a chicken will survive in PERPETUITY after having its head cut off. They survive for A WHILE, as do snakes.

 

[KlMeNw]

It's best if you check facts before speaking.

And just so we're clear......I did NOT say that a chicken will survive in PERPETUITY after having its head cut off. They survive for A WHILE, as do snakes.

Jesus, first, you said that the chicken survived for 18 minutes, to tal BS. Second, there is a difference between surviving, and neurons firing off randomly and creating movements. Even if the chicken is running around thats just because those were the last instructions the brain sent the legs before decapitation. Either way thats not surviving.

 

[maniac116]

"STONE THE CROWS GUITARIST DIES ONSTAGE"
Leslie Harvey died while on stage with Stone the Crows at the Suite in Swansea on 3 May 1972.
He was electrocuted in front of a live audience when he touched a microphone that was not grounded while the fingers of his other hand were holding the strings of his guitar. A roadie attempted to unplug the guitar, but was unsuccessful. An ambulance was called but Harvey was pronounced dead on arrival from his injuries, aged 27. ( That's an odd way to join the "27 club lol)

It has been incorrectly stated that the incident happened "on a rainy day with puddles on the stage"; however, Swansea Top Rank was an indoor venue and therefore this was not possible.

 

[maniac116]

MAN SHOOTS CACTUS...
CACTUS RETALIATES, KILLING SHOOTER...

In 1982, roommates David Grundman and James Joseph Suchochi decided to pack up their guns and go wandering in the desert two miles north of Arizona 74, just west of Lake Pleasant. One or both of them was struck with the brilliant notion of taking pot shots at saguaro they found growing there. Maybe it was the devil in them. Maybe it had to do with the eerily manlike shapes these monstrous plants can grow into.

Grundman shot a small saguaro in the trunk so many times that it thudded to the ground. "The first one was easy!" he cried, according to Suchochi. He next chose a specimen which stood 26 feet high and was estimated to be a hundred years old. Before the ringing in his ears had stopped, a four-foot spiny arm, severed by the blast, fell on Grundman and crushed him.

Grundman's demise was chronicled in "Saguaro," a song by the Texas band, the Austin Lounge Lizards.

 

[maniac116]

LIVE BY THE SHAVE...

These days, nothing can be more routine for a man than shaving. We hardly give a second thought to scraping a razor against our skin each morning. If we fear anything about the process, it's that we'll nick ourselves or end up with severe razor burn.

But it wasn't always so.

Shaving was once a dangerous and sometimes lethal endeavor. Before the advent of safety razors and sanitation laws, a man risked his life when he decided to clean up with a close shave. Here are the stories of men who met their end in pursuit of a smooth face. Unfortunately, none of these tales actually involve blood-thirsty barbers. But they may still scare you into a growing a beard.

Michael F. Farley, 1921
Michael F. Farley immigrated to the United States from Ireland in 1881 when he was 18 years old. He ran a successful liquor business in New York and was elected to Congress in 1915. But Mr. Farley's Horatio Alger story was cut short after a visit to the barbershop. Little did Mr. Farley know that the badger brush the barber was using to create that nice luxurious lather on his face was contaminated with – I kid you not- anthrax. Farley was infected with the bacterium and died a few days later. Who knew a barber brush could be a weapon of mass destruction?

AlexanderNikolayevich Scriabin, 1915

Alexander Scriabin was a pianist and composer with a rather eccentric streak. The composer wrote "I am God" in a journal, experimented with tone and harmony in his compositions, and designed a special organ that created projections of colored light instead of music when played. His final work was to be the Mysterium, a grandiose piece which would last seven days and be played at the foothills of the Himalayas in India. Scriabin believed that bells hung from clouds would gather people to this location and that the Mysterium would usher in an armageddon, transforming the earth into a world of total bliss. Alas, the earth kept spinning as usual because of an ordinary razor blade. Scriabin died at age 43 after nicking himself while shaving and becoming infected with sepsis or blood poisoning.

 

[maniac116]

This summer in Sweden, a man tried to slash some tires of a truck, only to have the tire explode and the knife sent through his body like a projectile. The police initally suspected murder, but apparently the guy just had some beef with the owner of the truck, not realising the truck would defend itself.
Can you say "CAR-ma"?

 

[maniac116]

Anti-Seatbelt Activist Dies After Being Thrown From SUV...

Derek Kieper was an honors student, a friend, and most notably, an anti-seatbelt rebel.
Kieper described himself as being part of "a die-hard group of non-wearers out there who simply do not wish to buckle up no matter what the government does." So staunch was he that the government shouldn't have any say in the safety precautions folks take while in motor vehicles, he took to the pages of the Daily Nebraskan a mere three months prior to his passing, to extol his position to the readers of the paper.
Practicing his unwavering allegiance to keeping his seatbelt holstered, Kieper and two of his seatbelt-wearing frat brothers were returning from a trip to San Antonio, Texas, when the SUV they were traveling in hit an icy patch and flew off the road before rolling over several times in a roadside ditch. Both the driver and the front-seat passenger survived the crash with non-life threatening injuries while Kieper, who was ejected from the car when it careened off the highway, perished in the incident.

 

[maniac116]

Pope Adrian IV
Year of Death: 1159
Cause: Choked on a fly that fell into his wine

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Nicholar Breakspear might be one of the only English popes out there who has had the most unexpected death for a pope. It was when he was enjoying a drink that a fly had found its way into his goblet. Now, whether he never noticed, or noticed but didn't care enough, the fly went down the wrong way in his pipe, and the Pope quite literally choked on a fly to death. Clearly a bizarre way to die down in history.

 

[maniac116]

A woman died of shock after waking up at her OWN funeral...



Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov was wrongly declared dead by doctors. But when mourners gathered to pay their last respects, she suddenly woke up and was so shocked to find herself in a coffin that she suffered a heart attack and died.

 

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Pope Adrian IV
Year of Death: 1159
Cause: Choked on a fly that fell into his wine

Public Domain

Nicholar Breakspear might be one of the only English popes out there who has had the most unexpected death for a pope. It was when he was enjoying a drink that a fly had found its way into his goblet. Now, whether he never noticed, or noticed but didn't care enough, the fly went down the wrong way in his pipe, and the Pope quite literally choked on a fly to death. Clearly a bizarre way to die down in history.

food or other garbage can go the wrong way any time. it's very painful showing how fragile these decaying machines are

 

[maniac116]

Basketball Star Dies at 20 After Head Injury...

A 20-year-old sophomore basketball player at Connors State College in Warner, Oklahoma, died on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, just three days after suffering a head injury during a game. Ethan Dietz, a 6-foot-8 forward from Vilonia, Arkansas, was injured in the second half of a contest against Grayson College in Texas on Saturday, Nov. 22.
The injury occurred with approximately 16 minutes remaining in the game when Dietz was hit by an opposing player's elbow while going up for a shot under the basket. Video footage captured the moment Dietz grabbed his head with his hands immediately after the contact, clearly in pain. Teammates helped him off the floor once a media timeout was called.
What happened next has raised questions about player safety protocols in junior college athletics. Despite the blow to his head, Dietz returned to the game just minutes later. During his brief return to action, reports indicate he was seen holding his head several times before eventually removing himself from the contest during another timeout. He walked to the bench and sat for the remainder of the game.
Dietz's condition appeared to worsen significantly after the game ended. He was returned to the campus after the game but was transported to a hospital that evening. Emergency medical services were called for reports of an unresponsive person, and first responders rushed him to a hospital.
The college announced Dietz's death in a statement expressing the community's grief. "Ethan exemplified what it means to be a Cowboy, to value hard work and being part of a team," the school wrote. "While the team and the Cowboy community are processing our own grief, our hearts go out to his family and friends."
Head coach and athletic director Bill Muse, who worked closely with Dietz, described him as an exceptional athlete and student. The school characterized Dietz as hardworking, reflecting the values of the Cowboys program both on and off the court. His teammates and coaches remembered him as someone who brought positive energy to the team and represented the competitive spirit of Connors State basketball.

 

[maniac116]

Matthew Webb

Professional swimmer Webb rose to fame by being the first man to swim the English Channel in 1875. After competing in several races and exhibitions in both the UK and USA, in 1882, Webb announced that he intended to swim across the rapids at the base of Niagara Falls.

Those who referred to the challenge as suicidal turned out not to be wrong. On July 24, 1883, wearing the same red trunks he wore when he completed the Channel swim, he jumped out of the side of a small ferryboat that he had rowed to mid-stream. Sadly, shortly after this, he was sucked into a whirlpool, and four days later, his body was found. His autopsy concluded that the large weight of the water temporarily paralyzed him, stopping him from breathing or using his limbs. Despite becoming a national icon for his achievements in swimming, his legacy stands in biting off more than he could chew with his final, near-impossible feat.

 

[maniac116]

The Mysterious Death Of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was one of America's most influential writers. His stories were often dark, macabre, and sprinkled with an eerie sense of dread and mystery. He was known for tales such as "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Masque of the Red Death" — but the circumstances surrounding poe's death seemed like something out of one of his own stories.

Edgar Allan Poe's life was plagued with tragedy — up until the very moment he died.
Edgar Allan Poe died of unknown causes on Oct. 7, 1849, after he was found delirious on the streets of a city in which he did not live, wearing clothes that weren't his, and babbling so incoherently that he could not explain how he came to be in the situation.

Poe, whose life was plagued with tragedy, was a known alcoholic. Many have theorized that this disease was what ultimately led to his death. But not all historians are convinced, and to this day, no official explanation has ever been determined.

Poe had left his home in Richmond, Virginia, on Sept. 27, 1849. He was bound for Philadelphia to edit a friend's poetry collection. But Poe never made it to Philadelphia — and he somehow wound up in Baltimore. When he was next seen six days later, he was lying in a gutter outside a local pub wearing someone else's heavily-soiled clothing.

For the next four days, Poe was wracked with fever dreams and vivid hallucinations. He frequently called out for a man named "Reynolds," whose identity has never been discovered.

Although many initially believed that Poe's drinking led to his demise, a physician who tested Poe's hair after his death claimed that the author may not have had a sip of alcohol in months. Other experts eventually ruled out other theories, including influenza and rabies.

Perhaps it's fitting that one of history's greatest mystery writers died a mysterious death — or perhaps it is bitterly ironic.