Most people pass into another world quite prosaically - from illness or old age, a few - tragically.
But sometimes the “old woman with a scythe” mercilessly mocks a person, preparing for him a cruel and unusual death. The circumstances of the death of such people seem so incredible that they are difficult to believe. We present a chronological list of the most unusual deaths, ranging from 270 BC to the present day.In 270 BC, while trying to solve the Liar paradox (this is the so-called liar paradox formulated by Eubulides), the poet Philetas died of insomnia.
In 207 BC. e. The philosopher Chrysippus, who lived in Greece, died of laughter while watching a drunken donkey try to eat figs. This is one of the most ridiculous deaths in history.
In 121 BC. For the murder of the Roman commander Gaius Gracchus, a reward was promised in gold, the weight of which should be equal to the weight of Gaius's head. According to Plutarch, one of the participants in the murder, Septimuleius, beheaded Gracchus, removed the brains from his skull and filled the cavity with molten lead. The head was presented to the Roman Senate and weighed. The murderers received seventeen pounds of gold.
In 260, the Roman emperor Valerian was defeated in battle with the Persians and was captured. Persian king Shapur used him as a stool and then, in response to a request for release for a ransom, poured molten gold down his throat. But this was not enough for the king. He skinned Valerian and made a stuffed animal, filling it with straw and dung. And only three and a half centuries later, Valerian’s remains were buried.
In 668 the Roman Emperor Byzantine Empire Constans II was killed in a bath by the eunuch, Andreas. According to Theophanes the Confessor, the eunuch serving the emperor while washing hit him on the head with a marble soap dish, the stunned Constant fell into the water and choked.
In 1277, Pope John XXI, famous for his learning, was mortally wounded by the collapse of the roof of his own scientific laboratory.
In 1327, Edward II, the first heir to the English throne, suffered one of the cruelest and most unusual deaths. Overthrown from the throne with the help of his own wife Isabella, the king was executed in a sophisticated way - a hot iron was stuck into his anus.
In 1478 in an unusual way Duke of Clarence George Plantagenet was executed. He was drowned in a barrel of table wine, and according to legend, the Duke chose this death himself. The volume of the barrel in which malvasia was usually stored was 477.3 liters - quite enough to drown.
In 1514 one of the most martyrdoms received by Gyorgy Dozsa, leader of the peasant uprising in Hungary. He was seated on a white-hot throne, and his associates were forced to eat his meat.
In 1559 french king Henry II, participating in a knight's duel to celebrate his daughter's wedding, was killed. His visor, which had a soft golden lattice, pierced the enemy’s spear, which hit him right in the eye and struck the brain.
In 1573, in the Kingdom of Croatia, after the defeat of the peasant uprising, its leader Matja Hubek was captured and brutally executed. They put a crown of hot iron on his head and then quartered him.
In 1671, Louis XIV's cook, whose name was François Vatel, committed suicide. He could not bear the shame of not receiving the fish ordered for the king's table on time. The body of the unfortunate cook was discovered when his assistant came to inform him that the order had been delivered. Vatel's name became a symbol professional honor cooks
In 1791 or 1793, composer and guitarist František Kotzvara died of suffocation after having too much sex with a prostitute. It was not only the most unusual death, but also the most unenviable - it is difficult to instill in yourself a respectful attitude towards such a deceased.
In 1834, Scottish botanist David Douglas, who was studying plants, died from an animal. He fell into a pit trap, where the bull pursuing him fell after him. The animal, naturally, attacked the man, and Douglas died from the horns of the bull.
In 1850, the President of the United States of America, Zachary Taylor, died from eating too much ice cream after an Independence Day ceremony on a very hot day. The President fell ill with indigestion and died five days later. The version of poisoning was not confirmed - in 1991, Taylor’s body was exhumed and doctors did not find any poison in it.
In 1884, the famous detective Allan Pinkerton, the prototype of the famous literary hero Nat Pinkerton, the “King of Detectives,” died of gangrene. He bit his tongue when he tripped on the sidewalk while walking. Antiseptics were not known in those days, and a simple wound became the cause of death.
In 1899, the French President of France, Felix Faure, died in his office from a stroke that happened to him while a 30-year-old beauty was giving him a blowjob. Truly, you need to know moderation in everything33;
In 1911, Jack Daniel, the founder of the Jack Daniel whiskey brand, died of blood poisoning. This death was listed as unusual due to the fact that sepsis was caused by an injury six years ago - once Daniel could not remember the code combination for his safe and kicked an iron cabinet in anger.
In 1916, Grigory Rasputin, considered a prophet and healer and a friend of the family of Emperor Nicholas II, died. It was truly the most unusual death: Rasputin was poisoned potassium cyanide, shot at point-blank range, and then thrown into an ice hole. And although the details of the murder are still controversial, it is believed that he died from suffocation underwater.
In 1927, English racing driver Parry Thomas died while trying to break his own record. He was decapitated by a chain that flew off his own car. Thomas managed to set a new record posthumously - the car with the already dead driver reached a speed of 171 miles per hour.
In 1927, the famous dancer Isadora Duncan suffered a fractured cervical vertebrae and died of suffocation. When she was driving in a car, her scarf accidentally hit the car wheel and spun around it, instantly squeezing the woman’s neck.
In 1928, the Russian doctor Alexander Bogdanov, the organizer and director of the world's first Institute of Blood Transfusion, working with the pathogens of malaria and tuberculosis, died after an experiment performed on himself - he was transfused with contaminated blood. The life and death of the great Russian scientist and thinker is an example of service to science.
In 1941 American writer Sherwood Anderson, going on a trip with his wife South America, accidentally swallowed a toothpick at a party. The developed peritonitis led to death - it was not possible to carry out a complex surgical operation on the ship.
In 1943, the American military bomber Lady be Good went off course and made an emergency landing in Libyan desert. The crew members died of dehydration, and their mummified remains were found in 1960.
In 1943, critic Alexander Woolcott died of a heart attack while discussing Adolf Hitler too temperamentally.
In 1944, the most unusual death befell the inventor Thomas Midgley - he invented a mechanical bed of a special design, and accidentally strangled himself in this bed. In such cases they say “death is the quintessence of life.”
In 1960, while performing an aria from Verdi's opera, famous singer Leonard Warren died of a stroke on stage. It's amazing, but last words there were words from the opera with the title “Force of Destiny”, so symbolic for the singer: “Die? Great honor33;".
In 1981, 25-year-old Renee Hartevelt, studying in Paris, was invited to lunch by fellow Japanese student Issei Sagawa. As it turned out, as a dish, the man killed her and ate her. The killer was sent to Japan, and there he was safely released from custody.
In 1993, Bruce Lee's son Brandon Lee died during the filming of The Crow. In the pistol, from which, according to the plot, the hero was supposed to be shot, there was one live cartridge among the blank cartridges.
In 2003, 21-year-old American Brandon Vedas died of a drug overdose while participating in a virtual marathon organized by fellow drug addicts. The webcam broadcast the process of taking drugs and their effect, and thousands of people also saw the death of the guy live.
In 2003, American zoologist Timothy Treadwell died after living in Alaska for thirteen years alone with bears. One day, for some reason, the friendship between man and wild animals was broken, and Treadwell suffered the most terrible and unusual death - he was eaten alive by one of these predatory animals.
In 2006, Alexander Litvinenko, a KGB officer who was investigating the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, was poisoned. The poison was an extremely rare radioactive element - polonium-210.
In 2007, 28-year-old Jennifer Strange died from water intoxication. She took part in a competition in which the prize was a Nintendo Wii game console. According to the terms of the competition, you had to drink the most water, but you were not allowed to go to the toilet.
Student of Konotop Polytechnic Institute Vladimir Likhonos died on Tuesday from a chewing gum explosion.
As the Blik newspaper reports, Vladimir lost half of his face from the explosion and died almost immediately from painful shock and suffocation.
A saucer with citric acid was found on the deceased’s table, as well as a bag of chemical, four times the power of TNT.
Apparently, Vladimir wanted, as usual, to dip the chewing gum in citric acid, but he made a mistake and dipped it into the explosives. And as soon as this “chewing bomb” hit the mouth, an explosion occurred.
2. 2009 Sergei Tuganov - Death from Viagra.
Sergei Tuganov fainted and died after a 12-hour orgy.
Sergei bet two women $4,300 that he could last the entire 12-hour sex marathon with both of them.
To make sure he didn’t lose, the Moscow mechanic swallowed a lot of Viagra pills. However, within a minute of those fateful 12 hours, after he was declared the winner, the 28-year-old man suffered a heart attack, collapsed and died.
One of the women, who gave her name as Alina, told Moscow police: “We called an ambulance, but it was too late, they couldn’t do anything.”
Well, at least he died happy.
3. 2009 Taylor Mitchell - death by coyotes
Taylor Mitchell - Canadian pop singer of the ball is mauled to death by two coyotes. The incident occurred on October 27 on a popular hiking trail in Cape Breton Island National Park. Doctors who arrived at the scene after a call from eyewitnesses saw two coyotes attacking the girl. One of them was wounded, the second ran away into the forest - park employees began searching for him, and as a result of the search, the animal was shot.
Taylor Mitchell was taken to a hospital in Cheticamp with numerous injuries, from where she was flown by helicopter to the provincial capital of Nova Scotia, Halifax. Doctors were unable to save the girl - she died early in the morning of October 28.
It should be noted that coyotes are very cowardly animals and never attack people.
18-year-old Taylor Mitchell released one album, For Your Consideration, which earned her a nomination for a Canadian Folk Music Award in the Young Artist of the Year category.
4. 2008 Gerald Mellin - death by rope, tree and car 
Gerald Mellin, a British businessman, committed suicide by putting his head in a noose and tying the other end of the rope to a tree. He then jumped into his Aston Martin DB7 and drove down the road to Swansea before being decapitated by a rope. He allegedly took revenge on his ex-wife in this way for leaving him.
5. 2008 David Phyall - death due to eviction
David Phyall, 50, who lives in one of the houses slated for demolition near Southampton (Hampshire, UK), cut off his own head with a chainsaw to protest against eviction.
6. 2008 Nordin Bin Montong - death by white tigers.
Nordin Bin Montong, a janitor at the Singapore Zoo, for unknown reasons, climbed over the fence of the enclosure with white tigers. The animals immediately attacked the zoo employee. A couple of minutes later, his colleagues came running to help Monting and were able to distract the animals, after which they pulled the victim out of the enclosure.
The man died from his injuries on the way to the hospital.
Police are still investigating the circumstances surrounding Monting's death.
7. 2008 Isaiah Otieno - death by helicopter
This terrible incident occurred in the quiet small Canadian town of Cranbrook, British Columbia. 23-year-old student Isaiah Otieno from Kenya was crossing the road and listening to loud music on his headphones. At this time, a helicopter crashed right above him, which tried to stay in the air for some time, but then lost control and crashed directly onto the unsuspecting Isaiah.
Can you imagine how loud the sound must be or how unobservant this late young (already forever) man was so as not to hear or notice the helicopter circling overhead and in distress?
8. 2008 Mike Warner - Anal Alcoholism
Texan Mike Warner died, so to speak, from “anal alcoholism.” Unable to drink alcohol due to a throat disease, the man poured it into himself rectally. Mike died from an overdose after pouring into himself two 1.5-liter bottles of sherry, which brought his blood alcohol level to six times the legal limit.
9. 2008 Abigail Taylor - death in the pool
Abigail Taylor died at the age of 6, nine months after her internal organs were partially sucked in by the powerful pump of the swimming pool, on which she had the imprudence to sit down. Surgeons replaced her intestines and pancreas with donor organs. Unfortunately, despite all the doctors' attempts to save the girl's life, she died from a rare type of cancer caused by one of the transplanted organs.
10. 2008. James Mason - death by wife
James Mason, 73, of Chardon, Ohio, died of heart failure after his wife virtually killed him in a public swimming pool. Christina Newton-John was captured on video camera. The film showed her dragging her husband by the arms and legs around the pool and preventing all his attempts to get out of the water. In total, James tried unsuccessfully to get out 43 times. Newton-John (who changed her surname as part of her gender reassignment) later “pleaded” guilty to murder.
11. 2007. Jennifer Strange - Killer Prize.
A California woman died immediately after participating in a competition on a local radio station. She drank the most bottles of water for the game console. The mother of three children gave the toy to the children, after which she died from intoxication.
According to the BBC, the Californian radio station KDND 107.9 offered its listeners a task: drink as much as possible mineral water. The winner was to receive a Nintendo Wii game console. The competition was called “Hold Your Wee for a Wii,” which roughly translates to “Hold your wee-wee - get the Wee console.”
Before the start of the game, those who volunteered were advised not to risk their health and not to participate in the competition if they are not completely confident in their abilities. At the first stage of the competition, private participants had to drink a quarter liter of water every 15 minutes. Some competitors quit after five bottles, while others switched to larger containers. In the end, 28-year-old mother of three Jennifer Strange won. Exactly how much liquid the competition participant drank is not reported. However, according to one of her rivals, he left after the fifth bottle of water, while Jennifer Strange was still drinking water. Having become the winner, she told radio hosts about her family and claimed that she won a new product from Nintendo just for their sake. After that, Strange took the prize and went home.
Meeting one of her colleagues on the way, she told him “she felt really bad.” “She cried, complained about the strong headache, and this is the last we heard about her,” says an eyewitness. Strange was found dead at her ranch Friday. Doctors determined death from “water intoxication” - the woman was poisoned by what she drank. Now by this fact trial is underway.
12. 2007. Kevin Whitrick - Death on the Internet
42-year-old Kevin Whitrick hanged himself. His suicide was broadcast in an Internet chat via a webcam.
13. 2007. Couple in love - orgasm in flight
A naked couple (each 21 years old) fell from a roof while having sex in Columbia, South Carolina. Their bodies were discovered by a taxi driver.
14. 2007. Unknown woman - death by camel 
An Australian woman was killed by her own pet camel on the family ranch near Mitchell in Queensland, police say.
The camel was given to a woman for her 60th birthday. Now he is only 10 months old, but he already weighs 152 kg. On Saturday, a camel knocked its owner to the ground and apparently attempted to have sex. The woman died.
15. 2006. Russia - 20 liters of vodka.
In May 2006, the vodka drinking championship in Volgodonsk ended with the death of the winner. According to Reuters, the competition was organized by the owner of a local grocery store. He “supplied” 10 liters of vodka to the championship participants. Six people took part in the competition. Five of them left the race early. The leader lasted 40 minutes, drinking one and a half liters of vodka during this time. Satisfied with the victory, the participant was taken by taxi home, where he died 20 minutes later. The silver and bronze medalists ended up in a coma. And the store manager was charged with murder.
16. 2006. Mariesa Weber - death behind the bookcase
One day in October 2006, thirty-eight-year-old Marisha Weber returned home after work, said hello to her mother, and from that moment no one saw her. The family believed she had been kidnapped and contacted the police, which led to an intensive eleven-day search.
But after some time, the sister of the missing Marisha began to be annoyed by some strange unpleasant smell spreading throughout the house. He led the family to a bookcase from under which a piece of a leg was peeking out.
Her relatives assume that Marisha was trying to plug in a new TV, lost her balance and fell head first behind a bookcase. Because in her case we were talking about a thin woman, and the bookcase was very large, she had no chance of getting back out. “I slept in this house all those eleven days when we were looking for her. And she was in her bedroom,” said her unhappy mother Connie Weber.
17. 2005. Kenneth Pinyan - love for stallions
Kenneth Pinyan is a porn actor who starred in an unusual genre - Zoo. He, from Seattle, died of peritonitis (inflammation of the parietal and visceral layers of the peritoneum) after anal intercourse with a stallion in Enumclaw, Washington. Pinyan had done this before, but this time he did not make another visit to the hospital so as not to attract attention law enforcement. This case led to the ban on bestiality in Washington State.
18. 2003. Dr. Hitoshi Nikaidoh - death by elevator
Dr. Christopher Hitoshi Nikaidoh, a surgeon, was beheaded as he entered an elevator at St. Joseph's Hospital in Houston, Texas, on August 16, 2003. According to one of the witnesses, when Nikaidoh entered the elevator, the doors slammed shut, trapping his head, and the elevator slowly went up. His body was found in front of the elevator doors on the first floor, and top part heads cut off just above lower jaw, was found in the elevator. Further investigation revealed that this was the result of an electrical fault in the elevator. Surprisingly, a repairman was called to check the elevator the day before this incident, but for some reason he could not come.
19. 2002. Richard Sumner - the last “masterpiece”
Richard Sumner, a British artist suffering from schizophrenia, disappeared and was found three years later. His skeleton was discovered handcuffed to a tree in the dense woods of Wales. During the investigation, police determined that the cause of death was suicide. Richard handcuffed himself and threw away the key.
20. 2001. Gregory Biggs - death by nurse
A truly horrific death befell homeless man Gregory Biggs from Texas in 2001. On the way “home” he was hit by a drunk woman who was also in a state of drug intoxication Chante Jawan Mallard. Gregory's body flew into the windshield, broke and got stuck there.
The driver, a former nurse, however, was not brought to her senses by the tragedy and she simply, as if nothing had happened, drove home to the garage with the body of the unfortunate man sticking out in windshield. Without bothering to call for help, she simply went to have sex with her boyfriend. She later reported that she apologized several times to the dying man, but it didn’t occur to her to help him. Considering that the man's injuries were serious but not fatal, it is quite plausible that he died within a few hours. Her friend found the dead body early in the morning, and the court sent Mallard herself to fifty years in a place not so remote.
Death is a very powerful thing. So powerful that she has been linked to the supernatural from the very beginning human civilization. This aura of the supernatural that usually surrounds death often gives rise to speculation about what will happen to us after we cross the last line, but sometimes people die so much that the circumstances of death themselves seem otherworldly.
Two brothers, two deaths
It is often said that twins are related to each other by a mysterious connection; after all, they are genetically identical. I have heard endless stories about twins, separated at birth, who later met and discovered that many things in their lives were the same, and that they even laughed at the same jokes.
One of bright examples this could be famous story about two twins separated at birth who discovered that they both liked to scare people in elevators by unexpectedly sneezing, but neither of those examples came close to the story about two Finnish twins who had more in common than a lack of elevator etiquette.
In 2002, the BBC reported that two seventeen-year-old twins died in different places several hours apart, in different car accidents on the same road. But that's not all, some of the circumstances of their deaths were also the same. They were both crossing the road on motorcycles and both were hit by trucks. The second brother had no idea that his brother had just died on this road because the police had not yet informed the family members about the incident. The police said that although the road is busy, accidents rarely occur on it. It seems the twins had not only lifetime connection, but also shared this connection by death.
Spontaneous fires were widely discussed in the 90s. There was not a single TV series about anomalies, not a single magazine or book where this phenomenon was not given a decent part. At one time this was so widely discussed that many simply could no longer hear about it. It's just funny though. After all, usually human body doesn't burn spontaneously, right?
In general, there are several well-documented cases where spontaneous combustion was seriously considered as a possible explanation by investigators investigating the circumstances of death. The reason why investigators took spontaneous combustion seriously was because the physical evidence indicated that spontaneous combustion could be considered. as an alternative hypothesis.
Robert Bailey, John Bentley, George Mott, Mary Reaser and Henry Thomas are just a few of the names of those whose deaths were possibly caused by spontaneous combustion. Most cases have been explained using rather convoluted theories. They explained that if a body was somehow ignited, it would continue to burn as long as there was fuel for the flame (fat and flesh).
For example, Henry Thomas burned out while relaxing in his chair and watching TV. All that was left of him was a skull and a foot in a shoe. Someone said his death was caused by a lit heater. The only problem is that Thomas's house remained completely untouched by the flames, and Thomas himself apparently never moved from his comfortable chair, slowly continuing to burn.
There are also people who claim to have survived spontaneous combustion. The most reliable story took place in Cheshire, England, when Susan Mottshead was standing in her kitchen when she was suddenly engulfed in flames. The fire stopped just as quickly as it started. Mottshead suffered only minor burns.
The case of Taman Shud is a mystery of secrets, wrapped in a secret, placed in a secret package and sent to a secret house. He is so mysterious that the most inquisitive and meticulous detectives like Sherlock Holmes and others like him could not unravel him.
On December 1, 1948, in Adelaide, Australia, the body of an unknown man was discovered on Somerton Beach. He was well developed, completely healthy, and very well dressed. All the labels from his clothes were cut off. There was a train ticket in his pocket. Unfortunately, he never got to it. He could not be identified, and his dental casts did not match any person. The autopsy revealed that the last food he ate was a meat pie, which he ate 3-4 hours before his death, and that's about it. Tests for foreign substances gave negative result, but investigators were convinced that he was poisoned.
A month later, police found a brown suitcase on railway station Adelaide. The label on it was also cut off, as was the clothing of the unidentified person. Inside it were clothes, all the labels from which had also been cut off. Among his personal items in the suitcase were a stencil cleaning brush, an electric screwdriver, and a pair of scissors commonly used for cutting stencils. Unfortunately, investigators did not find anything significant in the suitcase, but only determined that the jacket was possibly American-made.
In June 1949, investigators examined the body again and discovered a secret pocket in the deceased’s clothing, in which lay a piece of paper on which only two words were written - “Taman Shud.” After a more thorough examination of the piece of paper, it turned out that it was torn from the collection of works of Omar Khayyam “Rubaiyat”. This discovery led to all the media trying to find the book from which the piece was torn out. The search was successful. A man was found who had a copy of a rare first edition of the Rubaiyat translated by Edward Fitzgerald, which he said he found in the back seat of his car the night before the unknown man's body was found. On the back cover of the book the following was scrawled in pencil:
The book also contained the telephone number of a former nurse who, while working in World War II, gave a copy of the Rubaiyat to army officer Alfred Boxell. Boxell was still alive and had an intact copy of the Rubaiyat, and both denied any connection with the deceased.
Some speculation was made about another murder that occurred in the area, and it was assumed that the man was a spy working for some foreign government. This case remains unsolved today, and it seems that it will remain so forever.
Death is something that no one has ever been able to avoid. All living things die sooner or later, the only difference is in the circumstances.
Many people think that the most terrible phenomenon it is death itself. But the pages of human history tell us that the death throes can be much more terrible than death itself. To convince you of this, we suggest reading a selection of the most terrible and painful deaths in history.
The most painful human deaths in history
Death of Joram
The Bible is full of stories not only about love and kindness, but also about justice, which is often cruel. One of these is the parable of Jehoram. According to legend, he was once the ruler of Judea and considered Beelzebub the main deity, which aroused the wrath of Yahweh. Joram was severely punished: he was struck by a strange disease, from which his flesh began to decay from the inside. Before he died, the king suffered for 2 years. 
How Herod was punished
Another biblical creepy story dedicated to King Herod, who ruled Caesarea in Palestine. The name of Herod is well known to everyone who has read the New Testament - it was he who, having learned about the impending birth of the true king of Judea, ordered the destruction of all the newborns of Bethlehem. Subsequently, he organized the persecution of the first Christians, executed John the Baptist and the Apostle James. The Bible lists Herod's cause of death as being eaten alive by worms. 
Murder of Grigory Rasputin
Many close to the court were wary of the mysterious friend of Nicholas II - there were rumors that Rasputin was an insidious sorcerer associated with black magic. Less superstitious courtiers saw him as a dangerous political rival who had too much strong influence on the emperor.On December 29, 1916, Prince Felix Yusupov invited Rasputin to dinner, during which he treated the guest to poisoned wine. The poison did not work, then the conspirators, the prince and his accomplice Vladimir Purishkevich, shot him in the back.
The killers thought that Gregory was dead and carried him out of the palace. But he unexpectedly not only showed signs of life, but also began to strangle one of the conspirators. Then another bullet was fired at Rasputin, but after that he did not die, but tried to escape. They caught up with him, beat him, after which he was thrown into the icy waters Sinks.
In total, three wounds were found on the body of the dead favorite of the emperor, all fatal: in the head, kidney and liver.
61 days of nightmares by Hiro Syauchi
In 1999, Japanese man Hiro Shauchi received a huge dose of radiation while performing his work duties at a plant that processed nuclear fuel. The next two months after the accident became a real nightmare for Hiro. 
On the 45th day, the skin completely peeled off Syauti’s flesh, after which the internal organs began to rapidly deteriorate. On the 59th day, his heart failed three times in a row. Doctors managed to pump him out until the 61st day arrived, which brought Syauti the long-awaited deliverance. Willy-nilly, you will think about legalizing euthanasia.
The Tragedy of Deborah Gayle Stone
Many people are afraid of rides, and for good reason. Ignoring safety rules often leads to disastrous consequences.In 1974, American Disneyland delighted visitors with a new attraction - the “America Sings” attraction. It was one of the first entertainments using animatronics, in other words, singing and dancing robots.
The attraction created a sensation: from the first minutes of the working day until the park closed, dozens of people crowded around the robots. But for some reason, 18-year-old Disneyland employee Deborah Stone was frightened by these “electronics” - she could not explain the reason for her strange phobia, but every time she ran past them, she felt uneasy.
And as luck would have it, she was appointed the caretaker of this attraction! And so, before the start of the next performance, she was instructed to check the rotating mechanism. The girl got stuck in the hole, and then the show began. The robots began to sing, the stage began to rotate, and the girl found herself ground into bloody pieces between the rotating part and the stationary concrete wall. While she uttered inhuman screams of pain, visitors thought it was part of the performance.
David Kirwan and the thermal springs
In 1981, David Kirwan was walking through Yellowstone with his bosom friend and his dog. national park. The purpose of the visit was typical - the young people wanted to see the beauty of the thermal springs for which this beautiful reserve is famous.Everything was going well until the pet, breaking off the leash, jumped into the water. David decided to save his friend's dog and went into the pool, instantly realizing what a stupid thing he had done.
A small note: Yellowstone is at the same time one of the most beautiful and dangerous places on our planet. Prohibition signs are posted throughout the park - going down to the natural pools may be the last thing an unlucky visitor to Yellowstone will do in his life. The fact is that in some springs in the park, the water temperature can reach up to 121 degrees Celsius and have extremely high acidity.
With difficulty, David got out of the water, receiving a burn on 90% of the surface of his body. When the owner of the dog, whose body never surfaced, took off the shoes of the scalded rescuer, pieces of the skin were torn off along with them. The next day, David died from painful shock.
Execution of György Dozsa
The Inquisition, wars, and diseases left a terrible mark on the history of the Middle Ages. Horrible deaths there were many at that time, but the mention of one of them still makes the blood run cold. It's about about the execution of György Dozsa.Gyorgy Dozsa led a peasant uprising in Hungary. It was quickly suppressed, after which its wounded leader was captured by the government. So that other peasants would no longer have the thought of rebelling against the feudal lords, the most severe execution was invented for Gyorgy Dozsa.
The leader of the uprising wanted to become king of Hungary. To cause him not only physical pain, but also to ridicule his hopes, György was seated on a metal throne with a hearth hidden inside, handing him a scepter and an orb that was as hot as the seat. A red-hot crown was placed on the head of the leader of the uprising.
Then Brother György and those who took part in the riot with him were brought into the hall. The brother was publicly cut into pieces, and like-minded rebels suffering from a long hunger strike were forced to bite off the flesh of the still living Doji in a circle. “Eat it whole and you will live,” they were promised. Everyone who refused to eat human flesh was killed. Those who agreed to cannibalism too, but only after Dozha was eaten.
The Torment of Junku Furuta
Human cruelty towards one's own kind often knows no bounds. And, unfortunately, references to terrible torture and murder are not only associated with the Middle Ages.In 1988, 17-year-old Japanese girl Junka Furuta was kidnapped by a group of sadistic minors: Hiroshi Miyano, Jo Ogura, Shinji Minato and Yasushi Watanabe. They held the girl captive for 44 days in the house of one of the gang members.
Miyano's parents were big shots in the Japanese Yakuza mafia, so young man It was not difficult to intimidate the girl and his own friends. Under threat of death, she called her parents and told them that she was fine so that the police would not look for her.
On the very first day of captivity, she was raped repeatedly, forced to eat insects and drink urine, smoldering cigarettes were stuck into her flesh and the girl was set on fire with a lighter.
On the eleventh day, her limbs were broken and hung from the ceiling, using the girl’s body as a punching bag. She tried to escape, but the escape failed, for which her legs were doused with firelighting fluid and set on fire. Furuta was then tortured by having a broken bottle inserted into his anus.
On the twentieth day, firecrackers were shoved into the girl, and then red-hot knitting needles.
A month of imprisonment passed, and the bored rapists came up with new methods of torture. The unfortunate Japanese woman was doused with hot wax on her face, her breasts were pierced with needles, her nipples were pinched in a vice, while at the same time a light bulb was shoved inside the girl.
On the forty-fourth day, Junku Furuta died from painful shock after two hours of torture by fire. The next day, the teenagers cemented the girl's body in a barrel and threw it away at a construction site.
The police managed to find the body and the killers. But the punishment did not correspond to the crime - the attackers were sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 4 to 17 years, depending on the degree of guilt. According to the law on the protection of the rights of minors, their names were not publicly disclosed. Hiroshi Miyano, the leader of a gang of sadists, was released in 2007.
Fatal Christmas
On Christmas Eve 2002, 25-year-old bartender Doyle decided to celebrate the holiday with his friend Michael Wright and his girlfriend. In an alcoholic fervor, Wright thought that Doyle was harassing his girlfriend and beat the poor man. He broke the bartender's legs and threw him into an open hatch. The distance to the bottom was about 5.5 meters.Wright wanted to scare Doyle, but did not suspect that the bottom of the sewer was flooded with boiling water from a broken pipe. The bartender fell into boiling water with a temperature of 150 degrees Celsius, and his injuries prevented him from getting out. He was still alive when help arrived, but neither firefighters nor paramedics dared to go down.
Having opened the guy's body, doctors noted that he looked like a lobster cooked by a chef - the internal organs were boiled, and the skin came off the bones. The worst thing is that while his body was being boiled alive, Doyle remained conscious.
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Finding a dead body is one of the most shocking things a person can ever experience. And yet, depending on the job, a person may examine corpses on a daily basis. Some people feel uneasy about this, but imagine working in a morgue, or experts. These people quickly get used to death.
It is this adaptation to the job that can make a forensic scientist talk about a gruesome murder scene without blinking his eyes or showing any emotion.
However, even when you think that you have seen everything in life, there is something that can still surprise you. In this article, relatives of the “heroes” told us about strange deaths your loved ones.
Here are 12 of the strangest deaths.
The man who died of uterine cancer
When 37-year-old Vincent Liv received a kidney transplant in February 2002, doctors did not know the donor had cancer. The donor's cancer was in her uterus, so the doctor told him the disease could not affect it.
But when Liv died in September 2002, cancer specialist Robert Gelfand concluded that he had uterine cancer, even though he had no uterus at all.
20-year-old "football" hernia
While Manic Moxie was working at a funeral home, he encountered a man who had developed a serious inguinal hernia over the course of 20 years.
As a result, at the time the man died, a swelling the size of a soccer ball appeared on his scrotum. The case was so serious that the medical examiner turned to a colleague and simply said, "Hey man, look at this."
3. Light bulb
When the man in this story bled in the emergency room, it appeared to be from a puncture wound. But as doctors treated his wounds, they noticed he was still bleeding from behind.
When they turned him over, they discovered that the attacker had inserted a light bulb into his anus before stabbing him. Removing such an object is especially difficult, and after the procedure, the person died of septic shock.
4. Wine enema
There have been cases in the past where people have died from wine enema, but this was usually the result of acute poisoning alcohol. This deceased did not show signs of alcoholism; he was killed by a red wine enema.
Instead, he bled to death when the enema device punctured his colon.
A man with too big amount gland.
At first glance, it seems quite simple. A man in his late 50s, after several days of illness, died on his couch. Heart attack, right?
But no one knew that this man actually suffered from hemochromatosis, a rare disease that causes your body to absorb too much iron when you eat. In this man's case, the excess iron destroyed his liver and caused varicose veins in his esophagus. When these veins burst, he began bleeding internally and eventually died.
And all this time, this man probably thought he had a simple stomach upset.
6. Horrible hanging.
It's hard to describe the feeling when you see someone who has died by suicide. However, on rare occasions, the scene can be even more disturbing when you see a severed head.
This phenomenon usually occurs as a result of a long fall with a hard cord. This is exactly what happened in the case of one man who hanged himself from the balcony of his apartment. His body hit the ground. However, the forensic scientist should have asked the man's neighbors if the victim's head was on their balcony?
7. Voltage hazards.
When you have a healthy cardiovascular system and you sit hard on the toilet, it may have some adverse effects, but it won't kill you. However, if you have heart problems, straining can put your heart at risk.
That's what happened to one nursing home resident. A Reddit user describes it clearly: "He pushed too hard, blood pressure fell, and that's it..."
8. Welder urine
Even when things go as they should, welding can be an unhealthy job, as some metals can easily enter the welder's body. But metals in the bladder are a recipe for disaster, as when mixed with urine, the hot metal becomes harmful.
While working under these particular conditions, one welder died when droplets of metal entered his bladder.
9. Toxic Lady
When Gloria Ramirez was dying at Riverside General Hospital, the staff trying to revive her noticed that after they used a defibrillator, her body had developed a strange garlicky odor and an oily sheen. Then, one after another, the medical staff fell ill and many of them fainted. Their illness was apparently caused by exposure to Ramirez's body and blood, hence the name "toxic lady."
There is still some debate as to what caused Ramirez to become so toxic, but the most plausible theory seems to be the use of dimethyl sulfoxide. In the presence of sufficient oxygen, dimethyl sulfoxide becomes dimethyl sulfate, a dangerous nerve gas.
The theory is that attempts to resuscitate Ramirez caused chemical reaction and changed some of the dimethyl sulfoxides in her body into dimethyl sulfate, which caused the staff to become ill.
Consequences of death near your pet. According to Dr. Caroline Rando, cats and dogs will try to eat their owners 45 minutes after their death if they are alone with them. But one thing in particular terrible case, an elderly woman became disabled.
Before she was found, her beloved dog ate everything open areas her skin.
11. 30-year-old rifle shot
Alarming outbreak of mass shootings in last years show that pistols are lethal, but they do not always kill immediately. In fact, sometimes a gunshot wound can wait for decades.
In one such case, a man was treated for a gunshot wound, but a small piece of shrapnel remained in his body. For 30 years he was able to live a normal life, but eventually the shrapnel reached his bloodstream, then his heart, and caused a heart attack.
12. Cobra head
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