When it is time, it is time. There is no
way that the way a person is going to die can be predicted. There have
been many strange deaths in history, deaths that have eluded the mind
sometimes due to what happens and sometimes due to the mere unusualness
of it. This lists brings to you top ten strangest deaths in the world
that have been reported a lot of times before as well but I am sure
reading through you will be quite amazed at the strange way life and
death sometimes work together.
10. DEATH BY GARBAGE
There were once (1947) two brothers by
the name of Homer and Langley Collyer. They had a phobia of throwing
away things and thus collected every junk possible into their own house.
They had huge collections of junk and newspaper and what not. The
police got a tip one day that there is a dead body inside the Collyer
house. When they went inside to investigate they found one brother
buried under a heap of newspapers, his body completely rot and mouse
eaten. They found the other brother after a few day just a few feet away
from the other one. Apparently one was paralyzed and the other one got
caught on one their own booby traps and got killed. The one who was
paralyzed later died from starvation. Who would want to collect garbage
is what boggles us in this entire thrilling tale!
9. DEATH BY BEARD
There was once this Australian man Hans
Steininger who had, on record, the worlds largest and longest beard in
his time, that is 1571 to be exact. When ever he used to go out and
about he used to roll up his beard for the fear that he might trip over,
such was the length. Well one day there was a fire in the village to
which his belong and in his haste to reach safety the poor man forgot to
perform the roll-up (we use the word for the lack of a better one).
While on the run, he tripped over his own beard, fell on the floor while
breaking his neck at the same time. The beard that once bought him fame
made him die on the spot. How strange and how ironic at the same time!
8. DEATH BY OVER COAT PARACHUTE FAILURE
M Frantz Reichelt was a bit of a
dare-devil when it came to the way he lived his life. This is the least
that can be said after reading the way his life ended. He was actually a
tailor by profession and once he had invented an over coat which also
doubled as a parachute. After the invention was complete he decided to
test it himself and that too by jumping of t he Eiffel Tower and nothing
less. Well I guess it is no surprise that he jumped to his death
because the parachute refused to open and fell smack down on the
pavement below. Ouch! That must not have felt very comfortable.
7. DEATH BY DESSERT
King Fredrick of Sweden loved his sweet
dishes to the extent that he died from them. He was from then on known
as the “King who ate himself to death” in 1771 after he had a huge meal
and then a never-ending dessert which consisted of 14 servings of Semla (
a bun that is filled with marzipan and milk) and a few glasses of
champagne.
6. DEATH BY EMBRACING THE REFLECTION OF THE MOON
There was once a Chinese poet known as
Li-po. He was known to be one of the greatest poets of his time and as
is with all of these poets out there, he had an endearing love for
liquor. So much so that he is known to have written the best of his
poems while under the influence of liquor. Like we said before, death
probably is not a laughing matter, but how will you react when we tell
you that one night, the poet was out on his boat and was obviously
drunk, he tried to embrace the reflection of the moon, fell over the
edge and drowned. We say that is too much liquor Mr li-po!
5. DEATH BY SUICIDE ON LIVE TV
Christine Chubbuk was a live TV
newscaster who committed suicide on national television while it was
going on air. Wonder what was depressing the poor soul, it is speculated
that before that show she had actually researched into what killed
faster and found out that by shooting oneself in the back of the head
with a revolver causes instant death instead of shooting in the temple.
And that is exactly what she did, after announcing on the TV that ” in
keeping with the tradition of Channel 40, we again bring the latest in
blood and guts” and with that she shot herself in front of the entire
crew and died on the spot. She must have been going through some very
troublesome times.
4. DEATH BY A CACTUS
In 1982, two people decided to get a
little adventurous and started shooting a huge dessert cactus with a
shotgun. It is known that one should not harm plants intentionally
because they have this way of getting back at you for what ever you do
to them. At first the two friends continued their shooting practice at a
small cactus. The poor little plant succumbed to the on slaught.
Encouraged, they moved on to a 26 foot tall cacti which was probably a
hundred years old. The main gun man, Grundsman, shot of a whole branch
of the cactus which fell on him crushing him to his death on the spot.
To date this is perhaps the only known instance where a plant seems to
have taken revenge.
3. DEATH BY DROWNING AT A LIFEGUARDS PARTY
There was a party going on in the
recreation department in New Orleans where the life guards were
celebrating a whole year of no mishaps and zero deaths. They had decided
to treat themselves for a no-death year when one of the strangest
things happened. A dead body was found at the bottom of the pool.
Apparently someone had drowned right in front of four on-duty life
guards and around 200 off-duty lifeguards who were attending the party
but some how no one realized that a person was drowning.
2. DEATH BY POISON, GUNSHOT, BEATING BY CLUBS, DROWNING
So the legends have it that a Russian
mystic legend by the name of Rasputin was first poisoned with Cyanide,
it did not affect him, he was then shot several times after which he
fell down but later on revived and stood back up. He was then
continuously beaten with clubs until he lost consciousness or perhaps
his life. He was thrown into the water as is for good measure so that
his death was ensured. He did not re-surface and that was the end of him
but WOW! what a stamina.
1. DEATH BY RE-CREATION
There were two sisters out of which one
got killed by getting electrocuted. What happened was that she was
hanging out clothes and she suddenly slipped and stabled herself by
catching hold of a live wire near by. That caused her to die instantly.
When the funeral was taking place, her sister took the guests out to the
place her sister had died. She was demonstrating what had happened when
she slipped in reality in the exact same fashion as her sister, got
electrocuted and died on the same spot.