It was Easter 1991 when Preacher Daniel’ Abodunrin’s visited the Zoological Gardens at the University of Ibadan. One of the largest zoos in Nigeria. Preacher Abodunrin dressed in flowing red robes and clutching a Holy Bible made his way to the lion’s enclosure. In Chapter 6 of the Bible there is a story of a Jewish man in Jerusalem […]
If you fish in Australian waters you will be well aware of the dangers of killer sharks but you probably wouldn’t expect to be killed by a mackerel. Unfortunately that is exactly what happened to one fisherman. The unnamed 56 year old man was fishing off the Northern Territory of Australia in Cullen Bay in […]
Gary Lenius from Arizona, USA accidentally killed himself when he confused choloroquine phosphate, which he used to clean his fish tank, for the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine. Lenius and his wife Wanda, both in the 60s, mixed a teaspoon of it with soda and drank it. He was dead within hours. Lenius and his wife Wanda were […]
A birthday surprise went tragically wrong when Christopher Bergan, 37 flew 45000 miles from Florida to Norway to surprise Richard Dennis on his 61st birthday. Dennis didn’t know of Bergan’s trip and when Bergan banged on Dennis’s back door late in the evening and the jumped out of the bushes to surprise him, Dennis thought he was an […]
They say drugs can kill, but two cocaine smugglers weren’t expecting their drugs to kill them. In 2015, two men were killed in a car crash in Northern Mexico because their air bags had been filled with cocaine bricks. On impact with another car, the air bags were deployed and the velocity of the cocaine […]
An 8 foot pet rock python called Tiny has strangled its owner. Dan Brandon, the British owner of the snake, was found dead in the bedroom of his house in Cookham, Hampshire, England by his mother. The snake was lying close by. A coroner ruled that Brandon, a lover of exotic pets who kept 10 snakes […]
A cockfighting rooster is reported to have attacked its owner Singrai Soren and slit his throat with razor blades the chicken had attached to its legs. Villagers in Mohanpur, West Bengal, were warned not to approach what police described as ‘an unknown rooster with black and red feathers’. Cockfighting roosters have razor blades attached to […]
A man was killed by a condom machine after trying to rob it. This strange event happened in Germany when a 29 year old man tried to rob a condom vending machine of its money by blowing it up with a homemade bomb. He attached the bomb to the dispenser, but it exploded before he […]
A man has died after getting a sex toy stuck in his bottom. 50 year old Brit, Nigel Willis was too embarrassed to seek medical attention after a vibrator got stuck in his anus. The single man from London spent 5 days lying on a sofa, unable to move from the pain. Eventually a friend […]
A teenage boy has died after running into a bus stop. The freak death happened in Birmingham England last Monday. 18 year old Many Edwards was running trying to catch a late night bus when he collided with the bus stop. CCTV footage showed him falling to his feet getting up and then collapsing seconds […]
In strange ways to die news, an Australian man died this week during a pie eating contest in Queensland. Bruce Holland, 64, collapsed and died moments after exclaiming “Jeez, this chilli pie is hot,” reports the Brisbane Times. The bizarre death happened in the Bushland Beach Tavern pub ,in the Australian state of Queensland. Holland […]
A 27 year old male died after shooting at a cactus. “Cactus plugging” – the art of shooting a cactus with a shotgun – is a popular pastime in the American desert states. In 1982, David Grundman tried his plugging skills on cacti near Lake Pleasant in Arizona, USA. The first small cactus he fired on […]
A Russian man died in a bizarre accident when a huge inflatable ball he was travelling in fell off the side of a mountain. The freak “zorbing” accident happened at a Russian ski resort. 27 year old Dennis Bukaraov and Vladimir Shcherbov, 33 climbed into the “zorb’ a huge inflatable plastic ball att the top […]
Bizarre Death. Watch the horrifying moment a wheelchair-bound man plunged to his death down an elevator shaft after he deliberately rammed the lift door in a fit of anger. This must be one of the strangest ways to die. The Korean man wanted to catch a lift in a shopping centre but waste to the […]
Bizarre Deaths news – An Omaha man has died after being strangled by his 9-foot, 25-pound pet boa constrictor, according to Nebraska authorities. Cory Byrne, 34, of Papillion died Wednesday night at a local hospital, just hours after police and paramedics pried the snake from around his neck. The police said Byrne had been showing […]
A man was minutes from proposing to his girlfriend on a hike in Carolina when she was struck and killed by lightning. “Everything went black. I was spun 180 degrees, thrown several feet back. My legs turned to jelly. My shoes were smoking and the bottom of my feet felt like they were on fire,” […]
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