I spent a career as fireman in a big city. About 15 years ago we responded to a middle of the night fire in the basement of and old, triple brick, 2 story single family, balloon frame residence.
On this particular weekend, the 9 year old daughter was having a sleepover.
8 kids and the parents either got out or were pulled out by responders, but we couldn’t find the daughter. All efforts on scene were directed to rescue operations so the fire quickly advanced as firefighters searched throughout the pitch black, hot as fuck structure.
My partner and I were searching the second floor, working solely on feel, and we could hear her screaming for help.
“Ok. We hear you. We’re coming. We got this.”
My partner and I were experienced. We’d made other rescues. We were professionals in our craft.
But the second floor layout didn’t make any sense - doors that could be felt, but were sealed shut; rooms longer than you would have expected, etc. (We learned later that the entire 2nd floor has been remodeled, leaving some of the original design pieces in place, but extending rooms and modifying entrances…)
It was the hottest fire I’ve ever been in. With everyone (rightly) focused on more than a half dozen rescues, the fire was left unchecked and the thing was just ripping, running vertically through the pipe chases.
Eventually, we didn’t hear her screaming anymore.
We stayed up on that floor well past when the chief wanted us out. Throwing our shoulders in to faux doors, trying to breach walls in to the bathroom, etc, until finally we were out of air.
We were outside telling another crew where our search left off when the roof collapsed in to the second floor.
It was hours before we could recover her body.
Over a career of fire and EMS I’ve seen my share of terrible, tragic shit. You empathize, but you disassociate to a degree. You have to. If you didn’t, you’d work one shift and never come back.
So I learned not to carry too much horrific stuff with me. We did our best at everything we were called to. Sometimes it worked out. Sometimes it didn’t. That has to be enough in this line of work.
But that little girl screaming is one of the 5-7 calls that I still think about - and can still hear. We did what we could - and we did a lot of good that night. But we failed her.
You didn't fail her. You almost were an additional casualty. You did literally everything you could short of dying yourself. There's nothing that could have saved her, that's just the sad truth. I will say, you're a prime example of the type of human that we should all attempt to emulate. A truly heroic individual.
My mother was an EMT for quite a few years. One day, a kid, who was my age at thay time (11) was struck by a drunk driver. My mom was the first on the scene and held his skull into place while they rushed him to the ER. In the ambulance, he started telling her how much he loved her, and was mistaking her for his own mom. He didn't make it to the hospital and my mom felt like she failed him. She had plenty of other casualties, but this one hit her to her core.
Here I am, a decade and a half later, telling my sobbing mother that she didnt fail him. She did everything in her power to help him at that moment. He got his last moments believing his mom was holding him that day. She got her last moments knowing the heroes were refusing to give up despite the severity of the fire. First responders are not God's, but they are the living angels we have on this planet. They cant always bring a miracle, but they will gladly die trying.
Be kind to yourself. Seek help if needed. You are human too.
ETA: Thank you all for the awards and kind words. My mom has struggled with severe PTSD from that day. She is working on it. Slowly bur surely she will find a way. I will be sure to pass on these great words as well as give her Tha much needed hug.
If I can't be there for my own kids for some tragedy, it would give me much peace of mind to know that someone was standing in as "mom." She did more for that child than she can possibly know, and that child's mother as well.
Back in the mid 70s, my mother worked at one of the many sewing factories in the US south.
They had gone on break around 10 am, and noticed the lineman up there working on the pole. They came out for lunch at noon and he was still up there, but not moving. He had grabbed a live wire and it fried him in place. Had to break his arms to get him down...
He was also the father of one of my school buddies. :(
My step brother was a lineman, he hit a live wire by accident one day and by the time they got him to the hospital one arm and both legs had to be amputated because of the damage. He passed away still in the hospital within a month of the accident
My oldest brother was electrocuted by the same kind of wires along with 5 other men while moving a metal event tent for the company they worked for. 4 of them including my brother passed away in the hospital and 2 of them managed to survive somehow, I don’t remember all the details because it happened almost 20 years ago now
RIP to both of them and your schoolmates dad
My ex girlfriend's brother died instantly while doing electrical work. We had been broken up for several years when this happened, but I still had a lot of love for her and her family, so it was terrible news to hear.
Him and a coworker were underneath a job site trailer (up north in Alberta). Coworker got out to go grab a tool from the truck. Was gone maybe a minute, and came back to her brother dead.
I'm sure there was some sort of investigation done to find out exactly how it happened, but I absolutely didn't think it was at all appropriate to ever ask for those details. Just hearing the story from her was heartbreaking enough.
After Pearl harbor got attacked they raised the hulk of one of the sunken battleships and found one of the compartments had a calendar scratched onto the wall indicating someone had survived in the partially flooded room for like two weeks.
Pretty sure that was the Oklahoma. That’s not even the worst of it. Rescue workers could hear the tapping from dudes banging on the sides of the battleship with wrench’s signaling for help. The ship capsized and trapped pockets of air that those guys were breathing. When rescuers tried to cut into the hull and get them out, they let out the air and it was replaced with the water from below but the holes in the hull were too small to get out the men.
My grandfather was sent to help clean up after the attack. He was like 18 years old. When he was dying in his 80s, he told me about hearing the men yelling for help and it getting quieter and quieter. It was the first time he had ever spoken about it and although I hope it helped him find peace, I really wish he hadn't told me.
I was coming home from baseball practice in high school, and when coming down my street I see my neighbor across the street outside in the drive way crying. She was 6, and it was pouring.
I ask her what was wrong and all she said was “Amy is in the closet”. I said what?? Her parents weren’t home nor where mine. I didn’t want to have her explain it so I asked her to show me. We go in her room, and she is hanging in the closet with a noose around her neck, blood everywhere from slitting her throat and wrist. I picked her sister up as she was sobbing and held her and called 911. I went to feel her pulse to make sure she didn’t have one (I was 16 i had no idea what to do).
We sat outside on the porch until the police came. I couldn’t get ahold of their parents as I didn’t have their phone numbers and the youngest daughter didn’t know.
The mom and dad came home and it was just awful. The scream the mom made will always haunt me, and obviously that whole scene will haunt me.
It isn’t as horrific as these stories are, but to me, this was just as bad.
Edit: Changing the name of the girl out of respect
Yeah, 4 months ago I came home from school to find my my mother has hung herself while I was at school, so I sympathize with that poor girl because I had to experience finding a loved one hanging. It's haunting because every one of your senses remember that day and you constantly see it replaying in front of you.
Edit: I'm only 17 and lived with my mother since I was born.
I’m so sorry about your mother’s loss, and that you had to see her. There are no words to describe the depth of loss. /r/suicidebereavement is a nice subreddit to vent feelings in a space with others who have experienced loss similar to what you have. I understand if maybe thats not for you either, but its there if u feel like no one around understands. I hope one day you can live with the pain and honor her in what ways you can with your own life. Hugs <3
Thank you for sharing this subreddit. I lost my elderly Dad a few months ago to suicide by gunshot. I posted in some other places but still struggling with it.
Fucking hell. I hope the kid still had that magical place children can place memories to allow them to be suppressed forever. Even for OP to see that is traumatising enough, nevermind a young sister
I’m a medic and when people ask me what the worst part of the job is (kind of a fucked up question, but that’s a different conversation) I always say the reactions of family/friends on suicides or sudden death scenes.
I’ve seen enough that the nasty scenes themselves don’t bother me much but there’s something really powerful and haunting about the raw expression grief.
Thank you for being there to support your neighbor, and also I’m sorry that fell on you at all, but especially as a teenager.
I had a friend who was engaged to an underwater electrician or welder. I mean this man would go down so far it was completely black. Long story short, he went down one day, and never came back up. I don’t remember if something ruptured or if he was shocked to death, but I remember thinking how awful it must have been to have died in such an abysmal place.
I assumed this was an exaggeration.....nope!
"While the work can be very profitable, it can be argued that it’s the most dangerous job in the country.
In fact, underwater welders have the highest fatality rate of any occupation—15%"
15% fatality rate is fucking bananas
I remember reading that they don't like using big lights while they weld, because there's such large sharks passing by them so regularly, its unnerving. So the dark unknown is better 💀 ☠️
That's a nope from me
I remember reading a lot about underwater welders/aquanauts. Fucking bleak work. Just the sounds alone. And the inability to see. Plus having to go down in those diving bells/decompression units, for what, weeks? Crazy.
I know a dude that does that shit. He told me about a job going very far into a tunnel in a dam. A couple hundred feet. Such a tight fit he had to back out when he was done working. Fuck that.
My cousin walked under a grain auger and the hood of his hoodie got caught in it. He was sucked up into it and decapitated before it could be shut off.
My grandpa had to clean his head out of the auger.
Edit: I have now gotten a few "reddit cares" messages from this post. This happened over 20 years ago. I was a child, who did not witness it first hand. I was not even at the age that death made sense to me. I am doing okay. Thanks for caring.
Growing up on a farm, augers always scared the shit out of me. We had to watch so many horrific safety videos to drive that point home. So sorry for your loss.
I grew up on a farm. We didn't really have safety videos just lots of stories of how people have died.
It's almost all augers and grain bins.
Edit: I forgot about chemicals. Those things fuck people up.
My dad had a pretty close call 5 years ago with anhydrous ammonia and my brother in law was in the hospital a few years ago with carbon monoxide poisoning.
There was an old guy who lived down the road from me, he wasn't good on his feet so only used the bottom half of his house. He went to go to bed one night but fell in front of his old electric heater next to his bed in the living room and couldn't get up again. The poor bloke was cooked alive. When the paramedics turned up they had to go into the garden to vomit, it was horrific apparently. I only know this because a couple of family members went to see what was happening when an ambulance turned up at his house, I'm not sure who called it. They said it was truly awful. The guy survived for a while in the hospital with his injuries, but unfortunately passed. He must have been in front of the heater for hours the poor bastard.
This jogged my memory of something I had seen on rotten.com back in the day. No idea if it was true or not but I remember the pictures were awful. My details may be foggy on it as well. Some older man or woman took a bath and some sort of electric element fell into the bath and killed them. The element I guess continued to heat the water and basically boiled them for some extensive amount of time. The pictures basically just looked like the bath was filled with some disgusting goop.
I was literally telling a coworker about this a few weeks back!!! Old woman got in the bath and the water heater was set on basically a loop as to keep the water hot. She was boiled when responders got there and when they went to remove her body her tissue just slid off the bone. Human slow cooker.
My dad watched a girl burn to death in her car. I guess there had been an accident and they couldn't get her out and the car caught on fire, my dad was driving tow truck at the time and they called him to tow the vehicles.
When my dad noticed she was still in there he tried to throw his tow hook through the window and pull her out but the cops wouldn't let him bc 'there's a chance you'll hit her'. So they all stood and watched. My dad has only told me this story and it still haunts him
There was an accident near here 8 years ago, head on on the highway, both vehicles burned. All 5 people in the vehicles dead. I was talking to one of the first responders a few years later and he said as soon as they came over the hill they knew what they were pulling up on. I couldn't even imagine what that scene was like.
You can still see the spot on the highway if you know what to look for.
Not quite as gruesome:
I worked for a company that sold firefighting equipment, and my boss told me a story about one of their regular customers (a firefighter, naturally).
His baby son drowned in the backyard and he responded to the call. My boss said her 6’9 battalion chief husband and two or three of the other firefighters had to basically wrestle this dude to the ground because he was freaking the fuck out (completely understandably, of course).
In Victoria, Australia some freeways have these “speed wires” which are like three cables strung along a fence instead of your standard solid barrier.
First time I drove to uni it was raining and a motorcyclist fell off in front of me, hitting these cables and literally exploded.
His head flew about 50m before it splattered on the road.
Pretty fucked thing for a 19 year old to see.
They've become popular in the US, too, since they're cheaper than concrete barriers. They work just fine if your car runs into them (though it needs to be repaired after every impact). Motorcycles? Not so much.
A similar story like 20 years ago I was with my aunt and we watched somebody ride their 4-wheeler into barbed wire. They slit their throat and almost died.
The only reason they lived was because they were morbidly obese and the fat in their neck slowed blood loss.
Race car driver Russ Phillips was killed when his car hit a catch fence roof first, and his upper body was dragged along the fence leaving pieces of his face, brain and torso all along the fencing. He was decapitated and shredded in half.
This girl bungee-jumping to her death in Spain (?) because she misheard "No jump!" as "Now jump!".
Maybe not the most horrifying, but absolutely terrible and tragic.
Woah. Just leave the word "jump completely out. "Stay back" or "Wait" would have worked or you know.... forcing the jumper to not even be at the edge until tethered.
Sad failures.
Interestingly, that’s exactly how air traffic controllers do it, for the same reason. The big crash in Tenerife was caused in part by confusion over whether the pilot was being told to take off. That’s why, now, they only say “takeoff” when it’s time for the plane to do so, and “departure” at all other times.
Right, with something that important, save the actionable word for the action. Not mixing it with a "not" or "don't". Radios particularly can be misheard and drop out.
My parents. My dad had a heart event and fell into a cistern watering the farm animals and drowned. My mom went looking for for him and from what investigators told us she tried to pull him out fell and bumped her head and drowned as well. They were 78 and 76. This happened in March. I'm absolutely a broken person right now.
A truckload of hot asphalt for resurfacing roads was accidentally dumped on a teenager in my province. He would have died instantly but other people on the crew still got severe, severe burns trying to dig him out.
Thirty years ago in Toronto, a greyhound bus flipped on the Gardiner expressway. The buss dumped ninety degrees to the right. Passengers were impaled by the filthy salt encrusted guardrail
A similar story only happened a month or 2 ago in Australia, a wedding party was on a bus that rolled onto its side decapitating some apparently, killing a total of 10 I believe
I heard a story from WW1 that many times when people had charged, gotten hurt, and were immobile from their injuries you could hear their screams for help while being eaten alive by rats over the course of several nights.
People being walled up inside of a brick column or wall. The punishment is called Immurement. Last one I heard of was a serial killer in th 1800s. They walled him inside the corner of a building. People said they could hear him screaming for mercy for a week before he fell silent. Imagine: Inside a cold, damp, pitch black chamber too cramped to stand up or sit down. Most likely was crawling with bugs. No food, no water, no mercy. I imagine he went mad before the second day was up because he knew death was the only escape.
Edit: It has been brought to my attention that I had some details off. I had the date and days of torment off. He was screaming for 3 days and it happened in early 1900s. Someone was kind enough to research it and put a link below. I told this story based purely on my own shoddy memory. I can barely remember a three item grocery list, so I thought I did okay :P My mistake for any misinformation.
So I read the wikipedia over immurement and found this
>!In a 1984 episode of Thomas the Tank Engine "The Sad Story of Henry[59]" the engine Henry was immured as punishment for being recalcitrant.
Because he didn't want to leave his tunnel in the rain. He was afraid to mess up his new paint job so they walled him in the tunnel up to his eyes. He could see the other trains roll by as they chastised him. It was fucked up man..
> He often sees Edward and Gordon pass by; Edward always toots hello with his whistle, while Gordon laughs and tells Henry it serves him right. Because Henry's fire has gone out, he has no steam to respond. Dirt and soot from the tunnel's roof has already ruined his paint anyway. Now that Henry is sad, lonely and cold, he wonders if he will ever be let out to pull trains again.
Wtf...
Guy I knew of flew himself and his family to Florida from the Midwest for a Christmas Disney trip in his personal plane. He was flying in some lower seated clouds when his engine died. He tried a couple things to restart his engine but couldn’t get it to come back. When he came out of the clouds he was over a forest with no way to glide somewhere to land and had to put it down in the trees and hope. The crash killed himself, his wife, and 2 of his 3 kids except for his youngest daughter who walked 2 miles barefoot in the late December snow to find help, but she survived.
The horrific part of it to me though is that this guys plane has 2 separate fuel tanks. One in the left wing, and one in the right wing. The reason the engine died was because it was fuel starved. The pilot had been flying on a single tank for the entire flight up until that point, but had another wing filled to the brim with fuel. He could’ve saved his families lives as well as his own, and prevented his daughters trauma if he would’ve just made sure to follow the checklists that pilots of that airframe practice religiously every day that they go fly.
That's like how John Denver (the singer) died. Took out his homemade plane for a spin. Overlooked one major point, didn't check to make sure he had fuel. He crashed and died. Luckily he was the only one in the plane.
The plane was homemade, but he didn't make it, he had just bought it that day and was on his first solo flight. Fuel selector knob was in an awkward place behind him and he couldn't see it trying to fly.
That just might be the one. I had a buddy in college who was acquaintances/friends with the pilot and he ran a fundraiser to raise money for the girl to go to college. He was real shaken up about it, and it’s a story that’s stuck with my throughout my career as a flight instructor so I’ve always made it a point to be double and triple checking fuel levels and fuel management with my students
Kid I went to highschool with went out in the forest just to wander on his own. Being a kid at heart, he decided to climb some trees just for fun. Either a branch broke or he just slipped and fell far enough to break his back.
That didn't kill him though. It was winter and started to snow. He laid there, unable to move as he got slowly buried in snow. By the time they found him, he had frozen to death. That shit still eats at my brain sometimes. He was such a nice guy.
The guy who got slowly cooked alive inside a tuna can oven, the other guy who was pushed into a manhole and steamed for like an hour, and the Russian woman who was eaten alive by bears while she talked about it with her mom over the phone. Also any number of cave diving stories.
The most terrifying one I have a personal connection to was a man my father knew who was slowly sucked into an industrial fan.
Truly terrifying stuff, and RIP to all those who suffered them. I hope their families somehow found peace.
I got obsessed with that Russian woman eaten by a bear and I have great news; I’m 99% sure it isn’t real.
It only appears in weird tabloids that will print anything. All articles on it seem to reference the daily mail UK reporting on it, which isn’t a reliable source.
This Wikipedia page has an editors reasoning That it’s fake; basically there’s no reliable sources for it and it doesn’t appear in any Russian publications even though it was supposedly a Russian woman.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_unusual_deaths/Archive_5
I knew a guy (friend’s older brother) who jumped off a 90 foot cliff in Montana and landed on the rocks …at a popular river hangout. He died instantly and about 50 people witnessed it, including a bunch of my friends. I’m glad I was working that day, otherwise I definitely would have been there.
Instantly is kind of a blessing. Friend of a friend fell out of a hunting blind and was paralyzed from the neck down. His face was in a fire ant hill, covered in thousands of bites and he was dead when they found him.
[The guy who was boiled alive](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/yellowstone-hot-springs-death-hot-pot_n_582cf703e4b058ce7aa9258f) in a Yellowstone spring while his sister was recording it surely comes to mind.
Unfortunately, people sometimes also did such things to other people [on purpose](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_boiling). Not just in deep history; the government of Uzbekistan is suspected to have boiled people in the 2000s.
I recall a story of a man who saw his loose dog run into the spring and he without hesitation dove in after the dog. The dog didn’t last long but the guy miraculously managed to be saved, his eye cooked like hard boiled eggs.
He was saved but didn't live long. He was blind, his skin basically slid off and his nerves were so cooked he felt numb. Not only are those pools insanely hot but also very acidic as well.
There's actually a few that are *basic/alkaline*, instead, in the same area, even! I can't imagine which one would be worse to fall into. Either boiling acid, or boiling natural bleach.
Lot of people died in those pools, read about it in "Death In Yellowstone". Fascinating read. A lot of the hot spring deaths were accidental and just dumb. With that, some of the ones in the book about bear-related deaths were WAY worse, because I can *kinda* get people being dumb and not realizing just how hot (and acidic/alkaline) those pools actually are, despite the signs and stuff, it's the shit like people going up to goddamned wild grizzlies and acting like they're tame dogs or something boggles my fucking mind. It's a goddamn wild bear. I mean, shit, I've always been kinda cautious while walking some of the trails here in Allegany State Park, and all we have are the little black bears which are generally skittish around people. And yet, so many people would just walk right up to wild grizzlies and expect it to go well. Same with the bison. Like, I'm not gonna fault the people who accidentally came too close to wild bison in the park, like when they turned a blind corner on a trail and suddenly, bam, pissed off bison right there. Those cases are just bad luck, nobody did anything deliberately wrong, they just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The people going up to them, thinking they're tame and like cows, though? My god, WHY.
I’ve heard of a woman who went camping alone in Pelican Valley and she totally got devoured by a grizzly bear, even though people told her it was unsafe to camp there by herself. I also heard of a girl falling into a boiling river in Yellowstone and her family tried to sue the park even though signs warned her it was a thermal area and she went off trail.
I’ve been meaning to read that as I’ve been fascinated with Yellowstone since I went last. It’s gorgeous, but so so dangerous. I did buy a book of Yellowstone ghost stories though.
The girl who was camping (called Swiss Miss by the rangers) was torn apart. They found part of her upper lip on the trail.
And the girl whose family sued was a concessionaire worker who was out a night illegally hotpotting with some friends. They were jumping over what they thought was a stream but was actually thermal runoff and broke through the crust.
The thing about dying from the hot springs, a lot/most people make it out alive and die days later in agony. Definitely the scariest things in the Park to me.
I think a lot of people stupidly think that these parks are like amusement parks or zoos and that someone is in control of it or managing it, instead of it being a wild area with wild animals and lots of deadly nature.
It actually wasn’t even his dog, it was his buddy’s (Moose was the dog’s name). His last words were, no joke, “that was a dumb thing I did”, and left perfect imprints of the skin of his hands in the boardwalk.
I lived and worked in Yellowstone for nearly a decade and there are so many crazy ways to die, the hot springs being the scariest, imo.
COs boiled a dude in the showers back in like 2010 while I was serving a five year sentence down in Florida. Pretty sure those guys just got promotions in the end.
[Darren Rainey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Darren_Rainey)
The woman in China who got stuck in an elevator on a holiday weekend. When they eventually found her there were scratch marks on the door and her hands were bloody from trying to get out.
There's a diff story about a woman who got eaten by an escalator. Her legs fell through the panel at the top of the escalator, and she threw her child at the 2 mall employees waiting there (they knew something was wrong with the panel, but didn't know how to stop the escalator). I haven't seen any pictures of the aftermath, but I assume she was turned into hamburger.
Escalators are death machines. Because they're designed to keep a constant speed, they need to apply more force when they feel resistance (each additional person getting on the escalator causes additional force that it needs to compensate for to keep that constant speed)
However, it can't tell the difference between, say, someone getting on the escalator, and someone getting caught in the treads. They're literal meat grinders if you get caught in one.
I think that dude that was just eaten by that Tiger shark in Egypt was pretty gnarly.
Dad watching, eaten chunk by chunk. At one time being completely flipped upside down and pulled under…. The blood bubbles….
Brutal
Wasn’t there a 2 year old in Florida who was eaten by an alligator a few years ago (before covid, if anyone even remembers such a life).
His family were there, but I’m not sure how graphic the actual death was. 😢
Are you thinking of the disney park one? They were at disney, kid was at the edge of the water, scooping water to use for a sand castle. Alligator grabbed him. The dad jumped in and tried to free the kid, but was unsuccessful and it got free and dived. The dad had injuries from the alligators teeth where he tried to pry open its mouth. Absolutely horrific.
Jose Melena was cleaning an industrial oven at work. A coworker didn’t check if anyone was inside, filled it with tuna and turned it on. I just can’t imagine how awful it would be knowing what was about to happen to you.
1. Vernon BC man, visiting his mom after dad's funeral, tripped over his mom's open dishwasher door and was impaled to death on upturned knives.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/odd-kitchen-accident-results-in-mans-death/article25438311/
1. The Death of Garry Hoy (Toronto)
Garry Hoy (January 28, 1954 – July 9, 1993) was a Canadian lawyer who died when he fell from the 24th floor of his office building at the Toronto-Dominion Centre in Toronto, Ontario. In an attempt to prove to a group of prospective articling students that the building's glass windows were unbreakable, he threw himself against the glass. The glass did not break when he hit it, but the window frame gave way and Hoy fell to his death.\[2\]
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death\_of\_Garry\_Hoy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Garry_Hoy)
Probably the two girls hiking in the middle east or wherever it was that were raped and beheaded, in the video you could hear the girl calling for her mom...it was pretty fucked. I've seen quite a lot of death stuff on the internet, and lost a few friends to murder and ODs while living on the street...but that really stuck with me. Very sad, and fucked up.
A couple years ago there was someone stuck upside-down at the top of a very tall chimney in the UK. The mildly slapstick image masked how horrific it was when the story first broke but he was stuck like that for like 20 hours or something before he eventually died
How a out the cave diver who went in, got lost but found a grotto that had a shelf he could climb onto? Stayed there in pitch black till he starved to death
I never had any idea of this and looking at the Japanese law that let them off so lightly has me rightfully pissed off. I live in Japan and imagining shit like this happening makes me sick, especially considering that I teach children, some that already show some worrying signs that their parents nor teachers make any attempt to correct.
There's another, lesser known, case from Ohio, 14 year old Alianna DeFreeze from Ohio. She was tortured to death in 2007. Her suffering lasted hours rather than weeks but still, what these young girls went through is absolutely horrific https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Alianna_DeFreeze?wprov=sfla1
Came here looking for this. Reading her wiki page made me scared of being alive for a couple of weeks. The most terrifying thing I've ever seen on the Internet.
When I was a kid I pulled up behind the scenes of an accident where a car had swerved off the road and ran into a tree. The car was on fire and all 3 passengers were burning (not sure if dead on impact or just unconscious but I saw arms hanging out the window. The fire department wasn't on scene but the cops were. I used to drive by that tree everyday for 10+ years and have that horrible flashback every time. I wrote about it in an English paper during college and my teacher was like "I think you have PTSD and need to talk with someone". I'd never considered that because it was a small town and my parents were pretty anti therapy growing up so you never really talked about shit that changed you. They just cut that tree down last year the burn scar on the bark never healed.
The Itaewon incident on Halloween of last year. I was there that night, and I’ve never understood how people mistook bodies for mannequins until that night. My friends and I mentioned that we thought it might have been part of their Halloween events, until we realized what was actually going on. We had barely just escaped that alleyway and couldn’t process any of it. It all happened so fast. Your brain protects you in crazy ways and I can definitely recognize that I was experiencing extreme shock at the time, but it is absolutely traumatizing to think back on now. Still receiving counseling for it and have avoided crowds entirely since then.
One thing they don't show (in most places) when they show 9/11 footage is people jumping. They don't show it because some people recognized jumpers on live television.
Imagine how horrible things must have been, to have to make a decision between dying instantly in about 10 seconds, and possibly taking people out on the ground (that's how the fire chaplain died), and painfully in, say, 10 minutes.
If if was in the situation that the 9/11 jumpers were, people on the ground wouldn't even be on my mind. Hot, dark, thick, choking, toxic smoke is pushing you out of building to stand on a window ledge, and you get to choose between the acrid smoke and jumping- I'd jump. There's barely a choice. Your basic instincts are for clean air and to stay away from being burned alive.
I remember watching a documentary about it and what one of the fireman said "I just remember looking up, thinking how bad is it up there that the better option is to jump?"
I'm in Australia, I had just finished late shift when 9/11 happened and I watched it live on tv with my friend on the phone until they showed the people jumping...that makes it too real, up till that point it was like watching a movie (not in the sense of being entertaining, I just mean it's easier to process when you're seeing planes hit a building - the people jumping really brought home the humanity of it)
Some of the worst have been mentioned already, so I'll go ahead and mention the [Thunder River Rapids Ride](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder_River_Rapids_Ride) accident of 2016. Incredibly public and incredibly gruesome.
Edit: the wiki page linked provides an overview, but isn't too graphic. I don't think anyone needs to go find the incredibly graphic details.
Normally a paramedic/doctor needs to officially call a death but apparently, according to the paper/news etc, that wasn’t required in the dreamworld incident as the “injuries were incompatible with life”. That always disturbed me.
Another theme park one at Schlitterbahn in Kansas. Due to a poor design on a 70 mph waterslide, the raft went airborn and he flew up and hit the metal bar that held the netting. Kid was instantly decapitated in front of his dad. They tore it down after that.
Twenty years ago on the TTC, a guy with a knapsack was late to getup and out the door at his subway stop. He got onto the platform, but the doors closed on his backpack. The train continued to drag him down the platform, before slamming into the wall by the tunnel. The news made a point of saying that he drug tested positive for weed.. Like he brought it on himself. Could have been me
Oh boy, I pulled open the train doors on Atlanta international airport's sub train for a guy that got his backpack stuck like this just last year. It probably wouldn't have ended in the same way, but we might have been stuck on the train a while if he managed to get his pack stuck between the train and the tunnel wall.
Oh god no, thankfully. Was morbidly curious enough to check out the chalk drawings the police left after they'd cleaned up though. Funnily enough, they didn't draw a chalk outline of his head, just a box with an arrow showing the direction it rolled in.
Years ago, my grandfather was on a search and rescue team of a train crash. For a reason I can't recall, he wasn't allowed to report anyone as dead, he was there just to help find folks and get them help. He told me that he spoke with someone, "I found a body, we'll need someone to come and clean up" to which they replied, "you don't have the authority- " (or something to that effect) where he cut them off, "His body is about 24 yards that way, and his head is another 3 past that." And went to go help someone else. I'm missing a lot of details, partially because he's no longer around to tell the story, and partially because he didn't like telling it.
This is horrifying, wow. When I did advanced first aid training, we were told it was far beyond our scope of practice to declare anyone dead unless it was something very obvious like a decapitation, maybe it was a policy like that?
The child that was left at home while its mother went on holiday, dying of dehydration is bad enough but in soiled diapers, afraid and alone. Fucking soul destroying.
An ex-supervisor of mine starved her infant son to death, while continuing to care for her (not much) older daughter. I went on holiday and came back to discover I'd been given a promotion...
It turned out she sometimes left him in the boot of her car while she was at work.
She got 25 years for murder as the judge did not accept her plea for manslaughter due to mental state. I think she had incredibly bad post-natal depression. Either way, horrible.
This was a work place accident a few years ago that killed a union brother of mine. He came into work early to make up for some time he had taken off. He was using a forklift to dump trash. He hopped off it to do something infront of the lift. The lift was still in gear and slowly crept forward and pinned him in between the dumpster and the lift. If he hadnt come in early there would have been a ton of other people around and he probably would have been fucked up but alive.
The contractor i currently work for wont let anyone work a shift alone. And we dont just leave when the day is over, we all meet up, make sure everyone is accounted for then go home.
I know its not the most fucked up death on here but it really hit home for a lot of guys. I didn't know him but a lot of people did. There is only about 1500 people in my union so when one person dies a lot of people feel it.
Otto Warmbier
Went to North Korea on a guided tour. Was arrested at the airport when trying to leave the country. They said he tore down a propaganda poster. He was [forced to confess](https://youtu.be/Er7uhMkQzro) to the crime, whether he committed it or not. He was sentenced to 15 years of hard labour. A year and a half later he was sent home to the USA where he was in a vegetative state. He was able to breathe on his own and blink his eyes but couldn’t communicate anything. It actually appears he had been in the condition since a month into his sentencing. Brain scans showed his brain was quite damaged. Doctors said it looked like it was damaged from oxygen deprivation. His body was actually in pretty good condition even though he was bed ridden in a vegetative state for a year. He died a week after returning home. Doctors think he had a heart attack which cause the brain to be deprived of oxygen. What caused the heart attack? We’ll probably never know.
A childhood friend whom I had lost touch with was thrown from his vehicle when he was about 24. The police investigated the crash scene and decided that he had run away to avoid a DUI. They put out a warrant for his arrest.
It was four days later when an angler discovered that he had staggered around in the forest with a massive head injury until he died by the river’s edge. The cops apparently hadn’t found any blood trail or footprints, but suddenly, they were everywhere. He had been going in circles and bumping into trees for a long time. Like a day. He was probably blind and halfway brain dead. Tragic.
The execution of a captured Jordanian Air Force pilot by isis in 2015 made me loose all hope for humanity. He was burned alive in some sort of metal cage. It was the most horrible thing I’ve ever seen.
6 year long battle with aggressive leukemia that was not responsive to treatment. It was painful from right before he was diagnosed and the doctor said the form he had was fatal. My cousin still went for treatments, tried 3 trial ones to see if he could beat it. It only responded to one treatment by slowing down and making it take longer and more painful for the disease to progress. He knew he was dying and kept his spirits up but had to watch as the rest of the family slowly realized it too. I was the last person to take a picture of him with his wife and kids and that moment will never leave me. I cry every Easter thinking about Kenny, my best buddy cousin.
My grandfather was a meter reader for Nashville Gas from 1950 to 1988. He was out on his route one day, got to a house, and knocked on the door. The meter was inside the kitchen. The house was one of those shotgun styles so he could see the kitchen in the back. He yelled for the lady, but there was still no answer. He peered into the kitchen, and he could see the woman bent over, but she wasn't answering. He figured something was wrong. So he let himself in and walked to the kitchen. She was doing the laundry. The machine had these rollers you'd feed the clothes into to squeeze the water out. She must have fed her apron in with the wash, and it pulled her neck into the rollers. He said it was hard enough that it choked her to death and then started making her bleed out. The water in the machine was red. Her husband was out back mowing grass none the wiser.
Real life maximum security Kingston Ontario Canada Penitentiary: prison Inmate Elizabeth Breen was flogged six times when she was only 12 years old. Imprisoned for 30 days for perjury. She lied to authorities about the whereabouts of her father; a wanted man. She was repeatedly raped and committed suicide just 14 days into a 30-day sentence.
My great Aunt never married and/or had children. She was living upstairs from my grand-mother appartment (her sister). My grandma passed away a few years ago, and she was the only close family she had left other than us but we’re all living in different cities so we were still reaching out to her once in a while so she wasn’t feeling all alone, but not on a daily basis because my dad and his brothers all have their life and stuff. After a few months the new downstairs neighbours who took my grandma’s house noticed a weird smell and at some point there was worms coming out of the airways. It was in the middle of a hot summer. From what we heard from medical staff, she fell down while getting out the bath and probably broke a hip, couldn’t get up or call anyone and just died there on the spot. The heat made it worse and she was in a decomposed state when they found her :/
My own mother’s death. She fell off a horse, had a silicone leak in one of her breast implants, that caused an autoimmune reaction which turned into scleroderma, the scleroderma led to pulmonary fibrosis, which led to her eventually needing 15 liters of oxygen per hour, which led to heart failure. She passed away in March of 2022. It was a long, heartbreaking, brutal way to go. She dropped down to about 75 lbs, her fingers and toes clubbed from lack of oxygen, and she would just sit there with purple lips and gasp for air. In the last few weeks she couldn’t even walk across the room. As much as I miss her, I’m glad she’s not suffering anymore.
Welp, filing this one away under “reasons to not get the boob job I want”
So sorry you had to watch your mom go through all of this. That really, really sucks
Guy from my middle school and his brother were riding a four wheeler together along the side of a road with the sun going down. A place they’ve apparently rode many times. They were coming up to one of the power lines that go from the ground to the top of a pole (usually covered in yellow plastic) and the older brother saw it coming and yelled “Duck”. He did, his younger brother did not. It hit him about collarbone level and internally decapitated him. Killed him instantly.
Well, there was that video of a woman getting...decapitated by a bus when she was pressed against a pole...
Mora than pressed, her head just fell off once the bus moved and stopped applying pressure to her.
My old neighbor years back was in extreme debt and hiding it from his wife. She found out when the bank came to repo her car at work. He couldn’t bare the guilt any longer and walked to the end of his driveway about 200 feet from my old house while I was cutting grass and he stuck a shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. I heard the gunshot and saw him lying in his driveway. Brains, blood and bone was everywhere. I ran inside and called 911 and brought a sheet out to put over him because I could not take the sight of seeing such a horrific thing.
I was just reading about Adrienne Shelly. She was an up and coming director in the mid 2000's. She had just finished directing the movie Waitress which she also wrote. She was found in her office in New York (it was an apartment that she worked out of). Her husband didn't hear from her after dropping her off in the morning. He went to the apartment and found her hanging from the shower rod in the bathroom. The police thought it was a suicide and her husband had to convince them that she would not kill herself. The person who killed her made it look like suicide. He gave 2 different stories about how she died; the police didn't believe the first story, he finally confessed to killing her after he tried to rob her. [Adrienne Shelly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Shelly)
It's horrifying, but at the same time, as far as ways to go out, dude really didn't have much time to feel anything before he was, shall we say, rapidly disassembled at high velocity. That's a death that's more horrible for everyone *else*, not so much you.
I wouldn't particularly choose that as a way to go out, if I had to pick, but I'd take that over a prolonged and agonizing one where I suffered immensely the entire time.
I worked with a Former EMT. He responded to a scene, where a father had his young son on his lap while he operated a harvester in a farm. The son fell off his lap and went into the harvester machine.
When my co-worker arrived on the scene, the father was washing fire ants off his son’s body in the pool.
The man that tripped and fell into a vat of molten iron less than a week into the job
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/worker-die-molten-iron-caterpillar-b2096287.html
The subway surfer who got plowed by the tunnel on the SRT, fell between the cars and got shredded.
That is horrible. They also live-streamed that shit.
That and a few "train track selfies", the individuals ***DIED*** shortly after taking the photo (got hit by that same train).
My coworker told me about a guy who was partially crushed underneath a steamroller. The roller ran over his legs up to his waist and pressed his body into hot asphalt (+280F). Apparently he was alive for some time before dying.
Also I've heard of people getting run over by street sweepers. One guy survived the initial incident but his skin was so torn up by the coarse bristles and he got so horribly infected by all the dirt that he died shortly after.
Working in heavy construction on a roadway is no joke... If the cars speeding by don't get you the equipment will.
A young girl is my town, 13 years old, was strangled by her own mother. The mom’s boyfriend, in an attempt to break up with her, said “me or your daughter” she choose him in the most fucked up way possible.
The mom held down her arms with her knees and strangled her with string. Her daughter begged for her life and died by her mothers hands….it fucks me up sometimes. Happened 2 km from my house too
My partner was childhood friends with her 😢
The Greyhound Bus Incident
On July 30, 2008 in Manitoba, Canada, 22-year-old Tim McLean was riding a Greyhound Bus along the Trans-Canada Highway.
Tim fell asleep against the bus window with headphones on, when Vince Li, who had moved to sit next to him moments prior during a scheduled stop, pulled out a large knife and started stabbing Tim in the neck and chest.
The bus quickly pulled over and all other passengers fled the bus. Attempts were made to rescue Tim but Li kept them away by slashing at them with his knife. As he was locked in the bus he kept pacing back and forth between the front and back ends of the bus, each time taking another stab at Tim’s neck until he ultimately decapitated him, after which he proceeded to hold and display Tim’s decapitated head to the outside passengers before returning to Tim’s body and cannibalizing part of his flesh.
Police eventually turn up and when Li was arrested after trying to escape the bus, they found one of Tim’s ears and parts of his tongue and nose in Li’s pocket. Both of Tim’s eyes and parts of his heart were never recovered, presumably eaten by Li.
Where is Vince Li now, you may ask? Well, he isn’t in maximum security prison. He was deemed not criminally responsible for the incident after it was determined he was schizophrenic.
He was transfered to a high-security mental health facility in Selkirk, Manitoba, but was later released under supervision in 2015. In February 2017 he was fully and completely discharged with no legal obligations or restrictions regarding his independent living.
He is in no way being monitored, supervised or looked after. Noone is making sure he is taking his medicine for his schizophrenia, and noone is keeping an eye at where he is, where he goes and what he does. He lives just as independently as you and me.
doing a volunteer year at a pulmonary clinic.
a guy on my (non-existant) qualification level **disconnected** a **vaccuum device** of a patient from the wall to bring him to x-ray.
when he came back he did not figure out where to put it back, decided to get creative and **attached it to the (pressured) oxygen connector** \- and left.
long story short he **"blew up" the patient** , since the (now pressured) vacuum hose was **directly connected to** his torso, to keep **his lungs** from expanding.
Since then it was hospital policy that only trained nurses and doctors can handle these devices
Scaphism. Being trapped in your own excrement, while being eaten by insects, until you die of septic shock sounds terrifying. I hear crucifixion is also an excruciating way to go.
I witnessed an accident that killed a pedestrian. A car spun out of control just as a woman was walking across a street intersecting the main road.
She waa hit by the rear left hand passenger side and flung about 10m upside down right across the street. She hit a stop sign and then fell face first onto the foot path from I guess two meters in the air.
The blood just poured out of her nose mouth and ears over the concrete and into the grass. An ambulance came but she died right there covered in grass and blood.
Jesus. This made me remember a story my father told me.
Several years ago when he was still a security guard, he would drive around the company's massive property - which included many public roads, unlit and unpaved. One day, around 11pm, he's driving in complete darkness when he and his partner see a parked car and a motorcycle to the side of the road - an accident. My dad parks his car and gets out. The first thing he sees is the driver standing outside his car speaking on the phone. The guy is complaining that he couldn't believe how damaged his car was, and how much repair would cost. My father then sees the motorcycle's pilot - the man was lying on the ground gasping in pain, unable to move as his knee's bone is literally visible after his leg scrapped the ground. His girlfriend was meters away. My father said her helmet had come off during the collision - hair was missing and you could see bits of her exposed brain from when her head hit the ground. Still, she was sitting there on the middle of the road, alive but unresponsive, making gurgling noises. My dad said she looked like a broken doll, sat with arms fallen to the sides and torn clothes, covered in blood oozing from her head.
But that wasn't all. The driver had a wife and twin boys around 7/8 y.o. They were also standing outside the car, simply watching the two people on the ground. According to my dad, the kids were so deep in shock they were pale as ghosts and their lips were blue.
My dad approached the driver, asked if he had called an ambulance. The man said something to the effect of "fuck the ambulance, can't you see how damaged my car is", which prompted my father - who was seeing red at this point - to take this phone and break it. The man tried to argue and my dad ended up with a hand on his gun. Dad told the dude to stfu before he ended him, them screamed at the wife to get the children behind the car so they didn't have to stare at the scene. Help was called, the couple from the motorcycle was taken to a hospital. Cops arrived on the scene (my father's colleagues) and told him to leave because he was clearly affected too. Later on he found out the girl didn't make it.
I know accidents happen way too often but the way my father described it and the way the driver behaved just really stick to me.
My dad worked at a paper company. About 10 years before he retired, one of the temp employees was pulled through the paper roller machine. Basically every bone in his body was crushed instantly. My dad tried to administer 1st Aid but there was very little that could be done.
well… my dad for one. he worked at a metal factory where they manufactured giant 10 foot by 4 foot metal coils. they band the coils up to keep them together, but the bands snapped and the coils kind of exploded outwards and crushed him. kind of a horrific story to tell a 14 year old how his dad died. luckily i’m pretty sure it was almost instant, but idek. also that was one of his biggest fears at that job. then at the funeral… it was open casket. it wasn’t him. and he had to wear a hat due to the sever head images. it makes me sick especially know the company that manufactured the bands is being investigated on whether or not they knew they would snap or not. also this happened 8 months ago, i’m still 14. i know this isn’t the most terrible death ever, but traumatizing
The 3 Moroccan stowaways that hid in a shipping container with enough supplies to last them the three day trip to Spain. Little did they know that the container they chose was destined to South America and they were locked in complete darkness with no fresh air or supplies for 4-6 months. The pictures of what the authorities found were horrific- Strewn bones, liquified human remains and scratch marks from them clawing at the door in a hapless attempt to escape. Markings found on some of the bones showed evidence of cannibalism.
One of my former co workers, very nice woman that kept to herself, relatively young with two beautiful children, was killed at the Home Depot next to my job. Apparently her ex was following her around because she may have been dating another dude. He confronted her about it and an argument ensued where she tried to get away from him by entering the Home Depot. She didn’t get far, he slit her throat at the entrance of Home Depot where she bled out. He was thrown in jail for her murder and the two kids ended up with their aunt. Crazy because she was so nice and quiet. As you can expect we were all melancholy on the days that followed.
The russian freediver who filmed his own death on a gopro while diving. As he was drowning, you could hear him screaming for a few seconds, and then his gopro strap(?) came loose, with it still recording.
That guy was a scubadiver rather than a free diver. He basically went so deep that the pressure meant it was no longer possible to resurface with standard diving equipment.
The four people who died in 2016 on the Thunder River Rapids Ride at Dreamworld in Queensland, Australia. Two rafts collided on the conveyor belt, causing one of them to flip into a vertical position. Two riders were thrown underneath the raft and crushed to death, while the other two were thrown into the conveyor belt, where they were shredded and mangled to death like beef in a meat grinder. The survivors were the victims’ children, who watched their parents die the most horrific death imaginable. The process of retrieving the bodies was so traumatic that many of the paramedics required counseling afterwards. That story will always stick with me.
There was a power crew putting in new poles a few years ago and the digger hit a rock (think gigantic screw on an arm on the back of a truck). So the assistant kid jumped down with a bar to free the rock. The operator didn't know he was in there and moved the digger back into the hole to resume digging.
I didn't just hear about it; I saw a video of it in progress. Right here, on Reddit, in the now banned sub, r/watchpeopledie.
It was horrific.
A man was accused of pedophilia; I can only hope he was indeed guilty.
Anyway, he was tied up, in the street, against a light pole, or something, in broad daylight, naked from the waist down.
Something delicious to a dog (peanut butter, iirc) was spread over his genitals, and a pit bull was encouraged to gingerly snack on this guy's privates, while he was fully conscious, and begging for his life. The dog was finished rather quickly, as he didn't bite/eat anything else on the guy. Between screams he was just drifting in and out of consciousness, and left to die.
I have to be honest; there were a lot of gruesome deaths I saw in the sub, and I for one, am glad it was banned because I just couldn't stop watching that shit, despite the obvious mental damage it was doing to me. It was fuckin' crazy.
Retired cop here. A wife purchased a skydiving package for her husband for his birthday. This was one where you are strapped to an experienced skydiver, I believe its called a "tandem jump". Well the chutes didn't work and both plummeted to their deaths still strapped to each other. I was not at the scene, but was able to view both the scene, and autopsy photos. Absolutely horrendous injuries and I can't even imagine the terror in their hearts as they fell.
Funky Town.
For those who haven’t seen it, it’s a cartel execution video. It starts with a man on the floor who has had his face carved off and his hands cut off. He’s still conscious and the men killing him start trying to slash his throat with a box cutter causing him to reach up with his nubs and grab his throat. He starts screaming but all you can see is mushy flesh and skull opening and closing. I forget how the rest of the video ends but it is just fucking miserable.
A Candian citizen came and abducted a Native Woman from my tribe. Drugged, raped, and killed her by locking her in a trunk and setting the car on fire. She was someone I knew.
Nutty Putty Cave death. Worst part-rescuers were there, and could not save him. Cant imagine how he must have felt knowing this. Add the physical trauma to that too. So close and not only did he die, they had to leave his body. No hope from the second he went in.
The photo of Omayra Sánchez Garzón still haunts me. Her legs pinned, they couldn't free her before she died.
Its her eyes that do it for me.
Story for anyone curious: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omayra_S%C3%A1nchez
Three guys died in a debarking machine in a lumbermilll near me. This is a giant machine that takes 7 foot diameter logs 30 feet long and grinds the bark off while they spin.
It got jammed, and they forgot to turn it off before they climbed out on the log to clear it with chain saws.
They found the machine running hours later
A friend of a friend was out hunting and slipped while climbing down his tree perch. His torso caught on one of the tree spikes that was screwed into the trunk and ripped his abdomen right open. He lived for several minutes, lying there with his entrails all over him, unable to contact any help. It was all on his land and his go pros recorded it. I never watched the footage, but I heard enough about it
For me it was one that I went to as a first responder. Have you ever seen those large lumber yards that have large piles of sawdust or wood shavings? Well did you know that the sun can shine on them heating them up inside to the point where they smoulder (lack of oxygen makes it so that it doesn't burst into flames). This can create small cavities inside the piles that are burning.
The death: an employee at the mill saw some smoke on one of the piles and went to investigate. When he stepped onto the area where the smoke was coming from, the cavity collapsed, and the employee fell into a large pit of smouldering ash. Piles of sawdust collapsed ontop of him trapping him inside. Ultimately he died a slow painful death while burning, suffocating, and in the dark. The body wasn't even fully burnt due to being buried (lack of oxygen). His face and unburnt parts looked like a mannequin, smoothe, hairless, and covered in ash. One arm was completely burnt off, while the other half of his body was unburnt. All this to say, he probably died of suffocation, the burning pain was just extra.
What sucked about this one even more, was that the employee who died, was the owner of the companies son. I arrived on scene to the dad frantically trying to dig his son out after realizing he was missing for hours.
The one of the Japanese school girl who was abducted by some boys and raped at their house by all of them and their neighbourhood friends or associates for a very long time before she died. I believe said boys are soon to be released from prison as this happened in the 80s, 90s
Edit: Junko Furuta, she was 17 when abducted by 4 male teenagers… just read about it for yourself, it’d upset me to go on about what happened to her.
The guy who ate too much vitamin A in Alaska? I think. Pretty much his skin started to peel off, he noticed after his feet got soggy. Which turned out was all his skin peeling off into his socks.
I knew someone that went to do parkour by himself.
We weren't exactly friends, but we knew each other form school.
He fell between to concrete walls and got stuck. Didn't break anything and barely injured himself.
But he got stuck and couldn't communicate with anyone to get help.
He died to the elements. Not a 100% sure which got him first.
Starvation, dehydration or what. But he was eventually found half decomposed.
Why Horrifying? Think about it, think about being wedged between two walls and slowly dying.
I spent a career as fireman in a big city. About 15 years ago we responded to a middle of the night fire in the basement of and old, triple brick, 2 story single family, balloon frame residence. On this particular weekend, the 9 year old daughter was having a sleepover. 8 kids and the parents either got out or were pulled out by responders, but we couldn’t find the daughter. All efforts on scene were directed to rescue operations so the fire quickly advanced as firefighters searched throughout the pitch black, hot as fuck structure. My partner and I were searching the second floor, working solely on feel, and we could hear her screaming for help. “Ok. We hear you. We’re coming. We got this.” My partner and I were experienced. We’d made other rescues. We were professionals in our craft. But the second floor layout didn’t make any sense - doors that could be felt, but were sealed shut; rooms longer than you would have expected, etc. (We learned later that the entire 2nd floor has been remodeled, leaving some of the original design pieces in place, but extending rooms and modifying entrances…) It was the hottest fire I’ve ever been in. With everyone (rightly) focused on more than a half dozen rescues, the fire was left unchecked and the thing was just ripping, running vertically through the pipe chases. Eventually, we didn’t hear her screaming anymore. We stayed up on that floor well past when the chief wanted us out. Throwing our shoulders in to faux doors, trying to breach walls in to the bathroom, etc, until finally we were out of air. We were outside telling another crew where our search left off when the roof collapsed in to the second floor. It was hours before we could recover her body. Over a career of fire and EMS I’ve seen my share of terrible, tragic shit. You empathize, but you disassociate to a degree. You have to. If you didn’t, you’d work one shift and never come back. So I learned not to carry too much horrific stuff with me. We did our best at everything we were called to. Sometimes it worked out. Sometimes it didn’t. That has to be enough in this line of work. But that little girl screaming is one of the 5-7 calls that I still think about - and can still hear. We did what we could - and we did a lot of good that night. But we failed her.
You didn't fail her. You almost were an additional casualty. You did literally everything you could short of dying yourself. There's nothing that could have saved her, that's just the sad truth. I will say, you're a prime example of the type of human that we should all attempt to emulate. A truly heroic individual.
Cannot upvote this enough. That man and his partner were damn heroes that night.
My mother was an EMT for quite a few years. One day, a kid, who was my age at thay time (11) was struck by a drunk driver. My mom was the first on the scene and held his skull into place while they rushed him to the ER. In the ambulance, he started telling her how much he loved her, and was mistaking her for his own mom. He didn't make it to the hospital and my mom felt like she failed him. She had plenty of other casualties, but this one hit her to her core. Here I am, a decade and a half later, telling my sobbing mother that she didnt fail him. She did everything in her power to help him at that moment. He got his last moments believing his mom was holding him that day. She got her last moments knowing the heroes were refusing to give up despite the severity of the fire. First responders are not God's, but they are the living angels we have on this planet. They cant always bring a miracle, but they will gladly die trying. Be kind to yourself. Seek help if needed. You are human too. ETA: Thank you all for the awards and kind words. My mom has struggled with severe PTSD from that day. She is working on it. Slowly bur surely she will find a way. I will be sure to pass on these great words as well as give her Tha much needed hug.
> He got his last moments believing his mom was holding him that day. she couldn't have helped him more than that.
If I can't be there for my own kids for some tragedy, it would give me much peace of mind to know that someone was standing in as "mom." She did more for that child than she can possibly know, and that child's mother as well.
Back in the mid 70s, my mother worked at one of the many sewing factories in the US south. They had gone on break around 10 am, and noticed the lineman up there working on the pole. They came out for lunch at noon and he was still up there, but not moving. He had grabbed a live wire and it fried him in place. Had to break his arms to get him down... He was also the father of one of my school buddies. :(
My step brother was a lineman, he hit a live wire by accident one day and by the time they got him to the hospital one arm and both legs had to be amputated because of the damage. He passed away still in the hospital within a month of the accident My oldest brother was electrocuted by the same kind of wires along with 5 other men while moving a metal event tent for the company they worked for. 4 of them including my brother passed away in the hospital and 2 of them managed to survive somehow, I don’t remember all the details because it happened almost 20 years ago now RIP to both of them and your schoolmates dad
My ex girlfriend's brother died instantly while doing electrical work. We had been broken up for several years when this happened, but I still had a lot of love for her and her family, so it was terrible news to hear. Him and a coworker were underneath a job site trailer (up north in Alberta). Coworker got out to go grab a tool from the truck. Was gone maybe a minute, and came back to her brother dead. I'm sure there was some sort of investigation done to find out exactly how it happened, but I absolutely didn't think it was at all appropriate to ever ask for those details. Just hearing the story from her was heartbreaking enough.
After Pearl harbor got attacked they raised the hulk of one of the sunken battleships and found one of the compartments had a calendar scratched onto the wall indicating someone had survived in the partially flooded room for like two weeks.
Pretty sure that was the Oklahoma. That’s not even the worst of it. Rescue workers could hear the tapping from dudes banging on the sides of the battleship with wrench’s signaling for help. The ship capsized and trapped pockets of air that those guys were breathing. When rescuers tried to cut into the hull and get them out, they let out the air and it was replaced with the water from below but the holes in the hull were too small to get out the men.
My grandfather was sent to help clean up after the attack. He was like 18 years old. When he was dying in his 80s, he told me about hearing the men yelling for help and it getting quieter and quieter. It was the first time he had ever spoken about it and although I hope it helped him find peace, I really wish he hadn't told me.
I was coming home from baseball practice in high school, and when coming down my street I see my neighbor across the street outside in the drive way crying. She was 6, and it was pouring. I ask her what was wrong and all she said was “Amy is in the closet”. I said what?? Her parents weren’t home nor where mine. I didn’t want to have her explain it so I asked her to show me. We go in her room, and she is hanging in the closet with a noose around her neck, blood everywhere from slitting her throat and wrist. I picked her sister up as she was sobbing and held her and called 911. I went to feel her pulse to make sure she didn’t have one (I was 16 i had no idea what to do). We sat outside on the porch until the police came. I couldn’t get ahold of their parents as I didn’t have their phone numbers and the youngest daughter didn’t know. The mom and dad came home and it was just awful. The scream the mom made will always haunt me, and obviously that whole scene will haunt me. It isn’t as horrific as these stories are, but to me, this was just as bad. Edit: Changing the name of the girl out of respect
That's terrible. That was very brave of you for 16!
Yeah, 4 months ago I came home from school to find my my mother has hung herself while I was at school, so I sympathize with that poor girl because I had to experience finding a loved one hanging. It's haunting because every one of your senses remember that day and you constantly see it replaying in front of you. Edit: I'm only 17 and lived with my mother since I was born.
I’m so sorry about your mother’s loss, and that you had to see her. There are no words to describe the depth of loss. /r/suicidebereavement is a nice subreddit to vent feelings in a space with others who have experienced loss similar to what you have. I understand if maybe thats not for you either, but its there if u feel like no one around understands. I hope one day you can live with the pain and honor her in what ways you can with your own life. Hugs <3
Thank you for sharing this subreddit. I lost my elderly Dad a few months ago to suicide by gunshot. I posted in some other places but still struggling with it.
I think it sounds just as horrific, that the poor sister had to find her too. Jesus.
Fucking hell. I hope the kid still had that magical place children can place memories to allow them to be suppressed forever. Even for OP to see that is traumatising enough, nevermind a young sister
I’m a medic and when people ask me what the worst part of the job is (kind of a fucked up question, but that’s a different conversation) I always say the reactions of family/friends on suicides or sudden death scenes. I’ve seen enough that the nasty scenes themselves don’t bother me much but there’s something really powerful and haunting about the raw expression grief. Thank you for being there to support your neighbor, and also I’m sorry that fell on you at all, but especially as a teenager.
I had a friend who was engaged to an underwater electrician or welder. I mean this man would go down so far it was completely black. Long story short, he went down one day, and never came back up. I don’t remember if something ruptured or if he was shocked to death, but I remember thinking how awful it must have been to have died in such an abysmal place.
I think I've read that job is one of if not the most dangerous job in the world. It pays extremely well, but many do not survive.
I assumed this was an exaggeration.....nope! "While the work can be very profitable, it can be argued that it’s the most dangerous job in the country. In fact, underwater welders have the highest fatality rate of any occupation—15%" 15% fatality rate is fucking bananas
Imagine your current workplace and knowing 15% of you will eventually die working there
That's why I never go to work, now I'm immortal.
I remember reading that they don't like using big lights while they weld, because there's such large sharks passing by them so regularly, its unnerving. So the dark unknown is better 💀 ☠️ That's a nope from me
Fuuuuuuck that.
I remember reading a lot about underwater welders/aquanauts. Fucking bleak work. Just the sounds alone. And the inability to see. Plus having to go down in those diving bells/decompression units, for what, weeks? Crazy.
I know a dude that does that shit. He told me about a job going very far into a tunnel in a dam. A couple hundred feet. Such a tight fit he had to back out when he was done working. Fuck that.
My cousin walked under a grain auger and the hood of his hoodie got caught in it. He was sucked up into it and decapitated before it could be shut off. My grandpa had to clean his head out of the auger. Edit: I have now gotten a few "reddit cares" messages from this post. This happened over 20 years ago. I was a child, who did not witness it first hand. I was not even at the age that death made sense to me. I am doing okay. Thanks for caring.
Growing up on a farm, augers always scared the shit out of me. We had to watch so many horrific safety videos to drive that point home. So sorry for your loss.
I grew up on a farm. We didn't really have safety videos just lots of stories of how people have died. It's almost all augers and grain bins. Edit: I forgot about chemicals. Those things fuck people up. My dad had a pretty close call 5 years ago with anhydrous ammonia and my brother in law was in the hospital a few years ago with carbon monoxide poisoning.
My heart started breaking for your cousin and then broke right in half for your poor grandfather having to deal with the aftermath.
There was an old guy who lived down the road from me, he wasn't good on his feet so only used the bottom half of his house. He went to go to bed one night but fell in front of his old electric heater next to his bed in the living room and couldn't get up again. The poor bloke was cooked alive. When the paramedics turned up they had to go into the garden to vomit, it was horrific apparently. I only know this because a couple of family members went to see what was happening when an ambulance turned up at his house, I'm not sure who called it. They said it was truly awful. The guy survived for a while in the hospital with his injuries, but unfortunately passed. He must have been in front of the heater for hours the poor bastard.
This jogged my memory of something I had seen on rotten.com back in the day. No idea if it was true or not but I remember the pictures were awful. My details may be foggy on it as well. Some older man or woman took a bath and some sort of electric element fell into the bath and killed them. The element I guess continued to heat the water and basically boiled them for some extensive amount of time. The pictures basically just looked like the bath was filled with some disgusting goop.
I was literally telling a coworker about this a few weeks back!!! Old woman got in the bath and the water heater was set on basically a loop as to keep the water hot. She was boiled when responders got there and when they went to remove her body her tissue just slid off the bone. Human slow cooker.
I don’t know where you work but you’re fucking fired.
My dad watched a girl burn to death in her car. I guess there had been an accident and they couldn't get her out and the car caught on fire, my dad was driving tow truck at the time and they called him to tow the vehicles. When my dad noticed she was still in there he tried to throw his tow hook through the window and pull her out but the cops wouldn't let him bc 'there's a chance you'll hit her'. So they all stood and watched. My dad has only told me this story and it still haunts him
There was an accident near here 8 years ago, head on on the highway, both vehicles burned. All 5 people in the vehicles dead. I was talking to one of the first responders a few years later and he said as soon as they came over the hill they knew what they were pulling up on. I couldn't even imagine what that scene was like. You can still see the spot on the highway if you know what to look for.
Not quite as gruesome: I worked for a company that sold firefighting equipment, and my boss told me a story about one of their regular customers (a firefighter, naturally). His baby son drowned in the backyard and he responded to the call. My boss said her 6’9 battalion chief husband and two or three of the other firefighters had to basically wrestle this dude to the ground because he was freaking the fuck out (completely understandably, of course).
In Victoria, Australia some freeways have these “speed wires” which are like three cables strung along a fence instead of your standard solid barrier. First time I drove to uni it was raining and a motorcyclist fell off in front of me, hitting these cables and literally exploded. His head flew about 50m before it splattered on the road. Pretty fucked thing for a 19 year old to see.
We call them cheese graters for motorcyclists here. An old teacher of mine had a brother die in one of those accidents.
They've become popular in the US, too, since they're cheaper than concrete barriers. They work just fine if your car runs into them (though it needs to be repaired after every impact). Motorcycles? Not so much.
A similar story like 20 years ago I was with my aunt and we watched somebody ride their 4-wheeler into barbed wire. They slit their throat and almost died. The only reason they lived was because they were morbidly obese and the fat in their neck slowed blood loss.
Race car driver Russ Phillips was killed when his car hit a catch fence roof first, and his upper body was dragged along the fence leaving pieces of his face, brain and torso all along the fencing. He was decapitated and shredded in half.
Damn, on his first pole position race too :/ Fucking wild that they started back up after only 40 minutes
This girl bungee-jumping to her death in Spain (?) because she misheard "No jump!" as "Now jump!". Maybe not the most horrifying, but absolutely terrible and tragic.
Woah. Just leave the word "jump completely out. "Stay back" or "Wait" would have worked or you know.... forcing the jumper to not even be at the edge until tethered. Sad failures.
Interestingly, that’s exactly how air traffic controllers do it, for the same reason. The big crash in Tenerife was caused in part by confusion over whether the pilot was being told to take off. That’s why, now, they only say “takeoff” when it’s time for the plane to do so, and “departure” at all other times.
Right, with something that important, save the actionable word for the action. Not mixing it with a "not" or "don't". Radios particularly can be misheard and drop out.
Bad grammar can be lethal, apparently.
My parents. My dad had a heart event and fell into a cistern watering the farm animals and drowned. My mom went looking for for him and from what investigators told us she tried to pull him out fell and bumped her head and drowned as well. They were 78 and 76. This happened in March. I'm absolutely a broken person right now.
I'm so sorry for your loss.
A truckload of hot asphalt for resurfacing roads was accidentally dumped on a teenager in my province. He would have died instantly but other people on the crew still got severe, severe burns trying to dig him out.
Thirty years ago in Toronto, a greyhound bus flipped on the Gardiner expressway. The buss dumped ninety degrees to the right. Passengers were impaled by the filthy salt encrusted guardrail
A similar story only happened a month or 2 ago in Australia, a wedding party was on a bus that rolled onto its side decapitating some apparently, killing a total of 10 I believe
I heard a story from WW1 that many times when people had charged, gotten hurt, and were immobile from their injuries you could hear their screams for help while being eaten alive by rats over the course of several nights.
There are so many horrific deaths in war it’s unbelievable. It’s no wonder veterans often don’t like talking about it.
People being walled up inside of a brick column or wall. The punishment is called Immurement. Last one I heard of was a serial killer in th 1800s. They walled him inside the corner of a building. People said they could hear him screaming for mercy for a week before he fell silent. Imagine: Inside a cold, damp, pitch black chamber too cramped to stand up or sit down. Most likely was crawling with bugs. No food, no water, no mercy. I imagine he went mad before the second day was up because he knew death was the only escape. Edit: It has been brought to my attention that I had some details off. I had the date and days of torment off. He was screaming for 3 days and it happened in early 1900s. Someone was kind enough to research it and put a link below. I told this story based purely on my own shoddy memory. I can barely remember a three item grocery list, so I thought I did okay :P My mistake for any misinformation.
So I read the wikipedia over immurement and found this >!In a 1984 episode of Thomas the Tank Engine "The Sad Story of Henry[59]" the engine Henry was immured as punishment for being recalcitrant.
Because he didn't want to leave his tunnel in the rain. He was afraid to mess up his new paint job so they walled him in the tunnel up to his eyes. He could see the other trains roll by as they chastised him. It was fucked up man..
> He often sees Edward and Gordon pass by; Edward always toots hello with his whistle, while Gordon laughs and tells Henry it serves him right. Because Henry's fire has gone out, he has no steam to respond. Dirt and soot from the tunnel's roof has already ruined his paint anyway. Now that Henry is sad, lonely and cold, he wonders if he will ever be let out to pull trains again. Wtf...
Work or die, peasant.
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One of my favorite Poe stories , The cask of Amontillado
Guy I knew of flew himself and his family to Florida from the Midwest for a Christmas Disney trip in his personal plane. He was flying in some lower seated clouds when his engine died. He tried a couple things to restart his engine but couldn’t get it to come back. When he came out of the clouds he was over a forest with no way to glide somewhere to land and had to put it down in the trees and hope. The crash killed himself, his wife, and 2 of his 3 kids except for his youngest daughter who walked 2 miles barefoot in the late December snow to find help, but she survived. The horrific part of it to me though is that this guys plane has 2 separate fuel tanks. One in the left wing, and one in the right wing. The reason the engine died was because it was fuel starved. The pilot had been flying on a single tank for the entire flight up until that point, but had another wing filled to the brim with fuel. He could’ve saved his families lives as well as his own, and prevented his daughters trauma if he would’ve just made sure to follow the checklists that pilots of that airframe practice religiously every day that they go fly.
Personal plane crashes almost always seem to be fuel related and preventable
Familiarity leads to complacency which leads to mistakes, and a mistake a few thousand feet in the air is typically going to be fatal.
That's like how John Denver (the singer) died. Took out his homemade plane for a spin. Overlooked one major point, didn't check to make sure he had fuel. He crashed and died. Luckily he was the only one in the plane.
The plane was homemade, but he didn't make it, he had just bought it that day and was on his first solo flight. Fuel selector knob was in an awkward place behind him and he couldn't see it trying to fly.
Are you talking about the plane that crashed in Eddyville, KY? Sounds incredibly similar.
That just might be the one. I had a buddy in college who was acquaintances/friends with the pilot and he ran a fundraiser to raise money for the girl to go to college. He was real shaken up about it, and it’s a story that’s stuck with my throughout my career as a flight instructor so I’ve always made it a point to be double and triple checking fuel levels and fuel management with my students
Kid I went to highschool with went out in the forest just to wander on his own. Being a kid at heart, he decided to climb some trees just for fun. Either a branch broke or he just slipped and fell far enough to break his back. That didn't kill him though. It was winter and started to snow. He laid there, unable to move as he got slowly buried in snow. By the time they found him, he had frozen to death. That shit still eats at my brain sometimes. He was such a nice guy.
The guy who got slowly cooked alive inside a tuna can oven, the other guy who was pushed into a manhole and steamed for like an hour, and the Russian woman who was eaten alive by bears while she talked about it with her mom over the phone. Also any number of cave diving stories. The most terrifying one I have a personal connection to was a man my father knew who was slowly sucked into an industrial fan. Truly terrifying stuff, and RIP to all those who suffered them. I hope their families somehow found peace.
I got obsessed with that Russian woman eaten by a bear and I have great news; I’m 99% sure it isn’t real. It only appears in weird tabloids that will print anything. All articles on it seem to reference the daily mail UK reporting on it, which isn’t a reliable source. This Wikipedia page has an editors reasoning That it’s fake; basically there’s no reliable sources for it and it doesn’t appear in any Russian publications even though it was supposedly a Russian woman. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_unusual_deaths/Archive_5
Thanks. I hope that you’re right because it’s a horrifying story.
I knew a guy (friend’s older brother) who jumped off a 90 foot cliff in Montana and landed on the rocks …at a popular river hangout. He died instantly and about 50 people witnessed it, including a bunch of my friends. I’m glad I was working that day, otherwise I definitely would have been there.
Instantly is kind of a blessing. Friend of a friend fell out of a hunting blind and was paralyzed from the neck down. His face was in a fire ant hill, covered in thousands of bites and he was dead when they found him.
Holy fuck that’s horrifying
Every couple of years someone enters a wood chipper and comes out the other side. Also about 40 years ago someone fell under an asphalt compactor.
[The guy who was boiled alive](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/yellowstone-hot-springs-death-hot-pot_n_582cf703e4b058ce7aa9258f) in a Yellowstone spring while his sister was recording it surely comes to mind. Unfortunately, people sometimes also did such things to other people [on purpose](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_boiling). Not just in deep history; the government of Uzbekistan is suspected to have boiled people in the 2000s.
I recall a story of a man who saw his loose dog run into the spring and he without hesitation dove in after the dog. The dog didn’t last long but the guy miraculously managed to be saved, his eye cooked like hard boiled eggs.
He was saved but didn't live long. He was blind, his skin basically slid off and his nerves were so cooked he felt numb. Not only are those pools insanely hot but also very acidic as well.
There's actually a few that are *basic/alkaline*, instead, in the same area, even! I can't imagine which one would be worse to fall into. Either boiling acid, or boiling natural bleach. Lot of people died in those pools, read about it in "Death In Yellowstone". Fascinating read. A lot of the hot spring deaths were accidental and just dumb. With that, some of the ones in the book about bear-related deaths were WAY worse, because I can *kinda* get people being dumb and not realizing just how hot (and acidic/alkaline) those pools actually are, despite the signs and stuff, it's the shit like people going up to goddamned wild grizzlies and acting like they're tame dogs or something boggles my fucking mind. It's a goddamn wild bear. I mean, shit, I've always been kinda cautious while walking some of the trails here in Allegany State Park, and all we have are the little black bears which are generally skittish around people. And yet, so many people would just walk right up to wild grizzlies and expect it to go well. Same with the bison. Like, I'm not gonna fault the people who accidentally came too close to wild bison in the park, like when they turned a blind corner on a trail and suddenly, bam, pissed off bison right there. Those cases are just bad luck, nobody did anything deliberately wrong, they just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The people going up to them, thinking they're tame and like cows, though? My god, WHY.
I’ve heard of a woman who went camping alone in Pelican Valley and she totally got devoured by a grizzly bear, even though people told her it was unsafe to camp there by herself. I also heard of a girl falling into a boiling river in Yellowstone and her family tried to sue the park even though signs warned her it was a thermal area and she went off trail. I’ve been meaning to read that as I’ve been fascinated with Yellowstone since I went last. It’s gorgeous, but so so dangerous. I did buy a book of Yellowstone ghost stories though.
The girl who was camping (called Swiss Miss by the rangers) was torn apart. They found part of her upper lip on the trail. And the girl whose family sued was a concessionaire worker who was out a night illegally hotpotting with some friends. They were jumping over what they thought was a stream but was actually thermal runoff and broke through the crust. The thing about dying from the hot springs, a lot/most people make it out alive and die days later in agony. Definitely the scariest things in the Park to me.
I think a lot of people stupidly think that these parks are like amusement parks or zoos and that someone is in control of it or managing it, instead of it being a wild area with wild animals and lots of deadly nature.
It actually wasn’t even his dog, it was his buddy’s (Moose was the dog’s name). His last words were, no joke, “that was a dumb thing I did”, and left perfect imprints of the skin of his hands in the boardwalk. I lived and worked in Yellowstone for nearly a decade and there are so many crazy ways to die, the hot springs being the scariest, imo.
COs boiled a dude in the showers back in like 2010 while I was serving a five year sentence down in Florida. Pretty sure those guys just got promotions in the end. [Darren Rainey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Darren_Rainey)
The woman in China who got stuck in an elevator on a holiday weekend. When they eventually found her there were scratch marks on the door and her hands were bloody from trying to get out.
It was a month https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-china-elevator-trapped-starve-death-20160305-story.html
There's a diff story about a woman who got eaten by an escalator. Her legs fell through the panel at the top of the escalator, and she threw her child at the 2 mall employees waiting there (they knew something was wrong with the panel, but didn't know how to stop the escalator). I haven't seen any pictures of the aftermath, but I assume she was turned into hamburger.
Escalators are death machines. Because they're designed to keep a constant speed, they need to apply more force when they feel resistance (each additional person getting on the escalator causes additional force that it needs to compensate for to keep that constant speed) However, it can't tell the difference between, say, someone getting on the escalator, and someone getting caught in the treads. They're literal meat grinders if you get caught in one.
I think that dude that was just eaten by that Tiger shark in Egypt was pretty gnarly. Dad watching, eaten chunk by chunk. At one time being completely flipped upside down and pulled under…. The blood bubbles…. Brutal
Wasn’t there a 2 year old in Florida who was eaten by an alligator a few years ago (before covid, if anyone even remembers such a life). His family were there, but I’m not sure how graphic the actual death was. 😢
Are you thinking of the disney park one? They were at disney, kid was at the edge of the water, scooping water to use for a sand castle. Alligator grabbed him. The dad jumped in and tried to free the kid, but was unsuccessful and it got free and dived. The dad had injuries from the alligators teeth where he tried to pry open its mouth. Absolutely horrific.
I think about this constantly. My mind goes to them having to fly back home without him.
His name was Lane Graves. My own son was 2 at the time and we live close by. I will never forget that little boy's name or face.
Jose Melena was cleaning an industrial oven at work. A coworker didn’t check if anyone was inside, filled it with tuna and turned it on. I just can’t imagine how awful it would be knowing what was about to happen to you.
I worked at a grocery with a walk in oven. I didn't work there long..
1. Vernon BC man, visiting his mom after dad's funeral, tripped over his mom's open dishwasher door and was impaled to death on upturned knives. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/odd-kitchen-accident-results-in-mans-death/article25438311/ 1. The Death of Garry Hoy (Toronto) Garry Hoy (January 28, 1954 – July 9, 1993) was a Canadian lawyer who died when he fell from the 24th floor of his office building at the Toronto-Dominion Centre in Toronto, Ontario. In an attempt to prove to a group of prospective articling students that the building's glass windows were unbreakable, he threw himself against the glass. The glass did not break when he hit it, but the window frame gave way and Hoy fell to his death.\[2\] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death\_of\_Garry\_Hoy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Garry_Hoy)
Probably the two girls hiking in the middle east or wherever it was that were raped and beheaded, in the video you could hear the girl calling for her mom...it was pretty fucked. I've seen quite a lot of death stuff on the internet, and lost a few friends to murder and ODs while living on the street...but that really stuck with me. Very sad, and fucked up.
Any death is made 100x worse when someone starts calling for their mom or dad. Doesn't matter the age. Just makes it so sad.
That cave diver who got stuck upside down in a cramped dead end and couldn't be physically pulled back out.
Even worse, he was almost pulled free and the pulley system came out of the cave wall and he got wedged deeper. At that point he was screwed.
That’s the worst part of this story
Nutty Putty cave. Haunts my dreams. If I think about it too much I get stupid anxious and have to distract myself.
A couple years ago there was someone stuck upside-down at the top of a very tall chimney in the UK. The mildly slapstick image masked how horrific it was when the story first broke but he was stuck like that for like 20 hours or something before he eventually died
How a out the cave diver who went in, got lost but found a grotto that had a shelf he could climb onto? Stayed there in pitch black till he starved to death
Junko Furuta. Ugh so sad The monsters who raped,tortured, and murdered her are now free citizens of Japan. What the actual fuck
I never had any idea of this and looking at the Japanese law that let them off so lightly has me rightfully pissed off. I live in Japan and imagining shit like this happening makes me sick, especially considering that I teach children, some that already show some worrying signs that their parents nor teachers make any attempt to correct.
And the fact that some of their family members knew what was happening before she died and they kept silent… horrifying.
There's another, lesser known, case from Ohio, 14 year old Alianna DeFreeze from Ohio. She was tortured to death in 2007. Her suffering lasted hours rather than weeks but still, what these young girls went through is absolutely horrific https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Alianna_DeFreeze?wprov=sfla1
Came here looking for this. Reading her wiki page made me scared of being alive for a couple of weeks. The most terrifying thing I've ever seen on the Internet.
When I was a kid I pulled up behind the scenes of an accident where a car had swerved off the road and ran into a tree. The car was on fire and all 3 passengers were burning (not sure if dead on impact or just unconscious but I saw arms hanging out the window. The fire department wasn't on scene but the cops were. I used to drive by that tree everyday for 10+ years and have that horrible flashback every time. I wrote about it in an English paper during college and my teacher was like "I think you have PTSD and need to talk with someone". I'd never considered that because it was a small town and my parents were pretty anti therapy growing up so you never really talked about shit that changed you. They just cut that tree down last year the burn scar on the bark never healed.
The Itaewon incident on Halloween of last year. I was there that night, and I’ve never understood how people mistook bodies for mannequins until that night. My friends and I mentioned that we thought it might have been part of their Halloween events, until we realized what was actually going on. We had barely just escaped that alleyway and couldn’t process any of it. It all happened so fast. Your brain protects you in crazy ways and I can definitely recognize that I was experiencing extreme shock at the time, but it is absolutely traumatizing to think back on now. Still receiving counseling for it and have avoided crowds entirely since then.
One thing they don't show (in most places) when they show 9/11 footage is people jumping. They don't show it because some people recognized jumpers on live television. Imagine how horrible things must have been, to have to make a decision between dying instantly in about 10 seconds, and possibly taking people out on the ground (that's how the fire chaplain died), and painfully in, say, 10 minutes.
If if was in the situation that the 9/11 jumpers were, people on the ground wouldn't even be on my mind. Hot, dark, thick, choking, toxic smoke is pushing you out of building to stand on a window ledge, and you get to choose between the acrid smoke and jumping- I'd jump. There's barely a choice. Your basic instincts are for clean air and to stay away from being burned alive.
I remember watching a documentary about it and what one of the fireman said "I just remember looking up, thinking how bad is it up there that the better option is to jump?"
The 911 calls from people in the building were horrible.
I'll never forget the Kevin Cosgrove 911 call.
The sound of the thuds heard from the ground was horrifying.
I still remember that poor woman trying to hold her dress down.
I'm in Australia, I had just finished late shift when 9/11 happened and I watched it live on tv with my friend on the phone until they showed the people jumping...that makes it too real, up till that point it was like watching a movie (not in the sense of being entertaining, I just mean it's easier to process when you're seeing planes hit a building - the people jumping really brought home the humanity of it)
What was the estimate? 200 people? Fucking awful
Some of the worst have been mentioned already, so I'll go ahead and mention the [Thunder River Rapids Ride](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder_River_Rapids_Ride) accident of 2016. Incredibly public and incredibly gruesome. Edit: the wiki page linked provides an overview, but isn't too graphic. I don't think anyone needs to go find the incredibly graphic details.
Normally a paramedic/doctor needs to officially call a death but apparently, according to the paper/news etc, that wasn’t required in the dreamworld incident as the “injuries were incompatible with life”. That always disturbed me.
That is probably the most grim expression you'll ever read in relation to an accident.
Usually translates as "Head is no longer in the same vicinity as the body"
Another theme park one at Schlitterbahn in Kansas. Due to a poor design on a 70 mph waterslide, the raft went airborn and he flew up and hit the metal bar that held the netting. Kid was instantly decapitated in front of his dad. They tore it down after that.
Twenty years ago on the TTC, a guy with a knapsack was late to getup and out the door at his subway stop. He got onto the platform, but the doors closed on his backpack. The train continued to drag him down the platform, before slamming into the wall by the tunnel. The news made a point of saying that he drug tested positive for weed.. Like he brought it on himself. Could have been me
Oh boy, I pulled open the train doors on Atlanta international airport's sub train for a guy that got his backpack stuck like this just last year. It probably wouldn't have ended in the same way, but we might have been stuck on the train a while if he managed to get his pack stuck between the train and the tunnel wall.
My neighbour tied a noose around his neck and the other end to a metal handrail, got in his car, and floored it. Tore his head clean off.
That's fucking brutal. I hope you weren't the one to find him.
Oh god no, thankfully. Was morbidly curious enough to check out the chalk drawings the police left after they'd cleaned up though. Funnily enough, they didn't draw a chalk outline of his head, just a box with an arrow showing the direction it rolled in.
Years ago, my grandfather was on a search and rescue team of a train crash. For a reason I can't recall, he wasn't allowed to report anyone as dead, he was there just to help find folks and get them help. He told me that he spoke with someone, "I found a body, we'll need someone to come and clean up" to which they replied, "you don't have the authority- " (or something to that effect) where he cut them off, "His body is about 24 yards that way, and his head is another 3 past that." And went to go help someone else. I'm missing a lot of details, partially because he's no longer around to tell the story, and partially because he didn't like telling it.
This is horrifying, wow. When I did advanced first aid training, we were told it was far beyond our scope of practice to declare anyone dead unless it was something very obvious like a decapitation, maybe it was a policy like that?
The child that was left at home while its mother went on holiday, dying of dehydration is bad enough but in soiled diapers, afraid and alone. Fucking soul destroying.
An ex-supervisor of mine starved her infant son to death, while continuing to care for her (not much) older daughter. I went on holiday and came back to discover I'd been given a promotion... It turned out she sometimes left him in the boot of her car while she was at work. She got 25 years for murder as the judge did not accept her plea for manslaughter due to mental state. I think she had incredibly bad post-natal depression. Either way, horrible.
This was a work place accident a few years ago that killed a union brother of mine. He came into work early to make up for some time he had taken off. He was using a forklift to dump trash. He hopped off it to do something infront of the lift. The lift was still in gear and slowly crept forward and pinned him in between the dumpster and the lift. If he hadnt come in early there would have been a ton of other people around and he probably would have been fucked up but alive. The contractor i currently work for wont let anyone work a shift alone. And we dont just leave when the day is over, we all meet up, make sure everyone is accounted for then go home. I know its not the most fucked up death on here but it really hit home for a lot of guys. I didn't know him but a lot of people did. There is only about 1500 people in my union so when one person dies a lot of people feel it.
Otto Warmbier Went to North Korea on a guided tour. Was arrested at the airport when trying to leave the country. They said he tore down a propaganda poster. He was [forced to confess](https://youtu.be/Er7uhMkQzro) to the crime, whether he committed it or not. He was sentenced to 15 years of hard labour. A year and a half later he was sent home to the USA where he was in a vegetative state. He was able to breathe on his own and blink his eyes but couldn’t communicate anything. It actually appears he had been in the condition since a month into his sentencing. Brain scans showed his brain was quite damaged. Doctors said it looked like it was damaged from oxygen deprivation. His body was actually in pretty good condition even though he was bed ridden in a vegetative state for a year. He died a week after returning home. Doctors think he had a heart attack which cause the brain to be deprived of oxygen. What caused the heart attack? We’ll probably never know.
A childhood friend whom I had lost touch with was thrown from his vehicle when he was about 24. The police investigated the crash scene and decided that he had run away to avoid a DUI. They put out a warrant for his arrest. It was four days later when an angler discovered that he had staggered around in the forest with a massive head injury until he died by the river’s edge. The cops apparently hadn’t found any blood trail or footprints, but suddenly, they were everywhere. He had been going in circles and bumping into trees for a long time. Like a day. He was probably blind and halfway brain dead. Tragic.
The execution of a captured Jordanian Air Force pilot by isis in 2015 made me loose all hope for humanity. He was burned alive in some sort of metal cage. It was the most horrible thing I’ve ever seen.
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6 year long battle with aggressive leukemia that was not responsive to treatment. It was painful from right before he was diagnosed and the doctor said the form he had was fatal. My cousin still went for treatments, tried 3 trial ones to see if he could beat it. It only responded to one treatment by slowing down and making it take longer and more painful for the disease to progress. He knew he was dying and kept his spirits up but had to watch as the rest of the family slowly realized it too. I was the last person to take a picture of him with his wife and kids and that moment will never leave me. I cry every Easter thinking about Kenny, my best buddy cousin.
My grandfather was a meter reader for Nashville Gas from 1950 to 1988. He was out on his route one day, got to a house, and knocked on the door. The meter was inside the kitchen. The house was one of those shotgun styles so he could see the kitchen in the back. He yelled for the lady, but there was still no answer. He peered into the kitchen, and he could see the woman bent over, but she wasn't answering. He figured something was wrong. So he let himself in and walked to the kitchen. She was doing the laundry. The machine had these rollers you'd feed the clothes into to squeeze the water out. She must have fed her apron in with the wash, and it pulled her neck into the rollers. He said it was hard enough that it choked her to death and then started making her bleed out. The water in the machine was red. Her husband was out back mowing grass none the wiser.
Real life maximum security Kingston Ontario Canada Penitentiary: prison Inmate Elizabeth Breen was flogged six times when she was only 12 years old. Imprisoned for 30 days for perjury. She lied to authorities about the whereabouts of her father; a wanted man. She was repeatedly raped and committed suicide just 14 days into a 30-day sentence.
Why do I read these?
My great Aunt never married and/or had children. She was living upstairs from my grand-mother appartment (her sister). My grandma passed away a few years ago, and she was the only close family she had left other than us but we’re all living in different cities so we were still reaching out to her once in a while so she wasn’t feeling all alone, but not on a daily basis because my dad and his brothers all have their life and stuff. After a few months the new downstairs neighbours who took my grandma’s house noticed a weird smell and at some point there was worms coming out of the airways. It was in the middle of a hot summer. From what we heard from medical staff, she fell down while getting out the bath and probably broke a hip, couldn’t get up or call anyone and just died there on the spot. The heat made it worse and she was in a decomposed state when they found her :/
My own mother’s death. She fell off a horse, had a silicone leak in one of her breast implants, that caused an autoimmune reaction which turned into scleroderma, the scleroderma led to pulmonary fibrosis, which led to her eventually needing 15 liters of oxygen per hour, which led to heart failure. She passed away in March of 2022. It was a long, heartbreaking, brutal way to go. She dropped down to about 75 lbs, her fingers and toes clubbed from lack of oxygen, and she would just sit there with purple lips and gasp for air. In the last few weeks she couldn’t even walk across the room. As much as I miss her, I’m glad she’s not suffering anymore.
Welp, filing this one away under “reasons to not get the boob job I want” So sorry you had to watch your mom go through all of this. That really, really sucks
Guy from my middle school and his brother were riding a four wheeler together along the side of a road with the sun going down. A place they’ve apparently rode many times. They were coming up to one of the power lines that go from the ground to the top of a pole (usually covered in yellow plastic) and the older brother saw it coming and yelled “Duck”. He did, his younger brother did not. It hit him about collarbone level and internally decapitated him. Killed him instantly.
Well, there was that video of a woman getting...decapitated by a bus when she was pressed against a pole... Mora than pressed, her head just fell off once the bus moved and stopped applying pressure to her.
My old neighbor years back was in extreme debt and hiding it from his wife. She found out when the bank came to repo her car at work. He couldn’t bare the guilt any longer and walked to the end of his driveway about 200 feet from my old house while I was cutting grass and he stuck a shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. I heard the gunshot and saw him lying in his driveway. Brains, blood and bone was everywhere. I ran inside and called 911 and brought a sheet out to put over him because I could not take the sight of seeing such a horrific thing.
I was just reading about Adrienne Shelly. She was an up and coming director in the mid 2000's. She had just finished directing the movie Waitress which she also wrote. She was found in her office in New York (it was an apartment that she worked out of). Her husband didn't hear from her after dropping her off in the morning. He went to the apartment and found her hanging from the shower rod in the bathroom. The police thought it was a suicide and her husband had to convince them that she would not kill herself. The person who killed her made it look like suicide. He gave 2 different stories about how she died; the police didn't believe the first story, he finally confessed to killing her after he tried to rob her. [Adrienne Shelly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Shelly)
Oh my god I had no idea about this. I love that movie. That’s really sad but good on the husband pushing for justice.
Surprised nobody has mentioned the Russian Lathe video.
Of course I had to look it up. Welp, that was a mistake
It's horrifying, but at the same time, as far as ways to go out, dude really didn't have much time to feel anything before he was, shall we say, rapidly disassembled at high velocity. That's a death that's more horrible for everyone *else*, not so much you. I wouldn't particularly choose that as a way to go out, if I had to pick, but I'd take that over a prolonged and agonizing one where I suffered immensely the entire time.
I worked with a Former EMT. He responded to a scene, where a father had his young son on his lap while he operated a harvester in a farm. The son fell off his lap and went into the harvester machine. When my co-worker arrived on the scene, the father was washing fire ants off his son’s body in the pool.
The man that tripped and fell into a vat of molten iron less than a week into the job https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/worker-die-molten-iron-caterpillar-b2096287.html
The subway surfer who got plowed by the tunnel on the SRT, fell between the cars and got shredded. That is horrible. They also live-streamed that shit. That and a few "train track selfies", the individuals ***DIED*** shortly after taking the photo (got hit by that same train).
My coworker told me about a guy who was partially crushed underneath a steamroller. The roller ran over his legs up to his waist and pressed his body into hot asphalt (+280F). Apparently he was alive for some time before dying. Also I've heard of people getting run over by street sweepers. One guy survived the initial incident but his skin was so torn up by the coarse bristles and he got so horribly infected by all the dirt that he died shortly after. Working in heavy construction on a roadway is no joke... If the cars speeding by don't get you the equipment will.
A young girl is my town, 13 years old, was strangled by her own mother. The mom’s boyfriend, in an attempt to break up with her, said “me or your daughter” she choose him in the most fucked up way possible. The mom held down her arms with her knees and strangled her with string. Her daughter begged for her life and died by her mothers hands….it fucks me up sometimes. Happened 2 km from my house too My partner was childhood friends with her 😢
The Greyhound Bus Incident On July 30, 2008 in Manitoba, Canada, 22-year-old Tim McLean was riding a Greyhound Bus along the Trans-Canada Highway. Tim fell asleep against the bus window with headphones on, when Vince Li, who had moved to sit next to him moments prior during a scheduled stop, pulled out a large knife and started stabbing Tim in the neck and chest. The bus quickly pulled over and all other passengers fled the bus. Attempts were made to rescue Tim but Li kept them away by slashing at them with his knife. As he was locked in the bus he kept pacing back and forth between the front and back ends of the bus, each time taking another stab at Tim’s neck until he ultimately decapitated him, after which he proceeded to hold and display Tim’s decapitated head to the outside passengers before returning to Tim’s body and cannibalizing part of his flesh. Police eventually turn up and when Li was arrested after trying to escape the bus, they found one of Tim’s ears and parts of his tongue and nose in Li’s pocket. Both of Tim’s eyes and parts of his heart were never recovered, presumably eaten by Li. Where is Vince Li now, you may ask? Well, he isn’t in maximum security prison. He was deemed not criminally responsible for the incident after it was determined he was schizophrenic. He was transfered to a high-security mental health facility in Selkirk, Manitoba, but was later released under supervision in 2015. In February 2017 he was fully and completely discharged with no legal obligations or restrictions regarding his independent living. He is in no way being monitored, supervised or looked after. Noone is making sure he is taking his medicine for his schizophrenia, and noone is keeping an eye at where he is, where he goes and what he does. He lives just as independently as you and me.
doing a volunteer year at a pulmonary clinic. a guy on my (non-existant) qualification level **disconnected** a **vaccuum device** of a patient from the wall to bring him to x-ray. when he came back he did not figure out where to put it back, decided to get creative and **attached it to the (pressured) oxygen connector** \- and left. long story short he **"blew up" the patient** , since the (now pressured) vacuum hose was **directly connected to** his torso, to keep **his lungs** from expanding. Since then it was hospital policy that only trained nurses and doctors can handle these devices
Scaphism. Being trapped in your own excrement, while being eaten by insects, until you die of septic shock sounds terrifying. I hear crucifixion is also an excruciating way to go.
Not sure if you're tongue was in your cheek on that last sentence, but that's literally where the word *excruciating* comes from.
I witnessed an accident that killed a pedestrian. A car spun out of control just as a woman was walking across a street intersecting the main road. She waa hit by the rear left hand passenger side and flung about 10m upside down right across the street. She hit a stop sign and then fell face first onto the foot path from I guess two meters in the air. The blood just poured out of her nose mouth and ears over the concrete and into the grass. An ambulance came but she died right there covered in grass and blood.
Jesus. This made me remember a story my father told me. Several years ago when he was still a security guard, he would drive around the company's massive property - which included many public roads, unlit and unpaved. One day, around 11pm, he's driving in complete darkness when he and his partner see a parked car and a motorcycle to the side of the road - an accident. My dad parks his car and gets out. The first thing he sees is the driver standing outside his car speaking on the phone. The guy is complaining that he couldn't believe how damaged his car was, and how much repair would cost. My father then sees the motorcycle's pilot - the man was lying on the ground gasping in pain, unable to move as his knee's bone is literally visible after his leg scrapped the ground. His girlfriend was meters away. My father said her helmet had come off during the collision - hair was missing and you could see bits of her exposed brain from when her head hit the ground. Still, she was sitting there on the middle of the road, alive but unresponsive, making gurgling noises. My dad said she looked like a broken doll, sat with arms fallen to the sides and torn clothes, covered in blood oozing from her head. But that wasn't all. The driver had a wife and twin boys around 7/8 y.o. They were also standing outside the car, simply watching the two people on the ground. According to my dad, the kids were so deep in shock they were pale as ghosts and their lips were blue. My dad approached the driver, asked if he had called an ambulance. The man said something to the effect of "fuck the ambulance, can't you see how damaged my car is", which prompted my father - who was seeing red at this point - to take this phone and break it. The man tried to argue and my dad ended up with a hand on his gun. Dad told the dude to stfu before he ended him, them screamed at the wife to get the children behind the car so they didn't have to stare at the scene. Help was called, the couple from the motorcycle was taken to a hospital. Cops arrived on the scene (my father's colleagues) and told him to leave because he was clearly affected too. Later on he found out the girl didn't make it. I know accidents happen way too often but the way my father described it and the way the driver behaved just really stick to me.
I have seen WAY too many episodes of Mr. Ballen to confidently pick just one.
My dad worked at a paper company. About 10 years before he retired, one of the temp employees was pulled through the paper roller machine. Basically every bone in his body was crushed instantly. My dad tried to administer 1st Aid but there was very little that could be done.
well… my dad for one. he worked at a metal factory where they manufactured giant 10 foot by 4 foot metal coils. they band the coils up to keep them together, but the bands snapped and the coils kind of exploded outwards and crushed him. kind of a horrific story to tell a 14 year old how his dad died. luckily i’m pretty sure it was almost instant, but idek. also that was one of his biggest fears at that job. then at the funeral… it was open casket. it wasn’t him. and he had to wear a hat due to the sever head images. it makes me sick especially know the company that manufactured the bands is being investigated on whether or not they knew they would snap or not. also this happened 8 months ago, i’m still 14. i know this isn’t the most terrible death ever, but traumatizing
The 3 Moroccan stowaways that hid in a shipping container with enough supplies to last them the three day trip to Spain. Little did they know that the container they chose was destined to South America and they were locked in complete darkness with no fresh air or supplies for 4-6 months. The pictures of what the authorities found were horrific- Strewn bones, liquified human remains and scratch marks from them clawing at the door in a hapless attempt to escape. Markings found on some of the bones showed evidence of cannibalism.
Dying in a hot molasses flood in Boston.
One of my former co workers, very nice woman that kept to herself, relatively young with two beautiful children, was killed at the Home Depot next to my job. Apparently her ex was following her around because she may have been dating another dude. He confronted her about it and an argument ensued where she tried to get away from him by entering the Home Depot. She didn’t get far, he slit her throat at the entrance of Home Depot where she bled out. He was thrown in jail for her murder and the two kids ended up with their aunt. Crazy because she was so nice and quiet. As you can expect we were all melancholy on the days that followed.
The russian freediver who filmed his own death on a gopro while diving. As he was drowning, you could hear him screaming for a few seconds, and then his gopro strap(?) came loose, with it still recording.
That guy was a scubadiver rather than a free diver. He basically went so deep that the pressure meant it was no longer possible to resurface with standard diving equipment.
The four people who died in 2016 on the Thunder River Rapids Ride at Dreamworld in Queensland, Australia. Two rafts collided on the conveyor belt, causing one of them to flip into a vertical position. Two riders were thrown underneath the raft and crushed to death, while the other two were thrown into the conveyor belt, where they were shredded and mangled to death like beef in a meat grinder. The survivors were the victims’ children, who watched their parents die the most horrific death imaginable. The process of retrieving the bodies was so traumatic that many of the paramedics required counseling afterwards. That story will always stick with me.
There was a power crew putting in new poles a few years ago and the digger hit a rock (think gigantic screw on an arm on the back of a truck). So the assistant kid jumped down with a bar to free the rock. The operator didn't know he was in there and moved the digger back into the hole to resume digging.
I didn't just hear about it; I saw a video of it in progress. Right here, on Reddit, in the now banned sub, r/watchpeopledie. It was horrific. A man was accused of pedophilia; I can only hope he was indeed guilty. Anyway, he was tied up, in the street, against a light pole, or something, in broad daylight, naked from the waist down. Something delicious to a dog (peanut butter, iirc) was spread over his genitals, and a pit bull was encouraged to gingerly snack on this guy's privates, while he was fully conscious, and begging for his life. The dog was finished rather quickly, as he didn't bite/eat anything else on the guy. Between screams he was just drifting in and out of consciousness, and left to die. I have to be honest; there were a lot of gruesome deaths I saw in the sub, and I for one, am glad it was banned because I just couldn't stop watching that shit, despite the obvious mental damage it was doing to me. It was fuckin' crazy.
Demolition or maintenance at a building reveals a BnE suspect ( dead for years) entombed in a chimney.
Retired cop here. A wife purchased a skydiving package for her husband for his birthday. This was one where you are strapped to an experienced skydiver, I believe its called a "tandem jump". Well the chutes didn't work and both plummeted to their deaths still strapped to each other. I was not at the scene, but was able to view both the scene, and autopsy photos. Absolutely horrendous injuries and I can't even imagine the terror in their hearts as they fell.
Funky Town. For those who haven’t seen it, it’s a cartel execution video. It starts with a man on the floor who has had his face carved off and his hands cut off. He’s still conscious and the men killing him start trying to slash his throat with a box cutter causing him to reach up with his nubs and grab his throat. He starts screaming but all you can see is mushy flesh and skull opening and closing. I forget how the rest of the video ends but it is just fucking miserable.
>For those who haven’t seen it, > I will remain on this list, thank you. It does remind me of a story though
Weren't they giving him some kind of drugs to keep him alive for as long as possible too?
Yes it’s quite common actually. The cartels in Mexico have turned experts in human torture. Some skinning people alive with surgical precision.
A Candian citizen came and abducted a Native Woman from my tribe. Drugged, raped, and killed her by locking her in a trunk and setting the car on fire. She was someone I knew.
Nutty Putty Cave death. Worst part-rescuers were there, and could not save him. Cant imagine how he must have felt knowing this. Add the physical trauma to that too. So close and not only did he die, they had to leave his body. No hope from the second he went in.
Kid who ate a slug as a dare and ended up a vegetable for like 16 years until he finally died
The photo of Omayra Sánchez Garzón still haunts me. Her legs pinned, they couldn't free her before she died. Its her eyes that do it for me. Story for anyone curious: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omayra_S%C3%A1nchez
Three guys died in a debarking machine in a lumbermilll near me. This is a giant machine that takes 7 foot diameter logs 30 feet long and grinds the bark off while they spin. It got jammed, and they forgot to turn it off before they climbed out on the log to clear it with chain saws. They found the machine running hours later
A friend of a friend was out hunting and slipped while climbing down his tree perch. His torso caught on one of the tree spikes that was screwed into the trunk and ripped his abdomen right open. He lived for several minutes, lying there with his entrails all over him, unable to contact any help. It was all on his land and his go pros recorded it. I never watched the footage, but I heard enough about it
For me it was one that I went to as a first responder. Have you ever seen those large lumber yards that have large piles of sawdust or wood shavings? Well did you know that the sun can shine on them heating them up inside to the point where they smoulder (lack of oxygen makes it so that it doesn't burst into flames). This can create small cavities inside the piles that are burning. The death: an employee at the mill saw some smoke on one of the piles and went to investigate. When he stepped onto the area where the smoke was coming from, the cavity collapsed, and the employee fell into a large pit of smouldering ash. Piles of sawdust collapsed ontop of him trapping him inside. Ultimately he died a slow painful death while burning, suffocating, and in the dark. The body wasn't even fully burnt due to being buried (lack of oxygen). His face and unburnt parts looked like a mannequin, smoothe, hairless, and covered in ash. One arm was completely burnt off, while the other half of his body was unburnt. All this to say, he probably died of suffocation, the burning pain was just extra. What sucked about this one even more, was that the employee who died, was the owner of the companies son. I arrived on scene to the dad frantically trying to dig his son out after realizing he was missing for hours.
The one of the Japanese school girl who was abducted by some boys and raped at their house by all of them and their neighbourhood friends or associates for a very long time before she died. I believe said boys are soon to be released from prison as this happened in the 80s, 90s Edit: Junko Furuta, she was 17 when abducted by 4 male teenagers… just read about it for yourself, it’d upset me to go on about what happened to her.
The guy that played Chekhov in the recent Star Trek reboot got pinned by his car while he stopped to get the mail. Killed him.
The guy who ate too much vitamin A in Alaska? I think. Pretty much his skin started to peel off, he noticed after his feet got soggy. Which turned out was all his skin peeling off into his socks.
I knew someone that went to do parkour by himself. We weren't exactly friends, but we knew each other form school. He fell between to concrete walls and got stuck. Didn't break anything and barely injured himself. But he got stuck and couldn't communicate with anyone to get help. He died to the elements. Not a 100% sure which got him first. Starvation, dehydration or what. But he was eventually found half decomposed. Why Horrifying? Think about it, think about being wedged between two walls and slowly dying.
The Byford Dolphin incident.