1. Killed by a mouse
The story refers back to 1875 in England, when a mouse
showed off on a work table in a south London factory and got seized by a brave
young man. However the mouse could shortly slip out of his hand and ran up his
sleeves. Surprisingly, the man’s mouth was agape, and this made the mouse to
jump in and shockingly the man swallowed the mouse!
You may have heard that a mouse can exist for a time without
much air. However, this idea became unfortunately real in this story and the
mouse tore and bit the poor young man’s throat and chest. As a result, the man
died after a little time in a harsh pain.
2. Died by his own invention
In mid-1880s in New York town, Sam Wardell was a lamplighter
who could not oversleep. Due to his job, every evening he had to light up the
streetlights and make sure to wake up again at dawn and put them all out.
As Sam was a genius and creative man, he decided to connect
an alarm clock, using a wire, to a catch he equipped to a shelf in his room and
placed a 10lb stone on the shelf. So when the alarm hits, the shelf will fall
and the stone will crash on the floor.
Wardell’s invention was working just fine and there was
nothing wrong with it. One Christmas Eve, Sam invited his friend for a
gathering, moved his room’s furnished to make some more space. When the guests
left the party, Sam was so tired and didn’t realize where he is sleeping. The
next morning, as usual, the alarm struck, the shelf fell and the stone crushed
onto his inventors head.
3. Killed by a casket
Around 1872, Henry Taylor and some more people were carrying
a pall through a funeral in London Kensal Green Cemetery. Suddenly he caught
his feet on a stone and fell down. The rest of the people who could not handle
the pall, let the casket go and it fell on Henry’s head.
4. Killed by eating her own hair
In 1869, A 30 years old patient died due to an unknown sever
illness. The doctors were all confused and could not find out what was the
reason of her illness. After the lady died, they got the permission to do a
post-mortem. The discovered cause-of-death could never be imagined from the
doctors. After they open the lady’s stomach, they found out a two pounds
weighing lump made up of a human hair. Later, a sister said the dead lady, used
to eat her own hair since twelve year ago.
5. Killed as a zombie
In the middle of a funeral in a Russian village, it was a
horrible and unexpected happening when the lid of a casket lifted and the
corpse came out. The priest and everybody were scared and ran to their houses,
closing their doors and protecting themselves from the walking corpse.
Suddenly, the priest found out that the angry corpse was actually a coma
patient who regained his consciousness. So, he quickly tried to inform the rest
of the people arming themselves with guns and stakes preparing for an exorcism,
but it was too late. When the priest reached the scene, the zombie had been
successfully returned to the other side and the body thrown into a marsh.
6. Torn to pieces by cats
In 1870 in Iran, there was a rich woman having an unusual
but cheerful life with so many cats. As the number of her cats became more and
more, her friends and contacts became less and less. People where kind of
frightful to visit her. But she passing her days happily and in a agreeable if
malodorous blur of purrs.
One day, her house caught on a breaking fire and trapped the
cats behind a door. The woman send two maid to open the door and set the cats
free, but the fire was driving the beasts crazy. Once the maid opened the door,
the cats flew at the poor maids, scratching, biting and tearing them badly. The
injuries were so sever and killed both of them.
7. Killed by a drunken bear
In 1891, in Russia, there was a man keeping a large bear but
tame. The only bad thing about this bear was his interest for drinking vodka.
One day the bear went to the village tavern and took a keg vodka. The owner of
the tavern got noticed and tried to take the vodka back. This was his biggest
mistake, which resulted in his death by the beast. After the tavern keeper, the
bear killed his two sons and daughter too. When the villagers found the bear,
it was sleeping on the group in a pool of blood and alcohol. The villagers shot
the bear and killed it immediately.
8. Laughed to death
In 1893, in India, a farmer called Wesley Parsons was joking
his friend with his own deadly gag and was seized by fits of uncountainable
laughter and he couldn’t stop. He kept laughing for an hour and started
hiccupping. In two hours he died from weariness.
Reference:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25340525
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