“This Is Actually A Horrendously Common”: 80 People Whose Lives Ended In Weird And Disturbing Ways

Irwindale, Ca.- My brother watched a man at his quarry fall into their pit lake. He couldn't swim. A co-worker jumped in to save him, but they both drowned. Very sad.

An uncle slipped on the ice on a driveway. Hit his head and died soon after.

Fell through a skylight. He was 12.

The paper published a picture of the skylight with part of his footprint.

My great uncle Hans was initially from Switzerland. Him and all his brothers moved away from Switzerland in their 20s in order to avoid mandatory military conscription.

He ended up moving to South Africa.

While there, he met a woman from Angola that he absolutely loved, and who loved him deeply in return. He agreed to move out to her family farm in Mozambique. Unfortunately, his wife contracted cancer in the early 2010s and she died.

After her death, the rest of her extended family showed up at the farm and completely ransacked it. They took absolutely everything and left my uncle, an old man at this point, out in the middle of nowhere. Mozambican authorities didn’t find his body until 2 weeks later.

My friend died because his television fell on him.

Dude fell into a vat of chocolate. Death by chocolate.

Chainsaw to the neck, arborist.

A kid in my high school had his car up on ramp jacks when he was laying flat on the driveway working underneath it. It somehow rolled off the ramps and one of the tires rolled directly onto and over his head.

Drowned in a barrell of water. He was an old guy, nobody home. People assume he bended over it and couldn't get himself up.

Flu, while in hospital went septic. Died day before Xmas 2012. Miss ya Colby... 9s.

She got kicked in the head by a horse. Well nobody actually knew what happened for sure but she was found in the field after turning her horse out.
The irony was that she'd previously had a very highly strung stallion and had sold him because he was too much for her and she then bought a much quieter and safer mare. She'd only had the new horse for 2 weeks and it k****d her.

I went to India in high school to “preach the gospel” and anyway the pastor there had 3 small children and a wife who would make our food every day. I probably still have pictures somewhere. When they were older like…about teenagers he sent them to live in the US. I can’t remember which state.

All 3 kids were staying with an American family that was parents and their one or two kids. One night the fireplace caught the Christmas tree on fire. The house burnt up. The entire American family made it out alive and all three Indian kids died.

The mother has obviously never been the same since. She basically went comatose, just repeating their names over and over. I cannot imagine.

Manager I worked with went home one weekend, didn't show up the following week.

Tree fell on him and he died. I started laughing when someone told me because I thought they were joking. They were not.

A kid I went to school with died when he was skidooing and ran into one of those diagonal utility cables that attaches to the ground on an angle. It was missing the yellow plastic warning tube and because it was night time, it was practically invisible. A week before, a friend of mine was walking his girlfriend home and ran right into it and got injured.

My grandpa died flying his own 2 seater airplane. He was a pilot for decades and would go flying every day. That one day the engine stalled and he was over canyon land and couldn’t land safely. I have melted aluminum from the crash site I picked up.

A coworker i used to drink with after shifts at a restaurant, he was one of the most charismatic dudes ive ever met. guys loved him, girls loved him, he was just super cool and charming. its not that crazy at all really but one night he got home after a night of drinking, the house was locked so he just crashed out on the deck, and didnt wake up the next morning. froze to death on a not particularly cold night in virginia because he couldnt get inside his house. a strong, healthy 22 or so year old, not a frail old geriatric.

We had some really amazing neighbors. Their kids and ours were roughly the same age, walked to each others’ houses to play all the time. They went to the beach for the dad’s birthday, out on their boat, which they did all the time. They apparently spent all day jumping off the boat with their friends. Then the dad jumped in just a a wave went by, and it broke his neck. He didn’t hit the bottom or anything, it was just the angle of the wave. Died right there in front of his friends, wife, and kids. Absolutely devastating.

1 - Guy tripped and fell into an auger drill bit "spudding in" an oil well.

2 - Guy was on a carrier flight deck when an F-14 Tomcat nudged his throttle to taxi forward. It blew him back behind another F-14 on the catapult as it went to afterburner for the catapult shot. That blew him into the JBD (Jet Blast Deflector) and he caromed off into the ocean.

Several years ago... North Dakota oil fields. Guy was standing outside next to some large semi trucks with trailers. Someone backed over him with one of the trailers... he didn't see it coming. Died on scene.

I visited a remote island in Alaska where we were working for an indigenous group. They had a woman who was working as a teacher at their school and she was from Manhattan. She used to jog up the hills after work and come back around dusk. Everyone warned her that there are wolves out there but she wouldn’t listen. She thought they were messing with the city woman. The one night she didn’t come home and they went looking for her. Of course the wolves had gotten to her and there wasn’t much left.