re: What Is The Most Bizarre Death You’ve Ever Heard Of?

I believe there was a concert goer in Chicago that died on a CTA track. Story was he walked on the tracks to get a selfie and made contact with the electrified third rail.

Contractor at alliance in port sulphur a few years back slipped into the cooling water tank and got sucked into the piping. Still blows my mind. Wasn’t there but heard about it

A fishing guide I knew I North Arkansas was driving across the Norfork lake dam in a convertible went over the edge and into the river below. They found water in his lungs when they recovered his body.

I never want to visit Mexico after this story.

A man who either fell or jumped off the roof of his moving Mercedes-Benz in Scottsdale has been identified as an acclaimed chief financial officer for Phoenix whose struggles with a parasite might have caused his behavior Wednesday.

contracted the illness a couple of years ago while on vacation in Mexico and his wife, Karlene, told city officials "she believes the parasite impaired his frontal lobe inhibition, said Toni Maccarone, a Phoenix spokeswoman.

Witnesses told police the car was going about 40 mph when he got on the roof. Wednesday, police said the car was traveling 50 mph.

They found a man dead in his dorm closet at Texas A&M about 20 years ago. It was later discovered that he was the reigning champion of Hide and Seek. He died a winner lol. Fyi: Not a true story.

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What Is The Most Bizarre Death You’ve Ever Heard Of?

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The death of Elisa Lam was pretty bizarre. There is a whole show about it. She was a young, Canadian tourist who went missing from the Hotel Cecil in Downtown LA back in 2013. Body turned up weeks later inside the water tank on the roof of the hotel after maintenance received complaints of low water pressure in the building. Cause of death? Accidental drowning. Too many weird circumstances to list here…but the oddness of it plus the creep factor of people in the hotel unknowingly drinking corpse water for 3 weeks makes this a top tier bizarre death in my book.

In late 83 while working at a Chemical plant in Geismar I witnessed a plant operated boil himself by opening a steam valve too fast into a column filled with hot water. The job was nearing its end and the plant was taking over completed systems , cleaning them by steaming , and getting them ready to go into service . This particular steam loop was not complete to this column so he opened the steam to the column manually, then climbed up onto the scaffolding to look into a man way. Steam went in too fast, water in column belched out the top and covered his entire body with scalding water. The only part of his body that wasn’t burnt was under his hard hat.

When a coworker and I got him to a safety shower and tried to rinse and cool him all his skin sluffed off his body. He died about 3 days later due to pneumonia.