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Weird Deaths

Heraclitus of Ephesus: The Philosopher Eaten Alive by Dogs While Immobilized in a Cow Dung Body Cast
Deaths You’ll Go to Hell For Laughing At: Franz Reichelt’s Leap From the Eiffel Tower
Leslie Harvey: The Rocker Electrocuted to Death Live Onstage
Sigurd the Mighty: The Viking Killed by a Dead Enemy
The Office Safe That Killed Whiskey Distiller Jack Daniel
Chin Shi Huangdi’s Death: The Emperor Who Poisoned Himself Seeking Immortality Drugs
The Hammersmith Ghost Hysteria: A Public Panic that Led to a Landmark Murder Case
Arrhichion of Phigalia: The Ancient Athlete Who Was Crowned Olympic Champion Despite Being Dead
The Great Molasses Flood: When Boston Was Engulfed in a Sticky Tsunami
Zeuxis, the Ancient Greek Painter Who Laughed Himself to Death
George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence: The Royal Executed by Drowning in a Barrel of Wine
Saint Lawrence, Patron Saint of Comedians, Cracked Jokes During His Execution
The Erfurt Latrine Disaster: When Dozens of Aristocrats Were Drowned in Excrement
Deaths You’ll Go to Hell for Laughing At – Alexander of Greece, the King Killed by a Monkey
Ferrante I: The King Who Displayed His Mummified Enemies in an Exhibit
Shanfara: The Vengeful Bandit-Poet Who Continued to Kill Enemies After His Death
Medieval Dance Plagues: When Communities Went Dance-Crazy, and Hundreds Danced to Death
Weird Deaths: Actor Albert Dekker’s Extraordinarily Bizarre Demise
Politicians Who Couldn’t Keep it In Their Pants: Nelson A. Rockefeller Passed Away Getting it On With a Mistress
The Horrible Hun: Attila, ‘The Scourge of God’
Deaths You’ll Go to Hell for Laughing At: Aeschylus, ‘The Father of Tragedy’, and His Tragicomic Demise
Cases That Shocked America: The Skidmore Bully’s Shocking End
Politicians Who Couldn’t Keep it In Their Pants: Felix Faure, the President Who Passed Away While Getting it On
Deaths You’ll Go to Hell for Laughing At – Kichizo Ishida Thought His Mistress’ Repeated Attempts to Murder Him Were Foreplay
Politicians Who Couldn’t Keep it In Their Pants: British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston Passed Away While Getting it on With a Maid
The Men Who Made and Unmade the Roman Republic: Crassus, Rome’s Richest Man
General John Sedgwick Might Have Uttered the Most Unfortunate Last Words of the US Civil War
Deaths You’ll Go to Hell for Laughing At: Adolf Frederick, the Gluttonous King Who Ate Himself to Death
Chrysippus, the Ancient Greek Philosopher Who Laughed Himself to Death
Deaths You’ll Go to Hell for Laughing At: Gary Hoy, a Lawyer With an Unhealthy Fixation on High Rise Window Strength
Deaths You’ll Got to Hell for Laughing At: Clement Vallandigham, the Lawyer Who Accidentally Shot Himself in a Courtroom
Deaths You’ll Go to Hell for Laughing At: Catherine the Great’s Awkward Demise