Posts tagged
‘strange deaths’

Death by Owl A young wife is scared to death by an owl that had been following her.

Killed by a Corpse Throttled, shot, and crushed by a corpse.

Death by Owl For “Owl Appreciation Day,” a story of a taloned Angel of Death.

A shocking catalog of deaths by hair: mustache murder, dis-tress-ing suicides, hair-ball fatalities, cats and rats and poisonous hair dyes.

Death by a wild hair?

Father’s Ghost Fetches the Dying For Fathers Day weekend, a father’s ghost bears away two family members.

A collection of subtle tales of indirect poisonings: from a cow’s paunch to dried peaches–some unlikely cases of toxicity.

Inventive Deaths: How to Die in a Better Mousetrap Inventors often seem a hapless lot. If they aren’t being blown up by their own patented explosive shells, they hang themselves from their own perpetual motion machines or are found wandering the streets of great cities, hopelessly insane when their creations fail to make them rich….A look at obscure inventors—mostly Americans–who died at the hands of their better mousetraps.

Ghost Fires and Melting Masks: The Macabre Mirth of the Vintage Hallowe’en A boy is crushed during a Halloween out-house tipping; blinded by a Halloween mask, a girl drives into the path of a train; a child is killed by a falling pumpkin. Halloween has always been an inherently dark, dangerous, and unwholesome holiday. Let’s look at some vintage Halloween horrors involving ghost fires, poisoned cats, and lethal masks.