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“Hell Of An Exit”: 36 Stories Of People Who Met The Most Unbelievable Ends
Most of us are aware that when it comes to mortality, heart disease tends to be the number one threat. It’s both a testament to medical advancements and to our own shortsighted dietary choices. But that doesn’t mean that the world isn’t sometimes morbidly creative.
Someone asked netizens to share the worst freak accidents they know of and the internet delivered. Be warned, some of these are dark and might give you a bit of paranoia for a while. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your thoughts in the comments down below.
Discover more in “Hell Of An Exit”: 44 Stories Of People Who Met The Most Unbelievable Ends
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#1
Put a golf ball in the microwave to see what would happen, was k****d by the shrapnel when it exploded.
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#2
When I was in high school, a guy I knew rolled his truck while he was doing farm work. I guess it's common for them to put the truck in drive (or first gear) and just let it roll while they move sprinkler lines. Anyway, they had a steep ravine on one side of their farm. His girlfriend was in the passenger seat, buckled up, when he realized he'd let it roll too far, so he ran back to the truck and tried to hit the brake.
He was too late. He was halfway in the driver's seat when the truck went over the edge, rolling several times. He was squished. His girlfriend not only survived, but she said she never lost consciousness at any point. She witnessed him getting crunched by the truck.
#3
Valedictorian of my high school graduating class, got a full ride to Harvard. Traveled the world as a teacher/executive assistant with the Fulbright Program, and was living in Washington DC going to law school at George Washington University. Most brilliant mind I've ever known, by a country mile. Absolutely would have had a future in politics.
He was out at dinner with his parents one night, stopped speaking mid-sentence, put his hands by his throat for a couple seconds like he was choking, then collapsed. He was out before he hit the ground. Sudden cardiac arrest with no prior history of cardiovascular issues. 27 years old.
(This was YEARS before COVID, before any of you "VaXxEd?" clowns get any ideas).
#4
He jumped off a 16th floor hotel balcony trying to land in the pool. He landed in the pool but still died because, well, you can't do that.
#5
Midtown Manhattan. Coworker was stepping into an elevator and the doors closed on her leg and elevator car shot upward dragging her body into the very small space between the elevator shaft and the elevator car. The people who were in the elevator with her leg needed psychological help after seeing that. The elevator was under maintenance and the workers didn’t close it off for whatever reason. Really awful. She was a really nice person.
#6
One floodstormy holiday weekend, the next door neighbor boys and their friend were walking home from a restaurant where they'd just eaten. Instead of walking along the street bridge overpass, they chose to go down to the rushing flooded creek underneath. The friend lost his footing and slipped in as the neighbors watched him get carried off. He was found less than a quarter-mile downstream.
Floods are no joke, people! No matter how good a swimmer you think you are, you're *not* strong enough!
#7
My great great grandfather died in the Hawrick mine explosion in Pittsburgh and my grandma told me the story. I freaking mule got blasted up from the mines and flew like 200 feet, and fell on top of him. He died on a hospital train.
#8
My grand-mother was k****d by a goat.
Her goat.
She went in the garden to feed it on the morning and the goat charged her. She fell on the ground and spent all day on the cold ground, unable to get up. She was rescued on the evening and was so fragile that she didn't survive the emergency surgery she needed for her injuries.
:(.
#9
About 20 yrs ago group of teenagers went on an end of school celebration. They went sailboating at the beach. Boy fell off directly on to a tiger shark and was bitten in half. I'd been there a week earlier doing the exact same thing. North Queensland, Australia.
#10
My auntie died while gardening from a bee sting to the neck, she wasn't allergic but the swelling closed her airways so she suffocated while living alone in the middle of nowhere.
#12
There was a teenager in the town I grew up in. He was messing around with a friend down a lane near his home..
They were standing on a railway bridge, this kid picked up a coil of discarded wire and was whipping it at a cloud of midges. The wire unravelled and went over the side of the railway bridge, straight onto the overhead power lines.
#13
Uncle of a friend.
He owned a crocodile farm. There was this small cliff with a waterfall, and he was standing at the top trying to cut down a tree. He slipped and fell straight into the water below. The crocs were on him instantly.
#14
Hoping his family doesn’t read this, because it’s horrible.
Every day after school a group of high school kids went to the park to hang out, play frisbee, listen to music, do kid stuff.
One of the things they did was hang a hammock inside the pavilion. This happened pretty much every time.
This day though, the table moved slightly as he stood on it, and he lost his balance. When he fell, he landed on his back and the base of his skull landed squarely on a rock.
He died instantly. He was 17.
#15
I was on the bus that ran over a child head first. That double bump thud will never leave me...
#16
My oldest brother's multi-year college roommate. He had this long obsession with Niagara Falls. He really wanted to go over the falls in a barrel. He did, though he didn't survive.
#17
My cousin, when I was around 5 and she was 3. She was my best friend at that time, I witnessed her getting run over by a truck driven by my own mother. It was entirely an accident, but that’s the worst I’ve known personally besides my father who passed away a day after his wedding. Too drunk to get up when the trailer caught fire.
#18
I was playing in a band when a helicopter landed on top of the pub. Our friend, along with others, was k****d.
At the moment no-one knew what happened. It was all very surreal.
#19
Girl is driving in rural area where she lives. Stops at a junction but doesn't see/notice oncoming car and pulls out. Hits side of car and sends it careening towards a wall. Unfortunately this wall has a section that's fallen apart so there's a gap the car falls through. Lands on its roof in a flooded drain.
Some other motorists run to help but can't get the car doors opened because the car is wedged upside down in the drain. Recent bad weather means the drain is uncharacteristically flooded. Both occupants of the car drowned.
A local farmer arrives in his tractor and offers to help pull the car out. After doing so he notices the number plate on the car and realises it belongs to his wife. She and their 22 year old daughter Louise left home that morning to go xmas shopping in their local town. It was just three days before Christmas.
We discover during the inquest that a man was able to open the passenger door a few inches while the car was in the drain. He couldn't get Louise out. She reached for his hand which he held until she drowned.
I often think about the numerous misfortunate coincidences that morning. And about the people who witnessed what happened. I didn't know the family personally but we live in a small area so I know lots of people who did.
#20
A guy who worked for my dad became part of the paper recycling process. Didn't see this one myself or know the guy, this was probably 20 years ago, but he was hired to work one of the industrial pulp machines at the mill my dad managed, which requires walking around thin gangways at the top that go down into the massive spinning grater. Homie didn't disclose that he had narcolepsy. By the time they got the machine stopped to try and get him out there wasn't much left. Whole batch was lost, family threatened suit, and my dad ended up in weeks of management meetings trying to sort it all out. I just hope the guy was still asleep when the first grate hit him...
#21
Friend of a friend, infected wisdom tooth, older guy so didn’t go to the dentist, infection spread to his brain and he didn’t wake up one morning. Very sad.
#22
Also my grandad, he was in his 80’s and had a heart attack, he was in a hospital bed and started having another, he tried to get up for help but slipped and smashed his head on a radiator that was next to the bed. The nurse found him on the floor.
His wife died a year later, probably pretty “crazy” too.
She had breast cancer, but was too scared to have it checked, by the time she went to the hospital the docs asked her if she had had her breast removed as it was pretty much gone due to being eaten by the cancer. Horrible.
#23
My husband's uncle wanted to fix his double garage door, which had come off the track, and tried to lift it by himself. It fell on him. His wife came running out of the house and said, "I just called 911!" He said, "What did you do a g*****n stupid thing like that for?" Those were his last words to his beloved wife.
#24
My grandfather was a WW2 seaman... On a raft with some crew for 40 days I believe until they were picked up.
They all went to hospital obviously and one of the other survivors requested condensed milk as a treat kind of thing... He died from the sudden overload of nutrients.
#25
A chef had worked all day without eating anything, then ate a piece of bread which got stuck in his throat and died.
People, please chew more because several times when food gets stuck in one’s throat it can be life threatening.
#26
School classmate. After graduation he was married with a young baby. Worked at a granite warehouse. Was between slats when something happened and caused them to all fall over like dominoes crushing him in the process. The wife had to fight for ages for a proper settlement.
#27
The worst was definitely John Jones and Nutty Putty Cave. Was one of over a hundred people there in Utah trying to figure out how to rescue him. F*****g heartbreaking. It’s very well documented, Google if you want some new nightmares.
#28
A few years ago a 3 year old in my town was crushed by farm equipment. He got his hand stuck in it, and it pulled him under it. Let’s just say it was a closed-casket funeral.
#29
Not someone I knew, but at my middle school in 8th grade around a decade ago there was a field trip to a local beach for the grade below me and the kids were swimming in a roped off area.
A group of boys were playing catch in the water and apparently one of the boys slipped underwater somehow, and none of the teachers or other kids noticed his disappearance for minutes but by then it was too late and he drowned. Not sure how it happened, but the school banned all water activities since following that day.
#30
A client of mine had a friend who took a supplement (something herbal) and it went down the wrong pipe, the capsule opened and some of the herbal stuff went into her lungs. She ended up dying of an infection from the contents sitting in her lung.
#31
My uncle was drunk trying to pull his boat out of the lake. He had his truck in reverse when he tried to floor it to get the boat out. Ended up 15 feet down in the water. He was missing for a month before we found out.
#32
Crushed in a steel roller at a manufacturing plant. They compensated his family almost $2000 at the time and his wife was boasting to everyone about it. Deep down inside she was suffering the loss. It was sad.
#33
Girl from my school was waiting for the train and standing too close to the edge. As the train approached, she wasn’t paying attention and leaned forward enough so that one side handle knocked her in the head. I think she died shortly after.
#34
This one. Don’t read if you’re squeamish.
So a carnival worker at my local fair (about 20 years ago), went to fix a ride called the Super Loop 2 while the ride was in motion and got his long hair stuck in the mechanism. He was flung in the air with the ride and then came down and was impaled on a fence. Blood sprayed everyone. True story.
#35
My dad was a treelopper and worked with a young bloke who got his watch caught on a tree branch and taken into the woodchipper with the branch.
#36
The mom of someone I was friends with as a kid was eaten by a grizzly bear.
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