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Strange Deaths: More Than 375 Freakish Fatalities. New York: Barnes & Noble Books. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-7607-1947-3 – via Google Books. Sieveking, Paul (1998). The Fortean Times Book of More Strange Deaths. John Brown. ISBN 978-1-902212-02-9. Sieveking, Paul (2011). The Fortean Times Book of Strange Deaths. Russell Blackman.
The 30-year-old man was shot and killed by his dog after the animal stepped on a loaded rifle in the back seat of his pickup truck, causing the gun to fire through the front passenger seat and hit him in the back. The driver of the truck, who was sitting next to Smith at the time of the accident, was unharmed. [256] [257] [258] Barry Griffiths ...
Dannette and Jeannette Millbrook are fraternal twins who were last seen by a gas-station clerk at the Pump-N-Shop gas station on the corner of 12th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Augusta, Georgia, around 4:30 p.m. Their case was closed in 1991, and was later reopened in 2013.
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There are a number of things most of us learned about growing up that, as it turns out, were not nearly as mysterious as they sounded. Take, for example, the Bermuda Triangle, which, as it turns ...
The Coolest (and Strangest) Things That Have Ever Washed Ashore. Kris Scott. April 11, 2024 at 10:00 PM. Mark Kostich/istockphoto. ... But something as massive as this 30-foot whale shark, which ...
[30] [31] Franz Reichelt: 4 February 1912: The 33-year-old tailor and inventor leaped from the Eiffel Tower and fell to his death wearing a parachute made from cloth, his own invention. He was asked by friends and authorities to use a dummy for the feat, but declined, saying "I intend to prove the worth of my invention". [32] [33] [34]
Cleopatra (39), the last ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt, is believed to have died in August of 30 BCE in Alexandria. According to popular belief, Cleopatra killed herself by allowing an asp (Egyptian cobra) to bite her. According to Greek and Roman historians, Cleopatra poisoned herself using either a toxic ointment or sharp implement such as a hairpin.