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Thousands of people have gone over Niagara Falls, either intentionally (as stunts or suicide attempts) or accidentally. The first recorded person to survive going over the falls was school teacher Annie Edson Taylor, who in 1901 successfully completed the stunt inside an oak barrel. In the following 124 years, thousands of people have been ...
Horseshoe Falls viewed from the Canadian side of the Niagara River in 2014.. According to his family and friends, Jones, who was then 40 years old, had been interested in going over Niagara Falls for many years and believed that there was a place that one could jump from and survive.
1985 – Successful journey over Niagara Falls [ edit ] Despite having been stopped by Niagara Parks police two days earlier, [ 2 ] on August 18, 1985, at 8:30 AM, Trotter's 11-man crew launched his barrel into the Niagara River rapids, a quarter-mile from the brink of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls .
The New York mom who jumped to her death at Niagara Falls with her baby and young son wrote a series of harrowing posts detailing her heartbreak at splitting from her baby daddy – but police say ...
First person to go over Niagara Falls intentionally and survive Annie Edson Taylor (October 24, 1838 – April 29, 1921) was an American schoolteacher who, on her 63rd birthday, October 24, 1901, became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel. [ 1 ]
The New York mom who intentionally jumped to her death into the Niagara Falls with her young children sent her kids over the railing first, according to a report.. State Park Police said Thursday ...
In 2023, another mother jumped with her son into the Niagara Gorge, just down river from the falls. That mother died in the fall, but rescuers were able to save the five-year-old boy.
This category includes people who went over the falls, in at least one case, unintentionally. Pages in category "People who went over Niagara Falls" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.