People Are Sharing The Bizarre Deaths That Actually Happened To Someone They Know, And I’m Too Stunned To Speak

Some of these stories are pretty graphic and upsetting. However, there are no stories featuring suicide.

A little while ago, a Reddit thread asked the people of the internet: “What’s the craziest way someone you knew died?,” and the responses were equal parts terrifying and mind-boggling. Here are the most interesting ones:

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1. “When I was about 10, a family down the street from us had a daughter aged about eight. Her mum was cooking dinner one night when the daughter ran into the kitchen to ask her something. Her mother was in the middle of mashing potatoes, turned to reply to her with the masher in her hand, and a blob of boiling hot mashed potato fell onto the daughter’s foot. The daughter cried nonstop until she finally vomited from crying, and the hysterical sobbing combined with vomiting meant she somehow managed to inhale a mouthful of vomit into her lungs, stopped breathing and collapsed. She was rushed to hospital but could not be revived. Her poor mum blamed herself and was never the same again. I still remember it after all these decades — so tragic and such a random and pointless death. That poor family.” — nameyourpoison11

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2. “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.” — BoxPsychological5561

3. “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!” — KaelasDad

4. “My grandmother was killed by a goat. Her goat. She went in the garden to feed it in 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 in the evening, and was so fragile that she didn’t survive the emergency surgery she needed for her injuries.” — skalliz

5. “Classmate’s dad was working underneath their car in their driveway when the jack failed and he got stuck and crushed under the car. I believe the wife and daughter were inside the house when it happened too.” — question_girl617

6. “My great-great-grandfather died in the Hawrick mine explosion in Pittsburgh, and my grandma told me the story. A 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.” — StJimmy_7

7. “My uncle’s friend: woke up Sunday morning, went to church for Sunday mass, and when he left he was hungry so he decided to buy an empanada and eat it in the gardens of an old palace nearby, the weather was nice, he sat on a bench to eat his empanada when a palm tree branch fell on him, killing him on the spot. When my uncle told me, I was so speechless, but then I guess it wasn’t such a bad death, he must have been happy eating an empanada after mass in a beautiful, sunny garden.” — Ring-arla

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8. “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.” — FinanciallySecure9

9. “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.” — broadarrow39

10. “My uncle’s friend was alone, tried to open a bag of snacks with his teeth. Inhaled a piece of the bag as he ripped it off and suffocated to death.” — Mandy220

11. “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.” — GoddessJadeAus

12. “Great-great aunt. Clipped her toenail too short, got gangrene, and died.” — Dont_Fear

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13. “I had a friend and fellow sailor who was climbing out of a submarine LET (the hatch going up and down) and banged his knee on the ladder. He died from a blood clot from banging his knee. Just never woke up the next day. I always think about how sudden and traumatic it was over something so insanely simple.” — Worst_Choice

14. “Friend of a friend was an artist and setting up a show. He fell backwards off a ladder and hit directly on a nail sticking up, right in the hindbrain. Dead instantly.” — ijustwanttogotojacuz

15. “My eye doctor went hiking somewhere in Africa. He apparently started feeling dizzy and overheated, so his guide got him to a cliffside where he could get a little breeze. Apparently, he passed out and ended up rolling off the cliff. They believe he had a heart attack, and that’s why he felt unwell, and that the passing out was him going into full cardiac arrest. He wasn’t going to make it out of there alive to begin with, but I can’t imagine being his wife and watching my husband disappear over the edge of a cliff.” — OptimalTrash

16. “Uncle of a friend 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.” — YolaCoet

17. “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.” — Danelady218

18. “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.” — Oncemor-intothebeach

19. “A friend of mine was found disoriented, and they thought he was breaking into cars. They first arrested him, then sent him to the hospital once they realized he was confused. He died there. It was a sudden onset of diabetes. It took a while for them to figure out what happened because it was so weird.” — GourmetGoddess87

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20. “Hit by a bus sitting on bus stop bench.” — Gloomy_Insect2234

21. “A teacher at one of the high schools I went to was walking outside in a storm and the wind blew a metal door against him, crushed his ribcage and killed him.” — Captkarate42

22. “My mom had a coworker friend, who, one day, was driving his car with his wife in the passenger seat. They came to a red light in a quiet suburban town and waited it for it to change. And in that small amount of time, an old tree decided it had enough and landed on the car directly on top of them, killing them both instantly.” — BeAnScReAm666

23. “The partner of a lady I used to work with tripped as she was carrying a drink to the sofa — the metal straw went through her eye and into her brain. Her partner found her dead when she got home.” — The-Sassy-Pickle

Do you know anyone who died in a bizarre, unexpected way? Let me know in the comments below.

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