Incredibly Weird Deaths

This is a list of unusual deaths. This list includes only unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. Note: some of the deaths are mythological or are considered to be unsubstantiated by contemporary researchers. Oxford Dictionaries defines the word "unusual" as "not habitually or commonly occurring or done" and "remarkable or interesting because different from or better than others."

Some other articles also cover deaths that might be considered unusual or ironic, including list of entertainers who died during a performance, list of inventors killed by their own inventions, list of association footballers who died while playing, list of professional cyclists who died during a race and the list of political self-immolations.

Killing for kicks - Video Dailymotion

Killing for kicks - Video Dailymotion: Judy Neelley poked a syringe loaded with Drano into Lisa Ann’s neck. When she failed to die, Neelley shot a half-dozen doses into various parts of the girl’s body. She begged for mercy but got none. Judy Neelley finished the job with the .38. She shot Lisa Ann in the back and rolled her into the abyss, watching the girl tumble to the canyon floor. The family then went on its way, stopping for breakfast in nearby Gadsden. Three times the next day, Judy Neelley made calls to crow about her murder — to Rome, Ga., police, a local radio station and, finally, the sheriff’s office in DeKalb County, Ala. Deputies found Lisa Ann’s body, which bore sickening evidence of her tortured end.

The Charleston massacre - Video Dailymotion

The Charleston massacre - Video Dailymotion: An admitted white supremacist was sentenced to death for killing nine black worshipers who'd invited him to study the Bible with them at a South Carolina church in 2015, ending a two-phase federal trial that exposed the killer's hate-fueled motives and plumbed the chasms of grief left by the victims' deaths. The jury, the same that convicted Dylann Roof in the murders last month, announced its verdict after deliberating less than three hours.

Australias Hannibal - Video Dailymotion

Australias Hannibal - Video Dailymotion: 'The old girl said to me to watch out. 'You better watch this one or she'll f****** kill you. Stir her up the wrong way or do the wrong thing and you're f*****, don't ever think of playing up on her, she'll f*****' kill you.' And that was her mother talking! She told me she's got something loose, She's got a screw loose somewhere.' (Words of her ex husband that still lives in hiding)

Awkward reaction before certain death

After the vicious attack of 16 heavy blows to head with an ax that penetrated his skull and took off his jaw, Peter Porto starts his day like nothing ever happened. Unaware he is suffering from a deadly attack or that his wife is bleeding to death by his bed, Peter gets up because he has a routine to follow (see video).

There’s evidence that Peter walked outside to get the newspaper and locked himself out of the house, but remembered the hidden key under the potted plant to get himself back in.

Awkward reaction before certain death - Video Dailymotion

Awkward reaction before certain death - Video Dailymotion: After the vicious attack of 16 heavy blows to head with an ax that penetrated his skull and took off his jaw, Peter Porto starts his day like nothing ever happened. Unaware he is suffering from a deadly attack or that his wife is bleeding to death by his bed, Peter gets up because he has a routine to follow (see video). There’s evidence that Peter walked outside to get the newspaper and locked himself out of the house, but remembered the hidden key under the potted plant to get himself back in.

Who killed Abby and Libby - Video Dailymotion

Who killed Abby and Libby - Video Dailymotion: The girls posted an eerie final photo on Snapchat before they disappeared... The photo, which you can see on the video, was posted about 2 p.m. It was taken by Liberty German and shows Abigail Williams walking along the railroad bridge. Liberty posted it to her Snapchat account. According to police and family members, the girls phones pinged in multiple locations but were shut off shortly after they were reported missing. A woman who was at the bridge commented on a Facebook post by a family member of one of the girls, saying she had been at the bridge shortly after the girls posted the photo. She said she didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary. “I even walked all the way across the bridge and back. I only (saw) a guy when I first got there and another couple once I got on the bridge,” Cheyenne Mekisha Engles wrote. “I didn’t see the girls at all. I also didn’t take the trail that leads to the right. Only took the trail that lead to the bridge.”

The murder of Lana Clarkson - Video Dailymotion

The murder of Lana Clarkson - Video Dailymotion: On February 3, 2003, actress Lana Clarkson was found dead in Spector's mansion (the Pyrenees Castle) in Alhambra, California. Her body was found slumped in a chair with a single gunshot wound to her mouth with broken teeth scattered all over the carpet. Spector told Esquire Magazine in July 2003 that Clarkson's death was an 'accidental suicide' and that she 'kissed the gun'. The emergency call from Spector's home, made by Spector's driver, Adriano de Souza, quotes Spector as saying, 'I think I've killed someone'. De Souza added that he saw Spector come out the back door of the house with a gun in his hand. According to documents filed by the prosecution, Spector had previously pulled a gun on four women. In each case, he had been drinking and 'was romantically interested in the woman, but grew angry after the woman spurned him.' The prosecution alleged that on each occasion, he pointed a gun at the woman to prevent her from walking out. The prosecution argued that the testimony of the other women was important to demonstrating a 'common plan or scheme.' The defense sought to prevent the women from providing such testimony. Though the law in California and other states generally forbids the introduction of evidence showing a defendant's previous transgressions, the judge sided with the prosecutors and ruled that the testimony of the other women 'can be used to show lack of accident or mistake.'

Susan Eubanks - Video Dailymotion

Susan Eubanks - Video Dailymotion: She shot all the boys in the head, two of them twice, and stopped once to reload the .38-caliber handgun. She killed the oldest boy, Brandon, while he was watching television. The other boys -- Austin, 7; Brigham, 6; and Matthew, 4 -- were shot in a bedroom, where they were sitting on their bunk beds playing a video game with their 5-year-old cousin. He was not physically harmed. She then shot herself in the stomach. Defense attorneys contended Eubanks killed the children in a moment of weakness culminating several years of addiction to prescription drugs for work injuries and her failed relationships with men. There are 544 people on California's death row; 10 are women. Only three women have been executed nationwide since 1976. The last woman put to death in California was in 1962.

Scrabble killers, for the fun of it - Video Dailymotion

Scrabble killers, for the fun of it - Video Dailymotion: Gwendolyn Graham & Catherine May Wood Nurses Gwendolyn Graham and Catherine Wood were not only co-workers at the Alpine Manor Nursing Home in Walker, Michigan, but lesbian lovers who's sexual appetite went into overdrive at the thought of murder. Together they killed six elderly females that resided at the home and on more than one occasion made love as they washed the body of thier victim in preperation for burial. Wood eventually told her ex-husband about the killings, perhaps because she was afraid of what Graham would to to the children in her charge at her new job, or more likely because Graham had taken on a new girlfriend. The man immediately informed police who charged Graham with six counts of murder and anointed Wood the prosecutions star witness. Predictably, Wood managed to put the bulk of the blame on her twisted ex-lover. Graham went to trial in 1988 and Wood told the court of her role as lookout when Graham suffocated the helpless women. When the trial was over it was no contest and Graham was easily convicted on all counts and sentenced to life without the possiblity for parole. For her part Wood recieved a sentence of 20-40 years.

Giggling Nannie - Video Dailymotion

Giggling Nannie - Video Dailymotion: On the outside Nannie Doss of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was a friendly and happy neighbor, wife, and parent. On the inside lurked a cold-blooded murderess who nearly wiped out her entire family singlehandedly. Her first victims her own children. Her first husband, George Frazer arrived home one day in 1920 and found the kids lying on the kitchen floor dead. Doss claimed it had been an accidental poisoning but evidently Frazer was not convinced. He left and never went back. Relatives and husbands continued to die of 'stomach problems' and other such ailments until Doss' fifth husband, Samuel Doss sudenly passed away. The doctor in the case was not as gullible as the previous ones were evidently and didn't simply take Doss at her word. He ordered an autopsy be done, which revealed massive doses of arsenic in the man's system. The bodies of doss' husbands, relatives, and children were exhumed and tested. It was found that Doss' two infant children, four of her husbands, two of her sisters, her mother, and a nephew had all been killed by arsenic poisoning. Armed with this information police soon convinced the poisoner to confess and she was sent to prison for life in 1964. She succumbed to Leukemia the following year.

Unthinkable momster - Video Dailymotion

Unthinkable momster - Video Dailymotion: 'Me and my family are disappointed that the death penalty was not the verdict,' he said, his lips quivering as he held back his tears. 'But it wasn't our choice. They returned a verdict they thought was justice. 'I'll never forget what Susan has done to me, my family and her family. I can never forget Michael and Alex. 'But forgive? That's something I guess I'll have to deal with further down the road.' He said he would probably leave town. There are too many memories here, crowding in on him. 'There are a lot of things I would rather not look at for the rest of my life,' he said. The state's lead prosecutor, Tommy Pope, had tried to show that Mrs. Smith was fooling everyone with her claims of remorse, the way she fooled everyone for nine days in October and November. 'She may be sorry now,' Mr. Pope said, his voice rising from a near whisper to a shout as he urged the jury for a death sentence in his closing argument. 'But was she sorry when she dropped that hand brake down,' and sent her children to their death. He laid photographs of the two little boys on the rail of the jury box as he spoke of what the boys must have felt as the car slid under the lake at about 9 P.M., and how Mrs. Smith ran from the edge of the lake with her hands over her ears. 'When that car filled up with water they probably didn't see it,' said Mr. Pope, because of the dark of the night. 'But they felt that water in the darkness as it covered their faces.'

The Tinning babies, Marybeth sick or Psycho... - Video Dailymotion

The Tinning babies, Marybeth sick or Psycho... - Video Dailymotion: My child isn't breathing! Suspicion mounted against Tinning, who was always alone when the children died, but there wasn't any evidence of wrongdoing. However, after a police interrogation, Tinning confessed to smothering Tami Lynne, Nathan, and Timothy (which she later retracted). She denied having harmed the other children. She was convicted in Tami Lynne's case and sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. Her first attempt for parole was in March 2007. At the parole board meeting Tinning said, 'I have to be honest, and the only thing that I can tell you is that I know that my daughter is dead. I live with it every day,' she continued, 'I have no recollection and I can't believe that I harmed her. I can't say any more than that.' Her parole was denied. In late January 2009, Tinning went before the parole board for the second time. Tinning stated 'I was going through bad times,' when she killed her daughter. The parole board again denied her parole, stating that her remorse was 'superficial at best.' Tinning was eligible for parole again in January 2011. In 2011 parole was denied again. Her next opportunity for parole will be in January 2013.

Murdering Loralei and Heather part 2 - Video Dailymotion

Murdering Loralei and Heather part 2 - Video Dailymotion: They Took My Other Daughter! On March 18, 1989, Paula gave birth to a second daughter, Heather Lee Sims. Her life would prove to be only slightly longer than that of her older sister. Heather was only six weeks old when Rob came home from work on April 29, 1989, and found his wife lying unconscious on the kitchen floor. Flashing back to three years before, Rob ran to his daughters bassinet and discovered it empty. He returned to his wife, trying to arouse her, screaming, “Where is Heather? Paula, where is Heather?” When Paula finally came to, she answered that the baby was in her bassinet. When he told her their daughter was missing, they both ran upstairs to check on their son, whom they found sleeping safe and sound in his bed. Rob called for help and police soon arrived. The responding officer was unfamiliar with the Sims and was confused when Rob made the statement, “They’ve taken my daughter. They took my other daughter.” When detectives asked Paula what had occurred, her story was eerily familiar. It was around 10:30 p.m., she said, when she took the trash out and met up with a masked me who was holding a gun. Paula said he told her to get back in the house and she complied. As they stepped through the threshold, the intruder hit in the back of the head and she didn’t come to until Robert came in and found her. Although they began organizing a search for the baby, investigators felt certain Paula’s story was nothing but lies. When they had examined Paula for injuries, they found none; not a bump on her head or scrapes to her arm and elbow – things that should have been present if what she said was true. Then there was the odd statement Paula had made to Robert in the presence of several officers, “My son’s all right. That’s all that matters.” It finally dawned on one of the Alton officers, Sims; the name of the couple who just a few years before had claimed a masked gunman had kidnapped their daughter. After sharing the memory with fellow detectives, they too became certain this was all a ruse to cover up another baby’s murder. They became determined that Paula Sims wouldn’t get away with murder twice.