There were once 1947 two brothers by the name of Homer and Langley Collyer. They had a phobia of throwing away things and thus collected every junk possible into their own house. They had huge collections of junk and newspaper and what not. The police got a tip one day that there is a dead body inside the Collyer house. When they went inside to investigate they found one brother buried under a heap of newspapers, his body completely rot and mouse eaten. They found the other brother after a few day just a few feet away from the other one. Apparently one was paralyzed and the other one got caught on one their own booby traps and got killed. The one who was paralyzed later died from starvation. Who would want to collect garbage is what boggles us in this entire thrilling tale!

There was once this Australian man Hans Steininger who had, on record, the worlds largest and longest beard in his time, that is 1571 to be exact. When ever he used to go out and about he used to roll up his beard for the fear that he might trip over, such was the length. Well one day there was a fire in the village to which his belong and in his haste to reach safety the poor man forgot to perform the roll-up we use the word for the lack of a better one. While on the run, he tripped over his own beard, fell on the floor while breaking his neck at the same time. The beard that once bought him fame made him die on the spot. How strange and how ironic at the same time!

M Frantz Reichelt was a bit of a dare-devil when it came to the way he lived his life. This is the least that can be said after reading the way his life ended. He was actually a tailor by profession and once he had invented an over coat which also doubled as a parachute. After the invention was complete he decided to test it himself and that too by jumping of t he Eiffel Tower and nothing less. Well I guess it is no surprise that he jumped to his death because the parachute refused to open and fell smack down on the pavement below. Ouch! That must not have felt very comfortable.

King Fredrick of Sweden loved his sweet dishes to the extent that he died from them. He was from then on known as the King who ate himself to death in 1771 after he had a huge meal and then a never-ending dessert which consisted of 14 servings of Semla a bun that is filled with marzipan and milk and a few glasses of champagne.

There was once a Chinese poet known as Li-po. He was known to be one of the greatest poets of his time and as is with all of these poets out there, he had an endearing love for liquor. So much so that he is known to have written the best of his poems while under the influence of liquor. Like we said before, death probably is not a laughing matter, but how will you react when we tell you that one night, the poet was out on his boat and was obviously drunk, he tried to embrace the reflection of the moon, fell over the edge and drowned. We say that is too much liquor Mr li-po!

Christine Chubbuk was a live TV newscaster who committed suicide on national television while it was going on air. Wonder what was depressing the poor soul, it is speculated that before that show she had actually researched into what killed faster and found out that by shooting oneself in the back of the head with a revolver causes instant death instead of shooting in the temple. And that is exactly what she did, after announcing on the TV that in keeping with the tradition of Channel 40, we again bring the latest in blood and guts and with that she shot herself in front of the entire crew and died on the spot. She must have been going through some very troublesome times.

In 1982, two people decided to get a little adventurous and started shooting a huge dessert cactus with a shotgun. It is known that one should not harm plants intentionally because they have this way of getting back at you for what ever you do to them. At first the two friends continued their shooting practice at a small cactus. The poor little plant succumbed to the on slaught. Encouraged, they moved on to a 26 foot tall cacti which was probably a hundred years old. The main gun man, Grundsman, shot of a whole branch of the cactus which fell on him crushing him to his death on the spot. To date this is perhaps the only known instance where a plant seems to have taken revenge

. There was a party going on in the recreation department in New Orleans where the life guards were celebrating a whole year of no mishaps and zero deaths. They had decided to treat themselves for a no-death year when one of the strangest things happened. A dead body was found at the bottom of the pool. Apparently someone had drowned right in front of four on-duty life guards and around 200 off-duty lifeguards who were attending the party but some how no one realized that a person was drowning.

So the legends have it that a Russian mystic legend by the name of Rasputin was first poisoned with Cyanide, it did not affect him, he was then shot several times after which he fell down but later on revived and stood back up. He was then continuously beaten with clubs until he lost consciousness or perhaps his life. He was thrown into the water as is for good measure so that his death was ensured. He did not re-surface and that was the end of him but WOW! what a stamina.

There were two sisters out of which one got killed by getting electrocuted. What happened was that she was hanging out clothes and she suddenly slipped and stabled herself by catching hold of a live wire near by. That caused her to die instantly. When the funeral was taking place, her sister took the guests out to the place her sister had died. She was demonstrating what had happened when she slipped in reality in the exact same fashion as her sister, got electrocuted and died on the same spot.