Strange Deaths

howyanow wrote: »

has anyone heard or read of the scuba diver that was found dead in the middle of a forest fire? ~ is this an urban myth or not?

lockie1983 wrote: »

Correction they bet him $4,300 for a 12 HOUR threesome, to be fair, it doesn't matter how savage the 2 women were I'd be bollixed after 2 hours lets alone 12, haha.

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

In September 1927 dancer Isadora Duncan happened to express her admiration for a Bugatti sports car owned by Benoit Falchetto, a garage owner in Nice. Anticipating that Isadora’s interest might extend to purchasing it, Falchetto offered to take her for a test drive. Since Isadora was lightly dressed, with only a silk scarf around her shoulders, Falchetto offered her his leather driving coat. But she declined. “Good-bye, my friends, I am off to glory,” she called out, theatrically throwing her scarf behind her as the Bugatti pulled away. Seconds later the trailing scarf became entangled in one wheel of the car, and Isadora was strangled.

The children were in the car with their nurse, returning home after lunch with Isadora and Paris Singer. The driver stalled the car while attempting to avoid a collision with another car. He got out to hand-crank the engine, but forgot to set the parking brake. The car rolled across the Boulevard Bourdon, down the embankment and into the river. The children and the nanny drowned.

Wibbs wrote: »

I reckon the Dyatlov Pass incident is explainable enough, well an explanation that doesn't involve odd stuff. There's an avalanche theory that seems more plausible. Though a couple of problems with that. One, there wasn't any evidence of one. Two, they were camped in an area not prone to them and if one had occurred it would have missed the camp by a large distance. They were experienced hikers so picked the right spot to avoid such, though why they didnt stay in the shelter of the relatively close forest rather than stay in a very exposed spot is puzzling in itself. Maybe something in the forest had freaked them earlier? Wolves, bear?

Anyway, witnesses report lights in the sky which gave rise to UFO stuff, though I would add a more prosaic, if not interesting in of itself possible explanation for the lights and their deaths and possibly the hushing up of the case. Soviet jet fighters being tested. Avalanches roar, make horrendous sounds. The campers settle down for the night in an avalance area, but where they are they reckon they're safe. Later in the evening after dark a couple of jets roar down the valley at low level. Jets of that era were very loud. They awaken, hear this roar and thinking avalanche panic to get away from the tents. So they run into the dark away from the noise in various states of undress. As the cold bites they start to suffer hyperthermia, one known side effect of this is people start taking their clothes off. Mad though that seems. Critical thinking goes out the window too.

So IMHO most of them die of the cold, the injured ones were found at the bottom of a small ravine, so stumbling in terror and confusion in the pitch dark falling head first even a small enough distance would cause head and other body trauma. The missing tongue? Predation by scavengers. Scavengers often go for the tongue(and eyes) of corpses, a fresh snowfall would have covered them up so preventing more scavenging until the bodies were found.

As for the radiation found, that seems to be hearsay many years after the event, so unless fresh evidence supports it I'd be dubious myself.

Still it was a horrible death no matter what happened and still gives a chill up the spine.