Strange Deaths in History (20th Century)
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Can you do a episode about Desmond doss pleas!
Simple History The cactus death was the most strangest one
Simple History The second entry “Death by Cactus” was the strangest in my opinion. Also, for a weapons video, please do the Mauser C96 or the Mauser 98 as both are iconic weapons that have left their mark throughout history.
Cactus
Yes Mr. Window was intelligent.
Ok, let's be real. The Cactus one was self-defense.
69 likes
Living Being grammar and English please
@@scouttf2143 how about NO
Is the glass pane one murder-suicide?
RG MT uhh no it was an accident no one was murdered by another person and this wasn’t suicide so no
"He was described as the best and the brightest" *MmHmm*
I need to know which law firm he worked at so I never accidentally hire them.
Baron von Quiply Holden Day Wilson LLP. You don’t have to worry about hiring them by accident though. They went out of business in 1996.
I haven't laughed that hard in a while. "The best and brightest"
Also the flattest
Welcome to Canadia.
First guy prime example of don't push your luck..... Smh
Arrogance.... Arrogance never changes
How was that luck? It was made not to break so their is no "luck" dumbass
@Cameron Barradas lol
You mean don't push your window?
thats the reason why i always stay tf away from them
0:57 "He was described by the legal firm as one of the best and brightest." Yeah, I don't that was his brightest move...
well he was the brightest, the only thing that wasn't fair was the glass ended his career by not shattering, but popping off.
SpaceD54 When an attorney pretends to be a scientist. They pretend to be a lot of things: doctors, scientists, dietitians, priests. Well, he got what he got. 🤷🏻♂️
"If you're so bright, why did you win a Darwin Award?"
0:50 The real question is "Did the window shatter when it hit the ground?"
(Macintosh Plus Plays)
No
@@occupiedquill9282 but not the frame
Now that a lot of DAMAGE
@Jeff 525 I don't think that you understand English
1:27 "Yeah me and my mate had a fight against a cactus." "We lost."
sounds like australia
now that's a different kind of fail
They literally had shotguns too.
Gaming Master um ok?
SensationalMeat first a armored outlaw, then some big birds
Who’d win? A guy with a shot gun Or A huge spiked green bean
Green bean
I live 45 min away from lake pleasant.
Green bean is da Victor
TheLostGamingHQ _ Who’d learn grammar
TheLostGamingHQ _ one spiky boi
God: How did you die Grunman: A cactus fell on me
Lol, 'grunman'.
God:satan fricking demon
Yep, God asked the mortal like it knows nothing, noice!
God:how did u die? Me:i got assassinated by a umbrela
🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵
The death of youtube was surely a strange one
how about the death of vine
Not really as I dogged it out.
Killed by KZhead Heroes and stupid KZheadrs
Its Expected
I just watched you google translated pumped up kicks, and now I see you in the comment section of this vid
Three of these were caused entirely by stupidity.
*2
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Right, damn umbrellas and the Cold War
Dinodogdude 209 yup
Westen Quasar 24 F how is the 3rd one tho?
1:20 that's actually karma In Arizona it is against the law to shoot at, cut down, or harm saguaro cacti due to them being native and rare
Im sorry but I love your profile picture
@@dezert956 he is my son
@@mellollmao431 l
depends, was that the case in 1982? A lot of stuff that is illegal in the U.S now was completely legal in the 80's.
@Lil Aku yes
So I’ve got a question What happen to the glass when it hit the ground, was it truly unbreakable?
Yes
Jamie MX at least he still prove his point then
Plot twist: he wanted to fall with glass to show that is very resistent in comparaison of a human body
@@NationalismDjazair plot twist plot twist the glass was so unbreakable it absorbed all the force by falling that the human survived but since there was no one there the glass killed him for barging at the glass all his life
KGkomrin incredible
The bouncing lawyer was nuts.
Sam Bland you said right
You would think that they would move him to the first floor when they figured out about his stunts.
"best and brightest"
yep, probably drunk
Wugg why did you said that man calm down
"ok, since dummies don't work- let's try humans!" i think franz drank too much schnapps that day
He had Schnitzel and Bratwurst with some Schnaps.
0:52 That's why kids Don't do bragging Just stay safe and on the internet
So if I brag about my new gaming PC, Ill automatically plunge 300 feet to my death?
Yep.
@@broddajanes6910 no, you will lag, your fps will be amazing but... your wi-fi...
U brag about your gaimin pc it explodes
@@broddajanes6910 lol
LIST OF STRANGE DEATHS This list is incomplete YOU CAN HELP BY EXPANDING IT
Wyatt Olson, after posting this comment and never seen again, this accident then found 1 month after the comment
But I'm running on empty my options are few...
*GOOD IDEA* *Harry Houdini:* known for pushing his luck. *Jimi Heselden:* owner of Segway went off a cliff when he was trying to make way for a dog walker. *Clement Vallandigham:* another lawyer _"who represented a man charged with killing someone during a bar fight. Vallandigham’s approach was to convince the jury the dead man had shot himself as he drew his weapon from his pocket. As he faced the jury, Vallandigham recreated the situation exactly as it happened. And when I say exactly, I mean that he managed to also recreate the end result: a man shooting himself whilst drawing his pistol."_ _"Vallandigham died from his injuries, but did manage to acquit his client on the grounds that a man can accidentally shot himself whilst drawing a weapon from his pocket by showing the jury exactly how this was done."_ *Two rednecks:* with too much time on their hands were routinely getting drunk, thinking they were practical jokers - by coming up behind and shooting each other's baseball cap off the their head. Apparently they thought it was funny stuff since they both kept at it. Then one day the prank backfired when one missed and shot a little lower. Leaving just one "friend" left and in prison. *Edit: *Gen. George A. Custer:* a good example when you let the power of authority go to your head and toss logistics out the window. *Adolf Hitler:* See Above. *Napoleon Bonaparte:* See Above. *Some hunter in Kenya:* _"Do you think it's dead?"_
i bet the parachute made the pilot have less arm movement so it was harder to pull the trigger on the mg in the plane.
the video of him falling is on the internet so check it out
What?
Why is there a little mark by your name
That' because he's supporting Simple history and I respect him for that
Antom The Phantom oh ok. Cool
Well the first guy was at leat right. The window didn’t break.
Yeah leat
The guy said that tho idiotic moron No offence
@@joecarter5524 He's making a joke.
Ben Abad I know
It actually did due to it falling with the man.
“One of the brightest”. Yeah sure, because throwing yourself against a glass window is 100% safe.
It's painless
Well, it was designed to not break. It just so happened that the frame wasn't strong enough
I cant help but to laugh lol
Definitely paneless, am I right?
I read about this when I was younger, it was a special plexiglass installed in a manner which made it supposedly the fastest possible
The best and brightest of the firm killed himself like that, imagine the ones he left behind.
@youthinkshelovesyouforyourtuxedo wow so he also condemned the company !
😂
Man if the austrian guy was successful, he would've saved the lawyer, I guess history always repeats itself
S Rhyno its a joke bloke
S Rhyno well, if he realized it was risky, he could've brought a parachute just in case
"the law firm described him as bright" meanwhile dies from jumping at a window on a skyscraper. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Ling Xing ching Not to worry. Once we humans realize what we are doing, we can end the historic cycle.
Ling Xing ching no the lawyer was so sure that the windows would not break that's why he demonstrated running into them many times
"the law firm described him as bright" meanwhile dies from jumping at a window on a skyscraper. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Tasmanian Hill Billy bright, as in happy/cheerful
Bright as intelligence.
Bright as in hey let's respect this man's death
The overconfident lawyer.
Sometimes the smartest people do the stupidest things.
0:52 i believe i can fly
I believe I can fly I believe I can touch the ground
Humpty dumpty fell down the wall and broke every bone in his body.
He actually believed it,BUT DIED
FUN FACT: The umbrella gun was used in the film "Kingsman: The Golden Circle".
I actually heard about the saguaro death when i was stationed at Fort Huachuca. the longed nose bats that nest in them were, at that time, a protected species and as such all personnel stationed at Huachuca had to attend mandatory briefings to that effect. One of the slides of the briefing spoke about not damaging the plant due to its sheer weight being able to kill you, and that it had done so in the past.
Phillip Ludlow I remember when I was living in Tempe, after a wind storm I saw a cactus that had smashed a full size van down to the frame. People don't realize that a full grown cactus can weight several tons.
I was stationed there too in Sherr Hall.
Peter Banderas Oh for sure! Some of them can get well over 30 or more feet high! I remember one that was just outside bisbee that was said to weigh over 5 tons.
A man found out his wife was cheating on him, so he decided to jump off the balcony of their apartment which was on the 15th floor. As he was falling, his wife was about to enter the apartment building. The man landed on his wife, killing her and he survived the fall
Lmfao
Çamaşır Suyu actually, he would have been charged for manslaughter (accidental murder)
Do you have a source on that?
Xoxifly It sounds stupid enough to be real
Xoxifly na sorry don't have a source, saw/heard years ago. But there are still lots of cases of people jumping off buildings and landing on people
" he was described as the best and brightest " And yet he threw himself at a window?
On the 42nt floor no less
1:00 I love the time on the line "he was described as one the best and brightest", while we see the students faces staring downwards...
I think I heard about a man from the 1920's who died of laughter. His friend slipped and fell on a puddle, causing his pants to fall down. The man laughed so hard that he couldn't breath, and he died.
Thomas Hinton it is not impossible to die from laughter, yet when you hold your breath, you don't die. You fall unconscience and your body starts to breath normally again. In the 1980s, a man died from laughter, but not because he ran out of breath. He had a heart attack from so much laughter.
Thomas Hinton poor Guy
Thomas Hinton Same thing happen to Leukipos , an ancient Greek( philosopher or conedian i can not remember for the time being) he laughed to death with one of his own jokes.
Remember kids to not laughing so hard
"Best and brightest." Throwing yourself against a window, regardless of how strong it is, isn't particularly bright...
Back in the day those building would of been terrifying. Brave people help the week. Just sad he was done in cuz some slop cut corners.
There is something called sarcasm
Primordial Bias ever heard of sarcasm?
Dont know why that guy jumped off the Eiffel Tower it was obvious what was gonna happen
He's trying to change the parachuting industry, so it's obvious that the wingsuits you see nowadays are made by history.
It was not obvious back then, science is always changing and improving.
French are stupid. Dude invents a glider trying to be one of the first people to fly after planes have already been invented. That’s just god doing Darwin’s work
“Death by cactus.” Steve from Minecraft: It be like that sometimes. On a real note. No disrespect to the people who died. I bet the surely didn’t deserve it.
well shooting a saguaro is a crime that carries a pretty hefty fine, so if he didnt die he wouldve been punished
1000 ways to die death by cactus.
At least Hoy died proving his point.
At least it didn't shatter.
Hoy's Bizarre Adventure: Glass is Unbreakable
Justin Y. You are in evrywhere
Hey Justin, wanna be friends?
Is this a JoJo reference?
Hey Justin Y.
Justin Y. Nice
Guy: hates communism *umbrella has joined the server*
Pew
Bulgaria:So you have chosen death
All oofs 0:57 1:36 2:22 3:20
Thank you
I imagine a lot of strange deaths beginning with, "hold my beer". 😉
*FITS* *PERFECTLY*
Especially the window pane one
Don't forget the phrase, "Watch this..."
Low Quality Internet Warrior lmao
I survived last time I said that , jump off a bridge about 40 feets down to friend boat , only sprang my two arm
I like how you give early footage
How did you got that rank in your name?
Techon yup
"He was described by the legal firm as... a high-flyer."
0:51 I don’t remember this episode of the office
the window death is the most weirdest death ever i mean why?
Because no ones that much of a moron to charge into a window to prove how safe it is.
Even Lenin asks questions
Your death was the strangest. WHY DID YOU LEAVE US WHEN WE NEEDED YOU MOST OH GREAT LORD AND SAVIOUR LENIN
He could just kick the glass pane instead of charging himself towards it like a battering ram that's controlled by an madman.
Ur dead
2:54 i dunno my dude, looks pretty conclusive.
This was great, hope you do this again! 😄
The poison umbrella sounds exactly like the thing the KGB would do.
Mein Unterkampf The cactus sounds like exactly the thing the FBI would do
Both KGB and CIA were experts in making sophisticated weapons during the cold war era so it is hardly surprising
Benjamin Roberts yup
Benjamin Roberts It was the Soviet equivalent of the CIA
umbrellas are for Slavs
D-ED you spot the easter egg?
Where?
Gonna be honest, rewatched this.... didn't see it.
Simple History yes DED wich is actualy dead
The plane?
I wish I knew where the Easter egg was.
I love your vids🖤
1:01 Window Plane? More like Window Pain
The cactus had second chance pro
L A S T S T A N D
I think it's called Second Chance in Black Ops 1
Noah Martella Can I get an F in chat.
Us in arizona like the fact he died you shouldnt shoot catcus especially those special ones
The Grand Director *Second Chance Pro
Window pane death. I remember hearing this on the news.
Aaron Wicklam I remember window plain death watching this on a TV show about strange deaths. To be far, the window never broke.
Yeah, it wasn't the window pane itself that failed, but the frame. Unless it shattered when hitting the ground, then we can consider it broken.
I remember seeing this on thousand ways to die
Aaron Wicklam sponsor didn't you?
what a pane in the glass
Need more videos like this👍
as usual nice stories to listen to before falling asleep
Some of them are *death by stupidity*
Tousif Tanvir Alam the cactus one
+Grineer Lancer #2479 yeah, it could have easily been prevented
The first one made me and my friend laugh so hard.
I thought cactus deaths were only possible in minecraft!!!!
*_No in real life is real Minecraft logic _*
Me too I like ran into a cactus
In my history classes I’m un beatable bc I keep watching ur vids
I once read about a guy who challenged another guy to a duel - this was in the old times when you took ten steps, turned around, and shot the other person. The guy killed the other guy, but the other guy still managed to fire off a shot, but missed, lodging the bullet inside a tree. Years later, the guy who survived the duel went to remove the tree and planted dynamite to blow it up: upon the explosion, dead guy's bullet flew out of the tree and hit him in the head, killing him instantly.
i've heard this before too
Austrian big fail, but he still gave his life to save others.
hello coldman
It's you again.
trycoldman23 there is footage of the death on British Pathe KZhead
You are on his 1mil celebration video
trycoldman23 I would expect that of an Italian
1:06 minecraft
Reign Orcullo Ooh
No NIENCARFT
LolThijs Gaming you are right
Do you mean........ OursCraft?
Thorns
I love this channel. The content is extremely interesting. I’ve watched all of the videos in the Strange Death series only to find none of them “strange” at all. Just stupid.
Yeah people dying by cactuses you see that every day
This video cracks me up every time...
Franz Reichelt also has the dubious honor of being the first person known to have died on film, as he had also invited a camera crew to record the historic test, and footage of his death is actually widely available online..
Imaging dying by a plant with needles because you decide to shoot it
Mr BrickStudios Karma??
Marcus Young it probably was karma lol
DIVINE RETRIBUTION BOIIII Gives a new meaning of getting pricked to death.
Mr BrickStudios it makes me feel the same as when I heard about the emu war lol
Rum Same Xd
I heard about the window pane one on GMM
Gary hoy office was in a building my grandma managed. She was friends with him and know all of the pain his death brought to his 2 young kids and his wife. Although I enjoy these videos they can really get rid of the human identities these people had. Keep up the good work!
LETS SEE HOW SAFE THIS GLASS IS
Just a burger yeah, it is, the frames only werent
NOT VERY TOUGH
YOU DIED
Kevin Kane I get it!
Kevin Kane is that from the one video of the guy testing how strong the security glass was?
This made me sad, mostly the first one.
Sun Star9 Why? Death will come to us anyway in the future, so let's just make fun of it.
t m Ik, but It took his life a lot sooner. Anyway you only get one life so it's sad to me atleast.
Sun Star9 Well, I'm catholic and I believe in life after death. Also there's a 70%, he's going to be in heaven (or purgatory first).
t m not everyone is, Im an Atheist
t m I'm also Catholic but I'm just sad his life got cut short when he was a great man
I had no idea about that Lake Pleasant death. I only go to the tortoise lake there, no one's ever mentioned that to us when we went for the day.
2:33 I guess we can call it.. A Para-suit
So , did the window break when it fell?
EnchantedRijad If it didnt, that wouldve been even more embarassing
Naah.. it broke when the guy landed on top of it..
ou ok then
Actually, I'm pretty sure the glass panel was just fine... And there's that guy...
He was over-whight and that is what broke the pane
Un expected but welcome!
dab on the haters just liked you because of your name 😂
dab on the haters A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.
Episode 2 please!
Fun fact: The parachute suit guys autopsy showed that he died of a cardiac arrest mid air.
"Assassinated by an umbrella" *Was* *the* *umbrella* *arrested?*
ryeven brix espique No the umbrella bought a one way ticket to mexico , and lived out it's life on an apartment overlooking the ocean
lol
now that Trump built the wall, i guess there's no going back xD
Number 1 technically speaking the window frame was more weaker than the freaking glass *OOF*
Damien Gaming *mORe wEakeR*
2:55 You can see footage of this in the YT channel British Pathé. It is terrifying
Nice one "window plain pain"
For future series considering adding the monkey bite death of King Alexander of Greece. He died in 1920. It arguably cost Greece the Greco-Turkish war of 1917 - 1922.
This is literally from a mobile user
0:48 I believe I can fly!!
I DIDN'T BOTHER FILLING THIS IN I’m sure the Austrian guy thought the same thing
He believed he can parachute to safety
How did u. Get that rank right there?
I believe I could touch the sky!
I DIDN'T BOTHER FILLING THIS IN I believe this glass cannot be broken by my charge!*
Looks like the "Best" and "Brightest" Just flew out the window.
The new Final Destination looks Great!
[player] walked into a cactus whilst trying to escape [player/mob]
God: hmm maybe its time to end these people..but let me think of a creative way of doing it...
100/10 too creative....
Deaths in this video that were preventable: 3 Deaths in this video that were unpreventable: 1
0:48 Sorry to interrupt but there are some policemen here? They say they need to speak to you about irregularities in the pension fund..
I will never look at cactus' the same way again.......
Just A Random Fish cacti*
Don't ever charge a glass window in couple of time or you will fall I warmed you
Why you here I thought you were following the damn train..
I'm still cold. Warm me up more! >:(
@Scarecrow im dying lmao
@Scarecrow wanna start a second ussr
CJ, I know you fell off the hostipal roof to get the sniper again.
I have only heard of #3 until now.
The one of the window I saw it in *Curious & Unusual Deaths* on *Discovery Channel* .
The most strange one was the cactus 🌵 it must’ve really hurt
Yeah that would really suck
It wouldn’t hurt for long...
They do. I had a bird that flew into a cactus once and after that day, it was so traumatized that it never flew again.
1:00 now what
Them: "Which death did you find most strange?" Me: "The death of my brain cells."
2:19 that's very intelligent way of assassination
The 1st death was on 1000 ways to die, i remember watching it
I died once becauseof a cactus In minecraft
Misaka mikoto 1032 lol
My death was by creeper he looks like a catus
Misaka mikoto 1032 g
I died while concentrating on cutting down a cactus, the thing that killed me was an Antlion charger
Grineer Lancer #2479 what chapter was that ? Highway 17 ? Or GMOD ?
Quick question ? Did the window break?
No
@@sebby324 HOW IT FELL SOOOO FAR
0:53-0:54 Erm, Simple History... did you notice that Hoyer and the glass pane grew from the height of 2m, to 8m?
I thought the last one was the strangest. I mean if you did tests and all of it failed would you still do it? It’s like asking for death
On paper it should have worked, but he made one really dumb mistake: he forgot to add his own body weight to his equations.
Because the suit was meant to open by stretching arms, since a test dummy can't do that he thought of trying it himself.
Also aside from the very obvious problem of him needing to do very precise calculations if he didn't want to die about his mass, the difference between the dummies ans himself, the material the parachute is made of probably and all that physics stuff, it also doesn't make sense that he wanted to have his first alive human test commence from several hundred godamn feet in the air. Just extremely questionable all around.
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Another great historic video ❤️
The one i find most strainge is the glass PAIN one as it did not shatter when he bashed into it
2:35 this one has been filmed. You can see him jump and fall to his death. It's on you tube.