Death
Alternate Accelerator
Is one's knee action as forceful, subtle and easy to control as foot action?
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Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 03, 2021 -
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Category: Death, Inventions, 1930s, Cars
Blood drips from ceiling
News that could be in a horror story: Down in El Paso, Texas, Ana Cardenas was recently woken by something dripping on her face. She turned on her light and discovered it was blood. And blood was also splattered on her walls.Turned out a man in the apartment above had died (of natural causes) and the blood from his decomposing body had eventually made its way through the floor into Cardenas's bedroom. Her ceiling fan was splattering the blood as it dripped into her room.
Posted By: Alex - Wed May 19, 2021 -
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Category: Death, Horror
Escaped Tiger, 1915 Version
The tale of the Houston Tiger is okay, but not a patch on the 1915 event.
Source: The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California 03 Oct 1915, Sun Page 11
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 13, 2021 -
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Category: Animals, Death, Hollywood, 1910s
A Wake in Hell’s Kitchen
Posted By: Paul - Sat May 08, 2021 -
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Category: Death, Movies, Twentieth Century, Alcohol
“Dumbbell Lethal”
Source: The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington) 25 Jun 1960, Sat Page 19
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 30, 2021 -
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Category: Accidents, Death, Hollywood, 1960s
Jiminy Cricket’s Safety Songs
The first song from the album is in the video, but the entire album is here for your listening pleasure.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 27, 2021 -
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Category: Death, Insects and Spiders, Movies, Music, PSA’s, Children, 1950s
Unlikely Reasons for Murder No. 4
Being the victim of hypnotism pretty much qualifies as unusual cause for murder.The scan of the story at this source is defective, so some text missing. The second scan gives a condensed version without reference to hypnotism. There is a discontinuity in the text in the second piece as well, and a truncated ending--but that's the way the article appeared.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 08, 2021 -
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Category: Death, Hypnotism, Mesmerism and Mind Control, Nineteenth Century
Death by pet rock
Gwen Jackson's death in 1982 seems to be the only instance of a 'pet rock' being used as a murder weapon.Although I think the media sensationalized the case. The rock in question seems to have been a rock given as a gift. It wasn't an actual 'pet rock'.
Tucson Citizen - Mar 19, 1982
However, the manual that came with Pet Rocks, "The Care and Training of Your Pet Rock," did include a section on "Attack Training" your pet rock. So their use as a weapon was anticipated.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Mar 25, 2021 -
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Category: Death, Fads, 1980s
Early Jim Henson Commercials
Full story here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 23, 2021 -
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Category: Death, Puppets and Automatons, Television, Advertising, Coffee and other Legal Stimulants, 1950s, 1960s
Unlikely Reasons for Murder No. 3
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Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 26, 2021 -
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Category: Death, Hypnotism, Mesmerism and Mind Control, 1900s
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