On April the 11th 1890, Joseph Merrick wanted to do what most of us take for granted, he wanted to sleep lying down. This simple act dislocated his neck and he died from asphyxiation aged just 27.

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Mary Vincent was 15 when Lawrence Singleton picked her up hitchhiking. He raped the teen, cut her arms off with a hatchet, and tossed her over a cliff. Miraculously, she climbed out and walked nearly three miles to safety.

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This photo was taken in a zoo in New Delhi, India, moments before this white tiger dragged this man by the neck into his den, where he eventually killed him. The whole fiasco lasted for about 15 minutes after the man, who tried to climb up the fence to see this rare tiger up close, slipped and fell into the cage.

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17-year-old Russian teenager Xenia Ignatyeva just wanted to take an epic selfie, and fortunately for her, she was able to capture it. Sadly though, she wasn’t able to live to share and tell the story herself, as she ended up losing her balance and falling to her death moments later.

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The guy pictured below is Ali Khan Samsudin, a famous snake charmer who regularly performed stunts with cobras. He is most known for locking himself in a room with 400 cobras for 40 days – something most people would consider their worst nightmare. Sadly, after years of doing this, one cobra decided it had enough of the “Snake King” and bit him fatally back in 2006.

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Pictured below are the remains of cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov as Soviet officials pay their respects at his open-casket funeral. He was the first cosmonaut to fly into space more than once. Sadly, he died after the Soyuz 1 space capsule he was on had a parachute failure upon reentry.

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Jose Melena was at work loading pallets of canned tuna into a 35-foot-long pressure cooker when a coworker filled it up with 12,000 pounds of tuna and turned it on for 2 hours while Jose was still inside. He was boiled to death.

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Texas Exotic Dancer Abigail Saldaña was shot and killed by her stalker 2 weeks after finding a tracking device he had placed on her car. After spending thousands of dollars a day on her, Stanley Szeliga wanted a relationship. When Abigail declined, he chased her down in traffic and shot her 3 times.

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Video of the tracking device put in Abigail's car.

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31-year-old Satanist Jaime Osuna was charged for killing his cellmate, 44-year-old Luis Romero. When Luis was asleep, Jamie killed him with a make-shift knife. He went on to cut off hia head, fingers, eyes, and ears, making himself a necklace out of Luis's body parts, that he wore in the prison.

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Transgender teen Brayla Stone, was found upside down dead inside a vehicle with a gunshot wound to the head just 3 weeks after her 17th birthday. Her boyfriend, 20 year old Trevone Miller, admitted to killing her after she threaten to "expose him" and he "didn't want people to think he was gay."

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"If I drown, who's going to come get me?" JW Ransom was hanging out with friends and family when they dared him to swim across a pond for a down payment on a car. Before entering the water, J.W. turned to ask them, "If I drown who's going to come get me?" He drowned while trying to swim across.

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58-year-old homeless man Lee Stewart died after he fell asleep inside of a dumpster and was crushed to death by a garbage truck.

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After overcoming his serious health problems, Richard Pananian's family performed a matagh, (sacrifice to god) sacrificing a lamb to keep Richard in good health. 5 days later, Richard died in a bizarre car accident in which he was ejected from his vehicle and landed on top of a highway street sign.

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Tameka Hargrave died while cheating on her husband with her car mechanic. Tameka and the mechanic were having sex in a closed garage while the car was running when they both passed out from the fumes and died. They were later found by her husband.

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This picture was taken in The Station nightclub, Rhode Island, USA in 2003. At first glance, it might appear like everything is fine, but in the background you can see a fire starting. The whole venue eventually went up in flame’s killing 100 people. To this day, this remains one of the deadliest nightclub incidents in history.

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In 2015, TransAsia Airways Flight 235 crashed into the Keelung River after clipping this bridge, killing 43 people.

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Ashton Neroes (was also known as social media's "Best Dad") would shock his thousands of followers after he shot his wife 10 times in front of their kids after she caught him cheating and asked for a divorce.

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In 2020, Azam Mangori murdered Lorraine Cox in his room above an Exeter kebab shop then cut her body into seven pieces. This is him leaving his apartment with her body in his bag.

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Omaima Nelson was a former model who married her husband Bill Nelson days after meeting him. Just one month later on Thanksgiving day, she murdered him by stabbing him with a pair of scissors and cut his head and hands off boiling them in a pot. She then cut his penis off and said she ate his ribs.

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In 2015, Fidel Lopez ‘ripped out his girlfriend's intestines after she called out her ex's name during sex. He was given life in prison with no chance of parole.

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