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List - Weird Ways People Have Died from July 21st, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: I have a you know, if we need an emergency link,
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  Speaker 1: we do have. We need one locked and loaded.
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  Speaker 2: All right, It's Radio from Hell with another list because
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  Speaker 2: people love a good list, Act ninety six.
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  Speaker 1: I have a list of thirty really weird ways people
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  Speaker 1: have died.
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  Speaker 3: Just general people, not celebrities or some celebrities, Okay.
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  Speaker 1: In fifteen sixty seven, Hans Steinger reportedly died after tripping
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  Speaker 1: over his famously long beard during a fire at an inn.
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  Speaker 1: The tale appears in local histories and museums that display
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  Speaker 1: a preserved beard attributed to him.
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  Speaker 2: They managed to preserve his beard. Wow, is a door
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  Speaker 2: a duncan?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? I know, I know she got her scarf. She
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  Speaker 3: wore a long scarf. You know, is a door duncan?
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  Speaker 2: You know who that was?
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  Speaker 3: She was a famous dancer and she got her long
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  Speaker 3: scarf caught in the spokes or the wheels of a
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  Speaker 3: sports car. It's true, took off and it just really
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  Speaker 3: ripped her head off.
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  Speaker 1: As nineteen twenty seven. In nineteen nineteen, the Great Molasses Flood.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, I've heard of this.
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  Speaker 1: A storage tank burst in Boston, sending a wave of
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  Speaker 1: molasses through the streets at high speed. It's molasses.
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  Speaker 2: How does it go at high speed? Yes? No, it's what?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 3: What What time of the year was it, because it's
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  Speaker 3: the saying is you're as slow as molasses in James
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  Speaker 3: else you know. So it was in the summer, but
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  Speaker 3: there was a TV show made about that.
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  Speaker 1: The surge killed twenty one people and injured many others.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't say what the date was. How about the London
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  Speaker 1: beer flood? Of that failure at the Horseshoe Brewery in
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  Speaker 1: eighteen fourteen released thousands of barrels of beer into London.
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  Speaker 1: The rush of the liquid damaged buildings and killed at
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  Speaker 1: least eight people.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, who are not really unhappy to die?
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  Speaker 1: In fifteen eighteen, Strasburg saw a dancing plague, in which
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  Speaker 1: people reportedly danced for days. Some accounts describe exhaustion related deaths.
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  Speaker 1: Historians debate the causes, ranging from illness to social stream.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've heard of that one, and they thought it
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  Speaker 3: might have been some mass hysterios some sort.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see astronomer Tycho bray Brahe died in sixteen oh
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  Speaker 1: one after a banquet at A popular story claimed that
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  Speaker 1: a burst bladder from etiquette, meaning he had to had
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  Speaker 1: to go yet, but he held it.
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  Speaker 3: I No, I don't believe that. I think Tycho brahe
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  Speaker 3: might have discovered.
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  Speaker 1: Venus lawyer Clement Waldingham accidentally shot himself in eighteen seventy
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  Speaker 1: one while showing a jury how a victim might have
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  Speaker 1: self inflicted a wound. He died of his injuries, while
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  Speaker 1: the client he defended.
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  Speaker 2: Was a quitted. It was the ultimate defense, wasn't it.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen twelve, inventor Franz Riilect jumped from the Eiffel
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  Speaker 1: Tower to test a wearable parachute. You can guess what happened.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't really work out there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, nineteen seventy five, Robert Williams was struck by a
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  Speaker 1: robot arm at a Ford plant in Michigan. One of
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  Speaker 1: the first recorded industrial robot fatalities.
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  Speaker 2: Go back to the guy jumping off the Eiffel Tower.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, noww what year was that?
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  Speaker 1: That was nineteen twelve.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because now people they've invented, you know, the technology
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  Speaker 3: is better, and people do that kind of thing routinely
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  Speaker 3: with base jumping.
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  Speaker 1: A radio scum, you guys will remember this. Yeah. In
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, radio station contestant Jennifer Strange died
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  Speaker 1: from water intoxication after a Hold Your Wii for a
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  Speaker 1: Wii challenge in California. The incident highlighted the dangers of drink.
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  Speaker 1: You wouldn't think you could die from drinking too much water,
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  Speaker 1: but you can die.
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  Speaker 3: One of the guys, one of the disc jockeys who
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  Speaker 3: was involved in that, came to a convention we were
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  Speaker 3: out and spoke to it.
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  Speaker 1: You guys know the guy that invented the segue? How
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  Speaker 1: he died?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Dean Cayman. No, I yeah, he was off a cliff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, on his segue.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, rode it off a cliff on purpose. I don't
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  Speaker 2: I think he don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it was on purpose or not.
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  Speaker 1: Nineteen thirty three, Toronto lawyer Gary Hoy fell from a
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  Speaker 1: high rise during a demonstration about the strength of glass.
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  Speaker 1: He had bounced safely off interior panes before a different
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  Speaker 1: pain popped from its frame and he fell. Daredevil Bobby
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  Speaker 1: Leech survived going over Niagara Falls in a barrel in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eleven, but later slipped on an orange peel in
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand. The leg injury became infected and he died
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  Speaker 1: after complications. So he survived going over Niagara Falls.
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  Speaker 3: It would be interesting to know how many people have
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  Speaker 3: tried to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and
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  Speaker 3: how many have survived.
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  Speaker 1: I Detective Alan Pinkerton reportedly slipped on a Chicago sidewalk
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  Speaker 1: in eighteen eighty four, bit his tongue and developed a
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  Speaker 1: fatal infection. He died of sepsis.
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  Speaker 2: From biting his tongue.
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  Speaker 3: Hee.
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  Speaker 1: Sweden's King Adolph Frederick died in seventeen seventy one after
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  Speaker 1: a famously heavy meal. Chronickers blamed over indulgence. Physicians today
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  Speaker 1: note we can't confirm the precise cause, but apparently he
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  Speaker 1: ate himself to death.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Kreosote, Yeah, dwaff of thin.
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  Speaker 1: Composer Jean Baptiste Lully stuck his foot with a conducting
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  Speaker 1: staff like struck skeeward his foot during a sixteen eighty
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  Speaker 1: seven performance and refused amputation. The infection worsened and he
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  Speaker 1: died weeks later. A man in Washington State died in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and four after heating a lava lamp on
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  Speaker 1: a stove. The device exploded and a shard killed him.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, why was he?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: I got a couple more. You don't me keep going on.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty thirteen, a man in Belarus died after a
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  Speaker 1: beaver bit his leg, severing an artery when he approached
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  Speaker 1: the animal for a photo.
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  Speaker 2: Don't do that, death by beaver. Let's see they're notoriously shy.
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  Speaker 1: Australian rugby player Sam Ballard fell ill after swallowing a
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  Speaker 1: slug on a dare and later died from complications. They
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  Speaker 1: said it caused a lungworm disease.
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  Speaker 2: So slugs are poisonous. I guess so wow.
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  Speaker 1: Author Sherwood Anderson died in nineteen forty one after a
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  Speaker 1: periodontis reportedly caused by a swallowed toothpick.
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  Speaker 2: I knew that one.
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  Speaker 1: George Herbert, the fifth Earl of Camra Vaughan, died in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen twenty three from an infected mosquito bite, shortly after
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  Speaker 1: opening King Tut's tomb. Oh the timing helped fuel the
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  Speaker 1: curse legends. Despite the clear medical explanation, this was a curse.
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  Speaker 1: A curse. In sixteen twenty six, fronts As Bacon caught
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  Speaker 1: a chill while experimenting with preserving meat by packing chicken
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  Speaker 1: with snow. He developed pneumonia and died. Good ridding, Let's
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  Speaker 1: see you want one more?
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  Speaker 2: Okay? Sure?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? Do you know how Moliere died?
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  Speaker 3: Bill the French The French playwright Moliere, I, I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to say blood.
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  Speaker 1: Letting playwright Moliir collapsed while performing his material, his satirical
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  Speaker 1: play The Imaginary Invalid in sixteen seventy three, and died
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  Speaker 1: shortly after the irony of a performer portraying illness while
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  Speaker 1: fatally ill.
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  Speaker 2: Has kept the stake. I should have known that because
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  Speaker 2: I was in that play. Well, be careful, Bill, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not in it now. Laser dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wait, here's one more. King Alexander of Greece died
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen twenty after infection from a monkey bite turned
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  Speaker 1: septic monkey bite. I don't know how.
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  Speaker 2: Well he'd ordered one of those squirrel monks through the mail.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we've hoped you'd enjoyed another list with Radio from
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  Speaker 3: Hell on X ninety six