27 Horrifying Deaths People Will Never, Ever, Ever, Ever Forget Because They Were THAT Bad

Warning: Graphic content ahead, including stories of murder.

A while back, on r/AskReddit, user daddadnc posed the question, "What's the most horrifying real-life death you've heard about?" and received a shocking number of responses. And they were allllllll awful. Check it out:

Warning: Some extremely graphic stories ahead.

1. "That cave diver who got stuck upside down in a cramped dead end, couldn't be physically pulled back out, and subsequently died."

—Kyadagum_Dulgadee

"Nutty Putty cave. Haunts my dreams. If I think about it too much I get stupid anxious and have to distract myself."

—Friendly_Afternoon19

The Nutty Putty Cave incident happened in 2009 in Utah when 26-year-old John Jones became trapped upside down (inverted) after mistakenly going down the wrong, extremely narrow passage he thought was the “Birth Canal.” Rescue teams worked for over a day to free him, but the awkward position and tight space made it impossible, and he tragically died stuck in the cave, which was later sealed permanently.

2. "The Dutch teenager who bungee jumped to her death in Spain because she misheard, 'No jump!' as, 'Now jump!' Maybe not the most horrifying, but absolutely terrible and tragic."

—JohnKlositz

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3. "The guy who was boiled alive in a Yellowstone spring. He illegally jumped into it while his sister recorded the entire thing on her cellphone. His body actually dissolved."

—DefenestrationPraha

4. "A man named Jose Melena was cleaning an industrial oven at work. A coworker didn’t check if anyone was inside, filled it with tuna, and turned it on. I just can’t imagine how awful it would be knowing what was about to happen to you."

—PoliteCanadianSaysHi

5. "The woman who got 'eaten' by an escalator. Her legs fell through the panel at the top of the escalator, and she threw her child at the two mall employees waiting there (they knew something was wrong with the panel, but didn't know how to stop the escalator). I haven't seen any aftermath pictures, but I assume it was bad."

—4tran13

6. "Back in the mid-'70s, my mother worked at one of the many sewing factories in the southern US. They had gone on break around 10 a.m. and noticed the lineman working on the pole. They came out for lunch at noon, and he was still up there, but not moving. He had grabbed a live wire, and it fried him in place. Had to break his arms to get him down... He was also the father of one of my school buddies."

—mrxexon

7. "A truckload of hot asphalt for resurfacing roads was accidentally dumped on a teenager in my province. He would have died instantly, but other people on the crew still got severe, severe burns trying to dig him out."

—DryAd2325

8. "Thirty years ago in Toronto, a Greyhound bus flipped on the Gardiner Expressway. The bus jumped ninety degrees to the right. Passengers were impaled by the filthy salt-encrusted guardrail."

—FunAd2303

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9. "A similar story only happened in Australia. A wedding party was on a bus that rolled onto its side, decapitating some, allegedly, and killing a total of 10 people.

—Less_Understanding77

10. "I think about that Russian tourist who was eaten by a shark in Egypt. His dad was watching and saw his son get eaten chunk by chunk. At one point, he was completely flipped upside down and pulled under… Brutal"

—[deleted]

11. "The Thunder River Rapids Ride accident of 2016 at Dreamworld in Queensland, Australia. Basically, due to a mechanical failure, the water levels dropped, two rafts collided, and many passengers fell out or became trapped near the conveyor mechanism. Four people died. It was incredibly public and incredibly gruesome."

—jamesfluker

12. "Kid I went to high school with went out in the forest just to wander on his own. As a kid at heart, he decided to climb some trees for fun. Either a branch broke or he slipped and fell far enough to break his back. That didn't kill him, though. It was winter and it started to snow. He lay there, unable to move, as he slowly got buried in snow. By the time they found him, he had frozen to death. That shit still eats at my brain sometimes. He was such a nice guy."

—OvechknFiresHeScores

13. "After Pearl Harbor was attacked, they raised the hulk of one of the sunken battleships and found one of the compartments had a calendar scratched onto the wall indicating someone had survived in the partially flooded room for like two weeks."

—Oontz541

14. "I had a friend who was engaged to an underwater electrician or welder. I mean, this man would go so far down that it was completely black. Long story short, he went down one day and never came back up. I don’t remember if something ruptured or if he was shocked to death, but I remember thinking how awful it must have been to have died in such an abysmal place."

—Sun_Stealer

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15. "My cousin walked under a grain auger, and the hood of his hoodie got caught in it. He was sucked up into it and decapitated before it could be shut off. My grandpa had to clean his head out of the auger. This happened over 20 years ago. I was a child who did not witness it firsthand."

—GenericHam

16. "There was an old guy who lived down the road from me, he wasn't good on his feet, so he only used the bottom half of his house. He went to bed one night but fell in front of his old electric heater next to his bed in the living room and couldn't get up again. The poor bloke was cooked alive. When the paramedics turned up, they had to go into the garden to vomit; it was horrific, apparently. I only know this because a couple of family members went to see what was happening when an ambulance turned up at his house; I'm not sure who called it. They said it was truly awful. The guy survived for a while in the hospital with his injuries, but unfortunately died. He must have been in front of the heater for hours."

—36ChambersOfDef

17. "In Victoria, Australia, some freeways have these 'speed wires' which are like three cables strung along a fence instead of your standard solid barrier. The first time I drove to uni it was raining and a motorcyclist fell off in front of me, hitting these cables and exploding. His head flew about 50 meters before it splattered on the road. Pretty fucked thing for a 19-year-old to see."

—Ariies__

18. "Race car driver Russ Phillips was killed when his car hit a catch fence roof first, and his upper body was dragged along the fence, leaving pieces of his body all along the fencing. He was decapitated and shredded in half."

—Cultural_Magician105

19. "My parents. My dad had a heart event and fell into a cistern watering the farm animals and drowned. My mom went looking for him, and from what investigators told us, she tried to pull him out, fell, bumped her head, and drowned as well. They were 78 and 76."

—detta001jellybelly

20. "I heard a story from WWI that many times, when people had been charged, gotten hurt, and were immobile from their injuries, you could hear their screams for help while being eaten alive by rats over the course of several nights."

—mrinkyface

21. People being walled up inside a brick column or wall. The punishment is called immurement. The last one I heard of was a serial killer in the early 1900s. They walled him inside the corner of a building. People said they could hear him screaming for mercy for three days before he fell silent. Imagine: Inside a cold, damp, pitch-black chamber too cramped to stand or sit down. Most likely, it was crawling with bugs. No food, no water, no mercy. I imagine he went mad before the second day was up because he knew death was the only escape."

—HamsterMachete

"I visited Auschwitz. They had a few of these. It's horrifying — it's just big enough so that the wall doesn't support you if you lean, but it's narrow enough so you can't sit down. You just have to stand. By yourself. For days or weeks or months."

—Ragnarok61690

22. "A guy I knew of flew himself and his family to Florida from the Midwest for a Christmas Disney trip in his personal plane. He was flying in some lower-seated clouds when his engine died. He tried a couple of things to restart his engine, but couldn’t get it to come back. When he came out of the clouds, he was over a forest with no way to glide somewhere to land, and had to put it down in the trees and hope. The crash killed himself, his wife, and two of his three kids, except for his youngest daughter, who walked two miles barefoot in the late December snow to find help, but she survived."

"The horrific part to me is that this guy's plane had two separate fuel tanks. One in the left wing, and one in the right wing. The reason the engine died was because it was fuel-starved. The pilot had been flying on a single tank for the entire flight until that point but had another wing filled with fuel. He could’ve saved his family's lives as well as his own and prevented his daughter's trauma if he had just made sure to follow the checklists that pilots of that airframe practice religiously every day."

—ForearmDeep

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23. "The most terrifying one I have a personal connection to was a man my father knew who was slowly sucked into an industrial fan."

—Chroderos

24. "I knew a guy (friend’s older brother) who jumped off a 90-foot cliff in Montana and landed on the rocks…at a popular river hangout. He died instantly, and about 50 people witnessed it, including a bunch of my friends. I’m glad I was working that day, otherwise I definitely would have been there."

—mctomtom

25. "The woman in China who got stuck in an elevator for a month. When they eventually found her there were scratch marks on the door and her hands were bloody from trying to get out."

—The_Rural_Banshee

26. "Twenty years ago, on the TTC (the transit system in Toronto), a guy with a knapsack was late to get up and out the door at his subway stop. He got onto the platform, but the doors closed on his backpack. The train continued to drag him down the platform before slamming into the wall by the tunnel."

—FunAd2303

27. Finally, "A man in Vernon, British Columbia, was visiting his mom after his dad's funeral. He tripped over his mom's open dishwasher door and was impaled to death on upturned knives."

—oddlotz

Now it's your turn. What's the most horrifying real-life death you've heard about? Tell us in the comments or via the anonymous comments form below and, who knows, maybe there'll be a part two!

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