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It's that time again. It's becoming a reader favorite and Halloween tradition for us to count down those ridiculously over-the-top gruesome urban myths that, oh by the way, happen to be true. This is our third year (HERE is the first one, and HERE is the second) and once again these stories prove that truth is far more horrifying than fiction. #6.
Man Killed by Saw-style Explosive Neck Device
The Legend: So all those convoluted puzzles and traps the Jigsaw killer uses, they're all just so ridiculous, right? Who would actually go through all that trouble?
So then you run into somebody on the Internet who heard about how a real guy showed up at a bank and said he had an explosive collar around his neck that would deposit his brains all over the walls unless he robbed the bank on behalf of a criminal mastermind. Oh, please. The Truth: On a day like any other in late August 2003, pizza deliveryman Brian Wells was about to end his shift when a fateful order came in. The directions given to Brian led him to a winding, deserted, dirt road that ended at a lonely TV tower. Now most people upon arriving at the spooky deserted road would have just tossed the pizzas in the ditch, but not Brian Wells. He was dedicated to his minimum-wage delivery job. What exactly happened on that dirt road is still subject to debate, but what we do know is that around an hour later he reappeared at the aforementioned bank, with the collar contraption around his neck, a homemade shotgun shaped like a walking cane in his hand, and a note demanding a quarter million dollars in cash. Unfortunately for Brian he was about as good at robbing banks as he was at avoiding obvious horror movie set-ups, and was apprehended by the police in the parking lot. The cops quickly discovered the collar, but just took it for a stylish ticking fashion accessory, and didn't bother to call the bomb squad for nearly half an hour. By the time the bomb squad did arrive, the collar had gone off, blowing a "postcard-sized" hole in Wells's chest.
The police found a list of tasks on Wells's body, each of which were to be completed in a set period of time or the bomb would go off. Poor Brian was doomed from the start though, as it was later determined it would have been impossible for him to execute all the tasks even if everything had gone according to plan. He simply hadn't been given enough time. While supposedly all those responsible for putting the collar on Brian Wells have since been caught and charged, the addition of the weird, wacky, walking cane shotgun leads us to believe that there may have been another perpetrator that hasn't yet been brought to justice.
#5.
The Call from Beyond the Grave
The Legend: This one sounds like a modern update on a timeless campfire story: Someone receives numerous calls from a friend or family member, only to find out later THEY WERE DEAD THE WHOLE TIME. The Truth: On September 12, 2008, a California commuter train ran through a red warning light, crashing into a freight train, killing 25 people.
The family of Charles Peck, knowing he was on the train, watched the news with dread waiting for news of his fate--and then they got a call. Then another, and another, all from Charles's cell phone. One family member after another was called, with Charles's cellphone sending out 35 calls in total, at which point, ghost calls or not, we're sure they just started letting the things go to voicemail.
The police managed to find Charles's body among the wreckage by tracking his cell phone signal, but it was not a happy reunion. Charles was dead, and to this day how those calls were sent remains a mystery. Now, how about some irony with your creepy? Guess what the train's engineer was distracted by when he ran past that red light? Yup, in a twist that would be cut from a Twilight Zone episode for being too cheesy, it was his cell phone. God's not only a cruel bastard, but a hack horror writer as well apparently. #4.
The Deadly Elevator
The Legend: The metal doors clamp down on a hapless victim, who can do nothing but scream in terror as the elevator dings and begins to rise, shearing off their head or limbs as it does. It's a scene that's turned up in several cheesy horror movies (including one movie based entirely around a murderous elevator). But surely this kind of thing doesn't happen in real life. There are safety measures, right? Right? The Truth: Well yes, there are, but for whatever reason they were of no help to Dr. Hitoshi Nikaidoh on August 16, 2003. Why didn't the elevator open again, or shut down when the doctor became pinned between the doors at the shoulders as he was getting on? To this day nobody's exactly sure, but inspectors have suggested the tragedy may have been caused by a single out of place wire.
How much damage can one skewed wire cause? Well, as the doors held Dr. Nikaidoh in place like a vice, the elevator began its ascent. It sliced his head in two at mouth-level, leaving only his left ear and lower jaw attached to his body. Found that a little nauseating to read? Well suck it up, and try to imagine what it was like for the other person in the elevator with him. She was a nurse who then had to spend up to an hour in a blood-soaked box with the good doctor's head. We're surprised they didn't find her scaling the elevator cables like John McClane to get the hell out of there. Of course, we're just being alarmist when we act like a single wire could come dislodged at any time and kill your ass. Oh, wait, actually around 30 people are killed by elevators each year. |
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That poor nurse must be in an insane asylum. An hour in an elevator with a decapitated head? *BARF*
Wow, I am completely baffled by one of the sections of this article! The one about the calls from someone beyond the grave...I knew Charles Peck pretty well. He was my best friend's dad. CJ (Charles' son) was my best friend from elementary up until high school. When he later told me that his dad had died in the train accident, I was upset to hear it. However, he never told me about the phone calls he got from his dad's cell phone. Only from reading this article did I learn about the phone calls. I have no idea how that could have happened. Wow...
From the linked article, "Elevators and escalators kill about 30 and injure about 17,100 people each year in the United States." That's elevators and escalators. You've got to figure the vast majority of those deaths are falling down escalators, being trampled to death on escalators or elevators, or suffering crowd crush deaths in elevators. And, I think it's equally likely the white guy in the photo of the shrunken heads is a customs agent. It's like seeing a guy with a large collection of elephant ivory and presuming he's a poacher.
Thanks for citing the elevator accident. No one believes me when I tell them how dangerous elevators are, even if I cite the "thirty a year" stat. They think I'm lying. Now, I have internet validation, and that's all the validation I need.
Actually, a body farm WAS mentioned in the original CSI (that takes place in Las Vegas).
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Body farms WERE on CSI. they had an episode where one of the guys found a body that wasn't theirs also Caruso is on CSI: Miami, not the main one. the main one had the cool educated guy with the beard who likes bugs
I had to go back to the top to affirm how old Murff was when the near decapitation happened, he was already 74 and still working as a lumberjack. That is one tough man, even if this incident had never happened.I went to recheck it because the sentence "Murff survived, although that was the end of his lumberjack career" wasn't elaborated upon. I still would like to know whether he quit because he no longer was healthy enough (which I'm somehow doubting), or just because he realized it was no longer the best use of his time when he could be enjoying his family instead. I refuse to believe it was because he was too scared to go back, because anyone who can stay calm enough to hang their head down to drain the blood from his lungs every so often while going for help on a broken foot after nearly cutting his head off is not an easily frightened person. gifts for her
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ugh thats wierd i live in Knoxville Tn and now jsut because i know that im going to have to move
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they have zombie cam! "if anything moves the camera will record it. where looking at possums and raccoons" but you're going to get reanimated cadavers coming to feast on your brains....
@yakasak20, haha yeah, that nurse really dropped the ball on that one the body farm video was slightly disturbing, it just seems quiet random to have dead people just decaying in the woods for people to gawk at. 'sides, who would volunteer to rot in a wood?? who would thiink "aw yeah thats some cool s**t right there" if i did something with my dead corpse id probs donate my organs ;) great article xD
Why didn't the nurse just press the "Door Open" button? I mean, you need a door opened, pressing the button that is designed to open the door seems like a pretty good choice to make. Or the Emergency Stop?
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