Actors who died in the middle of filming 🧵

1. Vic Morrow and two child actors were killed on the set of “The Twilight Zone” while filming a scene involving a helicopter. A pyrotechnic explosion caused the helicopter to crash, fatally striking all three. Morrow was decapitated. 2. Philip Seymour Hoffman died of a heroin overdose with 10 days left of filming “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”. Instead of recasting, the studio used CGI sparingly, reassigned some of his lines to Woody Harrelson and incorporated existing footage to complete his scenes.

People who died after getting trapped in tiny spaces 🧵 1. In 1925, Floyd Collins became trapped in Sand Cave when a loose rock pinned his ankle. Buried up to his waist in debris, he perished before rescuers could reach him. His body was later displayed in the cave, but his remains were eventually stolen.

Celebrities who survived murder attempts 🧵 1. In 1976, unknown gunmen attacked Bob Marley, his wife, and his manager two days before a concert aimed at uniting Jamaica's political factions. Marley was lightly injured but performed anyway. The assailants were never identified. Marley died of cancer in 1981.

The longest prison sentences ever served 🧵 10. Warren Nutter spent 65 years, 10 months, 6 days in prison.

At 18, he became the youngest man sentenced to death in Iowa for killing a patrolman during a gas station robbery.

His sentence was commuted to life in 1957. He died in 2021.

Celebrities who caused the death of other people.

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In 2012, “Sons of Anarchy” actor Johnny Lewis broke into the home of 81-year-old Catherine Davis, ransacked it, and killed both her and her cat. He later fell or jumped from a roof and died. 2. Prison Break actor Lane Garrison plead guilty to vehicular manslaughter in 2007 after he was involved in a drunk driving accident that killed the passenger of his car.

The final resting places of some of history's most famous figures 🧵

1. Micheal Jackson’s tomb at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in California. 2. The final resting place of Queen Elizabeth II at the King George VI Memorial Chapel at Windsor Castle.

A collection of videos showing some of history’s most terrifying natural disasters 🧵

Footage from the 2011 Great East Japan tsunami, which claimed over 18,000 lives and left thousands still unaccounted for. A man captures footage as the waves begin to roll in during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, unaware of the catastrophic destruction to come. The disaster ultimately claimed over 220,000 lives.

The strangest last meal requests made by death row inmates 🧵

1. Philip Workman took the life of a cop in 1982 and was sentenced to death. He requested that instead of a last meal, a pizza be donated to a local homeless person. His final request was denied. 2. James Edward Smith was executed in 1990 for capital murder in Texas after robbing a bank. For his last meal he requested a lump of dirt. The prison denied his request and he later settled on a plain yoghurt.

In May 1997, schoolboy Jamie Lavis was abducted and murdered by bus driver Darren Vickers. Pretending to help, Vickers moved in with the Lavis family and joined the search, even posing for numerous press photos like the one below. This is the heartbreaking story of Jamie Lavis 🧵 Jamie Lavis was the second of five children in a large family living in Manchester, England. On May 5, 1997, Jamie went out to play but never returned home. As panic set in, his family reported him missing, and both police and neighbors joined the search.

On September 8, 2009, Annie Le, a doctoral student at the Yale School of Medicine, was found hanging upside down inside a wall cavity in the basement of a Yale laboratory. Just five days later, she was supposed to be married. This is her heartbreaking story 🧵 On the morning of September 8, Le left her apartment traveled to the Sterling Hall of Medicine on Yale’s campus. Around 10 a.m., she walked from Sterling Hall to her research lab at 10 Amistad Street, leaving behind her purse, cell phone, credit cards, and cash in her office.

In 2014, Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon disappeared while hiking in the wilderness of Panama. Weeks later, their camera was discovered containing many unsettling photos. Two months after that, a human foot and a pelvis were found. This is their disturbing story 🧵 On April 1 at approximately 11:00 AM, they began hiking the El Pianista trail near the cloud forests surrounding Baru volcano, close to Boquete. However, when they missed an appointment with a local guide the following morning, concern began to grow.

In November 2009, Antoinette Davis sold her daughter, Shaniya, to Mario McNeill for s*x in order to settle a $200 debt. 24 hours later, Shaniya was found dead. This is her tragic story 🧵 On November 10, 2009, Antoinette Davis called the police and informed the authorities that her daughter had been kidnapped.

On March 27, 2009, 8-year-old Sandra Cantu vanished from Tracy, California. This footage shows her last known moments alive. Her body was discovered ten days later inside a suitcase in a local irrigation pond. This is her tragic story 🧵 Sandra was playing at a friend's house on March 27, 2009, before returning home around 4:00 p.m. She left later to play at another friend’s house but did not return for dinner. Her family reported her missing at 7:53 p.m.

In 2004, student Maura Murray emailed her college professors that there had been a death in her family, but this was a lie. Later that day, Maura mysteriously vanished after crashing her car. The more you learn about the case, the stranger it gets 🧵 On the evening of February 9, 2004, police were called about a car accident on Route 112 in Woodsville, New Hampshire. A black car with a woman at the wheel was stuck in a ditch.

In 1990, Talana Kreeger was brutally murdered in Wilmington by Ronald Sheldon Thomas, a long-haul truck driver from Tennessee. The level of brutality involved in the murder is genuinely disturbing. The more you read, the worse it gets 🧵 On the evening of February 21, 1990, Ronald Thomas and Talana Kreeger had been drinking and playing pool. They also argued about homosexuality, as Kreeger was a lesbian.

On January 24, 2006, 24-year-old Jennifer Kesse disappeared while heading to work. Her car was later discovered a mile from her home, and surveillance footage captured a mysterious man leaving her vehicle there. The more you learn, the stranger it gets 🧵 Jennifer Kesse lived in Orlando, Florida. She had a stable life, working as a finance manager, and was in a steady relationship, supported by her loving family. So, when Jennifer suddenly vanished without a trace, it seemed highly unlikely she disappeared willingly.

On September 14, 2007, 14-year-old Andrew Gosden bought a one-way ticket to London and traveled halfway across the UK alone. Upon arriving in the capital, he vanished without a trace and hasn’t been heard from since. The more you learn about the case, the stranger it gets 🧵 On the morning he vanished, Andrew had trouble waking up and appeared more irritable than usual. He left the house at 8:05 a.m. and was spotted by a family friend walking through a park toward his regular bus stop, but he never boarded the school bus that day.

In 2018, Mateusz Kawecki was en route to Poland to visit his pregnant fiancée but never arrived. 5 months later, his decap*tated body was discovered in a barn near his family home, far from where his girlfriend lived. The more you learn about the case, the stranger it gets… 🧵 Mateusz was a 30-year-old Polish construction worker from Hutków, who had been living and working in Hanover, Germany, for 5 years with his father. He was in a long-distance relationship with his pregnant fiancée in northwestern Poland. He left to see her on March 28, 2018.

Haunting items recovered from Ground Zero after 9/11.

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1. Terrorist Marwan Al-Shehhi's boarding pass for United Airlines flight 175, the aircraft that crashed into the South Tower. 2. This recovered police shield belonged to John William Perry. While he was at police headquarters filing his retirement papers, he heard the first explosion. He requested his badge and rushed to the tower to help. Perry was killed while assisting a woman in the South Tower as it collapsed. The NYPD posthumously awarded him the Medal of Honor.

Disturbing interviews with history’s most notorious serial killers.

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1. An interview with serial killer Aileen Wuornos, who killed seven people. She was executed on October 9, 2002, by lethal injection, after spending 10 years on death row. 2. Serial killer Ted Bundy talks about the murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach. After more than a decade of denials, before his execution he confessed to 30 murders.

The most insane near death encounters.

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1. In 2015 Larry McElroy shot his gun at an armadillo. The bullet bounced off the animal, hit a wall, traveled through the door of his mother-in-law’s home and the recliner in which she was sitting, hitting her. She survived. 2. In December 1963, while spearfishing off Australia's southern coast, Rodney Fox was attacked by a Great White Shark, suffering severe injuries including a punctured diaphragm, torn lung, pierced scapula, and exposed abdomen and organs. Rescuers left his wetsuit intact to keep his organs from spilling out. After four hours of surgery and 462 stitches, Fox survived one of the most severe non-fatal shark attacks in history.