Deaths That Should Have Been Impossible, Explained

Nine deaths that the people who witnessed them called impossible: a double murder in a house full of people that nobody heard, a lawyer who went through a window that had held for twenty years, a mother of three killed by a radio contest, a silk scarf, a parachute suit, a pistol in the wrong pocket, a toothpick, a headphone cord and a gallon of carrot juice a day. Each one was investigated, and each explanation turned out to be stranger than the rumor before it. This video walks through all nine cases and the exact mechanism behind every death, from Lizzie Borden in 1892 to a prison cell in 1989. ____ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ About this Video: Every death in this video was, to the people who saw it happen, impossible. None of them were. Each one has an explanation that was already sitting in a medical textbook, an engineering manual or a warning from a stranger on a radio phone line before the death took place. The nine cases: Lizzie Borden, Fall River 1892, two hatchet killings about ninety minutes apart in a house with other people inside, a jury that acquitted her in ninety minutes, and the evidence it was never allowed to hear. Jennifer Strange, Sacramento 2007, the Hold Your Wee for a Wii contest, close to six liters of water in three hours, water intoxication and a verdict of more than 16 million dollars. Garry Hoy, Toronto 1993, a lawyer on the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre who ran at a window that never broke. Basil Brown, England 1974, a gallon of carrot juice a day plus vitamin A tablets, around 70 million units in ten days. Isadora Duncan, Nice 1927, a hand-painted silk scarf and an open wire-spoked wheel. Franz Reichelt, Paris 1912, a tailor who jumped from the Eiffel Tower in a parachute suit of his own design while a film crew rolled. Clement Vallandigham, Ohio 1871, a defense lawyer who shot himself in a hotel room proving his own theory of the case. Sherwood Anderson, 1941, the author of Winesburg, Ohio, killed by a toothpick from a martini olive. Michael Godwin, South Carolina 1989, a man who escaped the electric chair on appeal and was electrocuted by a headphone cord while sitting on a steel toilet. For every case you get what happened, what the investigators found and the physics, medicine or engineering that explains it. No gore, no speculation, no supernatural. Just the mechanism. If you like cases that only make sense once someone explains them, subscribe. ____ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ What you will learn in this video: ● Why two hatchet murders ninety minutes apart in the Borden house went unheard, and which evidence the jury never saw ● How six liters of water killed Jennifer Strange, and why the headache she mentioned on air was the warning ● Why Garry Hoy's window never broke, and what actually gave way on the 24th floor ● How a gallon of carrot juice a day and vitamin A tablets destroyed Basil Brown's liver in about ten days ● Why Isadora Duncan's silk scarf did more than strangle her, and the three ordinary things that combined ● Why Franz Reichelt's parachute suit could not open at 57 meters, or at any height ● How Clement Vallandigham shot himself demonstrating that his client was innocent ● How a toothpick from a martini olive killed Sherwood Anderson, and why doctors could not find it in time ● Why Michael Godwin survived the electric chair and died on a steel toilet with a headphone cord ____ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ #FreakDeaths #ImpossibleDeaths #StrangeDeaths #LizzieBorden #TrueCrime #Explained #HistoryExplained #UnsolvedMysteries