if you go to Instagram Tik Tok yourmom.com or whatever your favorite social media platform is right now you'll see people praising celebrities like their gods but news flash celebs are mortal just like us not only that some celebs met their mortal ends in the weirdest grossest and most mysterious ways imaginable from toilet trouble to Darwin Award level stunts join me as we uncover the craziest ways that celebrities have met their [Music] maker John James John James was a Canadian rapper professional skier and stunt artist who was at the height of his Fame in the 2010s
it was a jack of all trads he even performed various daring stunts for his music videos pretty cool right however one trick went a little too far in 2018 James was performing a particularly ludicrous stunt For an upcoming music video he thought it'd be a good idea to walk along the wing of a plane oh this is while the aircraft was hundreds of feet in the air if that wasn't risky enough James was walking on the wing of a Cessna Aircraft a relatively small plane so when he wandered out on the wing the added weight
sent the plane into a downward spiral now James wasn't a complete you see he'd worn a parachute in case of an emergency however in the chaos he held on to the plan's Wing too long by the time he eventually let go he didn't have time to open his parachute and well you can guess the rest let's just hope they never release that music video Elvis Presley the king of rock and roll Elvis Presley is one of music's most iconic Stars despite peing in the 1950s he's still the third highest selling music artist in the world
pretty impressive right what's less impressive is the way Elvis bowed out by the time he hit his 40s Elvis's Health had taken a hit you see he had a particular passion for high-fat Foods most notably hamburgers and as he got older and his metabolism naturally slowed down his full fat lifestyle led to him weighing some 350 lb that's almost double the weight of today's average man however in 1977 at the age of 42 Elvis's overend es would catch up with him while uh relieving himself on the toilet Elvis who suffered from chronic constipation had a
heart attack but not just any heart attack this heart attack was brought on by something called Val sala's maneuver according to the coroner essentially he strained so hard trying to poop it compressed his aorta one of the main blood supplies to the heart and in doing so he gave himself a heart attack horrifyingly the king of rock and roll was found unresponsive by his girlfriend lying head down half naked on the bathroom floor that ain't exactly rock and roll now is it Dar Robinson now Dar Robinson was a famous American stunt performer and actor who
held 21 World stunt records from the 1960s through to the 1980s the king of the stuntmen as he was known is remembered for Feats like a 900t free fall from the CN tower bad ass sadly though this Daredevil couldn't Dodge danger forever in 1986 Robinson was filming as a stunt double for the action-packed movie Million dooll mystery for one stunt he had to crash his motorbike into a guard rail at 40 mph before vaulting over it into a safety net with the most daring task out of the way he could relax a little but that'd
be a big mistake hour later Robinson was involved in a routine motorbike chase scene after speeding down a hill he approached a sharp curve however instead of turning with the Curve the stunt man slipped losing control of his dirt bike before dropping down the craggy 40ft Cliff man how anticlimactic Steve Irwin if you grew up in the 9s then you know Steve Irwin was the man this Aussie Rose to fame as a lovable nature enthusiast TV presenter best known for his Wildlife series the crocodile hunter as the name suggests he was filmed with Crocs spiders
snakes essentially if it could kill you Steve found a way to get close to it and in September 2006 Steve was filming a new documentary called ocean's deadliest off the coast of eastern Australia while swimming in Shallow Waters Irwin came across a giant 8ft wide short tail Stingray now any sense of human would think to stay well away from a creature that big but not Steve bloody Irwin he obviously went in for a closer look knowing stingrays are usually Placid animals that if bothered will just swim away clearly though this particular Ray was having a
bad day as Irwin approached it the stingray propped up on its front and suddenly stabbed its 8in Barb into his chest Irwin thought the Barb had punctured his lung when in fact it had gone through his heart if that didn't sound lethal enough the Barb of a short tail Stingray is also venomous well at least he died doing what he loved sure as heck beats dying on the toilet at any rate it's the merch drop you've all been waiting for natural selection in action the poster every corner of this 34x 22in poster is filled with
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more Fearless than Steve Irwin but Bruce Lee might just be the Hong Kong American martial artist and actor found Fame performing in movies like Enter the Dragon the way of the dragon and popularized the iconic phrase be water my friend so so cool you'd imagine it'd take a lot to take this Legend down but that actually wasn't the case back in 1973 while acting out some scenes for an upcoming movie Lee complained of a headache and dizziness so his lover Betty Ting decided to give him a tablet of equagesic a strong aspirin based medication after
taking the tablet he went to sleep tragically though he'd never wake up again the coroner's official cause of the movie star's demise was a cerebral edema swelling of the brain triggered by an allergic reaction to the headache medication however a recent study argues the headache was actually a symptom of a more serious illness the study States Lee perished from kidney dysfunction for someone as trim as Bruce Lee that may seem odd but he often went on juice diets and drank excessive amounts of water in other words he'd done a lot of things that messed with
the water balancing systems in his body this set him up for hyponatremia where the body holds on to too much water causing symptoms like nausea cramping and you guessed it headaches an cases like the one that affected Lee hypona can even cause seizures and Rapid brain swelling I think maybe that was too much water my friend Jeff Buckley American singer songwriter Jeff Buckley Rose to Fame in the mid 1990s with the release of his cover of Hallelujah ironically though Buckley's end would be far from holy in 1997 Buckley was in Memphis recording for a followup
to his Smash Hit debut album Grace one Summer's afternoon Buckley along with his friend Keith fod were winding down the banks of the Wolf River a tributary off the Mississippi the singer decided to get in the water however he jumped in fully clothed not bothering to remove his T-shirt jeans or combat boots now swimming is much harder while clothed as the materials become extremely dense once wet dragging you down still Buckley was a confident enough swimmer so he didn't think much of it everything was going swimmingly until a boat came Buckley's way with Buckley passing
behind the boat his friend lost sight of him what happened next no one knows one thing was for sure though Buckley disappeared most likely the motion of the boat through the water created a turbulent flow which pulled the singer under after Buckley's body was spotted 5 days later a medical report showed had no traces of any substances in his system so this bizarre scene unfolded while he was completely sober wow that's almost less rock and roll than dying on the toilet John Denver but Jeff Buckley isn't the only singer to go down literally famous country
singer songwriter John Denver is known for classic hits like Take Me Home Country Road as well as Leaving on a Jet Plane creepily though John kind of sang about his own demise when he wasn't recording Smash Hits Jon enjoyed piloting aircraft over the course of his career he'd racked up more than 2,700 hours in the air however back in October 1997 Denver had just picked up a flashy new Long Easy aircraft and was Keen to take it for a test flight he took off from montere Peninsula airport before heading out over the Pacific Ocean it
was clear weather Blue Sky guys a perfect day to fly but at 5:28 p.m. several witnesses heard a loud bang Denver's plane had dropped straight down into the ocean but he was an experienced pilot what possibly could have happened well in his eagerness to fly Denver appeared to have forgotten to refuel the plane that's odd a licensed pilot would do thorough pre-flight checks for this sort of thing right well he wasn't actually licensed he'd had his licensed provoked more than a year before and now I think we know why man first Bruce Lee then Jeff
Buckley now John Denver celebrities and water do not mix Jim heselden not all celebs come from the Silver Screen Jim heselden for example found Fame as an entrepreneur developing the Hesco Bastion used for military fortifications with all the millions he made he acquired segue in Incorporated creators of the iconic two- whe personalized motor from its inventor in 2009 little did he know that decision would be his downfall after acquiring the company peelton presumably used the flashy wheeler to get about on one of his journeys the entrepreneur came across a dog walker now normally that'd be
fine but hesledon was riding his segue near a pretty daring drop in a bid to give the dog walker more room hesledon reversed back but in doing so he lost control of the segue before disappearing from sight can you guess where he ended up yep sadly both him and his segue dropped down 40 ft below neither survived well let's segue on to the next celeb shall we Xiao Chum whether it's Addison Ray Bap porch or Charlie dellio a new generation of celebs have emerged in recent years on the social media app Tik Tok it's no
different in China where 23-year-old chiao CH gained more than 100,000 followers on the Chinese equivalent doin Chi was a crane operator Who Rose to fame with her live streams live from the cabin one day in July 2021 Chom was filming a video like any other recording herself way up on the crane but somehow she took a misstep and fell out of the vehicle's cabin dropped in down 160 ft to her demise that'd be like falling off the top of Nelson's column in London that sounds bad but what's even more horrifying is that she held on
to her phone during the fall live streaming the whole tragic event social media is full of some freaky stuff but that might top it all or I guess technically bottom Timbo the redneck but xia Chom isn't the only tick tocker star to meet their maker in a harrowing way Timothy Hall otherwise known as Timbo the redneck gained more than 200,000 followers on Tik Tok posting videos of himself fishing performing gags and doing stunts in his beloved pickup truck big booty Judy huh nice however like all dangerous women Judy would be timbo's undoing back in 2021
the 18-year-old was doing donuts in Judy but was going way too fast he suddenly lost control of Judy before flying out of the driver's side window bruised and disoriented he didn't have the awareness to get out of the way before Judy flipped over landing on top of them damn well let that be a lesson the only Donuts you need in your life are the glazed kind escalus but it's not only in recent years that famous figures have suffered from some crazy twists of Fate nearly 2500 years before Tick Tock timbo's demise playright eolis was kicking
about out in ancient Greece known as the father of tragedy his nickname would become incredibly ironic one morning escalus ventured outside presumably to think up the plot of his next play unbeknownst to him an eagle which had just hunted down a tortoise was holding it in his Talons and flying above the story goes that the eagle mistook isis's shiny bald head for a rock and in an attempt to crack the tortoise's shell dropped it on isis's kn Noggin maybe the bird just hated his plays if that wasn't cursed enough it said eus had been staying
Outdoors to avoid a prophecy that he'd be taken down by a falling object when your Lux out your Lux out considering he was the father of tragedy there's a chance his end could have been fabricated by later Greek playwrights guess that makes this guy the first shell e yes I know it's a terrible joke there's a reason I'm a YouTuber and not a comedian King Henry the tortoises aren't the only animals to have struck down a celeb Henry the was one of the most famous men of the 12th century reigning as the king of England
from 1100 to 1135 now in the Middle Ages lamp rays were considered a delicacy among the elite King Henry had a bit of an obsession with these jaw as fish which are most famous for their hellish hooked tooth lined sucker mouth but during one of these Grim binge fests a contemporary chronicler claimed Henry was chowing down on a lamp Ray when without warning he suddenly doubled over and died wait did he choke did he have an allergic reaction what part of this gross Feast killed him exactly well improperly removing the lampe's mucus covering and failing
to wash the meat has been known to cause lampay poisoning in these cases people can suffer from from vomiting diarrhea and cramps but there are no confirmed fatalities so while that mucousy meal may have made Henry sick something else likely finished him off a recent research paper claimed the probable culprit was actually a bacteria called leria monocytogenes this deadly foodborn bacteria has a mortality rate of up to 30% with complications including menitis gastroent tritis and and sepsis the bacteria thrives in cold damp conditions similar to the ones present at Henry's Stone Fortress so the king
of England was either taken down by fish or germs I'm not sure which is worse Tao brahi is there any worse feeling in the world than when you're dying to take a leak but you can't get to the bathroom Tao brahi knew that feeling all too well brahi was a 16th century Danish as astronomer known for cataloging over 1,000 stars in his time being an astronomer you'd think brahi wouldn't have a very flamboyant lifestyle but that wasn't the case he kept a pet moose and he lost part of his nose while battling in a sword
duel famously wearing a brass one to replace it yet the most remarkable part of br's life was its ending in 1601 the Stargazer was invited to a banquet Midway through his meal he had a sudden urge to whiz but thinking it was bad etiquette brahi held it in and he did a pretty good job in fact he held it in so well that when he eventually got home hours later he could no longer pee for days after brahi was unable to take a whiz alongside that he began to experience insomnia a continuous fever and delirium
symptoms in keeping with someone suffering from a burst bladder eventually after 11 agonizing days rahi's bladder got the better of him yikes well now you know next time you need to take a leak at a banquet don't try and be polite Hans steininger while he may not be well known today Hans steininger was a big deal back in the mid-6th century he was the mayor of brono Amon in Austria but what really got eyeballs on this guy was his facial hair steininger dawned a famous 4 and 1/2 ft long beard stretching down past his feet
his fuzzy facial feature was so long he usually folded it up and stuffed it in his pocket in September 1567 there was a fire in brono amn in the days before fire engines and water hoses a blaze could quickly reduce a town to ashes so being the town's mayor the bearded boss knew he had to take action to fight the fire however amidst the chaos he forgot to fold up his beard while approaching a set of stairs steininger accidentally stepped on his beard throwing him off balance and making him fall down a flight of stairs
I guess you could say that trip was a Stairway to Heaven for him Rod hole ever been relaxing watching TV when all of a sudden it can be pretty frustrating can't it no one knew that feeling better than Rod Hull this guy was a famous British comedian and Entertainer popular in the 1970s and 80s it was never seen without his goofy puppet sidekick emu in 1999 Hull was watching a soccer match with his son Oliver in their living room but all of a sudden the picture cut out annoyed instead of ringing a professional Paul decided
to fix the issue himself by getting a ladder and climbing onto his roof to adjust the aerial waiting in the living room to tell his dad if the picture returned Oliver suddenly heard a crash followed by a thud but but that wasn't the aerial falling what he'd actually heard was his dad losing his balance crashing through their greenhouse and landing on its concrete floor o all I can say is thank God satellite TV is a thing of the past Sunny Bono long before Beyonce and Jay-Z or Megan and Harry there was another Power couple who
rocked the world sunny and share this American pop and entertainment Duo peaked in the 19 60s and70s featuring the goddess of pop Sher and her former husband Sunny while you've likely heard of Sher Sunny was a big deal back in the day too whether it was for his singing acting or even his role as mayor of Palm Springs this guy was everywhere well up until January 1998 at least to kick off the New Year Sunny went on a family skiing trip up to Heavenly Ski Resort in California he was skiing with his then wife Mary
Whitaker and there two children when he left them to ski alone the rest of the family waited at the bottom of the slope for sunny to ski down but hours later there was no sign of him after a search and rescue Patrol was sent out they found him and not in a good way somehow Sunny had veered off course skiing head first into a tree at the side of the slope yeah human head versus tree stump I don't need to tell you who won that battle luchano ricone soer play players don't have a reputation for
being the sharpest tools in the box but one particular player took that reputation of stupidity to new Lowe's back in 1977 luchano Ray Chone was an Italian professional soccer star playing for team laio as well as his national team aside from playing soccer rone was said to have a love for practical jokes so one day rayone and his teammate decided to cause some Mischief in a jewelry shop in in Rome they thought it'd be a bright idea to walk in shouting hands in the air while masking their faces with their jackets truly genius unbeknownst to
them however just a week earlier the Jewelers had been burgled for real as a result the paranoid owner pulled out a shotgun while his teammate spotted the gun and raised his hands rone continued on with the idiotic prank until the shopkeeper opened fire despite being Rush the hospital the Soccer Star didn't make it with his final words being it's just a joke I know I shouldn't mock the dead but buddy to be a joke it has to be funny Claude franois the incredible French pop singer and song writer Claude Francois Rose to Fame in the
60s after co-writing the lyrics to the original version of my way but for all his musical genius it seemed like Francois was lacking some common sense in 1978 while relaxing at his Parisian apartment franois decided to run himself a bath just as he got into the bathtub and started to unwind the singer realized something the light was off for some reason the lamp above his head wasn't working so franois had the bright idea to go ahead and fix it there was one problem though his body was still in the water of the bathtub now you
don't need me to tell you water and electricity isn't a good mix and predictably as he touched the light bulb the Soden singer suffered a lethal electrocution what a shocking way to go Harry Houdini now I bet most of you think you know how Harry Houdini the Hungarian American escape artist and Illusionist died it's a story almost as famous as the man himself he would perform mindblowing stunts like burying himself 6 feet under and escaping from a water-filled milk can but I'm here to tell you you don't know the full story so let's start back
in October 1926 where Houdini was giving a lecture at McGill University in Montreal after the lecture he invited some of his students into his dressing room to talk further it was then one of the students asked Houdini if it was true that he could resist punches to the stomach a claim he'd made before when Houdini said the rumors were true the student immediately put it to the test punching the stunt man for or five times in the abdomen normally Houdini would have tensed to resist these but he was reclining on the sofa and student had
hit him in the stomach when he was completely unprepared which left him in considerable pain he brushed it off however later that day he began to feel stomach cramps and his condition only worsened the next day on board a train for his next run of performances he experienced severe abdominal pain cold sweats and a sore ing temperature of over 100° a doctor suspected Houdini had appendicitis yet being the performer he was Houdini refused to cancel his show somehow he struggled through yet as the final curtain Drew Houdini collapsed to the floor despite being rushed to
the hospital it was all too late for the stunt man doctors removed his appendix however it had ruptured days earlier poisoning his insides so the story of the famous punch that killed Houdini has been told many times over but the punch wasn't likely to blame you see while traumatic appendicitis which is an appendicitis brought on by injury can happen it's extremely rare and Houdini was operated on 9 days after the initial encounter if he'd had a burst appendix that entire time he'd have barely been able to stand let alone travel and do a show anyone
like me who's had appendicitis can confirm just how painful it is so did the punch burst the appendix probably not but spending years avoiding the most extreme and horrifying deaths Possible only to be taken out by your own organs now that's crazy and before you leave just a reminder to check out our Masterpiece natural selection in action the poster I promise it's to die for can you think of any more stars that went down in extraordinary circumstances let me know in the comments below and thanks for watching [Music]
