Russian author Vladimir novakov once said life is a great surprise he said I do not see why death should not be a greater one but for some people death is not just a surprise but carries a shock value silliness irony and even Amusement welcome to nutty history today we're looking back at some of the most unexpected bizarre and absurd deaths recorded in human history [Music] not the closet when Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet hit theaters at the end of the 16th century it surely inspired many teens and Young young adults who seek that Forbidden Love and
Die for it but we can't say for certain that was the plan for James Betts and Elizabeth Spencer in 1667 Elizabeth's father John Spencer was the master of Corpus Christie College in the prestigious city of Cambridge and James Betts was a young undergraduate who fell in love with the forbidden fruit the Master's daughter James was enjoying a lovely afternoon tea with his sweetheart when Elizabeth's father unexpectedly returned home and Elizabeth in her Panic shoved poor James into a closet the unfortunate student didn't know that the extremely suffocating closet only opened up from the outside and
Elizabeth got so busy tending to her father that she forgot about him for a few hours by the time she came back for him James had passed away from asphixiation in proper young love fashion Elizabeth gave up on life as well in her grief swallowing a mouse for Englishman chivalry could be dangerous when you mix it with love in the 19th century as the Industrial Revolution took hold of the ation factories and Mills cropped up like wild mushrooms in almost all English cities rodents rung a muck in such places and that was no exception in
1875 where a young woman was traumatized when a mouse galloped on her workstation her shrieks drew a lot of attention from co-workers especially the one Gallant man who was looking for his chance to be noticed by her so he jumped into action and grabbed the mouse to be her hero but the mouse wiggled out of his hands and disappeared in his sleeve and then it became his turn to scream like a girl W somehow the noise made by the man panicked The Mouse and the mouse saw a dark hole and dashed to hide in it
now unfortunately the hole happened to be the mouth of the concerned gentleman now mice can survive without sufficient air for quite a while and in its desperation to find an exit it tore the man's inard inside out as the poor guy died in agony Love Kills so don't try to save a girl you don't know from a mouse the addiction for lamp in late November of 11:35 5 the king of England Henry the was enjoying a honey trip to Lions but he was also missing his favorite dish lampies the lampies are eike fish that do
not look Savory at all but happen to be quite delicious and Henry was definitely in love with them he ignored his doctor's advice to have a large B of lampies to the point where he ate till he started feeling kind of sick now his sudden sickness and fever were quite a surprise to his courtiers and servants because despite being in his late 60s the King was actually quite athletic and lean and spry Lam also known as vampire fish for their horrible set of teeth and perhaps they suck the life out of the king because he
didn't survive the night after having his last Happy Meal so lesson learned don't eat lampies let us know in the comments to if you ever have death over no dance today music composers look like graduates of Hogwarts instead of berkeleys with their wlike batons that they wave to keep musicians on Rhythm but in the good old 17th century they used to carry around a giant freaking staff lock a Gandalf to keep time in concerts Jean Baptist Loui was one of the few composers who would regularly perform for the entertainment of the French King Louis the
14th and one night he accidentally bludgeon his foot with that heavy heavy staff now ordinarily this would have been a regular injury but Gang Green festered on the injured foot and when doctors recommended medical amputation Luli backed off claiming he would rather die than live with the inability to dance and that's exactly what he did he passed away in Paris and was interred at the not de vikto Church where his marble bust adorned Monument can still be seen today as subsequent surintendant of the King's Music Lou Lully John batis Lully and John Louie Lully all
had successful musical careers tripped on his own beard six times mayor of a town in Bavaria Han steininger was most popular for his 4ft tall beard that he used to carry around in a special purse yeah a purse for a beard a beard purse but apparently the purse first alone wasn't good enough for all occasions when a fire broke out one night into town in 1567 Hans had to run out of his home without having time to prep and he stumbled on his beard in the dark the fall broke his neck and the mayor became
the first casualty of the Town fire the beard was the literal reason for his rise and fall an alarming death for the 19th century Sam Wardell was a lamp lighter in New York whose job involved lighting Street lamps in the evening as well as Bing them come early morning there was a slight issue that the man was a heavy sleeper and even the noise of an alarm clock wasn't enough to wake him up but need is a mother of invention and Sam came up with a rub Goldberg device like contraption that would make rocks fall
off a shelf when the alarm clock went off to create enough noise that it would wake him up however one night he had friends over and he pushed his bed on the very Shelf with rocks on it to make space for dancing and drinking say it with me now uh-oh tired and drunk the poor man forgot to move the bed before falling asleep that night and in the morning when the alarm went off his own invention crushed him to death the irony of starvation remember when our parents warned us to chew before swallowing Thomas outway
story was one of richest to rags as the fame dramatist fell on Hard Times in his later years and was driven to beg for food one of his old fans happened to recognize the poor artist and offered him a guinea a gold coin that used to be one of the most precious currencies in early modern Britain Thomas hwe jetted to the nearest bakery to purchase a rooll but in his desperation he choked on the very first bite he attempted to swallow and passed away on the spot now that is just sad victim of brags Milo
of proton was perhaps the strongest ancient Greek who ever lived he was also the first Fitness Guru in history as well as a six-time wrestling champion at the ancient Olympics unfortunately with age the strength waned but vanity remained he was traveling in the countryside when he met a villager trying to split a stump with wedges and hammers the Villager recognized him and Milo boasted that he could split the stump with his bare hands as the Villager left to fetch food as gratitude for Milo the Olympian pushed his hand in the crack of the stump and
tried to tear it apart but he wasn't as strong as he used to be and His Hands got stuck in the crack I'd have paid money to see that before the Villager could return Milo was found by a pack of wolves or a lion who devoured the helpless athlete I mean how long a food run did this villager make the knife eater a sailor by trade John Cummings was so impressed after watching the circus performers Act of knife swallowing in the early 1800s that he actually tried to swallow a knife and succeeded nobody told the
poor guy that the circus performers faked their act so Cummings would swallow them whole instead of pulling them out and on one occasion he swallowed four knives in a Tavern as a brag and pass three of them out with no ill health effects the daring man continued to show off his swallowing skills at various taverns and dinners for a year and accumulated 20 knives and a clasp knife case before all those sharp objects ruptured his guts and belly The Embers of grief remember Brutus yeah the same guy who was known for betraying Julius Caesar during
the IDS of March yeah that guy he happened to have a beautiful loving and caring wife named Porsha porsa was nuts about him she was so in love with him that she couldn't even imagine a life without him when the news arrived in Rome that Brutus had perished during the Battle of Philippi Porsche was so struck with grief that she grabbed hot coals placed in her room for heat and swallowed them like super hot meatballs now it might also be possible that she fell asleep in a locked room with hot coold still burning and pass
from carbon monoxide poisoning and her death was written poetically Ragnar lothbrook father of the great Heathen Army scourge of England and France and husband of the mythical Queen Oso Ragnar lothbrook is arguably the biggest close to real life legend in the history of Scandinavia it's believed that Ragnar gained Fame as a Mighty Warrior when he vanquished a giant snake guarding the gates of the gothic princess Thor a borgan hord and took her as his first wife his reputation preceded him even in England and when King El captured Ragnar and his Fleet of Vikings to make
a mockery out of him he punished Ragnar for raiding Ireland by throwing him in a snake pit where the legendary Viking king [Music] perished the wor sort of below the belt hit it's a shame that King Edmund Ironside is more likely remembered for his death and His short stent as a ruler of England which lasted less than a year his rule was marred by a power struggle against the Danish King Cano who also had a claim on the English Throne one controversial account claimed that Cano sent an agent to eliminate Edmund the agent hit in
the king cess pit and shot an arrow with the sun doesn't shine when Edmond sat down to you know two number two heavy is the head the body and the company Henry the 4th the Holy Roman Emperor was holding an informal assembly with his trusted Nobles and cers on the second floor of the Petersburg Citadel in effort when they were literally swept off their feet as the floor collapsed by their combined weight most of the Nobles alongside the emperor fell through the ground floor into the cess pit full of liquid human excrement that sucked them
in and drown them unlike the Holy Roman Emperor the first Duke of Clarence George plantagen had a choice about how he would like to drown the younger brother of the two English kings George was a turncoat of the War of the Roses who sided with the lancasters despite being a member of the House of York being a royal family member he was given a choice to choose his punishment when he was found guilty of treason the man decided to go in Style by drowning in Momsy wine not too bad the final salute John Kendrick was
a war hero during the American Revolution and became the owner of a Merchant Navy after afterward in 1794 Kendrick was traded in maau when he docked in Honolulu and helped a local tribal Chief to deter an attack from a rival tribe the next morning Kendrick ordered his ship the lady Washington and an Allied British ship the Jackal to celebrate their win with a cannon volley unfortunately the Gunner of the Jackal forgot to unload the Cannons before firing and one of those cannonballs hit John Kendrick while he was having breakfast in the captain's cabin just smashed
him and his eggs and bacon right there for real for real though that was kind of a jack Sparrow kind of mistake right thanks for watching nutty history if you would like to see more videos like this one please like and share this video And subscribe to our Channel
