It looks to me like he grabbed the rope rather than was dragged by it. If you watch 50 seconds into this footage you can clearly see that Andrew clears the rope that is behind the car and then can only of clung onto it deliberately.

My friend Kirst Mason D'Raven has written a summary of the many celebrity deaths occurring at the age of 27 Amazon links: UK: https://amzn.to/3WMjMl7 US: https://amzn.to/4dqk6Nf

Four die after drinking from bottles found in sea 9 hours ago By Aleks Phillips, BBC News Four Sri Lankan fishermen have died and another two are critically ill after consuming an unknown liquid from bottles they found while at sea, according to local media reports. The sailors were said to be...

The suicide rate in a rural area of Wyoming has skyrocketed to become the fourth highest in the world, one coroner has claimed. The unnatural deaths in Natrona County began last fall, and have continued into the new year. Coroner Jim Whipps on Tuesday urged county commissioners to address...

Utah author of book on grieving death charged with murder By SAM METZ SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — After her husband died last year, she wrote a children’s book on grief. Now she’s charged with his murder. Kouri Richins was arrested on Monday in Utah and is accused in charging documents of poisoning...

Fifteen "radicalised" Kenyan Christians were rescued on Friday from a fast which began after they were told they were going to meet their maker, but four died during the rescue mission, police said. All 15 were members of the Good News International Church in the coastal county of Kilifi...

Being a Doctor Who fan, I've been aware of a local urban legend about the actor behind the Second Doctor's demise, which occurred in my home state of Georgia. This is how the current Wikipedia entry on Troughton's life reports the events of the time: I wasn't at the convention, but there...

So I'm a fan of Karen Carpenter - sue me! Now, most folks are familiar with her story, and know that anorexic behaviors were the main reason for her untimely demise. Having seen Karen Carpenter Superstar and read about her life, I really thought that her death was caused by vomiting food up...

We've just received the news that our good friend and fellow moderator @EnolaGaia has died. We'll confer shortly, I hope, and decide how much information is appropriate to release. A big thank you to him for everything he did here; he was a fine man and a major part of the reason the board...

Another thread I just read about the child seeing the old lady in black with the limp triggered a memory of a sad time for my family in the early 1980s when my aunt died suddenly in London and her husband died at the funeral. Our cousins were staying with us in Ireland as the adults travelled...

I dare say that we are all familiar with the stories surrounding George Mallory, the famous mountaineer and possible conquerer of Everest. If that is not the case, please acquaint yourselves here: https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/mallory-first-to-conquer-everest.11049/ What I...

All the nuclear tests in American deserts is also the reason a lot of the old Western actors like John Wayne died of cancer.

An interesting story with vague Fortean elements: DEATH ON THE HIPPIE TRAIL BY ARIEL SOPHIA BARDI After spending the final weeks of summer camped in a stooped, square-mouthed Himalayan cave, Justin Shetler was tired. The 35-year-old American outdoorsman had walked away from a job at a tech...

No, not an experimental death metal band, but a grim proposal based on some surprising figures: A gloriously overwritten piece of sensationalism, but 61 bodies, 48 unidentifiable owing to advanced decomposition, and all male: it makes you wonder.

Haunted mansion up for grabs on the cheap. ==================================================== Historic Mansion Is Shockingly Cheap -- But There's A Big Catch Historic Mansion Is Shockingly Cheap -- But There's A Big Catch By Joseph Erbentraut Apr 30, 2014, 05:50 PM EDT Updated Dec 6, 2017 An...

Dear Forteans, there is some weirdness happening in my life and I really could use your wonderful, collective wisdom to shed some light on it. Certain details will have to be excluded for privacy's sake, but I will try to explain as clearly as possible. Some years ago now, there was a...

Strange days and strange dreams but in my case my dreams have come true in the past 11 days I have lost two friends one died very suddenly of a brain disease he was in his fifties the other it is believed he committed suicide no ones knows for shore has yet, and he was only 23yrs old however...

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(Copied from the Anna Politkovskaya murder thread) https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/anna-politkovskaya-murdered.27920/ http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2334908.ece

Man lay dead 'for up to a year'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4417760.stm I like this bit - There are also reports of decidedly un-funereal music. Any other new customs?

Well, they died, but there's a story that goes with their deaths that is highly unlikely. For instance, Mama Cass never died from choking on a ham sandwich, she suffered heart failure, and Elvis Presley didn't die straining on the toilet, he had a heart attack while reading on a chair in his...

We definitely have a contender here for 'most disgusting (not to mention horrific) strange fall of the year'. Makes the lavatory-waste-from-an-airplane stories absolutely charming by comparison. :cross eye http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtm ... ID=8723742

Worth a thread of its own. This is from the Garudian Notes & Queries 5/1/5: The Goodies death is discussed here: https://forums.forteana.org/posts/217399 Also nice to the book of lists used as a reference ;)

UFO Reseacher John Mack Dies Harvard professor and psychiatrist John Mack was hit by a car and killed in London on Monday night, September 27. After meeting UFO researcher Budd Hopkins in Cape Cod, where both of them spent the summers, Mack became intrigued by people who claimed to have UFO...

Three die in Saudi shop stampede http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3618190.stm i shouldn't laugh...

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ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAUO5PDFQD.html Link is dead. The MIA webpage (quoted in full above) can be accessed via the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20040210013918/http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAUO5PDFQD.html Very sad indeed.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=1&u=/nm/20031003/od_nm/ethiopia_testicles_dc

MAN DIES AT HIS OWN WAKE thisisplymouth.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=115997&command=displayContent&sourceNode=115996&contentPK=7001217 Link is dead. No archived version found.

I've been wandering round electric websites (to do with Van De Graaf generators), but rather horrifyingly I also found this link. It's a guy surviving a powerline encounter (but its still fairly shocking... shouldn't joke), but its shows how some people can miraculously survive. ELECTROCUTION...

Probably not the right thread but however... I just read Vercingetorix's post about They died too young and when I saw this: It reminded me of a topic I posted either here or somewhere else about this disproportionate number of rock stars whose lives ended at the age of twenty seven...

Nurse to be questioned on deaths of 19 patients Is this sort of thing happening more often, or are we just hearing about it more? As far as I know there are at least 2 other such cases being investigated in English hospitals right now.

I read about this in the early 1970s, in the Daily Mirror, with photos. A young man who'd just graduated from Oxford or Cambridge was at an outdoor riverside party held to celebrate his success. Suddenly he got up and walked determinedly into the river, fully clothed, and drowned himself...

Word puzzle headstone may have guaranteed entry to Heaven From www.ananova.com Story filed: 07:57 Tuesday 23rd July 2002 Anything featuring Rev Lionel Fanthorpe deserves a mention in here but even more-so when cryptography and the afterlife meet in one article!

[Emp edit: This thread is to mark the passing of people who had an impact on the Fortean world.] For other obits and the like see the RIP thread: https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/the-r-i-p-thread.30162/ --------------- I hope I'm not being maudlin, but I think that the great Thor...

This may have been posted already - if so, apologies: Very spooky! From http://www.bizarrenews.com newsletter: Greetings Fellow Bizarros: Every now and then we feel compelled to do some serious work around here. About three years ago, a dossier floated around the Internet that...

First off, the following is a link to what appears to be a member of a USS carrier being sucked into a planes jet engine. (Link - caution, don't watch if you're squeemish, but bear in mind he's not badly hurt) Link is dead. No archived version found. Now in a really handy coincidence, it was...

Despite UL's floating around for decades, is it not true that there has not been a single case involving a snuff film, or any films seized by custom officers or police forces. I'm not saying there isn't very nasty stuff out there but is the whole concept of snuff films just a UL.

Darwin 2001 THis just popped into one of my numerous mail boxes. I make noclaims on the veracity of the below:- It's that time again! The Darwin Awards are given each year to bestow upon (the remains of) the individuals who, through single-minded self-sacrifice, have done the most to...