30 Strangest Deaths

While I tend to refrain from posting links to other blogs, this Neatorama article was too morbidly fascinating to pass up. It lists the top 30 most... interesting deaths to ever occur. Among popular ones like the famed Rasputin assassination, you'll find more unconventional ones, like my favorite:

Homer and Langley Collyer were compulsive hoarders. The two brothers had a fear of throwing anything away and obsessively collected newspapers and other junk in their house. They even set up booby-traps in corridors and doorways to protect against intruders. In 1947, an anonymous tip called that there was a dead body in the Collyer house, and after much initial difficulty getting in, the police found Homer Collyer dead and Langley no where to be found. About two weeks later, after removing nearly 100 tons of garbage from the house, workers found Langley Collyer’s partialy decomposed (and rat-chewed) body just 10 feet away from where they had found his brother. Apparently, Langley had been crawling through tunnels of newspapers to bring food to his paralyzed brother when he set off one of his own booby-traps. Homer died several days later from starvation.

Sad and creepy. Check it out.