Mysterious and unbelievable ways people have actually died.

1. The dancing death

1518, a strange affliction descended upon the people of Strausbourg, France; they could not help but dance,It started with a woman called Frau Troffea one day in July, she started cutting a rug in the middle of the street and kept going at it for a week without stopping. By the end of that week, she had been joined by 34 others; by August, the numbers had risen to 400.

They literally couldn't stop cutting, the locals named it the dancing plague has it killed about 15 people per day. What really happened is unclear, but experts believe there was a famine with no food or water to eat and drink, people became hysteric.

2. Spontaneous human consumption.

On the second of July, 1951, Mary Hardy of St. Petersburg. Decided to smoke a cigarette before she slept. She sat down in an armchair with it and relaxed. But the next morning, she completely burnt and all that remained was one foot, still in its slipper, and her skull, which had shrunk from the burning. The apartment, however, was not burnt there was soot on the ceiling around the area where she had laid.

There are many conspiracy theories about her death. One being she was probably murdered, but I would easily debunk that because you have to be a very skillful murderer to be able to specifically burn a human without destroying the environment. Although no one knows what really happened, it is speculated that the cigarette burnt her dress which in turn slowly burnt her skin and the arm chair, engulfing the sleeping woman in flames. It is also believed that possibly she had faked her death to escape from some kind of debt.

3. Death by a bitten tongue

Sometimes I feel the universe just wants to remind us we a quite able to destroy ourselves just by simple means. Allan Pinkerton died in his apartment after he had bitten his tongue. It was the 19th century and according to his obituary he had died weeks after he had bitten his tongue. Allan would surely have a very very strong teeth and jaw, the cells on the tongue is said to have died ( gangrene).

But we do surely know that Allan could have been murdered and a story was just put up to debunk the crowd from saying anything. Allan was the founder of Pinkerton detective agency, so it really makes sense if anyone wanted him dead.

4. Death by circus

In 1854 a 13 year old boy, William Snyder died from being swung around the heels by a circus clown. The autopsy report of the body proved that his death was totally by accident. The pulmonary artery of the boy had ruptured during the circus. Most probably the boy's weight crushed into his organs while he was being swung around

5. Tripping on your own beard

An Austrian man Hans Steininger died in 1567 after tripping on his own beards. His beard was over 6 feet long and he usually parked it and tucked it into his pocket. But one day a fire broke out in his residence, his beard wasn't tucked into his pocket and in he ruckus he tripped on his beard while taking the stairs and fell. It is not sure the main cause of his death. Either he couldn't escape the inferno or probably just broke his neck from the impact has it is believed.

6. Death by a sheep mob

Sheeps can be said be be one of the most gentle animals in nature and would only fight or charge at one another for rank or a mate. It is actually very rare to see a sheep attack a human. But they actually do especially when the human shows signs of weakness, that is probably a baby or a young boy or girl which have roughly the same height to the sheep. A Sheep would very much attack a human on the ground has they feel they are now in charge. They could also attack in their numbers especially when hungry, and so is the case of one British lady, Betty who passed away in 1998 after a flock of sheep she reared charged at her, Betty was 67 years old at the time. Betty was on her way to feed the flock of sheep some hay, but has she arrived in her 4 wheeled all terrain trailer, the flock decided to become hasty and charged at her. The all ran over her has she was on the ground. But the flock stampede didn't kill her, the terrain vehicle fell on her crushing her.