# Curious and Unusual Deaths

Curious and Unusual Deaths is a Canadian historical documentary anthology television series aired on Discovery Channel Canada and Investigation Discovery from October 31, 2009, to April 27, 2012. The show features real cause of strangest deaths based on events and incidents around the world. This show was similar to the American television series 1000 Ways to Die that was premiered on Spike in 2008.

## True events that was based on

* American actor Brandon Lee died on a set of The Crow on March 31, 1993 in Wilmington, North Carolina aged 28 years old. He was posthumously cast when the movie was released in 1994 after his death.
* American dancer and choreographer Isadora Duncan died of strangulation in her scarf on September 14, 1927 in Nice, France.
* American physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. died of radiation poisoning in a critical mass experiment on September 15, 1945 in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
* A man got fatally struck by lightning and died on July 8, 2007 in Miami, Florida.
* American distiller Jack Daniel died of sepsis infection or blood poisoning in his right foot on October 9, 1911.
* Canadian lawyer Garry Hoy who fell from the 24th floor of his office building of the "unbreakable" window at the Toronto-Dominion Centre, died on July 9, 1993.
* South Korean unidentified gamer who plays an non-stop online game over 50 hours, died of dehydration and heart failure on August 9, 2005.
* In New York, The Gramercy Park asbestos steam exploded and fatally killed a con ed worker in the 3rd floor and injured 24 people on August 19, 1989.
* A concrete slab falling and killing Lea Guilbeault at a Montreal restaurant on July 16, 2009.
* A man named Jason Findley died of electrocution of cause of a lightning strike using the telephone in his grandparents' house in Scotch Plains, New Jersey on May 21, 1985.
* An accident at the Byford Dolphin oil rig, located in the North Sea off the coast of Norway, cost five people their lives in a particularly horrifying way. The incident shocked the public and led to more stringent safety regulations for those diving at inhospitable depths of the controversy on November 5, 1983.
* A city worker died after going down the drain in The Bronx, New York on March 2, 2001.
* A 30-year-old architect and pedestrian named Jodie Lane got electrocuted while walking through New York's East Village with her two dogs, Her dogs were shocked first at she noticed they were in distress, and when she tried to help them, she stepped onto the electrified metal cover of a utility box on January 16, 2004.
* A 26-year-old man named John Edward Jones died stuck for more than 24 hours at a Nutty Putty Cave in Utah County, Utah on November 24, 2009.
* A man named Jeff Reese died of rapid overweight loss, heart malfunction, and kidney failure on December 6, 1997.
* A 16-year-old woman named Tanya Nickens died drowning deeper into the hot tub at a prom party at Wall Township, New Jersey on May 25, 1996.
* A Polish-French physicist and chemist named Marie Curie died of aplastic anemia on July 4, 1934.
* Austrian-French inventor Franz Reichelt died falling off Eiffel Tower flying on February 4, 1912.
* A baseball player named Ray Chapman died over a blunt-force trauma at a baseball at Polo Grounds, New York on August 16, 1920.
* A beach visitor and a fisherman named John Raymond Wilson died under beneath asleep which trapped him in quicksand until 9:00 p.m. at Crystal Beach, Galveston, Texas on May 23, 2005.
* A Lithuanian-American professional tennis player named Vitas Gerulaitis died by inhaling carbon monoxide gas poisoning by an improperly installed heater to seep into the guesthouse until the maid discovered the body at Southampton, New York on September 17, 1994.
* A 16-year-old golfer died as the frustration of hitting the bench on the golf club by piercing his heart, killing him instantly on July 10, 1994.
* A 48-year-old English scientist died drinking 10 gallons of carrot juice which cause his skin to be orange-colored on February 17, 1974.
* A 51-year-old man at Cambridgeshire, England named Ronald McClagish died by trapped inside the bedroom cupboard for a week but he succumbed to bronchitis before he was found, The paramedics pronounced McClagish dead on February 15, 2004.
* A 35-year-old woman named Patsy Campbell from Portage, Indiana died of sepsis and suffered second-degree burns covering 70% of the body at the tanning bed on May 24, 1989.
* Japanese kabuki actor named Bandō Mitsugorō VIII visited a restaurant in Kyoto with his friends, He orders four portions of puffer fish liver (Japanese: フグの肝/Hepburn: Fugu no Kimo) which the liver of the puffer fish is mostly toxic and the sale prohibited by local ordinaries which is banned nationally in 1984. He ate one puffer fish liver and he could survive the fish's poison, He ate the livers of the puffer fish and he died following 8 hours of gradual paralysis and breathing difficulties, Never realize he could have thought was his own curious and unusual death on January 16, 1975.
* An 18-year-old man named Ricardo Alberto Martinez died in a car wash but entangled by wires and automatic brushes on September 1, 2007.
* A 30-year-old kite launching director named Steve Edeiken died of multiple injuries as such as such his ankle got entangled in the lines of the 115-foot or 250-foot but 14,000 feet Jalbert parafoil kite, He plunged 100 feet to the ground, dead on September 24, 1983.
* A 24-year-old man named Phillip Quinn died as the lava lamp explodes in a stove penetrating the shard in his heart on November 28, 2004.
* A 28-year-old man named Peter John Robinson from Reefton, New Zealand died after he fell on ice and drown in his cat's water bowl on August 15, 2001.
* A 50-year-old man named Alex Mitchell from King's Lynn at Norfolk, England died of non-stop laughing over 25 minutes of heart failure on March 24, 1975.
* A 20-year-old man died after falling off a sixth-floor balcony during party on February 21, 2004.
* A 28-year-old woman named Jennifer Strange died of apparent water intoxication after participation in the contest by local radio station KDND 107.9 on January 12, 2007.
* A 58-year-old man named Charles Stephens died after the anvil fatally broke her bodies except his severed arm at Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada on July 11, 1920.
* A 55-year-old Michigan woman named Judy Kay Zagorski died of blunt force injury when an eagle ray jumped out of the water at Vaca Keys, Florida on March 20, 2008.

### Seasons

| Season | Episodes | Premiere date | Finale date |
| 1 | 6 | October 31, 2009 (2009-10-31) | December 11, 2009 (2009-12-11) |
| 2 | 13 | March 16, 2012 (2012-03-16) | April 27, 2012 (2012-04-27) |