Gloria Ramirez, a 31-year-old woman suffering from cervical cancer went to the emergency room in Riverside, California one day as she was in the late stages of her illness. Her blood was transferred between the hands of quite a few nurses and all of them subsequently reported feeling light-headed and nauseated.
Strangely, 23 staff members became ill after coming into contact with Ramirez’s blood and 5 even had to stay over in the hospital. Sadly, Ramirez passed not long after.
The Word Maverick Comes From a Rogue Rancher
Sam Maverick was a rancher and a politician in the 19th-century. DAn early animal rights activist, Maverick refused to brand his cattle because he believed it to be cruel.
His rivals had another story, however. They said he didn’t brand his property because he could then claim any unbranded cow to be his own.
This Killer Escaped from A Second-Story Window
Famous psycho-killer Ted Bundy made quite the escape during a break in his 1977 preliminary hearing. He was in the courthouse and asked to be allowed to move to the court library in order to research his case.
Though Serial Killers are notoriously untrustworthy, Bundy was allowed to go to the library because he was serving as his own attorney in the case. He escaped from a second-story window instead but was caught a week later. We can’t imagine this maneuver helped his case very much.
An Elevator Beheaded Someone
In a stroke of bad luck, Dr. Hitoshi Nikaidoh met a terrible fate one day at work in a Houston hospital. In 2003, the doctor, who was then a surgical resident, ran to get on an elevator right as the doors were closing. Somehow, his head got stuck between the two doors. As the elevator began to ascend, there was nothing anybody could do.
Dr. Nikaidoh's body was separated from his head, which remained on the elevator along with a woman who was trapped inside until firefighters were able to come to the rescue. What a horrifying day.
More Than Human Flesh was for Dinner in the Donner Party
A lot of people have heard the horrifying story of the Donner Party, the group of people who were traveling west and had to resort to cannibalism in order to survive after becoming stranded in a snowstorm in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the 19th-century.
Desperate times called for desperate measures and along with their own deceased family members, the Donner Party ate mice, ox bones, and a rug made of oxhide in order to survive during their horrible travels.