A Collection Of Horrible Fates #15

Fate is defined as the development of events beyond a person’s control. So, this series focuses on strange disappearances, solved and unsolved mysteries, and any other fates that are bizarre, unlucky, or horrible. Collection 15

Attributions/Special Thanks for Photographs:
Corey Coyle, 63highland, Emma, Larry Lamsa, Jia Shiang, MiNe, balepc

[ScaryInteresting]

Hey everyone! Thank you all so much for watching, and have a great weekend! ALSO, a huge thank you to the person who recommended the final story. It has been on my list since you recommended it shortly after I started this channel (I don't have your name, sorry)!

[ferret]

The bear didn't even seem like a real, mortal animal by the end. Instead it seemed like one of the legends of an evil spirit taking on the form of a wild beast. I can't imagine how terrifying it must have seemed to the poor villagers.

[pinklight]

I lived in Hokkaido for four years and saw a couple of bears from a distance. I was told this story for the first time on either my second or third day, but I heard it many times after that as well. It's very well known and often repeated around the prefecture, and people do not take any chances with bear sightings- as soon as one was spotted, there were notices in the newspaper, signs up at all the schools, parks, and public buildings, and my boss called me to warn me to look outside carefully before going out to my car when there was a sighting near town.

[eliaslamsa]

God that bear story is horrifying. It was like a demon stalking the village

[empty]

The amount of fuck ups that kept happening in the bear story was mind boggling

[angelandmark]

The bear story is tragedy after tragedy, I thought it would be over when the guards went after the bear but as soon as you said "They ran in the direction they THOUGHT they saw the bear run. Leaving the woman and children even more vulnerable." I literally said 'FUCK' like three times. I knew what was coming and its so messed up.

[thedaisiesgrow]

Sinkholes are the stuff of nightmares. I now live in an area prone to them and every time a new saggy spot appears in one of the streets on my commute, I think of this story 😬

[juusolatva]

the smaller weight of the bear might have had something to do with how aggressive it was. bears usually gain weight before the winter for hibernation, so this bear might have been unable to gain enough weight in due time and therefore it was desperate for food.

[xboxplzfixme]

Having a brother only 17 months younger and also being extremely close, I could not imagine anything worse than that first story. It pains me to hear that his brother was left there. No amount of law enforcement or reasoning would pull me out of that hole away from my brother. With absolutely zero regard for my own wellbeing, I simply would. Not. Stop.

[ZombieSazza]

“They figured because the bear was injured it would be too scared to return”
Oh god, never underestimate nature, especially a very large bear!

[jaffa]

I've heard of those Hokkaido bear attacks before. It's exactly why bears are the animal I fear the most. I don't understand why more people aren't scared of them. They too powerful to fight, too fast to outrun, and are completely unpredictable. The scariest part is that when they hunt you, they won't kill you first, they just get straight to eating you.

[gonzoradio]

In my opinion the most terrifying thing about the Bear attack story was the fact that the man returned home and thought everything was fine. Just imagine being on your way home thinking of what you might have for dinner and spending time with your family, and then you get home and walk in thinking everything's fine, then he picks up his child and has the slow realization of what has occurred. That had to have been truly scary and almost like a nightmare

[andrewmiller]

I was living in Tampa when the sinkhole happened. My second cousin lived two blocks away from this house. A few weeks after the house was demolished, I saw the property. Very sad and eerie to see this. What an awful way to go.

[Nareimooncatt]

I couldn't help but to chuckle at the end of the Frank Lloyd Wright story with the guy trying to commit suicide by drinking hydrochloric acid. He likely didn't know it, but that's basically what stomach acid is. You can even buy HCl pills to use as an aid for digestion, and it can take quite a lot just to trigger mild heartburn. I pretty much guessed his outcome before the story got to it.

[nickdarr]

With Frank Lloyd Wright how do you not mention that Frank personally built coffins for his wife and 2 children and then buried them all by hand? That's one of the most cathartic and also intense emotionally things I can imagine doing

[adinadumitrescu]

I think the bear attack incident terrified me the most. I remember being young and living in the mountains and hearing wolfs and having specific dogs and whistles to scare away the wolfs. Horryfing.

[orangeninja]

Bears are freaky. I grew up in a rural area, and my dad built a compost bin for our garden out of steel rebar. Just a week or two after we'd started using it, my dad woke up to go to work and saw that the bin had been smashed open, and in one spot the rebar was completely twisted over and folded in half. You'd think that a grid of steel rebar would keep a bear out, but nope. The same bear smashed through my neighbor's garage door a week or so after that to get to their garbage. My neighbor saw it a few times and tried to scare it off by firing blanks at it, but this bear just turned and looked at him. It hung out in our area for like a month, then my neigbbor- who had young kids at the time- decided he'd had enough of constantly being on edge and killed it (even though that was technically illegal). That was a scary time, I'm glad my neighbor took matters into his own hands and got rid of it.

[helvetika]

That last story absolutely deserves to be made into a movie.

[zarasbazaar]

That attack on the Wright family was horrific, especially since it was so out of the blue.

[kellylott]

I live in Pennsylvania. I've been to a couple of the houses Frank Loyd Wright built. But NEVER, had I heard of this!
Thank you so much for bringing it to my attention!