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Whilst digging up the backyard, something in the dirt caught Aaron’s eye: a plastic bag. Something hard was inside. Upon pulling it out, Aaron discovered it was a coconut.

He was puzzled: Why would someone bury a coconut, especially this deep, in a plastic bag? A closer inspection of the coconut revealed a full set of teeth and eye sockets. 

He was holding a human skull—not just any skull, but that of his mother.

Detailed article about the story: https://historicflix.com/the-macabre-case-of-bonnie-haim/

This was posted by his wife Meredith on April 16, 2024. Four months later on August 29, 2024 Johnny was killed alongside his younger brother Matthew when a drunk driver hit them while cycling. Johnny was 31 and Matthew was 29.

His killer was declared not guilty by reason of insanity and was sent to a mental hospital where he remains to this day.

Hideo Murai (村井 秀夫 Murai Hideo, December 5, 1958 – April 23, 1995) was a member of the Aum Shinrikyo cult and one of the perpetrators responsible for the Sakamoto family murder. He also helped plan the Tokyo subway sarin attack. Murai held a doctorate in astrophysics. He was reportedly the number three person in the Aum leadership, after Shoko Asahara and Kiyohide Hayakawa. He headed Aum Shinrikyo's Ministry of Science and Technology.

Murai was mortally wounded when an ethnic Korean man named Hiroyuki Jo (徐裕行 Jo Hiroyuki), a member of the Yamaguchi-gumi (the largest organized crime yakuza group in Japan), stabbed Murai repeatedly, in the presence of 10 police officers and about a hundred reporters recording the events and broadcasting them live.

His attacker did not attempt to flee and was peacefully arrested on the spot. Murai died in an ambulance. Charges that Kenji Kamimine (上峯 憲司), a former leader of Hane-gumi, ordered Jo to kill Murai were dismissed by the Tokyo High Court. Jo had claimed Kenji had ordered him to kill any Aum Shinrikyo leaders that he could. It is believed that this was done out of fear of the yakuza's connections to the cult being made public.

Jo was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the murder.

Links:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideo_Murai

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum_Shinrikyo

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakamoto_family_murder

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack

Despite his unique situation, he achieved his dream of becoming a lawyer after earning a bachelor's degree at the University of Texas at Austin in 1966.

Detailed article about his remarkable life: https://historicflix.com/paul-alexander-the-man-who-has-spent-70-years-in-an-iron-lung/

After drinking over 1.5 gallons of water and losing the competition, she died shortly after returning home.

By the time she left the station she might as well have been drunk, a doctor testified in her trial.

Strange suffered hyponatremia, or acute water intoxication.

Immediate medical care with an IV sodium drip to counteract the water might have saved her, the doctor testified. Instead, Strange went home and collapsed. She was found dead about six hours later.

Article about the tragic story: https://historicflix.com/jennifer-strange-and-the-tragic-water-drinking-challenge/

A week before his death.

On a YouTube video he wrote, "The entrance to the cave was shaped like a perfect capital M. I always enter every cave I find, but as I began to enter this particular cave, my whole body began to vibrate.”

Detailed article on his disappearance: https://historicflix.com/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-kenny-veach/

The driver of the truck was knocked unconscious and the right rear tire’s bead cracked during a race, causing the truck to swerve into the stands. Gilliam was labeled a hero as he had pushed a 10-year-old boy out of the way, saving his life