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Explore the eerie and unresolved mysteries surrounding the deaths of 19 celebrities, whose untimely departures left the world with lingering questions and sparked countless theories and debates about the circumstances that led to their sudden and baffling ends.
1. Edgar Allan Poe
2. Meriwether Lewis
Going back a bit further than everyone else, Meriwether Lewis of Lewis & Clark fame. He also served as governor of the Louisiana territory before it was a state. He was on his way to DC to settle some debt matters with the government. During the journey, he wrote a will because there were a lot of bandits on the roads they were traveling. He also attempted suicide on the trip and had to be restrained. But that’s not the weird part. Lewis stopped at an inn to spend the night, but he was acting very erratic, talking to himself and pacing around nonstop. Later, he had a heated and loud argument with someone in his room in the inn. The innkeeper’s wife said she heard a scuffle and someone yelling for help, then several gunshots. Lewis was found dead with several gunshot wounds to the chest, and the local newspaper reported his throat was slit. The borrowed money he had with him was also missing. There’s also reports that the innkeeper’s wife saw through a slit in the door that he was dead and didn’t do anything about it until the next day. Some servants also reported that they had heard someone yell about a duel around that time and they said the body had a big chunk of his skull missing. And it was reported as a suicide. Thomas Jefferson even said it was suicide. What really happened? Did he have a mental breakdown and brutally off himself? Were bandits stalking him? Was it someone from the government or the military that he owed money to? There’s so many questions.”
3. George Reeves
4. Former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme
“Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme (that celebrity enough). Gunned down in 1986 on his way home from the cinema. Case still unsolved. I have thought and read way too much about that one. The investigation was a massive cluster***k.” eBaum’s World Editor’s Note: In 2020, Swedish prosecutors said that graphic designer Stig Engstrom — also known as “Skandia Man” — killed Palme. There is no forensic evidence or firearms linking Engstrom to the crime. Considering the designer died by suicide in 2000, prosecutors closed the case into Palme’s death as they could not charge Engstrom.
5. Former NFL Players Junior Seau and Dave Duerson
6. Elliott Smith
“Elliott Smith’s death was never made that big a deal of but the details were always a little strange. It was suggested it was suicide but he died of two stab wounds to the chest after an argument with his girlfriend. The coroner’s report was left open on whether it was suicide or homicide.”
7. Jimmy Hoffa
8. Natalie Wood
“During ‘Brainstorm’ filming, Natalie Wood drowned while on a boat with Robert Wagner and Christopher Walken. Wood’s body was discovered 1Mile away and small dinghy found nearby. The autopsy showed bruises on her body and arms as well as an abrasion on her left cheek.”
9. Brittany Murphy
10. D. B. Cooper
“D.B. Cooper. I guess not so much a death as just a disappearance. Guy jumps out of a plane after he hijacked it, demanded 200 grand, and is never seen again. According to the flight attendant he spoke to, he was quite calm and collected the whole time.”
11. JonBenét Ramsey
12. Susan Cabot
“Susan Cabot, who starred in a lot of westerns and b movies (notably The Wasp Woman by Roger Corman) and had an affair with King Hussein of Jordan, which was initiated by the CIA. She got paranoid later in life and essentially became a shut in/hoarder. Her son, who had dwarfism, claimed a man in a ninja mask broken into their house and killed her. At the trial he admitted that he had beaten her to death with a weightlifting bar He said she had awakened him screaming at him, didn’t recognize him, and called him by her mother’s name. His lawyers claimed drugs he took to counteract his dwarfism and pituitary issues had caused a prion contamination resulting in a mental break. He got three years for involuntary manslaughter. He may have been King Hussein’s love child. He died about 17 years later. I’ve tried looking up info about his life after the trial, but haven’t found much.”
13. Marsha P. Johnson
14. Bob Crane
“’Hogan’s Heroes’ star Bob Crane was found bludgeoned to death in his apartment in 1978 and his friend, John Carpenter was suspected of his murder. Carpenter was tried but he was found not guilty. He died in 1998. Crane’s murder is still a mystery despite new DNA tests.”
15. Jill Dando
16. Canadian Pharmaceutical CEO Barry Sherman and his wife, Honey
“In Canada, the owner of a Pharmaceutical company called Apotex was killed along with his wife. No one knows who did it to this day. They were killed in their own home and found with belts around their necks attached to railings by their pool.”
17. Michael Rockafeller
18. Harold Holt
“In 1967, Australian prime minister Harold Holt disappeared whilst swimming in the sea, something he loved to do, never to be seen again.”
19. Bruce Lee and his son, Brandon Lee
“The Lee’s, Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee. They both died by “accidents” Bruce took something for a headache and his brain swelled up and he died. Brandon got shot on the set of The Crow by a gun that was supposed to be firing blanks. It’s weird that they both mysteriously died at young ages.”