Searching the world for strange deaths, a Boston 25-foot molasses tidal wave. A dancing plague taking 100 lives. Surgery with 300% mortality. The 1814 London beer flood. Spontaneous human combustion.
In Boston, a 25-foot tidal wave of...Molasses? A dancing plague that kills 100 people? A surgery with a 300% mortality rate? We search the globe for the strangest and most bizarre deaths on record. If the 1814 London Beer Flood doesn't kill you, maybe a mysterious case of spontaneous human combustion will.—History.com