History NightmareFuel / OneThousandWaysToDie

* "Squirreled Away": A taxidermist who enjoys stuffing himself with the animals he stuffs for a living eats the meat of a squirrel that had rabies and contracts it when he eats it raw. For the next four days, he goes insane, screaming, foaming at the mouth, and writhing in bed in pure agony. What's creepier are the shots of the stuffed animals watching the guy die in such a horrific fashion. The actor's performance in particular deserves mention as he manages to make what's already a terrifying death even ''more'' horrific and tragic.

** "USSR-Dead" has an especially gruesome example. A small group of Russian mafia mobsters are celebrating the newcomer's initiation into the band, so they drink what they presume to be vodka... only for it to turn out to be ''acid'' that was used earlier to burn off the newcomer's fingertips. The reason? The bartender was senile, and he didn't realize he had picked up the wrong bottle. We get to hear the description of what happens to the mobsters: their innards dissolve and they die in extreme agony.

* "Dead On Arrival": A drug dealer tried to smuggle his LSD by making a tie-dye shirt soaked in ''massive'' amounts of the stuff enough to blow the minds of everyone in the state of Oregon and ''puts it on'' to avoid detection at the airport. This turns out to be a huge mistake, as his nervous sweating causes him to absorb ''100,000 times'' the recommended dose into his skin and starts having an acid trip. Right when he was about to pass the checkpoint, he starts hallucinating a pig's face in the checkpoint guard's head. When he tried to make a run for it, two cops try to stop and restrain him become an elderly-looking person with a sorrowful expression and a MonsterClown in his tripped-out eyes. His heart beat so fast from the scare, his mind shut down as he died from a stroke, heart attack, and fatal hypothermia at the same time. To make matters worse, the guest expert explains that the victim's ''entire circulatory system exploded and his brain basically boiled inside his skull''.

[[caption-width-right:350:"Demetrius was a grave-robbin', body-snatchin', corpse-burnin' bastard. He died as he lived... horribly!"]]

* In "Hi-Jack Offed" there is a hijacker who is pushed into an air brake hose by the woman riding shotgun to the truck he's trying to hijack. He inflates and his entire body [[PopGoesTheHuman explodes]] and ''all of his internal organs [[LudicrousGibs splatter everywhere]].'' The driver and woman who pushed him are understandably horrified.

[[caption-width-right:350:Pray this is not your sleep paralysis demon.[[note]]He's probably wishing he had died instantly.[[/note]]]]

* "Wet Dream": A crossdressing man wakes up chained to his waterbed by his dates the night prior, left trapped there when they left. He struggles to escape, but ends up puncturing so many holes in his waterbed that he sinks into it and ends up drowning. The genuine, raw panic the man displays as he thrashes desperately and calls out for help is hard to watch, and it even looks like he's crying in fear at one point.

** In another unexpected example, “Spastic Surgery”, a women who had recently undergone gastric bypass dies because of the surgical forceps the surgeon accidentally left inside her. Makes you want to double check yourself at the doctor’s don’t it?

* "Wet Dream": A crossdressing man wakes up chained to his waterbed by his dates the night pripr, left trapped there when they left. He struggles to escape, but ends up puncturing so many holes in his waterbed that he sinks into it and ends up drowning. The genuine, raw panic the man displays as he thrashes desperately and calls out for help is hard to watch, and it even looks like he's crying in fear at one point.

* In "Botoxicated" a 30-something former beauty queen woman named Debbie gets a Botox injection from a doctor. Only problem was the doctor was a quack and he injected illegal black market botulism toxin into her head. As it spreads throughout her nerves and her bloodstream and her lungs, Debbie relaxes inside a hot tub to try to relieve the pain, which turns out to be a bad idea as her body becomes completely paralyzed and she slips underwater and drowns. Imagine being totally aware as you slip underwater AND not being able to get out because you're completely paralyzed.

* "Squirreled Away": A taxidermist who enjoys stuffing himself with the animals he stuffs for a living eats the meat of a squirrel that had rabies and contracts it when he eats it rare. For the next four days, he goes insane, screaming, foaming at the mouth, and writhing in bed in pure agony. What's creepier are the shots of the stuffed animals watching the guy die in such a horrific fashion. The actor's performance in particular deserves mention as he manages to make what's already a terrifying death even ''more'' horrific and tragic.

* Generally speaking, most slow deaths qualify. While many of the deaths on the show are gruesome, they're usually fairly quick (as a general rule of thumb, if a death isn't instant, it usually takes no more than a few seconds from start to finish, and no more than a minute or two at most). Many of the deaths that take longer than that have the victims usually blissfully unconscious within seconds, or at the very least impaired by drugs or alcohol, reducing their suffering somewhat and not always externally visible. However, some of the victims of the longest deaths aren't nearly as lucky, enduring minutes, hours, days, weeks, or on at least one occasion '''months''' of agony before merciful death sets in. Plus there isn’t a single [[GoryDiscretionShot Gory Discretion Shot]].

* Generally speaking, most slow deaths qualify. While many of the deaths on the show are gruesome, they're usually fairly quick (as a general rule of thumb, if a death isn't instant, it usually takes no more than a few seconds from start to finish, and no more than a minute or two at most). Many of the deaths that take longer than that have the victims usually blissfully unconscious within seconds, or at the very least impaired by drugs or alcohol, reducing their suffering somewhat and not always externally visible. However, some of the victims of the longest deaths aren't nearly as lucky, enduring hours, days, weeks, or on at least one occasion '''months''' of agony before merciful death sets in. Plus there isn’t a single [[GoryDiscretionShot Gory Discretion Shot]].

* "Chippin' Dale". Two men are loading branches through a wood chipper when, wouldn't you know it, the wood chipper jams. What now? Turn it off and try to take the branch out? Nah, that's for suckers. Dale ''climbs into the active wood chipper'' and ''tries to dislodge the branch '''with his feet'''.'' The poor stupid bastard is immediately pulped by the machine, and you get a good 5 minutes at least of him screaming in agony and for his partner to "turn it off", which, while being showered in mulched bits of Dale, he's in too much of a horrifying state of shock to do anything other than scream "What are you doing?!" and can only watch as Dale is eaten by the machinery. Do not watch it if you ever intend on a good night's rest again. Oh. And this one was also based on a real-life case, in fact, [[https://www.safetynewsalert.com/14-year-old-killed-in-wood-chipper-incident/ multiple people]] [[https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/face/in-house/full200021.html have died this way]]. Use your head, not your feet.

* "Steward-Death" had a cranky stewardess ''sucked'' out of an airplane. Not only was she still alive as she was falling, but she ''froze'' to death from how high up she was. Her death is shown with one of those [=CGI=] models, but if you listen closely while it shows her falling, you can hear her scream. What's worse is that [[BasedOnATrueStory it really happened]]. In 1988, there was a flight on Aloha Airlines (Flight 243) that suffered extensive damage from explosive decompression while in flight but was able to land safely at Kahului Airport on Maui. The only reported fatality was of a stewardess named C.B. Lansing, who died the same way the stewardess in that story did[[note]]though if it's any consolation, analyses of damage and bloodstains on the real-life accident plane imply that when she was sucked out, Lansing's skull was struck hard enough to kill or at least KO her, so she likely wasn't alive[=/=]awake to suffer the terror and freezing-to-death that the fictional stewardess did[[/note]].

* "Tone-Death": An i-Dose dealer gets his hands on some military subsonic equipment and uses it to try to amplify the hallucinogenic effects of his music for a new i-Dose file called "Satan's Jackhammer" by bringing the audio frequency down to below 20 Hz. He ends up suffering from [[BrownNote sonoporation]] caused by the sonic pressure from the low sound frequency that [[EarAche destroys the eardrums]] and his organs liquified and he vomits blood and wets his own pants, otherwise known as SADS, also known as Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome. And dying from that combined with shock and total organ failure, alongside involuntary pant soiling, loss of balance and even heart attacks. Think about it: this dude defecated and urinated himself, puked blood, had a heart attack, AND a seizure all at once, all while being exposed to deafening low frequency sounds.

* In "Botoxicated" a 30-something former beauty queen woman named Debbie gets a Botox injection from a doctor. Only problem was the doctor was a quack and he injected illegal black market botulism toxin into her head. As it spread throughout her nerves and her blood streams and her lungs, Debbie relaxed inside a hot tub to try to relieve the pain, her body become completely off paralyzed and she slip underwater and drowned. Imagine being totally aware as you slip underwater AND not being able to get out because you're completely paralyzed.

* "Bot-ily Harm": A young man named Alex decides to put his intelligence into making a Roomba with power saws all over it so he could use it to destroy things in his parents' basement, where he spent most of his time. His literal fatal flaw? Not making a proper detection system, because the robot will attack anything in its path so long as it detects motion. After it destroys another of Alex's bots, a screw that fell in the killer robot's path triggers its attack mode, and it makes a beeline straight for him, slicing apart his ankle and then his midsection until he dies. The worst part about it is that we're shown the gorefest as it's happening, and the camera holds on it for an uncomfortably long time. This is one of those deaths you can vicariously ''feel'' every second of.

* "Fire In The Hole": Casper was the leader of a Neo-Nazi party known as "The Brotherhood". He hears a rumor that his fellow prisoners would make an attempt on his life. This makes his attempt to break out of prison. He calls his subordinate from the party and another member to get arrested and help him break out. What the guards did not know was that when Darren arrived, he had a grenade deep up his anal canal, in which he was going to threaten the guards with the grenade and escape, but unfortunately for him and Casper, he isn't able to push it out his anus. So Casper put on some prostate gloves and reached deep into Darren's rectum. However, he accidentally pulls out just the pin, which causes the grenade to ''explode inside Darren's ass,'' expelling all of Darren's intestines, tearing his blood vessels apart, and shattering all pelvic bones. Casper was too close to the grenade, also killing him in the process. In the end, we get to see an unnerving shot of Darren's exposed intestines and Casper's bloody corpse.

* "Gone Fission" features two Yemenese men who are building a nuke. What they didn't know is that the plutonium nuclear core is nicknamed "The Demon Core". As one of the men drops the last tungsten carbide brick for a test on the plutonium core, he burps after eating a camel burger, which caused him to fumble the brick as it made brief contact with the core and it also exposed the two men to a massive surge of radiation, causing both of them to fall unconscious and start vomiting. Within a few hours, the surge destroys their immune systems, and both men are overcome with extreme nausea and become bedridden, leaving them extremely fatigued and their muscles to be faded away, and eventually, they are dying of bacterial pneumonia and asphyxiation as their lungs fill with fluid, sending the two terrorists to die within 48 hours as we see the men's corpses on their beds in a dirty hospital. This is another one that was based on a real-life case, though with American nuclear researchers, and it was the lesser of ''two'' supercriticality accidents involving [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core the real Demon Core]].

* "Pretty Fly for a Dead Guy" has a nerdy man named Egon with an extreme hatred for bugs who tried turning a wall of his house into a flytrap using a super-strong adhesive he created. Just as Egon finishes turning his wall into a flytrap, a mosquito flies by and annoys him. He began swatting the mosquito only to trip over an adhesive bucket and fall victim to his own trap, leaving him completely immobilized. Two days later, Egon became weak, lost his bodily functions, his body beginning to decay, and cries for help as the beetles he collected to kill and flies make a meal out of his body. A week later, he was nothing more than a rotting, maggot-infested skeleton.

* "Vats All Folks" has a psychotic cemetery owner who digs up dead bodies and dissolves them in hydrofluoric acid, but tonight he makes two ex-cons do his dirty work. When they realize his intentions, [[EvenEvilHasStandards they say "Hell no!" and bail]]. Here's the scary part, he tries to drag the body in, but trips and falls in the vat himself. As seen in the image above, he gets out, partially melted, and walking in agony before collapsing and dying (equipped with the sound of his skin sizzling as he dies). To make matters worse, one scream in particular sounds like he is ''laughing''.

** "USSR-Dead" has an especially gruesome example. A small group of Russian mafia mobsters are celebrating the newcomer's initiation into the band, so they drink what they presume to be vodka... only for it to turn out to be ''acid'' that was used earlier to burn off the newcomer's fingertips. The reason? The bartender was senile, and he couldn't tell one thing from another. We get to hear the description of what happens to the mobsters: their innards dissolve and lead to fatal results.

* In "Botoxicated" a 30-something former beauty queen woman named Debbie gets a Botox injection from a doctor. Only problem was the doctor was a quack and he injected illegal black market botulism toxin into her head. As it spread throughout her nerves and her blood streams and her lungs, Debbie relaxed inside a hot tub to try to relieve the pain, only to become completely off paralyzed and slip underwater and drown. Imagine being totally aware as you slip underwater AND not being able to get out because you're completely paralyzed.

* In "Botoxicated" a 30-something woman named Debbie gets a Botox injection from a doctor. Only problem was the doctor was a quack and he injected black market botulism toxin into her nerves and bloodstream. As it spread throughout her body, Debbie relaxed inside a hot tub to try to relieve the pain, only to become completely off paralyzed and slip underwater and drown. Imagine being totally aware as you slip underwater AND not being able to get out because you're completely paralyzed.