Weird Deaths of the 20th Century 

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I love how practically everyone knows about how one time a lady straight deadlifted her car to save her child. If any anecdote should be ubiquitous it should be something rad like that

I love the way that you set boundaries with your audience to prevent parasocial relationships, that’s why you’re my best friend.

Doc Powers's stats suggest he was really bad compared to his peers. His WAR was negative and his OPS+ was 50. An OPS+ stat is calculated that 100 is average and the further from that the worse/better you are. Effectively meaning he was 50% worse at batting than the average player in his era

9:40 "we beat the demons out of him, sadly he was all demons." -the Big Kahuna, probably

I have an aunt who had lung cancer from life-long heavy chain-smoking. So she slept in an oxygen tent made for her in her home. She didn''t stop smoking... so one day, poof. Suddenly, she was smoking much more than usual.

Its always a good day when Hugbees talks about people dying

My favorite death of the 20th century that isn’t on Wikipedia is the death of Al Bowlly. During an air raid in london during ww2, he was woken up by a sound outside. As he went to check it, his front door was blown off its hinges by a bomb and the door crashed into him, killing him instantly. Probably the most looney tunes death that isn’t on the list. Well, that and the telephone line that blew people up by accident.

Tangentially related to the Rasputin thing, Felix Yusupov was a renowned crossdresser and once asked Rasputin to cure him of his gay, Rasputin allegedly tried to hit on him in response and this pissed him off SO MUCH Yusupov joined in on the assassination. And as other aside, Yusupov claimed that the British monarch Edward 7th or whichever number he had, tried to hit on him while in drag (according to him)

The molasses flood gets even more fucked up. The company knew something was wrong with the tank because everyone had been complaining about it, but rather than stop to see what was causing the problem, THEY ORDERED MORE MOLASSES. They also knew the tank was fucked up to begin with because at some point during it's construction, the supplies became delayed, but they'd already ordered molasses and needed the tank to be finished, so they super rushed the damn thing. The entire event could have been avoided if they had simply stopped and inspected the tank when people complained. Hell, even if they didn't inspect it and just stopped ordering molasses, the flood wouldn't have been nearly as bad as it was. They were entirely at blame for the event.

That Ezekiel 23:20 reference killed me harder than that kahuna killed Hawaiian man with a Bible.

I'd gotten so used to the "maybe maybe not happened" deaths that I genuinely forgot that we've got evidence for these now

Being able to actually call relatives of these victims and mock them for their family's weird death is a power nobody in the past had until now

I'm surprised he went so hard on the satire with the German general, because honestly the fact that the guy did it in a random meeting with no context is even funnier.

One of my favorite things about huggbees videos is that he changes the aspect ratio, background, or camera angle for the ad, so it's really easy to know how to skip it

I had never considered that human fatty tissue would liquify and cause a wick effect that's actually fascinating to learn and probably explains most "spontaneous combustion" cases

My favorite part of the Rasputin death rumors is that he was tied upside down in a bag and tossed in a river (after the poisoning and shooting). When they found his body, supposedly his wrists were untied, the bag untied, and Rasputin was roughly half out of the bag.

Once you're caught up to modern day, you should make a video predicting future weird deaths

Doc's stats showed he was just as good at baseball as he was at a doctor.

Ty Lee is cute, cheerful, a circus-trained acrobat and contortionist, and also a master assassin. I don’t know why Hugbees might think he has a position that needs defending.

That fake ending was actually genius and had me laughing for a good solid few minutes

It might be harder to research for, but once this series ends i think a "People Who Should Have Died But Didn't" video/series would be really cool this series has all these people who died in crazy ways but another cool concept would be people who survived crazy odds

"He actually liked going outside. What a weirdo." It's hard for me to like going outside when doing so means spending a prolonged period under the deadly laser in the Arizonan sky.

You should a list of unusual births next to balance the series out.

'Saw a man about a dog' means 'I did something that's none of your business'. I have living relatives who say this.

22:51 baseball guy here. Doc powers was in fact not all that surgical on the baseball field either. Just going over simple stuff like WAR, BA, OBP, and OPS+ WAR: this means Wins Above Replacement. Docs was -2.8 which in simple terms means his team LOST 3 more games by letting him play than having someone else play for him. BA: BA is batting average. Average in 1909 was around .250 meaning you got a hit in 25% of your at bats. Docs batting average was .216 which is not very good but not atrociously terrible. OBP: OBP means On Base Percentage which seems pretty self explanatory but it just means how often do your plate appearances result in you being on base. Average in 1909 was around .300 meaning at the end of your plate appearance yiu were on base around 30% of the time. Docs was .248, this is not great. OPS+: OPS+ is OPB+SLG but accounts for a players playing era, field dimensions, and a bunch of other factors so that all players in every era can be compared to each other. The average for OPS+ is 100. Docs was 50. This means he was 50% LESS effective than an average hitter. After doing some digging i noticed that his 50 OPS+ was being CARRIED by his best season which he had a OPS+ of 104, meaning that year he was 4% better than the average hitter. After that season his hitting took a nose dive. Out of the 10 remaining seasons in his career, 5 had an OPS+ in the single digits and in 1905 he had an OPS+ of -4... this is the LOWEST ive ever seen. This meant that in 1905 his team was better off picking a random person in the stands and it being HELEN FUCKING KELLER than Doc Powers. This means that in 1905 he wouldve been more productive if he just never swung the bat because of how bad of a hitter he was.

the fake cut off at 55:40 was too realistic, you almost got me there

I like how humans are so incredibly prophetically stupid that huggbees can make an entire series about people dying without having to make them up

I saw him quote Ezekiel 23:20 and I was immediately like “isnt that the one with the donkey genitals and horse emissions” and yeah, it was

I'm pretty sure the Bible passage at 9:52 was intentionally chosen to torment anyone who dares to fact check Hugbees.

I'll never forget this day when I am listening to Huggbees videos as background noise while playing Dark Souls 3 and killing the Soul of Cinder just as he started talking about Mary Lord of Cinder.

Honestly, Huggbees' retelling of Rasputin's death is the most true, because as we all know, Huggbees is always correct.

Man the Displate advertisement is a 100000 iq advertising move Huggbees does a sponsorship that seems super sarcastic and doesn't paint Displate in a great light, which makes them seem cooler for letting him do that. Then you realize that that's exactly their intentiion, but at that point you just respect them for the strategy and for making an entertaining sponsorship. Well played, company. Well played.

You should do one on Almon Strowger, who invented the automatic telephone exchange to get revenge on all telephone operators.

when talking about what kind of person Rasputin was and his story, it is of the utmost importance to consider that virtually every detail people think they know about him comes from the Bolsheviks. You know, the people who were infamous for spreading lies and rumors about their enemies as well as killing children.

41:08 In the 1970 Formula 1 world championship, Karl Rindt was leading the championship coming into Monza. During the race, he would crash and die. His championship lead was so big, that at the end of the season, he was still the leader, making him the 1970 Formula 1 World Champion, while he was dead.

I still chose to believe that Rasputin was just a drunk wizard, also this is amazing, so thank you man

*Having a bad day* Huggbees: "Hey, wanna talk about people who died in comical ways?" *Slight smile, upwards piano trill*

Was expecting a regular displate ad, but instead, i got one more proof about how based and cultured Huggbees is.

If I had a nickel for every time Huggbees covered an actor dying onstage the same exact way as their character, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's crazy it happened twice.

Frank Hayes is the equivalent of "Luigi wins by doing absolutely nothing"

I asked my fiance about the men's sleepover boob feeling thing, and he said 'no, but it sounds like something frat guys would do', so I guess I haven't completely ruled it out. Also that golfer was fine for an amateur, but terrible as a pro.

Also known as the Boston Molassacre! Rumor has it that on hot days you can still smell it in certain parts of the city.

Doc Powers was a pretty bad hitter by MLB standards. But he played catcher, a very hard defensive position. Defensive metrics from back then are basically nonexistent but he was regarded as a great defender in his time.

Fellas is it gay to die after perfoming a full ballet routine for your high ranking homies

Huggbees is like my dad, shows up twice a month, and then he’s gone.

Do a video on silly deaths of the future year of 2344, my favorite is the one where glorbanshaka laughs to death at a glimbohop eating figs.

Baseball nerd here, Doc Powers sucked. I mean rest in peace, he might have been a great guy, but he was pretty bad at baseball. It's kind of hard to directly compare most stats because the game has changed so much over the years. For example pitchers used to be allowed to put anything on the ball to make it harder to hit so batting averages were low back then, and many early era parks had massive outfields which made homeruns extremely rare, but WAR (wins above replacement) is a stat that accounts for some of that because the average is always 0 and his WAR was -2.8 so he was well below average.

9:55 As someone who almost lost a dare and had "Ezekiel 23:20" tattooed on their ankle alongside a horse and a heart... Yeah that's not quiiiite how I remember that verse going

I’ve been waiting for you to mention the Boston Molasses Flood tbh, but you missed a few details. The tank that exploded held 2.3 million gallons of boiling hot molasses. It flows like an actual liquid at high temperatures, so it was easier to send through pipes and machinery. That means that it flowed through the streets like water, and gave everyone severe burns. The first responders that went in to rescue people were getting burns and falling in because they didn’t expect it to be that hot. The first responders needed other first responders to help them out of the molasses. The amount of injuries caused by this is staggering compared to other floods They did eventually clear out all of the molasses from the area, but the streets of Boston will still smell like molasses on a hot summer day

41:07 Richie Evans clinched the 1985 NASCAR Modified Tour Championship in the penultimate race of that season. During practice for that years’ season finale at Martinsville Speedway, he crashed in turn 3 and subsequently died. He is the only driver in all of stock car racing to win a championship after he had died. Take that, Alan Kulwicki.

I love how the movie Kingsmen did a speedrun of all those attempts at Rasputin's life, finishing him with a shot to the forehead

Ah boy, I'm so glad to be a consumer. Thank you Disc Plates for sponsoring this video. I sure do love defining my personality by the franchises I enjoy.

Can we all just give a hand to Hugbees for saying Ty Lee is the best Avatar:TLA character?

Man casually drops the most on point mr satan impression while telling a story about a guy falling on an eraser and dying while escaping kisses

Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised about the poisoning at minimum. Cyanide might become non-lethal when cooked, and his poisoned wine might’ve not made it through his blood stream to incapacitate him. The headshot would rule out him dying by drowning though, and I’m pretty sad about that.

we all know rasputin drowned and came back as a zombie to kill anastasia romanov with his bat sidekick who has a really good spinoff movie.

So I did research (very lightly) rasputin’s body, and I found a website called wildbluepress, which apparently shows a number of police photographs of his murder, like the location he was murdered and where they found his body, which was apparently dumped in the river after being tied at the hands which had snapped. There were 3 apparent bullet wounds, one through the head of course but one through the front of his chest that went out the back, and one in the lower back closer, also bear that one was apparently a slash wound. So I guess at one point he was surrounded by his attackers as one seemed to cut and shoot him in the back, they then dragged and dumped him into the river. So maybe that initial theory was more accurate than was thought

the *actual* bible verse he referenced for those curious: "There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses." incredible

"Solve this problem right the fuck now mode" is now an integral part of my vocabulary lmao! Good shit

11:09 dont mind me just leaving a bookmark. Have a great rest of your day, and remember you're loved

Had this come 20 minutes earlier, it would have been perfect for my McDonald’s. Alas, halfway through my meal, I’ll still invest myself into laughing at people dying. Like a normal person.

Tai Lee was pretty cool in Avatar the last Airbender. Her fighting style was cool.

Hugbees always makes me question if he is joking or not

That thumbnail really had me thinking we were going to be seeing Mr. Hands

5:50 If my vague knowledge of ye olden slang is correct, "Ah, gee whiz, fellas, I put on my finest glad rags and saw a man about a dog expecting a real bash for some zozzled boys like us at the old ball game, but my pencil's a gas. Now my meat hook's got nothing to keep this hanging time going. Nothing's jake out here today, I tells ya." roughly translates to "Ah, shit, guys. I put on my best clothes and discreetly left my place expecting us to get trashed out here by the ball field, but my pencil's fucked. Now I've got nothing to keep me entertained. Nothing's alright, I tell you."

Im damn proud of this series and how far it's come! you better be too Hugbees

The half hearted edit on the displate mounting system was so fucking funny

"The chief of police at the time, JR Rykard, gathered up a mountain of evidence from the scene and mailed it in a box to the FBI, specifically addressing it to Edgar Hoover himself." You're telling me someone named Rykard was appointed to a case where someone burnt to death? That's some good, tasty irony.

If I die in a weird or unusual way I hereby give the RU-vid channel known as Huggbees full permission to document it in whatever way he sees fit.

I appreciate the Ty Lee love

11:22 can confirm

The molasses flood has some good engineering case study. There was some negligence to perform maintenance on the tank and emergency relief system prior to the flood. This increased the likelyhood the the tank rupturing during the heat wave.

I see a bee being hugged, I click

Can we just appreciate how Huggbees never fails to terrify us with his horrific tales of death 🙏🙏

i wasn't at your wedding because i was in the hospital having done something stupid. you should be proud of me, i'm living up to this series

Huggbees should be the announcer for the Darwin Awards

Ezekiel 23:20 NIV "There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses". Thanks Huggbees! For anyone curious, the context is that it is an allegory to Judah and it's unfaithfulness to God's covenant, and instead prostituting itself into alliances with pagans.

he was a bad baseball player. he was actually an IMPRESSIVELY bad baseball player.

Bro hugbees is the only guy to make me actually want a displate by being fucking honest how lame yet cool they are. It's like that cringe when your mom opens her arms unloading the mystical fog of smell killing all your house plants but the smile when she cooks for me after a passionate night of gas mask sex time.

Hell yeah, there's my Huggbees patented Runtime™ of almost an hour of interesting information!! To list every funny quote from this I'd need to deduct fifteen years from my life expectancy, this is brilliant, thank you.

For the baseball question: While the WAR (Wins Above Replacement) stat is a point of contention, having a negative WAR is generally not good.

I knew about a few of these because I'm a nerd but I had absolutely no idea about the Ballet Dancer. A bunch of deeply closested upper tier government and military men covering up their crossdressing closeted ballerina friend's death due to the German Old Timey combination of McCarthyism, a TMZ rumor, and Don't Ask, Don't Tell? That sounds like something straight out of Monty Python! I already knew that Rasputin died from a center mass headshot thanks to Tumblr, of all places, but the way you told the legend's moving parts had me wheezing. Thanks for continuing the series and I wish more Creators would be honest about why they want comments. Mutual respect, indeed.

I cannot believe Displate approved that ad 😂

Huggbees fixed my short vídeo addiction

I think we all know why he got a Ty-Lee poster

An hour of this handsome glorious man on my screen talking about the modern macabre? My day is made

40:22 This is the real life equalivant of "Luigi wins by doing absolutely nothing"

Baseball nerd here, Doc Powers stats are absolutely horrible WAR is a stat that tries to tell how many wins a player is worth rather than a league average player, him having a WAR of -2.3 is absolutely horrible, he’s worth 2 less wins then an average player And his OPS+, a stat that tries to adjust a hitter from all eras, from his to now, a league average OPS+ is 100, that’s the standard, less is bad and more is good, having a 50 OPS+ means he’s 50% worse than a league average hitter TL;DR: he really should have stuck to being a doctor

I can tell you've spent your life in the city or never did scouts if you're surprised a kid had a knife. If you know how to use a pocket knife it's quite the multitool.

Dude that fakeout got me. I have never seen that before. Amazing job man lol.

He's gotta combine all of them when he's like 90 to get his own wiki page.

Imagine making an unironic Monica Lewinsky joke in 2023.

When you die there's no Gates of St. Peter or any of that shit. There's just Huggbees, so you'd better make your death entertaining.

I am really surprised he did not mention Vic morrows that he got obliterated by a helicopter while filming the twilight zone movie not to mention he was carrying two children There is footage of him getting shredded

I recall watching a pretty good video documentary about Rasputin's death that fairly convincingly argued that the popular story of how he died was a load of bollocks.

Doc Powers WAR (Wins above replacement) was -2.8. Which means his team was better without him playing. Also .216 batting average would be awful for today’s baseball, and really bad for his era when batting averages were much higher.

I heard that before they threw Rasputin in the river, they put him in a sack and when his body was found, there were scratches inthe bag

Man seems absolutely hyped for this displate sponso

Ty-lee huh? A man of good taste. I shall draw her for you.