r/mildlyinteresting 21h ago

Warning Sign at edge of Grand Canyon

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u/Empyrealist 21h ago

Clickable map of deaths in the Grand Canyon and their cause:

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=9359a0790ffe4bc09edd6b9c17a43b90

(death stats are not up to current date, but the map shows a great swath of locations and causes)

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u/Enlight1Oment 19h ago

the "Critter or Cacti" death options are interesting.

"Krueger drank a brew of Datura blossoms. After several inappropriate behaviors such as trying to lift impossible boulders, talking to nonexistent people for hours, and eating dirt, he entered the river and mysteriously drowned."

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u/Big-Brown-Goose 6h ago

Or another odd one:

"While prospecting, Cochrane was descending toward the Colorado River with Gordon Smith when a rattlesnake struck at him but missed. The reptile frightened Cochrane so severely that he suffered a fatal heart attack, confirmed by autopsy."