"As the mother's coffin was being raised to the lakkian, suddenly the ladder shifted and collapsed, the coffin fell and hit the victim." One tragedy turned into two during a funeral on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on June 15. Local man Samen Kondorura, 40, was mourning the loss of his mother, Berta, when he too was killed after her coffin fell on him. In the middle of his mother’s funeral, held in the Parinding valley of the North Toraja district, Kondorura and several other pallbearers were carrying the coffin up a bamboo ladder onto a lakkian, a decorated tower where the deceased are placed in traditional Torajan services before the funeral rites take place.

Ballooning happens every year, but experts aren't exactly sure why there have been so many of these spider sightings recently. Stephen Michael Barnett/Wikimedia CommonsThreads of silk cover the grass after a bout of ballooning back in 2014. It’s a bird, it’s a plane — no, it’s webby white clumps of baby spiders. Residents across the Bay Area have been puzzled by the sight of these tiny white clouds drifting down from the sky, which experts say are baby spiders in the midst of a phenomenon called “ballooning” or “kiting.

Evelyn McHale, The Most Beautiful Suicide Wikimedia CommonsEvelyn McHale’s body on top of the limousine she landed on. Apart from her extraordinary death, McHale led a very normal life. She was born in Berkeley, California to parents Helen and Vincent McHale. Her parents divorced sometime after 1930 and McHale along with her seven brothers and sisters went to live with their father in New York. McHale was a member of the Women’s Army Corps while in high school.

Belgian financier Alfred Loewenstein was the third-richest person on Earth when he supposedly fell out of his private plane on July 4, 1928, in a bizarre “accident” that left aviation experts baffled.Bettmann/Getty ImagesA professional airman himself, Alfred Loewenstein mysteriously fell out of an airplane in 1928. The disappearance of Alfred Loewenstein is one of the most baffling mysteries in modern American history. The third-richest man in the world, the Belgian-born banker epitomized the wealth and excess of the Gilded Age.

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