VIDEO: Most Shocking DEATHS at DISNEYLAND. They Never Thought It Would Happen to Them!

Every life has an end and eventually we all die, but most of us wish to have a painless death after a very long life. Well, not all people are lucky enough to get this and some die horrible or stupid deaths because of various reasons.

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It can happen at any time in any place, yes, even in a place such as magical as Disneyland. Sure, people haven’t actually died right there, they were pronounced dead at the hospital, but this is where the thing that led to their deaths happened.

Sure, it isn’t the park’s fault and the rides are safe and tested regularly because they can’t risk have something go wrong, but because of several reasons have actually ended up dying.

According to snopes.com, nine guests have been killed on Disneyland attractions since the park’s opening in 1955. All the deaths (save the two most recent) were the result of guests who apparently ignored safety instructions and/or defeated rides’ safety mechanisms.

May 1964:   Mark Maples, a 15-year-old Long Beach, CA, resident, was killed when he tried to stand up on the Matterhorn Bobsleds. Maples (or his companion) foolishly unbuckled his seatbeat and attempted to stand up as their bobsled neared the peak of the mountain. Maples lost his balance and was thrown from the sled to the track below, fracturing his skull and ribs and causing internal injuries. He died three days later.

June 1973:   Bogden Delaurot, an 18-year-old Brooklyn resident, drowned trying to swim across the Rivers of America. Delaurot and his 10-year-old brother managed to stay on Tom Sawyer Island past its dusk closing time by climbing the fence separating the island from the burning settlers’ cabin.

When they decided to leave the island a few hours later, they chose to swim across the river rather than call attention to their rule-breaking by appealing to cast members for help. Because the younger brother did not know how to swim, Delaurot tried to carry him on his back as he swam to shore.

Bogden Delaurot went down about halfway across the river. The younger boy remained afloat by dogpaddling until a ride operator hauled him aboard a boat, but Bogden was nowhere to be found.

His body was not located by searchers until the next morning.

4 June 1983:   Philip Straughan, an 18-year-old Albuquerque, New Mexico, resident, also drowned in the Rivers of America in yet another Grad Nite incident. Straughan and a friend — celebrating both their graduations and Straughan’s eighteenth birthday — had been drinking quite heavily that evening.

They sneaked into a “Cast Members Only” area along the river and untied an inflatable rubber maintenance motorboat, deciding to take it for a joyride around the river. Unable to adequately control the boat, they struck a rock near Tom Sawyer Island, and Straughan was thrown into the water.

24 December 1998:   In a tragic Christmas Eve accident, one Disneyland cast member and two guests were injured (one fatally) when a rope used to secure the sailing ship Columbia as it docked on the Rivers of America tore loose the metal cleat to which it was attached.

The cleat sailed through air and struck the heads of two guests who were waiting to board the ship, Luan Phi Dawson, 33, of Duvall, Washington, and his wife, Lieu Thuy Vuong, 43. Dawson was declared brain dead two days later and died when his life support system was disconnected.

This accident resulted in the first guest death in Disneyland’s history that was not attributable to any negligence on the part of the guest (it was the result of a combination of insufficiently rigorous ride maintenance and an insufficiently experienced supervisor’s assuming an attraction operator’s role) and prompted a movement for greater government oversight of theme park operations and safety procedures.