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The Worst Extreme Challenge Deaths Ever
There are some world records that are, you know, impressive. The fastest mile, the heaviest weight lifted. And then there are the records that just make you ask… why? This is one of those.
Meet 24-year-old Janaka Basnayake from Sri Lanka. In 2012, Janaka decided he wanted to break the world record for being buried alive.
Rest in peace to the victims.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - 02:45 Janaka Basnayake
02:45 - 05:20 Vladimir Ladyzhensky
05:20 - 08:08 Guy Garman
08:08 - 10:30 Sailendra Nath Roy
10:30 - 12:38 Diana Paris
12:38 - 14:56 Jeremy Morris & Jeff Fink
14:56 - 17:03 Colombian Gravity Bikers
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The Worst Extreme Challenge Deaths Ever
There are some world records that are, you know, impressive. The fastest mile, the heaviest weight lifted. And then there are the records that just make you ask… why? This is one of those.
Meet 24-year-old Janaka Basnayake from Sri Lanka. In 2012, Janaka decided he wanted to break the world record for being buried alive.
Rest in peace to the victims.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - 02:45 Janaka Basnayake
02:45 - 05:20 Vladimir Ladyzhensky
05:20 - 08:08 Guy Garman
08:08 - 10:30 Sailendra Nath Roy
10:30 - 12:38 Diana Paris
12:38 - 14:56 Jeremy Morris & Jeff Fink
14:56 - 17:03 Colombian Gravity Bikers
💼 For collabs/questions: cavestories63@gmail.com
🔴🤓 Yep, this masterpiece was handcrafted by me, myself, and I. Thinking of copying it? Please don’t. Viewer discretion and common sense advised.
#GoneWrong
#Shocking
#RealLifeHorror
#FatalMistakes
#Unbelievable
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00:02Janaka Baznayake
00:03There are some world records that are, you know, impressive.
00:07The fastest mile, the heaviest weight lifted.
00:11And then there are the records that just make you ask, why?
00:16This is one of those.
00:18Meet 24-year-old Janaka Baznayake from Sri Lanka.
00:23In 2012, Janaka decided he wanted to break the world record
00:27for being buried alive.
00:30Yeah, you heard that right.
00:32He wanted to be voluntarily buried in a pit 10 feet deep
00:36for as long as possible.
00:38On the morning of the attempt, at around 9.30 a.m.,
00:42Janaka climbed into a narrow wooden box.
00:45His family and friends helped lower him into the pit.
00:49They covered the box with wooden planks,
00:51and then they started shoveling.
00:53They piled the earth back into the hole,
00:56sealing him in complete darkness 10 feet underground.
01:00Now, let's just think about that for a second.
01:03The weight of the earth pressing down.
01:06The sound of the dirt hitting the wood above you,
01:08getting fainter and fainter.
01:10The absolute, total blackness.
01:14It's the stuff of nightmares.
01:17Inside that box, the air would have gotten warm and stale
01:20almost immediately.
01:22The first few minutes would have been just, uh, panic.
01:26A desperate, primal need for fresh air.
01:29Janaka would have started with shallow, rapid breaths,
01:32his heart pounding in his chest.
01:34But soon, every breath would become a struggle.
01:37The oxygen level drops, and the carbon dioxide level rises.
01:42That's when the real horror begins.
01:44A burning sensation in the lungs.
01:46A crushing headache.
01:47Your ears start to ring.
01:50Your fingers and lips turn blue.
01:52You get confused.
01:53You start to hallucinate.
01:55In his final moments,
01:57Janaka would have been clawing at the wooden box,
01:59his nails splitting,
02:01his fingers bleeding,
02:02in a desperate, futile attempt to escape.
02:05Every gasp for air would feel like a knife in his chest.
02:08At around 4pm, after about six and a half hours,
02:12his family dug him up.
02:14They pulled the box out of the ground and opened it.
02:18Janaka was unconscious.
02:19They rushed him to the hospital, but it was too late.
02:22He was pronounced dead.
02:24The official cause of death wasn't just one thing.
02:27It was a combination of suffocation, carbon dioxide poisoning,
02:31and the immense pressure on his chest and lungs from the weight of the earth.
02:36Bro.
02:37He wanted a world record, but instead,
02:39he got one of the most terrifying deaths imaginable.
02:45Vladimir Ledesinski.
02:47Finland.
02:49A beautiful country known for its lakes, its forests, and its saunas.
02:55They take their saunas very, very seriously.
02:59So seriously, in fact, that they used to host the World Sauna Championship.
03:04Yes, I'm serious.
03:06The rules were simple.
03:08A group of people sit in a sauna heated to 230 degrees Fahrenheit.
03:13Every 30 seconds, half a liter of water is poured onto the stove.
03:18The last person to walk out on their own two feet is the winner.
03:22In 2010, the final came down to two men.
03:26The reigning five-time champion, a Finn named Timo Kaukonen,
03:31and a Russian amateur wrestler, 60-year-old Vladimir Ledesinski.
03:35Both men were experienced.
03:38They knew what they were doing.
03:39Or, so they thought.
03:41For six minutes, they sat in that scorching heat as steam and scalding water filled the air.
03:48The temperature just kept rising.
03:51Outside, spectators watched through the glass door.
03:55They could see the two men, sweating profusely, their skin turning a deep, angry red.
04:00And then, um, something went wrong.
04:04Both men started to convulse.
04:07The judges realized this wasn't part of the competition.
04:10They rushed to the door and dragged the two men out.
04:14What they saw was horrific.
04:17Their skin was covered in massive, weeping blisters.
04:21In some places, it was literally sloughing off their bodies.
04:25The inside of the sauna was spattered with blood and fluid.
04:30Vladimir was dead.
04:32Timo Kaukonen was in critical condition, but he survived, though with severe burns and kidney failure.
04:38The autopsy on Vladimir revealed he had died from third-degree burns.
04:43But it also revealed something else.
04:45He had used strong painkillers and a numbing anesthetic ointment all over his body before the final.
04:52He couldn't feel the damage being done.
04:55He couldn't feel his own body cooking.
04:58His skin was literally melting.
05:00His internal organs were failing from the extreme heat.
05:03But the painkillers masked the agony.
05:06He sat there, stoically, while his body was destroyed from the inside out.
05:11The competition was immediately canceled and has never been held again.
05:16And for good reason.
05:20Guy Garman
05:21Some people are just built different.
05:24They see a mountain, they have to climb it.
05:27They see a record, they have to break it.
05:30And then there's Guy Garman.
05:32A successful ear, nose, and throat doctor from the U.S. Virgin Islands.
05:36But his patients knew him by another name.
05:39Doc Deep.
05:40And he took that name seriously.
05:43In just a few years, he went from a casual scuba diver to an extreme technical diver.
05:49Obsessed with going deeper than anyone else.
05:53In August 2015, he set his sights on the ultimate prize.
05:58A world record dive to 1,200 feet.
06:02For context, that's like diving the full height of the Empire State Building.
06:06Underwater.
06:08In total darkness.
06:10Now, the previous record holder was a highly experienced professional diver.
06:15Guy was not.
06:18He had fewer than 600 total dives, and only about 35 of those were below 500 feet.
06:24He was, by all accounts, rushing.
06:28He was warned by other divers that he was moving too fast.
06:31That he was skipping crucial steps in his training.
06:34But he wouldn't listen.
06:36Nope.
06:36On August 15th, he began his descent.
06:40The plan was to meet a series of support divers at different depths on his way back up.
06:45But he never made it to the first rendezvous.
06:48He just disappeared into the abyss.
06:51His body was recovered three days later.
06:55So what happened down there, in the crushing dark?
06:58It's a cocktail of horrors.
07:00At that depth, you can get something called High Pressure Neurological Syndrome, or HPNS.
07:07Your hands start to tremble uncontrollably.
07:10You get muscle spasms, tunnel vision, and a crippling cognitive fog.
07:15You can't think straight.
07:17You can't even trust your own hands to work the equipment.
07:21Then there's the pain.
07:22A deep, grinding pain in your joints, especially your knees and shoulders, as the immense pressure
07:29literally compresses your cartilage.
07:31It feels like your bones are being crushed in a vice.
07:35And all the while, the nitrogen in the air you're breathing becomes a powerful narcotic.
07:40You feel drunk, disoriented, making fatal mistakes without even realizing it.
07:46The official cause of death was drowning.
07:49But he didn't just drown.
07:51He was lost in a neurological storm, crippled by pain, and hopelessly intoxicated by the very
07:58air he was breathing.
07:59He was an amateur who tried to conquer the deep.
08:02And the deep, eh, it doesn't suffer fools.
08:08Sylindra Nath Roy
08:10And now for something completely different.
08:13Meet Sylindra Nath Roy, a 49-year-old police driver from India.
08:19Sylindra wasn't a diver or a mountaineer.
08:21His claim to fame was…
08:23His hair.
08:25No, seriously.
08:26He was a Guinness World Record holder for traveling the farthest on a zip line, attached
08:32only by his long, luscious ponytail.
08:35In 2013, he decided to break his own record.
08:39The stage was set at the Coronation Bridge in West Bengal over the Tista River.
08:45A 600-foot steel cable was stretched across the river, about 65 feet above the water.
08:51A crowd of hundreds gathered to watch.
08:55Sylindra attached his ponytail to a pulley on the cable.
08:58And with a cheer from the crowd, he was off.
09:00For a while, everything went perfectly.
09:03He was gliding across the river, his body dangling beneath him, suspended only by his hair.
09:10And then, about halfway across, he just… stopped.
09:15His hair had gotten tangled in the pulley mechanism.
09:18He was stuck.
09:20Dangling helplessly, 65 feet above the river.
09:24At first, the crowd cheered, thinking it was part of the show.
09:28But then, the minutes started to tick by.
09:32Sylindra was trying to free himself, shouting for help, his arms flailing.
09:36You could see the panic set in.
09:39Imagine the pain.
09:40The entire weight of your body pulling on your scalp.
09:44A searing, burning pain, like a thousand needles being driven into your skull.
09:49His arms would have gotten tired, his muscles screaming in protest.
09:54He hung there for about 45 minutes, struggling, while the crowd below watched in horrified silence.
10:01Eventually, he went limp.
10:04Rescuers finally managed to get him down, but it was too late.
10:07He had suffered a massive heart attack.
10:10The extreme stress and pain had literally broken his heart.
10:15His wife had begged him not to do it.
10:17She told him it was too dangerous, that this should be his last stunt.
10:22He promised her it would be.
10:24He was right.
10:28Diana Paris
10:30Skydivers are a different breed.
10:32They call themselves swoopers and canopy pilots.
10:36They talk about boogies and tracking.
10:38It's a whole subculture built around the thrill of falling.
10:42But sometimes, that thrill comes at a terrible price.
10:45Meet Diana Paris, a 46-year-old skydiver from Berlin, Germany.
10:50In April 2014, she was in Arizona, taking part in a massive event.
10:57222 skydivers were attempting to set a new world record for the largest freefall formation.
11:03Imagine that.
11:05222 people, jumping out of multiple planes at 18,000 feet, trying to link up in a giant, intricate pattern,
11:12all while hurtling towards the Earth at over 120 miles per hour.
11:16For about 70 seconds, it's a beautifully choreographed chaos.
11:20And then, it's time to break away and pull the ripcord.
11:24For 221 of those jumpers, it went exactly as planned.
11:29But for Diana, it didn't.
11:32Her main parachute malfunctioned.
11:34We don't know exactly what went wrong.
11:36Maybe it was a line twist.
11:38Maybe the slider didn't come down properly.
11:40But the result was the same.
11:42A tangled, useless piece of nylon instead of a life-saving canopy.
11:47Every skydiver's worst nightmare.
11:49She did what she was trained to do.
11:51She cut away the main parachute and pulled the handle for her reserve.
11:55But she was already too low.
11:57The reserve parachute needs time and altitude to open fully.
12:01Diana didn't have either.
12:03Eyewitnesses on the ground saw a flash of white as the reserve started to deploy.
12:07But it was too late.
12:09It was just a streamer.
12:11A half-inflated canopy that did nothing to slow her down.
12:14She hit the ground at terminal velocity.
12:16The impact was… instantaneous.
12:21Paramedics were on the scene in moments, but there was nothing they could do.
12:24She was pronounced dead at the scene.
12:27One tiny, fatal error.
12:29A few seconds of bad luck.
12:31And a day that started with the promise of a world record ended in tragedy.
12:37Jeremy Morris and Jeff Fink
12:41The early 2010s.
12:43The era of obstacle course racing.
12:45The Tough Mudder.
12:46The Spartan Race.
12:48And…
12:48The Warrior Dash.
12:50These events were everywhere.
12:52Thousands of people paying good money to run through mud, climb over walls, and crawl under barbed wire.
12:58It was all about pushing your limits, right?
13:01Well, in July 2011, near Kansas City, those limits were pushed way too far.
13:08It was the weekend of the Warrior Dash.
13:1015,000 people had signed up.
13:13But there was a problem.
13:14A big one.
13:16A brutal, record-breaking heat wave had settled over the area.
13:20The heat index was soaring to 111 degrees Fahrenheit.
13:25The organizers, Red Frog Events, decided to go ahead with the race anyway.
13:30What could possibly go wrong?
13:33Meet 28-year-old Jeremy Morris, a fit, experienced runner and diver.
13:38He was out on the course, pushing through the mud and the heat when he collapsed.
13:43He was rushed to the hospital.
13:44His core body temperature was 111 degrees Fahrenheit.
13:50Let that sink in.
13:51Normal is 98.6.
13:54At 104, you're in serious trouble.
13:57At 111, your body is literally cooking itself from the inside out.
14:03His organs started to shut down.
14:06His brain swelled.
14:07His circulatory system collapsed.
14:09He died a few days later from complications of severe heat stroke.
14:13And he wasn't the only one.
14:16Another participant, 53-year-old Jeff Fink,
14:19also collapsed during the race and died a few days later from the same cause.
14:23The families were furious.
14:25They argued that the race should have been canceled,
14:28that there wasn't enough water or medical support for a race in such extreme conditions.
14:32It's a classic case of corporate greed over common sense.
14:36The drive to make a profit, even when it puts people's lives at risk.
14:41Jeremy and Jeff weren't elite athletes who died pushing the boundaries of human performance.
14:45They were just regular guys who signed up for a fun weekend challenge
14:49and paid the ultimate price for someone else's bad decision.
14:56Colombian Gravity Bikers
14:58There are extreme sports, and then there's just a death wish.
15:03This next one falls squarely in the second category.
15:06It's called gravity biking, and it's popular in the mountainous regions of Colombia.
15:11The bikes are, um, Frankenstein creations.
15:16Stripped down frames, no brakes, no gears.
15:19The riders lie flat on their stomachs, head first, to be as aerodynamic as possible.
15:24And then they just... let go.
15:27They fly down steep, winding mountain roads at insane speeds, often weaving in and out of traffic.
15:34On March 16th, 2024, on a dangerous stretch of road between Popayan and El Tambo,
15:41a group of four young people were doing just that.
15:44They were filming themselves, laughing, shouting, pushing their luck.
15:48One of them, a young woman named Tatiana, was on her first run.
15:53They came into a sharp corner, going way too fast.
15:58One of the riders lost control.
16:00He veered into the oncoming lane and slammed head-on into a dump truck.
16:04The impact was catastrophic.
16:07He and another rider, Duber, were killed instantly.
16:10Tatiana and the fourth rider were critically injured.
16:14The scene was chaos.
16:16The truck driver was in shock.
16:18The local community was furious.
16:20Not at the kids, but at the truck driver.
16:22They surrounded his truck, threatening him with knives.
16:25The police had to escort him away for his own safety.
16:28It's a twisted, tragic situation.
16:31The kids made a reckless choice,
16:33but the anger of the community was directed at the man who was just...
16:37driving to work.
16:39And the most heartbreaking part?
16:41One of the survivors had been caught by the police doing the exact same thing before.
16:46They had confiscated his bike.
16:48But he just got another one.
16:50It's an addiction to adrenaline.
16:52A feeling of invincibility that so many young people have.
16:56A feeling that, for two of them, ended in a bloody wreck on a Colombian mountain road.
17:02So let's take a look at this new art road.
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