A Collection of Horrible Fates

I could listen to this man reading me the phonebook I swear.

craziest part is the swedish peasants assuming there had to be a mine there for finding an oddly colored goat and being right

The red arrows in your thumbnails are too funny. They never point at anything strange. A car on a road? Give it an arrow. A person sitting on a rock? Another arrow. A cake? Throw in an arrow!

Hey I think I can offer up a clue on the Isdahl Woman: eczema cream could contain a compound called DMSO that smells like garlic. It is an INCREDIBLY strong smelling substance that absolutely would be able to be picked up by another person. Perhaps that could narrow down the manufacturer of the cream, or the doctor who prescribed it

There was another story of a woman found in an hotel room in Norway, with a gunshot wound in her head, allegedly self inflicted, with fake address, no identification, all clothes tag removed. It is still a mystery how she was able to rent a room in an exclusive hotel, especially in a moment of tight security due to some VIP guests, with no ID. I think that from the investigation it came out it was probable the “suicide” was staged and she was murdered because she was a spy. I think it was named Jennifer Fairgate and it was 1995.

As a swede, I'm super stoked to see you telling the story of Fet-Mats! I've been thinking about recommending Falu copper mine for a long time, as the mine overall is really interesting! It's marked as a world heritage site these days, and during the middle ages provided 2/3rds of all copper in europe. There's a little bit more to Fet-Mats' story at the end too, after being on display for a while he was buried a first time and his remains were moved a few times. Then his remains were exhumed in 1862 and put in a wooden box and put in the church's attic, then completely forgotten about, re-discovered years later when the church was being renovated. Then his bones were put back on display in the mine's museum for a while, and then finally buried for good as mentioned in the video. Poor guy's finally put to rest! (Also when his wife saw his body, she exclaimed "That's my Mats") Other facts about the mines are the way it looks, as in the photo at 6.49, while it might just look like a steep hill at first, it's a giant pit that's about 100 m deep and 1½ km across. In the mid 1600s the top floor of the mine completely collapsed, making the pit as it is now. Surprisingly not a single person was injured or hurt, because it happened to be on midsummers eve, one of the few days of the year where everyone had the day off to celebrate, completely avoiding a massive horrible disaster had it been on any other day! Fet-Mats was also not the only one to ride the bucket down, it was quite common. They would try to maximize the amount of people to go at once to be more effecient, so each man would stand on the edge of the bucket, and only with one foot and keep one hand on the rope (I think it would be about 8 men at a time? been a while since last time I was on one of the tours). As the bucket went down, they would rock back and forth so the bucket swung close to the tunnel opening for every floor, and the men would simply jump off the bucket into whichever floor they worked on. If you missed, you'd fall all the way to the bottom (rip), but actually happened very rarely. The mine also has one of those massive bells that chimes every few seconds (still used today!) that's connected to the water pumps, meaning if you no longer hear it you need to leave ASAP as the pumps have stopped working and the mine will start filling back up with water. The mine is still in use today (it's absolutely massive, it goes real fucking deep) and they do guided tours too. Even tho you don't go super deep (something less than a 100 m), the dugouts are massive and there's tunnels everywhere. Their website is a bit lacking in english which is unfortunate, because it's got a really long and super cool history!

If she were a spy, she wasn’t a very good one, because her peculiar behavior actually made her memorable rather than forgettable.

If she's buried in zinc for preservation, surely they could collect a DNA sample now? With the rise of genealogy tests, it is possible a distant relative has their DNA on record somewhere.

Wow, the second story about the woman is so intriguing. I would love to know the answer to that one.

Those investigators in the second case were sharp as a tack. The clue analysis was unreal.

In the 2nd story when you talked about the handwriting analysis and them narrowing down areas just based on her lower cursive "t", shows how much investigators can learn just from someone's handwriting. It's incredible. Reminds me of a case that was solved in Florida where all the info they had on the murderer was his handwriting. The detectives were so desperate to solve the case, that they posted a billboard showing a picture of his handwriting and asked if anyone could identify it. Amazingly a woman had recently had a handyman come to her home to do some work and the bill he wrote her matched the suspects. Then found him and arrested him. Even the smallest of details can be an excellent clue.

Spy or not, to me it always felt like the Isdal woman was running away from someone. They eventually identified the Somerton Man, so there is hope I guess...

I'm Swedish. The story of the goat and the copper ore is a famous old legend. The Nobel Prize-winning author Selma Lagerlöf tells a charming version of the story in a book for school children about Sweden ("The wonderful journey of Nils Holgersson"). A short version of the saga: A farmer was gathering the livestock and noticed that one goat had red-coloured horns. He asked the shepherdess about it. "He's been coming home looking like that all summer", she said. "He must think it looks grand. I have scrubbed him clean but he runs off and gets them red again the next day." "Well, scrub him again. I want to see how he does it", the farmer said. The shepherdess scrubbed the horns clean, and the goat immediately ran off into the forest. The farmer followed, and discovered the goat standing by a couple of red stones, rubbing his horns against them. The farmer picked up some of the red stones, smelled and tasted the stuff, and thought it must be some kind of ore. Suddenly a large rock came flying and landed on the goat, killing him. The farmer looked up and saw a giant woman on the cliffs above. She was picking up another huge rock and preparing to throw it. "What are you doing?" shouted the farmer. "I've never done anything to harm you or your kin." "I know that" said the giant. "But I have made a promise to kill everyone who discovers my copper mountain." She sounded really sad and seemed unwilling to throw the rock and kill him. The farmer saw a possibility of saving his life and started talking to her. She told him that her father had been very rich. She and her sister had inherited some mountains with copper ore from him. When he was about to die he had divided the mountains into two lots. He made the daughters promise to never let anyone know about the copper ore, and to kill anyone who found it.The older sister was mean and hard and had no problem promising. The younger sister was milder and hesitated before making the promise. She got the small part since the father thought she was weak and untrustworthy. The other sister got twice as much. "I'm so tired of killing all the innocent people who find the copper," said the giant woman. "But I made a promise, and I must keep it." And she prepared to throw the rock. "Wait!" said the farmer. "You don't have to kill me. It was the goat that found your copper, and you've already killed him. You have kept your promise". The giant was relieved to be rid of her gruesome promise, and the wise farmer became the first miner of the great copper mountain. But to this day, people continue to search for the other sister's much bigger lot; the giant copper ore treasure of the Falun mountain...

The second story about the woman with nothing to identify her with reminded me a lot of the Somerton man. (They actually discovered his identity though back in 2022 using DNA. I wonder if they could do the same for this woman, somehow).

That last story honestly feels like the woman was a rich spy wannabe that ended up actually finding something that she shouldn't have.

Your Isdal Woman segment is Mariana Trench level deep- thank you for making it, I learned so much more details I hadn't heard in other youtube content creators coverage. Thanks again!

I've seen videos about the Isdahl woman before but none have provided information as specific and fascinating as what you have. Thank you!

its nuts that a funny looking goat lead to people going 'hm, must be copper, time to dig!' AND they found stuff? Bonkers

That opener with the black splotches over the face is disturbing! Nice 😂

I really appreciate you labeling the AI photos as such. As much as I don’t like AI, I understand why people use it, and it means a lot when people are honest and don’t try to take credit for the art they use.