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Life is precious. Nobody wants to die unless your death give you a new, better life. Following are the stories of 10 people who faked their own death, to get out of their troubles, with an expectation of good life. The following list is in no particular order. 10 People Who Faked Their Own Death.

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10. Lord Lucan

On number 10. Lord Lucan

Lord Lucan, the real name is Richard John Bingham, born in 18 December 1934. In the night of 7th November, 1974, he mistakenly killed his family nanny, Sandra Rivett, instead of his wife. When felt his mistake, he fled to his friend's house who helped him believing he is innocent. Lucan left his car on the coast of Newhaven and pretended like he has done suicide. He never caught, though, sighted several times in South Africa and New Zealand.

9. Anna Gray

On number 9. Anna Gray

Anna Gray met a man on an online dating site. After some time, she felt that she is not ready for this relationship. Anna tried to break the relationship, but that man wasn't ready for that. One day, that man messaged Anna "I think we need to have a date tonight! I'll be around your house in 30 minutes." Anna got scared and took an unexpected step. She pretends to be his own sister and messaged to man that Anna has been admitted to hospital last night because of some serious illness. When the man forced to meet her, she said Anna is dead. To hear this, that man stopped messaging her and never returned to her. Though he caught her after some months on one of another online dating website.

8. A soldier's wife

On number 8. A soldier's wife

A retired army officer, Kenneth Zhangazha, was unable to see his family starving. He decided to take advantage of his wife's life Insurance policy. Kenneth went to the bank with his wife's policy documents and a letter written by village head confirming her death. According to the policy, Kenneth was eligible for $1000 as a claim. While the bank's financial Advisor, Edmund Mhlanga, was in the process of informing policy department, Kenneth stopped him and accept he was lying. When Judge asked him the reason, while facing fraud charges in the court, he replied "You Worship, I wanted money to buy food."

7. Gandaruban Subramaniam

On number 7. Gandaruban Subramaniam

Subramaniam was running a car rental business in Singapore. In 1987, his business shut down and left him in debt. Then, he fled from Singapore to Sri Lanka where he executed his own murder plan. Subramaniam faked his death by showing to shoot-out in a civil war and succeed to get false death certificate and almost $250,000 in insurance money. He made fake passport and remarried to his own wife again. Using that fake passport, he visited Singapore several times until police arrested him with his fake passport in 2007. He sentenced for 3 years for this crime.

6. William Grothe

On number 6. William Grothe

William had a life Insurance policy worth $1 million. To get this money, he planned his own death with the help of her wife. On November 19, 2008, William Grothe's wife reported police that her husband is missing. When police searched for him, they found his wallet and leather jacket alongside the river. To make the police more assured about his death, he made a fake call to police claimed of being a murderer of William. Then, police matched the voice of that fake call against William's outgoing voicemail message. He got exposed and police found him in Missoula, Montana. He has been order to pay $13,000 which was the cost to search him.

5. Alison Matera

On number 5. Alison Matera

Alison joined a churchgoing community with her friends and felt stuck in there. She didn't know how to deny for this ritual, so she decide pretending to get dying from a cancer. She informed choir about her illness and avoid went to church for almost a year. Meanwhile she was updating him about her treatment. On January 18, 2007, she executed last step. She called the pastor, posing as a nurse, and informed him about her death. All the story was accepted until she went to her own funeral and pretended she is a sister. She was revealed.

4. Marcus Schrenker

On number 4. Marcus Schrenker

Marcus was a financial manager and had several legal charges against him. On January 11, 2009, he took off in his own plane from Indiana to Florida. He set the plane to autopilot and parachuted out pretending he has been dead in a crash. He landed in Alabama and flee from there with the help of local police who was unaware of the incident at that time. He stayed in a pup tent at the Quincy campground where ground's owner found him suspected and complaint to the local police. Officials captured him there on January 13, 2009.

3. Chandra Mohan Sharma

On number 3. Chandra Mohan Sharma

Chandra Mohan was a RTI (Right to Information) activist in India who fought against land mafia. He was unhappy with his married life and had an extra marital affair with a neighborhood girl, Preeti Nagar. Mohan had a life Insurance worth Rs. 300,000 and the company, where he was working that time, was obliged to pay Rs. 3,600,000 to him family in case of his death. With the help of his girlfriend and brother-in-law, Mohan executed his own murder conspiracy. He killed a homeless man, put the body in his car and set the car on fire. Everyone thought, land mafia had killed him. He fled to Bangalore living with his girlfriend where, after the month of incident, police recognized him through a CCTV footage while making a fake call to Preeti's home.

2. John Darwin

On number 2. John Darwin

John was a teacher and prison officer in Hartlepool, England who was in debt of tens of thousands of pounds. To come out this problem, he, with the help of his wife, faked his own death on 21st March 2002. John went to the sea in his canoe and disappear pretended to be drown away. His wife got the insurance money with which they paid off their debt and secretly started a new life. On December 1, 2007, John returned to the police and claimed that he had lost his memory. When investigated, police found that John was lying and he had been with his wife all the time.

1. John Stonehouse

On number 1. John Stonehouse

John Stonehouse was a British Labor and co-operative party politician. He wanted to come out of his financial difficulties and live a new life with his mistress, Sheila Buckley. On 20th November, 1974, John went to swimming at Miami Beach and disappeared. He pretended to be either drowned away or killed by shark. Since, police didn't found his body, he presumed dead. John returned back to Australia in the same year on Christmas Eve. He was confident of his escape, but didn't know that police was still searching for him. He was caught and in August 1976, he was convicted and sentenced to seven years in prison.

Bizarre people can be found everywhere. Some get more recognition than others, to the point of internet celebrity, others not so much. Here is a list of ten people with bizarre history to tell, which you seldom hear or read about.

Reference: 10 Strange People with Bizarre History

10. Dorangel Vargas

On number 10. Dorangel Vargas

San Cristóbal, Venezuela. The day is February 12th 1999. An officer of Civil Guard attended an emergency call. It was a macabre report: two boys found human bones in a park near a River. Police arrived and they also found the remains of other six people: hands, feet and heads. Investigations around the place led to a poor little house inhabited by a man that neighbors though he was a crazy. They took the man to the police station where his first words were simply overwhelming: "Men's meat taste better than women's, females taste sweet, men taste better: they taste like barbecue, like ham. Women nah, eating them is like eating flowers". That man was Dorangel Vargas, born in 1957 and currently imprisoned in a Venezuelan jail, not serving sentence but as prevention. He suffers of paranoid schizophrenia. That year in a National televised interview he gave details of his murders. He was a very delicate and strict chef especially worried about nutritional contents of the human beings he ate. He said: "I never killed fat men, they have too much fat, too much cholesterol" and while cooking: "you have to wash and spice the meat really good, that way you avoid to catch diseases, I make a really good stew with tongues and use the eyes to make soup." And asked if he regretted what he did, he only said: "I do not regret of anything I did because I like human meat and I'm not the only one. Last December (1998), I killed my neighbor Manuel, everyone said he was a good person and I thougth: "well if he is such a good person, he must taste good too" so I killed him. After I did so I prepared "empanadas" (Venezuelan dish) and filled them with his meat and I shared them with people I know and everyone flattered the flavor of the stuffed. May be they think the worst about me now but I did it with the best intentions like church mandates: I shared my bread". Recently when a journalist asked him his plans when he left the jail he replies: "I just want to get out and eat people, that's my thing. It is estimated that from 1995 to 1999 he killed and ate 40 people, he hunted in around the river, hit them with a tube and since he did not have a fridge to keep the meat fresh, he killed 2 people per week. In prison when other prisoners have conduct problems they are threatened to be put in Dorangel's cage, they immediately behave.

9. Li Ching Yuen

On number 9. Li Ching Yuen

Wonderful, beautiful, mysterious and bizarre, all four valid adjectives that may describe China. The next person on our list comes from there, a man who seem taken out of an ancient book of fantasy, her name was Li Ching Yuen and he's allegedly the man who lived the most, the amazing number is 197 or 256 years… However there is not a definitive proof of Yuen's longevity and the record is not credited to him. Yuen himself claimed to be born in 1736 while disputed records suggest 1677. His real date of birth has not been possible to determinate. By the time he was ten years old he had traveled throughout China gathering herbs. He continued to do so for the rest of his first 100 years. When asked for his secret, Li Ching-yuen gave it replied: "Keep a quiet heart, sit like a tortoise, walk sprightly like a pigeon and sleep like a dog." Some said he had buried 23 wives, when he died he was living with his 24th, a woman of 60, had descendants of eleven generations. The fingernails of his venerable right hand were six inches long.In 1930 Professor Wu Chung, from Chengtu University, found records that the Imperial Chinese Government had congratulated Li Ching in 1827 on his 150th birthday, making him a 256 year old.

8. Gloria Ramírez

On number 8. Gloria Ramírez

Gloria had two children and was a housewife. She was born in 1963 and died in 1994. Due to the strange circumstances of her death, she was dubbed the toxic lady. On an evening of 1994 she entered the emergency room of Riverside General Hospital suffering the effects of advanced cancer and tachycardia. A nurse tried to drew blood from her arm but an ammonia like smell coming out of the tube got her dizzy and later fainted. The nurse who replaced her noted that Gloria's blood contained manila-colored particles. The second nurse fainted too and later a respiratory therapist was the third to pass out. All the emergency room patients were ordered to move to the parking lot. About 10 for 9 P.M, Ramirez was pronounced dead from kidney failure related to cancer. Two months after Ramirez died, her body was released for an autopsy and burial. It was impossible to determinate a cause of her death since her heart was missing and most of her organs were contaminated with fecal matter. She was badly decomposed.

7. Gottfried Knoche

On number 7. Gottfried Knoche

He was a Germanwho studied in Freiburg University majoring in medicine in 1837. In 1840 he immigrated to Venezuela, establishing in La Guaira and worked attending the poor peoplesometimes for free and in 1854 he founded the Children Hospital of Caracas. What made Knoche famous was a fascinating but secret scientific contribution that we could consider lost forever: he developed a potion that injected in the corpuses caused the instant mummification without need of subtract the organs. In 1869 a soldier named Jose Pérez died of Pneumonia and his body was never claimed so doctor Knoche mummified and put him at the door of his office and later in the entrance of the family mausoleum, located in his ranch, to be the guardian and protect it from profaners. Tomas Lander, a famous politician man of his time was mummified under his family request. They dressed the mummy up and sat him on at the entrance of their home. Its exhibition ended in 1884 when National Government ordered Lander Family to bury the mummy. Read Also; Top 10 Infamous Blunders of World . Knochealso had fun mummifying dogs and cats and put them in strategic points of the ranch making them look fearsome and angry to serve as sentinels of the place. Before dying,Knoche left prepared potions of the formula to be administrated to him and his relatives and once he passed in 1901 he was mummified but his remains got lost. However there is not any proof of Knoche's own mummy.

6. Carl Tanzler

On number 6. Carl Tanzler

Tanzler was around his fifties when he moved to USA, starting to work in Florida, in the Marine Hospital.On 1930, a 22 years old Cuban woman came to the Hospital to be treated. Her name was Helena Hoyos and he fell desperately in love with her. Carl confessed her his love but as far as we're aware of, she never corresponded his love. Desperate to save her from death (she had tuberculosis), he attempted to treat and cure Hoyos with a variety of medicines and x-ray. Despite Tanzler's best efforts, Hoyos died at her parents' home on October, 1931. One evening in April, 1933, Tanzler removed her body from the mausoleum and transporting it to his home. He attached the corpse's bones together with wire and fitted the face with glass eyes. As the skin decomposed, he replaced it with silk cloth soaked in wax. As the hair fell out of the scalp, Tanzler fashioned a wig from Hoyos's hair and dressed her emains in stockings, jewelry, and gloves. Tanzler also used copious amounts of perfumeand preserving agents, to mask the odor and the effects of the corpse's decomposition. Read Also; 10 People Who Faked Their Own Death . In October, 1940, Elena's body was eventually discovered. Tanzler was arrested and detained. He was psychiatrically examined, and found mentally competent but released. Separated from his obsession, Tanzler used a death mask to create a life-sized effigy of Hoyos, and lived with it until his death.

5. Julia Pastrana

On number 5. Julia Pastrana

Famous naturalist Charles Darwin said that she was a "remarkably fine woman". She suffered a genetic disorder called hypertrichosisterminalis, due to that her face and body were covered with straight black hair. Her ears and nose were unusually large, and her teeth were irregular. The latter condition was caused by a rare disease called gingival hyperplasia. Julia was born in the state of Sinaloa, Mexico, in 1834. Later, Theodore Lent, discovered her in United States and convinced her to marry him. Lent toured her on freakshows through USA and Europe. She was dubbed the "Ugliest woman on the world".But despite that, she had a sweet singing voice, have good taste for music and dance and spoke three languages. Julia became pregnant of Lent at 25 years old. The child was born hairy like her mother but died few hours later. Due to labor complications of the pregnancy Julia died 5 days later. Her husband's greed did not end there. He made Julia and her kid's bodies to be embalmed and dress them elegantly to show them in a tour through Europe. The bodies went through different owners until 2013 when she finally was buried in Sinaloa.

4. Lina Medina

On number 4. Lina Medina

In 1939 a poor country man in Peru brought her 5 year old daughter to the Hospital in the city, she had grown a strange tumor since months ago. The superstition of the place suggested the evil god of the region had made a long snake grow inside her; that's why her parents treated her with shamans first. But since they could not find cure, they decided to see a real doctor. Gonzalo Lozada was the doctor who attend her and performed a cesarean. The doctor examined her with X Rays and found out the little girl was pregnant. The doctor called the authorities and her father was imprisoned under the charge of child abuse but released soon after due to lack of evidence. 75 years after, the name of father remains unknown. That little girl's name is Lina Medina and on May 14th, 1939, she became at age of five years, sever months and 21 days, the youngest mother in history. Her kid was named after the doctor who attended her and died at age of 40 to a bone marrow disease.

3. Adam Rainer

On number 3. Adam Rainer

Rainer is the only person recorded history to have been both a dwarf and a giant. He was born in Austria. In 1917 he was tested to join the army, but he was too short to join. During these tests his height was measured at 4 feet 6.3 inches at 18 years and 4 feet 8.3 inches at 19 years of age. Then, likely as a result of a pituitary tumor, he had a dramatic growth. On 1930 Adam Rainer was operated and few months after the operation he was measured again. His standing height was 6 feet 9.1 inches but his spinal curvature was more severe, indicating that he was still growing and the operation to halt his growth had failed. When he died in 1950 he had reached a height of 7 ft 8 in. His feet measured 13.1 inches, his hands 9.4 inches and he weighed 241 pounds. Indeed, he was a little giant.

2. Norton I

On number 2. Norton I

Joshua Norton was a citizen from San Francisco, CA. who in 1859 proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States of America and protector of Mexico. In July 1860 he dissolved the United States of America and in 1861 he forbade the Congress from meeting in Washington Norton was also accompanied by dogs, one of them name Lazarus, dead in 1863 and Bummer died two years later. In January 1867, a civic tumult occurred when a Patrol Special Officer arrested His Majesty for involuntary treatment of a mental disorder. Police Chiefreleased the Emperor and apologized to him. In 1869 Norton abolished both Democratic and Republican parties. In 1872 he ordered that a suspension bridge be built as soon as possible between Oakland and San Francisco. May be he was crazy but he had good ideas once in a while. The 1870 U.S. census shows Norton as 50 years old and his occupation was listed as Emperor Besides all this he also collected taxes, attended sessions of governmentand sold his own currency.

1. Roy Sullivan

On number 1. Roy Sullivan

Roy Sullivan was a former park ranger in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia who died at age of 71 on 1983 from self-inflicted gunshot wound, reportedly rejected in love. Until here nothing is unusual, rare or bizarre about Sullivan's life, but here's the thing: he holds the Guiness World Record as the person struck by lightning more recorded times than any other human being in his history. The first of these strikes occurred in 1942, then resumed in 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1976 and the last one came on 1977. This case is more bizarre if we consider that the odds of being struck by lightning are of 4.15 in 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Sullivan himself recalled that the first time he was struck by lightning not in 1942 but much earlier. When he was a child, he was helping his father to cut wheat in a field, but because he could not prove the fact later, he never claimed it.

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