Tag: Suicide

Charles Lawson: Christmas Family Murder

Charles Lawson: Christmas Family Murder

Christmas, 1929, Charles Lawson murdered his wife and six of his seven children.

Charles Davis Lawson married Fannie Manring in 1911. The couple proceeded to have eight children. Their third child, William, was born in 1914, and died in 1920.

Charles moved his family to Germanton, North Carolina in 1918, when his younger two brothers moved there. They worked as tenant tobacco farmers and saved their money to purchase their own farm in 1927.

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Heaven’s Gate Cult

On the evening of March 19, 1997, thirty-eight members plus the leader of Heaven’s Gate took phenobarbital mixed with applesauce, then washed it down with vodka. They secured plastic bags around their heads to induce asphyxiation before lying down on their bunks and covering their faces and torsos with a square purple cloth. Their decomposing bodies were discovered on March 26, 1997.

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It’s Criminal to Buy a 1-Way Ticket

The Island of Izu Ōshima, located approximately 75 miles southeast of Honshu, Japan, in the Izu archipelago of the Philippine Sea, is an inhabited volcanic island. The most famous of the volcanoes here is Mount Mihara.

Mount Mihara is predominantly basaltic, and major eruptions occur every 100 – 150 years. In 1986, the eruption saw lava fountains spout up to 1 mile high, at which time all of the 12,000 occupants of the island were evacuated.

Mount Mihara is also known as the place where the Japanese government imprisoned Godzilla in the movie, The Return of Godzilla, and in the movie Godzilla vs. Biollante, bombs were placed on Mount Mihara and release Godzilla.

It is a criminal offense to buy a 1-way ticket to this island.

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Organ Transplants: The Suicide Heart

Sonny Graham was a resident of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. He had lived there for 40 years, and had been happily married to his wife, Elaine, for 35 of those years. He and Elaine had two wonderful children, Gray and Michelle. Sonny was the director of the Heritage Golf Tournament from 1979 to 1983, and volunteered at the event every year thereafter.

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Aokigahara, the Suicide Forest

Aokigahara, the Suicide Forest

Just 100 miles west of Tokyo, and northwest of Mount Fuji, is a sprawling forest so thick with foliage, that it’s known as the Sea of Trees.  Aokigahara forest, also known as Suicide forest covers approximately 13.5 square miles.  The forest floor is mostly made up of volcanic rock, lava laid down by the last major eruption of Mount Fuji in 864 AD.  Many parts of the forest are very thick, the trees tightly packed together, and winds do not whip through.  Wildlife is sparse, and the porous lava absorbs sound, creating a feeling of isolation.  A visitor has described the silence as “chasms of emptiness,” adding, “I cannot emphasize enough the absence of sound.  My breath sounded like a roar.”

The still silence has led people to consider it haunted, and there are plenty who would not dare enter the forest.  But where did it all begin?

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