{"id":6902,"date":"2018-03-06T20:03:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T02:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=6902"},"modified":"2023-12-10T17:14:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T23:14:50","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-march-6-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=6902","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for March 6, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Algae-Covered Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/h3>\n

The “photo-op-gone-fatal” is a common manner of death by misadventure in Yosemite National Park. Take, for example, 24-year-old Louis Kitzes on June 16, 1934, and 31-year-old Albert Alan Muff on June 17, 1944. Kitzes of San Francisco had waded into the Merced River with four friends then jumped onto a rock at the brink of Nevada Fall to pose for a photo. He slipped off the boulder and fell into the river. It instantly swept him over the 594-foot waterfall. His body was found nine days later.<\/p>\n

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\nOakland Tribune Account of Kitzes’ Fall
\n(Who knew he was buddies with Al Pacino?
\nAlso, who knew Al Pacino was this old?)<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nNevada Fall. Don’t pose for that photo.\u00a0Just Don’t!<\/em><\/p>\n

After Kitzes’ demise the next fatal photo episode occurred in 1943\u00a0when Albert Muff left Los Angeles and went scrambling off-trail at the head of Snow Creek Falls. Here the 31-year-old man scuttled about seeking a position from which to take the perfect picture. Muff slipped on the wet, algae-covered rocks into the turbulent waters of Snow Creek and shot 100 feet over the fall. He disappeared for two months. His remains were finally located by accident, trapped under a rock in a deep pool at the bottom.<\/p>\n

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\nSnow Creek Falls.\u00a0 I said DON’T!<\/em><\/p>\n

Culled from:\u00a0Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Algae-Covered Yet Truly Morbid Fact! The “photo-op-gone-fatal” is a common manner of death by misadventure in Yosemite National Park. Take, for example, 24-year-old Louis Kitzes on June 16, 1934, and 31-year-old Albert Alan Muff on June 17, 1944. Kitzes of San Francisco had waded into the Merced River with four friends then jumped onto […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10981,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6902\/revisions\/10981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}