{"id":8951,"date":"2023-09-28T18:51:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T23:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=8951"},"modified":"2023-09-28T18:51:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T23:51:10","slug":"mfdj-09-28-23-plummeting-into-the-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=8951","title":{"rendered":"MFDJ 09\/28\/23: Plummeting Into the Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today’s Plummeting Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/h3>\n
The only high-speed motor vehicle fatality not suspected to be a suicide was that of Elroy Ponyah, age 17. On May 1, 1971, Ponyah missed a turn and drove his Ford sedan off Highway 64 at Tappan Springs Canyon. The vehicle leaped the gorge and hit the opposite wall 40 feet lower where it burst into flames. Ponyah’s skeletonized remains were discovered by a hiker on May 10.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nThe wreckage of Ponyah’s car<\/em><\/div>\n
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Bennett Hanna experienced an almost unbelievable accident on Hualapai\u00a0Hilltop on August 19, 1972. Hanna had just dropped off some friends at the trailhead into Havasu. As he backed up to turn his car around, he reversed too far and plummeted backwards off the vertical edge for 500 feet.<\/div>\n
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Culled from:\u00a0Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon<\/a><\/div>\n
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Ghastly!<\/h3>\n
Yosuke Yamahata photographed the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 10, 1945.\u00a0 Here\u2019s one of his haunting images from the book\u00a0Nagasaki Journey: The Photographs of Yosuke Yamahata, August 10, 1945<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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“We saw a person running blindly in what he must have believed was a safe direction, but he was running on feet of bone\u2014shock and fear prevented him from realizing that the flesh of his heels was gone. When a rescue team pointed out his grave injury, the man immediately lost consciousness and collapsed. We couldn’t bear to watch this event straight on\u2014it was like something in a nightmare.” – Jun Higashi<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Plummeting Yet Truly Morbid Fact! The only high-speed motor vehicle fatality not suspected to be a suicide was that of Elroy Ponyah, age 17. On May 1, 1971, Ponyah missed a turn and drove his Ford sedan off Highway 64 at Tappan Springs Canyon. The vehicle leaped the gorge and hit the opposite wall […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts","category-ghastly"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951","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=8951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8954,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951\/revisions\/8954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}