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Thousands of people have gone over Niagara Falls, either intentionally (as stunts or suicide attempts) or accidentally. The first recorded person to survive going over the falls was school teacher Annie Edson Taylor, who in 1901 successfully completed the stunt inside an oak barrel. In the following 124 years, thousands of people have been ...
A woman and two children, including an infant, died at Niagara Falls after crossing the safety guard rails, New York State Police said. On Oct. 28, at approximately 9 p.m.,
Steven Trotter (November 13, 1960 – October 14, 2022) was an American daredevil who at age 24 became the youngest person to have gone over Niagara Falls in a barrel. He was one of a few people to perform the stunt twice. He also performed other illegal stunts. [2] [3] He died unexpectedly in 2022. [1]
The Niagara Falls Police Department will take over the investigation from here. New York City on ‘enhanced’ security today Thursday 23 November 2023 14:20 , Ariana Baio
Chianti climbed over a four-foot guardrail Monday night at Luna Island to get to the precipice from which she would lead her children to their demise. The view of the Niagara Falls from New York ...
Nathan Boya (July 28, 1924 – August 8, 2022; real name William Fitzgerald) was the first African American to go over Niagara Falls. Very little is known about Fitzgerald. He claimed to be self-employed, but others have claimed he worked for IB
Last Monday in the same area, New York mother Chianti Means, 33, stepped over the guardrail at Luna Park, a small area near the crest of the falls, and intentionally jumped 200 feet into the water ...
Kirk Raymond Jones (1962 or 1963 – c. April 19, 2017) was an American who became the first person to survive going over Horseshoe Falls, the largest waterfall of Niagara Falls, without safety equipment, in 2003. He then went over Niagara Falls again in 2017 with a plastic ball and died.