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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 ...
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.
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
Officials on Sunday released the name of a pilot who died in a skydiving flight after her passengers jumped from the aircraft near the Niagara Falls. Melanie Georger, 26, was the only person on ...
The missing people have been identified as 33-year-old Chaianti Means, Roman Rossman, 9, and 5-month-old Mecca Means Woman and 2 Young Children Missing After 'Intentional' Plunge from Niagara ...
State and Park Police officers were called to Goat Island on Monday at 9:30 p.m. after eyewitnesses called to report they saw a woman go over the falls with her children.
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]
This category includes people who went over the falls, in at least one case, unintentionally. Pages in category "People who went over Niagara Falls" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.