Dying for Views: Two Influencer Accidents | Fascinating Horror

This short documentary covers two stories of fatal accidents that befell influencers carrying out dangerous stunts in pursuit of views...

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CHAPTERS: 🔖
► 00:00 - Intro
► 00:44 - The Death of Pedro Ruiz
► 05:30 - The Death of Greg Plitt
► 09:52 - Conclusion

MUSIC: 🎵
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory

SOURCES: 📑
► "The Bible That Stopped a Bullet" by Robert Pushkar, published by Smithsonian Magazine, September 2023. Link: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...
► "YouTube prankster jailed for shooting boyfriend dead" published by BBC News, March 2018. Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-c...
► "How Monalisa Perez found peace after a YouTube stunt turned deadly in Minnesota" by CS Hagen, published by InForum, January 2021. Link: https://www.inforum.com/business/how-...
► "Girlfriend cried, pleaded for end to fatal YouTube stunt, video and transcripts show" by Chao Xiong, published by the Star Tribune, June 2018. Link: https://www.startribune.com/girlfrien...
► "Beverage company says it bears no fault in Greg Plitt’s Metrolink death in Burbank" by Brenda Gazzar, published by Los Angeles Daily News, August 2017. Link: https://www.dailynews.com/2015/02/04/...
► "More details surface about death of Greg Plitt" published by CBS News, January 2015. Link: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/greg-pli...
► "Fitness Model Struck and Killed by Train in California" published by the New York Times, January 2015. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/...
► "Greg Plitt: Engineer, conductor undergoing trauma counseling after fitness model train death" by Jennifer Velez, published by LAist, January 2015. Link: https://laist.com/news/kpcc-archive/e...
► "Greg Plitt May Have Been Trying to Outrun Train Before Being Fatally Struck in Burbank" by Erin Myers, Tracy Bloom and Steve Kuzj, published by KTLA, January 2015. Link: https://ktla.com/news/local-news/phot...

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