Top 5 Bingeable SCARY STORIES • Death Trap Edition

Jacob Cochell, an experienced water photographer, regularly filmed himself in a dangerous harbor whirlpool. While his wetsuit provided buoyancy on the surface, diving deeper compressed the suit, reducing its buoyancy. This loss of lift, combined with the whirlpool's strong current, pulled him into an underwater tunnel, leading to his drowning.

Jacob's wetsuit, buoyant on the surface, lost buoyancy under pressure when he dove into the whirlpool, trapping him in the current and pulling him into an underwater tunnel.

Carrie O'Connor's attempt to move a large, heavy package into an old apartment elevator proved fatal. The package inadvertently pressed against a sensor designed to detect a closed car gate, tricking the elevator into moving. Despite a tenant's warning about the elevator's age and potential to 'trip a sensor,' Carrie persisted, leading to her being crushed between the moving car and the shaft wall.

The 7-foot-tall, 80-lb package pressed against the car gate sensor, causing the elevator to move prematurely, trapping and crushing Carrie.

During a 1900 football game, hundreds of spectators, including Thomas Peddler, climbed onto the roof of a five-story brick factory to watch. Despite warnings from factory workers, the sheer weight of the crowd caused the roof to collapse. Many fell into an active glass furnace below, which operated at over 4,000°F, leading to instant combustion and a horrific death toll of 23 people.

Hundreds of people on the factory roof caused a 'dull cracking sound' followed by a 'much louder cracking sound' as the floor collapsed, dropping spectators onto an active glass furnace.

The Kim family, seeking a shortcut to their lodge, took Bear Camp Road, an unmaintained, narrow, and dangerous mountain pass. A broken gate led them further onto a dead-end logging road. Stranded by heavy snow and without cell service, James Kim left his family to seek help, miscalculating the distance to the nearest town. He hiked 16 miles through rugged, freezing wilderness in street clothes, ultimately succumbing to hypothermia, though his tracks eventually led rescuers to his family.

The Kims missed a turn, chose a 'wider' but dead-end logging road due to a vandalized gate, and James attempted a 'suicide mission' 30-40 mile hike for help, covering 16 miles before dying of hypothermia.

Russian influencer Ectctorina Denko's birthday party featured a stunt where 55 lbs of dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide) were dumped into a spa pool. In the small, poorly ventilated room, the rapid sublimation of dry ice displaced oxygen and created high concentrations of poisonous carbon dioxide gas. Denko, her husband, and another guest who jumped into the pool died from suffocation and poisoning, while others on the deck managed to escape.

55 lbs of dry ice in a small, poorly ventilated indoor pool caused a 'massive almost explosion of carbon dioxide gas to completely fill the lower half of the room,' leading to three deaths from suffocation and poisoning.