The Arches National Park Decapitation Incident
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- On the afternoon of June 13th, 2020, two tourists visiting Arches National Park would, in the blink of an eye become one of the most gruesome and bizarre deaths the park has seen over the years.
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Man this is so bizarre, its like one of those 1 in a million chance occurrences. Very sad, she seemed like a strong member of the community. My respects to her friends and family.
They said it happened somewhere else in the 80s, think of how many times you’ve driven by similar gates.
People who are involved with the United Nations are always scumbags... don't believe the hype about this woman. Scam artist.
As a resident and mtn. biker of the area for 20 years i can attest that 'arbitrary' threats and harms here are the least of your worries. 110+ degree temps, exposure, getting lost, snakes, scorpions, massive canyons and little water are just a few pitfalls that become everyday life. Rest in Peace Essie
Pour some beer on the curb? U know - dead esse?
That's weird, I don't remember anyone asking you
Having camped at Moab when a rainstorm seemingly brewed up out of nowhere was scary. The gullies filled up so fast. If you are at the bottom one of the slot canyons, this could be a problem.
Wtf who cares your opinion if was your wife you sure don't spread that s***t "mr resident"
How traumatic for her husband. Not only did his wife die but seeing her decapitated is beyond horrific.
Yeah poor guy. Millionaire in France with a new wife. 😢
@@Tommytakanawahahahahahaha!!!
The only good thing I can think of is that she didn't suffer, but her poor husband, parents, and other family on the other hand.
I wasn't surprised to hear about the problems her husband suffered from, after the accident.
The story of Essie is so so tragic. Her husband's devastation is tangible. My heart goes out him and Essie's family.
Essie was a beautiful giving woman who's life was cut short by negligence.
She was an amazing woman. Maybe she wouldn't have made a lot of money on a career in philanthropy, but she would definitely have made a big difference in the world. She most certainly already had, both in her life and unfortunately in death. I hope the Arches National Park Have padlocked all those gates now.
I hope her husband is doing well in his therapy and that both families and friends are understanding and supportive.
RIP, Essie. I went to Arches back in 2017, and I remember that entrance gate. It's unbelievable how something so seemingly innocuous could result in such a tragedy. The chances of this happening are astronomical, yet it did happen.
But think about this: millions of people go to the park each year. So even if the chances are low, the law of large numbers tells us that it is bound to happen. For example, it is improbable that any individual person wins the lottery, but enough people play that eventually the improbable thing happens. That is why we must take safety so seriously.
P. S. Don't play the lottery; its a scam.
I wouldn't say astronomical, but inevitable.
Unfortunately no one realized this until it was too late.
The chances are only low if people do their jobs properly to keep people safe. If they don’t do that, then chances of people getting hurt can be pretty high.
At 1:10 you say hieroglyphs, when I believe you mean petroglyphs... not to nitpick, just letting you :) Love the content man
I remember this one... it truly boggles the mind & is beyond tragic. I can't imagine the horror of looking over at your passenger & seeing that, let alone seeing your wife like that. It's staggering that _anyone_ who worked for the park would leave that type of gate unchained... a latch is never going to be sufficient. I've driven through gates like that hundreds of times and they are notorious for either swinging too easily or getting stuck. I've been knocked over by one _and_ had a headlight shattered - both times the gate was blown out of the person's hand. So I find it hard to believe parks employees haven't had similar experiences. Absolutely tragic... RIP Essie 🤍
Yeah. People. It's not like you ever made a mistake.
@@Tommytakanawanever made a mistake that cost someone their head
@JoeRogansForehead good for you.
The family was awarded $10.5 million: Ludovic Michaud=$9.5 million; Nakajjigo's mother, Christine Namagembe=$700,000; and her father, John Bosco Kateregga=$350,000.
It is not the family member who push multimillion dollar figures, ......it the law firms who set the amounts. You can be certain, the law firm got their huge cut first, and idled on paying the family members. Then comes the taxes due in their home state or country. Law firms are slow to do the pay-outs, they keep the large amount for as long as possible to gain the interest off those millions they garner off lawsuits. I stayed far from civil litigations, and stuck to criminal law (have my principals, greed ain't one). Ret.
I'm really shocked a gate could slice through a car. I can't imagine how that would happen.
Winds out here can be extreme, especially when channeled through canyons.
It wouldn't normally, but the car was driving (presumably fast) down a road. At car speed something soft like a deer or a wooden plank can smash through your windshield, metal will be worse
Lol, do you think he had some regrets over his exotic wife
@@grottybt5006 What the hell you talking about?
Unfortunate, abnormally strong gust of wind suddenly coming the opposite way to meet an oncoming vehicle equals quite a force I’d imagine, tying in both wind and vehicle speeds.
I lived in Southern Utah for five years and O can attest that the winds out there are nothing to joke about. My cousin once put her car in neutral and let the winds push her car down a backroad. The State has no excuse for not having the proper lock on that gate. I hope Essie's loved ones can someday find peace. 😢
5 years and you don’t know the difference between federal and state parks?
Damn thats a Final Destination type of death. Thanks for the video Great as always.
At first I thought the story was going to be about someone doing something really foolish and dying as a result, but no, this was actually completely randomly tragic.
My dad's company lawyer was killed in a similar freak accident, driving behind a landscaping truck, a large boulder bounced out of the truck and straight through the windshield, killing him instantly and not touching his wife, who was driving. That's why loads always need to be covered.
So sad, they seemed like such a wholesome couple. Met on tinder, married quickly, he took her to his favorite spot in his new country, they clearly adored each other, then everything comes crashing down. Unbelievable.
Him moving back to France says a lot, poor guy will have to deal with this for the rest of his life. I don’t believe 240 million is fair, but those lawsuits always cite such astronomical figures because the judge will just lower it to the highest fair sum.
Leave it to the French to marry animals. Thankfully both of them are gone. Praise Jesus
Just so awful. So sorry for Him. She sounds like a wonderful person. And being only 25 and having accomplished what she had, I would think pointing that out could only underscore her value (monetary and otherwise) not equate to less in damages as the NPS would want.
I'm so sorry for her loss and everyone else's loss. And I hope all heal from the traumatic damage.
Me: what horrible misadventure or poor decision will befall somebody in this Morbid video. You’ll never get me climbing up a mountain or down a hole.
….what…WHAT!??
Wow, that’s a reminder your number might come up at any time through some random accident.
Sue for everything you can. His wife was killed in front of him. No matter how much money he gets he has to live with that horrific memory for the rest of his life. Damn that was really tragic. Rest in peace.
Coal burner gets burned.
Farkin hell, you weren't joking MM. This was sudden and horrendous.
Essie seems like she really had so much to give, she had already given so much. Tragic
7:25 why must horrible things happen to the righteous folk? Plenty of riff-raff out in that area who deserve such a terrible fate, not these people. Carry on
Such a beautiful, young couple. How devastating for this man to lose his wife in such a senseless and horrific accident. I truly hope this man is able to find peace and happiness.
This took a turn I wasn't expecting.
You do such a great job covering these tragic events in an informative but respectful manner.
As part of my job I secure two doors that enclosed a dumpster after it is emptied. The end of these doors have a sturdy metal tube in which I insert a long metal rod with a T at the top which goes down through the tube into a deep hole drilled in the concrete underneath. Pushing the bar till the T and turning it, locks it in place. The wind can't hardly even wiggle it. Takes me like a minute. Are you telling me trash doors at an old apartment building have a better system than a National Park?
Yes...
Worse than that, I've been to Moab and the Arches, back in the 90's, and I know the latch mentioned. It was in sh*t condition THEN... There's no conceivable way they can blame the Pandemic and Social Distancing for their reckless disregard.
You've seen those cheap-o "Gate Latches" sold at places like Lowe's? This is a sort of solid version, where you physically lift the end of the gate a little bit to slid it into the notch to hold the gate shut... and there's a couple holes that line up for a padlock... both for the post where it secures the gate shut, and on the other post where it secures (or should secure) the gate "open"... BUT the metal of that little "tab" that fits in the notch is so rounded, you don't have to lift anything to slip it out. Just a push will do it, and it was that bad in the 90's... No chain to wrap around it... Not even a rope to tie the thing off so it won't do more than wiggle a little bit... AND yes, those winds are FIERCE from time to time throughout the day.
It's a pretty funny AND sad commentary that we do more to protect GARBAGE in the middle of a city that doesn't even want it around, than we do to protect entryways and tourists at National Parks and Monuments in this country... Frankly, it's downright shameful. ;o)
Horrific how she was robbed of her life over someone else’s irresponsibility over a worn latch for a gate..
How dare they blame it on social distancing. That is one of the most pathetic excuses I've ever heard for not doing your job at the most basic level by securing the damn gate.
During the pandemic many facilities were short staffed. Surely you were aware of that before viewing this video
@@drdrew3 what a non-response to what I just said.
"We were short staffed so we couldn't do the basic safety equivalent of wiping our ass" makes no sense and its a pathetic excuse that makes no sense.
@@drdrew3 its literally just a pathetic excuse. We were short staffed so the person who opened the gate that morning couldn't secure it?
BULLSHIT
From people who want to find a scapegoat for their manslaughter
Have you not been in the workforce during and since the pandemic?
@@bradsanders407 if you literally are unable to secure the front gate of the park, then have the BALLS to say it's closed and that you can't do your job.
That simple
9:51 The results were made public two or three days ago (end of January 2023): family who asked for 30 million got 1 million. Husband who asked for 240 million got 9.5 million. And you were wrong when you said the state was arguing for 4.5 million. They wanted it to be 3.5, not 4.5 million.
The wearing down of the metal doesn't happen over a few months of non-use. That's BS. It's a horrific accident. May, Essie, rest in peace.
I can’t even begin to imagine how horrific it must have been for her husband to see his wife decapitated right next to him. Only seconds earlier they were on their way to get ice cream and celebrating their honeymoon.
It wasn't the pipe, it was the stop sign that done the damage. The stop sign also acted as a sail for the wind to grab onto.
"She was young!" ... My dude. That is a reason to pay more, not less. People really should be extra accountable the younger someone is. Not to say an old person has less value, it just needs to be enforced how important it is to be vigilant the younger someone is. And honestly supervisors should always receive some kind of punishment for employee caused workplace accidents in most cases. Watching them to make sure they don't screw up, and kill somebody is literally in your job description. >3>
Old lives matter
@@kevinbrooks1104 Duh, Captain Obvious. I don't think anyone would disagree with that, but also that there's more loss of potential the younger you are, so the harder people should work to look after someone the smaller they are. Kids especially are stupid, young adults are reckless, and us older people know that, and know better so it's up to us to be a little more responsible to make sure stuff doesn't happen to them. Like would you tell a mom of a newborn baby that she should be happy with her 20$ Starbucks gift card, because the baby was only a few minutes old when the doctor screwed up? Because otherwise I really don't understand what this judge was even on about, it's so messed up. But they also lost their only child, they already look in their 50's, too late for more kids even if they adopted! That's way too old to be chasing down kids, I certainly wouldn't want to, it's different when you can hand them back to mom. So that's it, any dreams they may have had for their daughter, any dreams for their own life with kids, possible grandkids, even getting to experience her do anything again is just not possible, and for a fixable reason which is even worse!
I thinknits very odd to out a price on the value of someone's life or earning potential.. it should be based on the incident that's my opinion..
@@Katie-vy5rd ....My dude, everything is based on age. Age of consent, age to drink, age to drive, age someone was when they commited a crime, even how much responsibity they had based on age. How would you quantify how bad this accident was then?
I can't believe people think 88° is warm in Phoenix it gets 30° hotter than that in our summer times for weeks at a time!! 115-120° The asphalt alone is 175° I've checked it b4. Usually it's in that 160s but I've seen it as hot as 175°
Jesus, I can't believe looking over to the love of my life to see them decapitated 😭💔
Wow. Why does it seem that this sort of thing happens to amazing people with bright futures? Prayers for the family and friends of Essie.
I'm failing to see how someone inside the car was killed while the front end of the auto and the windshield don't have any damage? Wouldn't the gate need to destroy the front in order to harm an occupant sitting inside? It only looks like the car door was struck. Could Essie have had her heading resting on the car door hanging outside a bit?
@@SimboSays
Thank you for explaining that, much appreciated
I've actually seen those old Native American drawings that you showed in Utah. It's amazing.
Wow this truly sad and random, RIP Essie. You just never know when something crazy can happen. I had a basketball roll out into the street riding a motorcycle at 50 mph and I ran over it. You can’t predict these kinds of things
To blame this oversight on covid lockdowns and social distancing, is absolutely ridiculous. But it is a thing at this point in time. You'd have to be fucking goofy to accept that as a reason for this death.
So in this first Pic it shows the car intact, the hood windshield and grill seems undamaged. So I'm confused. How did the gate hit the car as it blew open, but not hurt the front grill, the hood and windshield, but decapitate the front passenger, such a weird accident. Photos don't fit the accident, very crazy and fluke accident, bless her family and widow, RIP.
Wow! That was totally unexpected. I thought maybe they would make a bad decision and die of dehydration. I was not expecting this!
Ikr, I was expecting “After they had cooled of with Ice cream, Essie suggested the couple head to the X location in the park, A spot well know but difficult to reach due to ….”
This is some Final Destination sh*t.
40k bro!! We did it!!!!
Shit I hate heat throw in high winds and bright sunshine I don’t give a shit about rocks I love the lizards and snakes much more . Freak accident .
Chills of horror. This is not the first time I hear this story, but it still freaks me out.
This reminds me of the guy who dove down to the underwater hotel room he and his girlfriend had rented, to propose, only to drown after she has said yes. It's so devastating when newlyweds or otherwise devoted people both die on happy occasions like this. You feel like you have found your person, are madly in love and then something unexpected like this happens which ends it all in an instant. It feels so unfair.
Such a beautiful lady. My heart is broken.
i swear i can’t get enough of his content it’s way too good keep up the good work man
Damn. Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time !!! Sad !!
A terribly tragic accident. But... Making a huge $$$ windfall because of it?🤔
No amount of money is going to bring her back. A sum high enough to hurt might make the next person think twice about being negligent, though.
@@JosieJOK Beridiculous! It was not any single person that failed to secure the gate.
catching a morbid midnight video in the first 3 minutes of being uploaded is a good feeling
First comment...... on your comment
Awe your so special!
Everyone says that, yet it never gets old
oh no. What a terrible accident. : (
Prolly gonna get a lot of hate but I agree with them saying what they were asking is way way way to high. I don’t know about only 4 mill but still. Her future was not guaranteed
How sad!! Terrible end to her bright light and god bless that man. Couldn’t imagine the trauma that brings.
Horrific Story… The Timing is Truly Very Rare… R.I.P Essie..
Awarded $10 million after 5 day trial Jan 2023. Neither were US citizens.
What difference does that make?
I remember when it happened, indeed a terrible tragedy!
This is straight up out of Final destination movies.
I would love to see an April Fool’s Day video where they do one of the openings from the Final Destination movies in their normal format
Lol the Park blamed Covid, hilarious.
Why wouldn't they... everybody else was.
240mill is just pure money hungry
I have a few of these types of gates on our farm. I heard of this story when it happened and now I am quite aware of the dangers of these gates. Thanks for the video.
2.8mill to the family and 2.8mill to the husband is enough.
They could've picked better heros than Oprah or Melinda gates
I would've argued that yes, the park was right... those earnings are "speculative" and ínfact they could've actually been *much higher!!* And the fact they pointed out "she was only 25" means she realistically had a whole *60 years* of earning potential ahead of her!! Which = more losses as opposed to if she had been 50 years old and only had like 20ish years of potential earnings ahead...
And more importantly, how do you put a figure on the years of living hell for the husband! Being terrified of innocuous things everyone passes by multiple times a day *every single day!* 💯
That lawsuit is reaching AF.
Their head went
I disagree - it's sending a message. Like the lawsuit said, for what should have only been an $8 fix someone who was making a significant impact on the world was horrifically killed. Completely preventable, and their 'oh it was staffing. oh it was the pandemic': bullshit. Whether or not they will actually be paid out or not, I think it was exactly the ask it needed to be in order to send a message and make an impact on what otherwise would be brushed under the table as 'a tragic accident but oops oh well'. There needs to be a massive domino effect of 'we need to make sure our shit is in gear, these things are actually dangerous and need to be better designed and better latched'.
Let's face it people...camping or hiking ANYWHERE in Oota is likely to get you kill! The entire freakin place should be avoided and abandoned altogether!!!!
This story is truly tragic. Talk about a freak accident! I never would have thought that one of those gates could cause that kind of carnage
Oh my God!😫
Boy; the French guy wanted way much !! 😮
Horrific 💀 !!
Where they supposed to visit it in the height of the pandemic..?😷💉🦠
Social distancing, as an excuse for not securing an outdoor gate, which requires a grand total of one person to secure?
That’s pathetic. That’s like blaming seat belt laws for not testing the adequacy of an elevator’s suspension cables.
Why does misfortune come to such genuinely bright people.
Part of me thinks that with all of the good she had done, that maybe she had fulfilled the Lord's plans for her and it was her time to come home. I just can't fathom the exact timing of a car passing by and the gate being blown open at JUST the right moment as to skewer the side of the car and the passenger seat alone the way it did. That was some 1 in a billion kind of odds to happen to a person, and even greater odds to happen to a very specific person who had accomplished so much at such a young age.
WTF is the "Height of the 'pandemic'"? When your TV was the loudest?
Her potential earnings during her life...that's all she was worth to the park?!
Thats some final destination shit, No one thinks of stuff like this. Everyone always try to play the blame game. it was this , it was that, they could have done this or that, such and such wasnt doing their job. Like who puts that much emphasis on a gate.
I just got an ad for visiting Arches National Park
🤦🏻♀️
Christ, that's like Final Destination shit. My god, awful luck to have been at that point at that very moment as is the case of so many accidents but this sort in particular...
This is just awful from top to bottom And he is there helpless watching... As it happens in split second. Just awful
My dad got lost in arches in 2010. I’m going to start by spoiling the story and telling you all he was rescued and is completely fine (and still regularly goes solo hiking lol). We had all gone out on a family hike together in the late afternoon (I was a kid and I don’t remember which trail) because my sister and I were under 10, we and our mom turned around around mile 2 to go have snacks and wait in the car at the trailhead. My dad is a very experienced hiker and distance runner so he decided to go on ahead for a couple more miles. I was around 9 so my memories of the night itself are a bit hazy, I just remember sitting in the parked car listening to an audiobook and sitting at a picnic table drawing in a coloring book while the sun set and watching it get darker and darker outside, and watching my mom get more and more concerned. I remember her trying to call him multiple times but her calls weren’t going through because of how bad the cell reception was but she was able to get a few texts to go through. It took while but he finally replied to her and told her what we were all assuming: he was lost and had no idea where he was, it was dark, call the park rangers and get help.
By this point there was no hiding what was happening from myself and my sister and we were hysterical. I don’t remember all the specifics of how they tracked him down but I do remember that the rangers phone’ had better service than ours and they were able to call him for a few minutes before the call disconnected itself. It was pitch dark but he was able to describe some key details of where he was from what he could see with his headlamp. I remember them setting off down the trail at around 9pm, they were gone for several hours and it was well past midnight when they came back with him.
According to what he told us in the car on the way back to the hotel, the trail forked and he had accidentally taken the wrong branch and got himself lost; he tried to turn back around but by that point the sun had set and it was dark out and he ended up meandering off the trail and walked up onto a sloping rock face \/outcropping. When the park rangers found him they had much brighter lights with them; as they were leading him down back to the trail, one of them suddenly stopped him and said something like “Wait. you’re gonna need to watch your step from here.” With the ranger’s more powerful headlamps he could see that the rock face they were walking on was broken up by several deep, narrow, slot canyons. He realized if they hadn’t come and found him he likely would have fallen into one if he had attempted to go back the way he came that night.
He likes to downplay this story now over a decade later and “Yeah, well you got lost in arches!” Has kind of become a family joke/comeback. But at the time it was thoroughly terrifying tbh.
Just a thought! The cars own turbulence with the wind created the conditions to move the gate.
Now that would be an algorithm for determining how much force would it take to move the gate
Well this is just insanely unlikely and yet it happened.
Arches is my favorite national park. Red sunsets are spectacular and the natural formations are just incredible. I know people do get into big trouble here. I mountain bike and I’ve run into tourist who got lost with a single bottle of water. You can die out there for real but many things.
This event is some cosmic cluster of some seriously mental event.
Geeesh I assumed this was a lost without water issue. This is just something else .
Well that's a first..decapitated by a gate blowing in the wind...
Absolutely heartbreaking 💔
That sucks
So because she was young the park is less liable? She just wanted ice cream
This is more than a tragedy, it is a horror movie waiting for a script.
Wow, that is properly tragic and horifying 😳 But asking hubdreds of millions of a national park sounds kind of unrealistic 🤔 It’s not like it is a massive for profit company that can pay such amounts. Park was definately at fault though and should pay at least for all the therapy and loss of income due to the trauma the husband experienced. But what monetary value can you put on a human’s life really 🤷♀️ It will never be enough.
Another great video as always! Keep up the great content 👍
Two hundred thirty million dollars of non profit
I agree with the parks, the pay out was too big.
The enforcers never make mistakes just misdeeds and a whole lotta lose of life..RIP
Such a great sad occurrence that travels far beyond one Country…
First reaction: What in the crazy effing freak accidents? Poor Essie.
Second reaction: This has happened before?
It's so sad this is already years ago
Who would ever believe the nonsense about social distance in relation to maintaining a locking gate
Ridiculous
8:06 They seem rather full of themselves. I'm not condoning the accident but they're really pushing it.
People being Lazy Lazy shocking
I love your vodeos but the voice is really bothersome to me.
Blames it on the pandemic & social distancing lol
Whoa!😮 not sure what to say...RIP❤
A woman of excellence, and they talk down her ability to create wealth and prosperity. For more than just herself. Dude, she made a reality TV show, that's gotta be a multimillion dollar project in it's own right. Next the federally funded parks will claim poor.
I hate that this happened. Tragic, senseless loss. I wanna see the Interior Dept report as to why a better locking mechanism wasn't installed, or why a cheap lock was used.. esp being a repeat instance. Was this a budget issue? Did it fall through the cracks bc of a backlog of maintenance tasks? Was there an NPS bulletin to alert Rangers & Staff to the need to replace it? (Like NTSB will do for aircraft issues.) If not, maybe they should consider creating s system for that.
The park system is one of the few programs I don't mind spending money on; whether entrance fees or taxes, the NPS is worth it... but not if all the funding goes to lawsuits. They don't have Qualified Immunity, so whoever is responsible needs to be held accountable. And there IS someone to point a finger at. Whether Arches Director, maintenence or IntSec...
This is the most intelligent response I’ve read so far.