Mark Twain said: “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”

So, what’s the possibility of finding your missing, and now dead, sister wedged, upside down behind the bookcase in her bedroom? Well, hardly a real possibility (I mean WHAT are the odds?), but according to this news item from the BBC (Thanks, Jai Clare) it is the truth. It happened.

Bookcase ‘trap’ killed US woman

The body of a missing US woman has been found by her family, wedged upside down behind a bookcase in her room.

Mariesa Weber, 38, is believed to have fallen over and become trapped as she tried to reach behind the bookcase to adjust the plug for a TV set.

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Her body was eventually discovered when her sister noticed a foot protruding behind the bookcase in her bedroom.

“I’m sleeping in the same house as her for 11 days, looking for her. And she’s right in the bedroom,” the woman’s mother, Connie Weber, told the St Petersburg Times newspaper.

The family told the newspaper they had noticed a strange smell from her room but had blamed it on rats.

They told the paper their daughter’s light weight and petite frame may have contributed to her death. “She’s a little thing,” her mother reportedly said. “And the bookcase is 6ft tall and solid. And she couldn’t get out.”

Source: BBC