Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Dustin Rowles | News | August 28, 2026
I mentioned last week that I took my kids to Six Flags ahead of dropping my son off to college (which I’m mentioning one more time because I’m very, very proud — he’s not First Gen, but I was, and it feels really good to perpetuate a new cycle). Anyway, I went on all the dumb roller coasters because I adore my kids and I am willing to allow my organs to be sloshed around if it makes them happy. What I didn’t know then is that one of the organs that sloshes around the most is your brain, and that’s not good.
Fortunately, the biggest brain-sloshing offender is not in Six Flags New England, but a super intense roller coaster called the X2 at Six Flags Magic Mountain. It’s apparently a “fan favorite,” and no thanks, I’ll pass. Nopenopenope.
Anyway, this roller coaster has been apparently been closed for the last 6 weeks after two different people suffered similar brain hemorrhages. Two women rode the roller coaster six days apart, and both lost consciousness and ended up in the hospital with the kind of brain hemorrhages “typically associated with high-speed collisions.” Per THR, three neurosurgeons wrote in an email that “the severe brain injuries requiring emergent neurosurgical attention were the result of a traumatic rapid acceleration-deceleration event experienced while on the X2 ride.”
You get that sense on a roller coaster that the G-force, and barrel rolls, and the loopty-loops aren’t the most dangerous things about them: It’s the sudden starts and even more sudden stops. They suck (it wasn’t my brain that complained, though; it was my back!)
One of those women is still in a coma, and I sh** you not, the only thing that Six Flags has reportedly offered her is food from McDonalds. She did not miss her flight. She’s in a coma! Coupons for a free meal at McDonalds aren’t going to help her!
Anyway, per CNN, there have apparently been 70 complaints of head and neck injuries on the ride between 2019 and 2022, over a dozen hospitalizations, and two fatalities from brain injuries. Two deaths! (Granted, one person who died had a preexisting brain condition). Two fatalities, two recent brain hemorrhages, over a dozen hospitalizations, and over 70 neck and head complaints.
So, the concern with roller coasters — or at least this one — is not being flung out of your seat and into a hot dog stand, it’s having your brain smash around in your skull.
In other words, be careful out there, folks. Don’t ride the X2 (if it ever opens again), and maybe avoid those extreme roller coasters, unless the threat of a brain injury is what gets your rocks off.
