The "luckiest man in the world" survived several accidents, and then won a million in the lottery. For those who consider themselves the most unfortunate person: rating of unlucky people The most unlucky person

Croat Frane Selak often had accidents where he inevitably had to die, but somehow managed to survive. He got his first experience of this kind in January 1962: Selak was riding a train when the train derailed and fell into an icy river. 17 passengers died, and the lucky one escaped with a broken arm, minor scratches and bruises.

Then he fell out of the plane when the door suddenly opened during the flight, escaped when the bus he was traveling in turned over and fell into the river, survived two car accidents ... Once Frane literally jumped out of his car at the last second, whose gas tank caught fire while driving, and the car exploded. Surprisingly, this man is still alive.

In 2003, Selak won a million dollars in the Croatian lottery. Well, perhaps he deserved such good luck: because of everything that happened to him, Selak can be called both the unluckiest and the luckiest person alive today.

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We often say: “How lucky he is!” Although we don't know exactly what this concept means. If you explain briefly and easily, then luck is a positive resolution of life situations. Some people are lucky in the workplace, others are happy in their personal lives, others win the lottery, and there are the luckiest people who are constantly doing well, as if they have chronic luck. Even if something starts badly, then it suddenly turns into a happy ending. The names of such minions of fate can often be seen on the pages of newspapers or on television.

The luckiest person in the world is Frain Selak, a Croatian music teacher. During his life, he repeatedly found himself in terrible situations, but he always managed to get away with it. A series of his troubles began in 1962.

And again, three years later, he experienced a strong shock. The bus he was on went off the road. As a result, many died. And our lucky man, again in a state of shock, received only minor injuries.

Another incident

The next event happened in 1970 when Selak was driving in his own car. Suddenly, the car caught fire. In a matter of seconds, the Croat managed to get out of the burning car. In a moment it exploded. Frain was unharmed.

The next incident happened three years later. The old one sprayed gasoline directly onto the running engine. There was a fire. This time, Frain Selak was left without hair - and nothing more.

Then for 22 years the luckiest man in the world lived quietly. Until one day he was hit by a bus in his own hometown. Doctors during the examination stated the absence of any wounds at all. Only shock.

Last crash

A year later, Selak set off to travel in his car. After turning on the road in the mountains, the Croat suddenly saw a truck that was rushing straight at him. He jumped out of the car, which stopped over a cliff, and hung on a tree. It was from there that he watched his car fly off into the abyss. The result is a mild shock.

Fortune

In his declining years, fortune did not turn away from the music teacher. He was lucky to win a huge amount of money in the lottery.

What happened next in the life of a Croat? Different sources give different information. According to some reports, he distributed all the money he won to his relatives so that he would no longer tempt fate. The ego plans were to build a small chapel. Another source says that the luckiest man in the world bought a house, a car and married a woman 20 years younger than him. Frain Selak also considered his previous four marriages to be disasters.

The luckiest people on earth live in peace, not even expecting any luck.

The fate of a person is sometimes bizarre and whimsical. Some go to the next world, having eaten "something wrong" for dinner, and someone manages to survive in three shipwrecks. Most often, such people are shunned and considered that they bring misfortune, but if you think about it: when a person is not taken by car accidents, or rattlesnakes, or lightning, or even nuclear bombs maybe, in fact, these are the real "minions of fate" and "favourites of fortune"?

1. The Japanese victim of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

On August 6, 1945, Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on work-related business. He was about to leave the city and was already on his way when he suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to affix one seal formally allowing him to travel. Yamaguchi returned to the office and then hurried away from Hiroshima again. When he got off the tram, about three km from him, the “Kid” exploded - a nuclear charge dropped by the Americans.

The explosion ruptured Tsutomu's eardrums and left him almost completely blind for a while and suffered severe burns. After spending the night in a bomb shelter, the Japanese went home ... to Nagasaki.

A few days later, Yamaguchi sat in his boss's office and talked about the horrors that he had to endure during the bombing of Hiroshima. Just at the same time, the United States dropped the second Fat Man bomb. The epicenter was also about three km from the building, but this time the Japanese was practically not injured.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi died in his native Nagasaki from stomach cancer in 2010.

Source 2The ocean liner stewardess who survived the crashes of the Britannica, the Olympic, and the Titanic

In 1911, Violet Jessop survived the wreck of one of the most luxurious ocean liners of those times, the Olympic: a 23-year-old girl worked on it as a stewardess until the huge ship collided with the armored cruiser Hawk near the Isle of Wight. The Olympic received a huge hole, but the captain managed to keep the ship afloat, and the passengers and most of the staff, including Miss Jessop, were evacuated.

For many, this remained an accident that ended happily, but Violet's story was just beginning.

A year later, the girl boarded another White Star Line ship (Olympic belonged to her), perhaps the most famous ship in the world - the Titanic. The whole world now knows about that sad story, and the stewardess Jessop was among the passengers who managed to get off the ship in a lifeboat.

During World War I, Violet Jessop served as a stewardess on the British hospital ship Britannic (coincidentally also owned by the White Star Line). In the Aegean Sea, not far from the island of Kea, the ship hit a mine and sank instantly, since almost all the windows were open. The tenacious stewardess was able to get out of the ship and avoid death from the propellers of the Britannica. After the third crash, she worked as a flight attendant for many more years and died of heart failure in 1971.

Source 3The woman hit by five hurricanes

American Melanie Martinez knows them like the back of her hand: Betsy, Juan, George, Katrina and Isaac. These are not the names of friends, but the names of hurricanes that sequentially destroyed Melanie's houses in chronological order: in 1965, Betsy passed through the state of Louisiana, where Martinez still lives, in 1985 it was hurricane Juan, in 1998 it was George's turn, and the infamous Katrina was rampant in 2005.

In 2012, the well-known American reality show “Hideous Houses” (A&E TV channel) became interested in the story of an American woman, which allocated $ 20 thousand for repairs, but they could not deceive fate: just a few months after the completion of construction work, “visit” Melanie Category 1 hurricane Isaac.

The woman refuses to leave her familiar place, as she stated in an interview: “I was born here. This is my home".

Source 4The Florida man who was stung by a rattlesnake, struck by lightning and then bitten by a shark

Eric Norrie is no stranger to incredible cases: he almost died in a shark attack, and told reporters who spoke to him that he had previously been struck by lightning and bitten by a rattlesnake.

On July 29, 2013, Norrie was vacationing in the Bahamas and was keen on spearfishing when a shark swam up to him and cut off a piece of his leg. Eric's father-in-law, who was nearby, helped him fight off the predator and get to the shore, where they managed to provide him with qualified medical assistance. According to Eric himself, this is not the first time he finds himself in extreme situation but always tries to keep his presence of mind.

Source 5The Briton Who Survived 16 Crashes

54-year-old John Line is called by his compatriots nothing less than "John the Disaster" and is considered the most man in the UK.

The Briton is also known as a man who managed to get into two accidents at the same time: as a child, he fell from a cart and was immediately run over by a delivery van.

As a teenager, John fell out of a tree and broke his arm, and while he was driving from the hospital, the bus had an accident, and Line's arm was broken again - already in a different place, and they say that it happened on Friday the 13th.

In 2006, the Englishman once again attracted the attention of the press by falling into one of the hatches at work (he is an employee of a large industrial enterprise).

Journalists have calculated that in his entire life, Line got into various deadly stories 16 times, including a collapse in a mine, a lightning strike and three car accidents.

Source 6The American who was robbed, stabbed in the chest, bitten by two snakes at the same time and struck by lightning

American John Wade Agan came to the attention of journalists in 2011, when he was struck by lightning while talking on a landline phone at his home in Florida.

As it turned out, 47-year-old Agan had another interesting case earlier: an American was robbed right in his car (John worked as a taxi driver) and locked in the trunk.

In 2008, Agan survived a deep stab wound to the chest, and in 2009, according to him, he was attacked and bitten by two snakes at once. Well, if that's true, John rightfully rivals his English namesake for the nickname "Disaster Man."

If you think you are having a bad day - just read this article about the most unlucky people in the world and you will immediately feel better. The failures of most of these people are so rare that they could be compared in probability to the chance of a vulture dropping a turtle on your head…twice.

9. The whole village won the lottery, except for one person.

Every Christmas in Spain there is a lottery with a huge win, it is even called "El Gordo", which translates as "big score".

And the little village of Sodeto had a huge cause for celebration as all but one of the 70 families bought lottery tickets. And these lucky numbers of local residents (58268) won the main prize of $ 950 million - respectively, each family got a part of the amount. Just think! It turned out that the residents, mostly farmers and unemployed builders, ended up with millions in their hands.

All but one unfortunate guy - Costis Mitsotakis. Poor Kostis. The Good Samaritans of the Housewives Association who distributed the tickets decided not to knock on his door.

8. Lightning rod man


They say lightning never strikes the same place twice - but it has struck Roy Sullivan seven times. Yes, yes, you heard right - seven times. Roy was a ranger in national park Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. He is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the person who was struck by lightning the most times.

Think about it for a moment - the chances of being struck by lightning at least once in your life are about 3000 to 1. The chance of being struck by lightning seven times is twenty-two septillion to one. That's 22,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 to 1!

It can be assumed that an ordinary person after the sixth time would have stayed at home ... or would have bought lottery tickets - but not Roy! The last time he was struck by lightning was rumored to be the most impressive.

After Roy was struck by lightning while he was fishing, the bear decided to add an unpleasant experience to his already serious injury - he decided to steal a trout from his fishing line. Seeing this, Sullivan gathered his will into a fist and hit the bear with a branch to take his fish back. Cool guy to say the least.

7 Ghost Bullet


If we talk about unhappy people, it will be difficult to find a person more unhappy than Henry Zigland (Henry Zeigland) - a man who thought he managed to deceive fate. Surely what happened to him was a kind of poetic justice.

It all started in 1883, when he broke off relations with a girl who later killed herself out of desperation. Distraught, her brother swore an oath that he would kill Siegland at all costs. He tracked him down and shot him. Considering Siegland dead, he pointed the gun at himself and took his own life.

However, Siegland did not think of dying. The bullet only scratched his face and plunged into a huge tree behind him. At that time, he considered himself an incredibly lucky person.

However, the story didn't end there. Many years later, Siegland decided to cut down the tree that the ill-fated bullet had crashed into. The task was not easy, so to make his job easier, he decided to blow up the tree with a few plates of dynamite.

From the explosion, the bullet flew off and hit Siegland right in the head, killing him on the spot. Just horror - or incredible bad luck.

6. The hairiest man in the world


Dear ladies, if you complain that your man is too hairy, we invite you to look at Yu Zhen Huang, officially the hairiest man in the world.

As a result of a rare disease, 96% of Yu's body is covered in hair. Moreover, Yu had to undergo an operation to remove the hair from his ears, because they affected his hearing.

Fibrous down of black color covers every inch of his lanky body, except for the palms and soles of his feet. On 1 square centimeter of the skin of his body, on average, there are 41 hairs. He suffers from atavism, and his appearance is clearly not lucky.

Yu decided to use his unique appearance. He posted his photos on two sites: www.maohai.com and accordingly named www.hairboy.com. He hopes to get a contract and become the next Chinese rock star.

Now he is looking for a wife. Let's see what he gets out of it.

5. The unhappiest woman in America


After losing four homes to four hurricanes, Melanie Martinez could rightfully be America's unluckiest woman. In 1965 there was Betsy, in 1985 Juan, in 1998 George and in 2005 Katrina. That was the price of living on a floodplain in Louisiana.

But then the school bus driver got lucky. The reality show chose to transform her dilapidated home in Braithwaite, south of New Orleans. The team spent an entire week and $20,000 transforming the Martinez home. She got new kitchen, new cabinets and new appliances - including a 50-inch TV. “They did great. I really enjoyed it,” says Martinez.

But on Wednesday, August 29, seven years after Katrina, Hurricane Isaac, the first category, which emerged from the sea abyss, again destroyed her house.

Martinez, her family members, as well as 5 kittens and 3 dogs were rescued by boat. They have lost everything. “Now I have lost five houses to five hurricanes. Every time my house is leveled to the ground.”

Melanie, maybe next time you should consider building a house on a hill?

4. The most unlucky man in the UK


John Lyne, nicknamed "Disaster", is often called the unluckiest man in the UK - he survived 16 major accidents in his life, including a lightning strike, a rock falling into a mine, and three car accidents. There was also a case when a stone launched with the help of a catapult hit him in the mouth, knocking out eight teeth.

Mr. Line's series of failures spans his entire life. When he was born - one of five children in a peasant family - there was no certainty that he would survive. He had underdeveloped lungs and needed steroids and special care. But, as well as later in his life, he survived, no matter what.

Curiosity was his sworn enemy. At the age of 18 months, he crawled to his grandmother's bathroom and took a decent sip from a plastic bottle. Unfortunately, there was disinfectant in the bottle, so he was rushed to the hospital to have his stomach and entire digestive system flushed out.

Perhaps the most famous accident happened to him when he was a teenager. After he broke his arm in a fall from a tree, he went to the hospital for treatment. On the way to the hospital, the bus in which he was traveling had an accident and he broke the same arm again, only in a different place. Oh yeah, it all happened on Friday the 13th.

Reality is sometimes worse than fiction.

3 Indonesian Tree Man


Dede Koswara was born a healthy baby. But at the age of 10, after he fell and scratched his knee in the Indonesian forest, small warts began to appear around the wound. Over time, they spread to his arms and legs.
For years he watched helplessly as the warts on his limbs cracked into strips like grotesque bark. They draw all the energy out of him and limit his mobility. Now he walks on blackened, swollen legs, a prisoner of his mutated body.

There was a moment when from the side it seemed that meter-long, yellow-brown shoots were growing from it. It was as if Koswara was becoming half-plant - merging with the green jungle that was forming around him.

His mysterious illness cost him his marriage, career and independence. Poverty forced him to join a traveling freak show where he was presented as a tree-man from Java.

He suffers from a double whammy: first, from the common human papillomavirus, a condition that usually causes small warts; as well as a rare immune deficiency disorder that caused these warts to grow so large. Last year, Indonesian doctors used an electric saw to cut off nearly 6 kilograms of warts and decaying matter. But it all grew back.

Unlucky, so unlucky.

2The Man Who Survived A Nuclear Attack Twice


Tsutomu Yamaguchi was the only officially recognized survivor of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.
On August 6, 1945, Yamaguchi went to Hiroshima as a young engineer. A few seconds after getting off the tram, at 8.15 am, he saw a massive flash of light and was knocked to the ground by the force of a bomb that exploded 600 meters above the city.

About 140,000 of Hiroshima's 350,000 inhabitants died instantly. Despite being less than 3 kilometers from zero, Yamaguchi escaped with only burns to his upper body and a punctured eardrum. He spent the night in a bomb shelter, among people who were dying and screaming in pain. The next day, Yamaguchi made his way through the piles of burned and dying people to catch a train home to the city of Nagasaki, which was 290 kilometers away and which, like Hiroshima, was an important industrial and military base.

At 11:02 am, Yamaguchi saw another familiar flash of light, this time less than three kilometers from the city center. Now Yamaguchi was thrown to the ground by the explosion of a 25-kiloton plutonium bomb that exploded over Nagasaki.

In addition to remaining completely deaf in one ear, his wounds had to be bandaged for another 12 years, and his wife was poisoned from radioactive fallout.

She died in 2008, at the age of 88, from kidney and liver cancer. Their son, who was exposed to radiation in Nagasaki at the age of six months, died in 2005 at the age of 59.

Before he died of stomach cancer, Yamaguchi became an active participant in the campaign against nuclear weapons- but never in his life did he express any anti-American ideas.

1. The dog brings back the dynamite


Imagine: a deep winter in the far north. Harry Jenkins and two friends once went ice fishing at a lake called Ten Mile Lake in Akeley, Minnesota. The lake is completely covered with a thick crust of ice.

In order not to suffer for a long time and quickly make a hole for catching fish, Mr. Jenkins first lit, and then threw a block of illegally obtained dynamite onto the ice.

To his horror, he sees his pet Labrador Retriever Jerry running across the ice, trying to grab and return the dynamite, thinking that the owner is playing with him and he should bring him back the stick. It couldn't end well, could it?

The dog picks up the dynamite - despite the man's screams - and then starts running back towards them, tail wagging. The three of them realize that they are in more danger than they thought and start running in the opposite direction as the dog chases them.

The men narrowly escaped death, but the explosion not only killed the dog, but also created a crack in the ice, right next to the truck, which fell into it and sank to the bottom of the lake.

In addition to losing his dog, Mr. Jenkins also became a double loser when the insurance company refused to pay for his claim for a sunken truck.

The idea of ​​​​the article was born after I had already compiled two TOPs of lucky people, you can read about this and. Well, shall we get started?

It is difficult to imagine an ordinary person who would never find himself in an unpleasant or even funny situation in his life. This is quite natural. But there are also those who are in this position throughout their lives. Yes, some people manage to attract trouble everywhere. Bad luck is just their middle name. And there's nothing to be done about it.

Below, your attention is given a list of the five most unlucky people on our planet who have been or are at the moment.

An ordinary inhabitant of a small Greek town somehow distinguished himself from all the other inhabitants of his city. The name of this man is Kostis Mitsotakis, he is a director by his occupation.

The incident took place in the village of Sodeto. There was a lottery draw, where the prize fund was a record high amount of money. And this man became the only resident of the town who did not win a single cent. And all due to the fact that those who sold lottery tickets accidentally did not notice his house.

They did not notice the only house in the city. As a result, all other residents (70 families) became the owners of a part of the winnings, since all purchased tickets turned out to be winning ones. Such a sad and curious incident happened to a man.

Top 4: The only person hit by a meteorite

Even more than Kostis, an ordinary housewife named Annie, who dozed off on the couch after dinner, distinguished herself. As usual, at this time, she and her husband dined and she cleared the table and lay down to rest.

By chance, at this time, a meteorite was approaching the Earth, which broke into three pieces. One of these parts landed right on top of a peacefully sleeping woman. He hit her thigh and scared her a lot. Luckily, she wasn't particularly hurt.

Purely theoretically, there is nothing strange in this, if it were not for the fact that cosmic bodies had never hit people before. At the moment, Mrs. Hodgess is the only person who has been hit by a meteorite.

But after the victim recovered from the shock, her troubles associated with this incident did not end. Immediately there was a huge number of people who tried to take possession of the stone.

Naturally, Annie and her husband wanted to keep this celestial body as a memory. But the local authorities began to claim it, and also the mistress of the house, the roof of which was damaged by a falling body from outer space, and other lovers of profit. After several trials and scandals, the family couple gave the meteorite into the possession of the Alabama Museum of Natural History.

TOP 3: A man who attracts lightning

If with the previous participants of this top bad cases happened once, then with the owner of the middle position as many as seven times. That's how many lightning strikes he received in his life and survived them all. The name of this "lucky one" is Roy Sullivan.

The first time this happened to him was in the observation tower, at the workplace. Subsequent discharges he received in a variety of places and under various circumstances. Once lightning struck him even in the middle of the building. And one more time, along with Sullivan, his wife received a shake-up. They then, just together, hung washed things on a steel wire.

After the first cases, the man became cautious and began to take a bottle of water with him everywhere. He did this in order to quickly put out the fire on himself, if necessary. Since he was convinced that clouds were always gathering over him, wherever he went.

His prejudices can be justified and even understood. After all, according to science, the chance of being struck by lightning is 3000 to 1. And seven strikes is already an inexplicable phenomenon. The most curious thing is that Roy died due to suicide. He committed suicide at a respectable age due to unrequited love.

Top 2: A woman on a ship is unfortunate, especially if this woman is Violet Jessop

A woman who finds herself at this stage of the rating confirms the saying that women bring misfortune to ships. She had already made sure of that. The fact is that she stayed during the last flights on the Olympic, Britannic and Titanic. And she survived all three of the greatest shipwrecks. That's who three times Hugh Williams.

It all started with the fact that the young girl Violet Jessop got a job on the largest cruise ship, the Olympic, she was a maid. On her very first flight, she became an eyewitness of how the liner went down after a collision with a cruiser.

She was among the rescued, and with her the captain of the sunken ship. After that, the two of them got a job on the Titanic, in the same positions that they had previously held. This time, the largest ship stumbled upon an iceberg and also sank to the bottom.

This time the captain did not leave his ship. But the maid was back in the lifeboat. A little later, during the First World War, a woman got a job on the large hospital ship Britannica. And very soon the ship ran into a mine hidden under water. He went to the bottom very quickly and almost dragged the boat with the rescued people behind him. But, Violetta was not taken aback and jumped out of the boat. Thus she was saved again.

Soon she was picked up by a ship sailing nearby. This incident did not affect the interests of the favorite shipwrecks. She continued for the rest of her life as a maintenance staff on a wide variety of ships. She died due to heart problems at an advanced age.

Top 1: Hurricane Woman

And the top of the losers in life is completed by a woman who attracts hurricanes to herself. The fact is that in her life she was left without a roof over her head several times due to the most powerful hurricanes. After Melanie Martinez lost her fifth home due to the elements, she was titled "the most unlucky woman in the United States."

Watching her life big number fellow citizens who sincerely sympathize with her. After hurricanes ripped off four of her roofs, a solid television show drew attention to her plight. The owners of this program took pity on the victim and, at their own expense, built her new house.

But Melanie did not have long to rejoice. Just three months after moving into a brand new house, it was taken away by a strong hurricane Isaac. Although the woman was genuinely upset, this did not surprise her at all. She is already used to this and takes it for granted.

While writing this article, the thought occurred to me that these people are not so unhappy. After all, they saved the most precious thing - their lives. But isn't that the most important thing? Friends, take care of yourself and your loved ones. Subscribe to blog news to be among the first to read new and interesting articles. Share the article with your friends in social networks I'm sure they'll be interested.