People Who Were Incredibly Lucky
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Ultimate Fact Presents the Top 20 People Who Were Incredibly Lucky. Before we begin, click that like button to inspire us; moreover, subscribe to our channel and click the notification bell to be inspired by this type of ultimate fact.
Fate or whatever you call it, some lucky people just find a way to beat incredible odds. Some of these stories are so astonishing, you likely won’t believe them. They witnessed events that are absolutely unlikely and hardly accidental. They were incredibly lucky. Enjoy these true stories that celebrate luck, coincidence, and the joy of being in the right place at the right time. Here is the lucky people compilation which will blow your mind.
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Bill Morgan:
When his car collided with a truck and he was crushed under the impact, everyone thought it was the end of the line for Australian Bill Morgan, even the doctors. Declared legally dead for more than 14 minutes, he was somehow revived and managed to survive after only 12 days in a coma, even after family removed life support.
But his luck doesn’t end there. To celebrate his survival, he bought a “Scratch It” card and won a car worth AUS$17,000. When the local news station heard about him and all his good fortune, they were so impressed, they did a segment about him on the show. They asked him to reenact the scene by scratching off another card, only for him to win a whopping $250,000 again during the live show!
Edwin E. Robinson:
The odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 12,000. But for blind and deaf 62-year-old Edwin E. Robinson, those odds rose to 100 percent.
Robinson wandering around outside in the field near his house, swinging around his aluminum cane, and then taking shelter under the only tree when it began to rain was evidently too tempting for the lightning, which struck him to the ground.
For 20 minutes, he lay unconscious before waking up and stumbling back to his house, going to bed for a very well-deserved nap. But when he woke up in the evening, he discovered he could see and hear once again. He was later examined by his doctor, who confirmed he had regained both his sight and his hearing and probably survived the blast due to the rubber-soled shoes he had been wearing.
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Joan R. Ginther:
Did you know you’re more likely to get struck by an asteroid than win the lottery? But that didn’t stop Joan Ginther. Over the course of her life, she won the lottery an astonishing four times, baffling scientists everywhere. And it wasn’t just measly $20 or $50 wins; either each time, she won multi-million dollar payouts.
It all started when she first won $5.4 million, only to win $2 million more a decade later. Two years later, she won a cool $3 million, followed by a staggering $10 million in 2008.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi:
During World War II, Tsutomu Yamaguchi was an employee at Mistubishi Heavy Industries, which required him to travel all over the country. It was during his business trip to Hiroshima in 1945 that the first nuclear bomb was dropped. Miraculously, though injured, he survived the blast. Afterward, he quickly returned to his family and home in Nagasaki, returning to work the day the second nuclear attack occurred. You might say this made him the world’s unluckiest man, but he survived this second blast as well.
Throughout the rest of his life, Yamaguchi became a vocal protestor against nuclear weapons and technology. In 2009, Japan officially recognized Yamaguchi as a survivor of both atomic bombs dropped on Japan, officially making him the one out of many people who survived the impossible. Mr. Yamaguchi lived a long life until the old age of 93 and died on January 4, 2010, at his home in Nagasaki.
Maarten De Jonge:
Sometimes, people survive solely because they avoid the situation that would’ve put them in danger. Many of these people never consciously do so, however. They chalk it up to circumstances like they were sick or had to do something else at the time, and others say they got a strange feeling not to go.
In just four months, Dutch cyclist Maarten de Jonge cheated death by airplane twice. He booked a seat in the MH17 flight but found a cheaper flight and changed his ticket while the doomed flight he was originally intending to go on crashed midway. He was also scheduled to be on MH370, the flight that went missing in 2014 and was never found, only to reschedule it at the last moment.
Terri Preece:
Oysters are a beloved fine-dining food, highly sought after in restaurants and by cooks at home for their flavor, texture, and sometimes even price. They’re thought by some to be an aphrodisiac, and Terri Preece is more than in love with them now that she found a pearl in one.
With the simple act of getting a few 49-pence oysters from Tesco, much like most other customers do, Terri Preece managed to beat the million-to-one odds to find one of the pale treasures inside. She’s about to move to Spain, and her colleagues at the homeless shelter she worked at made the pearl into a ring worth 500 pounds as a going-away present to always serve as a little reminder of her great luck.
Anders Helstrup:
When you go skydiving, you expect a relative amount of danger to be involved. You are jumping out of a plane and hurtling toward the earth at terminal velocity, right? There’s no way there’s something more dangerous than just that. Except for Norwegian Anders Helstrup, who ran into one complication: A meteorite hurtling down after him? And this wasn’t just a story to tell his friends and have them question his sanity; this encounter was all captured on camera.
Uploaded to the Internet, it attracted the attention of the science community. It was later confirmed by a geologist that a meteorite had exploded about 20 kilometers above him, and the video taken was the first ever video of a meteorite traveling through the air after its flame had gone out. He spent the summer looking for the famed space rock in the surrounding area, but as of 2014, he has not found it. Guess you can’t win them all.
Lena Pahlsson:
In 1995, Swedish woman Lena Pahlsson set aside her wedding ring to do some Christmas baking. But when she went to return it to its rightful place on her finger, she discovered it was gone. After years of searching, she and her husband came to the conclusion that the ring was lost forever. That is, until 2012, nearly 16 years later, when Lena found something waiting for her in her garden.
While pulling up carrots, she was shocked to find her long, lost ring around one of the carrots.
Apparently, this was the first time they’d planted carrots by simply throwing out the seeds at random across the garden instead of in rows like they’d done before. The chance that one of the seeds had landed inside the ring is like winning some sort of mini bottle-ring toss at the carnival.
But Lena couldn’t care less about the astronomical odds of how she got back her ring; she’s just glad to have it back at all.
Frane Selak:
Called “The Luckiest Unluckiest Man in the World,” Croatian Frane Selak has cheated death not once, not twice, but an amazing seven times.
His first brush with death was in 1962 while traveling in a train in January. The train flipped off the tracks and fell into a freezing river. Bystanders pulled him to shore and safety with only a broken arm and hypothermia, while 17 other passengers drowned.
But his dance with death wasn’t over yet. Later, in 1995, he was hit by a bus in Zagreb but only suffered minor injuries, and a year later, he managed to avoid a head-on collision with a United Nations truck on a mountain road by swerving into a guardrail. And to top his luck off, in 2003, two days after he turned 73, Frane Selak won $1.1 million from the Croatian National Lottery. What a birthday present!
Yorgos and Oliver Voutier
This is a case of being in just the right place at just the right time. Kentrotas was a meager farmer on the island of Milos, where French officer Voutier had stopped. Voutier noticed that while Kentrotas was gathering stones for his farm, he stopped suddenly. What Kentrotas unearthed was a sculpture of beauty, the famed Venus Milo statue of ancient Greece.
Though they don’t seem to have fallen into riches as a result, of all the “stones” to find, Kentrotas picked a great one! These people were incredibly lucky!
Concetta Antico:
Concetta Antico is a tetrachromat. It means she’s the only one in the entire world who sees the world a lot more vividly than the others, which makes her a really lucky person. When she looks at a leaf, she sees much more than just green. Around the edge she will see orange, red, or purple in the shadow; where we might see dark green, but she will see violet, turquoise, and blue; she mentioned it’s like a mosaic of colors.
Deciding to show how she sees the world, she decided to be a painter. She conjures masterpieces in one sitting. All her paintings are insanely colorful and feature shades you wouldn’t generally expect to see. Concetta, to me, is one of the luckiest people on earth.
Fidel Castro:
When you are hated and loved equally by millions across your country, an assassination attempt should shock you. But Cuba’s counterintelligence agency has estimated that Fidel Castro has survived over 630 assassination attempts! Six hundred and thirty.
A number of these are being planned by the U.S. CIA, numerous mafia members, and his own mistress, among many, many others.
Fidel has survived his cigar being poisoned, exploding cigars, radio laced with LSD, and hidden poisonous hypodermic needles filled with lethal concoctions, among a lot more things.
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Nichiren:
Nichiren was a prominent 12th-century monk who was sentenced to execution for having written a prophecy that the Japanese authorities felt was subversive and undermining their power.
As pure luck would have it, he managed to escape his own beheading when the executioner was struck and killed by a lightning bolt when he raised his sword. He was later released by the authorities due to the weird circumstances.
Harrison Odjegba Okene:
He worked as a cook on a ship. Okene was in the bathroom when the ship began to sink and wasn’t able to evacuate in time.
Fortunately, he was able to move into the engine room, where an airbag formed. Rescuers were able to find him only in three days. Harrison was the only survivor among the 12 team members. Indeed, one fantastically lucky person!
Juliane Koepcke:
She survived a plane crash right above the Amazon River in 1971. The 17-year-old girl was able to get out of the crash with numerous bruises and cuts.
After the accident, she had to live in the jungle among wild animals for a few days, until she was rescued by the locals. Juliane was the only survivor on that plane.
Reshma Begum:
Reshma Begum was working as a seamstress in a factory in one of the 18-story buildings, Rana Plaza. She was incredibly lucky enough to survive an explosion but remained trapped under the rubble.
Fortunately, she was able to find some water and food to survive for 17 days, until the rescuers let her out.
Michael Sparks:
While shopping in a Nashville, Tennessee, thrift shop, Sparks paid $2.48 for a rolled copy of the Declaration of Independence.
It was yellow with age, but when Sparks looked closer, he found it to be one of only 35 copies that were made in 1823. The document was sold for nearly half a million dollars! Talk about a lucky find!
Mohammad Basheer Abdul Khada
This lucky person was flying out of Dubai International Airport in 2016, and before he left, he purchased a Dubai Duty-Free Millennium Millionaire lottery ticket.
On his return trip home, the plane he was on crash-landed. He and the other passengers miraculously walked away before the aircraft burst into flames. As fortune would have it, he later learned that the lottery ticket he had purchased before the whole ordeal was a winner, and he became both a survivor and a millionaire!
Timothy Dexter:
Dexter was an entrepreneur of the 18th century. Although his methods seemed at odds with creating wealth, he prospered many times. He purchased currency that was no longer in use, and it came back into use. He once took bed warmers to warm climates, and when they didn’t sell, he called them ladles, and they flew off the shelves!
The most unlikely of his fortunes was made when he aimed to provide coal to a place that already had plenty. When Dexter and his coal arrived, the existing coal mine was on strike, and his stash was quickly consumed. His timing could not have been luckier!
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TEDDY ROOSEVELT
Former U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt had a reputation for being a stubborn fighter, which might have some weight considering he survived an up-close assassination attempt and lived to tell the tale.
On October 14, 1912, Roosevelt was leaving a Milwaukee hotel for a campaign stop, where he was shot in the chest by John Schrank, a New York City saloonkeeper. Schrank’s bullet was lodged in Roosevelt’s rib, but it had been slowed by the 50-page speech and eyeglass case tucked in his coat pocket.
Roosevelt refused medical attention and addressed his audience with a 90-minute speech, saying it takes more than that to kill a bull moose.
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