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0:00 - Introduction and Frane Selak's Story
0:39 - The Seven Miraculous Escapes of Frane Selak
2:24 - Tsutomu Yamaguchi: Surviving Two Atomic Bombs
4:30 - Roy Sullivan: The Human Lightning Rod
6:31 - Violet Jessop: The Unsinkable Woman
8:35 - Fidel Castro: Six Hundred Assassination Attempts
10:13 - Unlikely Survival Stories: Meteorites and Deserts
13:16 - Vesna Vulovic: Fall From Thirty-Three Thousand Feet
👉 This channel was created in collaboration with https://www.youtube.com/@noelpolotv
0:00 - Introduction and Frane Selak's Story
0:39 - The Seven Miraculous Escapes of Frane Selak
2:24 - Tsutomu Yamaguchi: Surviving Two Atomic Bombs
4:30 - Roy Sullivan: The Human Lightning Rod
6:31 - Violet Jessop: The Unsinkable Woman
8:35 - Fidel Castro: Six Hundred Assassination Attempts
10:13 - Unlikely Survival Stories: Meteorites and Deserts
13:16 - Vesna Vulovic: Fall From Thirty-Three Thousand Feet
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00:00Imagine a man who fell from a crashing plane from 10,000 feet and survived.
00:05This is his story.
00:06A man who has survived being in a burning car several times.
00:10A sinking bus in a derailed train.
00:12Not just once, not just twice, but seven times.
00:16This is really not a movie.
00:18This is the real life of Fran Salak,
00:21a mysterious music teacher from Croatia who seems like a movie character
00:25that Hollywood would reject because it's just too impossible.
00:28Some say he is the luckiest man in the world.
00:32Others believe he is cursed.
00:34But one thing is certain, Fran Salak is not an ordinary survivor.
00:39It all started in 1962.
00:42He was riding a train when it suddenly derailed and plunged into an icy river.
00:47Seventeen people died, but Fran floated to the shore,
00:51even though he had a broken arm and some injuries.
00:54Just a year after that, it was his first time flying on a plane.
00:57And in the middle of the trip, the cabin door suddenly opened and Fran was sucked out.
01:02But by a miracle, he landed on a haystack or a pile of straw.
01:05And the airplane crashed and everyone inside perished.
01:10Next came the bus crash in 1966.
01:13The vehicle slipped and fell into the river.
01:15And he escaped just seconds before it exploded.
01:18In 1976, that year too, another car fire almost burned his hair and eyebrows, but he survived.
01:26In 1995, he was hit by a city bus while crossing the street.
01:30But he survived with only minor injuries.
01:32And in 1996, he was driving in the mountains when he swerved to avoid a truck.
01:37His car flew off a 300-foot cliff, but he was no longer inside.
01:43He fell out and got caught on a tree branch, which saved him.
01:46And here's the biggest plot twist.
01:49In 2003, at the age of 74, Fran bought his first lottery ticket in many years and won over $1
01:55million.
01:57After cheating death seven times, it was like life paid him back.
02:01According to Fran,
02:02I don't know if I'm lucky or unlucky, but I'm alive.
02:06Is he blessed, cursed, or simply proof that sometimes reality is stranger than fiction?
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02:25Stomu Yamaguchi, the man who survived both atomic bombs.
02:30If there's a person who faced death twice and walked away alive, that's Stomu Yamaguchi.
02:37His story seems like it was taken from a sci-fi movie.
02:40So impossible, so unbelievable, but it really happened.
02:44He was just a quiet Japanese engineer,
02:47but he is the only person officially recognized as having survived both atomic bombings during World War II.
02:53August 6, 1945, Hiroshima.
02:56Yamaguchi was in the city for a business trip with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
03:01As he was getting off the tram on his way to the shipyard, the sky exploded.
03:05The first atomic bomb, Little Boy, detonated just about three kilometers away from him.
03:11His eardrum was ruptured and he was temporarily blinded.
03:14The upper part of his body was severely injured, but he survived.
03:19Shocked and injured, he spent the night in a shelter.
03:21And just two days later, he returned to their house in Nagasaki,
03:25wrapped in bandages and trying to recover.
03:28On August 9, while he was telling his boss about the hell he saw in Hiroshima,
03:34another blinding flash suddenly appeared in the sky.
03:37The second atomic bomb, Fat Man, was dropped.
03:40And once again, he was caught in the chaos as a large part of Nagasaki was flattened by the explosion.
03:45And, once again, he survived.
03:48It was a miracle that he survived both.
03:51In the most destructive tragedy in history that happened consecutively in just three days,
03:56he lived a long life, raised a family, and became a courageous voice against nuclear weapons.
04:01In 2009, he was officially recognized by the Japanese government as a survivor of both atomic bombings.
04:09And he passed away in 2010 at the age of 93.
04:13How did one person survive two nuclear blasts?
04:16Was it luck, fate, or a strange twist of history?
04:19Whatever the answer is, Sotomayor Maguchi remains one of the most unbelievable and unique survivors in world history.
04:30Roy Sullivan, the Human Lightning Rod
04:35There are people who are truly born lucky.
04:38And there are also those who seem to have a strange fate.
04:41Roy Sullivan, a U.S. park ranger from Virginia, clearly belongs to the latter.
04:46From 1942 to 1997, he was struck by lightning seven times, and each time he survived.
04:53This isn't just rare, it's an almost impossible statistic.
04:56The chance of being struck by lightning once in your entire lifetime is about one in 15,000, but seven
05:02times.
05:03This is almost impossible to explain with math, but it really happened.
05:07The first time lightning struck Roy was in 1942, while he was hiding from a storm inside a lookout tower.
05:14Lightning struck the building and his hair caught on fire.
05:17For most people, that would be enough to traumatize them for life.
05:21But for Roy, that was just the beginning.
05:23For the next 35 years, lightning kept finding and striking him.
05:27While he was working, while he was driving, in front of his house, even while he was fishing.
05:33He would often get burned, thrown into the air, or lose consciousness, but it never killed him.
05:39By the seventh strike, he was called the Human Lightning Rod.
05:43Some believe he was cursed.
05:45Others say his story was just made up.
05:48Until he was officially recognized by the Janus World Record because of this series of unbelievable incidents.
05:54But the most unusual thing, according to those who knew him, was that Roy was extremely afraid of storms.
06:01And would often say that it felt like lightning was following him.
06:04Sometimes he would drive very far just to get away from storm clouds.
06:09The life of Roy Sullivan left more questions than answers.
06:13Is it bad luck?
06:15A natural phenomenon?
06:17Or is there a deeper explanation that we really can't understand?
06:20But one thing is certain.
06:22Roy wasn't just lucky against overwhelming odds.
06:25He redefined the meaning of impossible.
06:31Violet Jessup, the Unsinkable Woman
06:35If you wrote her story as fiction, people would surely say that's impossible.
06:41But Violet Jessup, an Irish-Argentine stewardess and nurse on ocean liners,
06:47escaped three of the most famous and tragic maritime disasters in history and survived them all.
06:53Her career at sea began on the RMS Olympic, the sister ship of the Titanic.
06:57In 1911, disaster struck.
07:00The Olympic collided with a British warship, the HMS Hawk.
07:03The damage was really severe, but the ship still made it back to port and Violet was unharmed.
07:09But that was just the beginning.
07:11In 1912, Violet was working when the Titanic struck an iceberg in the freezing Atlantic.
07:17While everyone was in chaos, she helped put passengers into lifeboats and then got into one herself to survive.
07:25The ship sank, but she survived.
07:27It was one of the greatest tragedies of modern times.
07:31But the strange events in Violet's life did not end there.
07:34In 1916, at the height of World War I, she volunteered as a nurse on the HMHS Britannic, another sister
07:42ship of the Titanic.
07:44While in the Aegean Sea, the Britannic struck a German mine and began to sink.
07:49Violet jumped into the sea to survive, but she was sucked toward the ship's spinning propeller.
07:53And instead of being dragged in, a strong rush of water pushed her away, resulting in a fractured skull.
08:00But once again, she survived.
08:02Three ships.
08:03Three major disasters.
08:05Three escapes from certain death.
08:08Because of these events, her companions started calling her Miss Unsinkable.
08:13And they were right.
08:14How many people can say they've survived two shipwrecks and a major collision?
08:19Violet Jessup lived a long life.
08:21Retired from the sea and passed away peacefully in 1971 at the age of 83.
08:26This is a story of survival, quiet courage, and a strange fate that's hard to explain.
08:35Fidel Castro, the man who survived 600 assassination attempts.
08:42Fidel Castro, the leader of Cuba for almost five decades, was not only known for his politics.
08:48He was also famous for something truly remarkable.
08:52And believe it or not, he survived more than 600 assassination attempts.
08:56It sounds made up, but many of these plots were recorded by Cuban intelligence.
09:00And it's believed that many of them came from the CIA, especially during the Cold War.
09:06And these weren't just simple assassination attempts.
09:09Many of these were unusual, creative, and really almost seemed like they came straight out of a spy movie.
09:14There are stories of poisoned cigarettes, exploding seashells for Castro's diving spot,
09:21a toxic diving suit with hidden poison, mixing poison into food, sending a woman to kill him,
09:28organizing a mafia-style assassination plot, and many more.
09:31In every plan, something goes wrong.
09:34Schedules change, the bomb gets discovered, the poison doesn't work.
09:38Or the assassin's communication gets cut off.
09:41He would often joke, and once even said that if there were an Olympic event for surviving assassination attempts,
09:48he would win the gold medal.
09:50In the end, after decades of danger and repeated assassination attempts,
09:55Fidel Castro died of natural causes in 2016 at the age of 90.
09:59Whether people loved him or hated him, one thing is clear, his luck was truly extraordinary.
10:06Death chased after him again and again, but it never caught him.
10:13Anders Hellstrop almost killed by meteorite
10:21Most people go skydiving to feel the thrill of their freefall.
10:24But for Anders Hellstrop, a Norwegian skydiver, one of his jumps almost became fatal because of something from outer space.
10:32In 2012, Anders jumped from an airplane wearing a helmet camera.
10:37Everything seemed normal until he watched the footage when he got home.
10:40A small but extremely fast object passed by him.
10:44It was so close that it could have hit him, or worse, torn his parachute.
10:48It was so close that it could have hit him, or worse, torn his parachute.
10:51Because he was curious, Anders showed the videos to scientists.
10:55And after their analysis, a surprising answer emerged.
10:58That object was a meteorite, and it was in the dark flight stage.
11:03Not glowing, not burning, and no longer visible to the eye, just silently falling from the sky.
11:09That means he is one of the few people in all of history who almost got hit by a meteorite
11:14while free-falling.
11:15And there's even a video to prove it.
11:17Scientists called what happened extraordinary, a once-in-a-billion moment.
11:22If Anders had jumped just a second earlier or later, the story would be very different now.
11:28Sometimes it's really not just about avoiding death.
11:31Sometimes you don't even realize how close it actually is.
11:37Mauro Prosperi lost in the desert twice.
11:44Mauro Prosperi, an Italian endurance athlete and former Olympic pentathlete, joined one of the toughest races in the world in
11:521994.
11:53The Marathon di Sable.
11:55A grueling six-day ultramarathon in the middle of the Sahara Desert.
11:59But what was supposed to be a simple test of stamina turned into a struggle for survival.
12:04While in the middle of the race, a sandstorm suddenly hit.
12:07It was so strong that he completely lost his sense of direction.
12:10When the storm passed, he didn't realize that he was already more than 180 miles away from the correct route,
12:16deep in the heart of the Algerian desert.
12:18With no idea where he was, he wandered alone for nine days under the intense heat.
12:24He had almost no food or water.
12:26To survive, he drank his own urine.
12:29And at one point, he found an abandoned shrine with some bats inside.
12:33He drank their blood to stay alive.
12:36Weak, dehydrated, and almost at death's door, he was finally found and rescued by nomads.
12:41And if you think his desert adventure was over, it wasn't.
12:45In 2012, almost two decades after the first one, he returned to the same race, and it was unbelievable.
12:52He got lost again, but this time, he was rescued much faster.
12:56Most people wouldn't survive such an ordeal, but Mauro Prosperi survived the same experience twice.
13:02His story is a unique tale of resilience, determination, and extraordinary fate.
13:07Sometimes the most unbelievable survival stories repeat themselves.
13:24On January 26, 1972, Vesna Bolovic, 22 years old, the flight attendant from Yugoslavia, boarded jet flight 367.
13:34She didn't know that her name would go down in the history books in the most impossible way.
13:39The flight was supposed to be routine, just an ordinary day in the sky.
13:43But as the plane was flying over Czechoslovakia, tragedy struck.
13:48A bomb in the baggage compartment exploded in midair and tore the plane apart at over 33,000 feet.
13:55As the fuselage broke apart, the passengers and crew were thrown into the freezing sky.
14:01Everyone on the plane was killed except for Vesna.
14:03In a strange twist of fate, she was trapped in the tail section of the plane, wedged under a food
14:09cart which saved her life.
14:11The part of the fuselage where she was located spun down toward the ground,
14:16until it finally crashed on a snow-covered mountain slope in a remote forest.
14:21The impact should have been fatal, but the snow softened the crash and the plane remained partially intact.
14:27Vesna Bolovic was found alive, barely able to stand.
14:30She had an injury to her skull.
14:33Both legs were broken, several ribs were fractured, and she fell into a coma.
14:38But she faced it all and survived.
14:41When she woke up in the hospital a few days after the incident, she had no memory of the explosion
14:45or the crash.
14:47The doctors really couldn't believe that she survived.
14:50And according to experts, there were several factors that may have contributed to her survival.
14:55One of these was the pressurized section of the plane where she was trapped, the cold weather, and her low
15:01blood pressure.
15:02However, up to now, there is no scientific explanation that can fully explain how she survived a fall from the
15:09edge of space.
15:10Vesna Bolovic was later recognized by the Guinness World Records as the person who survived the highest fall without a
15:16parachute.
15:17She was always considered a national hero in Yugoslavia and lived a quiet and humble life, never seeking fame.
15:24And when she was asked how she survived, she said that sometimes I am lucky and God held my hand.
15:31Up to now, her story remains one of the most unbelievable survival stories in the history of aviation.
15:37It's almost like a legend rather than reality.
15:41But Vesna's fall was real, and so was her courage to survive.
15:45Intro music, she is one of the luckiest people in the world.
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