Death Cheaters

Cheating Death

Freak accidents happen all the time, you never know which day will be your last! From bombs on planes, getting struck by lightning, to an iron pole getting shot through your brain, here are 3 of the most luckiest people who have cheated death.

Vesna Vulovic

Vesna Vulovic, a former Serbian flight attendant, holds the record, according to Guinness World Records, for surviving the highest fall without a parachute (33,333 feet). In 1972, she found herself falling through the air at top speed due to a bomb explosion in the back of the plane. Pinned to the middle of the plane by a catering trolley, she was able to miraculously survive the crash with a fractured skull, three broken vertebrae (that left her temporarily paralysed from the waist down) and two broken legs.

Roy Sullivan

Roy Sullivan (1912-1983) was a United States park ranger, in Virginia. He holds the record for “the person struck by lightning more recorded times than any other human being”. Between the years 1942-1977, Roy was hit by seven lightning strikes, all on different occasions-and survived them all. All lightning strikes were confirmed by doctors, and he even recalled that the first time he was hit by lightning was when he was a child, however without any proof, he could not claim it.

Phineas Gage

Phineas Gage, the man famous for the “American Crowbar Case”, survived the impossible after an iron rod was driven all the way through his skull, destroying most of his brain’s left frontal lobe. This freak accident occurred when Gage, a railway worker at the time, was compacting gunpowder into a hole, adding the fuse and sand. While he was packing the charge down with a large tamping iron, the gunpowder exploded, sending the rod flying up through his cheekbone and out of the top of his head.