Surely, you do not even realize that there is a person who is considered to be the happiest loser or the most unfortunate lucky person in the world. This man's name is Frane Selak and he is a simple music teacher from Croatia. His story is proof that life sometimes presents stories that even the toughest Hollywood screenwriter cannot come up with.

The man who cheated death

Fran's story began back in 1962, on the day when he calmly boarded a train from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik. But the train went off the slippery rails and fell into the icy river. 17 people died in that accident. Fran managed to swim to shore despite hypothermia and a broken arm.

Further - more interesting. In 1963, Fran Selak left Zagreb for Rijeka. This time, he prudently decided to take the plane. Recall that only a year has passed since the previous events. However, there was a depressurization in the plane. The door was torn out by a powerful air stream and the passengers were simply blown out of the liner. 19 people were victims of this disaster. What about Fran, you ask? Poor fellow Selak landed in a haystack and escaped with minor bruises.

In 1966, Fran got into an accident again. This time it was a bus. The latter left the route, rolled over and drove into the river at full speed. Four passengers died and Selak suffered bruises and minor bruises.

In 1970, a Croatian decided to go on a trip in his own car. But it was not there! For unknown reasons, a fire started in the car. Fran managed to jump out of the car, after which it shattered into small pieces.

Fate seemed not enough, and in 1973 the unlucky Croat again became a participant in a car accident. A malfunction in the fuel system provoked a fire in the passenger compartment. Selak managed to get out of the car again. As a result of this fight with death, he lost his hair.

For the next 22 years, fate gave him a break. He managed to avoid dangerous and health-threatening situations.

Everything changed in 1995 when Fran was hit by a bus. And again he escaped with bruises and bruises.

In 1996, Fran Selak was driving a car on a mountain road. A large truck ran towards him. By some miracle, Selak managed to dodge and jump out of the car on the move. He could only watch in bewilderment as his car crashed into the ravine.

If there is a man who has managed to cheat death, it is Fran Selak. The prize in this difficult competition was 1 million dollars! For the first time in 40 years, Fran decided to buy a national lottery ticket and hit the jackpot! By the age of 74, he managed to avoid death 7 times and win the lottery 1 time. Why not a story for a Hollywood movie? Three years later, he distributed most of his winnings (600 thousand dollars) among friends and relatives in order to finally live in peace with his beloved wife Katarina.

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Top 10 Luckiest People in the World

Everyone is familiar with the expression "born in a shirt." The saying refers to those who managed to get out unscathed from dangerous life situations. These are real lucky ones, to the category of which one can still include those people who have become unexpectedly rich. As the saying goes, "from rags to riches". The top got the luckiest people in the world, the fate of which turned out to be truly favorable.

10. Lena Palson

Lena Palson opens the list of the luckiest people in the world. In 1995, during the Christmas holidays, the Swede was doing housework and decided to take off her wedding ring. After finishing the household chores, Lena did not find the ring in the place where she put it. The engagement accessory returned to its owner almost 17 years later. The woman found the lost thing in her garden, pulling out a carrot in the garden. Prior to this, the family was also engaged in planting vegetables, and Lena considers the fact that the ring was found on cultivated land after such a time period a real miracle.

9. Anders Helstrap

Anders Helstrap one of the ten luckiest people in the world. It is very hard to believe this, but this man managed to avoid a collision with a real meteorite. The skydiver jumped out with a parachute, at the same time, a stone falling from the sky rushed down with tremendous speed a few meters away from him. The man did not immediately realize that the falling heavenly body nothing but a meteorite. Nevertheless, Anders managed to film everything on camera, which is a weighty confirmation of this event. The skydiver was very lucky that the chosen jump course was somewhat further than the falling meteorite.

8. Harrison Okene

Harrison Okene is a real lucky man who is very lucky in this life. The young man worked as a cook on a tugboat. As a result of the accident, the ship began to flood. At that moment the guy was in the bathroom. Feeling something amiss and then assessing the direness of the situation, the cook rushed to the engine compartment. A small air cushion formed there, which helped to escape in the Ocean. On a sunken ship in the middle Atlantic Ocean Harrison stayed for three days. The rescuers who arrived at the scene pulled out the cook. The man admits that after the incident of several years he is still tormented by nightmares associated with the sunken ship.

7. Nichiren

Nichiren went down in history not only as a famous religious figure, but as one of the luckiest people in the world. He was a preacher, which almost caused his death. The authorities felt that Nichiren's teachings could undermine their reputation and authority in society, so it was decided to execute the monk by beheading. At the moment of execution, the executioner was suddenly killed by lightning. This fact was considered a sign, so Nichiren was left alive, but sent into exile. The monk managed to live to an advanced age, to become religious leader and find followers of his teachings.

6. Maarten de Jong

Maarten de Jong is a person who is really lucky in this life. He is one of the lucky ones who manages to avoid a dangerous situation as a result of a combination of circumstances or his own premonition. This is one of the few people who cheated fate twice. It happened a few years ago when a man was scheduled to fly on flight MH370, a missing person who cannot be found to this day. Some time later, he bought a ticket for another flight, but found a cheaper option and decided to exchange the ticket. The aircraft on which the man was originally supposed to fly was shot down in the sky over Ukraine.

5. Tsutomu Yamaguchi

Tsutomu Yamaguchi went down in history as one of the luckiest people. During the Second World War, the man was an employee of the Mitsubishi company, so he was constantly on the road almost all over the world. When Tsutomu went on a business trip (1945) to Hiroshima, the first atomic bomb was dropped. The man received various injuries, but survived. When the man was able to return to his official duties again, a second nuclear bomb was dropped, the explosion of which Yamaguchi was also able to endure. Tsutomu can also be attributed to centenarians, he died at 93 years old.

4. Joan R. Ginter

Joan R. Ginter is one of the luckiest women in the world. The American is one of the few lucky ones who managed to win large sums in the lottery repeatedly. Over the course of several years, she managed to repeatedly hit the jackpot of several million dollars. The biggest win came in 2008, when a woman won $10 million. Joan to this day buys many tickets, which number in the hundreds. She sometimes gives part of the purchased tickets to relatives and friends.

3. Bill Morgan

Bill Morgan opens the top three of the luckiest people in the world. A 37-year-old man got into a serious accident, receiving numerous injuries. At the hospital, Bill was injected with a drug that caused allergic shock. As a result, a clinical death occurred, which lasted for 14 minutes. The doctors managed to start the heart again, after which the victim lay in the intensive care unit in a coma for two weeks. Doctors told relatives that the man should be disconnected from the life support system, since there is a high probability that with a long period clinical death brain cells could die. However, to the surprise of everyone, the man soon came to his senses and quickly began to recover, while no deviations from the functioning of the brain were found. The miracles in Bill's life did not end there, as he subsequently won big prizes in the lottery twice.

2. Virginia Fike

Virginia Fike is one of the luckiest women in the world. The American has twice won large cash prizes in the lottery. She decided in advance which ticket numbers she would buy. They were supposed to contain the date of the anniversary and the age of her parents. Both tickets were winning, each worth $1 million.

1. Frane Selak

Frane Selak- most lucky man in a world that has outwitted death 7 times, which is very hard to believe. For the first time, a man had to face mortal danger in 1962, when a derailed train crashed into a river. Frane escaped with only a broken arm and several bruises. Just a year later, the man fell out of the opening door of a falling plane and landed right in a haystack. Three years later, on the bus he was traveling, he fell into the river. Lucky swam safely to shore, escaping with minor injuries. In 1968, Selak taught his son to shoot a weapon, as a result of which he shot off his scrotum, although everything could have ended more deplorably. A few years later, he found himself in several accidents, surviving. Then fate again tested the man for strength, he was hit by a bus, he avoided a collision with a truck. Frane not only managed to avoid death many times, but also became the owner of a large amount of money in his old age, having won the lottery on his 73rd birthday.

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Luck can smile on anyone, but no one knows when and under what circumstances this will happen. However, there are people who are literally gifted with luck and luck. It is these people who can even fall into the most, of which, it would seem, there is no way out, and get out of the current situation without much stress. Therefore, our rating will show how fate can play with people's lives, in the end, rewarding them for multiple experiences and stresses.

People who have been on the verge of death: nothing but luck

We are surrounded by many people who have their own problems, joys and life stories. But surely not every day you can meet a person who really was on the verge of death and nothing more. In fact, such people still exist, because their most interesting stories were made public by journalists, because the whole world now knows about these lucky people.

Sixteen times lucky John Line

This man is truly the luckiest, because he managed to save his life even after many cases in which his life was in danger. And it all started in early childhood, when John landed unsuccessfully on the ground during a fall from a tree. This resulted in a fracture of the boy's arm, which in itself is not a mortal danger. And the ambulance, in which the guy was driving for medical help, had an accident and John only miraculously survived.

This marked the beginning of further troubles in the life of this man, which, however, only tempered John and did not allow him to be disappointed in himself and life. And this despite the fact that soon 3 more accidents happened to him, a disaster in the mine. A lightning strike completely eliminates the chance of events occurring with John and indicates that fate firmly took hold of this guy, constantly throwing him all new tests, from which John skillfully got out. So, this person is one of the luckiest in the world, since such a number of incidents did not deprive him of either life or faith in luck.

William Post: Life from Millionaire to Pauper

And, although William really lost his money and was left with nothing, he still got into our rating. And all thanks to the fact that this person is simply the luckiest. Even if only because he won $16 million in the lottery. But as you know, money does not always make a person's life happy, because not only and not so much thanks to material well-being people can be happy.

So, after winning the lottery, William was too frivolous about the money he received, because he could not keep such a large amount in his hands, he even drove himself into debt. This happened, as Post himself later admitted, due to the fact that he was too kind to his native people, to whom he gave most of the winnings.

Another important fact from Post's life is the attempts on his life, because where there is a lot of money, there is always a place for envy and a desire to take away the winnings. But this did not become a decisive factor in William's life, and he did not die at all from the hands of a killer, but from respiratory arrest at an advanced age. So, he can really be considered the luckiest on earth, since he experienced everything in life: the joys of wealth, and betrayal, and failure. Agree, not every person manages to live life so colorful and varied.

Frain Selak: lucky loser

The whole life of this person is literally riddled with accidents and emergencies. In what troubles did this man not have to participate before fate rewarded him for everything he had experienced. This Croat has been accustomed all his life to get out of the difficulties that fate throws at him.

He got into accidents of various sizes so many times and each time received only superficial wounds that did not affect Frain in any way.

Frain Selak is one of the happiest people

He had to get out of burning, sinking and driving at full speed straight into the abyss of cars. And every time he succeeded. Apparently, Selak has nerves of steel and an unshakable character, because all these accidents did not break him, but only tempered him.

And so, shortly after one of Frain's car accidents, he found out that he had won the lottery. And, moreover, a very tidy sum - a whole million dollars. The Croat managed to dispose of this money properly, and unlike the previous lucky one, did not waste it in vain.

"Unfortunate" or people who continue to live in spite of circumstances

Who said that luck is about getting something (money, house, car)? It must be said that the people that will be discussed can only be called lucky because they have kept, and not acquired. And they saved nothing but their own lives. That is how, despite fatal diseases, infections and other circumstances, these people continue to live and prove by their own example that life itself is luck anyway.

"Nuclear" trip by Tsutomu Yamaguchi

A working visit to Hiroshima was the most dangerous for the Japanese in his entire life. By a fateful coincidence, Tsutomu was in Hiroshima on the very day when the American air force dropped on the city atomic bomb. The man just at that time was only a few kilometers from the epicenter of the explosion, because he suffered from the effects of radiation. But most importantly, Yamaguchi survived.

However, just a couple of days later, he was destined to survive the second American bombardment, this time of Nagasaki, his native city for Tsutomu. Ironically, at the time of the second bombing, the man was sitting in his boss's office and telling all the details of what happened in Hiroshima. This is perhaps the only person on earth who survived after two nuclear disasters.

Violet Jesop: stepping on the same rake ...

This stewardess, who worked on the largest and most expensive water liners in history, survived the disasters associated with them three times, but still returned to work after each crash.

Probably Violet worked according to the call of the soul, otherwise how to explain her stubborn return to work as a flight attendant after the crash of first the Olympic, then the Titanic itself, and later the Britannic.

In all three cases, the ships received serious damage, as a result of which they could not ensure the normal evacuation of people. Therefore, each catastrophe took the lives of many people. But not the life of Violet, who, despite the impending threat, was able to escape from three ships and remain unharmed.

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Thus, these true stories say that there are people on earth who are the luckiest, because neither life circumstances, nor health problems, nor disasters, nor even the destructive power of natural elements broke them. Remember: nothing is impossible and you can always get a gift from fate.

A real and amazing life story, an unfortunate lucky man who almost died 7 times, and after all this he won one million dollars in the lottery.

This lucky guy is called Fran Selak, who worked as a music teacher in Croatia, Fran began his losing streak in 1962. The train he was on went off the rails, then rolled over several times, then fell into the water and began to sink, 17 people died that day, Fran Selak managed to swim to the shore with a broken arm.

Literally one year later, Fran flew in an airplane, somewhere high, there was a depressurization and the side door of the plane vomited, our hero was sucked right overboard. Selak woke up in the hospital, where he was told that the plane he was flying in had crashed, and he was found in the hayloft.

A few years later, Selak had an accident while he was on the bus, 4 people died, Fran escaped with only minor bruises.

A few years later, Fran Selak's car caught fire, he tried to put it out, but the car exploded.

After 3 years, Fran's car caught fire again, only in the cabin, due to a fuel system failure, Fran burned most of his hair on his head.

After 22 years, Selaka was hit by a bus, he had shock and minor bruises.

And again, a year later, while driving in his car, Fran late noticed a truck that was driving straight at him, by reaction, Fran turned the steering wheel towards the ditch, where there was a cliff in the gorge, he managed to get out of the car, and the car flew down.

7 years later at the age of 74, Selak bought a lottery ticket for the first time in his life and won one million dollars!

How to determine who is lucky and who is not? This is not an easy question. There is a horoscope of luck, you can trust its conclusions. Lucky names have been identified by sociologists. And the happiest person in the world lives in Croatia.

The luckiest zodiac sign

According to the so-called zodiac of luck, Aries is called the most lucky sign. Whether there is generally a dependence of a person’s luck on his zodiac sign or not - there are different opinions. Someone claims that only a person himself can make himself lucky, but there are those who believe that a person is born unlucky or lucky.

It has been found out that Aries most often wins in various draws. Also, people of this sign are often very successful in their careers, they manage to cope with almost any task. They are accustomed to perceive life itself as an interesting game.

The luck horoscope claims that Aries' luck in games and pranks is related to their perception of the game process. They are interested in the process itself, the feeling of excitement and the resulting adrenaline, and not winning.

Aries is patronized by the planet Mars, as you know Mars is the invincible god of war. It is possible that this also affects the fact that Aries are very lucky people. Another area of ​​luck for Aries is financial. Financial issues, which are considered difficult to solve for many, are solved by them without any difficulties. Having added all the above factors, the luck horoscope concluded that it is Aries who are the most lucky in life.

The luckiest woman in the world

Having gathered to find out which of the women is the happiest and luckiest, applicants should not be looked for at all in an aristocratic society and not among those who are engaged in show business. The luckiest person in the world is a simple Englishwoman who has been unemployed for a long time. In the past, she is a bank employee. Due to health problems, she had to leave her job. Her last name is Liz Denail.

When a woman had a lot of free time, she began to participate in various lotteries and contests. To my surprise, the prizes literally rained down on her. Liz always won without difficulty.

Her whole apartment is full of prizes. According to the “lucky woman”, thanks to the sale of unnecessary prizes, she lives comfortably. She managed to win a home theater, LCD TV, a variety of household appliances, game consoles. Once she even went on a trip, thanks to the five-day tourist package she received as a prize in Kenya.

The lucky woman said that there are very strange prizes. As such, she considers made of cardboard in full height cartoon characters. Liz said that participating in contests and quizzes and winning often makes her life more interesting and fun. The existence of people like Liz Denile instills confidence that there are still very lucky people in the world.

Luckiest Names

Scientists and sociologists decided to find out which of the names are the most successful. They studied separately male and female names. The happiest and luckiest woman is considered to be the one whose name is Elena. Even in Russian folklore, everyone knows Elena the Wise. Most often, it is Elena who becomes the leader; women with the name Elena usually have large savings.

Elena always confidently moves up the career ladder. According to the research of sociologists, fortune favors all the same Helens. If we consider luck from the point of view of quickly achieving material well-being, then women named male names, these are Evgenia, Valentina and Alexandra.

The study of male names yielded interesting results. Alexander and Boris are recognized as the most successful names, because their names are translated as "defender" and "glorious in the fight." The greatest success for Boris and Alexander is ensured in business, often they have a prominent position in society. For these men, work comes first.

The names Dmitry and Sergey also bring good luck to their owners. They know how to find compromises, build dialogues, and always confidently move towards the goal. It turns out that when naming your child at birth, you need to take this issue seriously. After all, everyone wants their child to become the luckiest and happiest in the world.

The luckiest person in the world

There is a person who is lucky throughout his life. This is a music teacher from Croatia. His last name is Frain Selak. The whole world learned about him in 2003, when he bought the lottery and won a million dollars. This lottery ticket was the first one Frain had purchased in forty years. Since then, they have been talking about him as the luckiest man on earth.

As it turned out, luck "haunted" him all his life. He has been in seven disasters, where there were victims, but always remained unharmed. He fell with a derailed train into icy water, fell from the swinging door of a flying airplane, and was a passenger on a bus that flew off the road into the river. He also got out of a car on fire shortly before the explosion, was hit by a city bus and jumped out of the car, which then fell off a cliff. It's amazing that all this happened to one person. He goes by the nickname "Lucky".

The proverb "fools are lucky" often justifies itself. And the smartest people in the world have to work hard to succeed. According to the site, Englishman Daniel Tammet learned how to divide and multiply multi-digit numbers at the age of four after an epileptic seizure.
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