Top 10 Luckiest Death Cheaters

Top 10 Luckiest Death Cheaters

One of the most bitter realities of life is 'Death'. One must have to encounter death. Some realize it before it arrives but some are caught silently by it. There are also some lucky people who have cheated death in literal sense. Few of them are still alive. Following are the few famous people who have cheated this eternal enemy luckily.

#1. Isidro Mejia

In 2004, while doing some construction work on the roof, he fell down. Although the fall was not much dangerous but it caused a 3.5 inch nail to shot in his neck entering the skull. Luckily the nail just missed the brain stem and spinal cord or he was impossible to be saved.


#2. Richard Blass

The Canadian gangster was given the title of 'The Cat' due to his luck from escaping death. First murder attempt on him took place in 1968 in a bar by two gunmen. He survived the multiple shoots without getting injured. After two weeks of the incident he was tracked by mafia in motel Le Manoir de Plaisance, and the motel was set on fire. He again managed to escape whereas three people died. Then in October he got ambushed with his partner in a garage and was shot multiple times in head and back but managed to escape from the garage with his partner. He had to get hospitalized for his injuries. In January 1969, luck deceived him a bit and he got caught for a bungled bank robbery and a shot cop. He managed to escape from the jail but was caught again. He didn't give up and tried again. Being successful he escaped second time and killed two co-conspirators in a bar who had testified against him. Three days later he got killed when he was shot 23 times.

#3. Ahad Israfil

In 1987, at the age of 14 years, an accidental gun fire blew away half of his brain. Luckily he survived as doctors found the silicon hole and covered it with skin growing air again. This gave him an almost normal look. He later completed his graduate successfully with honors.

#4. Vesna Vulovic

Holding the Guinness World Record for the highest freefall, V. V. had to have 33,000 feet without parachute fall in air. An explosion occurred in her JAT Flight JU 367 which caused the fall. Although she survived, but she had fractured skull, two broken legs and three broken vertebrae making her paralyzed. Later after the surgery, she gained use of her legs and continued the flight work.

#5. Ludger Sylbaris

The Prison Cell of Ludger Sylbaris

Before the Pelee eruption, Sylbaris was kept in a single-cell prison that was most sheltered, underground, with stone walls and a single narrow gating in the door as ventilator. In his survival, his prison played more important part than his luck. Upon eruption, darkness spread everywhere along with fire ashes, superheated steam and volcanic gases and dust. He urinated in his clothes and stuffed it in the ventilating hole. He avoided breathing in the searing hot air. He got burns on his hands, arms, legs, and back but his clothes didn't get fire. The eruption with a temperature of 1000°C flattened the whole city's buildings but he survived due to his sheltered prison.


#6. Shannon Malloy

An unintentional car crash caused Shannon Malloy to have severe internal injuries. Her spine and skull got separated and also her tendons got loose. She had several surgeries but fortunately she survived, although her speech ability was affected and her nerves got affected causing permanent crossing of her eyes.


#7. Roy C. Sullivan

We have always heard that one cannot be struck by lightening twice. But what if one is struck by lightening seven times? Sullivan got hit for almost seven times but survived every time luckily. He got severely injured but recovered.

#8. Ann Hodges

In Sylacauga, Alabama 1954, a grapefruit-sized meteoroid crashed through the roof of the house when Hodges was napping in her living room. It bruised her arm and hip. The air force took it from them. Her husband claimed to get it back and their landlord wanted to have it so that he can sale it and fulfill the damage done. The meteoroid was returned to them but by that time its value got less and nobody was willing to buy it on expensive rate. Therefore, Hodges donated it to Alabama Museum of Natural History.


#9. Ben Carpenter

The 21 years old boy was crossing a road on his wheel chair when the red light turned into green. The truck he was crossing didn't see him and pushed him for almost 4 miles at speed of 50mph until the arms of his chair got stuck in the grills. But  miraculously the boy survived this fatal incident.

#10. Phineas Gage

Gage was packing a hole with gunpowder and added a fuse and sand in it then packed it with a large tamping iron. Unfortunately the gunpowder ignited causing iron bar shot. The bar cut his left cheek bone and exited out of his head. Within days he got brain fungus and had to remove 8 fluid ounces of pus from under his scalp after a coupe of weeks. But his frontal cortex got affected which inhibited his social behavior.