5 Unluckiest People To Ever Exist

If you ever considered yourself unlucky, you were wrong!

In this world, certain signs are being termed as bad luck or, you can say, misfortune. Often your world goes upside down without any valid reason, and you cannot predict the cause.

Perhaps, there are many unlucky signs which can occur in your daily regime. For instance, if you put your whole effort into cooking something, but it turns out to be hard knocks, it could be your misfortune.

Being lucky and being unfortunate all depends on an individual’s fate. Likewise, to win the game of gambling depends on your chance.

Though if you have been betrayed by someone or have some rough patch in your life, then you must look into the life of these individualists; only then will you be able to realize how fortunate and blessed you are in this world.

5. Frane Selak — Surviving Every Type Of Crash

He is the most fortunate or unfortunate person in the world. Lucky enough because he survived three major accidents, which were a plane crash, a car crash, and a train crash.

He was born in 1929 and led a simple life as a music teacher until he met a train accident in 1962.

The train got into a terrible accident in which seventeen passengers died, but Selak somehow managed to escape by swimming through the seacoast with one injured arm. The year ahead, he had another fatal accident from Zagreb to Rijeka via airplane.

Nineteen people died in this plane crash, but this superhero was recovered safely on a haystack. In 1966 he survived yet another bus accident in which a bus sank into a river.

There were four deaths in that collapse but again, he got out of it unhurt. In 1970 he got into another mishap in which his car exploded due to fuel outflow; he survived this one.

Likewise, in 1973, he went through an incident in which his vehicle caught fire inside the car, and he survived again.

Years later, in 1995, he was hit by a bus, but he came out unhurt the final episode of disaster occurred when he was driving a car in the mountains.

A truck came towards him, blowing up his car with fire, but the superhero survived again as he was not wearing a seat belt, so he jumped out of the vehicle.

After surviving all these incidents, he took the chance to participate in the lottery, and you know what? He won around 1,110,000 US dollars in the lottery.

Hence these are some highlights of his life that entirely relied on his luck. Because he met with so many accidents, he is often termed unlucky, but he survived all those terrible incidents. It depends on your view whether you consider him lucky or unlucky.

4. Violet Jessop — A Cruise Survivor

Violet Jessop is a beautiful Irish lady with many twists in her fate. She was born in Argentina in 1887 with an unparalleled fate.

She was diagnosed with tuberculosis in her childhood, and there were few chances of survival, but she survived because destiny had another hatch for her.

She started working as a Stew-ward like her mother when she grew up. So at the age of twenty-four, she started her career at sea. First, she embarked on RMS Olympics in 1910.

All was going well until the Olympic crash into a British warship, but thankfully they made it to the harbor before anything unfortunate cropped up.

In 1912, she was consigned to the world famous RMS Titanic. Not only did she survive this immense tragedy, but she also managed to save some stranger’s baby through lifeboat rescue.

Still, she did not back off this profession and ended up on another shipboard. This time it was White Star Line’s HMHS Britannic.

Perhaps it was Jessop’s fate that the ship could not even last an hour, and an unimaginable burst made the ship sink. Of 1066 travelers, 30 were killed, yet you will be surprised to know that Jessop was among the survivors.

She did not quit her job and retired at the age of 63, but it is her luck that is still a dilemma for the world.

3. Walter Summerford — Friends With Lightning

He is the most unlucky person in this world who suffered lightning three times in his lifetime and one time even after death. He was a British officer, and the first time he was affected by lightning was during the first world war.

He was riding on his horse when suddenly he was influenced by lightning distant away. Being a soldier, he never thought of such tragedy. The strike was so massive that he was left paralyzed in his legs.

His whole world shattered after this incident. But somehow, years later, he came back to life. One day in 1924, while fishing, he again got struck by lightning, but guess what? Lightening was a blessing because he could walk again a few days later.

In 1930, the third time, he was affected by lightning while walking in the park, but again he was occupied by ill fate, and out of nowhere, he was struck by lightning, and this time it was very, extremely unfortunate.

The third strike paralyzed his whole body, causing other health complications simultaneously.

At last, he passed away in 1932, but the lightning did not stop here even after his death because his burial chamber was affected by lightning four years later.

This lightning series stunned everyone that somebody must have cursed him so hard, or maybe he was unlucky that he could not be rid of this fateful calamity.

2. Henry Ziegland — Not Your Typical Love Story

Now, this is something very surprising fiction. Henry Zieghland had a girlfriend who was deeply in love with him, but when she asked for marriage, Henry refused her.

She was so disheartened that she could not bear his betrayal and committed suicide. Her death was a big shock for her brother, and he wanted to take revenge on Henry. So angrily, he went to the forest where Henry had a wood business and shot him.

He thought he had taken revenge and took his own life without knowing Henry was still alive. The bullet went out but got stuck in the tree. Although Henry got a little injured, he was fine for some time.

Maybe it was his fate that he survived, but 20 years later, there comes another twist. Henry went to the same tree for his business and started to apply dynamite to cut the tree.

But the same bullet busted in his head when the explosion happened, and he died on the spot. Thus it isn’t easy to judge whether it was destined to happen or was karma.

1. Adolphe Sax — A Saxophone Inventor

He was born on 6th November 1814 and is popularly known as the saxophone inventor. But apart from his association with music, he is also famous for unfortunate events in his life.

The first incident happened when he was three years old. He fell from three flights of a staircase and remained in a coma for around a week.

Later in his life, he ate a large needle, but luckily nothing happened, and he passed out. Also, he drank some poisonous chemicals in his childhood, but he survived.

Then, by chance, he fell onto the stove one day but fortunately, he overcame the injuries and regained his strength. Afterward, he fell into the river but was picked up immediately and saved.

Wait, here comes another one, he was with his father at his workshop when gunpowder busted, and he was standing there, yet again his fortune saved him.

Lastly, one day he was walking on a street when some huge tile fell from a nearby roof and hit his head, leaving him in a coma for some time. Because of all these incidents, he was famous as a ghost child in his neighborhood.

So he was someone having a great connection with luck.

Final words:

Though good luck is not in the hands of mankind, it is just a perspective on whether it could be good or bad.

Everybody has some incidents of good and bad luck in their lifetime.

Therefore, no one could deny that luck plays a paramount role in our lives. Hence if your ice cream accidentally fell off the floor, do consider it a game of chance.

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