Top Ten People Who Escaped Death

Death will not announce itself before you come face to face with it. It will creep up on you and snatch your life away without any explanations. The following individuals saw death very closely but managed to escape it.

1. Isidro Mejia

Mejia was working at a construction site when his foot slipped and he fell. His fall was broken by six nails that were 3.5 inches long. They entered his skull and neck and technically, he should have died on the spot but he did not and is alive and kicking today.

2. Richard Blass

This man escaped death not once but several times. The first time he managed to get away unscathed after a mafia attempt. The second time he managed to run out of the motel he was staying at as it burst into flames. The third time he was shot in the head but did not die. He spent time in prison twice but managed to escape both times. The man finally died when somebody shot at him 23 times.

3. Ahad Israfil

In 1987, after a gun was discharged accidentally, half of Israfil’s brain was blown off who was 14 at the time. He miraculously survived and graduated with flying colors. The hole that was made was filled with a particular kind of silicone block.

4. Vesna Vulovic

After the airplane was hijacked by a group of terrorists; this flight attendant had no choice but to jump out of the plane. This 22 year old realized that she did not have a parachute when she was 33,000 feet above ground level. She fractured her skull, broke her legs and parts of her spine.

5. Ludger Sylbaris

Sylbaris was locked up in an under-ground prison before the Pelee erupted. The heat managed to enter his cell and burned most of his body. His clothes did not catch fire and he tried to avoid breathing in the pungent air. He was among the few who managed to survive this fatal eruption.

6. Shannon Malloy

Shannon Malloy met with an accident because of which her skull and spin got detached and all the surrounding tendons and ligaments opened out. She did not die and had to undergo several surgeries.

7. Roy Sullivan

Most of us tend to stay out of a thunderstorm lest we get hit by lightening even though the chances are quite slim. That being said, it is practically impossible for an individual to get struck by lightening not once, but twice. This individual was struck seven times and lived to tell the tale.

8. Ann Hodges

Ann Hodges was sleeping in her living room when a small meteoroid entered her house, bounced off the radio and hit her hip and arm. She was not injured apart from a few bruises and did not find it difficult to walk around. This meteorite can be seen at the Alabama Museum of Natural History today.

9. Ben Carpenter

This 21 year old was wheelchair bound when he was hit by a truck. He was dragged on for about 4 miles and the truck driver said that he could not see Carpenter and his wheelchair.

10. Phineas Gage

Gage was working at a railway track when an iron bar shot up and entered his skull through his cheek bone. Gage was walking around when he was found and the iron bar was removed. His brain had an infection and his social skills were inhibited but other than that, he was okay.