The Curse Competition: 5 of History’s Most Unfortunate Human Beings

Curse Competition

Evil eyes, hexes, or pure coincidence make for unlucky occurrences in everyday life. Unfortunately, some individuals experience worse chances than others, while some win the lottery for doing nothing.

A popular internet forum discusses who would win a competition ranking history’s most unfortunate humans.

History’s Most Unfortunate Human Being

Mindset contributes a lot to the quality of life. For Frane Selak, he instituted a mindset like no other. Selak survived multiple disasters via trains, aircraft, and automobiles, yet he survived each crash with minor injuries.

Frane Selak

How many times can one person receive a lightning strike? Walter Summerford did not win the trophy for receiving the most lightning strikes, but it seemed lightning favored him, even after death.

Walter Summerford

Roy Sullivan did take home the trophy for the man struck by lightning the most times. The natural disaster made contact with his skin seven times and hit his wife.

Roy Sullivan

Hisashi Ouchi, the world’s most radioactive man, suffered severe injuries from the Tokaimura nuclear accident, and doctors kept him alive for 83 days.

Hisashi Ouchi

Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived two atomic bomb explosions, the first in Hiroshima — he lived with third-degree burns and ruptured eardrums — and the second in Nagasaki a few days later.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi

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