15 Incredible Human Survival Stories

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10 – Juliane Koepcke

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  • 1971, 93 passengers aboard LANSA flight 508 when lightning struck the plane over the Peruvian rain forests and it came crashing down
  • Juliane was blown out of the plane early and landed two miles down the wreckage in a dense thicket, where she only came out with blindness in one eye, a broken collarbone along with cuts and bruises
  • She walked down the jungle following the water running downstream until she found a cabin where she waited for the owner to come back
  • She then got back to civilisation and continued her studies to become a zoologist

9 – Anatoli Bugorski

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  • A formerly Soviet researcher at the Institute for High Energy Physics working on the largest particle accelerator at the time, the Synchrotron U-70
  • It was in 1978 that a malfunction forced Bugorski to lean over a piece of equipment and look inside the proton beam chamber – but failed safety mechanisms did not turn off the beam, and it went straight through his skull at a speed faster than light
  • He claims he saw a flash brighter than a thousand suns, with no pain – but his face swelled up and skin began to peel off
  • Thankfully he survived without losing any intelligence, but he gets fatigued easily, he can’t hear out his left ear and occasional seizures

8 – Alcides Moreno

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  • A window cleaner who, in 2007, fell 47 storeys when their cable snapped alongside his brother Edgar, who tragically fell to his death
  • Alcides on the other hand was left in a coma with considerable damage to his body, but soon afterwards he awoke and made a full recovery, even walking despite damage to his spinal cord
  • One of the doctors quote: “If you’re a believer in miracles, this would be one. I’ve seen it all – or at least I think I have – until something like this happens.”

7 – Ricky Megee

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  • April 2006, a man who showed up as a skeletal figure near a cattle station in a remote area of Australia
  • He claims the last thing he remembered was getting his car stolen and that he was drugged by a hitchhiker, then he awoke to find dingoes scratching at him
  • He then lived 71 days off a diet of leeches, frogs, snakes and insects with water from a nearby dam and a makeshift shelter
  • By the time he showed up again, he’d lost over half his body weight coming in at 48 kilos

6 – Aron Ralston

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  • May 2003, an 800-pound boulder falls on Aron’s arm and traps it inside a canyon wall
  • If this story sounds familiar, it’s because we saw it in the film 127 hours, in which he spends 5 days trapped in a Utah canyon with little food or water
  • He went on to write a book about how he used the boulder to snap his own arm, then cut off the flesh with a pocket knife until he could wander off and get rescued by some hikers passing by

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