7 Unluckiest People Who Ever Lived

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3 – Roy Sullivan,

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  • Statistically, there’s a 10,000-to-one chance the average person will get struck by lightning, but that didn’t stop Roy Sullivan from getting hit seven different times. The odds of this happening are literally twenty-two septillion to one!
  • As a US park ranger, working outside may have contributed to his incredible bad luck. He was hit while on a lookout tower, while driving, while fishing, and even inside a ranger station. It takes a special person for lightning to search you out inside a building.
  • Sadly, he committed suicide at age seventy-one, but it’s remarkable that his death had nothing to do with lightning.

2 – Jeanne Rogers,

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  • Jeanne Rogers has had so many unlucky things happen to her you’d swear she was cursed. ‘Dying doesn’t scare me,’ she’s quoted as saying, ‘but living scares the crap out of me!’
  • Jeanne’s bad luck begins at eighteen, when she fell over the railing on a cruise ship. Her friend, who must’ve been caught in her unlucky aura, somehow slipped and knocked herself out while going to get help. After surviving that incident, Jeanne was struck by lightning twice, mugged and shot at, and fell into an open manhole.
  • The most unbelievable incident, though, was when a bat latched onto her scalp as she walked down the street. She frantically knocked on doors for help, but no one wanted a bar of the crazy bat-haired lady. The commotion caused the bat to urinate and claw at her scalp and poor Jeanne eventually had to drive herself to the vet. Now that’s unlucky.

1 – Man Lives Through Two Nuclear Bombings,

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  • Tsutumu Yamaguchi is the only person unfortunate enough to have lived through two nuclear bombings. He was an engineer who visited Hiroshima in August 1945. He’d actually planned to leave the day the bomb dropped, but forgot his train travel stamp. Because of this delay, he ended up being three kilometres from the impact site when the American bomber The Enola Gay dropped its ‘Little Boy’ atomic bomb.
  • The explosion ruptured Tsutumu’s eardrums, temporarily blinding him and leaving him badly burned. He returned to his hometown of Nagasaki the following day for medical treatment and, when he returned to work days later, a second atomic bomb – the ‘Fat Man’ – again fell three kilometres from where he was.
  • Trsutumu wasn’t injured in the second bombing, but his burns required constant care and his wife and son later died from radiation-related afflictions. Amazingly, Tsutumu didn’t harbour any anti-American sentiments and actually became a passionate anti-nuclear weapons campaigner before dying of stomach cancer in 2010.

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