World’s Luckiest Survivors: Ever imagined yourself in a deadly situation? Even if you have imagined most probably, you would have considered yourself to be a miraculous survivor who escapes the death cinematically. So in this context here are 3 such miraculous death escapes of people listed below. Take a look at the world’s luckiest survivors.
It was September 13th, 1848. Phineas Gage was a foreman at a railroad construction in Caendish, Vermont when the unbelievable happened. He was using a tamping iron to pack sand and clay into the hole above the explosive powder. But as he was doing this, he got distracted and the tamping iron sparked against the rock. The powder exploded, sending the 43 in long, 1.25 in diameter rod straight through his mouth and brain. The rod perforated his left cheek, passing through his left eye and the left side of the brain. The tamping iron landed point first some 80 ft away, covered with blood and brain matter.
Gage was thrown onto his back and had some brief convulsions of the arms and legs but spoke within a few minutes. He also walked with little assistance and sat upright in an ox cart for the 3/4 mile ride to his motel in town to seek medical help. The doctors were astonished and didn’t believe what had happened. Despite losing his left eye and part of his brain, Gage was able to recover somehow and was walking normally within 3 weeks after the accident. But it wasn’t long until those closest to him noticed something was wrong. He went from a well-mannered and calm man to an aggressive one.
His friends and acquaintances said he was no longer Gage. He started suffering convulsions a few months after the accident and died 9 years later at the age of 36 due to epileptic seizures. In 2012, researchers found that Phineas Gage had lost 11% of his white matter and 4% of his cortex, mostly in the frontal lobes.
One fall afternoon in October 2013, 31-year-old Casey Wagner was attending an annual off-road event called Rednecks with Paychecks in St. Joe, Texas, when storm clouds started rolling in above. He decided to take refuge under some trees while waiting for a friend to return from the bathroom. When out of nowhere he saw sparks flying off the tree trunk.
Casey was suddenly struck by lightning, and while he was midair, a second bolt hit his work boots before he could even hit the ground. The bolt shot up his leg and traveled through the side of his body and his left arm. Wagner began yelling for help as he lay there paralyzed. As luck would have it, a nearby nurse rushed to his aid and kept him calm until paramedics arrived. Astonishingly, Wagner escaped with only minor injuries and was released from the hospital after spending only one night in observation.
Apart from being left with shortness of breath, sore muscles and “feeling weird,” Casey is a walking miracle. To put that into perspective, the chance of being hit by lightning in the US is one in a million. And Casey was not only hit once but twice in a matter of seconds.
At the end of March 2022, a girl named Candela was waiting for a train in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires when she suddenly found herself losing consciousness. What happened next was frightening. She lost her balance and fell to her knees, her head landing in a narrow gap between two subway wagons and her body between the subway and the platform.
People nearby were shocked, thinking they had watched the tragic death of a young woman. Little did they know they just experienced a miracle. When the subway stopped, people rushed to get her out from under the carriages. Surprisingly, she was alive, quickly regained consciousness and seemed unharmed.
She was immediately rushed to the hospital where she was diagnosed with a broken rib, a perforated liver, a skull fracture between her nose and eyebrow and a head concussion which caused her to lose hearing in one ear. Now, She is considered to be one among the world’s luckiest survivors.
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