“Should Have Been 100% Fatal”: 49 Times Humans Survived The Most Terrifying Situations

John Thompson. 18 year old kid lost both arms in a farm machinery accident, walked home, and then dialed 911 with a pencil in his mouth.
Both arms were reattached.

In 1999, bank executive and skydiver Joan Murray survived a 14,500-foot fall, hitting the ground at 80 mph after her parachute malfunctioned, landing directly on a mound of fire ants. The over 200 fire ant stings forced a massive adrenaline rush, keeping her heart beating.

Alison Botha. Neck slashed and disemboweled. Held her head on with one hand and her guts in with the other and managed to crawl to safety after she was stabbed over 60 times.

That airplane pilot that got sucked out the cockpit when the window blew out and was held onto by one of the stewards while the co pilot had to land the plane.

This woman. She cut herself open with a kitchen knife, delivered her baby, was stiched back after evisceration by a local nurse with an ordinary sewing needle and cotton thread, then was drove to the nearest hospital, eight hours away. Both her and the baby survived.

Mary Vincent.
15 years old. Hitched a ride with a stranger. He cut off her arms at the elbow and threw her over a 30 ft cliff.
She packed mud in her arms, somehow crawled her way up, and stumbled down the road with her arms up so she wouldn’t bleed out.

1971, a 17 year old girl named Julianne Koepcke fell 3,000 ft strapped to an airplane seat into the Amazon jungle and survived. She walked out after 11 days by following a stream civilization.

I knocked over my granny’s favourite wee porcelain fisherman and snapped his fishing rod. Managed to get it glued together before she throttled me.

Me, five aneurysms.

Timothy Ray Brown.

Timothy Ray Brown was cured of both HIV AND LEUKEMIA, by receiving donor tissue from a person with genetic resistance.

This has led to more successes, with a recent 7th saved with non resistant donor stem cells.

Phineas Gage. Got an iron rod shot through his head but survived.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi. He survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.

Roy Sullivan Survived being struck by lightening 7 times in 7 separate incidents.

The Colombian siblings who survived 40 days in the Amazon jungle after a plane crash. The youngest was 2 years old. The eldest was 13, if I'm not mistaken.

That orthopedic surgeon Dr Mary Neal whose kayak went over a waterfall and capsized, she was pinned under water with broken legs for 30 MINUTES (at least 8ft beneath the surface without oxygen) until her dead body became dislodged and was found down the river. She was resuscitated and miraculously suffered no brain damage. This was over 25 years ago and she continues to tell her story today.

The airline stewardess who fell out of a plane and survived.

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Vesna Voluvić — flight attendant who survived a fall over 33,000 feet.

Sully & his crew and passengers from US Airways flight 1549. The miracle on the Hudson.

The first person to survive rabies (without a rabies shot), Jeanna Giese, in 2004. She was 15.

Rodney Fox, great white shark attack survivor, 1960s Australia.

José Salvador Alvarenga spent 14 months drifting on a small boat in the Pacific Ocean, finally arriving on Marshall Islands from Mexico.