How’s it going Youtube, I am Landon and
welcome back to another most amazing top 10
video.
Throughout history we have witnessed and experienced
some pretty crazy disasters whether it is
natural disasters or disasters created by
man.
We are talking about Hurricanes, to Tsunamis,
to the 9-1-1 attacks and the boston bombing.
We have had some amazing stories of people
surviving these disasters.
So lets take a look at the top 10 people who
survived disasters.
It’s a triple threat in at number 10, we
have Mason Wells who has survived 3 different
terrorist attacks let me explain.
Mason Wells has become one of the unluckiest
and luckiest people ever.
He was present at the time of the Boston Bombings
back in 2013, The Paris attack in 2015, and
last years 2016 Brussels bombing attack.
Mason wells is only 19 yrs old and he has
seen way more than most people in their life
time.
Although Mason Wells survived all of those
attacks he was still injured.
He suffers a ruptured Achilles tendon, he
also has shrapnel injuries as well as second-
and third degree burns on his face and hands
after these bombings took place.
He is very lucky to be alive and it just seems
like the odds are likely to place him at another
terrorist attack.
If I was Mason Wells I would stop travelling
for a little bit.
We now have a 9/11 attack survivor who was
also present at the time of the Paris Attack
at number 9.
This right here is 36 yr old Matthew who is
an American survivor who was shot during the
Paris attack back in 2015, that attack is
now being called the Bataclan massacre.
The attackers killed 89 people.
Matthew was shot right in the calf right on
Friday the 13th to make matters worse.
It just wasn’t his day at all.
Matthew also works at the world trade Centre
and he was there during the 9/11 attacks that
happened back in 2001.
The perpetrator was Al-Qaeda and those events
changed the world forever.
Matthew was able to escape the building and
run for his life before the building fell
on top of him.
Its so crazy to go through such a traumatic
event like the 9/11 event and then years later
getting shot by a crazy terrorist.
His life just keeps flashing before him.
It’s time to get out your life jackets because
there is a woman over board at number 8.
This right here is Irish nurse Violet Jessop
who became a celebrity in the 1920s after
she survived three different shipwrecks in
a span of 5 yrs.
The first shipwreck was in 1911 when she was
a stewardess on the RMS Olympic when it collided
with the cruiser HMS Hawke.
This boat looks very similar to the Titanic.
The second shipwreck Violet was able to survive
was the Titanic.
She was working on the Titanic when it hit
an iceberg and sank we all know that story
because of the famous movie inspired by true
events.
Violet was able to save a baby that was on
board.
The baby on board we will get to in a bit.
So the third shipwreck was in 1916 when she
was a nurse on the hospital ship Britannic.
A lot of people lost their lives that day
but Violet was able to survive.
It’s an Iceberg ahead at number 7.
We are talking about another Titanic survivor
and perhaps that baby that was carried off
the by Violet Jessop in at number 8.
Well the baby was identified as Millvina Dean
who was just 2 months old at the time she
was onboard the ship.
She was the youngest passenger aboard.
Millvina was the last remaining survivor from
the shipwreck but unfortunately she passed
away back in 2009 at the age of 97 yrs old
so she was still able to live a full life.
Blasting out way into number 6 we have Tsutomu
Yamaguchi who was a survivor of the Hiroshima
and Nagasaki atomic bombing during world war
2.
The United States dropped these nuclear weapons
on these two Japanese cities.
The Hiroshima blast killed around 126,000
people and the blast in Nagasaki killed about
80,000 thousand people.
This was a huge day in history.
Around a quarter of a million people died
from these two bombings but Tsutomu was someone
who survived both blasts.
It is known to be just 69 people to survive
both attacks.
Tsutomu was able to live out a long life until
he died of stomach cancer in 2010, dying at
the age of 93 yrs old.
At number 5 its unprecedented but we have
1 former president of the united states of
America who survived not just 1 but 2 assignation
attempts.
We are talking about President Gerald Ford.
Gerald Ford was the 38th President of the
united states and the 40th Vice President
of the united States.
In 1975 someone tried to take his life using
a Colt .45 caliber handgun.
The shooter was identified as a female.
Well a secret service agent Larry Buendorf
was able to grab the gun before she was able
to pull the trigger.
The woman was convicted of attempted assassination
of the President and she was sentenced to
life in prison.
But she was paroled in 2009 after serving
around 34 yrs in prison.
The second attack was just 17 days later when
someone actually got a shot of from a .38
caliber revolver.
It was another female trying to take down
the president.
These woman be crazy.
Luckily she missed the president.
She was also caught and served 32 yrs behind
bars.
Things are about to get really steamy and
hot at number 4 at it’s not what you think.
We are talking about Michael Benson who survived
a helicopter crash.
Michael Benson was shooting aerial footage
of Hawaii for a movie when their helicopter
crashed over the world’s most active volcano.
Michael had to live inside a volcano crater
for a couple of days.
He narrowly missed crashing into a boiling
pool of Lava.
Well after a few days of living in such extreme
conditions he was rescued.
This has to be a one of a kind experience.
I really hope you guys aren’t to squeamish
with this next one at number 3.
Well this is no magic trick but we have 38
yr old Truman Duncan who was cut in half when
he was ran over by a train.
Let me tell you guys what happened.
Truman back in 2006 was working at his job
in the rail yards in Texas when he slipped
and fell onto the tracks.
He was pulled under the train and his lower
body not to get to graphic but it was mangled
up.
So he has to be fully cut into two losing
his legs.
Well one of his legs was attached by a single
muscle.
This is a traumatic shock to the body and
a lot to endure.
Any other person in this situation would have
died but miraculously enough Truman did not.
His body was dragged for 75 ft. Truman had
the incredible power and the will to live
to tell his story.
He said that day was a miracle.
Moving into number 2, I know most of you guys
know this story because this horrible situation
was turned into a movie.
Well I am talking about the Aron Ralston story
do you guys know who he is?
Well let me give you guys a hint.
James Franco played the character Aron Ralston
who was the real man behind that movie.
Aron feel in Blue John Canyon and on the way
down he got his right forearm stuck in the
boulder.
Aron was left to fight for his life for 127
hours which is 5 days and 7 hours.
He was finally able to get free after he amputated
his own arm with a dull pocketknife.
Its such a remarkable story and its amazing
that Aron is still alive today.
Finally at number 1 we have a remarkable story
that I don’t even believe but everything
I am about to tell you is real.
This right here is Frane Selak who is the
worlds unluckiest lucky man.
He is a music teacher that has come close
to death many times.
It all started back in 1962 when he was riding
on a train on a cold rainy day when the train
crashed and flipped off the tracks.
The train fell in a river.
Someone was able to pull Frane out of the
train wreck alive.
Many people lost their lives that day and
he just suffered from a broken arm and hypothermia.
The next year during his first and only plane
ride he was blown out of a malfunctioning
plane door and he landed on a haystack just
moments before the plane crashed killing everyone
inside.
3 yrs later he was on a bus when the bus skidded
of the road and went in yet again another
river.
But some how Frane survived that.
In 1970 he was in a car where the car caught
fire and it blew up but again he escaped.
I am starting to think that death is trying
to kill him just like in the final destination
movies but this guy just wont die.
He went on to out live multiple more accidents
that’s are unbelievable.
He cheated death 7 times.
Well in 2003 2 days after his 73rd birthday
he was the lottery.
He bought two houses and a boat, and then
he gave his remaining money away to relatives
and friends.
