1. The big lottery win



The whole village won the lottery except for one guy. Every year on Christmas Eve in Spain, they draw a large lottery sum called El Gordo, which translates to the fat one.
The small town named Sodeto celebrated their lottery win for a long time. 70 families except one guy decided to buy lottery tickets and mark the same number which turned out to be the lucky one.
The total win amounted to 950 million dollars. This huge sum was divided among all the town`s residents. This lucky event made almost all the town`s inhabitants extremely rich in a couple of hours.
As a result, ordinary farmers, builders, as well as unemployed town residents became very wealthy people. Almost everyone got a few million and thanked fate for deciding to take a risk in this lottery.
However, among all these lucky ones, there remained one very unlucky person named Costis Mitsotakis. The poor man simply ignored this solidarity and the opportunity to buy a lottery ticket and mark the common lucky number.
Or perhaps the women from the housewives` club who were selling these tickets forgot to knock on Costis`s door. He became the only villager who was left without a win.

2. The man struck by lightning



They say lightning doesn`t strike the same place twice. However, American Roy Sullivan became famous because lightning struck him 7 times. The young national park ranger from Shenandoah, Virginia, entered the Guinness Book of Records as the person struck by lightning the most times. This peculiar record in the number of lightning strikes gained worldwide fame.
The chance of being struck by lightning is 1 in 3000. However, to be hit by lightning seven times, you need to try very hard. But he shouldn`t be considered lucky. The best part of this story is that he survived, however lucky.
If you think that after this he would be more cautious? You`re wrong; he didn`t stay home hiding from the storm, the last lightning strike caught him while fishing.
In addition to this whole series of misfortunes, Roy was attacked by a bear, but even though he was not in the best physical shape, he defeated the bear and got his catch back. This fishing trip will remain in his memory for the rest of his life.

3. The vengeful bullet



Henry Ziegland could be called lucky if we didn`t know his story to the end. In the distant 1883, this young man broke up with his fiancée. Due to this suffering, the woman fell into deep depression and after many shed tears, she ended her life.
The woman`s older brother vowed to avenge his sister`s death. He promised to kill Henry; after tracking him, he shot at Henry. The bullet flew past without touching Henry and hit a tree. Thinking that his sister`s fiancé was killed, the shooter fired the last bullet into himself.
However, Henry was lucky. Many years later, Henry decided to cut down the tree along with the bullet, which he had forgotten about. The task was not the easiest, so Henry decided to blow up the tree.
As a result of the explosion, the bullet that was intended long ago hit the unlucky man in the head. He died on the spot. Rumors spread that the bullet had been waiting for its victim for a long time, and when the time came, it fulfilled its task.

4. The hairiest man


Ladies who are dissatisfied that men are hairy are probably horrified now. No one has as much hair as Yu Shinhuan. This Chinese man is officially considered the hairiest person in the world.
Due to a rare disease, 96% of this man`s body is covered with a thick layer of hair. He underwent surgery to remove hair from his ears so he could hear. And doctors had to intervene so that this man wouldn`t lose his hearing. Let`s not exaggerate because this is just a human, not an animal. Hair doesn`t grow only on the palms and soles of the feet. Specialists calculated that there are 41 hairs per square centimeter; this rare disease is called atavism. However, the guy didn`t fall into depression; he decided to become famous because of his unusual appearance. He created a website www.maohai.com where he publishes his photos every day; every day many people visit his page. In this way, the industrious young man decided to become a new modern star; his dream is to marry a nice girl and create a full-fledged family.

5. The unlucky woman


The unluckiest woman lives in the USA. Melanie Martinez lives in Louisiana; she lost 4 homes in 4 terrible natural disasters. The last home was destroyed in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina raged. After this event, she gained the status of the unluckiest woman in the world.
However, the misfortunes in her life were just beginning. The organizers of a popular TV show decided to help the misfortune-plagued woman. They transformed her temporary residence beyond recognition.
A whole team of specialists tried for a week to make her modest dwelling habitable. More than 20,000 dollars were spent on repairs, furnishings, as well as household appliances.
According to Melanie`s words, for a while she felt like the happiest person in the world. However, fate decided otherwise, not allowing this woman to fully enjoy these comforts.
On August 29 in the seventh year after Hurricane Katrina, a new hurricane attacked this town. The merciless Hurricane Isaac destroyed all the surrounding houses and did not spare Melanie`s new home. Once again, Melanie was left on the street due to a natural disaster. The woman herself and her entire family were rescued with the help of a boat in which there were 5 cats and three dogs along with them. Everything else was lost. In 10 years, the woman lost 5 homes in 5 natural disasters. But Melanie herself considers it a miracle that the whole family survived.
Perhaps to save herself, she needs to move to another city where natural disasters pass by.

6. The unluckiest
The unluckiest person in England was recognized as John Lyne. In his short life, he managed to experience several car accidents, survived a lightning strike, fell from a cliff; in total, he was on the verge of death 16 times.
Misfortunes have been pursuing him since birth. He was the 5th child in a poor peasant family. He was born with a congenital lung disease.
Doctors did not give positive prognoses about the child`s ability to survive, but thanks to special care and medications, the boy managed to get on his feet. However, misfortunes follow him all his life.
His first dangerous moment was at 1.5 years old. The child found some bottle with a strong disinfectant. Childish curiosity was the reason why John was admitted to the hospital where doctors performed stomach lavage. Thanks to the quick action of the medics, the child survived.
In his teenage years, he experienced another incident. He fell from a tree and broke his right arm. On the way to the hospital, the bus he was in got into a serious accident, as a result of which he also injured his left arm. When he finally got to the hospital, doctors confirmed fractures in both arms. It should be noted that it was Friday the 13th.

7. The tree man


Indonesian Dede Koswara was born a completely healthy person, but at the age of 10, the child fell in the forest and injured his knees. Apparently, a strange infection got into the wound and warts formed around the wound.
These warts slowly began to spread to the entire leg. But later, strange warts also appeared on the boy`s arms. Over many years, the guy helplessly watched as his joints changed.
The disease attacked the man slowly but purposefully. The warts destroyed his health, made him helpless and completely immobile.
He began to move with difficulty on blackened and heavy legs. His hands also refused to serve him. The warts spread further and began to resemble large tree branches, and Dede himself began to resemble some unusual plant.
The mysterious disease cost the man his marriage, career, and independence. To feed himself somehow, he joined a traveling circus. The circus act in which he participates is also called that. The Tree Man.
It is known that the unfortunate person suffers from two diseases: a widespread papilloma virus which leads to new infections, as well as a rare immune deficiency that allows the virus to spread faster.
Last year, Indonesian doctors used an electric laser to remove a large amount of warts. The medics almost removed a large amount of warts, but they grew back again.

8. The consequences of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi is considered the only person who survived two nuclear explosions. On August 6, 1945, due to circumstances, the young engineer Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima exactly at the moment when the USA dropped the atomic bomb. Out of 350,000 residents, 140,000 died. Unlike others, Yamaguchi suffered little.
He sustained minor body burns, a damaged eardrum, and temporary blindness. He spent the night in a bomb shelter.
The next day, Yamaguchi bought a ticket to his hometown Nagasaki. Needless to say, Nagasaki is 288 km from Hiroshima. At that time, both cities were considered important military and production bases.
On August 9, when he was at work, the second bomb sent by the USA was dropped on Nagasaki; thousands of people died. Yamaguchi became completely deaf in one ear and acquired additional body burns.
Over the next 12 years, he had to regularly change body bandages so that the wounds wouldn`t fester and heal. From radioactive substances, his wife and many Japanese people acquired severe oncological diseases. However, he lived a long life and died in 2008 from kidney and liver cancer. His son, who also suffered from radiation at 6 months old, died in 2005 at the age of 59.

Before his death from stomach cancer, Yamaguchi became an active participant in the anti-nuclear program campaign. However, throughout his life, he never said anything bad about the USA.

9. Dynamite and the dog

Once, a young Minnesota resident Harry Jenkins and his two friends went fishing; the lake they wanted to fish was frozen. To speed up the process of drilling a hole in the ice, they came up with a brilliant idea - Why don`t we use dynamite?
When the dynamite was thrown in the intended direction, the young men saw with horror that their little dog ran towards the dynamite, thinking it was a play stick that definitely needed to be brought back.
The frightened people observed that the dog picked up the dynamite and, despite the men`s screams, happily wagging its tail, headed towards them.
Saving their lives, the friends ran in the opposite direction. The dog, thinking it was a fun game, chased after them. The men were a hair`s breadth from death. However, the explosion wave did not reach them.
The dog died, but due to the explosion, a crack formed where Harry`s car was located; the crack began to grow until it completely swallowed the vehicle; the car started to sink into the depths.
But the misfortunes didn`t end there. The insurance company refused to cover the losses suffered by the owner in such cases.