Meet Frano Selak, Man Who Cheated Death Seven Times And Even Won A Lottery

Frano Selak, a Croatian man, miraculously cheated death seven times before eventually winning the lottery.

Frane Selak, an elderly Croatian man, is known around the world for being the luckiest man alive. What has happened with him has been more like movie scripts, which are larger than life but mostly unbelievable. However, Selak believes that reality is much stranger than anything the film industry can offer. Let's explore this intriguing story of a man whose life has been filled with a remarkable string of incredibly awful events.

This modest man was born in 1929 in Croatia. As a music teacher, which is hardly a thrilling job out there, he had a quite ordinary life. That is, until a tragic bus and train ride that started an absurdly long chain of events

According to the BBC, Frano Selak is an octogenarian music teacher from Croatia. His run of near escapes began back, he says, in 1957, when he plunged into the river on a bus. Six more brushes with death followed. His train derailed and hurtled into a river; he walked away from not one but two exploding cars and survived a plane crash by landing on a haystack after being thrown clear. A protruding tree saved him when he drove off a cliff, and he bounced back from being hit by a bus. Then, as if to prove that he was the luckiest-rather than the unluckiest-man in the world, Selak won around $1 million (Rs 8,36,77,100) in a lottery, giving most of it away to friends and family.