The Luckiest Unlucky Man To Ever Live:Frane Selak

Frane Selak , croatian music teacher is lucky enough to escape his death seven times!
He has been named the "world's luckiest man" for his frequent, apparent escapes from death.

His story is so unbelievable that you’d walk away from a movie, heck, a documentary of his life thinking it was too unrealistic. But it’s not. It’s a true story. Selak cheated death seven times.

Born in 1929 and from Croatia, Frane Selak’s terrifyingly unlucky but incredibly lucky timeline goes like this:

• 1) Selak's  brushes with death started in January 1962 . He was riding a train through a cold, rainy canyon and the train flipped off the tracks and crashed in a river. Selak survived while 17 other passengers were drowned to death . He suffered a broken arm and hypothermia.

• 2) In 1963, his first and only plane ride, Selek was blown out of a malfunctioning plane door.He landed in haystack but the plane met with a crash which killed 19 people.

•  3) In 1966, a bus that he was riding skidded off the road into a river, drowning four passengers. However, Selak survived .He swims to shore with a few cuts.

• 4) In 1970, his car caught fire and he managed to escape before the fuel tank exploded.

• 5) In 1973, an another driving incident, the car engine immersed with hot oil from a malfunctioning fuel pump, causing flames to shoot through the air vents. Selak's hair was completely burnt in this incident without any major injuries.

• 6) In 1995, Selek was hit by a bus in Zagreb , he was unharmed .

• 7) In 1996 he misses a head-on collision in his car with a United Nations truck on a mountain curve  but falls off the road .He’s ejected from his seat and holds onto a tree as the car plummets 300 foot down. He survives.

In 2003, two days after his 73rd birthday,Frane won $1,000,000 dollars in the Croatian lottery.In this period he also married for the fifth time and purchased two houses and a boat.

In 2010, Selak decided that money cannot buy any happiness and he wanted to live an economic life. He sold his luxurious home on the private island, and gave his major part of wealth to family and friends, and moved back to his unpretentious home in Petrinja. He kept some money to pay for his hip replacement operation and to enjoy his life with his wife . 

Selak says he is happier than he had ever been in his life and he hasn't encountered anymore incidents.