Top 10 Amazing People Who Survived The Impossible

Top 10 Amazing People Who Survived The Impossible

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Today, just getting through another day is a big goal for many of us. Well imagine you
had to face being attacked by a grizzly bear - twice - in the same day! Or survive,
after falling 2 miles from mid-air plane accident. These are just a few of the amazing
stories of the top ten people who survived the impossible.

Number 10. Juliane Koepcke
On Christmas eve of 1971, LANSA flight 508 was struck by lightning and broke apart
mid-air, at an altitude of 3,200 meters. Remarkably, still strapped to her seat, 17 year
old Juliane Koepcke survived the two mile fall to the ground. She was the only person
to survive the crash. She suffered a broken collarbone, a gash to her left leg and right
arm, and a concussion.

Realizing she had somehow survived the fall, Juliane’s first instinct was to find her
mother, who had been in the seat next to her on the plane. She set out, wading in
knee-deep water and surviving on candies she found in the debris. After ten days, she
found a boat moored near a small hut and used its gasoline to clean her wounds. After
spending the night in the shelter, she was discovered by local lumbermen and taken
to their village. A pilot then flew her to nearby Pacullpa, where she was reunited with
her father. After recovering from her injuries, Juliane returned to the crash site with
a search team. Her mother’s body was recovered on January 12, 1972. It was
eventually determined that her mother and as many as 14 passengers survived the
crash but died waiting to be rescued.

Number 9. Roy Sullivan, “The Human Lighting Conductor”

The number seven is considered lucky to many people. Shenandoah National Park
ranger Roy Sullivan knows this first hand. Between 1942 and 1977, Sullivan was struck
by lightning not twice, not four times, but SEVEN TIMES, and he lived to tell about it.
After surviving being struck by lightning several times, it is rumored that Sullivan
always kept a jug of water handy to put out his hair - “just in case” he got struck
again.

While there were no eye witnesses to any of these strikes, Guinness World Records
was able to confirm them and awarded Sullivan with the official record for “Most
Lightning Strikes’ and the nickname, “The Human Lightning Conductor.”

Sadly his life would finally come to an end in 1983, from a self inflicted gunshot,
reportedly after being rejected in love.

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Number 8. José Salvador Alvarenga

On November 17, 2012, José Salvador Alvarenga set out from the fishing village of
Costa Azul, off the coast of  Chiapas , Mexico. An experienced sailor and fisherman,
Alvarenga was embarking on a 30-hour  deep-sea fishing  trip.
Shortly after embarking, 7 meter (23 foot) fiberglass skiff was set upon by a rough
storm which lasted five days. During the storm, the boat’s motor and most of the
boat’s electronics were ruined. Without sails, oars, anchors, running lights and no way
to contact the shore, the boat set adrift across open seas. Alvarenga and fellow
fisherman Ezequiel Córdoba were left with almost no supplies, and very little food.
The two men ate fish, turtles, and other sea life that they caught with their bare
hands. They collected rain water when it was available but more often were forced to
drink turtle blood or their own urine. Alvarenga reported that after approximately
four months at sea, his partner gave up after becoming ill from eating raw fish and
eventually refused to eat. After making a promise not to eat him after he died,
Alvarenga kept Córdoba’s corpse on the boat and even talked to it. After six days of
speaking to his partner’s dead corpse, he realized he was losing his mind and dumped
the body overboard. On January 30, 2014, after 438 days lost at sea, finally, Alvarenga
spotted a small piece piece of land. He swam to shore and found his way to a local
house. He had reached the Ebon Atoll of the Marshall Islands, some 6,000 miles away.

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Number 7. Todd Orr
Out hiking the Madison Valley, in rural Montana, trail engineer and knife maker, Todd
Orr came upon a Grizzly Bear mother with her cubs. Before he could react, the
mother charged and attacked. She bit his head and arm before leaving him and
returning to the woods with her cubs. A Montana native, Orr decided to get up and
make a run for his car, some 3 miles away. After ten minutes, the bear caught up with
him. She bit is arm and shoulder and stood on top of him. Realizing he posed no threat
to her, she left him. Orr eventually made his way back to his car. He made a video
explaining what had happened and took a few photos to share with his friends. After
receiving multiple surgeries the following day