1. Major Summerford
Struck by lightning... 4 times!
A British officer, Major Summerford,
while fighting in the fields of
Flanders in February 1918 was
knocked off his horse by a flash of
lightning and paralyzed from the
waist down.
Summerford retired and moved to Vancouver. One day
in 1924, as he fished alongside a river, lightning hit the
tree he was sitting under and paralyzed his right side.
Two years later Summerford was sufficiently recovered
that he was able to take walks in a local park.
He was walking there one summer day in 1930 when a
lightning bolt smashed into him, permanently paralyzing
him. He died two years later. But lightning sought him out
one last time.
Four years later, during a storm, lightning struck a
cemetery and destroyed a tombstone. The deceased
buried here? Major Summerford.
2. John Lyne
Suffered 16 major accidents in his life. As a teen, he
felt from a tree; on his way back from hospital, his
bus crashed.
John Lyne could well be Britain's
unluckiest man. 'Calamity John'
has suffered 16 major accidents
in his life, including lightning
strikes, a rock-fall in a mine and
three car crashes. 'I don't think
there is any reason or explanation. Things could have
been much worse and I could have died but it doesn't
worry me too much.'
Mr Lyne's mishaps cover a lifetime and he has even
been known to suffer two accidents at once. As a child,
he fell off a horse and cart – only to be run over by a
delivery van. When he was a teenager, he broke his arm
falling from a tree.
On his way back from hospital, his bus crashed, breaking
the same arm in another place. The date, of course, was
Friday the 13th.
3. William "Bud" Post
won the lottery, but got sued by everyone and finally
went broke and died
William "Bud" Post won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania
lottery in 1988 but now lives on his Social Security. "I
wish it never happened. It was totally a nightmare," says
Post.
A former girlfriend successfully sued him for a share of
his winnings. It wasn't his only lawsuit. A brother was
arrested for hiring a hit man to kill him, hoping to inherit a
share of the winnings.
Other siblings pestered him until he agreed to invest in a
car business and a restaurant in Sarasota, Fla., - two
ventures that brought no money back and further
strained his relationship with his siblings. Post even
spent time in jail for firing a gun over the head of a bill
collector. Within a year, he was $1 million in debt.
Post admitted he was both careless and foolish, trying to
please his family. He eventually declared bankruptcy.
Now he lives quietly on $450 a month and food stamps.
"I'm tired, I'm over 65 years old, and I just had a serious
operation for a heart aneurysm. Lotteries don't mean
(anything) to me," said Post. He died on Jan 15 of
respiratory failure.
4. Frane Selak
Escaped from a derailed train, a door-less plane, a
bus crash, a car into flames, another 2 car
accidents... but then won $1,000,000 dollars on the
lottery!
Frane Selak (born 1929) is a
Croatian music teacher famous for
his numerous escapes from fatal
accidents:
In January, 1962, Selak was
traveling via train from Sarajevo to
Dubrovnik. However, the train had
suddenly derailed and plunged into
an icy river, killing 17 passengers. Selak managed to
escape, and only suffered a broken arm and minor
scrapes and bruises.
The following year, while traveling from Zagreb to Rijeka
when the door blew away from the cockpit, forcing him
out of the plane. Although 19 others were killed, he
suffered only minor injuries and had miraculously landed
in a haystack.
In 1966, he was riding on a bus that crashed and
plunged into a river. Four others were killed, but Selak
managed to escape unharmed.
In 1970, he managed to escape before a faulty fuel pump
engulfed his car into flames.
In 1973, another of Selak's cars caught fire, forcing fire
through the air vents. He suffered no injuries save the
loss of most of his hair.
In 1995, he was hit by a city bus, but once again suffered
minor injuries.
In 1996 he escaped when he drove off a cliff to escape
an oncoming truck. He managed to land in a tree, and
watched as his car exploded 300 feet below him.
In 2003 he won $1,000,000 dollars in the Croatian
lottery, and had stated that "I know God was watching
me over all these years." He has reputedly refused to fly
to Australia to air on a Doritos commercial, saying he
"didn't want to test his luck."[2]
He has said that he can either be looked as "the world's
unluckiest man, or the world's luckiest man," and prefers
the latter.
5. Evelyn Adams
Won the lottery twice, now lives on a trailer
"Winning the lottery isn't always what it's cracked up to
be," says Evelyn Adams, who won the New Jersey
lottery not just once, but twice (1985, 1986), to the tune
of $5.4 million. Today the money is all gone and Adams
lives in a trailer. "I won the American dream but I lost it,
too. It was a very hard fall. It's called rock bottom," says
Adams.
"Everybody wanted my money. Everybody had their
hand out. I never learned one simple word in the English
language - 'No.' I wish I had the chance to do it all over
again. I'd be much smarter about it now," says Adams,
who also lost money at the slot machines in Atlantic City.
"I was a big-time gambler," admits Adams. "I didn't drop a
million dollars, but it was a lot of money. I made
mistakes, some I regret, some I don't. I'm human. I can't
go back now so I just go forward, one step at a time."
6. Ann Hodges
The only person (on record) to have been hit by a
Meteorite
Ann Elizabeth Hodges (1923 - 1972) of Sylacauga,
Alabama is the only person of record to have been hit by
a meteorite. On November 30, 1954, she was napping
on her living room couch when a grapefruit-sized
meteoroid crashed through the roof of her house. It
bounced off her large wooden console radio, destroying
it, and struck her on the arm and hip. She was badly
bruised but able to walk.
As it streaked through the atmosphere, the meteor made
a fireball visible from three states, even though it fell
early in the afternoon. As the first documented case of an
extraterrestrial object hitting a person, the event received
worldwide publicity.
The United States Air Force sent a helicopter to take the
meteorite. Hodges' husband, Eugene, hired a lawyer to
get it back. The Hodgeses' landlord also claimed it,
wanting to sell it to cover the damage to the house.
There were offers of up to 5,000 U.S. dollars for the
meteorite. By the time the meteorite was returned to the
Hodgeses, over a year later, public attention had
diminished and they were unable to find a buyer willing to
pay much money.
Ms. Hodges was uncomfortable with the public attention
and the stress of the dispute over ownership of the
meteorite. Against her husband's wishes, she donated it
to the Alabama Museum of Natural History. It is an
ordinary chondrite stone (H4), and weighs about 8.5
pounds (4 kg). It is on display at the University of
Alabama.
7. Henry Ziegland
Killed by a very persistent bullet
Henry Ziegland thought he had dodged
fate. In 1883, he broke off a
relationship with his girlfriend who, out
of distress, committed suicide.
The girl's brother was so enraged that he hunted down
Ziegland and shot him.
The brother, believing he had killed Ziegland, then turned
his gun on himself and took his own life.
But Ziegland had not been killed. The bullet, in fact, had
only grazed his face and then lodged in a tree. Ziegland
surely thought himself a lucky man.
Some years later, however, Ziegland decided to cut
down the large tree, which still had the bullet in it. The
task seemed so formidable that he decided to blow it up
with a few sticks of dynamite. The explosion propelled
the bullet into Ziegland's head, killing him. www.dailycognition.com/index.php/2008/03/05/7-unluckiest-people-in-the-world.html

1&7 are really unluckly

OSAMA AND SHEKAU DEY DIA

Abraham Lincoln would have been one. Also so unlucky. Suffered very much. But he never gave up.

For anybody that thinks he/she is dealing with principalities and powers needs to come and see this No1 and for that No7, the spirit of d dead guy that tried to kill d heartbreaker go laugh taya.

Wow to No.7

This is great......

Are you kidding me?

I had to read No. 1 and 7 all over again. See as death dey pursue them. So unfortunate!

Chai.... No 7 own worse pass. Devil no gree am oh.

Reminds M̶̲̅ε̲̣̣̣̥ of "final destination" really creepy

No. 4 is actually lucky, inshort very lucky

O.lateef:

7. Henry Ziegland
Killed by a very persistent bullet
Henry Ziegland thought he had dodged
fate. In 1883, he broke off a
relationship with his girlfriend who, out
of distress, committed suicide.
The girl's brother was so enraged that he hunted down
Ziegland and shot him.
The brother, believing he had killed Ziegland, then turned
his gun on himself and took his own life.
But Ziegland had not been killed. The bullet, in fact, had
only grazed his face and then lodged in a tree. Ziegland
surely thought himself a lucky man.
Some years later, however, Ziegland decided to cut
down the large tree, which still had the bullet in it. The
task seemed so formidable that he decided to blow it up
with a few sticks of dynamite. The explosion propelled
the bullet into Ziegland's head, killing him. www.dailycognition.com/index.php/2008/03/05/7-unluckiest-people-in-the-world.html

This guy went to look for the bullet's trouble
Fool me once, shame on the bullet
Fool me twice, shame on him

Caracta: Are you kidding me?

I had to read No. 1 and 7 all over again. See as death dey pursue them. So unfortunate!

i was kinda shocked also. Sounds like a horror story. My nigerian folks will tell you that "village people must be involved".

Lol...no 7 dey wierd like horror,as for those that misused their lottery money they brought it upon themselves,as for frank(no 4) the guy is freaking lucky he is like a cat with 9 lives,#moral,what doesn't kill you only makes u stronger.

Imagine if these things had happened in naija?

lorretta u: Imagine if these things had happened in naija?

what kind of imagination is that. Such wicked and canal imagination

lorretta u: Imagine if these things had happened in naija?

The person it will happen to in Nigeria will blame witchcraft for his/her misfortune.

dasparrow:

The person it will happen to in Nigeria will blame witchcraft for his/her misfortune.

И̣̣̣̥o be witchcraft b4?...even the one that affect the oyibo guys na winch cause am

No 1 and 7 na gbam! Dem dey follow dem