How unique people survived despite evil fate
Is there anything in the world that can be guaranteed to protect you from an accident? Or is fate inevitable? But there are examples of how people have survived in situations in which many others would not have survived. What is the reason for such incredible vitality? Maybe in willpower or genetics, or maybe spirits protect some people? Stories can help reveal this mystery.
Man has become "canned food" for the bear
A terrible incident took place in Tuva - one of the local residents was attacked by a bear. Having received serious injuries, including a fracture of the spine, this man miraculously survived and spent a month in a bear den. Experts say that the poor man survived only because the bear was not too hungry and decided to hide the prey "for canned food", that is, in reserve. The fact that a man named Alexander survived such injuries without medical attention, food or water for a whole month is only part of the miracle. It is no less surprising that the predator's prey, hidden underground in the thicket of the forest, was found, says the Daily Mail.
Doctors cannot explain how a seriously wounded man survived for a month in a bear den.
Alexander owes his salvation to the hunting dogs of his fellow countryman, who were able to smell a man in the den of the beast and raised the alarm. To save the victim, it was necessary to make a lot of efforts - it was not at all easy to remove a person, even an emaciated one, from the den of the beast. The photographs taken at the hospital show that Alexander is in a very poor condition. He has a fracture of the spine, due to which the entire lower part of the body is paralyzed, and the victim's skin is a continuous ulcer.
In addition, the body of the rescued is on the verge of exhaustion. Prolonged fasting led to critical weight loss. To survive, the man had to drink his own urine and catch with his mouth trickles of rainwater that flowed into the bear's den. In simple terms, a living mummy covered with scabs and abrasions was rescued from the bear den, the very fact of which it is hard to believe. Despite this, eyewitnesses claim that during the rescue, Alexander talked with hunters and doctors and even moved his hands a little, trying to somehow help his release.
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Hugh Glass
This is an explorer and hunter, whose will to live was truly powerful. In 1823, a hunting party was attacked by an Indian tribe, as a result of which Glass was wounded in the leg. Without completing his treatment, he clashed with a grizzly bear, and he badly patted the poor fellow. Hugh's comrades decided that with such injuries he had no chances, so they left to die - without weapons and with lacerations all over his body.
But Glass was not going to retreat into another world. In a half-dead state, in two months he covered more than a hundred miles and ended up at the Cheyenne River, along which he reached the settlement on a raft. Making his way through the forests, Glass ate wild berries and roots. When his leg began to rot, he stuffed it into the insect-infested trunk so that they would eat the dead tissue.
Fidel Castro
Castro, who ruled Cuba from 1959 to 2008, is the clearest example of the fact that it is sometimes incredibly difficult to kill a person. During the 49 years that Fidel was in power, 638 unsuccessful attempts were made on him, and they were organized by the American CIA. They tried to palm off Fidel with exploding cigars, poison him with a milk-chocolate cocktail, annihilate him with a mined tribune, from which he was supposed to deliver a speech. But Castro died a natural death at the age of 90.
Betty Lou Oliver
On July 28, 1945, a US Air Force bomber crashed into the 79th floor of a skyscraper in thick fog. 14 people were killed. Lift attendant Betty Lou Oliver, who was at her workplace, was crippled. She received severe burns, broke her pelvis and spine. The woman was loaded into an elevator to be taken down, where ambulances were waiting. However, at that moment the cables were cut, damaged as a result of the plane hitting the skyscraper. The cabin crashed down from a height of 75 floors. How Betty survived is still unclear. Having healed all her injuries and injuries, Betty Lou Oliver returned to her previous job just 5 months after that terrible day.
Beck Withers
In 1996, this climber participated in the ascent of Everest and got into a severe blizzard with his group. Withers and his comrades found themselves in a desperate, almost hopeless situation. The guides, so as not to perish with the climbers, turned back and descended to a safer place. Help arrived found Withers in a hypothermic coma. The doctor who examined him concluded that the condition was hopeless. Rescuers did not evacuate Withers and left the unfortunate where he lay, and his family was informed that he was dead. It's incredible, but after spending two days and one night in the thirty-degree frost, Withers woke up, after which it is not clear how he crawled about 300 meters to the nearest camp. He had to amputate his nose, right hand and all fingers on his left hand, but he survived. Unlike 12 of his comrades.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi
He is the only person who has survived the horrific atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Americans. In the first of these cities, the Japanese was on a business trip - exactly on August 6, 1945.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived two atomic bombings, and in 2006 in New York in front of the UN delegation he read a report on the need for total nuclear disarmament.
From the explosion, he was temporarily blind and severely burned, his eardrums burst. Despite this, he went to work three days later in his hometown of Nagasaki, on which exactly the same day the United States dropped the second atomic bomb. Yamaguchi was only 3 kilometers from the epicenter, but almost not hurt. Nevertheless, everything around was destroyed, and the poor man had no one to turn to for treatment of those wounds that were received in Hiroshima. He had a high temperature for almost a month. However, Yamaguchi lived to a ripe old age - he died in 2010 at the age of 93.