Frane Selak’s 7 Catastrophes: Zagreb Train, Plane, Bus, Car, and $1M Lottery

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Frane Selak, Croatia’s “luckiest unlucky man,” escaped a 1962 train crash, a 1963 plane explosion, and four bizarre car wrecks, only to win $1M in the lottery at 73. Trending questions like “Did Frane Selak really win the lottery?” and “How many times did Frane Selak cheat death?” swirl online. “Someone must be watching over me,” Selak famously quipped after surviving a bus plunge in Zagreb and a car’s 300-foot cliff dive—clinging to a tree as his car plummeted below.

After clutching a tree over a Croatian ravine, Selak’s saga twisted again: at age 73, he bagged 7 million Kuna from the lottery. Searchers ask, “Is Frane Selak’s story true?” and “What happened to the world’s unluckiest man?” Picture a music teacher calmly brushing ash from his hair, pocketing a winning ticket, and shrugging, “Not today, death.”

Selak survived being ejected from a midair plane, a train sinking in a river, and a car explosion—then won $1 million, all before his 74th birthday, in a feat no insurance actuary dares calculate.

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