People Who Survived Completely Unsurvivable Situations
Human beings aren't always such frail things.
![People Who Survived Completely Unsurvivable Situations](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/4/6/740646_320x180.jpg?v=3)
Human beings are such frail things. You step on a nail, you get tetanus, you die. You get too excited about eating pretzels, you choke, you die. You stand next to a guy, he sneezes on you, you die. We are the canaries in the coal mine of the universe, and we face mortality every single moment of every single day. But the following people face death, dust themselves off, and keep going. Presumably while flipping the Reaper a gigantic bird.
![CARL AKELEY'S GUN FAILED TO KILL. AN TTACKING LEOPARD. SO HE JAMMED HIS HAND DOWN ITS THROAT. The cat, initially surprised its dinner was doing all th](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/2/6/740626.jpg?v=2)
![A ROCKET-PROPELLED GRENADE IMPALED PVT. MOSS. Rcy DTIA THIS WAS SO DANGEROUS, THEY COULDN'T EXTRACT HIM. So, his commanding officer lied and said it w](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/3/2/740632.jpg?v=2)
![JACOB MILLER GOT SHOT BETWEEN THE EYES. THIS WAS THE CIVIL WAR. AND BOTH SIDES ASSUMED HE'D DIED. But then he woke with a brand-new hole in the forehe](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/3/0/740630.jpg?v=2)
![AN OREGON MAN PUT A NAIL GUN TO HIS OWN HEAD. A DOZEN NAILS IN THE BRAIN FAILED TO KILL HIM. He finally went to the hospital and complained that he ..](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/3/3/740633.jpg?v=2)
![THE SOYUZ 5 SPACE MODULE WENT HAYWIRE ON REENTRY. IT HIT THE EARTH LIKE A METEOR. The ship's parachute failed. So did the rockets designed to soften t](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/3/9/740639.jpg?v=2)
![TRUMAN DUNCAN FELL OFF A MOVING TRAIN. IT CUT HIS BODY IN HALF AT THE WAIST. It pulled him under the wheels, and he was alive and conscious as it drag](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/3/7/740637.jpg?v=2)
![SCIENTISTS ASSESSED THE GALERAS VOLCANO IN 1993. IT ERUPTED WHILE THEY WERE THERE. A blast of heat reduced one engineer to ash. Two others instantly t](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/4/4/740644.jpg?v=2)
![ATWO-YEAR-OLDFELL IN FREEZING WATER. HIS HEART STOPPED FOR AN HOUR AND 41 MINUTES. The boy's body temperature dropped to 77 degrees. Over an hour of C](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/4/3/740643.jpg?v=2)
![POLICE HAVE BRUTALLY KILLED MANY PEOPLE. IN BESSED MEMORY O SAN BE SLNOMS PNC BUT JJOSEPH GUZMAN TOOK 19 BULLETS AND SURVIVED. And that doesn't count](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/3/4/740634.jpg?v=2)
![SABURO SAKAI'S COCKPIT EXPLODED DURING WW2. SAKAI HIMSELF WAS SHOT SQUARE IN THE FOREHEAD. This removed a chunk of his brain, blinded his right eye, a](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/3/1/740631.jpg?v=2)
![THE SS ANDREA DORIA WAS THE SAFEST SHIP IN ITALY. THEN THE SS STOCKHOLMHIT IT, KILLING FIFTY INSTANTLY. Not killed: Linda Morgan, 14. The impact prope](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/4/2/740642.jpg?v=2)
![A HIPPO CRASHED INTO PAUL TEMPLER'S KAYAK. HALF HIS BODY WAS SOON DOWN ITS THROAT. He got out, but the hippo's tusks then impaled him 40 times. Temple](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/4/0/740640.jpg?v=2)
![EWA WISNIERSKA GOT YANKED UP WHILE PARAGLIDING. SHE WOUND UP SIX MILES ABOVE THE GROUND. That's cruising altitude for airplanes. Finally, after an hou](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/2/8/740628.jpg?v=2)
![CHARLES LIGHTOLLER SANK WITH THE TITANIC. THEN THE BOILERS EXPLODED, BLOWING HIM TO THE SURFACE. He rallied 30 survivors onto a capsized lifeboat-the](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/4/1/740641.jpg?v=2)
![WILLIE FRANCIS, 16, WAS ACCUSED OF MURDER IN 1946. THE EVIDENCE WAS SLIM, BUT THEY SENT HIM TO THE CHAIR. It didn't take long for an all-white jury to](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/2/5/740625.jpg?v=2)
![RODNEY FOX WAS FISHING FOR TUNA IN AUSTRALIA. A GREAT WHITE SHARK SNAPPED HIM NEARLY IN TWO. It broke half his ribs, ripping him up so much, his suit](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/4/5/740645.jpg?v=2)
![SHANNON MALLOY GOT AN UNUSUAL INJURY. DOCTORS CALL IT AN INTERNAL DECAPITATION. A car crash severed every ligament and tendon connecting her skull t](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/2/7/740627.jpg?v=2)
![JAKE GARROW WAS PLOWING SNOW ON ICE IN ONTARIO. HIS SKID I LOADER PLUNGED DOWN THROUGH THE ICE. He smashed the back window out with his elbow and swam](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/3/6/740636.jpg?v=2)
![NAVY SEAL MIKE DAY WAS IN IRAO'S ANBAR PROVINCE. AL-OAEDA MILITANTS SHOT HIM 27 TIMES FROM 10 FEET AWAY. Then they threw a grenade at him. With his ri](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/2/9/740629.jpg?v=2)
![SKYDIVER JJOAN MURRAY'S PARACHUTE FAILED TO OPEN. THE FALL SHATTERED THE RIGHT SIDE OF HER BODY. She landed on a mound of 250,00 fire ants. But she su](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/2/4/740624.jpg?v=2)
![ALISTAIR UROUHART SURRENDERED TO JAPAN. FOR TWO YEARS IN ww2, HE WAS BEATEN AND STARVED. Then they took him aboard a ship ... which sank. He was rescu](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/3/5/740635.jpg?v=2)