Top 10 Survival Stories

The Man Who Survived 10 Shots From A Mexican Firing Squad 

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Everyday this week… Brett Rounsaville brings us the Weirdest Survival Stories ever told.

Wenseslao Moguel is that the guy you never need to run into at a cocktail party…and not simply because of his hideous, gag inducing face. In fact, he plays a distinguished half in my worst nightmare, if in some way, then a minimum of in spirit.



Imagine if you will: you’re regaling the audience at giant together with your adventurous tales of daring do. you have gottheir full attention with the story regarding it slow spent in Nevada racing ostriches, you weave a tale of marvel together with your droop gliding exploits, finally you have got their complete admiration as you define you time spent living on the streets and on different people’s couches as you wander the country with none meaningful possessions like some form of very selfish Kane. But then, it happens.

Wenseslao Moguel steps slowly out from the shadows letting light-weight fall ever thus gently on his disfigured face. Somehow, everybody realizes for the primary time that he’s within the space and his mere visage brings the laughter and carousing right down to a muted hush. He whispers only 1 sentence.

“I was shot 9 times by a firing squad, and yet again within the face to confirm my death.”

HOW AM I (er…I mean…ARE YOU) presupposed to prime THAT STORY?!?1?!

Allow me to line the stage. The year: 1915. The verdict: guilty. The revolution: Mexican.

Wenseslao (or Wenny because the youngsters within the faculty yard presumably known as him) is sentenced to deathwhile not trial for his role as a soldier within the revolution. once being shot repeatedly he manages to attend till his executioners leave and somehow makes his thanks to safety and treatment. (I will solely assume he ran across the Mexican wildernesses equivalent of Dr. McDreamy’s skilled surgical hands.)

CHICKEN CAN LIVE WITHOUT HEAD

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Everyday this week… Brett Rounsaville brings us the Weirdest Survival Stories ever told.

As i used to be running around sort of a chicken with my head interrupt the opposite day, scrambling to search out a great/weird survival story, I had an epiphany. In hindsight it’s a blaringly obvious epiphany…but an epiphany nonetheless!

For simplicity’s sake we’ll decision this epiphany, Mike.

Once upon a time in September of 1945 Lloyd Olsen set he was having chicken for dinner. Axe in hand he grabbed a struggling Wyandotte chicken named, Mike (Coincidence? No. No it’s not.) and, very like the mighty Casey, the air was shattered by the force of Lloyd’s blow…the chicken but, not such a lot.

Lloyd managed to miss the carotid artery and a good chunk of the brain stem despite lopping off the higher a part ofMike’s head. The result?

EIGHTEEN additional MONTHS OF LIFE FOR MIRACLE MIKE. And as we tend to learned from our pal, Wenny the opposite day, not dying is price its weight in gold. The Olsen’s began touring with Mike raking in up to $4500 a month via sideshows and fairs. But wait, that’s in mythological 1945 bucks. what quantity is that in REAL cash, you ask?

$53073.16!


Sadly, in 1947, Miracle Mike choked to death in his swank hotel space like such a lot of different rising stars who burn too bright. however forget expensive Mike not, friends and readers! Instead, honor his memory by taking part in “Pin the pinnacle on the Chicken” or coming into the “5k Run sort of a Headless Chicken Race” at the annual Fruita, Colorado “Mike the Headless Chicken Day” held the third weekend of each May!

Now if you’ll excuse me, I actually have to travel notice my axe and a few follow chickens within the hopes of paying my rent on time this month…

Ever seen an actual chicken really running around with its actual head chopped off? can this beat Wenseslao or fourComments stories within the Weird Off? What else have you ever got for me?

Aron Ralston

On might 2003, whereas Aron Ralston was on a canyoneering trip in Blue John Canyon (near Moab, Utah), a boulder fell and pinned his right forearm, crushing it. 

After making an attempt for 5 days to elevate and break the boulder, desperation took him to nice measures like carving his name, date of birth and date of death into the boulder, drinking his own urine attributable to lack of water and videotaping his last goodbyes to his family. Finally, a dehydrated and delirious Ralston determined to bow his arm against a chockstone and snap the radius and ulna bones. Using the uninteresting blade on his multiuse tool, he cut the soft tissue round the break. He then used the tool's pliers to tear at the harder tendons. once Ralston was rescued, his arm was retrieved by park authorities and off from underneath the boulder. it had been cremated and given to Ralston. He came to the boulder and left the ashes there.

Roy Sullivan

Roy Sullivan was a Virginia Forest Ranger who had a fantastic attraction to lightning... or rather lightning had an attraction to him. Over his 36-year career as a ranger, Sullivan was struck by lightning seven times - and survived every jolt, however not unscathed. His seventh strike place him within the Guinness Book of World Records:
In 1942, the primary lightning strike shot through Sullivan's leg and knocked his huge toenail off.
In 1969, a second strike burned off his eyebrows and knocked him unconscious.
In 1970, another strike left his shoulder seared.
In 1972, his hair was set on hearth and Roy had to dump a bucket of water over his head to cool down off.
On August seven, 1973, another bolt ripped through his hat and hit him on the pinnacle, set his hair on hearth once more, threw him out of his truck and knocked his left shoe off.
On June 5, 1976, a sixth strike in 1976 left him with an injured ankle.
On June twenty fifth, 1977, the last lightning bolt to hit Roy Sullivan sent him to the hospital with chest and abdomen burns in 1977. 

His wife was conjointly struck once, when a sudden storm welled up as she and her husband were out hanging wash onthe rear yard clothesline. On September twenty eight, 1983, Roy Sullivan died at age seventy one, reportedly of a self-inflicted gunshot wound over troubles unrelated to lightning.

Joe Simpson

This British explorer was trying to scale Siula Grande within the Peruvian Andes when he fell and broke his leg. so as to descend backtrack the height a little faster throughout a blizzard, Joe’s climbing partner, Simon Yates, hooked himself onto a rock and slowly lowered him down the bulk of the mountain, till Joe slipped down an overhanging ice face – nearly pulling Simon down with him. Unsure whether or not his climbing partner was alive or dead, Simon eventually determined to chop the rope once deliberating for an hour. Joe fell into a gaping crevice below and onto an ice bridge, suffering severe injuries. Despite his injuries, and dehydration and hypothermia, Joe managed to crawl back to base camp, where he found Simon and their different traveling partner moments before they were owing to leave.

John McCain

This famous politician might not have won the election, however he certain won the fight for his life back in October 1967. His keep within the ‘Hanoi Hilton’ lasted 5 and a 0.5 years and was filled with horrific incidents, as well as repeated torture, 2 years of solitary confinement and a suicide try. Of his experiences, McCain says: “I had learned what we tend to all learned over there: each man has his edge. I had reached mine.”

Zoleykhah Kadhoda

In 1997 20-year-old Zoleykhah Kadkhoda was arrested and charged with partaking in sexual relations outside wedding. She was immediately sentenced to death by stoning. Kadkhoda was then buried up to her waist in preparation for her execution however soon when the stoning began it prompted nice reaction among most of the village inhabitants that caused the stoning to prevent. it absolutely was initial thought that the lady had died and was taken to the morgue however then began to breath once more and was taken to the hospital. Her condition improved and an attractiveness for amnesty was submitted to the court on her behalf.

Joseph samuel

Joseph Samuel was born in England and later transported to Australia once committing a theft in 1801. Samuel then became concerned during a gang in Sydney and robbed the house of a wealthy girl. A policeman who had been sent to safeguard her home was murdered. The gang was soon caught and at the trial Joseph Samuel confessed to stealing the products however denied being a part of the murder. The leader of the gang was released owing to lack of proof and Joseph Samuel was sentenced to death by hanging. In 1803, Samuel and another criminal were driven during a cart to Parramatta where many folks came to observe the hanging. once praying, the cart on that they were standing drove off, however rather than being hanged, the rope around Samuel’s neck snapped! The executioner tried once more. This time, the rope slipped and his legs touched the bottom. With the group in an uproar, the executioner tried for the third time and therefore the rope snapped once more. This time, an official galloped off to inform the Governor what had happened and his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. The Governor and others believed that it absolutely was a symbol from God that Samuel mustn't be hanged.

Interesting Fact: Samuel was one amongst Australia’s earliest Jewish settlers and have become referred to as the person they may not droop.