We’ve all used the term lucky dog. Some of us would even consider ourselves to be a lucky person. We think we’re lucky when we find a good deal shopping, or go on a nice vacation. If we’re really lucky, we find a $20 bill laying on the sidewalk. Some people, however, are way beyond your average every day kind of lucky. The people listed below are more lucky than we can even fathom. They’ve managed feats of luck, been at the right place at the right time, and attracted things most of us can’t imagine. They’ve won the lottery and escaped death more times than we can count on both hands. Keep reading to see if you think these folks are luckier than the average joe.

Joan Ginther

The chances of winning the lottery are some 1 in 200 million. That means you’re more lucky to get struck by an asteroid than win the lottery. So how did one woman win the lottery four times? Joan Ginther, known to many as the luckiest woman in the world, was a skilled mathematician who won the lottery a whopping four times. She won $5.4 million in 1993, in 2003 she won another $2 million, she won $3 million in 2005, and finally, in 2008, she hit a $10 million jackpot. The odds of pulling off a feat of luck like this one in eighteen septillion.

Why did some people doubt Ginther’s lottery winnings were strictly luck? Keep reading to find out the shocking answer.

Ginther has a PhD from Stanford with an extensive background in statistics. Naysayers don’t believe that Ginther was lucky at all. Instead, they think she learned the system and figured out how to cheat at the game. Although she lived in Las Vegas, Ginther spent two months of every year at a hotel in Bishop, Texas, playing scratch off tickets. While some people think there is no possible way she could have figured out a pattern with the scratch off tickets, other people believe that no one could be as lucky as she was to win a whopping $20.4 million dollars on scratch off tickets.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi

While some people might consider this bad luck, others would consider the man that lived through not one, but two, nuclear explosions the luckiest man on earth. Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only person that is recognized for surviving both nuclear bombs, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Although injured in the Hiroshima blast, he managed to survive. He left the area, but returned to Nagasaki where he lived when it was attacked by a second nuclear bomb. He survived that attack too.

Yamaguchi became a vocal anti-nuclear weapon campaigner, but he never spoke bad about one place. Where is it? Keep reading!

Yamaguchi became a passionate, active, and vocal proponent of nuclear disarmament. Surprisingly though, he never spoke negatively against the United States. He penned a book in the 1980’s about his experiences surviving the nuclear bombs. He died at his home in Nagasaki at the age of 93.

Frane Selak

You’ve read about the woman often referred to as the luckiest woman in the world, now meet the man known as the luckiest man in the world. Unfortunately, Frane Selak isn’t lucky for his lottery winnings. He’s lucky for an entirely different reason. He has cheated death not once, not twice, but a whopping seven times between 1962 and 1996. His first brush with death was while traveling by train when it derailed into a canyon river. He was the only survivor. You would think that’d be enough, but that was only the start. He got sucked out of a malfunctioning airplane door, and survived an airplane crash and a bus crash. He shot himself in the testicles by accident, and escaped a burning car twice. The last time, he was thrown from a car during an accident before it pummeled down a 300 feet gorge.

Cheating death isn’t the only way Selak is lucky. Keep reading to see what other reason he’s considered a lucky man.

Escaping death seven times wasn’t enough to make Selak lucky, because in 2003, just two days after he turned 73 years old, Selak won $1.1 million dollars in the Croatian National Lottery. He used the money to buy a boat and two houses. He also bought a small chapel which he says was to thank the Lord for all the fortune that he has been blessed with. Selak gave most of his remaining money to friends and family after deciding to live frugally.

Timothy Ray Brown

Known for years only as “The Berlin Patient” Timothy Ray Brown is the only person that is known to have been cured of HIV. Diagnosed in 1995 while studying in Berlin, Germany, he lived a relatively normal life for the first ten years after his diagnosis. Then the illnesses began. He felt tired all the time, was anemic, and eventually was diagnosed as having acute myeloid leukemia. He began treatment, and doctors eventually put him in a medically induced coma. His only treatment option was a stem cell transplant.

How long has Brown been free of HIV since his experimental treatment? Keep reading to find out the shocking answer.

Initially Brown refused the transplant because it was experimental, not like other transplants of the time. Doctors hoped the experimental transplant would treat not just the leukemia, but the HIV as well. When the leukemia threatened to take his life, Brown reluctantly agreed. He received the transplant in 2007, the same day he stopped taking his HIV medication. After a short three months, it was determined that Brown was HIV and leukemia free. He went public with his medical treatment in 2010.

Roy Sullivan

The odds of being struck by lightning in your lifetime are 1 in 3,000. Unfortunately for Roy Sullivan, he holds the Guinness World Record for being struck by lightning the most times by one individual. He has been struck by lightning an astonishing seven times! A United States Park Ranger in Virginia at Shenandoah National Park, Sullivan was struck by lightning, and survived, a shocking seven times between 1942 and 1977.

Under what circumstances was Sullivan struck by lightning a whopping seven times? Keep reading to find out!

The first time he was struck he was hiding from a storm in a look out tower. He was struck again attempted to escape the tower after being struck while inside it. He was hit again while driving his truck, another time while standing in his front yard, and another time while working inside the ranger station. He was struck again at work while patrolling the park, another time running from a cloud, and the last time while fishing. Two of his ranger hats are on display at the Guinness World Exhibit Hall in South Carolina and New York. He died at the age of 71, but not due to a lightning strike.

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