5 INSANE Stories Of Human Survival | Random Thursday 

Shot 10 times crash landed 2 times. Been in a prisoner of war camp 2 times “ frankly I enjoyed the war “

#1 is literally just "I do not have permission to die"

All of these people: "Were you killed?" Them: "Sadly yes, but I lived."

The part about the surfer being saved by dolphins is not unheard of. Dolphins often take on sharks like that.

"Half man half price store" Abseloute legend.

Clint Malarchuk really shoulda been on the list... He was a NHL goalie for the Sabres in the 80s. During a game in 1989, he was trying to block the net when two players accidentally slid into the crease. They collided and tumbled, and one of the player’s legs went up in the air... Do you see where I’m going with this? The player’s skate went up and slashed Malarchuk’s throat. It straight-up ripped his neck open, severing his carotid artery and jugular, and he fell forward, spraying blood all over the ice in front of him. Luckily, the team’s trainer had been a combat medic in Vietnam, and was used to dealing with grisly injuries. He jumped into gear, went out on the ice to the goalie, *reached into* the dude’s open neck, and pinch the severed arteries with his fingers. He continued to hold on to them as they got Malarchuk out of the rink and into emergency surgery - a move that saved him from bleeding out, and kept him alive. Hockey is so metal.

The guy that was attacked by the great white died in a car crash a while ago. You survive the worst thing possible, just to be taken out by another car. Life is very fragile 😔

I've always considered myself to be quite the survival story, but mine's nothing against what you talked about. I lost three of my limbs (right arm, both legs) in a work accident in 1998. That was when i was 27, i recently turned 50. I'd say i'm alright

“They put some poison into his wine he drank it all and said he fine”

They say after the accident, Peng Shuilin was half the man he used to be.

The last guy survived ALL those injuries WITHOUT Penicillin! Amazing constitution! Especially the gut wounds.

And I thought my grandfather had a crazy story: he got shot in the outskirts of Stalingrad and thus was spared the fate of the 6th army division. He then fought in the Normandie, where a plane dropped a bomb next to him. He got knocked over and picked up his rifle and continued fighting. Later on the same day, he surrendered and got sent to a hospital. They were unable to get every piece of metal out of his body! One of them, he carried in his head until the day he got cremated (over 60 years later).

You could have mentioned Vesna Vulovic, a Serbian flight attendant who survived a plane crash from the altitude of 10,160 metres (33,330 ft). She still holds the record for the highest fall without a parachute. The fall wasn't easy on her: "Following the crash, Vulović spent days in a coma and was hospitalized for several months. She suffered a fractured skull, three broken vertebrae, two broken legs, broken ribs and a fractured pelvis. These injuries resulted in her being temporarily paralyzed from the waist down. She made an almost complete recovery but continued to walk with a limp. Vulović maintained that she had no memory of the incident and thus had no qualms about flying in the aftermath of the crash. "

Also Phineas Gage, the guy who survived a metal rod being shot through his head, severing his his prefrontal cortex from his brain stem. Made a full recovery within 10 years

Sir aidan: *gets born: Life: heres everything you will ever need to live peacefully Sir Aidan: No, no I don’t think I will

youve gotta admire shuilin's sense of humor. not a lot of people would be able to make jokes like that after such a traumatic accident. would definitely shop there

How about the Japanese businessman who survived Hiroshima AND Nagasaki at the end of WW2 ?

When you said the guy was cut in half I imagine straight down the middle, and then say there for five minutes trying to think how someone could ever survive from that

After seeing the images of his accident, Peng definitely should've been number 1. While only surviving one accident, that one was worth the same as all the others combined. I have no idea how he survived, especially because the photo shows him lying in the street while there's a crowd just standing around staring at him, like they expected him to die any second. Not sure how he even survived long enough to get to the hospital. What an amazing guy! The photos of his recovery are just as unbelievable as his accident! Wow!

"Miss Unsinkable" This lady worked on all 3 "unsinkable" ships made by the same company...the last and most famous? Titanic. All 3 sank and she survived each time. Even swam /floated through the spinning rudders that was chopping up other people and lived to tell the tale.

“Tide pods” is what won me over

Yet some die from tripping on a pebble. I nearly died when my bike hit a small rock and the handlebar went thru my leg. Yeah that was fun....

Surfer: *attacked by shark* Also shark: “why do i hear boss music”

I'll always remember the story of the girl who's car broke down in the middle of nowhere in subzero temperatures. she tried to walk to get help, but was overwhelmed by the cold and passed out in the snow. she literally froze solid, so solid when she was finally found and taken to the hospital, they couldnt even put an iv in her skin was so hard. when she (literally) defrosted she had only minor injuries (I seem to remember she only lost a few toes to frostbite)

"We don't have any sensory neurons in our brains" Me with a splitting headache from too much close up youtube: you don't say...

"Honey, I won't be home tonight, I have a pipe in my mouth. It's very deep."

I can just imagine the last guy telling his stories to his grandkids.. and those children telling the stories to friends and teachers in class and they answer like "you really believe that? Dude he is lying to you" while it's actually true

I would love to know the actual odds for my own survival. In 2016, I survived a brain aneurysm rupture with no immediate complications. Most people die pretty darn quickly when a blood vessel in their brain ruptures. It causes just too much damage for human survival. Usually there are no known symptoms for the aneurysm forming too. If they survive the rupture, most people are affected immediately by stroke-like issues (partial paralysis, etc). Me? I had symptoms (that no one recognized as such) of the aneurysm forming for over a year before it ruptured. I also suffered through a leak about 2 months before it ruptured completely (when I went to the ER, testing was thought to be too much radiation and I was simply offered opioids). Once my aneurysm fully ruptured, I was shuttled to several hospitals until we found one that had neurosurgery and went immediately into surgery. After 26 days in the ICU, I was released with absolutely no physical complications and no mental complications (until this year, the damage to my brain led to epilepsy). I've been told that there just simply are NO odds for my experience. It just doesn't happen. I think my Ehlers-Danlos genetic mutation helped by making my body flexible enough to survive through the experience.

Seriously, I have had RPG characters that have been nowhere close to a life as eventful as that last guy!

4:22. I think being paralyzed is worse than death. After receiving an epidural and being unable to move my legs, I want to devote some research towards paralysis.

As a plumber I had a helper who showed me the newspaper clipping of an x ray. He had fallen off a roof in Kissimmee and landed with a long piece of rebar through is neck. He was a good helper. Also made the best moonshine ever.

Russian nobles: HES TOO DANGEROUS TO BE KEPT ALIVE!!! Ra Ra Rasputin: *laughs in invincible*

Dude man got shot 12 times imagine how many germans he killed

Holy Crap! Shot all those times, survives with no antibiotics! The man was a walking human antibiotic!!

I'm surprised even the grim reaper was able to take that general's life!!! I'm going to assume the only way he did it is because the general was ready to go and he allowed it.

In the future, insane stories about human survival are going to start with: "It was 2020..."

I've seen the video of Peng before (to anyone interested, it's on Liveleak), had no idea he lived through that. Dude's just laying there on the side of the road, fiddling around with his guts, poking at his lower torso that's lying next to him, and talking to bystanders. A couple times he arches his back upward to get a better look at his torso and the expression on his face just reads "goddamnit."

I think this is the chill side of vsauce

Joe: “Peng Shuilin was cut in half!” Me: “how does he pee?”

I love the fact that he called jaw recovery “getting back into the swing of things” idk if that wordplay was intended or not

"There are pictures on-line." So of course, I just HAD to look ... Pictures?! There is a VIDEO! A video of Peng Shuilin laying on the ground, cut in half and STILL moving. And talking. Cars and motorcycles driving by, people standing around ... It's like FIVE minutes long! And by the end, the ambulance STILL hasn't arrived O_o

*Person who gets shot once* -Dies *Dude gets shot like twenty times* "Ha Weaklings"

My dad is a huge fan of yours. He was a LRRP in Veitbam..These guys performed a very interesting job that required a lot of courage. There are so many interesting stories to be told about them yet most people have never heard of them. They are on par with SEALS , Green Berets and any other elite unit. If you did a video about them it would make a lot of vets reaching the end of their lives very happy,, including my father.

dante: "OH, hahaha!! Oh, you- thats... wow, you got my good doc you- hahaha... ohhh thats funny stuff... but seriously why do i feel nauseous?" docter: stares* dante: "Oh holy SH-"

"But Tide pods" no joke most relevant argument of the year, lol.

5:43 Dude had a real-life "Final Destination" experience.

See also: Lachhiman Gurung, a Gorkha(Nepali) soldier who survived a grenade blast in hands to save his team. Later survived full horde of Japanese armed soldiers all by himself and only a hand and succesful in his duty and finally awarded victoria cross..

Shoulda talked about one of the two famous women who survived 30,000+ feet plunges from commercial airplane crashes. Maybe they weren’t included because it’s happened more than once, but the one girl (a teenager mind you) who ended up in the Amazon and survived for 10 days in the wild with a broken leg, severe concussion, and broken collarbone is LEGENDARY.

I survived stepping on lego... Beat that 😉😂

I gotta love Peng's story. Dude's evident sense of self-deprecating humour in the face of tremendous adversity is hilarious and inspiring.

Just found this channel yesterday and I love it! You're a natural teacher and explain things in such an entertaining and informative way. I love finding new channels that I love...gives me something to binge lol. Great channel!!

My organs tried to kill me. Lack of insulin (shit’s expensive and I was SO broke!) caused most organs to go into basically power-saver mode (yes, my heart did stop) but two weeks later, I was cleared to go home. Joe’s expression at 9:12 reminds me of my friend’s expression as she watched a nurse pull 41cm of tubing out of my arm. I wanted to look…. The nurse actually had to hold my head in place so I wouldn’t. Felt really weird… I still have the 2mm scar where the tubing was inserted. 2mm may sound small, but measure it on yourself on, say, the inside of your wrist. Suddenly, in looks freaking *huge*!

"Frankly, I enjoyed this video"

Joe: says the word Rasputin Me: RA RA RASPUTIN LOVER OF THE RUSSIAN QUEEN-

My favorite survival story is that of Allison Botha. She survived being disembowled and having her neck cut from ear to ear, she crawled her way to the road holding her guts and her head in place, they say there was only like a few inch strip of flesh holding her head to the rest of her body and she managed to survive that. Strong does not even begin to describe her.

Dude that nailgun story is wild. The exact same thing happened to my grandpa. He still suffers from seizures and his mental state has been reduced quite a bit. I've been told ever since the injury he has been a lot more, childish. He has a harder time controlling his emotions.

*drives into a fence* *gets pole jabbed into mouth* *pulls out phone* *takes selfie*

The guy that was cut in half got pretty good at doing pushups I see.

I've had 2 brushes with death myself. When I was 5 weeks old, my step dad accidentally dropped me down the stairs, causing a severe brain hemorrhage which could've killed me. I was stat flighted to a trauma hospital and didn't sustain any major permanent damage. Then last year, at the end of July, I was in a severe wreck that caused 6 broken vertebrae in my upper back, 4 in my neck, broke the base of my skull, a broken shoulder, broken and dislocated elbow, several broken ribs, a collapsed lung, and another brain hemorrhage. I was so lucky to have made it out of the wreck and avoid paralysis. I was, once again, stat flighted to a trauma hospital. I now have rods in my back and a plate in my shoulder. I still have lots of pain, but at least I'm here.

I love your videos so much! I'm glad RU-vid recommended your channel. I've been binging them as I workout and crochet. I like how you can listen or watch and still get a great experience. Thanks for making such great and researched content!!!

My daughter's husband my son-in-law, he was in a severe accident when he was 13 he was riding a bike hit a car going downhill extremely fast and had his arm severed off at the shoulder and then a severe head injury amongst tons of other issues internal bleeding comatose and then they reattached his arm. In fact he was able to play guitar again. He had to learn to walk talk all that again and had his arm reattached even though it was pretty mangled but still he could have an arm again. His arm swelled up down at the forearm then it had to have a fasciotomy on that arm. He has a 12 inch scar up his stomach a 6in scar up his forearm scars all over the place on his body and was left with very little tricep muscle and tons of skin grafts and surgeries and a 4 to 6 inch scar on his inner thigh where they removed his artery from his leg to use it in his arm amongst the huge scar on his forearm and the huge scar and missing flesh from his left arm. If that wasn't enough years later at 37 and this is less than a couple years ago he had suffered a severe stroke my daughter found him after work laying on the floor for over 8 hours. Stop breathing my daughter gave him CPR till the ambulance got there he was close to death but he has recovered quite a bit and is still recovering and is now paralyzed on his right side but he is getting better he's able to walk with a cane and a brace has a lot of effects from it but then not long after got a severe infection in his leg and then he had a minor heart attack but a heart attack which he had surgery on his heart and then he ended up with stage 4 kidney disease which Now is better he is at a stage 3 now. I'm sure there is some things I'm leaving out LOL. other issues , he's definitely been through a lot hopefully this is the end of things but with his record who knows LOL . Sorry for the long ass comment.

Gets hit by a car going 75 miles per hour and then is called “lucky” 😜That’s why I don’t believe in luck. Lol

Just wanna say that I love ur channel. It's one of the best channels on RU-vid in general. To the point, not too too serious. I have adhd but the way you speak is broken into compounds and I absorb all the information better. Plus I absolutely love that your videos aren't littered with ads.

“Don’t try this at home” Me: *slowly drops knife*

Sam o Nella did a video on someone who survived a barrage of stuff. It's about Michael Malloy.

These survival stories are nothing, my girlfriend made me watch Greys Anatomy... I barely made it out alive

#1 is well beyond the “Thank you for your service” stage, he’s more like at the “DAAYYUUUUM!” level!

5:50 and that sneak response you did....I always come back to it just to make my day

There was an old Victorian railway worker, testing the explosives for a tunnel, he poked a stick of dynamite with a metal rod, it exploded and launched the rod through his skull

Great video Joe! As a nurse it always amazes me that some people can live through horrible mutilations but other times they die from a scratch that got infected.

Damn, I thought I was pretty bad ass after surviving getting blown up at work in 2012 and a year later surviving a heart attack where I drove myself to the hospital.

My wife and I love this video so much. Joe, you add just the right amount of humor.

Rasputin: god mode enabled Aggressors:poison Aggressors:shoot Aggressors: hit with clubs Aggressors:roll up in carpet and put into river Rasputin: unravels himself River: server error Rasputin: Godmode.dll has stopped working

Great episode. Steve Callahan's survival story is my all-time favorite. His sailboat sinks in the ocean and he survives 76 days in a rubber life raft. He wrote a great book about it and the TV series 'I Shouldn't be Alive' dramatized it in an episode of that show. I highly recommend it.

i am obsessed with your videos lately...great content + humor...very inspiring

This is the second video i've seen on this channel and I already love it. Keep it up man!

"That's something I shouldn't have to say but......... Tide pods."

I survived stubbing my toe... top that.

I named my rescued snake after Sir Adrian, he only had one eye and looked like he was in a dog fight. I loved that lil guy, he was fierce

It hurt me when he said "a herd of dolphins." I am in pain. Both mentally AND physically.

I have never cringed so hard in my life when they showed the recreation of that pipe going through that guy’s throat. 🥶

me: gets bit by a shark me: *finds the shark and bits it back*

There were 2 brothers who worked as skyscraper window cleaners. The ropes broke when they were on the 47th floor. One of them survived and recovered completely without any permanent damage.

Thirty years ago I worked for surgery and trauma services. We had gentleman who was mud running, went off the side of the road where an old waterline pipe came up through the floorboard and through his abdomen. He was very lucky that the pipe did not hit one internal organ.

“I shouldn’t have to say this but.... tide pods” 😂😂

Hey Joe, since you apparently LOVE stories about badass people who had really crazy lives, you NEED to look up into the bio of Jack Churchill. This guy fought in the second world war armed with a sword, a bow and arrows, and a bagpipe. I swear I'm not making any of this up, and there are absolutely incredible anecdotes about this guy.

Hey there Joe, I really enjoy your videos, I learn something new with each one and laugh while doing it. I currently have Covid 19 and am trapped in my apartment all alone, your videos are keeping me from going bat shit crazy! Thank you to you and your team for all of your time and energy that you put into this channel! ~Big fan, Britt B

I have watched many of your videos, love them...very clever! Enjoying! Thanks!

I once met a nice old man who had been in a war(can’t remember what war), he was shot in the head and he never had it removed!apparently it missed all the important parts of his brain and he said it would have been more dangerous to remove it rather than keep it in. He was in like his late 50s to mid 60s and he was more active than me!

I stub my toe on a corner and I yell. The dude survives like 8 bullets, 2 plane crashes, and becoming a POW 2 times and dies peacefully at the mf age of 80

I stumbled on this video, your funny, well spoken, and entertaining. Great job

It’s so good to hear that Peng survived. I saw a video of the aftermath of his accident, him lying in the middle of the street in pieces while COMPLETELY conscious, on LiveLeak awhile back...I just assumed he’d died. Something similar but involving a forklift happened to a kid named Loren Schaulers and he and his wife have a RU-vid channel I subscribe to where they document his journey. Inspirational stuff!

One of the best channels on RU-vid, deserves more recognition.

Please tell me that number one has a fucking movie or something because holy shit I would watch that in a heartbeat

It's the dead pan face, I'm telling you - a flawless delivery! Thanks for the chuckles and "things to think about" - definitely needed that on this Wednesday! 🥰

I can't believe I just found this channel! I love this

A "Pod" of Dolphins. Not a herd. They are not the Tide Pod of Dolphins either.

Doctor: you have a 3 inch nail in you're head... Man: hahaha..wait really? *Man gets a pole through his mouth and break* Man: hey I'ma text my dog real quick.

the guy cut in half is a badass! after that incident, he starts a business and has a sense of humor about it? no quit in that guy, gotta have respect for that.

I love how hard you make me laugh!🤣❤ Not sure why but you just hit my hilarious spot in my psych! Love watching your videos!