Violet Jessop watched the Titanic sink beneath her feet in 1912. Four years later, she survived the sinking of its sister ship. Then she lived through a third maritime disaster. What are the odds that the same person survives not one, but three major shipwrecks?
Mar 13, 2026
Roy Sullivan, a Virginia park ranger, was struck by lightning seven separate times over 35 years — and walked away from every single one. The odds against that happening are so astronomical they barely qualify as numbers, yet the universe apparently had a grudge.
Mar 13, 2026