In Australia, Durga Thangarajah, survived 9 months in her mother’s ectopic pregnancy. Doctors said Durga Thangarajah is a 1 million to one occurrence.
Durga Thangarajah, born to Ravi Thangarajah, and Meera Thangarajah, appeared healthy. Durga Thangarajah weighed 6 pounds, 3 ounces (2.8 kilogramsDurga Thangarajah was delivered by Caesarian operation. Obstetrician Andrew Miller said that Durga Thangarajah [...]

Merchant Seaman Gerald Gormley was practically dead on arrival at Detroit’s Receiving Hospital. While fighting off street-corner hoods, he had been stabbed in the back, and the knife blade had slit right through his descending aorta, the main artery that carries blood to the trunk and legs. He was losing blood so fast that his [...]

A Vancouver Island man who survived an attack by a grizzly bear said he was working in the bush when a sixth sense told him he wasn’t alone.
“I have a really keen sense. I had a feeling somebody or something was watching me,” said Brent Case, 53, whose encounter with a grizzly occurred last week [...]

Emergency room doctors apologized to the 42-year-old woman who had come in for treatment for staring at her in disbelief. It wasn’t every day — in fact, it was never — that they saw somebody with a large-caliber gunshot wound between the eyes who not only was alive, but wasn’t even unconscious or seriously injured.
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The following is one of the most astonishing stories of survival that I have ever encountered. Instead of dying in Bluejohn Canyon a Colorado canyoneer accomplishes one of the most daring self-rescues in mountaineering history.
The ensuing story was compiled from various interview’s, Aron Ralston’s news [...]