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Deadly Misadventures

The Luckiest Unluckiest Man

Deadly Misadventures

Deadly Misadventures | Wondery

Exhibit C, Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.6929 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

A Croatian man named Frane Selak has got to be either the luckiest man alive or the unluckiest. Whether you’re someone who sees the glass as being half full or half empty, Frane’s glass has definitely been filled with deadly misadventures.


Writing and Research:

Stephanie Moore


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1:03.0

Listener discretion is advised.

1:05.0

A Croatian man named Frainsilac has got to be either the luckiest man alive or the unluckiest.

1:14.6

Whether you're someone who sees the glass half full or half empty,

1:19.7

Frains Glass has definitely been filled with deadly misadventures.

1:25.2

Having narrowly escaped seven brushes with death, it would appear that although life doesn't

1:31.6

seem to want Frank's lack, death won't have him either.

1:37.3

In this tale of faulty planes, trains and automobiles, you can decide. If if brain survival was really a case of

1:45.5

embellishment or had it indeed all come down to luck. A roll of the dice

1:51.9

in this episode of Deadly Misadventures. Frain Salak was born on June 14th, 1929 in the former part of Yugoslavia, which is now known as Croatia.

2:13.0

He was a music teacher by trade

2:15.0

and a deadly misadventure by night.

2:18.0

He lived a mostly unremarkable life up until his 32nd year.

2:22.0

In January, 1962, while riding a commuter train,

2:26.0

Fate gave him his first glimpse at his future.

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