There is a popular quote by Dr. Wayne Dyer that reads,

If you change the way you look at things,

the things you look at things,

change. One of those things is luck. As a concept, it's pretty subjective. Is someone

lucky to survive a tragedy or a horrific accident? Or are they unlucky for having to live through them at all.

Take Violet Jessup who is aboard the Titanic and the Britannica when they both sank.

Or Tuzomo Yamaguchi, the only known survivor of both the both hit by a meteorite while sitting on her couch.

Or how about good old Roy Sullivan,

who was struck by lightning more than seven times?

Like the book series of the same name,

some may view their lives as a series of unfortunate events.

It's hard to look at it in any other way when outside forces seem to pull the strings

and place individuals on the path of repeated difficulties.

But sometimes there are those who claim to be stuck in this pattern of unfavorable occurrences,

and instead of sympathizing with them, we dealt them,

because they happen to be in the wrong place

at the wrong time just often enough

for us to all question if they aren't the victim of such tragedies,

but rather the author of them.

Welcome to National Park After Dark. after dark. So this is going to be a tragic story.

Yes it is.

It's a true crime story. So this is going to be a tragic story?

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