THIS is the baffling story of the world’s unluckiest lotto winner, who claims to have cheated death seven times before scooping a £600,000 jackpot.
Frano Selak, a former music teacher, died in 2016 aged 87 – after buying the winning ticket in Croatia in 2005 to celebrate his fifth marriage.
He said he survived train and plane crashes as well as an assortment of other near-death experiences.
His first lucky escape allegedly came in 1962, when a train he was on plunged into an icy river, killing seventeen people.
This was followed by him being thrown out of a plane in 1963, a bus crash in 1966, car fires in 1970 and ’73, another bus crash (this time he was hit by one) in 1995, and his car toppling off a 300ft cliff in 1996, he claims.
Frano said that each time he either escaped with minor injuries or managed to escape the vehicle in question, including by falling into a haystack and landing in a cliffside tree.
To top it all off, the ticket that netted him the sum was his first ever time playing the lottery.
Now, though, he wants to give away his money because it “can’t buy happiness”.
He told The Telegraph: “All I need at my age is my Katarina. Money would not change anything.
“When she arrived I knew then that I really did have a charmed, blessed life.
“I never thought I was lucky to survive all my brushes with death. I thought I was unlucky to be in them in the first place.”
He has reportedly sold his luxury home on a private island and given hefty sums to friends and family, but says he has never been happier.
All he is keeping is enough for a hip replacement to allow him to spend time with his wife and to build a shrine to the Virgin Mary to give thanks for his luck.
It comes after we gave an inside look into the life of a tragic lotto winner who said his £9 million prize “ruined” his life as he drank himself to death.
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