Guys, we put our soul into the site. Thank you for that
that you are discovering this beauty. Thanks for the inspiration and goosebumps.
Join us on Facebook And In contact with

“Love will come unexpectedly when you least expect it,” says a famous song. And numerous life examples confirm: true love can find you at the most inopportune time and in the most unexpected place.

We are in website found 15 evidence that Cupid is a prankster, and his arrows can pierce your heart in court, during an accident, and at a doctor’s appointment.

I worked as a sushi chef in a nightclub and, as it turned out, I prepared an order for my future wife. When she tried the sushi, she said that she wanted to thank the chef personally. I went out to her after kneading hot sauce Wasabi is in tears. She said: “There is no need for tears, because I wanted to thank you.” I replied: “It’s me out of happiness.”
Well, then it started to spin and spin... 6 years together. Pikabu

17 years ago I met my wife in line for a water slide. Here's a photo from the night we met to now.

We studied in the same class in high school, but were in two completely different companies. Evan was one of the most popular girls in school, and I was just a lanky nerd (as you can see in the top photo). We exchanged jokes, but nothing else happened. 7 years later I found Evan at in social networks, and we started talking again. We fell in love with each other. I finally got the girl of my dreams! Beware of the know-it-alls at school, we always come back! Instagram

3 years ago I accidentally saw a video of a singing girl on YouTube, and she captivated me with her singing. I left a comment: “Are you real? I feel like I'm in love!" I found her on Instagram and followed her account, but she didn't follow back. Still, I sometimes followed her page. After some time, she moved to my city, I came to the event where she performed, and was finally able to meet her. And a year later I got what I really wanted for my birthday: an engagement to my sweet Ellie! Instagram

We were 32 when Justin and I found each other on a dating site. When we first met, Justin said he liked my name because his first love was a girl named Amy in kindergarten. I jokingly told him that I didn't want to hear about the other Amy who wasn't me. A month into our relationship, I asked Justin where he got the scar above his eye. He told me it was because he fell at the "old daycare center." And then something clicked in my head: “Justin! We are the same age! We went to kindergarten at the same time!” We immediately called our moms and made them dig through old photos. Of course, my mom found a photo of our kindergarten group with Justin and I sitting next to each other! It confirmed that we were, in fact, preschoolers in love and, moreover, that we were destined to be together from the very beginning.

About 2 years after we started dating, I wrote a letter to a TV show about our story. Soon we were invited to appear on television, and another surprise awaited me. During live broadcast At the preschool we once attended together, Justin asked the preschoolers to write on signs: “Amy, will you marry me? Give me a second chance! Instagram

I met my future husband thanks to a traffic accident. I drove onto the icy asphalt and lost control, the car spun and drifted into the oncoming lane. Another car was inexorably approaching, and I thought it was the end, but the driver managed to react. He turned the steering wheel and only hit my car sideways. Both of our cars were in poor condition, but most importantly, we survived! 3 weeks after the accident we had our first date. Instagram

And that’s how it was with us... I’ve been dating a guy from my building since school, I waited for him to return from the army, we were preparing for the wedding. But one day everything collapsed. He went to visit relatives in another city. After 3 weeks, a girl arrived from there and became pregnant from him. His and her parents insisted on marriage. The wedding day they set was the same day as my best friend's wedding. I didn’t want to go - I’m in mourning. But my mother literally forced me to go, so as not to look at my ex in the role of someone else’s fiancé (let me remind you, we are from the same building). In short, I went to a friend’s wedding so as not to poison my soul at home. And here we are standing at the entrance, waiting for the groom, girlfriend and friends, they drive up, and it so happened that we met eyes with the witness - and that’s it, we disappeared. All my sufferings faded into the background from that day on. We will soon be 26 years married. Therefore, everything that is done is for the better. Pikabu

I was walking with my dog ​​named Stanley in the park. Suddenly Stanley broke off the leash and ran away. When I caught up with him, he had someone else’s tennis ball in his teeth. Soon the owner of the ball was revealed - a cute dog, and an equally handsome man followed her. He introduced himself as Greg and the dog's name was Sally. We spent the rest of our time in the park, throwing a tennis ball to our dogs and talking. Greg then asked for my phone number and sent me a text that same day asking me out on a date. A year later, the four of us began to live together: me, Greg, Stanley and Sally. There is a lot of dog hair in our house. And love. Greg, I'm so glad my dog ​​stole your dog's tennis ball that day. Instagram

The battalion commander told me this story. In 1985, he graduated from a military university in the capital. As an excellent student, he was asked to continue military service in the GDR. But Oleg was not married, and to be sent to the GDR he had to be married. Time to get married is a day. If he doesn’t make it in time, he will miss the chance to serve abroad. With these thoughts, Oleg woke up at a public transport stop. A pretty girl stood nearby, and modest Oleg, not expecting such a move from himself, gave her something like the following speech:

Young woman! I ask you to listen to me to the end, do not leave right away. I was offered to serve in Germany, but for this I need to get married tomorrow. I have no candidacy for the role of a wife, and I invite you to become my wife. We will go to Germany together, if things work out, we will be husband and wife, if not, we will get divorced.

The girl was at first taken aback, and then suddenly said:

Let's try. What is your name?

Oleg. Do you have your passport with you? The registry office is still open, military personnel are registered immediately, I have all the documents with me.

From the registry office they went to the bride's parents.

Mother, father! Meet my husband Oleg. Tomorrow he and I are leaving for Germany.

The father was the first to approach the young people and hug them. The mother, barely finding a chair, sat down on it and began to cry.

Then they gave a telegram to the groom's parents. The evening of the next day, Oleg and his wife left.

Oleg told us this story in 2004. By that time they had been married for 19 years. They have 2 children. Pikabu

I recently got married. My wife and I thought we first met as adults, but it turns out that our mothers were once best friends. This photo was shown at our wedding under the title "First Meeting".

Happened to me a couple of years ago interesting story acquaintance. I was studying in Vilnius at the time and decided to go to Berlin for the weekend to see the city. I planned to stay at a hostel, but when I entered the metro car, all my money and cards were stolen. The arriving policeman only drew up a report and advised us to contact the embassy, ​​which was not open on the weekend. In general, I was left without money and food for 2 days, I only had a return ticket. I went on couchsurfing and looked at who recently wrote to me from Berlin (I advertised a few days in advance that I would be in the city). I contacted one guy (Ukrainian by nationality, but had been in Germany for a long time), he picked me up from the station, and the next day we didn’t want to part. A week later he came to me in Vilnius, and then to Minsk. And yesterday we got married. Pikabu

Kathleen was my first friend: I was 2 years old and she was 8 months younger when our parents “introduced” us. When I was 5, my family moved from Switzerland to the United States and lost contact with Kathleen's family for many years. Only with the advent of Facebook did our families find each other. Soon Kathleen and her parents visited us in the USA. I was 18 and she was 17 years old. I felt sympathy for her, but soon they left and the connection was interrupted again. And a few years later my mother died. I was in a terrible state when Kathleen suddenly wrote to me on Facebook, expressing her condolences. We began to correspond.

One day I asked her: “What would have happened if I had never left Switzerland?” And she replied: “Well, we probably would have been together.” This phrase changed everything. For 7 whole years we maintained love at a distance, but in the end we overcame all obstacles and got married. Instagram

We met in court - we acted as representatives of opposite sides. He simply ridiculed my peremptory manner of doing business. Not only did he argue with me, he also teased me! I'm chomping at the bit. The process was enchanting, we “quarreled intelligently” and sorted things out even behind the doors of the hall. One day, after another meeting, he called me to breakfast. He said that if he won the case, he would get me as the cherry on the cake. Ham! As he said goodbye, he said that, according to the law on consumer protection, he has the right to try a complex, unfamiliar product, and kissed him. “Clown,” I thought. - Fuck, you’ll win against me!” But soon we got to the first date and in the process of choosing a place to sit, we came to the conclusion that he himself knows how to cook, so we went to his house. Now he jokingly swears that he decided to feed him on his own. A couple of months later we rented an apartment together, a year later our son was born, and another 5 years later our second son was born. That's how we live. By the way, I still won the case. Pikabu

I was a divorced 30-year-old woman with 3 children and a successful career, and I had absolutely no time to deal with my personal life. And what man would sign up for this? At that time, I was looking for a house to buy with a mortgage. The mortgage manager turned out to be a very friendly guy, we talked a lot and joked on the phone. One day I walked into his office to sign some papers and he said, “I have a good friend, would you like to go on a date with him?” I laughed: “Who would be interested in a woman with 3 small children?” But in the end, he finally persuaded me to go on a blind date. And so I was sitting at a table in a cafe, and then he himself came in... It was like in a movie. Still, I didn't make any serious plans until he met my kids and saw all the chaos. Oddly enough, my crazy life didn’t scare him. Now we live together in the house that he helped me buy.

During my student days, I lived in a dorm, and in the next women’s dorm there lived a major girl (at that time). They sent her as much as 5,000 rubles a month from home! And she rarely needed food. I learned about this from a friend who was behind her for a long time hit. Soon I got to know her, gained her trust and from time to time began to ask to borrow food. At night I secretly made my way to the women's dorm, where they fed me. I began to bring food to my “cellmates.” We began to live in luxury: lard, bread, butter, sweets, pasta. Felt the taste of wealth. One day my beloved told her mother about me. And what do you think? Mom started sending food to me too! It was then that I realized that I had completely fallen in love. Pikabu

Bonus

• We met through an escape room. He was an actor in this quest. Even though it was dark and scary, I smelled his perfume and said he smelled divine. That same day he found me on social networks. We are having a wedding in the summer. Pikabu
• I got the dates mixed up and took a train ticket a day later than I should have. And so I got on the train, angry and despicable, and also discovered that in my lower seat some guy had laid down and was sleeping! I wanted to wake him up and express my complaints, but then I saw that his leg was in a cast. I regretted it and lay down on the top shelf. Then in the morning we drank tea together. Our eldest son recently turned 17. Two more are 10 and 9. Pikabu
• My parents met in a very interesting way. My father, working as a police lieutenant, came to conduct a search at a warehouse illegally selling some products. At that time, my mother worked as a watchman at that same warehouse. During the interrogation, dad realized that he had fallen in love. Pikabu
• We met... in the morgue. Medical students attend autopsies on dead patients. Well, here I go. And he was a pathologist in this morgue. He and I argued about why the patient died, and I ended up being right. He invited me to dinner as an apology for the mistake. And then everything started spinning and spinning. Pikabu
• I moved to a new department at work, where he was the deputy head. He came up to me and asked what kind of terrible tattoo I had on my arm. I decided that he was scary and that his jokes were stupid. But then we started talking and talked non-stop for three days. After these three days, we decided to joke and submit an application to the registry office. More precisely, he asked: “When is the registry office?” - and I said: “Come on tomorrow!” And we took each other weakly. A month later they had a glorious wedding. In November 2018, we celebrated 3 years of marriage. He is my man through and through! The same idiotic jokes, views on life, food preferences. I love him very much! Pikabu

Do you know stories of unusual acquaintances? Share in the comments.

Dr. Mark was a well-known specialist in the field of oncology. One day he was going to a very important conference in another city, where he was to be awarded a prize in the field of medical research.

He was very worried, because at this conference his many years of work were to be assessed. However, two hours after the plane took off, it made an emergency landing at a nearby airport due to some technical problem.

The doctor was afraid he wouldn’t make it in time, so he rented a car and drove himself to the city where the conference was to be held. However, soon after he left, the weather turned bad and a strong storm began.

Because of heavy rain he took a wrong turn and got lost. After two hours of fruitless driving, he realized that he was lost. He felt hungry and terribly tired, so he decided to look for somewhere to stay.

After some time, he finally came across a small, decrepit house. Desperate, he got out of the car and knocked on the door. The door opened beautiful woman. He explained himself and asked her to use the phone.

However, the woman told him that she did not have a phone, but that he could come in and wait until the weather improved. The hungry, wet and tired doctor accepted her kind offer and entered. The lady gave him hot tea and something to eat.

The lady said he could join her in prayer. But, Dr. Mark smiled and said that he only believes in hard work and refused. Sitting at the table and drinking tea, the doctor watched the woman in the dim candlelight as she prayed next to the crib.

The doctor understood that the woman needed help, so when she finished praying, he asked her what exactly she wanted from God and did she really think that he would ever hear her prayers. And then he asked about small child in the crib near which she prayed.

The lady smiled sadly and said that the baby in the crib is her son who is suffering from a rare type of cancer and there is only one doctor, his name is Mark, who can cure him, but she does not have the money to afford him, besides, Doctor Mark lives in another city.

She said God still hasn't answered her prayer, but she knows he will help her and nothing will break her faith. Stunned and distraught speech dr. Mark just burst into tears.

He whispered, God is great and remembered everything that happened to him today: a malfunction in the plane, heavy rain, because of which he lost his way.

And all this happened because the powers not only answered her prayer, but also gave him a chance to get out of material world and help the poor unfortunate people who have nothing but prayer.

Modern man lost in the forest with mobile phone at hand, he immediately enters the search for what to do. And he may find some good advice, the first of which will be: don’t panic.

The work of rescue services is organized in such a way that you can call “112” without using a SIM card, if this is not the territory of your telecom operator. The main thing is that the lost person can explain where he is.

And to do this, you need to be attentive in the forest, be able to notice such signs as the quarter post (and there are special marks on it), remember which highway you went to the forest from, what rivers, lakes, and settlements are nearby. But let's look in order at which actions are best to take and which ones should not be done!

Action Reminder

• If you realize that you are lost, stop and calmly examine everything you see around you. Listen to the sounds of the forest. The barking of dogs coming from a distance (heard at a distance of 2-3 km), the voices of people, the sounds of operating equipment, railway(a running train can be heard at a distance of up to 10 km) can tell you the direction of travel.
• May I help tall tree, which you can climb on and examine the surroundings from above.
• If you have reached rescuers and are sure that they are looking for you, it is better to stay in one place and light a fire. The smoke will reveal your location.
• You can knock on wood with a stick from time to time; these sounds can be heard over long distances.
• If your cell phone is dead and you have to find your way on your own, try to navigate by the sun: to do this, you need to remember in which direction the nearest settlement is or where you came from. In the early morning the sun is in the east, moves to the south closer to noon, and drops to the west by 19 o'clock. If the night sky is cloudless, you can find the North Star, which will show the direction to the north. The polar star is not the brightest in the entire sky, but the most noticeable in the constellation Ursa Minor, which is shaped like a ladle. The North Star is located at the end of the handle of this bucket. At night, at the risk of getting injured in the dark, you should not move; you can only determine and remember the direction.
• A reminder if you get lost in the forest suggests that you need to leave evidence of your stay in a particular place: a handkerchief tied to a tree, chocolate packaging, notches in trees, an arrow made of stones, etc.

• If during inspection you find a trail, determine whether it is an animal trail. The animal trail, of course, will lead you to a watering hole, and from it you can find a stream or river, following the flow of which sooner or later you will reach a populated area. But encountering wild animals once again not worth it. If the branches of the bushes close in the area of ​​your chest, then the path is an animal one. Be careful!
• If there is no daylight, you should not move further. Organize your overnight stay: before dark, gather enough fuel to last until the morning, and materials to make a fire. Dig up (or clear) the area of ​​the fire (there should be no flammable materials around the fire for 1-1.5 meters), stock up on water for boiling and drinking and for fire prevention in dry weather.

• Go to sleep not with your feet or head towards the fire, but with your side, parallel. Each tourist prepares matches in advance to eliminate the risk of getting wet: they cover them with wax top part each match, stores them in a hermetically sealed tin case, stores separately the part of the box suitable for igniting the match head.
• If your food supplies are running low, you can look for nuts, mushrooms, and catch fish if you have gear and bait. But you should remember that mushrooms are cooked by draining the boiled water twice. And they select those whose names they know for sure as edible.
• If you are sleeping by the fire, you should not be afraid of an attack from animals; they themselves are afraid of people and fire, and will not attack unless provoked on purpose or by accident. Just be careful and calm.

What not to do

While waiting for rescuers, you should not move around randomly changing directions. It is better to stay in one place or move to where people are if you understand exactly where it is by seeing a power line, gas pipeline and some other precise landmarks.

You should not keep your mobile phone on all the time and explain to relatives who want to talk to you for a long time that the phone may run out of charge before help is on the way and you may actually need the phone.

To the list of what you should not do when lost in the forest, you should add the inadmissibility of drinking unboiled water obtained from natural sources, and immediately eat all the reserves, without distributing them into equal parts for at least the next 3-4 days.

When the food runs out, the forest will not let you disappear. In the summer, you can try cooking burdock root, which tastes like potatoes. We have already mentioned mushrooms; you can’t get enough of berries. In winter, tree bark will do as a last resort. Connoisseurs of edible vegetation will definitely look for wild sorrel, orchis, wood sorrel, young shoots of sorrel, etc. in the summer.

You should not build one large fire; it will be more difficult to maintain than several small ones, which are also easier to see from the outside. Even in the rain, you can find dry leaves and branches in the forest if you look under fallen trees. When throwing branches, try not to block the air supply to the initially weakly smoldering flame. When leaving the parking lot, carefully extinguish the fire.

If you see that it is approaching evening and darkness, stop moving and searching, and start arranging your lodgings for the night. The bedding can be made from spruce branches, and from the branches of other trees - a canopy or hut. They will protect from wind and rain.

You shouldn’t fight sleep; the body needs rest in such a situation. If stress keeps you from sleeping, think that morning will come very soon, and help will appear there.

Having set up a parking lot, conduct reconnaissance in different directions, each time indicating with symbols addressed to rescuers in which direction you are going. Try not to deviate from the intended course and leave signs to return to the parking lot before dark. In films and books about lost people, characters “walk in circles” in the forest. This actually happens, because the right leg makes movements with a little more force than the left. If you do not select any landmarks, the movement will not occur in a straight line. As a rule, those who stay in one place and do not confuse their own tracks are found faster. Move away from the parking lot to search only if you are firmly confident in your abilities.

It is impossible not to think through the upcoming steps, because this threatens with unpleasant consequences.

Anyone who prepares for everything in advance will not be afraid if he does get lost in the forest. And it is quite possible to prepare in advance, you just need to follow a few rules:

• inform all relatives and friends about your plans, it’s even better to familiarize them with a map of the intended route and return time, arrange “control calls” with someone;
• recharge your cell phone and top up your balance; in addition to your mobile phone, it’s good to have a mechanical watch with you;
• put a whistle around your neck;
• dress brighter and take the same clothes in reserve;
• all the essentials should be in your backpack: matches in a pencil case + wrapped in plastic, a compass, a supply of food (if canned food is hard, stock up dried meat and fish, now it’s easy to buy them), water, first aid kit, hatchet, pot, insect repellent, dry alcohol tablets for lighting.

Quite often, children go into the forest without permission, without informing their parents about it.

To prevent a child from disappearing in the forest, it is worth teaching him:

• use cell phone, telling you where to call emergency situations: 112 (rescue), 102 (police), 103 ( ambulance, if there is an injury);
• equip the child’s clothes with reflective elements (on the sleeves and trousers, or let him wear a special vest), in the dark the baby will have a better chance of quick rescue;
• the child must be sure that the search will not stop until his location is found;
• conduct conversations about the behavior of wild animals in relation to a person who does not bother them;
• equip your child with a whistle, let him always have it with him, for this it is enough to accustom him to play moments that everyone is able to invent in their family;
• Go on hikes with your children, gradually teaching them how to navigate the forest and behave competently.

For lost people, getting lost is always a surprise, so being prepared is very important. good habit. When this happens, neither age nor fitness level matters. It is very important in this situation not to become dehydrated and not to lose the will to live. Since childhood, the advice instilled in us that moss grows on the north side of a tree does not work, because there are many reasons why this does not happen. Be sure that even if you can’t call the number (the battery is dead, the phone is lost, etc.), they will find you if at least one relative knows or has an idea where you might have gone.

Rescuers even find travelers who are lagging behind their tourist groups. Only in the summer of 2017, within 24 hours, a teenager was found who had fallen behind a group of St. Petersburg residents in Karelia near the village. Shalsky. In June of the same year, rescuers found a four-year-old boy who had gone offshore into a tent and gotten lost in the forest near Yekaterinburg.

Many other examples can be given. But every mushroom picker, fisherman, and tourist should remember that searches will be useless if a person fails to take care of himself and does not follow the wise advice of experienced people!

Especially for our readers, we have made a selection of the most beautiful and wise quotes. These thoughts and sayings are truly worth remembering.

The main thing is not to break, to be stronger, no matter what. Hard times will pass, and sooner or later everything will definitely be fine.

Once deceived, he doubts everyone.

We learn the best lessons when we make mistakes, the mistake of the past is the wisdom of the future.

- Is it possible to love the cold?
- Need to. Cold teaches you to appreciate warmth.

I still don’t regret anything, if only because it’s pointless.
Max Fry

Life breaks the strongest, bringing them to their knees to prove that they can rise, but it does not touch the weak. They've been on their knees all their lives

I don't chase anyone anymore.
Do you want to get out of my life?
Go away.

Rely only on yourself - great way stop being disappointed in people and live in a great mood.

You can't change your life overnight. But in one night you can change thoughts that will change your life forever!

Don't be afraid of your enemies, be afraid of your friends. Friends betray, not enemies.
© Johnny Depp

And you will meet when you don’t expect.
And you will find it not where you are looking.

If cats are scratching your soul, don’t hang your nose... The time will come, and they will purr loudly with happiness...

Less anger, more irony
And more and more dots on the “i”...
Strangers leave us
They remain with us.

Calm - best friend self-control.

Know how to forgive, because this is the property of the strong. The weak never forgive.

The only thing I’m afraid of more than cheating is not finding out about cheating. It's terrible to love a person who no longer deserves it.
Vladimir Vysotsky

You live and think that nothing in your life changes. But, looking back into the past, you realize that this is far from the case.

Fate is not a matter of chance, but the result of choice. Fate is not expected, it is created!

Everyone can see what you look like on the outside, but there are very few who know what's in your soul.

Happiness is near.
Don't create ideals for yourself.
Apperciate things which you have.

Only loneliness teaches us to love...And only loss teaches us to appreciate.

Just because I endure it doesn't mean it doesn't hurt.

Do not offend someone who cannot offend you.

Be grateful to problems, they show you what you are worth.

One rose can become a garden. One person – the whole world.

Guys, we put our soul into the site. Thank you for that
that you are discovering this beauty. Thanks for the inspiration and goosebumps.
Join us on Facebook And In contact with

When we watch films in which heroes in trouble desperately fight for life, we think that survival skills will not be useful to us. However, any of us can come face to face with mortal danger. For example, schoolgirl Juliana Köpke, who stood up after a plane fell from a height of 3 thousand meters, had to survive in the tropical forest. And the sailor Poon Lim found himself lost on a lonely raft in the ocean for several months, but came up with so many tricks for his salvation that Indiana Jones would envy him.

We are in website We sincerely believe in the power of the human spirit, so we want to tell you stories about people who managed to say “Not today” to death, even when there was almost no chance left.

Juliana Köpke: after a plane crashed from a height of 3 thousand meters, she stood up and walked through the jungle

Juliana Köpke not only survived a plane crash from a height of 3 thousand meters (the only one of everyone on board), but also spent 9 days independently making her way through the jungle to people. On that ill-fated flight on December 24, 1971, the 17-year-old Peruvian school student was flying with her mother to visit her father for the Christmas holidays. About half an hour after takeoff, the plane was struck by lightning and a fire broke out. The aircraft crashed in a tropical forest.

Juliana came to her senses only the next day, and was able to get up after about 4 days. She found a stash of candy among the rubble and limped slowly through the jungle. Remembering her father's lessons in survival, the young passenger moved down the stream.

On the ninth day, Juliana discovered a motorboat containing a canister of fuel. The girl poured fuel over her bitten hand, thus getting rid of larvae and insects. And then she waited for the owners of the boat - local lumberjacks, who treated her wounds and took her to the nearest hospital.

Juliana’s story served as the basis for the creation of the film “Miracles Still Happen,” which helped save another girl in a similar situation. On August 24, 1981, 20-year-old Larisa Savitskaya was returning with her husband from a honeymoon trip to Blagoveshchensk when the An-24 plane began to fall.

Remembering the film, Larisa tried to take the most advantageous position in her chair. Her husband died. Although the girl received serious injuries, she was still able to build herself a temporary shelter from the wreckage of the aircraft. Rescuers found her 2 days later.

Mauro Prosperi: spent 9 days in the desert without a map, food and half a bottle of water

Mauro Prosperi is an Italian who got lost in the desert, but managed to survive after 9 days of wandering. It all happened in 1994, when a 39-year-old man decided to take part in a 6-day marathon across the Sahara. During the race, a sandstorm arose and Prosperi lost his route. There were no other marathon participants nearby at that moment.

The marathon runner continued moving and eventually came across a hermit’s house. For some time he ate bats whom I discovered there. The man had half a bottle of water with him, but he saved it and was forced to drink his own urine for 3 days. The situation seemed hopeless, and Prosperi was preparing for death - he even wrote a farewell note to his wife. However, death was in no hurry to come, and the Italian realized that he had to continue to fight for life. Then he decided to leave the house and continued on his way.

Prosperi remembered the advice he once received: if you get lost, follow the clouds you see on the horizon in the morning. So he did. On the eighth day a miracle happened: he saw an oasis. The traveler enjoyed the water for 6 hours before continuing through the desert. On the ninth day, Prosperi saw goats and a shepherd girl and realized that there were people somewhere nearby, which meant he was saved. The girl took him to the Berber camp. Local women fed the wanderer and called the police.

Ricky Migi: Spent 10 weeks in the Australian desert catching frogs and grasshoppers

Australian Ricky Migi is one of those who are called modern-day Robinson Crusoe. In January 2006, he found himself in the Australian desert and spent 10 weeks there without food or water. According to his own words, everything happened after he gave a ride to a stranger and lost consciousness, and then came to his senses in some hole. According to another version, his car broke down.

Putting a T-shirt on his head to protect himself from the sun, the man moved in any direction in the mornings and evenings when the heat subsided. To stay hydrated, he drank his own urine. On the tenth day, Ricky went to the river. However, instead of going downstream, he went in the opposite direction. There were still no people on the way, and Ricky built himself a shelter from stones and branches. He had to eat leeches, frogs, ants and grasshoppers. At the same time, he ate leeches raw, and dried grasshoppers in the sun. The man “cooked” only frogs.

As a result of this “diet” the Australian became like a living skeleton. Having gathered his strength, he nevertheless decided to continue his journey and was soon discovered by a farmer, who took him to the hospital. Riki Migi himself later wrote a book about his adventures. By the way, his car was never found.

Ada Blackjack: Survived Alone Among Polar Bears in the Arctic for Months

Ada Blackjack managed to survive alone in the Arctic, where she was dangerously close to polar bears for several months. She was 23 when, in August 1921, she went with polar explorers on an expedition to Wrangel Island as a seamstress.

The following summer a ship was supposed to arrive with food and letters, but it never showed. In January 1923, three polar explorers went to the mainland for help, but Ada and the fourth polar explorer, who began to have health problems, remained behind. Now she also had to take care of the patient, and he took out his anger on her. The polar explorer died at the beginning of summer, and Ada was left alone. She didn't even have the strength to bury him.

To prevent polar bears from entering the home, Ada blocked the entrance with boxes. She herself began to live in the pantry. The girl set traps that caught arctic foxes, and also caught birds. In forced Arctic captivity, she kept a diary and even learned to take photographs. On August 19, 1923, she was rescued by a ship that arrived at Wrangel Island.

Juana Maria: spent more than 18 years on the island completely alone

Tami Oldham Ashcraft is an American who spent time on a yacht in the middle of Pacific Ocean 40 days and managed to escape. The story happened in 1983, when the girl, along with her lover Richard Sharp, sailed on the yacht Khazana from Tahiti to San Diego. Lovers who were about to get married had traveled this distance more than once. But this time a strong hurricane arose. The ship capsized, the man was literally torn out of his life jacket, and the girl hit her head hard and lost consciousness.

She came to her senses only a day later. Tami realized that her fiancé was dead, and the radio and engine were out of order. Besides, there wasn't much food. About 2 days passed, and the girl pulled herself together: she decided to fight for life. By moving all the cargo to one side and using strong waves, she was able to capsize the yacht. She built a temporary sail from scrap materials and adjusted the yacht’s course using a sextant, a navigational measuring instrument. She also managed to make a container to collect dew and rainwater.

Tami ate the rest of the supplies and did a little fishing. According to her, the ghostly voice of her deceased loved one helped her. The yacht "Khazana" itself entered the Hawaiian port 40 days after the disaster - the ship, of course, had long been classified as a wreck. And Tami herself, who lost 18 kg, was later able to survive the terrible depression that tormented her. She met another man, married him and even found the strength not to quit sailing.

Where he served as a steward, from Cape Town to South America. However, the ship was attacked by a German submarine. Once in the water, Poon Lim noticed an empty raft that was drifting lonely in the ocean. This was his salvation.

On the raft there was a supply of fresh water for 2 days, as well as tin cans, condensed milk, and chocolate. To avoid muscle atrophy, the sailor tied himself to a raft with a thin ship's cable and swam in the sea. But it was impossible to continue “charging” for a long time, because he could attract sharks. Poon Lim collected rainwater from the awning and caught fish. He made the fishing rod himself: he disassembled the flashlight, pulled out the spring from it and twisted it into hooks; the fishing line became a braided rope, and the bait was the remains of canned ham.

The next time he caught a seagull using a trap he made from a tin can, seaweed and dried fish. And then, using a seagull as bait, he caught the shark and dragged it onto the raft. The sailor fought with sea ​​predator using a homemade knife, which he made from a nail. It is noteworthy that 2 ships saw the raft, but did not help the man. Finally, the raft itself approached the Brazilian coast. The sailor was taken to the hospital. As it turned out, Poon Lim got off easy: he had sunburn, and he himself lost only 9 kg.

Lisa Teris: spent 28 days in the forest without survival skills

Alabama student Lisa Teris spent almost a month in the woods completely alone. It all started on July 23, 2017: the girl was with two of her friends when they decided to rob a hunting lodge. Lisa ran away from them and found herself completely alone - without water, food, warm clothes and other necessary things.

The 25-year-old city woman had no navigation skills, and she wandered around the forest in circles, unable to find the road. The girl didn’t even have any special knowledge about what she could and couldn’t eat in the forests of Alabama, so she ate what she found under her feet and what seemed suitable to her, such as berries and mushrooms. She took water from the stream.

During this time, the girl lost about 23 kg. At some point, she managed to get to the highway. It was a fairly deserted area, but a woman passing by happened to notice her and stopped to help: Lisa was covered in insect bites, bruises and scratches, and she was not wearing shoes. The woman called the police. Lisa's family was happy to learn that she was alive.

How do you think you would react in these situations?