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"Fortean Times" Book of Close Shaves Paperback – January 1, 1999

by Steve Moore (Contributor)
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An entertaining look at outrageous fortune, this off-the-wall collection features tales of against-all-odds survivors, ludicrous luck, and death-defying near misses. Culled from newspaper reports around the globe, these brief accounts cover everything from the miraculous to the ridiculous. You'll read about:


The New Jersey man who survived a near-fatal mugging when the bullet to his chest ricocheted off his credit card-filled wallet.
The woman who ate for free in an Italian restaurant after a small stone from her dinner got wedged in her tooth-only to discover the next day that the stone was an uncut diamond worth thousands of dollars.
The two morgue attendants playing chess on the night shift who got the shock of their lives when one of the "corpses" sat up and moved one of the chess pieces.
The dumbstruck man confronting an oncoming train who promptly fainted and fell between the tracks-where the train passed over him without incident.
Back from the Dead proves one thing for sure: Lady Luck may be fickle, but she certainly has a good sense of humor.
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  1. Print length
    128 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    John Brown Publishing
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1999
  5. ISBN-10
    1902212185
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1902212180
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ John Brown Publishing (January 1, 1999)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1902212185
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1902212180
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.2 ounces
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

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Philip and Melissa Knight-Fitzgerald
4.0 out of 5 stars Fortean
Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2016
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Fortean has written another book to both amuse and amaze you
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Eantha L. Haagen
5.0 out of 5 stars I already had 2 or 3 so I knew they'd all be good, but I'm exited to finally be putting them ...
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2015
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I have beena faithful Fortean Times subscriber since I discovered the magazine at issue 82, I don't know why it took me so long to order these books, I already had 2 or 3 so I knew they'd all be good, but I'm exited to finally be putting them in my library! If you are a fan of the weird, odd, and just plain bizarre, go check out anything associated with Fortean Times, I guarantee you will love it!
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Charles
5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 8, 2013
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This book is a collection of bizarre incidents involving close shaves and amazing luck reported by newspapers around the world. There is a warning at the beginning that newspapers cannot be relied upon to fact check and will quite happily make things up or reuse old stories with the details changed. So make sure you heed the book's warning that some reports might not be true.

30 year old stripper Dora Oberling survived been shot in the chest when her silicone breast implant stopped the bullet.

Klaus Schmidt, 64, was on a Lufthansa flight from Dublin to Frankfurt in 1998 when he suffered serious heart problems and difficulty breathing at 11,000ft. The chief steward asked if there was a doctor on board and was met with 40 raised arms from the entire German delegation to an international medical seminar in Ireland. Many were carrying newly-developed heart-drugs in their hand-luggage. Within minutes the doctors were able to return his breathing to normal.

In Bnai Brak Israel an unnamed 45 year old man tried to commit suicide in 1993 by jumping from a pedestrian foot-bridge onto a busy highway. He landed in a truckload of mattresses and suffered only minor bruises.

An Austrian teacher planned to lose £20 on a fruit machine in Graz to demonstrate the evils of gambling to his pupils.. but instead he won £150,000.

Bob Jones 27 from Yorkshire, stuck a fire alarm to his ceiling with sticky tape. When the battery ran low and the alarm began to give a warning beep he took the battery out and forgot to replace it. While he was sleeping a fire started and the heat from the flames melted the tape holding the fire alarm to the ceiling causing the fire alarm to fall on Bob's head and woke him up. He managed to escape the flames just in time.

This book is hilarious, unbelievable and a wonderful read.
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Kezzlou85
4.0 out of 5 stars Fun read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 14, 2020
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A collection of short stories about people escaping death, winning the lottery and many more.

It was a fascinating read and each story is nice and short. There is some really crazy stuff in this and some interesting luck.
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julie scholes
5.0 out of 5 stars Another fab Fortean title.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 11, 2016
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Another fab Fortean title that is totally unputdownable, amazing near misses some funny, some shocking , some almost unbelievable but be assured they're all true...enjoy.
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