"She also managed to avoid the rest of the road while she was at it." I really shouldn't be laughing at this, should I?

I wish more people were able to tell tales as well as this guy. I feel like he could read his latest grocery receipt and we would watch the video still.

When I was just twelve years old. I was on holiday at a caravan site at West Hythe on the Kent coast. Being a nice day I decided to go for a swim. However I got caught in one of the notorious channel storms and as the tide was going out I was swept out to sea. I found myself about 5miles out and struggling to swim back to shore as I was still caught in the outgoing tide, so every time I stopped for a rest, I was taken back out again by the tide. I realised that trying to swim on the surface was getting me nowhere fast. Then a little voice whispered to me to swim like a dolphin, so with no better solution and no sign of rescue, I had to try it. Surprisingly enough it worked. After an hour or two I could see the sea wall slowly coming closer. This seemed to give me renewed strength, so I continued with this dolphin swimming until I thought I was close enough to touch bottom. Big mistake. I managed to grab a lungful of air just before I sank from sight, holding that precious lungful of air and fighting off the need to breathe until my feet touched bottom and I pushed up with my feet breathing out the air as I ascended towards the surface and finally breaking through. That first lungful of air was the most wonderful I've ever taken and I was just so happy to be alive. I finally made it back to the top of the sea wall, where I collapsed from exhaustion where the police and my parents and all the people from the caravan site had been searching for me.. I found out later that they had even got a helicopter out searching the channel for me. I really feel that I cheated death that day.

'Run the damn thing over'. That's what my friend did when he ran over a dog rather than avoid. There were four of us in the car and he said 'I'd rather explain to the owner of the dog than explain to all your family and friends if anything were to happen to all of you'

"Fortunately she avoided the animal..unfortunately she avoided the road in the process" ...had to be said.

I’ve broken my collar bone 3 times, there’s no way I could have swung that arm hard enough to smash a window. She is a badass

When I was growing up in the upper north of the USA, my dad was superintendent of the nearby national park, which I am not going to name. One winter he got a report that someone had gone missing while hiking with his girlfriend. The girlfriend was okay, but both she and the missing guy were tourists (who for some reason came in the middle of winter) and barely spoke any English. My dad has experience in coast guard, so he knew how these situations went down, especially in winter and he thought that it was a waste of resources to send out rangers and that they could just go find the body in the morning. Also the couple went hiking at 10 at night and weren’t on designated trails. Reluctantly, the chief ranger (who was a close friend of my dad far before this) got together the few rangers we had and they went looking for 8 hours. I was about 13 so I was asleep the whole time and heard about it in the morning. The rangers eventually packed up and went in, sadly having to let the guy wait out the night if he was still alive. They went out searching the next morning and found the dude, miraculously alive! It was miraculous because the idiot was wearing gym shorts, tennis shoes, and a thin sweatshirt. The snow was 6’ deep and the temperature got down to -20 at night and only 5 Fahrenheit during the day. They warmed the guy up in a little tourist shop and sent him and his girlfriend on their way, neither one knowing a word of English. That’s all I had to lend to the topic. The moral of the story is to know what you’re getting into when you do something, so the son of the guy rescuing you doesn’t share your mishap on a KZfaq comment that nobody is going to read. Shit.

"Run the damn thing over." " When mother nature is being an utter bitch." *I almost died of laughter when I heard those*

That moustache would save anyone from danger.

"She screamed at the top of her lungs..well, lung!" Shift let me faint😂

Manager: Hey, Death? Can I have a word with you? Death: Is this about... Manager: The cliff lady. Yeah.

The first story has a valuable lesson. In a situation where swerving can be fatal, just hit the damn animal.

Being lost at sea does seem pretty scary... Helpless for so long. 😐

"Diver: Harrison what are you doing down here? Harrison: *Opens Can........."Just waiting for a mate..."

How did he survive that long in the Pacific Ocean? - "Sea turtles mate"

Harrison actually trained to become a rescue diver after the incident and said he wants to dedicate his life to training others. Can't believe you left that part out.

If an animal is ahead - Hold the wheel steady. Brake, then brake some more, and keep braking. Then, only once you've shaven your speed, you can start considering safe course adjustment (assuming that you haven't already created some new roadkill). Swerving at cruising speed to dodge something is a tried and true method to turn your car into a tumble drier and/or crushed can, with you and your passengers being the contents.

"They discovered Harrison alive, at the bottom of the ocean enjoying a coca cola" lol

"Death had arranged the pieces, rigged the board, payed off the jury, loaded the dice, and was running through a series of gentle stretches, in preparation for one final swing of his scythe." That line sent shivers down my spine when I first heard it, and still does.

“Forget it, Your balls aren’t as big” that line cracked me up 😂

Yet some slip in a bathtub and die instantly. We're weird

“Run the damn thing over” -Thoughty2 2020

5:11 - 5:12 "Fought the Skeletal Bastard" I'm dying of laughter 😂😂

My English teacher would be crying right now.... all of the adjectives and amazing words. She’d be amazed

"Shit was about to get real, literally" I almost died at that.

"She had no idea the grim reaper himself would be following" shows youtube join button XD.

You left out a critical detail in Harrison’s story. In desperation for finding another pocket of air and/or food. He started to go to the other rooms of the ship when he heard sharks beginning to enter the ship, he had to go back and in that time he listened how they came into every room, luckily they didn’t found him. There’s a video of the rescue as well. It’s crazy.

I rescued this girl when I was in Colorado for several months while testing my survival skills. She was lost for a few days and had no idea where she was or which direction to go. Fortunately I knew where I was and had a compass on me and was strong enough to basically carry her to my SUV and drive her to the hospital. I think the whole time she thought I was a serial killer because she looked at me with so much fear until she saw the ER sign at the hospital. Everyone should always carry a survival kit if they're going somewhere with no cell reception.

Great video, gave me chills! Also, the humour was on point :D

"In the world's most least capable submarine" lmao

When I was About 12 I was playing on 7 foot high monkey bars and there was a bar below at the end so you could get on and grab if you were shorter and I decided to hang upside down on the last high bar with just the top of my feet and they slipped and I hit the bar below straight up with my bare teeth but this is where it gets crazy. Nothing happened to my teeth. There weren't even a drop of blood. My teacher and I could NOT understand that at all because I literally had just taken a metal bar to the mouth .

About 12 years ago, I found my mother passed out on the floor of her bedroom and called an ambulance. She hadn't been feeling or looking like herself for a couple of weeks prior. As it turned out, she had developed diabetes without knowing. Her blood sugar level had reached 1401! I'll never forget that number. She ended up in a coma for 3 days, but came out of it with no long lasting effects, no limb loss or brain damage and her eyesight returned fully. Doctors said they had never seen anyone with blood sugar levels anywhere near that. They said people have died in as low as the 500's. She's been normal ever since and has even managed without insulin for all these years, just being careful of her diet. It's crazy to even think of now

Almost dying in the ocean is terrifying... it makes it even more terrifying since it's... in the dark.

"They fought that skeletal bastard back" 😆

I love how soothingly thoughty2 talks about death and crisis

The final lesson is "Never give up, there is always hope"

Thoughty2: "If an animal happens to run across your path when you're driving, run the damn thing over." Me: Hits a moose and dies.

Chuck Norris died years ago. Death is just too scared to tell him.

4:34 "Just run the dam thing over" My god that killed me. Hahaha! XD

"These people should no longer be alive" Understood 42, the present is in the mail.

Let us take a moment to appreciate thoughty2's Editor

I can't imagine how it must feel to be stranded at sea for over a year. Didn't think you could survive that long off of only fish and blood.

Just spent 30 minutes trying to find this video just so I could hear penguins' "very existence is the living embodiment of eternal suffering" 🤣

You're a legendary storyteller, Thoughty2. You're a legend.

Those little red safety hammers.. yeah those are like

"These people should no longer be alive." Is that a threat? Should these people be worried?

I always love watching/ reading true stories, but Arran makes things so much more entertaining with his own brand of humour, thanks for cheering me up. 😁👍

A mate of mine got drunk around the camp fire with a bunch of us one night, deep in the mountains in Australia. In his drunken state, he saw what he thought was a blue tongue lizard, and tried to pick it up to show everyone. Turns out it was a death adder, which proceeded to bite him almost a dozen times. None of us was aware of this as he had walked away from the fire for a bit. He came back and didn't tell anyone what had happened, and fell asleep. Funny thing about death adders is they got their name because not that long ago there was no anti venom for their bite. If you got bitten, you were almost certain to die. Here's where my mate started to get lucky. One, was because an anti venom had been developed by this time. Two, was because one of my mates is a sharp bastard and realized something was wrong very quickly. Three, was that a bunch of Army medics was training in the same mountains and had a helicopter, AND the anti venom. That dude should be dead. By rights, we should all have woken up hung over, with him dead next to the fire.

When death comes knocking, some people say "NO, I am the one who knocks!"

"Up shit creek with a Mexican fisherman" Yeah, I like them, but their last album was a bit corporate.

Another person you’d be in sock to be alive is myself. On September 7th, 2011 I was hit by a car when crossing the street on my scooter. When it struck me my head flew into the windshield shockingly breaking both my skull and the windshield. When the car stopped I was launched 10ft chipping my tail bone on impact. I was then laying in the middle of the street bleeding out (my brain had been damaged) and would have died that day too if it hadn’t been for a fire fighter EMT getting gas at a next door gas station. The EMT called in a chopper to pick my unconscious body and to bring me to St. Louis Children Hospital. Doctors told my parents I wasn’t likely to live. But I proved the doctors wrong. After being in a coma for 2 weeks I had to relearn many things such as, using a door knob, brushing my teeth, and how to speak. 2 months went by and I finally was given permission to go home. During the period I was hospitalized, I was the most home sick I had ever been and could not wait to see my family and friends. My name is Bryan Boly and this is my survival story. This is a true story with evidence to prove it.

Imagine being a diver looking for corpses when you find a man enjoying a coke at the bottom of the ocean lol

I can’t believe he’s finally putting his face in his thumbnails

"it is what it is, it is what it is." -that random dude and group

"whos very existence is the living embodiment of eternal suffering" that line made me laugh out loud.

0:24 that was outta pocket thoughty 😂

So I revisited this channel after 4 years. Never was I aware that Arran turned from looking like a young business man to a military general. jeez

I find it so satisfying when he swears with that glorious accent of his.

Fun fact about the second story- since piracy was pretty common in the area at the time, the crew were instructed to lock the doors to their cabins, this ended up being fatal as they struggled to open the doors to escape the ship. Since Harrison was on the toilet, he didn't have that issue and his toilet break probably ended up saving his life.

My grandfather was on the Southern Aurora on his first expedition. Shackleton didn’t pay his men. So when approached by Shackleton for the second expedition, the one you mentioned, the two men became involved in a bar brawl

A fart noise always gets a laugh. I'm 41.

Notification Title: “These People should no longer be alive”

Hey, you forgot the survivors of the 1918 rail disaster. It's amazing that so many survived such a horrifying wreck.

That intro is why you don't swerve. Everybody knows that your first reaction should never be janking the wheel.

Thoughty2: These people should no longer be alive 2020: aight homie I'm on it

How on earth do you keep pumping out this quality content this quickly.

I don't mind for Arran to read me bedtime stories, his voice is so soothing and relaxing and his stories are always interesting to listen to.

There's a video of Harrison getting saved and it's so heart warming seeing the disbelief and relief on his face.

"When death is a joke "would be a banging title

...there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today!”

8:22 i can feel the joy and excitement of the guy just by listening you retelling the story!

I'm so stressed right now. Anxiety is through the roof which I don't get often. Only when I'm really worried about something. Listening to this story, though, I feel like my problems could always be worse.

He should had mad an advertisement for coca cola when, "what lesson can we learn from his ordeal, no matter how desperate you are, if the ship flips upside down and starts plummeting beneath the waves, its time for crank open a bottle of coca cola - It's the Real Thing" (y)

_What's worse than being trapped at the bottom of the ocean mid-shit?'_ Laughing for the first time in months was not ideal when I had just filled my mouth with tea.

I fell 250 feet once. I strongly, strongly recommend that everyone avoid doing that at all costs! They say that it's not the fall that hurts, only the sudden stop at the bottom. I beg to differ. From the moment that once solid-looking piece of ground that used to be under your feet vanishes into thin air, everything hurts, and if you're lucky/unlucky enough to survive it keeps hurting...forever. Also, "Run the damn thing over!" rather than drive off a cliff is good advice.

4:34 THIS My first driver ed. teacher always taught us this: We have a pact with the squirrels (or any other animal). If one runs across your path and you can avoid it, then try your best and avoid it and let it live another day. But when push comes to shove and there's no easy way to avoid it, just run it over. It sucks, but its way better than driving off a cliff. Even bigger animals that will fuck up your car. Its better to hit a deer than drive off a cliff. It walked in front of you, after all. I know most if not all other animals don't have critical thinking skills like we do, but I feel like "if i run in front of a speeding, loud, unnatural, and shiny object I'll get hurt" isn't a whole lot to ask of them.

Why is Ozzy Osbourne not on this list? 😂

The sad part of the second guy who survived the capsized boat is that the family members of the other 11 crews accused him of witchcraft.

A friend of mine wrecked her car driving back from the cabin she owned, in the middle of the night. She flipped her car down the face of a mountain. She was miles from the cabin, and no where near a populated town. She climbed up the mountain and walked the miles she drove back to the cabin. I don’t know how she did it, but ever since that night, no one was allowed to drive home, alone, in the middle of the night.

“Well, lung.” Omg

I hate to be "that guy," but the capsized boat that Harrison Okene was trapped in settled at 120 feet, not 1,200. But hey, what's a factor of 10 between friends?

I love how you’re look Has gone from class president to Freddie mercury to Grizzled English fisherman

The point is never give up. So many folks give up just in their day to day situations. It’s hard to dig deep and overcome what is seemingly insurmountable. But we have a choice. To give up or persevere. I beg anyone feeling desperate or hopeless to not pull the plug on their own life. Rather see how far you can sink into depravity only to rise out of our depths like a phoenix. We are innately wired to survive. Do not go gentle into that good night. We are all worth the struggle. Stay with us a while you beautiful soul.

7:26 nothing like some good product placement 🤣

Hey, Thoughty2. I've been away for awhile and I'm diggin' your new style. You have a mustache that Tom Selleck would be jealous of

😂 I wonder why in a rare moment, he put his own face in the thumbnail 😂

I laughed more than I should, you're not only fabulous with your information, but somewhere in all this you can keep a straight poker face that would make experts baffled. All this time of watching your documentaries I just noticed I haven't subscribed :) Doing that now

I've had a collapsed lung and I can tell you with 100% certainty that she didn't scream , you can barely whisper and if it's more than a few hours old your chest starts to collapse as well and even breathing beyond shallow little pants is extremely difficult .

When they were searching for dead bodies they found a living man sapping a Coca-Cola at the bottom of ocean. Just imagining there wtf reaction is priceless

Aztecs used to say: "Death is made of the sweetest and whitest sugar". I wouldn't insulted her just like that, because at least once we all are going to need her.

In rural Australia, one of the most important things we are taught as kids is do not swerve when there is a kangaroo in the road, hit it. It is one thousand times worse to swerve than hit it.

I've never cheated death, but I certainly have come close to doing so. One time when I was 10 or 11 I was at a water park, in the wave pool. It was particularly busy that day but I didn't care. I went out into the deep end. That was a huge mistake, as I was stuck underneath all of the inflatable rings with people on them. Just as I was running out of air, a stranger brought me up and let me hold onto their floaty as I caught my breath. I thanked them, and when I could I dived back down and swam back, hauling myself to my feet and wobbling to my mom's side, crying as I had just gotten out of my shock.

Here before the title is changed from ‘These people should no longer be alive’ 😂😂🤣

Diver did not find him, he grabbed the diver as he was leaving.

I sat on the edge of that bridge 2:11 a few years back for a photo. While I was sat there, a man appeared to be waiting directly behind me on the other side of the road. Thinking that he might be wanting to take a snap too, I moved away from the spot to let him. As I did, he ran full pelt across the road, jumped up onto the wall and dived off. screaming obscenities, I ran to the wall and looked over. Just in time to watch his base rig open. "THANKS FOR THE HEART ATTACK!"

This man is so charismatic that he can make encouraging you to run over animals on the road sound alright

The humor infused with the information in your videos is legendary !

"these people should no longer be alive" sounds like a hit list

How can you crash off a road and not be found for 7 days??? Did no one even try to drive the road she took to see where she is? Jeez. Mind boggling.

I actualy saw the last one somewhere else. I was on a scout trip to loch inch in scotland, and we stopped by in dundee to see endurance itself, as it is now a museum