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Do you think that you need luck for your next casino foray? Read this story about a man who was really, really lucky. This is the true-life story of the man who became the only survivor of his own execution. In 1902 in the island of Martinica, in the Caribbean, a certain Henry Furcot was condemned to death because of his crimes. Naturally he appealed the decision and as he waited the result of his pleas of clemency to the French governor of the island, he was placed in a very deep basement located below the town hall of the small city of St. Pierre. There was the only jail in the whole colony. He waited for weeks, but his pleas were not accepted and his execution was finally scheduled for May 8. But when the day came, a volcanic eruption in the nearby Mount Pelee started. Nobody in the island gave any thought to evacuation plans for locals and visitors of any sort; after all, the volcano never really harmed anyone before. Meanwhile, Monsieur Furcot waited for the executioner to come and get him. He waited and waited for the whole day, but nobody came. The next day, the same, and later he said that he became rather alarmed by the intriguing silence that he perceived. Days elapsed and he ran out of the meagre provisions that he had as an inmate; he began crying for help, to anyone, and help finally came but it was no jail master, and no inhabitant of the city. He was rescued by a team of people looking for survivors in an utterly devastated town: he was the only one found among thirty thousand souls that lived there. No people and no animals survived the toxic fumes that suddenly fell upon St. Pierre, except him, because the gasses could not penetrate so deeply into the ground as he was. Monsieur Furcot was pardoned and treated like a hero; years later some impersonators were seen around the world, touring with circuses and freak shows of all kinds, all making fortunes out of the name of the only survivor of that particular day. Meanwhile, Mounsieur Henri Furcot, perhaps wisely, decided that after tempting fate in such a way for once was enough and too much; he vanished without a trace.
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