In parts of the former Yugoslavia, stories often travel faster than the records that might confirm them, carried in conversation, retold in passing, and gradually shaped into something that sits between biography and folklore. Frano Selak is one of those names that keeps resurfacing in that space. A man born in 1929 in Croatia, whose life ended in 2016, became associated with a sequence of incidents that seemed to cluster around him with unusual persistence. Not every detail has ever been pinned down in the same way, but the outline is widely repeated. A string of accidents across decades. A survival record that feels almost stitched together by improbability. And then, much later, a lottery win that added another layer to an already crowded life history.
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