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'Luckiest man in the world' won the lottery twice after cheating death

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Updated 09:37 22 Jan 2024 GMTPublished 09:38 22 Jan 2024 GMT

'Luckiest man in the world' won the lottery twice after cheating death

After being declared 'clinically dead', Bill Morgan managed to win the lottery.

Callum Jones

Callum Jones

A man dubbed the 'luckiest man in the world' won the lottery twice after he came back from the dead.

Your chances of winning the lottery are pretty slim - around one in 45 million in fact - so, it is highly unlikely any of us will win a massive fortune in our lifetime.

However, trucker Bill Morgan managed to win the lottery not once, but on two separate occasions.

In June 1998, Bill’s heart stopped for 14 minutes, but miraculously, medics were able to revive him. He wasn’t out of the woods just yet, though, as he ended up spending more than two weeks in a coma.

After being involved in a horror car crash, Aussie Bill was declared 'clinically dead' by health professionals, however, he very much beat the odds.

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After coming to and settling back into his life, Bill was out and about one day when he decided to get himself a scratch card and was delighted to discover he’d won the brand new car - a Toyota Corolla - worth $30,000.

When news of his sharp reversal of fortunes got out, a Melbourne TV station contacted Bill to share his story.

While filming the segment, the 9News Australia TV crew asked him to reenact his win with a new scratch card, which he dutiful did - only to be struck with another piece of good luck.

Bill Morgan won again while reenacting how he won the first time.
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In the clip, which has since gone viral several times over, after scratching off the ticket, Bill turns to the cameras and says: “I just won $250,000 - I'm not joking. I think I'll have another heart attack.”

Thankfully he didn’t, and was able to claim his new prize.

Speaking to the Daily Mail Australia in 2020: "It was an incredible time - 12 months before I had the win the heart stopped and my life was over for 14 minutes and 38 seconds.

"Every week I buy my Tattslotto and a $5 scratchie, I still do it now actually. So I buy this Scratchie I said out loud "I think I've won a car" and sure enough I had.

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“It wasn't that big of a deal to me until the newspapers and TV stations got wind of it.

"They thought it was a good luck story, so that's how it all started. And I went into the newsagent's and they filmed me walking up to the counter to get a $5 Scratchie and one of the cameramen said, ‘that'd make a good shot, we'll get you scratching it off’.

Bill said the win hit him ‘like a tonne of bricks’.
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“And with that I scratched it off and turned around to the camera and said, ‘I just won $250,000’ and the boss from Tattersall's was there and he said, ‘good joke’.

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“I said, ‘I'm not joking’ and all of a sudden it hit me like a tonne of bricks - I thought I was going to have another heart attack there and then.”

Featured Image Credit: 9 News/YouTube

Topics: Lottery, Money, News, Australia

Callum Jones
Callum Jones

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