Hey there, millionaire! We've all dreamed of hitting the jackpot.
In our wildest dreams, this big win is all about seeing all those zeros in our bank account
and imagining all the ways you could spend your newfound millions. But lottery wins
don't always go quite so smoothly in real life. In this video, we'll be letting you
in on the most shocking lottery-winner stories of all time that you won't believe are real. So,
strap in because it's going to be a wild ride and number 1 will surely blow your mind.
Let's begin. 11. The Winner of two $10 Million Prizes
It's rare enough to win the lottery once, and winning it twice is nearly impossible. In 2019,
Juan Hernandez went home $10 million richer thanks to a New York lottery scratch-off game. Most of us
would've stopped there, but not Hernandez, who kept playing as usual. It turned out to be a
pretty good decision if you ask me. He hadn't even finished spending his first win when he
won again just three years later in February 2022! He'd played a different game this time
but got the same results - another $10 million win! I wonder what his lucky charm is.
10. The $5 Million Mistake Even if you play the lottery, it can be hard to
win it. Now imagine winning by mistake. In 2017, a 46-year-old mother of 2 decided to buy a $1
scratch-off ticket on a whim while she was in the supermarket. But when she was given her purchase,
she realized the clerk had accidentally handed her a $10 Set for Life scratch-off instead of
the $1 ticket she asked for. Since she felt bad for the clerk, she decided to pay the extra $9.
Then, she went home and pretty much forgot about it, using the ticket as a bookmark instead.
Luckily, the story doesn't end there. After a few weeks, she decided she might as well scratch
off her expensive ticket, and she was shocked by what she found. She'd won $5 Million, and
became an immediate multimillionaire! I bet that extra $9 is the best money she ever spent.
9. The Lotter Lawyer You probably think your luck
has peaked if you win the lottery, but you never know what's waiting around the corner,
so you have to be careful. If you happened to meet Jason "Jay" Kurland, more likely than not,
your good fortune would come to an end. He called himself the "Lottery Lawyer" and began acting as
an attorney to dozens of significant lottery winners, including the record-breaking $1.5
Billion Mega Millions winner. Unfortunately, none of these winners realized this man was actually
stealing millions from them by convincing them to make investments in his friend's bogus companies.
The story has a bittersweet ending, though - he was caught and convicted for conspiracy,
wire fraud, and money laundering - but only after stealing an estimated $80 million.
Unfortunately, none of the lottery winners saw a dime back. So be careful who you trust.
8. You've heard the expression "cleanliness is next to godliness?" Well, for this Floridian,
cleanliness has led to prosperity. Kenneth Morgan of Jacksonville was cleaning
up his house one weekend when he came across a $1 million Powerball ticket from three months ago.
"I was cleaning the house on the Fourth of July when I found the Powerball ticket in a drawer,"
Morgan, 54, told Florida Lottery officials. "I checked the numbers and discovered it was a $1
million winner. I'm still in shock!" Morgan won the prize from the multistate
lottery game's April 17 drawing in 2021, hitting all five white-ball numbers but
not the Powerball jackpot number. His ticket was purchased at a Publix
liquor shop on Beach Boulevard in Jacksonville, which received a $1,000 bonus commission.
7. The Generous Grandma It's important to be generous, no matter
how much you have. 86-year-old Marion Forrest had been buying her Fantasy 5 lottery ticket every
week at the same store for years. Except for one week, where she didn't really feel like playing.
The clerk, who knew Marrion, mentioned there was a half-a-million-dollar jackpot at the time and
convinced her to buy the ticket. She agreed on the condition that she'd share the winnings with him
if she won. Unfortunately, the clerk was mistaken - the jackpot wasn't close to that much money. But
he was right that Marion would win. Thanks to that ticket, she found herself $300 richer and insisted
on keeping her word. As promised, she showed up at the store with balloons and $150 for the
clerk - which represented half of her winnings. Imagine if the clerk was right about the prize,
that would have been truly life-changing. 6. The Lottery Crooks
Remember one thing millionaire - "Crime doesn't pay." That's what Mark Goodram and Jon Watson
found out the hard way. They were just two friends in their 30s who went to London looking to make
a fortune and they did! Well, almost. They managed to win an incredible 4 million prize
playing the lottery - which is about $5.3 million, but they weren't so lucky as they thought to be.
Of course they immediately started celebrating - a good choice, because it wouldn't last long.
Eagle-eyed people at the lottery realized something was up when they said they
didn't have a bank account for their lottery payout. And after digging a little further,
police and lottery officials realized they had bought their winning lottery ticket with a debit
card they had previously stolen. A BIG Oops. You see, Mark and Jon had stacked up a surprising
number of criminal convictions between them, which made these two friends a target for local police.
In the end, they got apprehended and sent to jail getting a conviction instead of a jackpot.
We've already seen so many ups and downs with lottery winners, and we're only halfway through!
The most shocking and unbelievable stories are yet to come, so keep watching!
5. The Lesson That Backfired Admit it, we all get annoyed with
our partners sometimes. This was true for Glenda Blackwell, from North Carolina. Glenda wasn't too
happy about all the money her husband was spending on lottery tickets and her irritation boiled over
one day. She decided to buy a $10 Carolina Millions scratch-off ticket to prove to her
husband that he was just wasting their money.But she never got to make her point. Astonishingly,
she'd picked up a ticket that made her an instant millionaire by winning the $1 million grand prize.
This story gives new meaning to the question, "Would you rather be right or happy?" She was not
right that time, but definitely was excited. 4. The Lucky Winner Who Lost His Ticket
Sometimes luck is meant to come your way, and the universe will do anything to make it happen.
Nick Slatten had a surprisingly good morning when he checked his Tennessee Lottery ticket
and saw that every single one of his numbers matched. He was suddenly $1.18 million richer.
Even though he was ultra-excited - he still had to go out and run errands. Unfortunately,
when he got back home, he realized he didn't have the winning ticket anymore. For anyone else,
that would've been the end of the dream, but not for Nick. He started retracing his steps looking
to find the lost ticket and it miraculously worked for him - he found the ticket lying in a parking
lot an hour later! Now that's lucky. 3. The Evil Washing Machine
Not all lottery wins are a good thing. You would think that winning $26 million could only be
great. But not if you can't prove you won. This unnamed player of the California SuperLotto Plus
maybe shouldn't have been the person in possession of the winning ticket. She had put the winning
ticket in her pocket for safekeeping but that turned out to be the worst place to keep it
because she accidentally destroyed it in a washing machine. She tried to prove she was the buyer of
the winning ticket by going to the store she got it from and the manager showed survillience
footage showing her buying the ticket. Unfortunately, lottery officials denied her the
prize since without a ticket or at least a photo of the winning ticket, prizes can't be hand out.
If we are honest, we've all done that kind of thing with the washing machine,
but it doesn't usually cost us $26 million. I bet you'll never make the same mistake with
your lottery tickets. 2. The Playschool Crooks
Of course, where there's money, you'll find criminals looking to grab a share.
But some criminals are just not made for the job. Two Mississippi men decided to try their
luck at cashing in on a $100,000 prize that went unclaimed. Their only problem was that they didn't
have the winning lottery ticket. That didn't stop them though, since they decided to make
one. Unfortunately for them, it didn't take a forensic expert to spot that their ticket was
a fake - officials at the lottery office took just a couple of seconds to determine their ticket was
an absolute joke. It wasn't hard since these men had just stuck numbers to the ticket with ordinary
glue. You heard that right, they had cut out numbers and pasted them on the ticket with glue.
It's all right, you can laugh about these dumb crooks. In the end, it's not quite the work of
a criminal mastermind, but nonetheless they were convicted for fraud. Terrible way to go
down in lottery history. 1. The Story Of Bill Morgan
Bill Morgan's story is so unbelievable it could slot right into mythology. But before
the Australian man could get his big break, he had to go through a pretty rough ordeal - that
is, he had to come back from the dead. In 1998, Bill was driving his truck like any
other day. Except this wasn't just any day - it was the day he was going to die. He was involved
in a truck accident that was so horrendous that it very nearly crushed him. Impossibly,
he survived the crash but suffered a heart attack instead. He was rushed to the emergency room,
where doctors administered what should have been a life-saving drug, not knowing Bill was severely
allergic to it. That drug was what finally caused his heart to stop beating and eventually
Bill died, but miraculously, 14 minutes later, doctors finally managed to bring him back. But
not completely though. He was alive, but totally irresponsive. This was truly a bad sequence
of events if you ask me. But let's move on. After a week of being comatose, doctors advised
his family to take him off life support, to which they chose not to listen to. Little did they know,
That was the best decision they ever made - on the 12th day, against all odds, Bill woke up and that
was where his lucky streak began. Somehow, he came out of his coma without any serious health
problems. He rightly felt pretty great to be alive, so he proposed to his girlfriend, who
delightfully accepted. That would have been enough of a story, but it doesn't end there, this is just
getting started. A little while later, he picked up a scratch-off ticket on a whim and instantly
won a car. Of course, the media picked up on this amazing story pretty quickly, and a news show
asked Bill to do a reconstruction of his lottery win on live TV. While filming a reenactment of
his win, Bill purchased another scratch-off ticket that would prove to be his biggest surprise yet.
Live on national TV, Bill scratched off this ticket and discovered that he'd reconstructed
his lottery win a little more realistically than anyone expected. The ticket was a winner! And Bill
walked away with 250 thousand Australian Dollars. The whole story seems impossible, but the camera
doesn't lie. Bill Morgan immediately became one of the luckiest lottery winners in history.