Jean Hilliard

In 1980, a woman named Jean Hilliard was involved in a car accident. She walked 2 miles (3.2 km) in freezing weather to her friend's house and collapsed 15 feet (4.6 m) away from the door. The temperature dropped to -22 °F (-30 °C), and she was found frozen the next morning after spending 6 hours as a popsicle. She was transported to the hospital, where doctors said her skin was too hard to pierce with a hypodermic needle and her body temperature was too low to register on a thermometer. Yet she still had a heartbeat, and she survived and recovered.