Survivor's Miraculous Fall in San Francisco

In 1978, 22-year-old art student Harold Brown survived a 324-foot fall down a ventilation shaft at the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco, astonishingly landing on a concrete base. A guard heard him exclaiming "whoopee" during the fall. He suffered fractures but no internal injuries, and he did eventually survive after multiple surgeries.

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