Top 20 Most Dangerous World Records

With fewer episodes than their usual run, 'Game Of Thrones' had to creatively up the ante for its seventh season. For the series' climactic dragon attack, the crew decided to push the carnage past anything else on TV. This involved setting a record 20 people on fire in one shot, just to make things look real. The stunt actors were alight for over 10 seconds before crews even put them out. Unfortunately Guinness avoids tracking such stunts for film and television, which is likely in an attempt to dissuade productions from being reckless. Even without Guinness's official mark on the feat, it still made for one badass war scene.

Chayne Hultgren aka The Space Cowboy has chased enough chainsaw records involving juggling that holding the blade near his mouth now seems pedestrian. In the Australian record holder's quest to expand his collection, he had 21 apples cut out of his mouth by a chainsaw in one minute. While this might seem like a unique challenge, Preacher Muad’dib previously held the record with 18 apples. Some of Hultgren's other records include swallowing swords and getting run over while lying on nails. If this doesn't seem dangerous enough, Hultgren has also earned the blindfolded version of the record while cutting the apples with a chainsaw himself.

Though many people are terrified of bees, they can be very tame if you keep your cool. Unless you're allergic, it's estimated it would take approximately 1000 bee stings to kill the average adult. Luckily China's Ruan Liangming wasn't allergic to bees when he attempted the world's heaviest bee mantle. Liangming had 60 queen bees placed on him, which attracted approximately 637,000 bees to cover his entire body. In total the swarm weighed just over 140 pounds, and even covered Ruan's eyes and nose, earning him the record of Heaviest Mantle of Bees.

Brian Miser has been working as a human cannonball since 1999, so turning himself into an arrow isn't a crazy stretch. As dangerous as the act seems, human arrow acts were part of Barnum & Bailey's acts as far back as 1896. For Miser's record, he flew an amazing 104 feet and seven inches, all while he was engulfed in flames from head to toe. Despite everything that could've gone wrong with the stunt, Miser calmly prompts the audience for cheers while he's still on fire. He's so fearless in fact, that the hosts only end up extinguishing him mid-bow.

Even with several world records under his belt by 2009, Chayne Hultgren continued his record pursuits by pulling a rickshaw with only his eye sockets. Hultgren also loaded the vehicle with three women and metal plates, bringing the total weight to 907 pounds. Fishhooks were attached to Chayne's lacrimal bones, which enabled him to drag the cart across the show floor. Much to the hosts' disgust, Hultgren pulled the rickshaw over 10 meters. With over 40 records to his name, Chayne knows the difference between dangerous and stupid. Thanks to Hultgren'spractice of calculated risks, the hooks didn't even pierce his skin either.

Nik Wallenda is no newcomer to the Guinness book, currently holding nine records including being the first person to walk a tightrope over the Niagara Falls. In 2015, he set his sights on the Orlando Eye, a 400-foot-tall Ferris wheel overlooking Orlando, Florida. On a particularly wet and windy morning, Wallenda rode to the top of the wheel, before climbing out and walking over a steel support beam only 6 inches wide, with no harness of any kind. With a first person camera showing the sheer height and shaky conditions, Wallenda gave the hosts of “Today” quite the scare, as well as everyone watching.

The Top 1 Ack Attack is a one-of-a-kind streamliner motorcycle designed with the specific purpose of setting land-speed records, and in September of 2010 it did exactly that at the Bonneville Speedway in Utah. Piloted by Rocky Robinson, the bullet-shaped motorcycle attained a whopping top speed of 376 miles per hour. This landmark achievement was the result of several attempts by Robinson, who had previously crashed and rolled the bike sixteen times while riding at speeds in excess of 320 miles per hour. At speeds like this, there’s understandably very little room for error, but Rocky Robinson held down the 1000-horsepower beast like a boss, and still holds the record to this day.

After dealing with childhood obesity, Rosalie Bradford went on to become the heaviest woman ever in 1987. Bradford weighed 1200 pounds at her heaviest, although she never gained that weight quite as quickly as the heaviest woman to give birth, Donna Simpson. Fitness icon Richard Simmons stepped in to help Rosalie, and gave her a diet and exercise plan. Bradford moved from clapping to full-body exercise, and shed 420 pounds in her first year. Rosalie's hard work helped her shed more than 900 pounds in 7 years, but not without the starving and dangerous heart strain that goes with it. Bradford went on to give weight loss seminars to help others with their health.

Since 1986, Jin Songhao has been training his body to be extremely resistant against the cold. Songhao has even made a habit of hosting In repeated ice-bathing contests against his friend Chen Kecai. Jin took the lead when he set the world record at 113 minutes in the ice. In 2015, Songhao went on reality TV to push his record to 115 minutes. While it's not as scary as being buried alive for 10 days, which is what Czech man Zdenek Zahradka (xref), the cold temperatures can reduce blood flow to the brain. Nevertheless, Songhao made his way through the last two minutes with musical encouragement from the audience before emerging triumphantly.

Some people chew on ice, but Michel Lotito ate the glass that it comes in. Lotito, aka Monsieur Mangetout, was born with pica, a disorder which caused him to compulsively eat non-food items, like metal. Luckily, Michel was also gifted a superhuman ability to absorb around two pounds of metal per day. Monsieur Mangetout has eaten TVs, bicycles, and chandeliers and is allegedly the only person to ever have a coffin inside of themselves. His most extravagant meal was a Cessna 150 airplane, which he ate from 1978 to 1980. Lotito finished the meal in good health, though the compounds or edges alone would kill most people.

“Wing walking” is a fairly self-explanatory extreme sport: it involves a performer pulling off acrobatic stunts atop the wings of an airplane all while it’s soaring through the sky. It should go without saying that this is a very risky endeavor to even attempt to pull off, but that didn’t stop United Kingdom resident Thomas Lackey from giving it a go. First attempting wing walking at the age of 80, Lackey went on to break the record as the oldest person to pull off the daring feat multiple times. Not wanting to lose his top spot to anyone else, Thomas cemented himself as the bravest old timer on the face of the earth by wing walking again at 93 years old.

Thrill seeker Ashrita Furman is no stranger to pulling off unbelievable accomplishments, as he holds upwards of 500 Guinness World Records. However, his underwater spear catching trick has been seen as his most deadly venture yet. While submerged underwater, a grand total of 14 spears were fired at Furman as he wowed the world by catching them all consecutively using only one hand. The spears were 60cm in length and fired from a spear gun at a range of 2 meters away, so just one wrong move and Furman would’ve had some pretty big holes in his hands. The kicker is that he hurt himself while practicing for the stunt, yet wanted to go through with it anyway. That takes serious mojo!

Don’t look down. In 1974, French high-wire artist Philippe Petit summoned the courage to perform his most daring tightrope act yet. Without any authorization or permission to setup his stunt – because seriously, who would give someone the O.K to do something like this – Petit walked across a cable suspended over 1,300 feet in the air between the two towers of New York’s World Trade Center. Just making it across from one building to the other wasn’t enough for him however, as his entire ‘performance’ lasted 45 minutes, with Petit making eight trips and performing a dancing act for the spectators below. His death defying actions were the inspiration for the 2015 film “The Walk” which starred Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the fearless daredevil himself.

Talk about a horrible moment to belly flop… Laso Schaller summoned the guts to climb a towering 200-foot-high mountain ridge along the Swiss-Italian border. That’s bad enough, but then he then leaped into the air and came crashing down into the bed of water below. It may’ve been water, but keep in mind that Schaller travelled down at an estimated speed of 76 miles per hour; that kind of velocity can make even the calmest of waters feel like bricks on impact. And it may as well have been bricks, as Schaller dislocated his hip due to the force of his collision with the water. We can only guess that Laso saw French diver Olivier Favre’s 177-foot dive and was majorly underwhelmed.

While working as a bricklayer, John Evans discovered that he had an uncanny ability: he could balance incredibly heavy objects on top of his head; a talent which he began to hone. After several years of dedication to this unique skill, Evans reached the peak of his talent when he decided to balance a car on his head for a grand total of 33 seconds in front of a live audience. Said car weighed not one, not two but three hundred and fifty-two pounds. With his formidable strength and expert concentration, Evans somehow managed to make the whole situation look easy, but all it would take is one wrong move and…well…he woulda looked a whole lot flatter.

Having a drink every now and then can be good fun, but like anything else, consuming alcohol should be a pastime enjoyed in moderation. Then again, two different men in Poland have been recorded with blood alcohol levels over 1%. There’s also the well-known case involving a 67-year-old Bulgarian man who was rushed into a hospital with an extremely high 0.914 blood alcohol content level after being hit by an oncoming truck. By all accounts, if the full force of a truck didn’t kill this man on impact, then realistically speaking, the amount of alcohol in his system probably should have. Doctors were so baffled by him surviving this near-death experience; they proceeded to re-evaluate him using multiple machines, believing that their equipment must be faulty to show such high numbers.

Pulling off daring motorcycle bus jumps has been a classic stuntman move for decades. Some of the most noteworthy examples of that feat were successfully completed by legendary motorcyclist Evel Knievel in the 1970s. Knieval’s first attempt in 1975 saw him jump over 13 parked busses, only to break his pelvis on the way down. This didn’t turn him off from the idea, however, as just a few months later, he gave it another go, this time adding an additional bus for a grand total of 14. Knievel held onto this world record for nearly 25 years, before Bubba Blackwell decided to up the ante by jumping 15 busses in 1999.

The phrase “the sky’s the limit” is usually just an expression. But there are a few folks out there who take this mentality quite literally and to staggering new heights. Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner made headlines around the world when he jumped from a helium balloon floating 127,000 feet above the Earth and careened down to the planet below at a mind-blowing speed of 843 miles per hour - also making him the first human to break the sound barrier without a vehicle. Alan Eustace must’ve felt that was child’s play, as he jumped from the even higher height of 135 thousand feet just two years later.

Australian stunt performer Chayne Hultgren – aka the Space Cowboy – has never been one to shy away from outrageous acts like swallowing swords and juggling chainsaws. But those seem tame when compared to his more unsettling accomplishment of allowing motorcycles to drive over him while he was lying on top of a bed of nails. His facial expressions make it clear that not only is he uncomfortable; he’s in a great deal of pain as those motorcycles use him as a human bridge a total of 20 times. Hultgren’s stunt has “inspired” others to give it a whirl as well over the years. But we gotta say: kids, don’t try this at home.

Nope, nope, nope. Jackie Bibby has spent much of his life with the slithering reptiles in question, earning him the title of “The Texas Snake Man.” He has been bitten several times but still insists on continuing his snake-themed performances. The passion he has for his art is admired by his many fans, but even the most diehard followers gasped when Jackie decided to hold 13 live rattlesnakes in his mouth all at once. Time seems to come to a screeching halt, as Bibby maintains firm control over the snakes. Bibby may be well practiced, but these are still wild animals and all it takes is one wrong move for things to get messy real fast. Fortunately, they didn’t – this time.