1. In 1979, two families successfully escaped East Berlin using a homemade hot air balloon.

2. Three Alcatraz prisoners orchestrated the prison’s only successful escape in 1962 only to be recaptured in San Francisco.

3. Henry Brown mailed himself from Virginia to Pennsylvania to escape enslavement.

4. In 1959 the 14th Dalai Lama disguised himself as a soldier to escape persecution in Tibet for safety in China.

5. Joaquín (“El Chapo”) Guzmán escaped from a prison in Mexico through a mile-long tunnel in 2015 and was never seen again.

6. A Jesuit priest named John Gerard escaped the infamous Tower of London in 1597 with help from a sympathetic prison guard.