Such a spectacular phenomenon of nature as lightning can be very dangerous for animals and people. This is fraught with the most sad consequences. But this does not always happen, sometimes fate helps a person out, and several times in a row.
Immune to lightning
Roy Sullivan served in Virginia as a security guard, keeping order in the National Park. He lived a quiet life, but what happened to him made him famous all over the world. The body turned out to be extremely stubborn, it was not struck by a lightning strike. But nature was clearly not indifferent to the guard, because in 35 years lightning struck a man as much as 7 times. And every time he stayed alive, he got off with only marks on his body. Relatives are sure that Roy is just a lightning rod. This is the nickname the lucky American got. Even the experts of the Guinness Book of Records did not stand aside and honorably brought Roy Sullivan and his achievement into their annals.
After the guard survived several blows, people unwittingly began to avoid him, which upset the man. People just thought that if they were near Sullivan, they would be struck by lightning coming from him. It is unclear where this rumor came from, but it sounds very ridiculous. Fortunately, many understood this and did not stop communicating with Roy, on the contrary, they were proud that there was such a hero in their environment.
Timeline of blows
The first time a man felt the impact of lightning in 1942, when he was on a fire tower. He himself was not injured, except for the fact that he was left without a nail on one finger. The next time did not happen soon, in 1969, lightning caught him while driving on a road in a mountainous area. This time left the American without eyebrows, in addition, he lost consciousness for a while. Literally a year later, there was another blow, this time the consequences were more serious, although we can say that he was extremely lucky, because he survived. As a result, the hand struck by lightning was paralyzed. Then the American was not at work, but just doing household chores on the lawn near his house.
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Two years later, Roy was again visited by lightning, which saved his life, but deprived him of the hair on his head. In 1973, that is, a year later, the guard made a detour around the protected park. A strong lightning strike caught him in the car, and with such force that Roy was thrown out of the vehicle.
Another, already sixth, lightning strike occurred in 1976, when the American was in the camp, then from the blow he suffered an ankle injury. In 1977, when he was fishing, the final blow came. After the incident, he was admitted to the hospital with burns. Once and the wife of an American was struck by lightning when she was hanging clothes outside the house.
After the last lightning strike, Roy was hospitalized with burns.
According to statistics, in the United States, the probability of being affected by this natural phenomenon is 1: 3000. Experts attribute such a frequency of blows to Roy's work and the fact that the place where he lived is considered a thunderstorm. But a man at the age of 71 died not from lightning, but from a gunshot wound.