The Human Lightning Rod

Roy Sullivan survived being struck by lightning seven times. Not once,

not twice, but seven separate strikes throughout his career as a park ranger.

The first hit him in 1942, the last in 1977. Each time doctors expected the worst,

but he walked away. His eyebrows were burned off twice, his hair caught fire multiple times,

and one strike even melted the fillings in his teeth. He kept detailed records of every

incident, almost like he knew nobody would believe him. The odds of being

struck once are one in fifteen thousand. Seven times? Astronomically impossible. Yet Sullivan's scars

and medical records proved it all. He earned the nickname Human Lightning Rod and made it