Meet The Man Struck By Lightning 7 Times Mental Floss Roy cleveland sullivan (february 7, 1912 – september 28, 1983) was an american park ranger in shenandoah national park in virginia. between 1942 and 1977, sullivan was claimed to have been struck by lightning on seven occasions, surviving all of them. for this reason, he gained the nicknames "human lightning conductor" and "human lightning rod". Published 26 january 2023. the thought of being struck by lightning won’t appeal to many people, but unfortunately for roy c. sullivan (usa), it happened to him a whopping seven times. and amazingly, he survived every single strike each of which contained several million volts of electricity. roy, an ex park ranger from virginia, set a.
Incredible Story Of Man Who Survived Being Struck By Lightning Seven Time Lightning basically made a mockery of those odds when it struck sullivan for the third time just a year later in july of 1970. this time a bolt out of the blue struck sullivan in the left shoulder, searing it, per inside nova. in spring of 1972 — boom, again — the poor man was hit while inside a shenandoah ranger station, his hair set on fire. Roy sullivan is either the luckiest or unluckiest man, depending on how you look at it. despite being struck by lightning an odds defying seven times, he lived to be 72. he died from a self inflicted gunshot wound on sept. 28, 1983 as the result of depression caused by an unrequited love affair. However, sullivan’s curse was electricity based. between 1942 and 1977, he was struck by lightning no less than seven times. that’s seven too many times in anyone’s book. later in life he became increasingly depressed; people would avoid his company, especially if a storm was brewing. sullivan said:. To put it in perspective, the odds of getting struck by lightning seven times are 4.15 in 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
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