Roy Sullivan

The Empire State Building's 20 to 25 strikes per year is clear evidence of this.

Roy Sullivan, a park ranger in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, was struck by lightning seven separate times between 1942 and 1977, earning him a place in the Guinness World Records as the person struck by lightning more times than any other human being.

Sullivan survived all seven strikes, though he suffered various injuries including burns, loss of a toenail, singed eyebrows and a burned shoulder.

The odds of being struck by lightning in any given year are approximately 1 in 1.2 million, though this varies greatly depending on geography, occupation and behaviour.

Whoa, I was trying to look this up.

Apparently, an American park ranger named Roy Sullivan struck by lightning seven times.

Okay, wait a minute.

The seventh time, he was like, Lord, I mean, I understand, like...

coming for us? Is lightning got a fucking agenda?

Isn't that lightning Roy guy that got struck by lightning? How many times did he get? You know what I'm talking about? Roy Sullivan?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I feel like he was probably doing some very lightning-y shit, though.

Mind, you've got to be careful what you say about that after those people in Australia were worried about the woman that got attacked by the shark.

So this is a story about Roy Sullivan that got struck by lightning seven times, right? He's been struck by lightning more than any other human.

He was born in 1912, described as a brawny man with a broad, rugged face who resembled Gene Hackman.

He was said to have been avoided by people during the later years of his life, owing to fears of they themselves would be struck by lightning that saddened him.

That's just how electrical discharge works.

Roy Sullivan, a park ranger in Shenandoah, got struck by lightning seven different times between nineteen forty-two and nineteen seventy-seven.

Seven times.

He survived all of them, which is its own kind of miracle.

Mm.

From Roy Sullivan.

[laughs]

The park ranger in Yosemite who got struck by lightning seven times.