Surviving lightning is enough to upset a life. The case of Roy C. Sullivan has seven episodes. Guinness World Records awarded this record to the American ranger, with a first hit in 1942 and a last one on June 25, 1977.
The recorded consequences are very concrete: a nail lost during the first episode, burns during several others and, twice in the 1970s, inflamed hair. Behind the nickname of human lightning rod, there is therefore a man wounded several times, and not someone that electricity would have mysteriously spared.
This narrative does not calculate a universal probability by multiplying an average number seven times. Circumstances and exposure differ from person to person. Its strangeness suffices without it: what one imagines as the unique accident of an existence has returned, in this file, over thirty years.
What we know
Seven episodes attributed to the Guinness record; no invulnerability, particular physical attraction, or calculated personal probability.
To go to the source
References consulted on September 21, 2026. Linked pages may be in another language.
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