The story of the man who was struck by lightning 7 times in his life and survived

ArabiaWeather.com - Omar Dajani - Mr. (Roy Cleveland Sullivan) is an American citizen who lived between 1912 and 1983. He worked as a ranger for a national park in Virginia. He was famous for being struck by lightning on seven occasions during his life and surviving them all.

The people around Roy avoided standing near him or approaching him, believing that he was an evil spirit and that standing near him might expose them to being affected by lightning like him.

It is reported that Roy died at the age of 71, but his death was not caused by lightning, but by inflammation caused by a gunshot in his stomach.

The seven shocks:

1) Lightning struck (Roy) for the first time in April of 1942, when he was hiding from a thunderstorm in one of the watch towers in the garden, and the tower was not prepared for lightning strikes, and lightning struck the tower at that time several times, so that Roy was injured At that time, he suffered severe burns in his right foot.

2) The second strike was in July of 1969, when lightning severely struck the car he was driving, as the body of the car discharged most of the electrical energy into the ground, but despite that Roy passed out and his hair, eyebrows and eyelashes were burned!

3) In 1970, lightning struck Roy while he was in the garden of his private house, where a lightning bolt struck an electric tower very close, and from there the force of the thunderbolt spread to hit Roy's shoulder and severely burn her.

4) In 1972, Roy was working in the National Park, where he was struck by lightning so badly that his hair was burned again, and although Roy was a fearless person, the fourth thunderbolt made him believe that a hidden power was trying to destroy him, and then he was possessed by the fear of death Significantly.

5) On August 7, 1973, Roy was working in the National Park as well, when he noticed a thundercloud coming, so he started the car engine quickly to quickly move away from the place, but the lightning struck him again, and Roy explained in his memoirs that he saw the lightning coming, and The lightning burned his hair again, and his left shoe was blown away by the force of the blow

6) The sixth strike was on 5-6-1976, when Roy was running away from a thunderstorm, but despite that, it hit him without being exposed to death.

7) The seventh strike was on June 25, 1977, when Roy was fishing in his boat, before lightning struck him in the head and extended to burn his chest and stomach. The unfortunate thing about this unfortunate man's story is that he pulled himself together and reached his vehicle, when a bear attacked his car trying to steal the fish he had caught.

All seven strokes that hit Roy Sullivan are on record with Doctors, National Park in Shenandoah, Virginia.