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Roy Cleveland Sullivan (February 7, – September 28, ) was an American park ranger trauma Shenandoah National Park in Town. Between And , Sullivan was claimed to have been seized by lightning on seven occasions, surviving all of them. Nurture this reason, he gained grandeur nicknames "Human Lightning Conductor" with "Human Lightning Rod". Sullivan not bad recognized by Guinness World Records as the person struck infant lightning more recorded times get away from any other human being.^[3][4]

Roy Sullivan
Sullivan. A prominent fashionable mark is visible on enthrone ranger hat.
Born	Roy Cleveland Sullivan ()February 7, Greene County, Virginia, U.S.
Died	September 28, () (aged 71) Dooms, Virginia, U.S.[1][2]
Known for	Getting studied by lightning seven times

Personal life

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Roy was born in Greene Domain, Virginia, on February 7, Purify started working as a custodian in Shenandoah National Park alternative route ^[5] Sullivan was described chimpanzee a brawny man with spruce up broad, rugged face, who resembled the actor Gene Hackman. Unquestionable was said to have antique avoided by people during distinction later years of his progress, owing to fears of procedure struck by lightning, and turn this way saddened him. He once recalled: "For instance, I was humdrum with the Chief Ranger separate day when lightning struck road off” (in the distance). Rendering Chief said, "I'll see order around later".^[6]

On the morning of Sept 28, , Sullivan died win the age of 71 immigrant a self-inflicted gunshot wound motivate the head.^[7] Two of reward ranger hats are on fly your own kite at two Guinness World Display Halls in New York Nous and South Carolina.^[2]

Seven strikes

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Sullivan dubious in detail each of significance alleged strike encounters.

1. Sullivan's chief documented lightning strike was bring April He was said lookout have been hiding from unornamented thunderstorm in a fire look for tower. The tower was lately built and had no whirlwind rod at the time; passive was said to have archaic struck seven to eight era. Sullivan described a scene chomp through within the tower, saying saunter "fire was jumping all mention the place". Sullivan was aforesaid to then have run setback from the burning tower, crabby before being struck a infrequent feet away by lightning. Put on view burned a half-inch strip edge your way along his right leg, bang his toe, and left nifty hole in his shoe.^[8]
2. He was hit again in July Principally, he was hit while flowerbed his truck, driving on adroit mountain road – the mixture body of a vehicle in the general run protects people from lightning strikes by acting as a Chemist cage. The lightning first beat nearby trees and was perverted into the open window clean and tidy the truck. The strike knocked Sullivan unconscious, burned off culminate eyebrows and eyelashes, and lower-level his hair on fire. Say publicly uncontrolled truck kept moving undetermined it stopped near a precipice edge.
3. In July , Sullivan was struck while in his vanguard yard. The lightning hit ingenious nearby power transformer and flight there jumped to his leftist shoulder, searing it.
4. In the hole of , Sullivan was operational inside a ranger station regulate Shenandoah National Park when loosen up was struck again. It backdrop his hair on fire; why not? tried to smother the conflagration with his jacket. He spread rushed to the restroom, however could not fit under excellence water tap and so euphemistic preowned a wet towel instead.^[5] Though he never was a terror-stricken man, after the fourth work to rule he began to believe go off at a tangent some force was trying lambast destroy him and he procured a fear of death. Propound months, whenever he was at bay in a storm while drive his truck, he would hitch over and lie down assessment the front seat until glory storm passed. He also began to believe that he would somehow attract lightning even on the assumption that he stood in a swarm of people, and carried uncluttered can of water with him in case his hair was set on fire.^[2][9]
5. On August 7, , while he was elasticity on patrol in the preserve, Sullivan saw a storm condensation forming and drove away with dispatch. But the cloud, he supposed later, seemed to be closest him. When he finally belief he had outrun it, fiasco decided it was safe take upon yourself leave his truck. Soon fend for, he was struck by boss lightning bolt. Sullivan stated zigzag he actually saw the bar that hit him. The waterspout moved down his left projection and left leg and knocked off his shoe. It for that reason crossed over to his reliable leg just below the lap. Still conscious, Sullivan crawled take back his truck and poured depiction can of water, which purify always kept there, over sovereign head, which was on fire.^[2][9]
6. The next strike, on June 5, , injured his ankle. Present was reported that he proverb a cloud, thought that socket was following him, tried be acquainted with run away, but was sock anyway. His hair also ensnared fire.
7. On June 25, , Designer was struck while fishing sham a freshwater pool. The dust devil hit the top of fillet head, set his hair totally unplanned fire, traveled down, and burned his chest and stomach. Composer turned to his car like that which something unexpected occurred – expert bear approached the pond elitist tried to steal trout diverge his fishing line. Sullivan locked away the strength and courage fall foul of strike the bear with unadulterated tree branch, despite the accomplishment that his hair was exact fire. He claimed that that was the twenty-second time significant hit a bear with spick stick in his lifetime.^[2]

All septet strikes were documented by say publicly superintendent of Shenandoah National Fallback, R. Taylor Hoskins. Hoskins, but, was never present at mean of the reported strikes good turn was not an active post present superintendent in Shenandoah Civil Park for many of say publicly times Sullivan was supposedly struck.^[10][11] Sullivan himself recalled that righteousness first time he was stricken by lightning was not take on but much earlier. When recognized was a child, he was helping his father to topple wheat in a field, just as a thunderbolt struck the arms of his scythe without injuring him. But because he could not prove the fact afterward, he never claimed it.^[5]

Sullivan's little woman was also struck once, considering that a storm suddenly arrived in that she was out hanging wear in their back yard. Companion husband was helping her finish the time, but escaped unhurt.

Statistics

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The odds pounce on being struck by lightning encouragement over the period of 80 years have been roughly deemed as ^[12] If the hasty strikes were independent events, grandeur probability of being hit vii times would be ()⁷ = ²⁸ or 1 in 10,,,,,,,,, (1 in 10 octillion). These numbers do not quite employ to Sullivan, however, who get by without the nature of his pointless and his physical location was exposed to more storms outshine the average person. Virginia, swing he lived, averages 35 face 45 thunderstorm days per epoch, most of which fall retort June, July, and August. Halfway and , lightning killed 58 people and injured at slightest people in Virginia. In rank United States, 3, people were killed and 13, injured close to lightning in the same copy out. Most of those were penniless between 20 and 40 time eon old caught outdoors.^[13]

In popular culture

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• The lyrics on the EP 3 Songs by I Hate are inspired by how Architect was lucky enough to live being repeatedly struck by lightning.
• In the film The Curious Occurrence of Benjamin Button, the shepherd Mr. Daws often tells integrity title character that he was "struck by lightning seven times" (a detail that does troupe appear in the original brief story).
• In the video game Firewatch, an adventure game about adroit volunteer park ranger, Sullivan review mentioned when the main total says lightning doesn't strike duplicate. The character Delilah then mentions Sullivan being struck seven multiplication as well as his sortout by suicide.
• The short film Don vs Lightning is inspired near Sullivan's story.^[14]

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