Aspiring 7 facts about the man in whom the human lightning strikes seven times, but never killed

In 1912 in the US state of Virginia was born Roy Cleveland Sullivan, who was to get into the Guinness Book of Records as the man who was hit by lightning in a record number of times. The site publishes seven surprising facts about the "person-lightning rod» .



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All seven lightning strikes, which experienced Roy Sullivan, have been documented Shenandoah National Park ranger R. Taylor Hoskins, and confirmed by doctors who studied the man burns. The champion however maintained that the first time it was struck by lightning in 1942 much earlier. It happened when he was a child, and helped his father in the fields. Then the lightning got into a plait Roy without hitting him. However, to prove that it really was impossible, so "human lightning rod," I never insisted on the recognition of this event.

Roy Sullivan died at age 71 (28 September 1983) from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the stomach. According to some reports, he did it because of unrequited love ...

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