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The Human Lightning Rod: How One Virginia Ranger Got Struck Seven Times and Somehow Kept Showing Up for Work
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The Human Lightning Rod: How One Virginia Ranger Got Struck Seven Times and Somehow Kept Showing Up for Work

Roy Sullivan was a Shenandoah National Park ranger who survived not one, not two, but seven separate lightning strikes over 35 years — a statistical nightmare so extreme that Guinness had to invent a record category just for him. His story is equal parts astonishing and deeply unsettling, the kind of true account that makes you question everything you thought you knew about probability.