So, here is a fact you probably already know: The chances of getting struck by lightning are extremely rare, about 1 in 200,000 – or 0.000002%. Despite these extremely low chances, Roy Sullivan, a park ranger in Shenandoah Nation Park in Virginia, got struck by lightning. The crazy part isn’t that he got hit by lightning once; Sullivan was struck a total of SEVEN times throughout his lifetime.
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Currently, Roy Sullivan holds the world record for getting hit by lightning more than any other human in history. He could be considered the luckiest man ever or the unluckiest man ever, depending on how you look at it. This series of unfortunate strikes harmed Sullivan physically, ruined him mentally, and landed him the nickname “The Human Lightning Rod.”