Between nineteen forty-two and nineteen seventy-seven, Virginia park ranger Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning seven times. He lost a toenail, had his eyebrows burned off, had his hair catch fire twice, suffered burns to his shoulder, chest, and stomach, and was knocked unconscious more than once. He survived every strike. He became known as the Human Lightning Rod. He carried a can of water with him everywhere in case his hair caught fire again, and he watched the sky with the wariness of a man who had reason to believe the sky was watching him back.

In this episode of 5 Minute Strange, we cover all seven documented lightning strikes on Roy Sullivan — the circumstances, the injuries, the odds that make the whole thing statistically almost impossible — and the death that finally took him, which had nothing to do with lightning. The man who survived the sky seven times was undone by something no Guinness World Record could measure.

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