Between 1942 and 1977, a Virginia park ranger named Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning seven separate times—and somehow walked away from every single strike. The statistical probability of this happening is so astronomically small that it sounds like something a fiction writer would reject as unrealistic.
Mar 13, 2026
In August 1945, a Japanese engineer named Tsutomu Yamaguchi was close enough to two separate atomic bomb blasts to have his eardrums blown out — and he walked away from both. Decades passed before the Japanese government officially acknowledged what he'd been quietly telling people for years: that one man had somehow survived the end of the world, twice.
Mar 13, 2026