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Shenandoah recalls park ranger struck seven times by lightning


Shenandoah recalls park ranger struck seven times by lightning

On seven occasions between 1942 and 1977, Ranger Sullivan was struck by lightning and lived to tell about it. Please be safe and stop all outdoor activities ...

Roy Sullivan - Wikipedia

Roy Cleveland Sullivan (February 7, 1912 – September 28, 1983) was an American park ranger in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. Between 1942 and 1977, ...

Lightning strikes: A man hit seven times - The Washington Post

Roy Sullivan was hit by lightning seven times. Inside the life of the man known as the “spark ranger.”

Giving Roy Sullivan his due — and distance - Rappahannock News

Shenandoah recalls park ranger struck seven times by lightning. ... Shenandoah recalls park ranger struck seven times by lightning. When ...

Ranger Roy Sullivan: The Man Who Survived Seven Lightning Strikes

In a moment that reflects the heavy toll this took on him, Sullivan recalled walking with a Chief Ranger one day when lightning struck in the ...

Unbearable Lightning | The Campo Santo Quarterly Review

Sullivan was hit by lightning a preposterous seven times, once in 1942 and on six more occasions between 1969 and 1977 - a rate of almost once per year. He met ...

The Man Who Was Struck by Lightning Seven Times | by Joe Donan

Despite these astronomically low chances, Roy Cleveland Sullivan, a park ranger in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, was hit by lightning ...

Roy Sullivan, a Virginia national park ranger. Was struck by lightning ...

Sullivan is recognized by Guinness World Records as the person struck by lightning more recorded times than any other human being.

Roy Sullivan was a park ranger... - Shenandoah National Park

Roy Sullivan was a park ranger at Shenandoah National Park. On seven occasions between 1942 and 1977, Ranger Sullivan was struck by ...

Park ranger struck by lightning 7 — or was it 8 — times: History

There was good reason for this eccentric arrangement; the trailer owner, retired Shenandoah Park Ranger Roy C. Sullivan, had already been struck ...

Struck by Lightning 7 Times: The Shocking Story of Roy Sullivan

Roy Sullivan's story is one of incredible odds. His career as a park ranger at Shenandoah National Park put him in the line of fire, so to speak, more often ...

The "Spark Ranger" ? Any Facts to Support This Story ?

Strike Three occurred exactly one year later: July 1970. Pat and Roy Sullivan were living in a house trailer on the western fringe of the park ...

Imagine Being Struck By Lightning Once. How About Seven Times?

Roy was a remarkable man. For thirty-five years, between 1942 and 1977, he was a Park Ranger at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. He was ...

Struck by lightning – bristowbovey.com

Roy was a park ranger in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. The first time he was struck, in 1942, he was hiding from a thunderstorm in a fire lookout tower.

Shenandoah National Park Ranger Roy Sullivan Set the World ...

On seven occasions between 1942 and 1977, six of them in the park, Ranger Sullivan was struck by lightning and lived to tell about it.

Roy Sullivan | Fact | FactRepublic.com

Roy Cleveland Sullivan was a United States park ranger in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. Between 1942 and 1977, Sullivan was hit by lightning on seven ...

ROY SULLIVAN - The New York Times

Roy Sullivan, a retired Shenandoah National Park ranger who was struck by lightning seven times and survived, died Wednesday of a gunshot wound. He was 71 ...

Remember This?: Roy's attractiveness | Lifestyles | hammondstar.com

In April 1942, a thunderstorm blew into the national park. Roy took refuge in a newly-built fire tower. Unbeknownst to Roy, the fire tower's ...

Roy Sullivan - NamuWiki

1972 - He was struck by lightning for the fourth time while walking to a range station in Shenandoah National Park, which struck him in the head ...

Roy Cleveland “Spark Ranger” Sullivan Sr. (1912-1983)

∼Roy Cleveland Sullivan (February 7, 1912 – September 28, 1983) was a U.S. park ranger in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. Sullivan was hit by lightning on ...