Roy Sullivan, a US park ranger at Shenandoah National Park, was struck by lightning seven times between 1942 and 1977 and survived every one - the most lightning strikes ever survived by a person, per Guinness World Records.

Roy Sullivan, the Human Lightning Rod

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