12 Facts About Roy Sullivan

Roy Cleveland Sullivan was an American park ranger in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.

Between 1942 and 1977, Sullivan was claimed to have been struck by lightning on seven occasions, surviving all of them.

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

Roy Sullivan was born in Greene County, Virginia, on February 7,1912.

Roy Sullivan started working as a ranger in Shenandoah National Park in 1936.

Roy Sullivan was described as a brawny man with a broad, rugged face, who resembled the actor Gene Hackman.

Roy Sullivan was said to have been avoided by people during the later years of his life, owing to fears of being struck by lightning, and that saddened him.

Roy Sullivan described in detail each of the alleged strike encounters.

Hoskins was never present at any of the reported strikes and was not an active and present superintendent in Shenandoah National Park for many of the times Roy Sullivan was supposedly struck.

Roy Sullivan himself recalled that the first time he was struck by lightning was not in 1942 but much earlier.

Roy Sullivan's wife was struck once, when a storm suddenly arrived as she was out hanging clothes in their back yard.

Roy Sullivan's husband was helping her at the time, but escaped unharmed.