13 Incredible records that will NEVER be broken.. Ever! (With Pictures)

11. Lightning Strikes the Same Man Seven Times

Roy Sullivan was an ordinary park ranger at Shenandoah National Park. But what remains in the Guinness Books isn’t ordinary at all—ridiculously far from it, actually. Between 1942 and 1977, Sullivan was struck by lightning seven times. The strikes were verified by doctors and documented by park superintendent R. Taylor Hoskins. For reference, the odds of being struck by lightning over a period of 80 years is 1 in 10,000. Being struck seven times in one lifetime is equal to being bitten by the same Great White Shark, well, seven times. Sullivan also mentioned that even as a child he was a Human Lightning Rod; a bolt struck his scythe while he was cutting wheat in a field with his father. He died in 1983 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.