struck by lightning 7 times, and survived

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  • wow this guy sure talks about Roy Sullivan, doesn’t he? Lightning bolts, roy sullivan, SEO optimizing, he mentions it all!
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  • @jebbryant6522
    @jebbryant6522 4 місяці тому +64

    Having a bolt hit his foot next to a giant lightning rod only for a second one to fuckin bounce around a tree through his window is some looney tunes shit

  • @damefruhauf
    @damefruhauf 4 місяці тому +108

    That's really sad to me that he killed himself like 6 or 7 years after the last lightning strike, to think he was struggling with worse things in life than being struck by lightning 7 times, idk just feels bad man

    • @luluconacolo2729
      @luluconacolo2729 2 місяці тому +14

      Don't quote me on this because i just heard it in the passing of some other video but: i heard the lightning was part of the reason for his depression since people both started avoiding him and he also started isolating himself. Admittedly if i were in so many near death situations i too would be a little depressed about it but hey, cant confirm i think.

    • @tsurugizaki
      @tsurugizaki 2 місяці тому +6

      @@luluconacolo2729Considering he was already so paranoid after the fourth strike I wouldn't be surprised. You'd probably believe you were just not meant to live after so many incidents.

  • @thedemolitionmuniciple
    @thedemolitionmuniciple 3 місяці тому +29

    "Roy was just being paranoid" they say about a man who would go on to be _struck by lightning, three more times_

  • @GFCOLCQuote
    @GFCOLCQuote 4 місяці тому +48

    The bear looked at Roy and said "I don't know what boss music is, but I am *certain* that I am hearing it."

  • @magsstorey
    @magsstorey Рік тому +80

    Being struck by lightning runs in my family. No joke. Only in my case everyone died. Like a normal non-Roy person.

    • @gguioa
      @gguioa 5 місяців тому +13

      ... are you still alive

    • @magsstorey
      @magsstorey 4 місяці тому +16

      @@gguioa Just about. Not only were two struck by lightning, another was killed recently by the topic of a different @jeffiot video. (That I won't mention out here of respect for how recent it was). There might be a Jeff Iot curse....

    • @PrismCasillica
      @PrismCasillica 4 місяці тому +12

      Make sure you keep both feet on the ground. Usually you need an exit for electricity to increase survival chances. o7

  • @leevi660
    @leevi660 4 місяці тому +90

    You maybe avoided finishing the "Take me home, country roads" skit but right after it you listed every place mentioned in the lyrics of the song. Bravo.

    • @alliison
      @alliison 3 місяці тому +3

      choosing to abandon the take me home country roads joke and, not one minute later, talking about blue ridge mountains and shenandoah

  • @InsanityPlusOne
    @InsanityPlusOne 4 місяці тому +37

    after the second one I'd just nope and never go outdoors, to think after 6 he was willing to be under the sky is insanity

  • @matthewoherren4872
    @matthewoherren4872 Рік тому +183

    It is a crime how little recognition you get for these high quality videos

    • @jeffiot
      @jeffiot  Рік тому +45

      comments like these makes it worth it, though.

    • @MajinCanon
      @MajinCanon 5 місяців тому +7

      Simply a matter of time, for a new channel like this he is booming

    • @ishitvvats2044
      @ishitvvats2044 4 місяці тому +4

      ​@jeffiot I'm on a binge and turned all my friends onto your shit. never stop you're almost there I love you

    • @RacerXKet
      @RacerXKet 4 місяці тому +1

      Seriously. You just showed up for me and the humor is A+

    • @TheCynicalOptimist88
      @TheCynicalOptimist88 4 місяці тому +3

      Okay I don't know why anyone didn't say it "Lightning Rod Roy "

  • @Armund_Wolffe
    @Armund_Wolffe 4 місяці тому +44

    Roy's Lichtenberg scars must have looked absolutely badass.
    What a legend.

  • @aperson336
    @aperson336 4 місяці тому +40

    It’s not even how many times he was struck, it is HOW he was struck

  • @samallen9033
    @samallen9033 4 місяці тому +38

    My grandma got shot by lightning (and survived). It was a very traumatic experience to her, and I remember my dad and his siblings being worried about her whenever there was a thunderstorm, because they knew that the sounds would trigger her. I can't imagine what it must've been like for this guy, not having to go throught that once, but SEVEN times!

    • @pairot01
      @pairot01 2 місяці тому +2

      Bro was literally being chased by clouds lol

  • @norang3639
    @norang3639 Рік тому +48

    the moment the bear is mentioned I started wheezing. What even are the odds of encountering a bear?? (really don't know I don't live in the states) And only a man who's been struck by lightning 7 times could be mad enough to fight a bear. Over fishes.

    • @KrissyBlues
      @KrissyBlues Рік тому +27

      Bear odds would be pretty high given his job and where he lived, if anything it'd be weird if he didn't run into at least 20 bears or so over the course of his job. The timing though is utterly cracked

    • @Nightenstaff
      @Nightenstaff 2 місяці тому +1

      West Virginia has about 13,000 - 15,000 black bears current day. While running into them certainly isn't a daily occurrence, it absolutely does happen. Being in the forest near a stream would certainly increase those odds. I've been within 100 yards of a wild black bear on two separate occasions in my life -- once near a stream and once on my grandparents property.

  • @Heartogold42
    @Heartogold42 5 місяців тому +42

    6:02 I said Faraday Cage out loud! May I receive the title of "Faraday fucking master"?

    • @danyg4063
      @danyg4063 4 місяці тому +2

      I also did as well.

  • @flophawk
    @flophawk 4 місяці тому +7

    "there is a 1 in 15000 chance you will be struck by lightning" fact is actually just statistical error. *_lightnings georg-_*

  • @andrebighach
    @andrebighach Рік тому +21

    I though he was going to tell me he was almost done editing this video, he needed a high definition photograph of roy sullivan and when he clicked on it, right there, sitting at his editing desk, he was struck by lightning. Zeus strikes again!

  • @TakeWalker
    @TakeWalker Рік тому +41

    I love that it was creepy horror stuff that brought me to this channel, but I am well and truly staying for the humor :D this was seriously on point, great video!

  • @Cristopher.C
    @Cristopher.C 2 місяці тому +4

    this feels like two gods made a friendly wager to pick a random mortal and then one would have to try to kill him and the other one try to save him

  • @DrazerTM
    @DrazerTM 4 місяці тому +8

    Roy was a real life SCP

  • @xXRedTheDragonXx
    @xXRedTheDragonXx 2 місяці тому +2

    It's weird because I do know someone who was struck by lightning twice. Both times were as a camp counselor at a summer camp I went to, and both happened exactly one year apart. He showed all of us the scars he had from the first one and a picture of how it burned a hole in his water bottle. That night, there was a storm and sure enough we heard from the other camp counselors the next day that he was struck by lightning AGAIN and was in the hospital. He was out and back at camp a few days later with a new scar and a new nickname of "sparky".

  • @andrebighach
    @andrebighach Рік тому +12

    35 yers of being absolutely bullied by Zeus.

  • @feathero3
    @feathero3 4 місяці тому +4

    Must have been transporting metal items to meet quota.

  • @redwiltshire1816
    @redwiltshire1816 4 місяці тому +4

    Honestly it’s things like this that make me think the fairies or the god of insanity is real

  • @TylerPlayGame
    @TylerPlayGame Рік тому +12

    There's another guy named Walter Summerford who was struck by lightning 4 times, then buried alive! I wonder if he was related to Roy...
    Keep up the amazing work, Jeff. It's an absolute crime your channel isn't more popular

  • @cyverbunny
    @cyverbunny 8 місяців тому +15

    man I can't even begin to describe how much I love this channel. your storytelling style is so illustrative and entertaining. I can't imagine something more comforting than relaxing to a nice jeff video.

  • @BoudicanDestructionHorizon
    @BoudicanDestructionHorizon 3 місяці тому +2

    When the son was mentioned I audibly gasped "no". I can't believe they didn't study his entire bloodline after that, I mean what the actual fu

  • @josephscriven5454
    @josephscriven5454 4 місяці тому +3

    I love that this was at the top of my home page. The algorithm is picking up on you, and the way you do things.

  • @fortonmortal
    @fortonmortal 5 місяців тому +3

    I would have called him "Royal flash" 🌩

  • @Minty1337
    @Minty1337 4 місяці тому +5

    he's just got extra iron in his diet, that's all

  • @retrosityreal
    @retrosityreal 2 місяці тому +1

    6:08 every kid: IM IN 4TH GRADE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  • @TheCynicalOptimist88
    @TheCynicalOptimist88 4 місяці тому +2

    Best nickname that no one has said ...
    "Lightning Rod Roy " or L.R.R.

  • @Darentei
    @Darentei 4 місяці тому +6

    As I've heard it told, his gravestone was also struck by lightning.

  • @ChannelSixONine
    @ChannelSixONine Рік тому +5

    As a member of your patreon, and a member of west vergina, I just wanna say...thank you

  • @frannyeno
    @frannyeno 4 місяці тому +1

    Honestly Jeff, you're the MOST underated creaton on this platform. You should have at least 10million subs. The injustice of popularity is insane

  • @donovanchau3483
    @donovanchau3483 4 місяці тому +2

    My neighbor was nearly struck by lightening twice, once back in the 1930s or early 40s (I forget exactly what age he said he was) and then again in the 2010s. First time it happened next to him in a field, second time it struck the room he was in. But to be as cursed as Roy, goddamn.

  • @eveghost
    @eveghost Рік тому +3

    Stuff like this just screams 'we live in a simulation' and poor old Roy had the cruelest Sims player of all time.

  • @DaveBitEntertainment
    @DaveBitEntertainment 4 місяці тому +1

    I love how you call him Rod without hesitation twice in the middle of the video

  • @ichigo9471
    @ichigo9471 Рік тому +4

    Feels bad Lightning Roy 😔

  • @theauroradragon8410
    @theauroradragon8410 4 місяці тому +2

    It's so funny that you mention the video game flame searcher because at least in the US it's literally called fire watch, so your reference to a fire watch tower is even funnier

    • @fiona9891
      @fiona9891 4 місяці тому +4

      it's called firewatch in every country that's the joke

    • @lepo71
      @lepo71 3 місяці тому +3

      There's also an interactive dialogue sequence during the first time Henry walks through Thunder Canyon back to his firewatch tower.
      If you choose the correct path through the dialogue tree with Delilah, she will tell the Roy Sullyvan story, even with the sad and ironic twist about how Roy took his own life.

  • @Stevan1138
    @Stevan1138 Рік тому +8

    Fyi, the band I Hate Myself did a 3 song EP (just titled 3 Songs) dedicated to Roy Sullivan. Each song is about him and lightning. It's not for everyone, but I highly recommend checking it out.

    • @jeffiot
      @jeffiot  Рік тому +8

      I checked this out during the research of the video actually, was going to include a mention of it but ended up cutting it out!

  • @12times12_
    @12times12_ 4 місяці тому +1

    Your production value is so high and I love your videos. So excited that your last one got so much recognition.

  • @lorenzoarditti2350
    @lorenzoarditti2350 3 місяці тому

    I laughed for good this time.. thank you jeff,im binge watching all your videos and I LOVE THEM

  • @Prizzlesticks
    @Prizzlesticks 4 місяці тому +1

    Lightning strike injuries often include Lichtenberg figures, which look like ferns and ar caused by exploding capillaries. Amd compared to other burns, lightning strike burns are notable. The lungs can also be damaged due to rapidly expanding air from the heat.
    All this to say, he'd be hard pressed to fake lightning strikes. Given how much bears bothered him, I gotta wonder wtf he did to piss off two Greek deities, tho, because damn.

  • @FosukeLordOfError
    @FosukeLordOfError 4 місяці тому +2

    After the second time it’s just showing off

  • @elizabethpemberton8445
    @elizabethpemberton8445 3 місяці тому

    In 1979 or so my two cousins, my brother, and I were making a tape and improvising an episode of “Dallas.” My cousin Melissa, as Bobby, said “Well, lightning never strikes twice in the same place,” and I, a nine year old girl, as JR, shot back “Did to some ranger in the forest,” which cracked her up. And now I know the rest of the story that I think we saw in Ripley’s Believe It or Not.

  • @Smokeybluetheraccoon
    @Smokeybluetheraccoon 2 місяці тому

    This guy was definitely either a monster that some deity was trying to rid the earth of, or he pissed a demon right off

  • @no_social_skill1369
    @no_social_skill1369 4 місяці тому +3

    It is West Virginia, blue ridge mountains are mentioned in the song too, and Shenandoah river

    • @MorgueAnomaly
      @MorgueAnomaly 4 місяці тому

      but Roy Sullivan is from Virginia. We don't have a Greene County in West Virginia

  • @NTLN-N
    @NTLN-N 4 місяці тому +1

    I love that you said you don't even know if the song is about West Virginia (it is) and then proceeded to mention places straight out of the first 3 lines of song's lyrics (blue ridge mountain, Shenandoah river) XD

  • @CroMike1
    @CroMike1 2 місяці тому

    I cant believe it took me this long to find all your amazing vids!

  • @dementissilenti5603
    @dementissilenti5603 4 місяці тому +1

    I think you're about to pop off my man. These videos are amazing.

  • @whodatj0ny
    @whodatj0ny Рік тому +3

    The Human Lightning Roy of course

  • @pappy2690
    @pappy2690 4 місяці тому

    You got in the recommendeds so good job good luck

  • @catonthestreet630
    @catonthestreet630 Рік тому +1

    You are truly one of the best👌

  • @KnivstikkerOla
    @KnivstikkerOla 3 місяці тому

    That bear at the end had my laughing so f*ing hard!

  • @blackcatsandbooks86
    @blackcatsandbooks86 4 місяці тому +1

    i saw your vid about final destination, and since then i’ve been on a BINGE, your content is so freaking good, im too broke for patreon so i hope this comment can help you in any way

  • @benjammin7700
    @benjammin7700 Рік тому +6

    Thank you for the most honest Patreon plea ever. It worked on me!

  • @meimei8718
    @meimei8718 3 місяці тому

    I love how you used your own self for the bear fight. Hilarious!

  • @thedoublek4816
    @thedoublek4816 4 місяці тому

    8:12 my experience of watching Home Alone on TV almost every damn Xmas was creating a different outcome inside my head 😂

  • @adrienstarfaer
    @adrienstarfaer Місяць тому

    6:23 Dude, don't be my burnt out giftend kid self doubt, I have adhd, I already have enough of it

  • @caseymckenna7111
    @caseymckenna7111 Рік тому +4

    Dude.. every video you put out makes me feel like I’ve been in a really weird room, all by myself doin all my weird shit and suddenly I look up and you’re over there in the corner doin similar weird shit and when we make eye contact, you’re just like “nice!” Is that too much? Should I not have said that?

  • @aperson336
    @aperson336 4 місяці тому +1

    Dog angered zues 💀

  • @ReiDaTecnologia
    @ReiDaTecnologia 3 місяці тому

    It's sad how these traumatics experiences and together with the fact that people started avoiding him with fears of being hit by a lightning made (probably) him kill himself )':

  • @Nova_the_starcatcher
    @Nova_the_starcatcher 3 місяці тому

    this is insane
    and like is paranoia is valid for this man he was smart to be prepared

  • @DJDarkScreen
    @DJDarkScreen 4 місяці тому +1

    Your my favorite UA-camr and person I look up to love your videos and loved "The Mustache" video so much I got the book keep on going would love to meet you one day

  • @fishsayhelo9872
    @fishsayhelo9872 4 місяці тому

    spectacular

  • @moonmun
    @moonmun 4 місяці тому

    Man's a dang legend.

  • @jongrubbdesign
    @jongrubbdesign 3 місяці тому

    I hope your channel strikes it big, like a "Human Lightning Roy."

  • @thedoublek4816
    @thedoublek4816 4 місяці тому

    The "and he got struck by lightning" has got the same comedic energy as Tom Scott's "and the goat burned down" in his video on the Gävlebocken

  • @TwoSpark55
    @TwoSpark55 3 місяці тому

    honestly if any bolt of lightning were to strike me by bouncing off of something, I'd also think something was out to get me.

  • @MrBrukmann
    @MrBrukmann 4 місяці тому +1

    How do you describe what a visible flash of electricity is doing? It would sound weird to say lightning shot out of is head and joined with the clouds, but I think more accurate. Universe is weird. You are brilliant and very funny!

  • @EspyMelly
    @EspyMelly 4 місяці тому +1

    I'm definitely on the a bit skeptical group, but damn if even half of those strikes are true this man must have been cursed by a warlock and hunted down by Zeus himself.

  • @brazluck5463
    @brazluck5463 4 місяці тому

    I feel like I heard somewhere that his grave was struck by lightning but I don’t have a source to back this up and don’t wanna go find one right now

  • @joshuapuett
    @joshuapuett 4 місяці тому +9

    Well actually, Roy Sullivan isn't alive anymore, so there's actually NOT one Roy Sullivan.

  • @box5evey
    @box5evey Рік тому +2

    how on earth am i this early? anyway always excited to see more from you!
    edited to add: of all the things i could have guessed, it never would have been "a fucking bear". holy shit.

  • @michaelwoods8299
    @michaelwoods8299 4 місяці тому

    I'm certain there are dozens of people named roy Sullivan

  • @AzathothLives
    @AzathothLives 4 місяці тому

    Jokes on you, funny video man, I DID say Faraday Cage! Because I had a boy crush on Tesla when I was a teen, and learned a handful of lightning related trivia!

  • @sharpblade_2x998
    @sharpblade_2x998 4 місяці тому

    11:12

  • @valerieplarpqueen
    @valerieplarpqueen Рік тому +2

    yknow if i was him i wouldve stayed inside tbh tbh

  • @arnaudmenard5114
    @arnaudmenard5114 4 місяці тому

    The guy's nickname should have been "Copper Roy"

  • @NicStage
    @NicStage Рік тому +2

    West Wirginiaaaaaaaa!

  • @darklegionnaire8304
    @darklegionnaire8304 4 місяці тому

    i just noticed you started using cathys gifs

  • @freshIight
    @freshIight 3 місяці тому +1

    I don't know the temperature of this take but hear me:
    What if Roy used the space he supervised as a ranger to build a super powerful machine and working on it got him electrocuted? 🤷‍♂️
    Edit: I'm binging your videos atm, hi from Germany

  • @paulbrindle7143
    @paulbrindle7143 Місяць тому

    should have called him roy-sistor

  • @MS-en6bj
    @MS-en6bj Рік тому +3

    is that a chi chi hentai tshirt? bruh. that dripps.

    • @jeffiot
      @jeffiot  Рік тому +8

      first of all it's bulma second of all it's art, dad, it's normal art!!

  • @jhtpps
    @jhtpps Рік тому +8

    do you have weird fangirls yet? can i be your first?

  • @Yorokobi224
    @Yorokobi224 4 місяці тому

    @16:00 what was his hair product?

  • @snegreger2574
    @snegreger2574 Рік тому +1

    wow ngl kinda scary the intro but hey I'm NOT AFRAID ANYMORE JEFF

  • @MrPooleish
    @MrPooleish 3 місяці тому

    An odd note, most of the locations referenced in the song West Virginia are located in part or in whole in Virginia (East Virginia for you freaky people).

  • @Ap_ples
    @Ap_ples 3 місяці тому

  • @aurorabora7557
    @aurorabora7557 4 місяці тому

    I DID SAY IT I SAID IT I SAID IT EXACTLY IN SYNC AAAAAAAAAA

  • @Yorokobi224
    @Yorokobi224 4 місяці тому

    @6:18 I just didnt know the name

  • @hanna-liminal
    @hanna-liminal 4 місяці тому

    I had a full and reciprocal argument with a video about whether I did or didn't say 'Faraday Cage'
    (For the record, I DID, I just had a mouthful of toast so it was a little bit muffled, OKAY?)

  • @RedVelvetRabbit
    @RedVelvetRabbit 3 місяці тому

    So, where does Roy fit on the Final Destination's death list?

  • @TheGrinningViking
    @TheGrinningViking 4 місяці тому

    Roy Sullivan is surely still alive if the "revived by lightning" thing from Frankenstein works in real life 🤭

  • @creightonleerose582
    @creightonleerose582 2 місяці тому

    WHA-?!....."A PORK RANGER" (?!?)...~Never hearda onna those before, we'llll, Ill be damn'd! (WITTY Al-Go-Rhydim-Apex-Assistmente' Commenente')
    -This here Finnish dood iz funee!...;)

  • @mxpants4884
    @mxpants4884 3 місяці тому

    We're just going to drop the number of times he's hit a bear with a stick and not come back to it?

  • @Blue..
    @Blue.. 4 місяці тому

    What do you even do if Zeus himself has it our for you

  • @omonomos3495
    @omonomos3495 4 місяці тому

    what. the _fuck_. lmao

  • @hondaguy9153
    @hondaguy9153 3 місяці тому

    Roy should have gone to drive trains.

  • @MrMaggidaggi
    @MrMaggidaggi 4 місяці тому

    I Said it!

  • @TheZeroNeonix
    @TheZeroNeonix 3 місяці тому

    Jeez, dude. What is with that Bulma shirt? lol