On a summer afternoon in 1960, a boating accident sent a seven-year-old boy tumbling over Niagara Falls with no protection whatsoever. What followed was a sequence of split-second miracles so improbable that witnesses could barely believe what they'd seen.
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Roy Sullivan was a mild-mannered park ranger in Shenandoah National Park who became the most lightning-struck human being in recorded history. He survived all seven strikes — but the psychological weight of feeling cosmically targeted may have been the cruelest blow of all.
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In 2002, identical twin brothers in Raahe, Finland, were each struck and killed by trucks while riding their bicycles — on the same stretch of road, separated by almost exactly one year. No fiction editor would approve this plot. Reality didn't ask for approval.
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