Story Time With Uncle Fletch: Man Survives Direct Lightning Strike To The Head

What an incredible story! We are so pleased he is ok.

This father of two survived a direct lightning strike to the head which shredded the clothes off his body.

Ryan Cross, 34, from Nampa, Idaho, was left with a vicious red scar down his torso after being hit by lightning during a camping trip with friends.

He was caught in a storm while riding his four-wheeler and took shelter under a tree in the woods. Ryan was looking at a map on his phone to find a way out when he was hit by the lightning bolt.

The father-of-two fell unconscious and was rushed to Saint Alphonsus Medical Center with bleeding on the brain but fortunately, doctors immediately ruled out that he could be paralyzed from the freak accident.

It is estimated that more than one hundred bolts of lightning strike the Earth every second.