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unusual facts about Struck By Lightning



Adam Kolkin

Kolkin has appeared in films such as Struck By Lightning and Still the Drums, as well as several television and commercial appearances including young Kurt Hummel in Glee.


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Bert Foord

One of the highlights of his career came in 1969 during the BBC coverage of the Apollo 12 mission, when he predicted that the spacecraft could face some turbulence on take-off and might be struck by lightning.

Bristow Flight 56C

On 19 January 1995 the AS 332L Super Puma helicopter operating the route, registered G-TIGK and named Cullen, was struck by lightning.

Cruwys Morchard

This, however, was struck by lightning in 1689, and the consequent major fire, which melted the bells, necessitated the rebuilding of the top stage of the tower in brick.

Gang Gang Dance

In August 2002 Maddox, aged 25, died after having been struck by lightning during a thunderstorm he was watching from the rooftop of a building in Manhattan's Chinatown.

Jonathan Richter

On 20 July 2009 while playing at Hvidovre Stadion, Richter was struck by lightning which resulted in cardiac arrest.

Let's Go to the Hop

During a large storm one night over Rhode Island, a Colombian cartel plane is struck by lightning in mid-flight and crashes.

My postillion has been struck by lightning

In 1977 actor Dirk Bogarde made use of the phrase when he titled the first volume of his autobiography A Postillion Struck By Lightning.

In James Thurber's 1937 New Yorker article "There's No Place Like Home", a phrasebook from "the era of Imperial Russia" contains the "magnificent" line: "Oh, dear, our postillion has been struck by lightning!".

Rumble the Bison

According to his official backstory on NBA.com, Rumble is the subject of a Native American tale that has been passed down for centuries which tells of a bison who was struck by lightning while saving his herd from a ferocious storm in the Arbuckle Mountains.