There are few people on Earth who can claim to know what might happen to us after we die half so well as Dannion Brinkley.
The former US Marine was declared dead for 28 minutes after being struck by lightning back in 1975, before ultimately returning to his body and making a full recovery.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that the odds of being struck by lightning in a given year are less than one in a million. Which is to say you have to be extremely, extremely unlucky to have it happen to you.
But, of course, it’s not impossible. Technically, every time there’s a storm there’s a minute chance of someone being in the wrong place at the wrong time and being hit by lightning. Brinkley knows that better than anyone.
The businessman, athlete and veteran had been holding a phone to his ear when lightning struck on September 17, 1975, traveling down a phone line and through the phone he was talking, straight into Brinkley’s body.
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