Lightning Strikes Woman As She Is Shooting Video

posted by Scott Beale on Friday, July 11th, 2008

Jessica Lynch was shooting video of a rain storm and was suddenly struck by lightning, capturing it all on video. Luckily she wasn’t injured, just a bit shook up.

From what i understand, it went through my left hand holding the camera, crossed my back and exited out of my right hand holding onto the metal railing. No entry or exit wounds, just a really good zap!

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John 07/11/2008 09:40 AM 2 points
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Holy crap! This is unreal. Glad she is okay, but that was actually quite scary.

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x12yanx 07/13/2008 02:40 AM 1 point
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FAKE...lol..."Lightning heats nearby air to about 10,000 °C (18,000 °F) nearly instantly, which is almost twice the temperature of the Sun’s surface. The heating creates a shock wave that is heard as thunder.[13]" - wiki. its obvious she created a high voltage discharge herself in a bad video and posting it on the internet with a cool title XD u guys r ***** to think lightening would only shock you like a wall outlet.

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Zarbod 07/15/2008 08:43 PM 1 point
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People get struck all the time and survive. Looks pretty real.

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Jesus 07/12/2008 07:10 AM 1 point
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Man, thats a lucky girl, but shouldn't the cam have stopped working or something?
or at least some distortion on the video? after all its a magnetic tape. Im not saying its fake, its just the second thing i thought after watching the video

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freakmx0 07/12/2008 01:53 PM 1 point
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It's real. When the lightning strikes, the entire place is iluminated, even trees in the distance, only a real lightning can do that. I saw a lightning stritke at 15 meters of distance. My laptop not even blinking.

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Ryan Olson 07/12/2008 04:26 PM 1 point
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I don't think it struck her but close to her. If you look at 3-2 seconds at the end there is sparking and glowing in fron tof her she probably caught and arc and not the full brunt of the hit I would like to know what camera she was using though to take a direct lighting strike and keep going.

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sam 07/12/2008 04:36 PM 1 point
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It looks like the strike was at least 25 feet away..

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Jvoles 07/13/2008 07:35 AM 1 point
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I think your right, if it hit her, it would have at least knocked her out, and would have screwed up the camera. You can see the tree in front of her glowing with embers from the strike.

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Bob 07/12/2008 04:40 PM 1 point
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It's

REAL

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A Paradis 07/12/2008 04:41 PM 1 point
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Should I say this? I had also a technical-lightning problem this week, and more, my horoscope had predicted it to me. And that is because of this breakage, the electric power failed and I saw my new computer screen that was totally black, one second I went as far as thinking it was in fault, but I saw after that the light didn't work either, and if I said troubleshooting I be troubleshooting this is after that event that inspired me

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sergius 07/12/2008 04:45 PM 1 point
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That is quite an experience!
Many people will think its a fake and I don't blame them, after all we've been fooled so many times.
I'm glad the woman is fine though!

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lightning 07/12/2008 04:51 PM 1 point
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pwned

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Qev 07/12/2008 04:51 PM 1 point
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I'd guess that she wasn't -directly- hit by the lightning strike, but rather got some of the charge induced in the railing. From the small burst of flame visible after the strike, it looks like it might have hit a nearby tree. Still, one heck of a close call! :)

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Jason 07/12/2008 04:57 PM 1 point
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MY HOBBY:
Insisting that real life items are photoshopped

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Hardly Impressed 07/12/2008 05:02 PM 1 point
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Would have to agree that it's fake. Think about this... lightning can generate heat up to 54,000F and travel 60k m/s. If she REALLY got struck by something that hot and moving that fast and traveled the path she claims, there would definitely be entry and/or exit or the camera would have blown out. The strike was actually below her, see the last four seconds of the vid at the bottom of the picture. She was just hit with the discharge of the strike running through the ground and to the metal she was holding.

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poke smot 07/12/2008 05:07 PM 1 point
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IT DIDN"T HIT HER! WOULDN'T THE CAMERA GET MESSED UP IF LIGHTENING HIT HER OR CLOSE TO HER?! yea i think so. i've seen what lightening striking a pool can do to someone standing 20 feet away. she sounded so stupid in the video

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Smoke me a Kipper 07/12/2008 05:17 PM 1 point
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it's a near miss, looks like it hit a clothes line.

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Darren 07/12/2008 05:24 PM 1 point
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I don't think it's fake but the lightning didn't strike her directly. I looks like it struck a few hundred feet in the distance. Still scary though.

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n1 07/12/2008 05:32 PM 1 point
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if you step through each frame you can see that the light source is some distance away from the person recording the video. note the shadows.

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Michael 07/12/2008 05:34 PM 1 point
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It's not fake, but she didn't get a direct hit by the lightning.... you can even see where the lightning hits the ground quite far away, and causes a small fire. All around the lightning there is a strong electric field, which can give you a shock, especially if you are holding on to earthed metal, such as a metal railing.

A full on lightning strike reaches tens of thousands of degrees - you will get entry and exit wounds!!

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