20th August 1975: 2 brothers grin with their hair standing on end… just moments before terrifying disaster strikes
Michael McQuilken, 18, and his little brother Sean, 12, would never have imagined what would happen next after noticing their hair
had gone static.
The siblings were climbing Moro Rock In California’s Sequoia National Park and were completely unaware that they were about to be struck by lightning.
Michael recalled feeling the sensation of being lifted off the ground for several seconds, while Sean was knocked unconscious.
He suffered third degree burns and burns and had smoke coming off his back and elbows.
“I found myself on the ground with the others,” Michael recalled. “Sean was collapsed and huddled on his knees. Smoke was pouring from his back.”
Miraculously, both of the boys survived, but the same couldn't be said for a nearby hiker, Lawrence Brady, who was also struck.
Another man, nearer the top of the rock, was also hit. He lived but the camera he was trying to document the storm with was blown to pieces.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/23942266/chilling-moment-two-brothers-terrifying-disaster-strikes/
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