Watch: Incredible Moment When Lightning Strikes This Church Caught On Camera

Western Journalism ^ | May 28, 2015 | Staff

[lbryce]

Video contains brief strong language. Viewer discretion is advised.

Several years after witnessing a bolt of lightning strike a church near his home, Grand Isle, Maine, teen Carl Bouley grabbed his camcorder during a recent storm in hopes of capturing a similar event. Sure enough, the lens was trained on St. Gerard-Mount Carmel Parish – the same church hit in 2007 – at the precise moment lightning struck its steeple.

[lbryce]

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See the video at the site.

I shot the lightning event and took shot by shot of only a second apart to see what it looked like. I could have done it with about ten separate pictures but settled for 6.

[JoeProBono]

Some years ago I was standing at the screen door of A cottage watching a storm when lightning struck a pole across the road about 25 feet from me. It felt like a sledgehammer to my chest.

[tanuki]

Glad you weren’t closer!

[Swordmaker]

I was camping with my family at Arches National Monument when I was about 14 and needed desperately to go pee. . . i got out of our home built cab-over pickup camper and headed to the restroom. i was about 50 feet away from the restroom when lightning struck a seven foot tall rock outcropping about ten feet from me. . . I was about 5' 5" foot tall at the time. I recall my hair suddenly standing on end and a tingling sensation and a buzzing feeling just before the bolt hit. . . and then I was knocked off my feet. I couldn't hear anything for about ten minutes (no permanent hearing loss). I did NOT need to pee anymore. LOL!

Thank God the outcropping was higher than I was! There was a tree a bit farther away that also got hit that was split. I suspect today that the rock got a secondary strike to the one that hit the tree.

[IncPen]

[WhoisAlanGreenspan?]

I remember a hit to a big old tree in the golf course on the other side of the road from my house when I was a kid. It knocked down part of a split trunk tree, but what I remember most was the taste in my mouth after it hit. Just like laying your tongue on a 9 volt battery. Strong electricity, ozone? And a huge deafening crash.

[concernedcitizen76]

Thanks for the video snapshots. Very impressive spectacle. It’s no wonder pantheistic ancient man, upon witnessing something like this, would be scared stiff of a Zeus or a Thor.

[MeshugeMikey]

RUMOR HAS IT....that the Huma Hillary team had been visiting earlier in the day....

[stylin19a]

looks like about 1.21 gigawatts.

[tanuki]

Amazing stories!

[IndyTiger]

If there had only been a DeLorean hooked up to it...

[Sawdring]

Your not understanding the concept. You now know the time and date and if you go back in time you can power your time machine with the lightning strike to go forward to a time where you can use common garbage to power your time machine to go back in time where your mother will have an obscene crush on you. ;>)