Have you ever had a "close encounter" with almost being struck by lightning?
544600
I had a close encounter many years ago, when I was a boy scout and having field camp in school. It happen to be a thunderstorm and I was walking in an open field with an unbrella when I felt my hairs standing on end. Next thing I knew, lightning struck a metal fence some 15 feet away. I was shocked by this, but felt nothing and continued my way to the nearest shelter!\nSo the next time I feel a build up of static electricity around me, I am going to run into the nearest building I can find. Especially on a rainy day.
216173
Could be. You might also feel a tingling in your feet or on your body. If that happens, if your hair stands or you feel tingling outside, esp. when the conditions are right for lightning, HIT THE DIRT! That could make the difference btween living and dying.
954917
I lived in a remote rural area, several miles from any town. Usually the night sky was pretty dark. One night I woke up to see a very very bright blue light shining outside. I went to the window (facing west)  and looked out. I could tell the source of the light was coming from the other side of my house. It was so bright that the small trees in the yard made vivid shadows. I thought it was the moon, but I looked further south, and could see the moon. It was less than a quarter moon. \nI was startled at seeing this, and woke my husband to show him. He looked out the window, and said "someone must be burning brush", and went back to bed.\nMy next "moment of awareness" happened about 45 minutes later (according to my alarm clock), when my husband and I found ourselves standing outside our house on the lawn,  with me wearing my nightie, and him wearing his boxers which he wore to bed. We were barefoot, and the dew on the grass was SO COLD on my feet that it was painful.\n\nThe weirdest part is that we didn't investigate further.....we just went in to bed. Neither of us spoke of this incident for over two weeks. One day I remembered it, and asked my husband "Do you remember that night......."  He had no recollection of it until that moment, but his memories were as clear as mine.
1001987
Stroked by lightning? Are we it's pets? ; )\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning\n"The odds of an average person living in the USA being struck by lightning once in his lifetime has been estimated to be 1:280,000[6]\n\nThe odds of having a friend or family member struck by lightning in the USA in a lifetime has been estimated to 1:3000[6]. "\n\nAlthough it might be smarter not to risk it. Heard of a guy just the other day that got hit while on his motorcycle driving in traffic, didn't live. : (
882927
Yes, I was running accross the street in a pouring rain. When a black car came out from behind a stationary object. They were about 30 feet away going 35 mph (that's what they told the police since that was the speed limit). I was right in front of the driver when I tried to stop and he tried to pull over to the curb as much as he could. As the car got closer, I thought about a lot of things. I was in my first year of marriage, my wife was 5 months pregnant. I finally just surrendered to the Lord's will. The car hit me with the front fender in my right leg. I flipped up in the air and landed in a 3-point stance, facing almost the opposite direction.\nNot only did I suirvive, but my leg wasn't broken either. It truly was the hand of God.Oh yes, by the time I landed, it had stopped raining! Now all of this happened in a fraction of a second!
1183282
NO.\n\nIt is only an effect of a cloud being illuminated by a distant lightning flash.
984390
Maybe. I personally had one experience. I was about to cross the street and a car was coming. It was fast and only inches away. And then I was back on the sidewalk and the car stopped infront of me. I crossed the street and while doing so looked at the male driver. He looked at me as if he too knew that I should had been under the car and not walking anymore. So either god had his hand in it or a 2 second time travel saved my A-- from getting run over. \nThis is a true story.
469651
Most recent was a ladder that fell off a guys truck. I was going 70, he was going about 85 or 90 and was carrying 5 ladders, it flew off, bounced off my cars hood, hit the windshield, and then i almost ran over it. I chased the guy 4 miles until he arrived at his place of employment. I called hubby (large, intimidating guy)and he came over and had a talk with the business owner, who agreed to pay for my cars damages. It was all cool. \nSo, long story to say, yeah, i was cursing that ladder somethin fierce Friday afternoon! I love your questions!
207734
no, its a myth.  lightning is attracted to tall objects and metal objects (like lightning rods) so these get hit more often.
783342
I WAS hit by a car once, when I was crossing a sidestreet on my bike.\n\nIt was a Dodge Ram 250 too, but I was miraculously saved, as the bumper only hit the handlebar and even though I went flying off the bike to the ground, I only received minor bumps and bruises and a short stay in the local hospital.\n\nEven more amazing (or at least for me), I went to work a few hours after that at the catering business I worked at.\n\nI actually have had 4 such experiences that I can remember, and maybe even more that I don't remember, but I agree with you that they have truly changed me, by making me much more cautious and appreciative of all the small things in life, and now I take almost nothing for granted.
721517
I have a couple of times. Once because my friend fainted and we couldent get him to wake up, once because my friend almost got shot by this psycho and once when I was like five years old becuase I thought it was fake. Random but yeah.
995664
As a child the chandelier used to swing from side to side, and the radio would turn on by itself in the middle of the night.\n\nOne time on a camping trip I was walking back from the bathrooms at that moment right between day and night and I saw someone walk across the front of the site and stop behind a tree. So I figure one of the people is going to jump out and try to surprise me, so I pull out my flashlight, walk up to the tree, turn on the light, and there's no one there.\n\nOne time I was alone in a house, and I felt a presence. I looked at a mobile hanging motionless, and said, "If there is anyone else here, make the mobile spin." The next moment, the mobile began to spin.\n\nOne time I was driving into Ponca State Park to set up a large camping gathering, and the sides of the road were lined with spirits. All standing there, clearly visible to everyone, calmly welcoming us back.\n\nOn another camping trip, we felt a spirit near the bon-fire. We had a ring of 40 tiki-torches around the bonfire. It was a still and windless night, but all the tiki flames near the spirit bent in. One of the people in the circle had a fancy camera. After the campout she went to get the film developed, and all the photos from before the visitor turned out, but after that all the film was blank. She took the camera in to be repaired. The repairman asked if she'd been in a nuclear power plant. All the innards were fried from electromagnetism\n\nMy grandmother died while my niece was in utero. After my niece was born, she would look up at areas where no one was standing, and laugh and giggle. We all knew that she was looking at gramma, so we never showed her any pictures. Finally, at about a year old, she could speak, and my sister showed her the family photo album. My niece picked out her photo and said, "That's Old Gramma."
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Yes- I witnessed a pedestrian get hit by a car - people just stared at me for a minute - I knew first aid so I was barking orders for someone to PLEASE call 9-1-1.  Finally someone re-focused and rad to a nearby plaza to call.  Luckily an off duty paramedic drove by and stopped to take over.  I was relieved because the man appeared to be going into shock on me and I wasn't confident that I really knew what I was doing!
237965
came close, watch the lightning hit just behind our speed boat as we were racing to get off the water...was very scary and i was 8 months pregnant.
650704
Well I didn't witness it, but something unexplainable by fact did happen to me. I call it a miracle.\n\nI had flown interstate to enrol at university. I rung the train company the night before to check which train I should catch to get to the university before 9.30 am. I was told to catch the 7 am train so in the morning I woke up early, got everything ready and was down at the station by 6.30. When the train pulled up however, I didn't get on it. I can't explain it, I just felt like I shouldn't get on that train. So I sat and waited for the next train which was 45 mins away (this was very out of character for me cos i HATE being late). Anyways, I caught that next train and halfway to the University we were told that the train before us (the 7 am one) had crashed. 8 people ended up dying in that accident and I still always think about it as it's quite eerie how I just didn't get on that first train!
1245
Well, one time when i was in London i had fallen down into an uncovered man-hole and was chased by a werewolf and then a bat turned into a vampire and fought with the werewolf. i nearly excaped with my life!
176642
about the same as getting struck by lightning twice during the same storm.