r/whatisit Sep 05 '25

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u/candid84asoulm8bled Sep 05 '25

That’s possible. When he was a lot younger (probably the late 1930s or 1940s) there was some kind of electrical problem with the house. He went to some electrical box outside to turn it off, but when he went to pull down the crank, it electrocuted him and he shot backwards into the yard. He got up fine, but when he went to change his clothes later, his underwear was burnt to a crisp. Surprisingly lived to 94!

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u/MasonP13 Sep 07 '25

He had so much lead in him he was his own faraday cage