Bulgarian President Calls Investigation Into Lightning-Hit Home (Hit 9 Times)

Ananova ^ | 5-16-2003

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Bulgarian president calls investigation into lightning-hit home

The Bulgarian president has personally asked experts to investigate why a house has been struck by lightning nine separate times and always at the same hour of the day.

President Georgi Parvanov said that the house in the southern Bulgarian village of Truncha needed to be looked at after the latest lightning strike this week.

The owners of the house, the Cholakov family, have had two lightning conductors installed but the strikes have continued, local daily Monitor reported.

Zekir Cholakov said the strikes always come at the same time of the day - between 3.30 and 4.30 pm.

He said the family is now so scared that they have taken to spending most of their time in a tent in the garden and have buckets of water on hand in case lightning hits their house and starts a fire.

Story filed: 11:29 Friday 16th May 2003

[mlmr]

Dr Fankenstein at work?

[FreePaul]

All those lightning strikes and the monster still hasn't come alive. More power, Igor.

[solzhenitsyn]

I half-remember Isaac Asimov once saying something to the effect that when a phenomenon can't be explained by our current understanding of science, the most common reason is that someone is lying.

[billorites]

The Coalition of the Willing does have a few screws loose.

[RichInOC]

Maybe there's just something about them that God doesn't like.

[rickmichaels]

Maybe there's an "Islamic cultural center" nearby.

[catonsville]

Is there a nasty kid named Damien living in that house?

[visualops]

The 'Burbs of Bulgaria ;^)

[SouthernFreebird]

Check the basement ...... anyone see the movie Powder

[EggsAckley]

For some reason I can't stop laughing about the image of these poor dolts huddling in a tent outside with buckets of water, waiting for the lightning to strike. I wish I could draw cartoons, because this one definitely is crying out for a caption.

[headsonpikes]

This is obviously the residence of one of our serial multi-zotted trolls.

[Steely Tom]

Memo:

No big problems with yesterdays test run, but please re-check coordinates before tomorrow's full-power test. We need the energy dumped in the ocean.

(steely)

[Stefan Stackhouse]

Or that there is something that our current understanding of science doesn't yet know. . .

[Rebelbase]

For current news, this is shocking.

[ImaGraftedBranch]

It's Dr. Frankenstein, of course.

[AngrySpud]

When I lived in Mississippi, I saw the same phenomenon. On late summer afternoons you could watch the clouds roll in off the Gulf. Day after day, almost like clockwork, the lightning would start between 5 and 5:30.

I used to stand outside and watch the show ... until a bolt struck less than 100 feet away. The most intense moment of my life!

[P.O.E.]

"That's FrankenSTEEN"

Or, more apropos:

"You men are all alike. Seven or eight quick ones and you're off with the boys."

[Wilhelm Tell]

I remember a town I used to live in in Florida. In the summer, you could almost set your clock by the time the afternoon thundershowers started up. One year in particular was remarkable. It seemed that for a few weeks in a row, thunderstorms would begin with great precision. I swear the timing couldn't have varied more than five or ten minutes from one day to the next!

I don't know what to think about the lightning. If there are iron or other metal deposits in the ground, would lightning be more attracted to that area? I know Russia has some incredible deposits of ore that put out a magnetic field strong enough to disrupt compasses. I don't know if Bulgaria has a lot of metal deposits in the ground or if such deposits would affect lightning.

[RichInOC]

Madeline Kahn, RIP.

"Ahhhhhhh, sweet mystery of life, at last I've found you!"