How about being tattooed by lightning?

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Lichtenberg's figures occur when a lightning strike - or lightning - strikes an insulating material, producing images resembling plant and tree branches. However, on some rare occasions, these same figures may appear on people's skin.

When lightning strikes an individual - and the incident survives the incident - the discharge can cause the small capillaries under the skin to break, marking the path taken by the electric current. However, the marks usually disappear after a few hours or days.

Being struck by lightning can cause severe neurological or cardiorespiratory trauma and, at worst, death. But some lucky ones, like Winston Kemp, have only one storytelling mark.

Kemp, who didn't even realize he had been struck by lightning, realized that a mark had appeared on his arm a few days after being in a storm. The boy has not even sought medical help and, after a month, still presents his "tattoo", although it now has a faint coloration than the original.