In 1971 a truck driver named edwin robinson was in a road accident the head injury he suffered left him blind and deaf nearly ten years later on june 6 1980 while looking for his pet chicken during a thunderstorm he was struck by lightning robinson later recalled that it felt as if "somebody had cracked a whip over my head" he was hit so hard that he was unconscious for 20 minutes after regaining consciousness he suddenly realized that he could see and hear again and to make the story even more incredible after decades of being bald several weeks later the delighted robinson started to grow hair again.