- Angie Layton says paramedics are surprised she survived without major injuries
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A mum claims she was struck by lightning while making dinner and was “literally glowing” after the lucky escape.
Angie Layton says her “whole body lit up” after being hit by the bolt at her home in Amesbury, Wiltshire, and that her neighbour’s house also caught fire afterwards.
The 45-year-old says paramedics who responded to the scene couldn’t believe she was “still standing” after the incident on Thursday night, March 28.
Mrs Layton says she survived remarkably without any major injuries, apart from aches and pains as if she had “done a crazy workout all over the place”.
She says she must have had someone “watching over me” to have escaped serious harm, and her two daughters who witnessed the whole thing said she was “literally glowing.”
Angie Layton (pictured) says she was struck by lightning while making dinner at home on Thursday night, March 28.
The mother said she was left “literally glowing” after the incident at her home in Amesbury, Wiltshire. Pictured: Smoke billows from her house after she was struck by lightning.
Describing the incident, Mrs Layton said: ‘I was standing in the kitchen getting ready to serve dinner so I had one hand on the kitchen tap and the other on a metal colander.
“And then, suddenly, there was an almighty boom and I literally felt like my entire kitchen lit up and went right through me.
‘My girls were in the living room and they said they looked out and my whole body had lit up.
“It was really scary.”
Layton said the lightning strike felt like he had run “into a wall at 100 miles an hour.”
She continued: ‘It was like a really big shock, like a huge shock, and then my whole body felt like it was tingling for about three or four hours afterwards.
‘It was like every nerve in my body was going crazy.
“The paramedics examined me and told me we were going to talk to someone else because we had never seen this before.
‘They came back and said if you’re feeling okay, we’ll be happy to leave you here.
“I thought, ‘Okay,’ but I had a massive headache for the rest of the night.”
Her daughters, ages 23 and 19, watched the moment unfold and said their mother was “literally beaming” as she stood there “in complete shock.”
Layton says the impact of the bolt also caused his neighbor’s house to catch fire.
Mrs Layton claimed the lightning strike had gone “straight” through her house towards her neighbours, causing it to catch fire.
She continued: “It hit the house, we think it hit the metal plate on the side and went straight out – it blew up our sky box too.”
‘Two doors down, he jumped there too and set his house on fire. She had literally walked through ours and gotten in there.
“We were very lucky that our house was not damaged because the blow was very strong.”
Paramedics took an ECG of Mrs Layton’s heart, which came back “fine” and told her they had never before come across anyone who had been struck by lightning.
He added: “My whole body hurt, I felt like I had been doing a huge, huge workout.”
“Every muscle and bone in my body hurt.”
Mrs Layton said her daughter’s friend had since messaged her to let her know her house was still “glowing blue”.
He added: “It could have been a lot worse, the (paramedics) said they had never seen anything like it before.”
“Someone was watching over me that night.”
The mother, who was electrocuted Thursday night during a storm, bought a lottery ticket in hopes of cashing in on her good luck.