GREENSBORO, N.C. — This year WFMY News 2 turns 75! So to celebrate, we're opening the News 2 vault.
In July 2015, WFMY News 2 told an incredible survival story.
"Started spraying around this house here. Got about 3 quarters of the way around it and bam, I got hit"
Chad Hollingsworth survived getting struck by lightning.
He and a neighbor were doing yardwork in Randolph County when it happened.
Hollingsworth was knocked out for a few seconds and described what he felt.
"Then my eyes opened but I was just waiting there and my arms were just dangling in front of my eyes as I was laying there and thought there was somebody else laying there on top of me because I felt like I wasn't there, like I was somewhere else looking at it," said Hollingsworth. "They said it come through my arm here, ran around my back... and hit the other side of my arm."
Emergency crews airlifted Hollingsworth to the hospital.
Doctors kept him overnight for monitoring... But they didn't find anything wrong.
Hollingsworth says his scars look like a pair of angel wings.
His family said it was a sign that a "guardian angel" was looking out for him.
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