Magnetized by Lightning?

Surface tension - the sweat of fear. So yes, it was caused (indirectly) by the lightning .

Sure.

See the section on electromagnetic/electrostatic induction. Were you wearing rubber soled shoes?

http://vitatech.net/emf_fundamentals.php4

As the proposed scenarios by Kramarat and JohnDG show, lightning may have caused your observed effect. The several minutes of time it took to reach your paper clip and the activity involved to get there makes me doubt that the cited lightning strike caused your observation, but it still might be true. I believe it is more likely that the conditions for lightning and the activity just prior to this observation put the charge on you or this collection of paper clips.

You might consider installing a lightning rod on your home, just to be safe.

I had lightening stike a metal street sign pole about 40' from me one time. Right before it happened, I could feel the hair on my arms and neck stand up.

One of the scariest feelings I've ever had.

No more playing outside in lightening storms for me.

When the lightning struck I was sitting on the 4 wheeler, which was sitting in about 8 inches of water. I was wearing rubber-soled chest waders. I'm not sure if the lightning would have affected the paper clips themselves due to the distance. The clips were about 600 ft from the lightning strike in my house.

Another incident: 2 years ago lightning struck a large pine tree about 150' from my house. Big boom! When the lightning struck, my grandson's toy firetruck came to life with the siren screaching.

I have similar story to tell. One day I was hit by lighting and counter in me incremented by one. Since then I am called Lightning Arestor.

maybe it was your magnetic personality

Jameeshia sez, mabee you had somethin sticky on yo fingers....?

Try sticking spoons on your face next time....maybe you can set a record...

Simple version... Temporarily the nearby electrification caused the iron in the blood to align slightly (as in steel). Heart rate and water retention/ratios in the body vary but can produce minute 'coagulations' of magnetically sensitized blood and the effect can be shown with iron powder. The effect is usually for just a few minutes until the capillaries clear the areas affected. That's how Clark Kent explained it to me.

take a photo next time because most of the "scientific minds" here dont want to entertain Uri Gellerish thoughts

:)

Correlation does not equal causation.

What we have here is an "observation". One point on a line.

One point on a line does NOT tell us where the line is, or how long it is, or pretty much anything else come to think of it. This fascinating observation is just such a single point, would be a jumping off point to search for a phenomenon. Once the phenomenon is discovered, observed and repeated, them "maybe" a hypothesis could be promulgated, which could be subject to testing.

There has been a half hearted attempt to control variables, in that the same experiment was performed again a half hour later. No attempt was made to control for pretty much anything else.

Did paper stick to your hand as well as a paper clip? Did you walk across a rug building up static? Did you pull off a sweater when you came in the house, generating static? Did you clean off the rubber cement or the glue from the paper clip? Did you clean clean any residue off your hands? You see...there are a dozen other variables which might or might not result in an effect which can be interpreted in various ways by the observed data.

What you do have is a "correlation". A lightning strike and a phenomenon. They may or may not be related. Correlation implies causation, but does not prove causation.

Personally, this can be added to the countless Fortean events of the last few centuries....and just filed away under "unexplained".

One thing is dead sure thought. No lightning strike ever caused anyone to become magnetic! You become crispy.

I don't seriously believe that I was a human magnet. I do think that it is a possibility the lightning caused a buildup of possitive or negative ions to buildup on my body for a brief period. That's a layman's observation; I'm not a scientist.

When I entered the house I took off my chest waders and dried off. My hands were dry and I wasn't eating peanut butter. Nothing else, such as paper, stuck to my fingers. I think if it were a simple case of static electricity, touching the door knob when I entered my house would have discharged that buildup. I did remove my raincoat in the garage but I touched 2 door knobs before touching the paper clips. And, if it were sticky fingers why did the effect wear off in a matter of minutes?

I'm not making any conclusions, just an observation. And, I don't think I want to duplicate the situation for testing purposes. I don't sit on 4 wheelers during thunderstorms unless I really have to.

I think that's it too.

I wish I still had my electrostatic paint machine; I could replicate it.

In fact, since it's winter, I will attempt to build up a static charge in myself and keep a paper clip handy. Just need to wait for some cold, dry weather; it's in the 70's today.

No complaints.

if it was electrostatic then paper would have stuck to his finger before a steel paper clip

Good point. I was thinking that the paper was busy hugging something already and the lone plastic coated paperclip had a strong afinity and atraction to that dry skin of his finger and there was a strong charge attracting those two.

One would think. Although I don't think he is making up the story.

The answer is out there.

Yeah, I'm certain this is not a fabricated story but the answer to why and how this happened is long gone by now.

http://cr4.globalspec.com/blogentry/21772

from a science side - we do have Fe+ in our blod and 70% of water (5. Biological electrolytes -- might have some insite (i won't read/verify it now))

from esoteric sci. - you'r overall attention/charge got(shocked to) coherent enough to enable some super-normal "bullscrap" (EMF sh¡t arounds with)

when it's reoccurring - it's the second case