Lightning Struck Two Boys Named Wayne In The 1930s

You are not going to believe this story. But I swear it is true.

Thursday, August 11, 1938, the newspaper The Wyoming Eagle published a story about a boy who was struck by lightning while riding his horse. He was moving cattle at the time.

BUT WAIT: this gets stranger.

The same thing happened to another boy down in Colorado.

The newspaper The Fence Post reported that Wayne Ball, of Greeley, Colorado, answered the telephone one evening, and the voice on the line told him that Wayne Kosser of Cheyenne was also hit by a lightning bolt. Both of their stories are remarkably similar.

ALSO WEIRD! -- Both boys were named WAYNE!

Are you sitting down and reading this? You should do that. There is more.

Both men had the same first name, middle initial, and birth year. May 14, 1925, and July 28, 1925.

Does the weather in this area have something against boys named Wayne?

ALSO! - Both of the young cowboys were moving yearling heifers at the time. Both had considerable hearing loss due to ruptured eardrums. Both men suffered broken collarbones after falling off their horses.

The boy in Cheyenne suffered some scarring from the lightning strike. He was found by neighbors and rushed to the hospital. The Colorado boy was knocked out for about 30 minutes. He managed to free his leg from under his horse, then limped and stumbled for two and a half miles to find help.

It would be something if this happened on the same day, but it did not.

Wayne Koster, from Horse Creek, Wyoming, was struck at the age of 12 on August 10th, 1937.

Wayne Ball was struck at the age of 14 on June 23rd, 1939, at Briggsdale, Colorado.

The Colorado newspaper brought the two men together for a photo and to swap stores.