Teen struck by lightning through her phone charger in freak accident

A teenager was struck by lightning that surged through her phone charger as she scrolled TikTok in a freak accident.

Lisa Henderson, 19, was lying in bed with her phone in her hand on a raining Sunday afternoon when lighting hit outside her Alabama home.

‘As I was watching a video, that’s when something struck,’ she told Times Daily.

‘After that I heard a loud pop. After the loud pop all I heard was ringing in my ears.’

The shock traveled through the outlet, extension cord and cord charging her smartphone, and up her right arm and shoulder.

Henderson threw her phone on the bed and could barely move her hands.

‘She was bawling her eyes off,’ said her fiancé, Conner Welborn.

He called 911 and her family members and moved Henderson near the front of the house. Henderson could not tell emergency responders what her name was, and incorrectly said she was 18 years old and that it was April.

‘I was having trouble processing. I could understand people but was having trouble communicating with them,’ she said.

Her blood pressure came in at 160 to 170, which is higher than normal.

Henderson spent two days at a hospital and was discharged and is recovering.

She said her right pinky finger was injured because it was touching the cord connector but is better now, and that her right shoulder still feels like it was hit by a baseball bat.

‘You know how it feels when you’re brushing with an electric toothbrush, that kind of vibration that is in your hand? It was kind of like that but stinging,’ she said.

‘The back part of my shoulder blade hurt worse than the rest of me.’

Henderson believes God helped save her life.

‘I think he was protecting me because if not I would probably have been electrocuted,’ she said.

‘He gave me enough strength to at least throw my phone away from me.’

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