10-year-old boy captures lightning strike on camera

The scare of a Davidson 10-year-old’s life ended up turning into one of the coolest things he’s ever seen. And he safely got it all on video for the rest of us to see.

“That’s the closest lightning bolt I had ever seen in my life,” Brody Lee told WBTV just hours after he shot the video.

Lee was standing right by his home’s front window when – boom! – he got the scare of this life.

“I was like freaking out because it was legit, maybe a couple of meters away from our house,” he said.

Brand new to the area, the soon-to-be fifth grader had been outside with his dad during Monday’s thunderstorm but moved inside for safety.

Then, he took his cell phone out.

“I thought I was just trying to catch a couple lightning strikes,” he said.

And did he.

The Lee family says Brody’s dad, Alex, covered the 10-year-old and pulled him away from the window after the blast.

“It was funny but scary, and a little bit dramatic,” Brody Lee said.