Not directly related to your question, Lizzie, but in a previous life, when I worked on aerial research on government contract, I was working at opposite ends of a field with a colleag, he on simulated lightning to test something, and I on another project: no details, as it was Classified and may still be - I do not want to be shot at dawn!
My colleague charged up a large bank of capacitors in parallel, then switched them to being in series, to achieve a very high voltage. This he then applied to the aerial under test to see if it could cope.
When he threw the switch, I heard him
YELL loudly enough to wake the dead.
I felt the tingle on my ground plane about 200 yards away where I was working.
What had happened was that a lot of the energy entered the groiund, then up the metal chair that he was sitting on!!
Er, his family jewels had suffered (not terminally) and he insisted on showing me the scorch marks on his plums!
Back in the Lab, we laughed about it all day and never forgot it.
Ron.