The Man Who Was Yeeted 40 Feet by a Storm (And Lived)
Craziest video I have seen in a while.
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A FriedReads Midnight Special â Campfire Story Edition
May 2026
I need to start with a disclaimer.
I'm not a journalist. I don't have sources. I don't have a press pass or an editor or anyone fact-checking my sentences. This isn't a news report. This isn't a headline. This is something I stumbled across while scrolling, mouth open, wondering if I was about to watch a man die.
The video hit my feed around noon on May 20, 2026. I clicked. I watched. I watched again. And again.
By the fourth replay, I knew I had to write about this.
Here's the video. If the link doesn't work, it may have been taken down. It's been a few days. The internet moves fast. But as of noon on May 20, it was still there.
The footage is disturbing. The background music doesn't help.
Let me tell you about the man who flew.
THE VIDEO â What You're About to See đš
The clip is short. Chaotic. The kind of thing you replay five times because your brain refuses to process it.
A man stands in an open area. Beside him, a tin roof structure. The wind is already strong â debris flies, trees bend, the air thick with dust and violence.
He grabs onto something. A rope. A pole. It's hard to tell. The quality isn't great â filmed on a phone, probably by someone who was also trying not to die.
Then it happens.
A gust. A massive, violent gust. The tin roof lifts. The man lifts with it. He's not jumping. He's not letting go. He's being taken.
He flies upward. The roof spins. He dangles. For a moment â just a moment â he's suspended in the air like a ragdoll.
Then he falls.
The video doesn't show the landing. It cuts, or the camera moves, or the person filming lost sight of him. But you see him go up. You see him disappear. And you're left staring at your screen, mouth open, wondering if you just watched someone die.
But he didn't die.
That's the miracle. That's why I'm writing this.
THE MAN â Nanhe Miya (Or Nanhe Khan) đ§
His name is Nanhe. Nanhe Miya. Or Nanhe Khan â reports vary slightly.
He's a laborer. 50 years old. From Bamiyana village in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India. He was working when the storm hit.
He grabbed onto a rope attached to a tin roof, trying to keep it from flying away.
The wind was too strong. The rope snapped. The roof lifted. And he went with it.
He was thrown approximately 40-50 feet into the air. Some reports say 50 feet. Some say 15 meters. Some say he landed 80 feet away from where he started. The exact numbers vary. The consensus is: he went up, he came down, and he should not be alive.
His injuries: Fractured left hand. Fractured leg. A metal plate was required. He was hospitalized, treated, and discharged. He's recovering. He's in shock â as anyone would be â but he's alive.
He spoke to reporters from his hospital bed. His words are simple. Terrified. Human.
"It was 30-40 feet high. I don't know where I fell. I was at least 50 feet away."
"We had no idea the winds would become so strong. We held onto the rope and ended up being lifted into the air along with it, around 50 metres high" (the height is likely an exaggeration in the moment of trauma â other sources say 40-50 feet).
"I was working when the storm struck. That's when the structure began to lift into the air. There were four other people with me. I don't know what happened to them."
He suffered fractures. He required a metal plate. He's breathing with difficulty. He's in shock.
He's alive.
THE STORM â The Bigger Picture đŠī¸
This wasn't just one man. This wasn't a freak accident. This was a natural disaster.
The storm hit Uttar Pradesh on May 13-14, 2026. It brought rain, hail, lightning, and winds so powerful they lifted tin roofs, uprooted trees, and collapsed walls.
The numbers are staggering:
- 104 people dead
- 52 injured
- 114 livestock killed
- 87 homes damaged
The worst-hit district was Prayagraj with 21 deaths, followed by Mirzapur (19) and Bhadohi (14). Bareilly itself only had 2 deaths â Nanhe was not one of them.
Residents described the sky turning black for half an hour. Strong winds lifted hoardings and signboards. Thick coal dust was hurled through the air. Trees and billboards swept onto cars.
One resident, Ashok Rai, said: "The entire area where we live turned black for around half an hour. Strong winds lifted hoardings and signboards and thick coal dust from the ground and hurled them around."
Nanhe's flight became the viral face of the disaster. But the tragedy is much larger.
THE QUESTIONS â What We Don't Know đ¤
The articles answer the big question: he survived.
But they leave other questions unanswered.
How did he survive the fall? He landed in a field. Was it soft? Was it muddy? Did something break his fall? The reports don't say. They just say he fell and lived.
What happened to the four other people with him? Nanhe mentioned there were others. The articles don't follow up. Did they also grab onto the roof? Did they let go in time? Did they get injured? Did they die? We don't know.
Was the video edited? A police official claimed it was "manipulated for dramatic effect". But other officials and news outlets seem to accept it as real. The video looks real. The terror looks real. The physics look real.
I believe it's real.
THE ABSURDITY â A Man, a Roof, and the Sky đĒī¸
Let's sit with the image for a moment.
A man. A roof. A rope. A gust of wind. And suddenly, he's airborne.
The video is 15 seconds long. I've watched it 47 times. Each time, I think he's going to die. Each time, he doesn't. That's not a video. That's a miracle with a data plan.
The man was holding onto a rope because he didn't want to lose his roof. Not his life. His roof.
He almost died for a roof.
That's not stupidity. That's being too poor to replace what you have.
The absurdity isn't the flight. The absurdity is the economics. The absurdity is that a man's first instinct when a storm hits is to protect his shelter â not himself â because losing the shelter means losing everything.
He didn't let go because he couldn't afford to.
And then nature decided he wasn't done yet.
THE AFTERMATH â What Happened Next đĨ
Nanhe is recovering. His left hand is fractured. His leg is fractured. He has a metal plate now.
He received 11,000 rupees in aid from the state government â about $130 USD.
The minister who visited him said: "If God protects someone, no one can kill them" â he said it in Hindi.
Nanhe didn't fly because he was special. He flew because the wind was strong and he was in the wrong place at the wrong time holding onto the wrong thing.
But he survived.
And that's worth marveling at.
THE CLOSE â What Do We Take From This? đ¯ī¸
I don't have a neat moral for this story.
Nanhe didn't learn a lesson. The storm didn't teach him anything except that wind is stronger than rope and gravity is undefeated.
But watching him dangle there, suspended between earth and sky, I felt something.
Terror. Relief. Absurdity. Gratitude.
The storm passed. He didn't.
And for a moment â just a moment â the internet stopped arguing about politics and watched a man fly.
That's not nothing.
The Final Line:
A man in India was yeeted 40 feet into the air by a storm. He survived. The video shows him achieving liftoff without an airplane, a trampoline, or any apparent ambition. That's not climate change. That's nature reminding us who's boss. And Nanhe? He's still here. Somehow. Miraculously. Still here.
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