Quite often we hear cases of lightning striking people to grave injury or even to death. But, can lightning kill a large number of gigantic animals together at one stroke? Though it seems quite impossible there are instances. This paper examines a recent case of the unnatural death of 18 elephants in a tragic incident that occurred over the Bamuni hillock under the Nagaon Forest Division of Assam on May 12, 2021. Widespread discontentment among various sections of the people and a group of environmentalists broke out over the unfortunate and extremely tragic incident. This paper is, thus, an attempt to examine the actual cause of the elephants’ death and carried out a field survey among the residents in the vicinity of the place of occurrence besides taking the help of the departmental investigation report. A few environmentalists and conscious citizens also were interviewed. Most of the villagers, the environmentalists, and the conscious citizens of the state sensed foul play and demanded a broader investigation of the incident. However, despite allegations, the investigation carried out by the forest department confirmed the deaths of these large numbers of pachyderms were due to lightning strikes only.