its raining cats and dogs ! (and fish, stones, frogs, food... strange rains

dear readers

the great charles fort was find of collecitng many stories one of which was strange rains, he loved these tales and kept them and palced in his books. he collected 294 reports of them and as we will see readers it has literally rained everything but cats and dogs!

Frogs

In 1873, Scientific American reported that Kansas City, Missouri was blanketed with frogs that dropped from the sky during a storm.

Minneapolis, Minnesota was pelted with frogs and toads in July, 1901. A news item stated: "When the storm was at its highest... there appeared as if descending directly from the sky a huge green mass. Then followed a peculiar patter, unlike that of rain or hail. When the storm abated the people found, three inches deep and covering an area of more than four blocks, a collection of a most striking variety of frogs... so thick in some places [that] travel was impossible."

Fish


* A powerful whirlwind might explain a rain of small fish, but it cannot account for the ones that fell on a village in India. As many as 10 people reported picking up fish that weighed as much as eight pounds that had come crashing down on them.
* In February, 1861, folks in many areas of Singapore reported a rain of fish following an earthquake. How could the two possibly correlate?
* Golfers dread gathering clouds and a rain that might ruin their game. But imagine the consternation of several duffers in Bournemouth, England, in 1948 who received a shower of herring.
* Priests often pray for blessings from above... but fish? In 1966, Father Leonard Bourne was dashing through a downpour across a courtyard in North Sydney, Australia, when a large fish fell from the sky and landed on his shoulder. The priest nearly caught it as it slid down his chest, but it squirmed away, fell to the flooded ground and swam away.
* These things don't always happen in a heavy rain. In 1989, in Ipswich, Australia, Harold and Degen's front lawn was covered with about 800 "sardines" that rained from above during a light shower.
* This report is most unusual: In an otherwise clear sky in Chilatchee, Alabama in 1956, a woman and her husband watched as a small dark cloud formed in the sky. When it was overhead, the cloud released its contents: rain, catfish, bass and bream - all of the fish alive. The dark cloud had turned to white, then dispersed.

Toads

on september 23, 1973 in Brignoles, France tens of thousands toads fell during a freak storm and for two days! it rained on the village of Chalon-sur-Sanone bothw ere young toads.

Alligators

in Silvertown Township. South Carolina a Dr. j.L SMith noticed something fell and discovered that eight alligators had fallen in a space of 200 yds. there were quite lively and about 12 inches in length

flesh and blood


# 1890, Popular Science News reported that blood rained down on Messignadi, Calabria in Italy - bird's blood. It was speculated that the birds were somehow torn part by violent winds, although there were no such winds at the time. And no other parts of the bird came down - just blood.
# J. Hudson's farm in Los Nietos Township, California endured a rain of flesh and blood for three minutes in 1869. The grisly fall covered several acres.
# The American Journal of Science confirmed a shower of blood, fat and muscle tissue that fell on a tobacco farm near Lebanon, Tennessee in August, 1841. Field workers, who actually experienced this weird shower, said they heard a rattling noise and saw "drops of blood, as they supposed...fell from a red cloud which was flying over.


crabs
n 1881, a thunderstorm in Worcester, England, brought down tons of periwinkles and hermit crabs.
Stones

the town of Chico, California in late 1921, early 1922 it rained stones and rocks. a search for a prankster was fruitless


it has also rained Grain, lizards, mussuels, salamanders, turtles, hazelnuts and even in england it rained literally pennies from heaven,


colusion

waht is going on? are tornados sucking up aniamls if so how are they sucking only one species and out of season animals or is a form of teleporation? or is the work of sky animals strnage creatures that lived in the upper atomsphere. or is my favorite theory of Damion Knight that is the work of electromagnet fields that can diffent between living things charges as much in the dispatches from the edge we may never know so it is a another mystery..

love and peace,

Alex Stallwitz




sources

http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa082602b.htm