Things What Done Fell from the Sky

Arctic Lamprey

Some Alaskans are reporting Arctic Lamprey falling from the sky near Fairbanks. At least one of the creatures was taken to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game where it was placed in an aquarium. Several were well over one-foot in length, but this is about the regular size of the Arctic Lamprey.

According to news reports, officials blame gulls. They pointed to bruising and scratches on several of the Lampreys to backup their claim. Arctic Lamprey are rather elusive and officials know little about them, generally speaking.

Image from Hatch Magazine.

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It's Raining Space Worms in Norway

Norwegians have risen to find thousands of earth worms across the landscape. While no eyewitnesses have seen it raining worms, there is no way they could have dug up from the ground, leading some to speculate on how they got there.

One scientist forwarded the generally-held theory of waterspouts and tornadoes launching such small animals into the sky, where they might freeze or find purchase on ice or other bodies. The earthworms in Norway were still alive but snow covering the ground can be as deep as two inches in places.

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Why a Wheel?

The New York Times reported a strange incident on April 17^th, 1969. It appears Ruth Stevens of California was driving when a wheel of some kind emerged from the sky and struck her car, leaving a one-foot dent. The article does not describe the wheel, nor does it give any further details, but no local airport reported any aircraft with missing wheels that day.

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Things What Done Fell from the Sky: Ancient Satellite Found in Namibia?

Several days before a large, metallic sphere landed in Namibia, residents reported several loud explosions. The sphere is made of an "alloy known to man" and is about 14" in circumference. It is hollow and appears to have been melded together from two parts. Researchers found that a number of these strange spheres have been falling around the world over the last 20 years, but they have no reasonable explanation as to why they are falling or where they came from.

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Things What Done Fell from the Sky: Chunk of Metal

A 5-lb. chunk of metal that appears to be from a large machine plunged through the sheet metal of a building in Plymouth, Massachusetts. No one was injured; the hunk of metal landed in a closet area. The FAA confirmed that there are no flight patterns over the building.

Where the piece of metal came from, and why it dropped from the sky, remain unexplained.

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Things What Done Fell from the Sky: Apples Over Coventry

About 20 yards of Coventry (in England) was inexplicably showered with apples Monday evening.  There were volatile weather patterns in the area and experts suggested that a "mini-tornado" or wind vortex sucked-up apples as small objects, redepositing them over Coventry once the force died down.  However, there has been no satisfactory explanation for the shower of apples as of yet.

Other theories include a plane passing overhead and hoaxsters.  The area was covered in green sludge.  The apples that fell over Coventry were said to be green and hard.

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Things What Done Fell from the Sky - Fish in California

Small fish fell from a clear sky in Chico, California in such great numbers one day in 1878 that it made the New York Times. As that newspaper reported on September 2^nd of the same year, the fish covered several acres of ground.

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Things What Done Fell from the Sky - Alligators

When Dr. J.L. Smith noticed something fall from the sky and start crawling toward his tent, he got up to find an alligator about 12" long. A moment later, Dr. Smith saw another come sailing from above and hit the ground just like the first.

Dr. Smith was in the process of opening up a new turpentine farm in Silvertown Township, South Carolina in 1877 when it rained alligators on him. After finding the second, he discovered six more within an area of approximately 200 yards. They fell upon high, sandy ground about six miles north of the Savannah River, according to him.

Due to the small number and the proximity of the river, it is quite possible that this small "nest" of a half-dozen alligators of similar length and size were simply displaced by a freak gust of wind, as is often suggested in such matters, but it would actually be one of the few times when such an explanation makes sense.

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Things What Done Fell from the Sky - Coins in Ramsgate

Years before the Redding incident, shoppers in Ramsgate, Kent heard pennies striking the pavement. It was a December day like any other in 1968 and, once again, eyewitnesses claimed not to have seen the coins falling, only to having heard them striking the pavement. Some of the coins were dented from the impact, but there were no tall buildings nearby and no planes were observed overhead.

One eyewitness claimed the pennies came in "short, scattered bursts" every 15 minutes or so, dropping 40-50 pennies each time.

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Things What Done Fell from the Sky - Coins in Redding

Children were accused of stealing money from the poorbox at St. Elisabeth's Church in Redding, England when a candystore owner reported a rush at his business on the morning of May 28^th, 1982. No money was found missing, but the kids were definitely richer. They claimed the coins they had been finding the church's yard seemed to "fall from the sky."

In particular, the children said they would hear a tinkle on the ground, look about, and find a coin. Rev. Graham Marshall conducted a study of the area and phenomenon and immediately dismissed any seemingly "normal" explanation, such as pranksters or puking birds. Perhaps most inexplicable, several of the coins were embedded into the ground edgewise, suggesting a fall from a great height.

No explanation was ever found.

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Things What Done Fell from the Sky: Shower of Serpents

The southern part of Memphis, TN was covered by a shower of living snakes measuring from 12-18" in length one day in early 1877. While the official explanation was that the snakes had been lifted into the air and later dropped by hurricane winds, experts admitted they had no idea where such an abundance of serpents would be found in one place.

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Things What Done Fell from the Sky: Raining Fire

For roughly 10 minutes on the night of October 18^th, 1867, fire reportedly fell from the sky over Thames Ditton, Surrey, England. The following morning, puddles and rainwater tanks were, "Thickly covered with a deposit of sulfur."

A couple of weeks later, eyewitnesses in Chatham, England claimed to have seen numerous black discs in the sky above. These disks were propelled by some unknown means that produced smoke.

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Things What Done Fell from the Sky: Flesh and Blood

For a full three minutes one sunny, cloudless day on August 1^st, 1869, flesh and blood fell from the sky, covering two acres of farmland near Los Nietos, California.  The farm belonged to a J. Hudson, who said short, fine hairs fell along with the flesh and blood.  The flesh fell in particles, as well as in strips from 1-6" in length.

Cursory research showed that a similar event happened some two months earlier, when flesh and blood rained in nearby Santa Clara County.

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Things What Done Fell from the Sky - Scotland, 2011

Scottish students were allowed to leave classes and watch a rain of worms on April 2^nd, 2011. Teachers say the worms fell from a cloudless sky, noticed by the children who heard a series of thumps all around. Teachers found more worms in a tennis yard about 100 yards from where the children first noticed the fall.

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Things What Done Fell from the Sky - Wolverhampton Paved

According to a French magazine of the period, black pebbles fell in such quantities over Wolverhampton, England during a violent thunderstorm that they had to be shoveled away. The incident was mentioned in a summer issue from 1860; the storm was said to have taken place in June of the same year. The pebbles were described as "angular."

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Things What Done Fell from the Sky - Candy

On the nights of September 2^nd and 11^th, 1857, sections of Lake County, California complained of showers of sugar and candy. "The crystals were from ¹/₈ - ¹/₄" in length and the size of a goose quill." The good ladies of Lake County even made syrup from it.

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Things What Done Fell from the Sky - Shower of Toads, Versailles

An M. Heard reported that toads bounced off his umbrella and hopped about on the pavement around him for up to 1200 feet one day in June, 1833 in Jouy-en-Josas near Versailles, France.  Heard said the toads were as numerous as the raindrops.

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Things What Done Fell from the Sky - Manna?

The word "manna" is defined as "food of the gods" and comes from at least one story in the Holy Bible. There are several theories as to what manna is, both historically and otherwise, as well as to what exactly the substance is that that fell in Persia in 1828, but the reason it is noteworthy - aside from the obvious fact that something unknown fell from the sky and covered the fields - is that the livestock consumed it "enthusiastically."

The material, whatever it was, covered the fields to a depth of 7-8".

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Things What Done Fell from the Sky: Flesh and Blood, L.A.

A funeral party was astounded when blood poured from the skies over a cornfield near Los Angeles, California.  It was a clear Sunday in July, 1869.  Not only was the substance that fell from the sky a vivid red, the eyewitnesses say they also found hair and "portions of organs."

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Things What Done Fell from the Sky: A Mysterious Whirlwind

H.A. Boys of the North Cadbury Rectory wrote an account passed-on to him by three eyewitnesses who saw a whirlwind appear from nowhere and pick up about a ton of hay. The whirlwind lifted the hay to a height of nearly 200' before losing strength. It dropped the hay over the church's roof and grounds.

Some think bizarre showers, such as those of fish and frogs, are caused by such weather phenomena as whirlwinds. However, this does not explain most of the cases we have observed here.

The incident occurred at 3:30pm on July 28^th, 1904; two whirlwinds were reported in nearby areas, including Bristol, the following day.

© C Harris Lynn, 2011