Weird World: Strange Rain

Weird World: The well known idiom "it's raining cats and dogs" is used to describe very heavy rainfall,and has been used since the 1600's.But what if it really did rain cats and dogs???

Strange falls of rain have been reported from all corners of this wonderful world of ours for hundreds of years,and is a very bizarre and still yet un-explainable phenomenon occurring even today in our modern,technologically advanced era.Snow,sleet and hail are three other meteorological wonders that fall from the sky quite regularly,but did you know on occasions animals have fallen from the skies in great numbers?Yes,for thousands of years everything from birds,amphibians,fish,insects and rodents have fallen from the sky in vast numbers,covering roads,fields and rooftops.Sometimes many of them are still alive,but most are dead.Sometimes they have fallen frozen in ice.

The phenomenon has scared many over the centuries,with people who lived in Biblical or medieval times considering such events as omens of plague or curses.Today,however,in certain places worldwide falls of fish,frogs or toads and birds are considered normal,due to their frequency.This is probably due to the now accepted scientific theory of whirlpools or tornadoes sucking up these creatures and depositing them many miles away from perhaps lakes or oceans,or in some instances ponds and streams.This theory is the generally accepted one by mainstream science, and it may explain many short downpours of animals like fish and birds,but can it explain more stranger examples of strange rain?

Apart from animals,other things to have fallen from the sky in mass amounts include straw,nuts,seeds,unidentified globs of slime and jelly and yes,even money,which has fallen almost always in coins or notes of the local currency!Golf balls are even said to have fallen from cloudless skies onto golf courses in modern times.

In perhaps two of the more dangerous rainfall events in recorded history,large stones fell from the sky in New Hampshire in 1698 and in Harrisonville,Ohio in late 1901 small boulders rained down on villagers for days,seemingly from a clear blue sky!Incidents of falling rocks and stones have been witnessed by people in Australia,Norway,France,Belgium and Sumatra since then.Many still to this day attribute many of these events to supernatural forces,such as poltergeists or demons,while many see them as possibly being the result of volcanic behaviour.

How then does one explain the shower of human blood,fat and muscle tissue that apparently fell on a tobacco farm near Lebanon, Tennessee in August, 1841?Workers reported hearing a rattling noise and saw "drops of blood, as they supposed...fall from a red cloud which was flying over."

Or what about the tons of corn kernels that were said to have rained down sporadically over a four year period upon several houses in Evans,Colorado?And how about reported one-foot long alligators falling from a clear sky over a farm in South Carolina in 1877?

What are your thoughts on the numerous reports of strange falls of rain that have scared and confused humans for centuries?

Witchcraft or an us-yet unknown natural phenomena?

Words by Matthew Sweeney

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