Raining Animals and Coins: Mystery of the History
Did you ever see animals raining? Raining animals is a rare phenomenon with occurrences in many countries throughout history. These occurrences may be evidence for the transport of the victims to high altitudes, where the temperature is below zero, and they show how powerful meteorological forces can be.
Raining fishes:
In 1859 fishes had rained in Glamorganshire, England. Thousands of fishes were jumping to the surprise of the people. Later the fishes were released into water. Another incident took place in Louisiana, America in 1947. But the fallen fishes were dead and some were frozen in ice. In 1969 a big fish had fallen from the sky on a church father in Sydney, Australia and immediately it floated along with water. In 1989, 800 small fishes had fallen from the sky in the corridor of a house in Ipswich, Australia. Very recently raining of fishes occurred in Kerala, India. These are some of the examples of raining fishes.
Raining frogs:
Frogs had rained in Chalon sur Saone, France very long ago. In 1901, frogs had rained in Minneapolis, America. According to local people, the sky appeared green as if it wore a green blanket before raining. In Naphilon, Greece, people saw hundreds of frogs jumping from trees in 1981. Later Weather Department of Greece announced that a big storm carried those frogs. But interesting news is that all those frogs belonged to North Africa.
Raining crocodiles and lizards:
In Silvertown, America, Dr. J.L. Smith observed some big objects falling from sky. Later he found that they were crocodiles; each one was 12 inches long and they were safe even though they had fallen from the up. This incident occurred in 1877. In 1857, lizards had rained in Montreal. Then people found lizards everywhere.
Raining of other animals:
An unidentified animal, may be a cow, fell in California ripped to tiny pieces in 1869. Similar incident occurred in Bath County, Kentucky in 1876. Jelly fish fell from the sky in Bath, England in 1894. Assorted dead birds including ducks, wood peckers and canaries fell in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1896. People from Matagalpa, Nicaragua reported that they found some turtles fallen down from the sky in 1990. In 2007 worms had dropped from the sky in Jennings, Louisiana.
Raining coins, money:
There have been many incidences of raining money down from the sky. In 1940 nearly 1000 coins fell in the Meshchera region of Russia during a storm. To our surprise, all those coins belonged to 16th century. In 1956, pennies and half pennies plopped down on children in Hanham, England as they were heading home from school. In 1957, numerous 1,000 franks currency notes had showered on gathered people. In 1976, two clergymen watched as 2,000 marks worth of bank notes fluttered down from a clear sky in Limburg, West Germany. In 1982, number of children in Manchester, England ran to a nearby shop to buy chocolates. Shopkeeper suspected the children that they had stolen money from the fund in Church. But the children told him that the coins fell down from the sky. At last he believed after verifying the fund. These are some of the incidents that are very amazing.
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This is really enjoyable read..
Some people may not believe that raining anything but water is possible but, when I was ten years old, living in Toronto it rained toads. They were tiny, smaller than a quarter, and they covered every surface around the house. They were on the window sills, veranda, rain gutters, parked cars, housetops, and within about 20 minutes they were gone. Those who didn’t see them thought we were crazy but those who did see have never forgotten.
Icy, thank you for the appreciation.
Darlene, thank you for the information.
I must say, I’ve never seen it rain anything but water, although once in the Middle East it started to rain in the middle of a sandstorm and the result was muddy rain.
Thanks for this interesting story. Take care!
I like it that you took it as an interesting meteorological phenomenon, and not alien UFO one, as some people do
VEry interesting article here Valli. Could I just say one thing, Glamorganshire used to be a place in Wales not England. Wales and England are two separate countries in the UK. (easy mistake to make)
Glamorganshire is now Glamorgan
Thank you for reading and commenting, Dee, Chan, Ranfuchs, and Anne.
Anne, thank you for the correction.
I really wonder how those things can rain from the sky…
Alexa, I too wonder about it.
Fascinating. There is always something new to learn. Thank you.
Thank you, Judy.
I was doing a project about Honduras
and came across the Rain of Fishes.
Now I’m completely fascinated and over-
whelmed by all these raining animals:)
It’s truly amazing.
Great read, I’ve been trying to find more information regarding the jellyfish in bath but as of yet I have not been successful. Can you recommend any links?
Have you seen cars, houses and people were falling in the rain. Yeah, I live in a village where everyone came from the sky, in rain, we also got our houses and cars in it. That’s pretty amazing, we all were frozen until the second we hit the ground, then we started our live before the rain was over.