A 2ft-long alligator fell from the sky at Evansville, Indiana on May 21, 1911, landing on the front doorstep of Mrs. Hiram Winchell's home. When the animal tried to crawl inside, it was clubbed to death by Mrs. Winchell and neighbors armed with bed slats.
A deluge of dead birds tumbled from a clear sky on to the streets of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in November 1896. The only plausible explanation was that the birds, which included wild ducks, catbirds and woodpeckers, had been driven inland by a storm on the Florida coast and had been killed by a sudden temperature change over Baton Rouge.
Following weeks of drought, a storm broke one afternoon in August 1814 over Fremontiers, near Amiens in France. In the rain which accompanied the storm were dozens of tiny frogs which began to hop around on the ground. Live frogs also landed on Leicester, Massachusetts, in 1953, tumbling into gutters and on roofs.
On May 11, 1894, at the height of a hailstorm, a gopher turtle encased in ice fell on Bovina, eight miles east of Vicksburg, Mississippi. During the same storm, a small block of alabaster, also encased in ice, landed on Vicksburg itself.
A crop of peaches dropped on a building site at Shreveport, Louisiana on July 12, 1961. The workmen confirmed that the fruit was coming from the sky and not being thrown. Weathermen said that conditions that day were not conducive to the peaches having been carried by strong winds.
A deluge of dead birds tumbled from a clear sky on to the streets of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in November 1896. The only plausible explanation was that the birds, which included wild ducks, catbirds and woodpeckers, had been driven inland by a storm on the Florida coast and had been killed by a sudden temperature change over Baton Rouge.
Following weeks of drought, a storm broke one afternoon in August 1814 over Fremontiers, near Amiens in France. In the rain which accompanied the storm were dozens of tiny frogs which began to hop around on the ground. Live frogs also landed on Leicester, Massachusetts, in 1953, tumbling into gutters and on roofs.
On May 11, 1894, at the height of a hailstorm, a gopher turtle encased in ice fell on Bovina, eight miles east of Vicksburg, Mississippi. During the same storm, a small block of alabaster, also encased in ice, landed on Vicksburg itself.
A crop of peaches dropped on a building site at Shreveport, Louisiana on July 12, 1961. The workmen confirmed that the fruit was coming from the sky and not being thrown. Weathermen said that conditions that day were not conducive to the peaches having been carried by strong winds.