ROCKS have been falling from the sky forever.
The stone in the Temple of Apollo at Delphi was probably a meteorite.
In 1492 a 280 pound meteorite fell in a field near the village of Ensisheim in France and caused a 3ft deep crater. The King of Germany said it was a sign from God because France was at war.
The biggest in recent history at Tunguska in Russia in 1908 caused an explosion 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped at Hiroshima.
Throughout history there has been only one recorded instance of someone being hit by a meteorite or asteroid. That was Ann Elizabeth Hodges. She was napping in her living room in Taladega County, Alabama, when a meteorite crashed through her roof., bounced off the radio and whacked her on the hip. She escaped with only a bruise.
Other things also fall out of the sky. We say it’s raining cats and dogs but our feline and canine friends are usually safe. It’s more likely to be fish or golf balls.
Foot long alligators fell in South Carolina in 1877 and, the same year, living snakes fell in Memphis, Tennessee. Hermit crabs teamed down in Worcester in 1881 and dead birds in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1896.
Fish poured down on Marksville, Louisiana, in 1947, frogs and toads in Massachusetts in 1953 and more frogs came down over the southern Greek city of Naphilion in 1981. The frogs came all the way from North Africa.
In 1969 golf balls fell on Punta Gorda in Florida and spiders rained down on San Bernardo Peak in Argentina in 2007.
Many explanations suggest that tornadoes or storms suck up creatures or items from one place and deposit them in another.
Fish are the most common to be deposited from the sky. They even celebrate The Festival of the Rain of Fishes in Honduras every year. Locals pick them up and cook them. All you have to do is take your own chips.