Category: Sky Fallings

The Point Pleasant Register (Point Pleasant, W. Va.), July 21st 1909 Minnows Fell From Clouds. A report comes from Camp Creek, in Mercer county, to the effect that during the hard rainstorm a few days ago good sized minnows fell from the clouds. The minnows were unlike the native species, and the belief is that…

The Fairmont West Virginian (Fairmont, W. Va.), July 9th 1906 The Fairmont West Virginia and Morgantown Chronicle are discussing a rain of frogs and seeking an explanation. Probably the explanation is they didn’t rain. – Parkersburg State Journal. Our frog expert is out of town just now but as soon as he returns he will…

The Wheeling Daily Register (Wheeling, W. Va.), June 22th 1871 Shower of Frogs. – We are informed that during the shower that visited Moundsville on Tuesday evening, vast number of tiny frogs fell with the rain. They were so thick on the ground in some places, says our informant, that it was almost impossible to…

The Weekly Register (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]), June 22th 1898 We have often read about showers of frogs being dropped from the sky, in big rains, but never more than half believed it. A Guyan citizen however comes to the front to say to the Huntington Advertiser that they had a frog rain the…

Daily National Intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.]), June 10th 1818 The Shower of Fish From The Charleston Times I felt really happy when I came to the conclusion of the paragraph, entitled “Another Wonder,” to find, that the shower of fish which fell on the Boston Common, was not larger than could be consumed by the…