The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-02-26
STRANGE THINGS DROP
FROM THE Skl
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Red rains, terrifying rains Oh
blood" as they were called have oeeh
known to occur as far back as Ine
middle ages-nay, as far PACK as
Caesars time. when they ''drizzled
h,ood upon the capitol Red sand
dust from the Sahara, the sclentlsts
saw this is. November II ana lo'
1902. it rained red mud, according
+o the Monthly Weather Review, mill
1ions of tons of it, in Tasmania. Sew
eral parts of Europe were drencneo
with the red stuff in February, 1918
for several days the south OF Eng
land was a dumping ground from
somewhere up above. Bloody rams
fell. too, in Ireland and Scotland. Inc
scientists still stuck to the Sahara
theory. But then, when one or the
red rains fell in copious quantities
near the coast Of Newfoundland IN
1890, the editor of the Monthly
Weather Review says: cit would be
yerv remarkable if this was Sahara
dust" Besides, the Sahara dust IS
white, not red. And what about that
reddish substance, s'thick, viscous and
putrid," that fell March II, 1862
in the town of Chatillon-sur-Seine and
those copious fakes of a substance
that looked like beef fell from clear
sky at Olympian Springs, Bath coun-
ty, KY, March 3, 1875, reported IN
the Scientific American, vol. "a, page
197-fakes of "beef," the size of an
envelope?
What Do messengers" Mean?
But here are some real messengers
from those inter stellar spaces-or
else merely explainable by the what
goes up must come down theory
A mass of burning sulphur the size
Oh a mans fist fell at Pultusk, Poland,
January 80, 1868, and was stamped
out by crowd of villagers.
Science. March 9, 1888. reports the
fall of solid block of limestone from
the clear sky at Middleburgh, Fla.
A shower of limestone pebbles
came down at Pel-et-Der, France,
June 6, 1890, falling like hale.
A large, gritty, smooth, waterworn
sandstone cobble reported to have fall
len at Little Lever, England, and
found in the heart of beech tree
cit looked as if it had fallen redhot
and had penetrated that tree at high
velocity Reported in Science Cos
sip, 1887.
Another large stone was found IN
1855 in the interior of tree in Bat
tersea Fields, according to the Phil
osophical Magazine, 4-10-3S1. At the
foot of the tree fragments were found
as if broken off the embedded stone.
What is there to say except that it
fell from somewhere cup there and
plunged at high velocity into the
tree? Who heaved that brick?
Many Thunderstones.
''Thunderstones' in abundance are
recorded. They are called thunder
stones in Moravia, holland, Belgium,
France, Cambodia, Sumatra and ST.
IBERIA. They are called storm stones"
in Lausitz, ''sky arrows" in Slavonia,
thunder axes in England and Scot
land, lightning stones" in Spain and
Portugal, "sky exes' in Greece
polished green stones, as if wrought
by hand, many of them. In Prussia
two of these stone axes were found
in the trunks of trees, sunk deep un-
der the bark (Blinkenberg, Thunder
stones, page 1000. A COW was killed
by what looked like lightning at
Guernsey. The peasant who owned
the cow. dug up the earth at the spot
and found a smooth greensboro ak"
A real round stone cannon ball" is
reported in |Knowledge," October 9,
1885, exhibited at a meeting of the
Royal Meteorological society by G.
Carus- Wilson. 1t was ball of ''hard'
ferruginous quartzite,' about the size
of a cocoanut, and had come down
out of the sky and killed lot of
sheep at Casterton Wesmoreland.
Cannon balls and wedges" asks
the author of THE Book of the
Damned what do they mean
bombardments of this earth? At
tempts to communicated"
And here are some things that
look like real messages. "Pyramidal
shaped stones" out of the sky are re-
ported by the British association, one
at Tipperary, near Cashel, august 2,
1865, another at Segowolee, India,
March 6, 1853. "The rounded edges
of the pyramid are sharply marked
by lines or the black crust as if by
ruler" says DR.. Haughton. In the