While reading through old newspapers, you will occasionally come across articles about strange things falling from the sky, such as frogs and fish.
This account was published in 1910.
Frogs from the Clouds
At the conclusion of an extraordinarily violent thunderstorm the other week, Mr. Jack Ayre of Temple Bottom, near Cruwys-Morchard, in Devonshire, Eng., found a long stretch of road covered with thousands of frogs, which, it is declared, “cried like rabbits.”
Mr. Ayre expressed the opinion that the frogs came down from the sky, and he is supported in this view by another resident of the district, who has experience of monsoons abroad.
This expert says that in the stillness which precedes monsoons in tropical regions all sorts of creeping things come out of their hiding places. They are often carried up into the air by whirlwinds, and when the monsoons break down they are deposited again in rainstorms, as appears to have been the case at Cruwys-Morchard.
Source: The Donaldsonville chief. (Donaldsonville, La.), 19 Nov. 1910.
