The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, February 26, 1920, Page 6, Image 6
STRANGE THINGS DROP
FROM THE SKY.
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removed from manufacturing centers,
in August, 18S8.
Red rains, terrifying "rains of
blood" as they were called have been
known to occur as far back as the
middle ages?nay, as far back as
Caesar's time, when they "drizzled
blood upon the capitol." Red sand
dust from the Sahara, the scientists
say this is. November 12 and 13,
1902, it rained red mud, according
to the Monthly Weather Review, millinns
nf tons of it, in Tasmania. Sev
eral parts of Europe were drenched
with the red stuff in February, 1903
?for several days the south of England
was a dumping ground, from
somewhere up above. Bloody rains
fell, too, in Ireland and Scotland. The
scientists still stuck to the Sahara
theory. But then, when one of the
red rains fell in copious quantities
near the coast of Newfoundland in
1890, the editor of the Monthly (
Weather Review says: "It would be
very remarkable if this was Sahara
dust." Besides, the Sahara dust is
white, not red. And what about that
reddish substance, "thick, viscous and
putrid," that fell March 17, 1869,
*r> the tnwn of Chatillon-sur-Seine and
those copious flakes of a substance
that looked like beef fell from a clear
sky at Olympian Springs, Bath county,
Ky., March 3, 1876, reported in
the Scientific American, vol. 34, page
197?flakes 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
of a man's fist fell at Pultusk, Poland,
January 30, 1868, and was stamped
out by a crowd of villagers.
Science. March 9, 1888, reports the
fall of a 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.
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A large, gritty, smooth, waterworn
sandstone cobble reported to have fallen
at Little Lever, England, and
found in the heart of a beech tree?
"it looked as if it had fallen redhot
and had penetrated that tree at high
velocity." Reported in Science Gossip,
1887.
Another large stone was found in
1855 in the interior of a tree in Battersea
Fields, according to the Philosophical
Magazine, 4-10-381. At the
foot of the tree fragments were found
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as if broken off the embedded stone.
What is there to say except that it
fell from somewhere "up there" and
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plunged at high velocity into the
tree? Who heaved that brick?
Many Thunders tones.
"Thunderstones" in abundance are
recorded. They are called "thunderstones"
in Moravia, Holland, Belgium,
France, Cambodia, Sumatra and Siberia.
They are called "storm stones" ^
in Lausitz, "sky arrows" in Slavonia, .
"thunder axes" in England and Scotland,
"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 under
the bark (Blinkenberg, Thunderstones,
page 100). 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 "greenstone ax."
A real round stone "cannon ball" is
reported in "Knowledge," Octooer 9,
1885, exhibited at a meeting of the
Royal Meteorological society by C.
Carus-Wilson. It was a ball of "hard"
ferruginous quartzite," about the size ^
of a cocoanut, and had come down 1
out of the sky and killed a lot of *
sheep at Casterton Wesmoreland.
"Cannon balls and wedges," asks ?
the author of "The Book of the (
Damned," "what do they mean? ,
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tempts to communicate?"
And here are some things that
look like real messages. "Pyramidal
shaped stones" out of the sky are reported
bx 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 on the black crust as if by a
ruler," says Dr. Haughton. In the
Scientific American September 10,
1910, Charles F. Holder gives an account
of a "strange stone that fell
into the Valley of the Yaqui, Mexico,"
and upon the stone were found inscriptions?a
circle within a circle,
dots and dashes.
Blocks of ice are favorite missiles
of bombardment?a foot in circumference
at Derbyshire, England, May 12,
1811: size of pumpkins at Bungalore,
India, May 22, 18ol : a mass weighing
80 pounds was chucked down by
some empryean ice man from the sky
near Salina, Kan., August, 1882; and
a huge block "as big as an elephant"
was reported from Seringpatam, India.
Super Zeppelin.
Evidence, as of venturing airship
visitors from other worlds, seems
abundant. In 1 S-"?9 Dr. Lescarbault, I
an amateur astronomer of Orgeres,
France, announced that March 26, he
had seen a "strange body of planetary
size cross the sun." He wrote to
Leverrier, the astronomer, who hastened
to Oregres and "satisfied himself
as to the substantial accuracy of
the reported observation."
Here's a super-Zeppelin from interplanetary
spaces. According to the
Annual Register, .M. de Rostan, August
9, 1 762, taking altitudes of the
sun at Basle, France, saw "a vast,
spindle shaped body, about three of
the sun's digits in breadth and nine
in length, advancing slowly across
the disc of the sun, at no more than
half the velocity with which the ordinary
sun-spots move." A moving
light across the moon is reported in
Philosophical Transactions, 84, page
429, "which looked like a star passing
over the moon, but which, on a
moment's consideration, I knew to be
impossible." Science, July 31, 1896,
contains a report by Brooks, director
of Smith's observatory, that he had
seen a dark round object pass slowly
across the moon in a horrizontal
direction." The Dutch astronomer,
Mulle, stated in the Scientific American,
that April 4, 1892, he had seen
a similar phenomenon. A communication
from Dr. F. B. Harris in Popular
Astronomy said "that the evening
of January 27, 1912, he had seen an
intensely black object that resembled
a crow posed as near as anything
across the moon." He estimated it to
be 200 miles long and 50 miles wide.
"I can not but think a very interesting
and curious phenomenon happened,"
he says.
Log of Lady of Lake.
The journal of the Royal Meteoro
logical society gives tne lonowing extract
from the log of the barque,
Lady of the Lake: "Captain Banner
and the sailors reported they saw
a remarkable cloudlike structure in
the sky, latitude 5-4 7 north, longitude
27, 52 west. It was of circular
form, with an included semi-circle
divided into four parts, the central
dividing shaft beginning at the circle
and extending far outward. Unlike a
cloud it kept its form and the 'thing'
traveled at about 20 degrees above
the horrizon. settling towards the
northwest. It was visible half an
hour ard then disappeared, not disintegrating
like a cloud, but becoming
lost to sight in the even:ng darkness."
Hundreds of authenticated phenomena
such as these are cited with
booK and page in this curious "Book
of the Damned." "The power that
says these things are to be excluded,
damned, is dogmatic science," says
its author, "but some day the excluded
may be the excluding."
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