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A rumbling, “as of wagons, heard for upward of an hour without ceasing,” occurred on July 16, 1850, at Bulwick Rectory, Northampton, England, according to Timb’s Year Book, 1851-270. Three days later, a black rain fell.
–Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p.31 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
In May 1849, a fall of black rain occurred in Ireland.
–Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 52 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
A black rain fell in Ireland on May 14, 1849 on an area of 400 square miles. It was the color of ink, and “of a fetid odor and very disagreeable taste.” This was described in the Annals of Scientific Discovery, 1850, and the Annual Register, 1849.
–Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 27 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
Earthquakes occurred in England in 1884, according to correspondents in Nature, 30-6, during the same time that there were black rains. “An intense darkness” happened during this time at Preston, England (April 26, 1884), and a black rain at Crowle, near Worcester, on the same date. Two days later, near Church Shetton, was another black rain so intense that brooks were still dyed with it the next day. Another black rain occurred in the area on May 3.
–Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 31 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
Black rains fell in the Clyde Valley on multiple occasions: March 20 & 22, 1828 and March 1, 1884, according to Knowledge, 5-190.
–Charles Fort, The Book of Damned, p. 29 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
