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At Poorhundur, India, on Dec. 11, 1854, flat pieces of ice, “‘large ice flakes,’” many of them weighing several pounds, fell from the sky (Report of the British Association, 1855-37).
–Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p187 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
A lump of ice weighing four pounds fell in Texas on Dc. 6, 1893 (Scientific American, 68-58).
–Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p185 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
According to Notes and Queries, 8-6-104, lizards fell on the sidewalks of Montreal, Canada, on Dec. 28, 1857.
–Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p93 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
The London Times of Dec. 25, 1883, reported, in a translation from a Turkish newspaper, that a substance fell in Scutari on Dec. 2, 1883, in particles or flakes like snow. “‘It was found to be saltish to the taste, and to dissolve readily in water.”
–Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p70 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
L’Annee Scientifique, 1888-75, reports that a substance like somewhat coagulated blood fell in Cochin China on Dec. 13, 1887.
On Dec. 28, 1860, in northwestern Siena, Italy, a reddish rain fell “copiously” for two hours, beginning about 7 a.m. A second red shower occurred at 11 a.m. Three days later, the red rain fell again, and again the next day. “Each fall,” Fort records, “occurred in ‘exactly the same quarter of town.’” (Year Book of Facts, 1861-273)
–Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p40 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
