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From: 101523.3425@compuserve.com (BOB SKINNER)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The Day It Rained Fish In Pitsburg
Date: 4 Feb 1996 14:49:19 GMT

Rains of fish (or frogs, or other animals) have been reported for centuries. They are classical "fortean" phenomena (try newsgroup alt.misc.forteana).

A good article on the subject is that by E.W.Gudger entitled "Rains of Fishes" which appeared in *Natural History* Vol 21:607 (1921). The article has a good bibliography of sources.

A more general article by Waldo L. McAtee is "Showers of Organic matter" which was published in *Monthly Weather Review* Vol 45:217 (1917), which includes a section on rains of animals.

Look also at the "Complete Works of Charles Fort" for further cases and discussion.

Bob Skinner.


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