Charles Fort spent most of his life studying anomalous phenomena – events that fall outside accepted theories and beliefs. Some of the phenomena he studied included: ball lightning, teleportation, spontaneous fires, UFOs, unexplained disappearances, giant wheels of light in the ocean, rains of frogs and fish.
In Wikipedia, he is cited as probably the first person to attribute unexplained disappearances to alien abductions. He also wrote about the interconnectedness of nature and synchronicity, which is where this story falls.
Lajamanu lies in the northern territory of the Australian outback. In Late February, the town’s 650 residents were treated to a Fortean event when hundreds of white fish – perch – landed in the town. People were apparently picking them up everywhere. One resident, Christine Balmer, said the fish were alive when they hit the ground. Even though perch are common throughout this area, the nearest river is 326 miles away. In fact, Lajamanu is located at the edge of the Tamani desert, hundreds of miles from the nearest lakes and even farther away from the coast.
According to a local meteorologist, conditions were ideal for a tornado, which could have whipped the fish upward from lakes or rivers and deposited them elsewhere. But there was no tornado.
This same town experienced raining fish in 1974 and 2004. The original story is here.
Love the theories, JamaGenie. Esp the one about the fledgling sorcerer!
Can anyone prove the fish were *always* fish? Or the frogs frogs? Who's to say they weren't the screw up of an adolescent alien returning abducted creatures to Earth? Or what a budding sorcerer got instead of the rain he/she cast a spell for. Just a thought…
I've seen raining frogs right out in the middle of the desert. Very strange phenomena – fish are even stranger.
Maybe someone can divine meaning from the formation of the fish in that picture, like reading tea leaves. Any takers?
Interesting story… wondering if one could infer any symbolism from the white fish? I read some about the yin/yang symbol, but I don't know much about it.
Onya Natalie!It could happen.
Obviously, this can be explained logically……we Aussies are God's favourites. Next the bread, and the wine please!
Raining frogs! They were one of Fort's favorite anomalies. Definitely a sad way for these little critters to die!
Wow, haven't seen raining fish, but, have seen raining frogs several times, usually at night. It is weird to be driving in a car and then all of a sudden frogs are everywhere. I always wondered where they have come from and what a horrible way to end their lives, bless their hearts..
Ah the wonder of fafrotskies. There was another case in Australia of fish falling about 10 days ago.
Gypsy – I checked the link just now and it works – but it's slow coming up. More trickster!
Maggie – raining men!
I guess I shouldn't give up the idea of "It's rainin' men"…you know the tune! this certainly is remarkable. Wish I could have been there to see it.
Always love popping in here. Thanks
ps – when i went to the link, it came up but the page is blank! more trickster and disappearances!
well, right up front i can say that one of the last things i would relish flopping down on my head would be a fish – alive or not –
in any event, very neat story – seems several things going on with the skies lately –