Every second, about 16 million tons of water evaporates from the surface of the Earth
during that same second, 16 million tons of water falls back down to the earth as rain.
But water isn't the only type of precipitation we experience due to certain weather
conditions. All kinds of crazy stuff has fallen from the sky.
Things like frogs, snakes, spiders, animal flesh, even blood have rained down all over
the world for centuries.
Oh, this is sounding ominous.
Well, it's more common than you think.
In fact, in Honduras, they celebrate Yoovidhya case, which means rain of fish.
Now, Honduras is a landlocked nation with the nearest body of water, one hundred and
twenty miles away. Yet every spring it rains thousands of fish all over the town of Yoro.
And these fish are completely aquatic.
We're not talking about flying fish.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What do you mean flying fish?
There are a few species of fish that can fly.
Well, technically, they glide, but it's pretty amazing, actually amazing that I say it's
like it's like a whole new.
All new stuff for me is.
Fly along it saying this.
It's a whole new world for me.
Why, anyway, fish, rain, snake, rain, blood, rain, it's weird and it's real.
Let's find out why. Welcome to the Y files, where smart folks like us come to laugh and
learn. Today, we're talking about the phenomenon of raining animals.
Animal rain has been documented throughout human history.
Pliny the Elder talked about a storm of frogs and fish as early as the first century A.D.
in the late 18th century.
French soldiers saw frogs falling from the sky during a heavy rain near the city of
Lille. This story fascinated French physicist Andrei Marie-Anne here.
Yes, that Nappier, who is one of the first scientists to take these stories seriously and
peer, speculated that violent winds could pick up large numbers of small animals and
carry them great distances.
He might be right. The current working hypothesis is that animal rain involves tornadic
waterspouts, which are tornadoes that form over water.
Water spouts usually occur in the tropics, but they can occur anywhere in Europe,
Australia, Antarctica, even over America's Great Lakes.
If the conditions are ripe, water spouts typically form as their parent clouds are
developing over warm water.
As I say, warm. As the warm water evaporates, humid air is pulled up toward the cloud, as
more humid air pours in, a vortex can form.
These vortexes vortices can grow to be three hundred feet wide, 90 meters and 2000 feet
tall, 600 meters.
Large waterspouts can be violent and dangerous when they reach speeds of one hundred and
sixty. They can damage ships, airplanes and put people's lives in jeopardy.
Lennox did anything within a metre of the water's surface can be lifted into the air if
the water spout is powerful enough, these animals can be carried all the way up to the
parent cloud and sometimes even stay up there for miles after the water spout is long
gone. Fish specifically, or small, light and flat, and they're light enough that they can
be buffeted up and down within a cloud for a long time.
Don't you dare say this is what scientists believe is happening in Honduras, a water spout
is pulling fish from the ocean and carrying them far inland.
Others speculate there's an underground river that's carrying the fish closer to the
town. Still, something is lifting them in the air.
Is it a water spout? It could be their common in that part of the world.
But reports of fish rain have occurred all over the planet as recently as twenty
seventeen in India and Sri Lanka, but also Mexico, Wales, Saskatchewan, California, even
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Recently, on September 9th, 2016.
Lisa Labrie was out for a walk in the suburbs of Philly as she hears a rustling in the
trees above her. She looks up as she gets smacked in the face with a five pound catfish.
Then. Hey, that's not funny.
She ended up with a cut on her eye.
Oh, is she all right?
Well, she's all right now, but not a huge fan.
People catching fish worrying, but fish catching people.
Oh, boy.
Oh, oh.
Now, nobody's sure how a catfish can fall from the sky in Philadelphia, as some people
have speculated that a bird was carrying it.
But that have to be a pretty large bird.
It could grip it by the husk just a few months ago and thousands of small fish rained on
the town of Yowell, Australia.
What makes this so weird is that YALLAH is 500 miles inland and some of the fish were
alive. And the water spout theory doesn't address why some incidents of animal rain only
consist of one species and not all kinds of different animals of the same size.
Let's look at a few of these.
Just kidding, that was that was just a bad movie.
Yeah, I rather enjoyed it.
It is now this one's not a horror movie, but it definitely looks like one.
Let's go back to the terror continent called Australia.
On May 15th, 20 15 residents of Goulburn, Australia witnessed millions of baby spiders
literally raining down and blanketing the countryside in silky white whips.
What happened in this case is called ballooning, which is a form of spider
transportation. Spiders will climb to the top of the highest tree or structure.
They can then spin a web into a sort of parachute that catches a breeze, which can carry
them a long way. They do this to escape predators, seek food or to establish new
territories. When a spider is getting ready to travel or raise its legs and sample the
air flow. Once it satisfied, it orients his abdomen skyward, spins a little silk it off
and goes. Normally this goes unnoticed because spiders typically travel one at a time.
But sometimes, like Ingleburn, the weather conditions were so favorable to ballooning
that thousands of spiders took to the air simultaneously.
The same thing happened in Brazil.
However, these weren't baby spiders.
These were nightmare spiders.
You do folks in Brazil were pretty upset.
I mean, before this video, I didn't know how to say the world is ending in Portuguese,
but I do now.
If you want to see more of that, I'll link to some spidering videos below.
Worms, worms from the sky is strange because it can occur in calm weather as well as
Stormi and worms don't seem to mind the cold either.
Thousands of worms appeared on a snowy mountain in Norway in 2015, and scientists still
don't know how it happened. The worms were first noticed by a skier who said the mountain
was covered with thousands of them.
He assumed they were dead, but then he grabbed a few and they were alive.
How the worms couldn't have come from the ground because under the snow was about a metre
of soil frozen solid.
So general consensus is that a violent air pocket lifted the worms and then dropped them
on the mountain. But from where?
Where are there thousands of live worms in the mountains in Norway in March?
Nobody knows. Sweden, same thing.
Raining worms. Wow.
So I did some research and it seems that this has been happening in Scandinavia since at
least the 1920s and in Europe far before that.
Nobody knows why they're under the ground there under the ground.
Scotland, 2011.
So many sky worms rained on a middle school football game, but they had to call off the
game and go inside.
That is, we worms everywhere.
Let's go inside Texas.
Twenty fifteen clumps of earthworms appeared in the middle of the street out of nowhere,
hundreds of them in piles in the street from where?
Aurora, Michigan. Twenty sixteen Skyworks.
Tucson, Arizona. Twenty eighteen Skyworks.
You fly. This is sounding a lot less like weather and more like an invasion.
Like, oh, nothing is better at whipping up a little localised area, like raining blood.
How cases of blood rain or red rain have been recorded since Homer's Iliad and throughout
history in Europe alone, there are hundreds of reports of blood rain going back
centuries. And every time it occurred, it was considered supernatural and a bad omen in
the year seven eighty seven, and there was a recorded rate of blood that was later said
to predict the Viking invasion of England.
In Germany, a shower of blood in thirteen forty seven was followed by the arrival of the
Black Plague. So, you know, they just connected the dots.
Blood rain bed, plague fed.
One of the first scientists to try to prove this phenomenon was not supernatural, which
Giuseppe Maria Giovanni blood rain fell in Italy in 1893, and you then incorrectly came
to the conclusion that sand from Africa was pulled high in the atmosphere across the
Adriatic and mixed with storm clouds to turn the water red.
In 2001, blood rain received international attention when it fell on Kerala, India.
Initial studies showed the rain had large amounts of nickel, titanium, iron and other
metals. This led to a theory that the red rain was caused by an atmospheric meteor burst.
Now that sounds super cool, but further studies showed that the rain contained spores of
a specific type of algae indigenous to Austria that had migrated to India in the upper
atmosphere after another incident of red rain in Kerala in 2012.
Studies have confirmed with certainty that the microalgae Trenta FOLIA is indeed turning
the rain red. So no, blood rain is not actually blood except when it is March 3rd.
Eighteen seventy six was the famous Kentucky meat store.
That doesn't sound like a derby.
For several minutes, small chunks of meat fell from the sky on a farm in Rankin,
Kentucky. Enough meat to fill a large wagon.
So the story goes. Reports say it appeared to be beef.
But according to an issue of Scientific American, two gentlemen who tasted the meat
thought it was either lamb or deer, unknown meats fell from the sky and someone eight.
Yep. And Joe Rogan wasn't there?
Nope. Grouse?
Yup. Studies of the meat determined it was lung tissue, either from a horse or from a
human infant. Oh, nobody noticed the missing baby or anything horse who was in charge of
this investigation.
Transilvania University.
Willynilly. So Dracula ate the baby.
No, no, no.
Transilvania Universities in Lexington, Kentucky.
I'm so confused.
Oh, you're not the only one.
A scientific reason for the Kentucky meat storm was never settled, but locals think it
came from vultures who would threaten will regurgitate everything in their stomachs to
make a quicker getaway. And when one vulture vomits, they all do all the southpaws.
Well, you know, don't you start doing that?
No. You're going to make a buzzard vomit.
OK, fine. But nine days later, on March 12th, 1876, the same thing happened in London,
England. Still no explanation.
Well, it does explain English cooking.
Snakes, the famous snake rain occurred in Memphis in 1877.
Reports say thousands of black snakes rain from the heavens and slithered all over the
streets. Snakes of all sizes.
Some, they say, were over a foot long.
Oh, I really wanted this one.
I really did. Every last article and video about weird rain has this story in it.
Thousands of snakes thudding to the ground, writhing around and hissing.
That's YouTube gold.
We had clips from Indiana Jones and Sam L.
Jackson photos and Barole that would have it would have blew your mind.
But those of you who followed the lifestyle since the beginning know that even though
we're a goofy channel, we do try to get the facts right.
This was a huge national story.
In eighteen seventy seven, it was picked up by The New York Times and it was reprinted in
newspapers all around the country.
But nobody fact checked.
They just regurgitated the same story 19th century paid.
Nothing ever changes.
There was actually only one eyewitness to the Memphis snake rain and she didn't really
see them fall. They were already on the ground.
She said the snakes were black and clumped together, but when rinsed with water, they
turned flesh in color.
They also didn't move like snakes, she said.
They gathered up their bodies in horseshoe shapes and creep along the ground.
That's how worms move, move and learn how to do that.
The infamous snake reign of Memphis of eighteen seventy seven was probably earthworms,
but I did find actual newspaper stories from here.
South Dakota, 1870, Columbus, Kentucky, nineteen eighty seven and San Francisco ninety
nine. All talking about actual live snakes falling from the sky.
I had it with these snakes on this mother.
I'm glad we worked that in.
Links below. Tadpoles.
In 2009, the entire country of Japan was covered in dead tadpoles.
I mean, the entire country, they were first spotted in Ishikawa, which is on the west
coast of Japan, but dead tadpoles were reported in towns and villages and on cars all
over the country. In one incident, a fifty five year old man who was caught in a tadpole
downpour described hearing a strange sound in the parking lot of a civic center in the
city of the now. And upon further exploration, he found one hundred tadpoles covering the
windshields of cars.
The now is in the middle of the island, miles away from Ishikawa.
And there are two theories for what happened here, both of which we discussed and I
believe neither of them.
First explanation waterspout.
But even local meteorologists are buying this because the weather was clear, the winds
were light, and it doesn't explain how tadpoles got scattered everywhere.
The second explanation is that large birds like herons or crows or seagulls drop the
tadpoles while being disturbed mid-flight.
Fine. But again, how does this happen across an entire country simultaneously?
Nobody knows or they won't tell us.
Frogs. It's been raining frogs for a long time.
Even the Bible's Book of Exodus talks about a swarm of frogs is one of the plagues.
It might not have been a metaphor.
This is a real thing that happens periodically in different places around the world, not
just in Paul Thomas Anderson movies.
In eighteen seventy three, Kansas City, Missouri, experienced a rainstorm that covered the
entire city in frogs.
Same thing happened in Minneapolis in 1991 with the frogs were so thick, the travel was
impossible. Lester Mass.
Nineteen fifty three, Sheffield, UK, nineteen ninety five.
But we don't need to comb through old newspapers to find stories about raining frogs.
We just have to go back to 2010.
In June of 2010 in Hungary, thousands of tiny frogs rained all over the country and many
of them were still alive. Kind of waterspout do this.
If you drop a frog from a building, it goes splat.
And in all the cases I mentioned, Hungary included, there were no reports of weird
weather or wind or waterspouts.
And in this particular case in Hungary, frogs were falling for several days across the
whole country, as some zoologists claim that this is common migratory behavior for frogs.
That's fine, but then how did the frogs get on top of cars and buses and buildings?
Answer me that zoologists and this is an ongoing debate, but I find it really interesting
that there are all these reports of animal rain, but very little video of the animals
actually falling. And lack of evidence brings out all kinds of theories from the wrath of
God to alien intervention.
And that brings us to star Jamie.
Stood before Hollywood icon Steve McQueen was dubbed the king of Cool.
He starred in a little horror movie called The Blob.
The Blob was released in nineteen fifty eight.
That's a well-known film to horror fans in Hollywood history buffs.
What's up? What's not so well known is the inspiration for the Blob, a plot goes like
this. It's a small town in rural Pennsylvania.
Two teenagers are making out on lover's lane when they see a meteorite crash just over
yonder. Later, an old fella investigates the site and naturally, he pokes the meteorite
with a stick. It breaks open and a small jelly like substance oozes out, attacks him, and
he goes screaming off for help.
Twenty eight year old teenager Steve McQueen picks him up and takes him to a doctor.
The rest is movie history.
But the blob was inspired by a real event in nineteen fifty four, Philadelphia policeman
reported the discovery of a domed disc of quivering jelly six feet in diameter and one
foot thick at the center and an inch or two near the edge.
When they tried to pick it up, it dissolved into an odorless, sticky scum.
The producer, The Blob, Jack Harris, is from Pennsylvania and he was fascinated with the
local star jelly legend.
An outbreak of star jelly happened as recently as twenty thirteen at the Ham Wall Nature
Reserve in England. But Star Jelly occurs all over the world, so it has a lot of names.
Star slime, star slobber in German.
It's called Stroner Holtze, which means stars not in Spanish.
It's Koka DeLuna, which Monbulk.
I was going to say excrement.
Oh, you're such a slave to the YouTube algorithm.
Grow up in the sky.
Jelly is a gelatinous substance that's been found in grass, but also in branches of
trees. And reports of sky jelly go back centuries and explanations range from frog eggs
to bacteria to alien organic matter to the paranormal.
So what is it? We don't know.
Star jelly usually dissolves or evaporates as soon as it's discovered, so we don't have a
lot of samples. But scientists in the National Geographic Society tested the sample.
In the US they found no DNA at all.
So what is it?
We don't know. Oh, I don't know.
I don't either. Thanks for hanging out with us today.
My name is A.J. That's Hellfish.
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