12
Aug
For famousmortimerpresents:
“Around 1922, Chicoans [of Chico, CA] indeed reported instances of large, smooth stones raining down from the sky—an example of what is called a Fortean phenomenon. The falling rocks were centered on a warehouse near the train depot at Fifth and Orange streets. Several San Francisco papers and The New York Times picked up the story…
Some reports said the rocks were warm; others that they were oval-shaped. Some scientists pronounced them to be ‘meteoric material’; others said that they showed signs of cementation, so could not be otherworldly.
John Nopel, the Chico historian, said, ‘They never did figure out what caused that.’ A man did write a letter confessing he used a catapult to launch the rocks and was going to stop in light of the hiring of airplanes to search for clues.
‘They even hired men to go down in that warehouse all night to see if they could figure out where those rocks were coming from,’ Nopel said. ‘All the merchants downtown began to put boards over the store windows because they thought the rocks were going to start falling in downtown.’”
Evidently this was big enough news to have triple coverage in the New York Times. My verdict: I’m sure it happened, life is strange. I have a *feeling* it wasn’t supernatural, but then again I’m a realist. It might’ve been someone’s idea of a joke, and their secret is safe for eternity.
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