Maine Shower of Toads
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 2nd, 2011
Middletown Daily Times
Middletown, New York
July 13, 1893
A Shower of Toads.
BANGOR, Me., July 13. – A remarkable shower of live toads fell between Olamon, this county, and Grand Falls. Millions of them half an inch long were seen hopping in all directions.
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Loren! I’m offended at this! Clearly this is a 19th century thinly veiled attack on my fellow French Canadian Immigrants!
Happy 4th!
Rob
Very Fortean, indeed. So there’s gonna be a tadpole boom in NY?
Too brief – I would have expected a warts ‘n all account (sorry).
I can believe this because when I was young (approx. 7 years old), we lived about 25 miles north of Nashville, TN., way out in the country. I can remember when it would come a big rain, the rain barrel at the corner of the house would be full of frogs and tadpoles. They could also be seen all over the ground. I’ve heard it explained that during the evaporization process, that the eggs get drawn up into the atmosphere and when the temperature is right, they continue developing and when it rains, they simply come down with the rain because of the gravity.
Is it just me or do these things seem to not happen anymore? I mean the occasional fish or amphibian here and there, but fish falls don’t seem to happen nearly as much as previously reported. I wonder if that’s due to change in weather patterns, over fishing, or something else.
Of course this is real, otherwise there would be nothing to base this scene on.