The Strangest Thing to Fall from the Sky
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What happened to the comment checker. Got scammers in comment sections. Happens once shame on them. Happens twice shame on you plus a stern suspension from UA-cam. UA-cam gives video producers that right to legally protect their channels from scams. Thus not using said program, can related to charges of aiding and abetting to criminal activities. This is all in UA-cam term of service. Thought you knew this Simon.
Hello Simon. It's André-Marie Ampère, pronounced Am-pair. (or amp air....)
No Ghost or Aliens involved? I bet you were really upset :D
@@fuckyoutube5584 the yd was an
i was told that the phrase "it's raining cats and dogs" comes from when houses used to have thatched rooves and during a heavy downpour various creatures that normally make their homes in long grass that had built shelters in the roofing would make their ecape from their now flooded homes causing guard dogs and pest control cats on the premises to go wild chasing them around.
rather than the observation of "it's raining cats" and "it's raining dogs", it's a call to attention for the service animals "dogs, it's raining" and "cats, it's raining".
I live in an area particularly prone to tornado activity. I have personally seen instances where tornadoes have sucked entire ponds or small lakes up into them. I am certain that it has to rain fish somewhere after this occurs.
this has happened near me before. it took the whole pond and left a mud pit basically. i always wondered what happened to the fish.
@@ineedalife1013 fish are as dense as humans, so they probably smashed on the ground to be unrecognisable mush.
@@RevilHermes imagine being the poor bastard to take a frickin sturgeon to the talking box. How do you NOT take that as a personal insult from the universe?
I imagine they probably get scattered around the tornado, stuff usually gets corkscrewed around the outside of the tornado and thrown off rather than climbing all the way up.
Even if that does happen,there's no way those specific animals would be surviving the trip.youd be finding dead animals,and pieces of animals,if it was indeed a tornado that moved them.Its very unlikely you'd see a living creature if it indeed to come "raining" down from the sky.Just the forces involved with transporting the creatures the distances they are claimed to have traveled,would be more than enough to rip them apart,or at the very least,leave them deceased.Any instance where the animals are found alive,and completely intact,was very much not likely to be caused by a tornado having moved them there.
I was recently in rural Thailand during the first heavy rainfalls of the wet season . What had been previously dried up rice fields were now full of literally millions of frogs after the heavy overnight rains. After seeing this i can understand how some of these stories get started . The locals knew that the frogs had burrowed into the clay base of the rice paddies . They were looking forward to the first rains as frogs are a local delicacy.
A friend of mine lives in a very rural area, farmers have huge fields of soybeans around his place. Last year while I was there, we were inside his garage while watching a real downpour! It rained almost 3 inches of water, and as soon as it stopped the sounds of frog’s was deafening. You could see them swimming in the ditches, laying eggs and hear what sounded like very large bullfrogs. While we figured they were buried in the dirt the whole time, I couldn’t imagine that millions of frogs per acre were living under the dirt? He warned that as soon as the frogs appear, snakes would be close behind, wanting to eat the frogs. And as soon as they arrived large birds of prey were snatching up snakes and flying away with them! Quite the spectacle way out in farm country.
Interesting stories, but can't account for all instances of animal rain, especially rains of live sea fish hundreds of miles inland, nor people forced to seek shelter from falling creatures. My own belief is that creatures are picked up by tornados and kept aloft by updraughts. The latter feels like a bit of a stretch, but remember that updraughts in thunderstorms are, astonishingly, powerful enough to crate and maintain incredibly powerful electric charges in _moist air._ It's not a complete hypothesis, but I think that when science does have a good theory, it will likely include these details. EDIT: I really should get out of the habit of commenting before I've watched the whole video. :)
@@eekee6034 If those updrafts can keep baseball sized hail stones aloft, they can’t keep a small fish or frog in the air too.
"It's Raining Cats and Dogs" sounds better than "It's Raining Vulture Vomit".
Actually the expression "Its raining cats and dogs" comes from the medieval period when people used to live in homes with hay thatched roof's. Since cats and dogs would be left outside most of the time they'd often climb up on the roofs where they could feel the warmth of the home-fires coming up from the inside of the house. And if it rained while up there they'd end up sliding down off the slippery roof to the ground outside below.
@@dokskwyr4353 1:40 "is a corruption of the Greek katadox meaning contrary to expectations"
“It’s raining Bits and Blobs”
@@lorenzoblum868 He said it was a possibility, and that kind of doesn't make sense. Contrary to expectations?
@@MargaritaOnTheRox contrary to expectations is very explicit. Try a dictionary.
I have personal knowledge of this happening! A tornado sucked up a pond to the west of us and as we were fishing, small fish and frogs fell from the sky! I didn’t realize this at the time but my adult mind came up with the conclusion! That stuff has to come down eventually! 💯
When I was in high school in the early 70's we had a torrential rain. My old pickup was parked in the school lot and the bed filled with a few inches of rain. In that water were thousands of tiny crabs. Many students and teachers witnessed this. This was in the NM desert just south of Albuquerque.
Alive?
At when you told your girlfriend that you had no idea how you got crabs, you weren't lying.
@@christophermerlot3366 correction, they were lobsters.
Los Lunas?
If it was those tiny desert frogs it wouldn't be that strange, but crabs??? Maybe they live in the same ecosystem, a flash rain and they come to life in the week that the pools exist, then it all drys up a week later. 🤠
Penguins are flightless, so if you see one falling from the sky, do the little guy a favor and catch him..
This is why the comment section was made for comments like this. Keep up the good work
When I was a kid I lived in Coral Springs, Florida. One day we had a very heavy rain and afterward there were hundreds of walking catfish everywhere. I don't think they came out of the sky though. We had assumed at the time they came up from the flooded storm drains.
They either came from the storm drains, or the multitude of drainage canals. This is still a common sight in SoFlo. Walking catfish are some goofy looking fish though. Always funny to see them.
They were actually from your imagination.The lead in your local water supply has caused you to have brain damage,and you're actually experiencing what is called "a false memory" where your brain is filling the blanks of past forgotten memories,on the spot with new ones manufactured by having watched this video.Almost nothing you know has actually happened,or is real.Your life is a lie.The matrix is now.
Just the idea of it raining snakes made me shudder, so yes, I absolutely would nope out of the state if that happened.
Raining jellyfish seems much much worse for some reason... then again I'm not afraid of snakes...
@@Sandshark17 You're probably right. But having a snake drop on me unexpectedly is one of my major fears. I never claimed my phobia was logical. 🤷♀️
@@emmarichardson965 I think that is the definition of a phobia, not being a logical fear. If it ever rains snakes, I would never go outside my house ever again😨
I once saw it rain cats and dogs. I went outside and stepped in a poodle.
You legend, you!
I saw the "star jelly" phenomenon explored on another of Simon's channels. I'm pretty sure I now know what inspired "The Blob".
Star jelly rained down after that movie was made.
I have been in storms when fish, frogs, worms. and other insects and other things that that are strange falling from the sky. I'm not discounting your statements but strange things do occasionally fall from the sky. I also don't make any assumptions or even say that I have answers for what is going on.
Mr. Bean, he fell from the sky, according to the intro to his telly show, and he's very strange, behold him, for he is a man who is a bean... :P
Okay, but I would still freak out seeing jellyfish all over my town after a storm.
I live in Florida. Jellyfish scattered across beach towns is a fairly common sight after any hurricane. Since they get washed up on the beaches, and beaten against the sand, they wind up losing their tentacles and mucous membrane. That means they wind up looking like breast implants scattered everywhere. They're dead and can't sting you, so we throw them at each other.
A cool thing about them is their high phosphorous content. If you throw one at someone in low light conditions, it will burst in a shower of green luminous fragments, for the briefest of moments.
Simon produces so much content I'm just waiting for the day he announces his own streaming service and I have to pay to see fact boy
Shhhh, I'm enjoying the free content
Not free, you sold your soul to UA-cam in exchange for free content
@@adrianac5561 in what way? They only have my usage info, not much of my personal
He's lying in wait, gathering power, until he emerges triumphant, holding all the facts in the world hostage with a sly smile and outstretched hand, awaiting our tribute. He knows it's coming. After all, he's taught us to learn - and he's taught us to learn *from him.*
Move aside Musk its Whistler time.
The spider “flying” thing is in fact true and amazing, Scishow has a video about the scientific explanation👍🏼
A joke for old people only.
You're forgetting the plane that lost a cargo of Japanese car parts, all of which fell to the ground below.
It was raining Datsun cogs.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🌧️⚙️
I'll see myself out.
63 year old laughing hard at that one!
Damn! That's pretty good!
Can’t wait to use that one.
Thanks!
But what about reports of fish on the roofs of homes? Assuming that those reports are accurate, then it would rule out the theory that the fish came up from out of underground lakes.
I saw it rain flower petals once. Ground was covered with them. It was during one of the worst thunderstorm/tornado alerts of that year.
2:26 incorrect. The second plague in Egypt was not a rain of frogs. It was just frogs from below: "so Aaron streched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt" Exodus chapter 8 verse 6. The frogs came up from the water/nile which makes more sense than having them rain from the sky.
Less spectacular, but I don't think that was the point🤔
When I read your title I immediately thought, “David Bowie.”
In 1987 whole doing naval exercises in Chesapeake bay it rained fish on my ship. There was a waterspout about 2 miles north earlier in the squall line that passed over us.
If you want your mind blown, go to the description and see the colossal list of channels that Simon works on.
Bwahahahaha, very nice🤠
Too bad they aren't all listed, like his new one
Kudos Simon, please keep'em coming friend! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I was getting worried there Simon!
But, the sanity in the conclusion was excellent.
There are no photos of fish or frog or worm rains… and the photos from Honduras are always the same street (which would indeed lead one to believe the fish come from under the street somehow).
Very entertaining. And now I’m off to read the BBC article on how dinosaurs mated… another one of those questions I’ve never asked myself…
You touched on spiders but didn't explain. Spiders do fall from the sky en mass. Some species fly by using their silk in a process called ballooning or kiting. When these spiders migrate they can blanket an unsuspecting town.
Regarding eating sky meat. I am American and grew in a part of the states not too dissimilar from Kentucky and the this is not surprising. It is also not uncommon to hear some say the phrase, "I didn't know what it was, so I shot at it." I have personally heard someone say that growing up, most likely they were shooting at a bear, but it is a bit weird to shot at something you can't identify.
Get it before it gets you
Hearing Simon talking about two gentlemen eating meat which may have been vomited up by vultures while I'm suffering from a mild case of food poisoning this morning.
So the fish came from underground, huh? Then how did they get on roofs?
Fish ladders!
Flying fish. Duh!
I think some species of spider do 'fly'. They let out a long thread in high winds and get picked up and can travel quite far. They do this on mass...
They think it's to spread the gene pool. I guess inbreeding is an issue in the animal world too.
Im from Australia. Lived in the outback and one day found dead fish all over our property. There hadn't bn any rain and we were hundreds of kilometres away from the coast. It was the middle of summer. They were everywhere. On the ground and on the roof of the house.
Something fishy mustve happened
No way that's so weird 😲
Sharks got left out. I've seen a few doccos on the phenomenon. :D
Note to self: never eat vulture vomit.
I believe that is found in the lesser known teachings of Socrates.
The alternate theories (to rain) do not explain the homogeneity of the animals involved. For example, if underground flooding caused animals to rise from hidden caverns, all types of different types of animals would rise up not just fish.
I'm still waiting for my meatballs.
And, spaghetti!
The Flying Spaghetti Monster has already boiled for your sins , any day now it’ll rain meatballs and spaghetti
There is a fish rain hitting the SF Bay Area.
It seems the anchovy has made a huge comeback. Birds are stuffing them selves and are flying off with the little fish stuffed in their beaks, dropping them all along the shore, including in the SF Giants AT&T park.
You sure they aren't just trying to cover the stench of human feces on the sidewalks?
@@SkunkApe407 trade one for another, maybe
Catlin Doughty from Ask A Mortician has a video about the Kentucky Meat Shower on her channel (link below)
m.ua-cam.com/video/K5Xb8R0A9hI/v-deo.html
It's the second story on the video. But if you want to fast forward directly to it it starts at time stamp 7:44
It recently rained poop in Canada ! I would take fish , frogs , cats and dogs over that ANY day.
The Aristocrats band has a song named after the Kentucky Meat Shower. It is an excellent song.
I've always heard that "raining cats ans dogs" came from a time and place where all the roofs of houses in an area were made of tin and when it rained all the local strays would go sliding off the roof. Hence the terms "its raining cats and dogs".
*that makes sense*
OK that explains the raining cats. But how'd the dogs get on the roof?
I'm from Australia where tin rooves are everywhere. Cats slide down them occasionally, pigeons do it all the time but I've never seen a dog on a roof in all my 58 years.
@@perrydowd9285
I'm sure there is a time and place long ago in rural America with the answer. Can't say I know.
I'm not suggesting anything supernatural however vulture vomiting does not give red meat. Their stomach acids are extremely strong and you'd have a slimy gey goop in short order (look at human vomit when someone pukes a few minutes after eating.
In addition skeletal meet is the last thing scavenged, eyes, tongue, internal organs are more nutritional with meat and bones left for last. If they found a few eyeballs, chunks of liver and kidneys mixed it I'd buy that explanation. I've watched vultures eat and they tear away strip of muscle when they get that far not 3" squares.
Also that the man found it fresh enough to eat tends to make said meat hanging out inside a vulture for awhile unlikely. Remember that the townsfolk then were definitely well versed in processing meat, recognition of damaged/rotting meat etc.
What's strange is that lampshade seam that needs to be turned to the back.
This was a bit odd, informative and interesting as always - good work, team
The lampshade seam is exactly where Simon needs it to be - to distract us from that neon sign that hasn't worked for years.
It's seems that raining spiders is fairly common in Australia & Argentina.
Pretty sure in the ad intro Simon just told us he's starting ANOTHER channel.
He did. A few days ago
This reminds me of the thing that happens on the California coast: an appearance of the fish silver grunion. I don't remember if they were supposed to have fallen from the sky or were brought by large ocean waves, but they flop around on the beaches in droves, and people come out to capture them.
They are an over-harvested species, and a law was passed that people may only harvest them by hand, not by net or fishing tackle or anything else. This is a regularly-occuring phenomenon.
Well known..high tide during the full moon (the highest tide) grunion come ashore and wiggle tail first into the sand to lay eggs and the males fertilize them. Eggs develop then hatch during the next high tide to escape back to the sea.
Nothing new
Did nobody think of the easiest way to see if it really did rain fish? Just look on the roofs of buildings. If it rained fish, they would also be on the roofs.
Just imagining the possibility that 2 men tasted meat from the heavens that turned out to be vulture vomit is just very uncomfortable. Moreover, vulture vomit is supposed to be extremely putrid, right?
You forgot when in 1983 it rained men. To a disco soundtrack.
Phenomena is plural, Simon. The singular is phenomenon. LL Cool J knows that. And at 11:36 you even get it right! 🙂
I was on Lake Konstance about 25 years ago and a funnell on the lake dropped fish onto the waterfront where i was staying in Friedrichshafen. They were up to 6 inches long
We've had walking catfish trying to cross roads during heavy rainstorms to get from one pond to another- gotta be careful because their spines will go right through a sneaker if you're not careful!
wasn't there an instance a while ago now of a cow falling out of an air-plane? don't quite remember the details of that, but i remember hearing some thing about it in a video a few years or so back.
Wizard of Oz? 😂
@@AlexOctav no aero-planes in "the wizard of oz". nice try, though. : D
Just started this, and I'm waiting for the clip from WKRP in Cincinnati: ' I swear to God I thought turkeys could fly...'
"Just a moment...Something is emerging from the airplane...It's a dark object. Possibly a skydiver...And another, and another...No parachutes yet...OH MY GOD THEY'RE TURKEYS!!!"
The frogs (or crocodiles or other type of or collection of various amphibious creatures depending on how you translate Tsefardea) in Egypt are very clearly described as coming UP from various bodies of waters, not falling from the sky.
My father reckons he’s seen fish rain in Biloela QLD AUS back in the 1970s. He did only go outside after the storm was done though. 1 species all of which were very small. His impression was that the eggs were sucked up somehow and hatched in the clouds. Have been to his childhood home and the nearest water is about 100 metres away.
What about the earliest documented thing - *manna from heaven?* People found it lying on the ground, and nobody actually saw it falling from the sky. So are you saying even that is ground-based? Billions of people are going to be disappointed ... 😞
Some day science will figure this out. I remember when cells only had three parts and doctors said that Vitamin K wasn’t a thing.
I was told by my dad I think, that the origins of “raining cats and dogs” originates in areas where they’d build huts into the ground (think hobbit house) and that they used different types of thatch for the roofs and they used lard to seal the roofs from rain, but mice and rats, and therefore cats, and occasionally dogs, would live in the thatch roofs wherever they could, and in a heavy rain they would try to get deeper into the roof and fall through into the house, raining cats and dogs (and mice and whatever else is up there)
When I was younger I found some freshwater shrimp in big puddles out in a cornfield a day or so after a large rain storm in upstate NY, fairly far from any lake. Now I’m wondering if a phenomenon like this may be the cause
a little birdy flying high, dropped a message from the sky, as i wiped it from my eye, i thanked the lord that cows dont fly.
I'd be interested in hearing you explain how in the 1920's rocks would rain down on a small town in the US west at the exact same time of day each and every day.
[citation needed]
Catapults.
@@AnnaAnna-uc2ff It appears as the second story in this episode of One Step Beyond. I remember finding other mentions of it elsewhere but I can't find the same sources on line. Those were in book form in the library.
Zeus is emptying his shoes out after a day at the beach.
@@I.C.Weiner LOL :--)
Had to be watching this during a wacky thunderstorm, the rain is intense...
It’s hilarious to imagine that in 5-20 years most websites my kid will visit will be a squarespace website lmao.
Imagine being a catfish, swimming along, minding your own business when….
I know it's raining cats and dogs because I stepped in a POODLE!
In a 1960 episode of One Step Beyond (a series dedicated to ostensibly true-life stories) they portrayed a small American town suffering regular (and predicted) falls of rocks out of a clear blue sky. The episode was Season 3 Episode 12 "Where are they" which had two stories. The other one was a famous story of the man with a pill that will turn water into gasoline. The episode is available on UA-cam - ua-cam.com/video/vnmd__fRhBo/v-deo.html
When I go out after it rains, dozens of worms have fallen from the sky. 😁
A variety of spiders glide on web balloons, so raining spiders is possible
10:00, Right. Because nobody ever noticed before these brilliant scientists that worms come out after it rains...
The spiders can be explained easily. Many spider species can fly, sort of.
Spiders and squid have to be the worst on the list by far. The colored rain is a bitch and have terrible consequences, and are definitely the worst for the people living there, but is also very predictable. We do terrible things to the earth and people living on it, and terrible poison is going to rain down as a result. Even in the suburbs and city in the US where I live, I have had warnings of acid rain (rain that is just more acidic and should not be consumed, but our tap water is also terrible). So overall the rain is the worst for human beings. But spiders and squid, while I do not have any phobias, would be the worst things to suddenly be swarmed with.
I have seen it rain mud. When living in West Texas a storm kicked up dust before it started raining, so when it did start the dirt in the air turned to mud.
Ok, so raining cats and dogs. What about snow? I vote for "It's snowing lizards and parakeets." No more bizarre.
With the devine intervention I've personally witnessed in my life, that confirmed human blood test doesn't surprise me at all.
No offence.
Great video though. I loved it. Well done everyone involved. Really interesting, informative and fun to watch.
Great show
Anything that has the capacity to fall from the sky will eventually manage to fall from the sky.
I understand that purple rain was observed in Minneapolis Minnesota.
Lmaooooo
@ 6:02
Fisherman to his buddy:
Man what just happened
His buddy:
You got knocked out by a flying squid
Fisherman:
.......
Wtf
I have seen with my own eyes a small "tornado" let's just call it that, on a beach, just pick up a towel and take it some 2m off the ground... And I'm from the middle of the Balkan region, where such things should not have a chance to even happen... So, if it comes to bigger stronger winds... who knows what they could do....
Every winter, it rains iguanas in South Florida. But y'all aint ready for that conversation.
we know you were dreaming about your next project, you failed to tell us about the channel you just started, found it anyway so thanks fact boi
Details man details. Dont hold em share em. What channel name so we followers can follow our occult leader the ol wise Simon
@@fuckyoutube5584 the science of science fiction, one video so far
The biologist at 4.57 has an interesting hairstyle and moustache for 1947, just an observation tho! 😆
How was it not Florida that had raining gators? That's the most Florida thing ever.
I wish you'd gone a little deeper into spiders. Some species, when they hatch, spin strands of web. For new baby spiders, these work as "parachutes" on which they float away on the wind to someplace far enough from their brothers and sisters that they won't be competing with each other as they grow up. In the right wind conditions, of course, they can be "bunched up" until they fall like rain on, well, whatever is unlucky enough to be below them. At least, this is what I've heard.
That's simultaneously fascinating and abjectly terrifying. I've got the heebie-jeebies just imagining it.
@@corsetedwasteland2630 Just burn the world down. 😱
At least it didn't rain pitch forks and hammer handles!
Only a Brit would say Leicester Massachusetts correctly, if not a local, because we stole the name, of course.
You should have heard Simon pronounce towns in New Hampshire when talking about Peyton Place.
@@Foolish188 yeah, I did. Like to kid Simon once in a while about the common language that separates us.
This just makes me wonder about the origin of the phrase "raining cats and dogs"......
*6:15** curious if this had not happened before since it reminds me of the worm like thread life form that rained out of the sky at times in the Anne Mccaffrey Dragons of Pern novels...maybe it's just me...and my weird geeky brain that just won't stop finding connections to things that might not even exist*
The flaming lips' song "frogs" is inspired by a real story of frogs falling from the sky.
Parts of whale have been known to fall from the sky. Usually a few cases of dynamite are involved, though.
11:07
That town looks quite large, because of the large buildings and the substantial road shown.
Also, clearly this all costs money, which indicates that they also would have plenty of CCTV (AKA security cameras) around the place, from petrol (AKA gasoline) stations to shops, bars restaurants, and buissnesses in general, as well as presumably apartment buildings and home security systems.
I know that rain can obscure video footage, and maybe they'll get to this, but I'm guessing that there is quite a lot of video evidence of how those fish got there.
Plus, there's very likely to be a few people around town, even in the rain, or maybe from a window, recording the event as it's happening, on a smartphone.
The only one I'd freak out over is the spider one. Gives me shivers. It's a real thing too, you can look up videos of it on youtube.
Back in the day (long long time back) when heavy rain used to cause cats and dogs to flee inside to hide in thatched roofs, and they occasionally fell through the rafters - raining cats and dogs. You're welcome.
i saw sand rain on Valencia, i mean is not that impressive but it s cool because i remember the atmosphere was so yellowish like a Van gogh painting
6:07 NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE
I had always heard the cats and dogs thing was about old Thatched Roofs.. that they were laying on the roofs, catching some sun, or just staying up high for a good vantage point to hunt smaller animals, and when it rained hard enough, the roof would become slippery, and the sloped angle would make them slide off.. a sight that to someone inside would think they were coming down with the rain itself.
just what i always heard, anyway.
I would be the person who dies from a jelly fish sting that fell from the sky in a desert.
1:34, It clearly came to be after someone stepped in a poodle...
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The songs "It's Raining Men" and "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor" are based on different perspectives of the same event.
When I first heard "It's raining men" I couldn't get the rid of the image of someone poor bloke impaled on a steeple or a iron fence.