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California Town Pelted by Rocks from Nowhere (1922)

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STONES THAT FELL FROM THE SKY On March 22, 1922, rocks began ...

A sky full of stones

To this day nobody knows why showers of rocks fell on the town of Chico, California. The rocks fell for four months and then stopped.

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MM19220314.2.8

No one knows where the stones came from, or why Chico was their target. It is said that someone called “The Ghost” wrote in to the local newspaper to take credit for the rock showers. He or she has never been identified.

There’s a One Step Beyond episode that gets into this (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0507859/). But not very far. The trail dries up pretty quickly.

There’s still so much we do not know.

‘Another Mystery of God’s Creation’ (2015)

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This is the kind of place where you’ll hear Lake Guns

The sound of a cannon booming over a smooth body of water… and there’s nothing to see. Nothing! You can hear the sound, but where’s it coming from?

Welcome to the wonderful world of “Lake Guns.”

Another Mystery of God’s Creation

These totally unexplained boomings occur over bodies of water all over the world, and have been noted and puzzled over for hundreds of years. Patty and I used to hear them over Barnegat Bay, on days when the water was calm and there wasn’t much of anything to hear… except a few gulls and the lake gun.

They don’t occur over every body of water and they don’t occur every day.

And nobody knows what they are.

‘Another Mystery of God’s Creation’ (2015)

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Some of us have heard “lake guns” and some of us haven’t. You might not know you’ve heard them: they might easily be mistaken for thunder or something else.

Another Mystery of God’s Creation

You don’t hear them at every body of water and you don’t hear them all the time. We simply don’t know what makes these sounds. Patty and I used to hear them occasionally on Barnegat Bay–always on extremely calm days.

They do sound like cannon-fire, sometimes.

Explain This… If You Can

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I don’t know if this is a proper ghost story, or what. But it’s certainly a strange story. Let me quote from Legends of Long Beach Island by David Seibold and Charles Adams III (copyright by the authors, 1985), page 16. Short but sweet:

“Our storyteller… has more. His father swears he once saw a red-roofed, white-building village propped on the horizon a short distance from Holgate [on the southern tip of Long Beach Island, NJ]. Out fishing, he looked to the east, out to sea, and unmistakeably saw the buildings–terra cotta roofs, almost Spanish in style. He knows well it couldn’t have really been there. He blinked and rubbed his eyes, but it wouldn’t go away.”

Now there’s nothing between Holgate, NJ, and Portugal but mile after mile of the Atlantic Ocean. If we believe the witness was telling the truth–and why shouldn’t we?–then how do we explain what he saw? Does Brigadoon have a sea-going counterpart? Or was this the ghost of Atlantis? Or some as-yet unexplained natural phenomenon?

Go figure.