Still Waters Posted October 10, 2013 #1 Share Posted October 10, 2013 On a cloudless day in 1884, a sharecropper named Bass Lasater noticed a bead of red liquid splash on the ground near her feet – the first drop in a blood-colored downpour. She turned and watched red rain fall for almost a minute, spattering the field outside her cabin with splotches as big as a man’s finger. By the time the storm stopped, it had soaked a rectangle 50 feet wide and 70 feet across – nearly a tenth of an acre. http://www.charlotte...ml#.Ulab-1PF8dU 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ealdwita Posted October 10, 2013 #2 Share Posted October 10, 2013 (edited) I thought for a minute that article was about Chatham in Kent. When it was a Naval Dockyard many years ago, rains of blood were a common occurrence - on Saturday nights after the pubs closed! Edited October 10, 2013 by ealdwita 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emeraldgemheart Posted October 11, 2013 #3 Share Posted October 11, 2013 This is.. really creepy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ineffectiveArtist Posted October 11, 2013 #4 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Does blood evaporate? It could be like, a lot of people were killed, and their blood formed clouds so it rained blood instead of water... I bet it killed so many plants and animals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ancient astronaut Posted October 11, 2013 #5 Share Posted October 11, 2013 I am gonna say bacteria(even algae), not blood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stegosaurus Posted October 11, 2013 #6 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Bizarre... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crystal Rose Posted October 11, 2013 #7 Share Posted October 11, 2013 no it was blood, it was tested. and no blood can not evaporate only water from the blood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BettyTheYeti Posted October 11, 2013 #8 Share Posted October 11, 2013 no it was blood, it was tested. and no blood can not evaporate only water from the blood. Where was it tested, in 1884? It is more likely that the "rain" was just a story, made up to cover something more sinister! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava_Lady Posted October 11, 2013 #9 Share Posted October 11, 2013 (edited) I love these types of mysteries... still happening. What I find bizarre is a reference to Squirrel Nut Zippers, "As far as I can tell, nobody knows more about this curious event than Tom Maxwell, the guitarist and songwriter most of you know from his days with the Squirrel Nut Zippers." I just saw a picture with the very same sequence of words yesterday but in totally different context.... I don't expect to see those three words together, used in any other context ever again. Now that is weird. Edited October 11, 2013 by Lava_Lady 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highdesert50 Posted October 11, 2013 #10 Share Posted October 11, 2013 I believe many of these blood rains have been explained as either algae related or suspended dust particles, e.g. 2007 Siberian orange snow. If this were actually blood over this large an area, there would be a very distinct odor associated with it after the event. And, we don't know the sampling process used by the chemist other than it occurring sometime after the event. If this were a random sample, then I might argue the sample examined might be from an entirely different incident given the rural area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Occult1 Posted October 12, 2013 #11 Share Posted October 12, 2013 (edited) One has to read Charles Fort The Book Of The Damned or Wild Talents. All sort of weird things in the end of the 19th century early 20th like this are told with delight by Fort and the sources provided. While some of them have found more credible scientific explanations other such as blood rains and ghost crafts for exemple are still complete mysteries. Edited October 12, 2013 by sam_comm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassai26 Posted October 14, 2013 #12 Share Posted October 14, 2013 this is in fact remains a mystery but facts and history itself can be altered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Supertypo Posted October 17, 2013 #13 Share Posted October 17, 2013 It happens still today. Few years ago in India or Sri Lanka. But the analysis show it was a form of Algae. Not blood. If it was blood people could smell it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babe Ruth Posted October 17, 2013 #14 Share Posted October 17, 2013 I believe many of these blood rains have been explained as either algae related or suspended dust particles, e.g. 2007 Siberian orange snow. If this were actually blood over this large an area, there would be a very distinct odor associated with it after the event. And, we don't know the sampling process used by the chemist other than it occurring sometime after the event. If this were a random sample, then I might argue the sample examined might be from an entirely different incident given the rural area. There was a very good piece about this on I think History Channel, maybe NatGeo, as it happened in Malaysia or Indonesia. It wasn't really blood, but it was living matter. Yes, rather strange. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wkwilliam123 Posted October 24, 2013 #15 Share Posted October 24, 2013 There was a very good piece about this on I think History Channel, maybe NatGeo, as it happened in Malaysia or Indonesia. It wasn't really blood, but it was living matter. Yes, rather strange. Yes it happened in Indonesia once if im not wrong, and it is 1 of the world's mysteries. But i dont think it is really blood... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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