Blood Fell From Heaven

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It was a terrible sight when, instead of the usual rain, an ominous stream poured from the sky - red as blood. Such bloody rains have happened hundreds of times in history - both in hoary antiquity, and in times closer to us, writes the historian of anomalous phenomena G. Chernenko.

A container with the collected blood rain of 2001 in Kerala (photo from en.wikipedia.org)

The ancient Greek historian and writer Plutarch talked about the bloody rains that fell after the great battles with the Germanic tribes. He was sure that the bloody fumes from the battlefield soaked the air and painted ordinary drops of water in a blood red color.

In 582, a bloody rain fell in Paris. “For many people, the blood soiled their dress,” wrote an eyewitness, “that they threw it off themselves with disgust”. In 1571, a red rain fell in Holland. It walked almost the whole night and was so abundant that it flooded the area for ten kilometers. All houses, trees, fences turned red. The inhabitants of those places collected rain blood in buckets and explained the extraordinary phenomenon by the fact that it rose to the clouds of steam from the blood of killed bulls.

The bloody rains were recorded by the French Academy of Sciences. In her scientific "Memoirs" it is written: "On March 17, 1669, a mysterious heavy viscous liquid, similar to blood, but with a pungent unpleasant odor, fell on the city of Chatillene (on the Seine River). Large drops of it hung on the roofs, walls and windows of houses. Academics racked their brains for a long time trying to explain what had happened and finally decided that the liquid had formed … in the rotten waters of some swamp and was brought into the sky like a whirlwind!"

In 1689, a bloody rain fell in Venice, in 1744 - in Genoa. Among the Genoese, the red rain caused a real panic. On this occasion, one of the scholarly contemporaries wrote: “What the common people call a bloody rain is nothing more than a pair, painted with cinnabar or red chalk. But when real blood falls from heaven, which cannot be denied, it is, of course, a miracle, performed by the will of God."

In the early spring of 1813, a bloody rain suddenly fell over the Kingdom of Naples. The scientist of that time Sementini described this event in some detail, and we can now imagine how it all happened. “A strong wind had been blowing from the east for two days already,” Sementini wrote, “when the locals saw a thick cloud approaching from the sea. At two o'clock in the afternoon, the wind suddenly died down, but a cloud had already covered the surrounding mountains and began to obscure the sun. Its color, at first pale pink, became fiery red.

Soon the city was plunged into such darkness that lamps had to be lit in the houses. The people, frightened by the darkness and the color of the clouds, rushed to the cathedral to pray. The darkness grew more and more, and the sky in its color resembled a red-hot iron. Thunder rumbled. The menacing sound of the sea, although six miles from the city, further increased the fear of the inhabitants. And suddenly streams of red liquid poured from the sky, which some took for blood, and others for molten metal Fortunately, by the evening the air cleared up, the bloody rain stopped and the people calmed down."

It happened that not only bloody rains fell, but also bloody snow, as, for example, in France in the middle of the last century. This outlandish scarlet snow covered the ground with a layer of several centimeters. The people saw in the bloody rains a sign and a reproach of higher powers. Scientists, however, said that water becomes like blood due to mixing with red dust particles of mineral and organic origin. Strong winds can carry these dust particles thousands of kilometers away and lift them to great heights, towards rain clouds.

It was noticed that bloody rains most often fell in spring and autumn. In the 19th century, about thirty of them were recorded. They fell out, of course, in the XX century. But no one was afraid of them anymore.

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