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There are many reports of such anomalous things as fish and frogs raining from the sky, but I’m guessing this one is unique. The “St. Louis Post-Dispatch,” June 24, 1919:
Alton, in times gone by, had fishes rained upon it from the sky, but--
It rained wedding rings at Chain of Rocks [a series of rocky rapids north of St. Louis] Sunday.
Nelson Pearsall, bookkeeper in the Post-Dispatch composing room, having been duly sworn, deposes: That he, with a party of eight picnickers, was walking to the Broadway car from Chain of Rocks when rain began to fall; and that, in the midst of this rain, whiz went a wedding ring, falling from the sky, past his head to the ground.
Pearsall further testifies that he has queried all his companions and that none of these lost a ring. He also says that the district they were passing through was barren of habitation and vegetation and that he neither heard nor saw an airplane wedding party in the clouds above. The ring, unengraved, is in his possession.
There could be worse things to fall from the sky - like whoever was originally wearing the ring.
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