###The 1947 Marksville Fish Fall
Marksville, Louisiana, 1947 — On a calm, foggy morning, hundreds of live fish suddenly rained down from the sky onto businessmen and cars.
On the morning of October 23, 1947, the weather in Marksville, Louisiana, was foggy and totally calm. But out of nowhere, hundreds of live, flapping fish began plummeting from the sky. They smacked into businessmen walking to work and bounced off the roofs of houses and cars.
Lucky for science, a professional biologist named A.D. Bajkov happened to be eating breakfast in a local restaurant. When a waitress alerted him to the bizarre downpour, he rushed outside with formaldehyde jars to investigate the scene.
Bajkov proved the two-to-nine-inch largemouth bass, sunfish, and hickory shad were all local freshwater species. The day before, small tornadoes called "devil dusters" had vacuumed the fish out of nearby waters. Updrafts held them inside the clouds overnight until the storm finally ran out of energy and dropped them.
The 1947 Marksville Fish Fall — Marksville, Louisiana, 1947