What happened in the Guernsey County stone shower?
The account in Odd Showers places the Guernsey County, Ohio, fall at 12:40 p.m. on May 1, 1860. It says a clap of thunder came first, followed by an extraordinary sensation “like an earthquake shock”; the event was noticed over a distance of 60 miles[1]. Many stones were seen falling, and more than 30 were recovered across an area the book describes as 10 by 3 miles. The largest weighed 103 pounds; another, weighing 51 pounds, had driven 20 inches into stiff soil and was reportedly almost too hot to hold[2][3].
Those are the book’s reported circumstances, not modern meteorological proof. The supplied passage does not state the proposed explanation about bodies moving through space and being drawn to Earth by gravity; it says only that the author will not examine the various theories of meteorites’ occurrence[4].
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