Wild weather is always a shock but when alligators rain down from the skies, it is understandable when residents are left looking at a "bewildered" creature.
It was the case back in 1843, when news broke of a two-foot alligator raining down among a flurry of lightning and downpours in what may be one of the weirder weather wonders ever reported.
The reptile-featuring thunderstorm has never been explained but broke the news in South Carolina, United States on July 2, 1843, with an "incontestable" gator shower occurring.
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Although no people who actually saw the event occur were found, it appears to have been "unanimously decided" that there in Charleston was a gator-raining storm.
It would appear the "oppressiveness of the weather" as reported in the Times-Picayune over 100 years ago was broken by a thunderstorm.
But said storm featured a scaly animal not usually found in the heart of a summer weather warning, and the "remarkable experience" for the alligator seemed to have caught the eye of those in Charleston at the time.
The report read: "We have not been lucky enough to find any one who saw him come down – but the important fact that he was there is incontestable – and as he couldn't have got there any other way, it was decided unanimously that he had rained down."
Said creature was said to look rightfully bewildered by its experience.
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The paper continued: "Besides, the beast had a look of wonder and bewilderment about him, that showed plainly enough he must have gone through a remarkable experience."
It is not the only remarkably strange animal story, with monkeys allegedly used as "slaves" to the vegan milk farming system.
The Daily Star reported the "monkey slaves" were being chained and forced to climb trees to grab coconuts which are then sold on to be used in vegan-based milk products.
Animal charity Peta has since called for a ban on coconut-featuring products from Thailand.
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