the surprising images and why this phenomenon occurs

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In recent days, some surreal images have gone viral on networks: a kind of fish rain in iran. In the videos that are circulating we see how numerous fish fall from the sky, crashing to the ground, before the astonished gaze of the Iranians present. There are those who collect them to hold them with their own hands, like they want to make sure they are real.

Specifically, the event took place in the city of Yasuj, in the Boyer-Ahmad county, in the southwestern part of the country. The Dominican meteorological analyst Jean Surielwho has more than 250,000 followers on the social network X / Twitter, has shared the images and offered a explanation for such a striking phenomenon.

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In the last 48 hours, an unusual “rain of fish” was reported in Yasuj, a city in the province of Boyer-Ahmad, in Iran: an extraordinary phenomenon, but one that has already occurred before in other areas of the world.

⚠️A waterspout formed in the Gulf… pic.twitter.com/qpblUdSh1r

— Jean Suriel (@JeanSuriel) May 5, 2024

According to this expert, “a waterspout formed in the Persian Gulfsucking the fish that were on the surface into the atmosphere.” Next, “the gusts of ascending wind they kept the fish in the clouds for several minutessubsequently throwing them into the Iranian populated area” and causing the curious scene that has gone viral around the world.

Rains of animals in the world

Furthermore, as Suriel mentions, this type of “extraordinary phenomenon” has already occurred other times in different parts of the planet. One of the best known places for this is the city of Yoro, in Honduraswhere the rains sometimes occur up to four times a year, according to some testimonies. The theories of some experts also speak of waterspouts, although it has not been scientifically proven, and the ocean is more than 70 kilometers away. There are those who go so far as to attribute religious explanations, and they go back to the prayers of a Spanish priest in the 19th century who asked God for a miracle in the form of food for the Hondurans.

In our country we have also experienced events of this type, although in this case we must talk regarding a rain of frogslike in the movie Magnolia. It was in 2007, in El Rebolledo (Alicante)where hundreds of tiny frogs fell from the sky following being blown through the air by a tornado.

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But we can go back much further in time to find evidence of this type of phenomenon. In 1848, a rain of fish supposedly stunned the inhabitants of London, and In the United States, more than fifteen reports of animal rains were recorded during the 19th century.. Long before, there were mentions of supposed phenomena of this type, during the Middle Ages and even in Ancient Egypt.

Throughout history, some tried to find answers in the paranormal. The American researcher and writer Charles Fort More than a century ago, he proposed the idea that it was due to anomalies in space-time or the vestiges of an ancient force that was capable of moving elements instantaneously; the result was that the animals arrived teleported from another dimension or from some kind of “celestial warehouse”. His curious ideas and treatment of this type of phenomena have caused many to refer to animal rains as “Fortean rains.”