Mysterious Rain Of Fish Falls Every Year In Honduras
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Every year in Yoro, a small town in northern Honduras, a mysterious
phenomenon occurs that no one can really explain. Locals call it
literally "Lluvia de Peces" - "Rain of fish".
The phenomenon of fish showers (as well as showers of frogs and
other small animals) has been reported in many places around the
world over the years, but Yoro in Honduras claims to be the only
place on the planet where this phenomenon occurs every year, and
sometimes even several times a year.
Typically, fish rain in Yoro falls between May and June, usually
after a very strong storm. At the same time, which is strange, so far
not a single person has been found who would have seen with his
own eyes how a fish falls from the sky.
It is said that this is because the fish falls mainly at night, and
also because it occurs after storms, when people are afraid to leave
their houses. When the storm is over, they go out and see hundreds
and hundreds of scattered fish near their homes.
There are so many fish that it is difficult to explain this by
someone's constant jokes or an accident with a truck transporting
fish. So Yolo's fish showers can't just be dismissed as an urban
legend or "fake news".
According to locals, there is a legend that it started in the 1850s
or 1960s when the Spanish missionary Jose Manuele Subiran came
to the area. Seeing local residents suffering from hunger due to
problems with the harvest, he prayed to God for three days and three
nights, asking him to provide people with food.
And after the third night, the sky darkened, and then fish fell from
there. And since then, as the locals assure, such wonderful rains
have become an annual phenomenon here.
"This is a secret that only the Lord knows. This is a great blessing
coming to us from heaven," says a local pastor.
People collect fallen fish and eat them. The fish that drop out are
usually small and fresh. And in recent years, it falls only in one
particular place - on the pasture in the small community of La Union.
For locals, this fish is most often the only opportunity to eat
seafood. This part of Honduras is inhabited by farmers, among whom
poverty is widespread, jobs are scarce, large families huddle in
primitive adobe houses, and food often consists only of the crops
grown by the locals - mainly corn and beans.
"It's a miracle," explains Lucio Perez, 45, who has lived in the
La Union community for 17 years.
"We see it as a blessing from God." Mr. Perez has heard various
scientific theories about this phenomenon. Each of them, he says,
is riddled with uncertainty.
"No, no, there's no explanation for that," he says, shaking his head.
"Here in Yoro, they say these fish are sent by the hand of God."
According to residents, this phenomenon has been happening in and
around the city for at least the last few generations, changing
locations from time to time.
It migrated to La Union about ten years ago.
"No one in the world thinks it can rain fish," says Catalina Garay,
75, who raised nine children with her husband, Esteban Lazaro, 77,
in their adobe home in La Uniona. "It's actually raining fish."
More educated residents believe that fish do not necessarily fall
from heaven, but can live in some kind of underground streams
or caves, from which it is washed out after heavy rains and storms.
There is also a theory that waterspouts suck up fish from nearby
waters-perhaps even the Atlantic Ocean, located about 45 miles from
Yoro-and dump them in Yoro. But this hypothesis does not explain
how tornadoes regularly drop fish right onto the same pasture from
year to year.
