Case file · High strangeness
Rain of fish (Lluvia de peces), Yoro
Residents of Yoro, Honduras, report that small fish appear on the ground after violent storms between May and July; local tradition links the event to the prayers of the Spanish missionary Manuel de Jesús Subirana, who worked there from 1856 to 1864. The year is approximate.
1860 CE · 15.14, -87.13 · status: disputed
The account
Since 1998 the town has held an annual Festival de la Lluvia de Peces. A 1970s National Geographic team reported finding fish after a storm.
The sceptical view
The fish are blind and freshwater, which fits fish flushed from flooded underground streams rather than lifted by waterspouts from the sea, about 200 km away. Nobody has filmed fish actually falling.