You step outside, feel a heavy wet drop on your head, look down expecting rain, and instead find a frog. Or a fish. Or even a jellyfish. It sounds like science fiction, but raining animals is a heavily documented phenomenon stretching back to antiquity.

This episode unpacks the historical accounts, wild myths, and actual physics behind creatures falling from the sky. We trace the journey from medieval beliefs that fish spawned in clouds to modern Doppler radar evidence, examining why some cases have tidy explanations and others still baffle scientists entirely. It matters because it reveals how easily human perception confuses correlation with causation, and how much of nature remains unexplained.

• Ancient accounts include a three-day rain of fish in the Peloponnese documented by the Greek writer Athenaeus, and toads reported fall ...