From the Vault: The Day it Rained Fish in Olneyville, Rhode Island

New England Legends Podcast

Jeff Belanger

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, History

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 257, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger take a week off, so they introduce you to an episode from the vault: The Day it Rained Fish in Olneyville, Rhode Island, which originally aired June 24, 2021. At an unremarkable intersection in Providence, it once rained fish down from the sky back on May 15, 1900, but that wasn’t the only weird thing to make the headlines that day. Just across town, an explosion in a trolley car covered the occupants with a mysterious goo. May 15, 1900, may just be Providence’s weirdest day.

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0:00.0	Hey, Jeff here.
0:01.6	Right here.
0:02.6	And we're taking one more week off and thought we would not leave you completely without something to hear our voices.
0:10.1	I don't understand this concept of taking time off with this podcast.
0:13.4	It's weird.
0:14.6	Well, we've managed to put something out.
0:16.0	Even during COVID, we've managed to put out something every week, even when everything's shut down.
0:20.4	And we're here to introduce this.
0:22.7	So technically this is a, yeah, something.
0:25.6	Yeah, we always want to leave you with something.
0:27.3	A little bit of us.
0:29.2	Right.
0:30.2	No question.
0:31.3	There's been some wild weather happening throughout the world.
0:33.8	It seems to be getting crazy and crazier.
0:35.5	But earlier this month, I saw a headline, true story, that it's been raining anchovies on the shores of San Francisco. Seriously. Yeah. I've heard about this phenomenon, by the way. Like anchovies, the thing that, like, nobody wants on pizza. No. Yet is that in every menu. So someone's eating it, obviously. So yeah, it's been, they've been falling from the sky, weird crazy weather in San Francisco.
0:57.1	That's July of 2020. Someone's eating it, obviously. So, yeah, it's been, they've been falling from the sky, weird crazy weather in San Francisco.
0:57.0	That's July of 2022.
0:59.5	Well, our friends in San Francisco, we've got your beat here in New England.
1:04.2	You may remember this, Ray?
1:05.7	Yeah, the day it rained fish in Onlyville, Rhode Island.
1:09.0	Originally aired June 24 24, 2021.
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