It's a November day in 1954 and you are at home in your living room, you have fallen

asleep on the couch because it is a lazy afternoon, completely unremarkable in every

single way.

But all of that changes in a flash.

If it happened today, it would be all over social media, it would be on the front pages

of newspapers.

Something crashes through the ceiling, something unprecedented and the living room fills up

with smoke.

So much for that nap.

I'm Dylan Therese and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange incredible

and wondrous places and today we're going to Silicaga Alabama to hear the story

of Anne Hodges, the only person we know of to ever be hit by a meteorite.

That's after this.

It was seen up in the sky by people in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia as just a fireball and

so it's already thought it was an airplane crashing and expected to find the wreckage somewhere.

That's Alice George, she's a historian who wrote an article for Smithsonian Magazine

about Anne Hodges.

On November 30th, 1954, Anne was home in Silicaga, Alabama, taking her midday nap when that

fireball came crashing through her roof.

It hit a stand up console radio and had her living room and after bouncing off the radio,

the object hit Anne, who was napping just a few feet away.

And she woke up and apparently didn't feel immediate pain from the fact that it hit her

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