Weird things can happen in the skies over Alton, Illinois.

For two weeks in October 1889, a supernatural shower of rocks fell on the home of Gottlieb

Kaiser and his family, who lived at 302 Cherry Street.

No one knew where the rocks were coming from.

The family at first assumed it was some sort of prank, but who could throw so many rocks

and why?

Believe it or not, rocks had been known to fall from the sky before.

Just not in Alton.

In 1857, an Illinois man claimed that a dark cloud dropped cinders all around him, which

caught the ground on fire.

In 1938, a car belonging to Edward McCain, a Benelled Illinois, was badly damaged when

a meteorite crashed through the roof of his garage and smashed into the vehicle.

An Alabama woman named An Hodges became the first person ever struck by a meteorite

in 1954.

She was taken an afternoon nap on the couch and was awakened when the space rock broke

through the roof of her home, punched through the ceiling and struck her on the hip.

But those were all meteorites that kind of rocks that are supposed to fall from the sky.

What about actual rocks that kind you find on earth, often right by the side of the road?

How do they fall from the sky or really how do they get into the sky to start with?

In March 1922, regular old rocks started falling from the sky over the small town of Chico,

California.

JW Charge, who owned a large grain warehouse alongside the Southern Pacific Railroad, first

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