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I experienced this in Arkansas as a kid, maybe 12 years old. I was visiting my uncles extended family in the Bull Shoals region (NW part of the state). It was a heavenly playground for a 12 year old boy. Near a marshy area that had every manner of frog and other wildlife you could imagine. I spent hours chasing things through there. They sat on top of a high hill with views all around, and maybe 1/4 mile to the next neighbor. We had a storm front pass through that brought threat of tornadoes. We saw a small one develop over a mile from the house, watched it touch down briefly then lift again. The sky was unlike anything I had ever seen and have seen seldom since. Very ominous and creepy. Then maybe an hour later we saw things falling out of the sky. My uncle went out to see what was going on and it was frogs. Not a ton, but maybe a dozen we observed. I am sure now that the tornado that touched down picked up a bunch of frogs and other stuff, I think my uncle said he saw a couple of snakes, and then carried them the mile or so to us and deposited them in the back yard along with some other debris, like branches and leaves. Some of the frogs popped on impact. But others just hopped away. It was surreal.I really shouldn’t do this, but I just can’t help myself, being into Fortean phenomena…
Sorry, just a bizarre aside…..
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I had heard about this from my uncle's family. They said they saw this from time to time as where they were they saw tornadoes develop long enough to pick up random stuff but never really enough to do much damage. Maybe push a car around or something. One time take the roof off the neighbor's house, was the worst they described. My uncle's dad (not my grandpa, uncle by marriage) said he saw it happen once in another part of the state where they had the hail that preceded real tornado weather, and had the storm develop a few funnels. Then later it dropped frozen frogs on them. Now that would freak you out. Imagine being a native, 1000 years ago, and see something like that. Wow. No wonder they believed in natural gods. Absolutely zero explanation, so what else could it be? You pissed off the gods so they are throwing frogs at you...frozen frogs.
