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The piece described him as healthy. It said “He walked four months before he died without the help of a stick or crutch, could see without spectacles, retained his senses and appetite to the last, and was followed to the grave by his descendants of the seventh generation.

Bog nuts fall from the sky

In 1867 policemen in Dublin took shelter as nuts or berries fell from the sky.

They described the objects that fell as falling “in great quantities and with great force” during a “tremendous rainfall”. They described the berries as going “in the form of a very small orange, about half an inch in diameter, black in colour, and when cut across, seem as if made of some hard dark brown wood. They also possess a slight aromatic odor.”

One observer at the time believes the objects were  “hazelnuts, preserved in a bog for centuries”.

However how they ended up falling from the sky was never explained.

Stories source “Foster’s Irish Oddities”

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