I know you can’t see this article properly. Sorry, but it needs to be there for the sake of credibility.
Examiner 15 Aug 1908 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38199460
Once I start telling you about a massive swarm of white butterflies whose tiny corpses coated the tracks and caused two tramcars to crash in Florence at midnight in 1908 you will need to know that I am not the one who made it up.
Interestingly, the thing they specify as unusual in this article is the number of butterflies. That is the only thing I don’t have a problem with!
I know at particular times of year some species of butterflies will swarm in their thousands for the purpose of making thousands more.
The thing I don’t believe is that their presence is caused by heat and electricity in the atmosphere, unless they are Frankenstein butterflies.
I also think that usual butterfly behaviour doesn’t see them plummeting from the sky at midnight. I know, I know, plummeting is a little unlikely but I don’t want to think of them as fluttering gently down, alright?
Imagine filling out the insurance claim for that one. Road conditions: ummmm, slippery…
Buried words and Bushwa. 
plummeting butterflies… an interesting picture you painted there.. 🙂
Butterflies normally flutter gently down but I can just wish for these ones to be plummeting from the sky like flaming rocks!
flaming rocks…. with wings! best run for cover now.
Wearing a very strong hat!
There seems to be a lot of artistic licence taken by some reporters way back then and not a lot of checking of facts. In fact very much like some of our newspapers today I suppose. Obviously they didn’t go very high up the food chain when it came to getting scientific verification, it sounds like just the janitor was on duty that night……..Unless of course the story is true , dn, dn dn !!
Just as well they didn’t fact check too much, I would have nothing to talk about! All I can say is thank goodness for lazy and imaginative reporting 😀
Wild!
I’m imagining the opening sequence of one of those end-of-the world movies. The sky raining butterflies is as good an ‘end sign’ as any.
I totally see that! The wonderment of a beautiful late night butterfly, then once the overwhelming clouds start enveloping the streets everybody screaming and running.
Oh, I wish butterflies could have fangs, just for the close-up!
@ Candy and Metan – you two should collaborate on a monster story :p Reminds me of that bit in the movie Labyrinth where one of the fragile, pretty little fairies bites Sara. Don’t we have enough things that bite without adding butterflies to the list?
I love the thought of killer butterflies, it is a bit like a blood-sucking teddy bear. All wrong!
lmao – nooooo….WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? Is nothing sacred?
So sorry, would venomous kittens have been better? 😉
-cries- Next you’ll be telling me that Bambi has horns and a pitchfork!
🙂