[FAM] Raining indoors

My wife's family has had many strange experiences, but this is one that I haven't heard elsewhere. This is how her father recounted what happened late one night at their home in the San Francisco bay area in the winter of 1981/82, when my wife ("R" in the story below) was 7 years old:

We are sitting up late one night and the strangest thing happened. I thought that I had left the windows open in the room because this fog was in the room. I checked the windows. They were closed. The fog condenses in the room and it starts a light rain. The rain is glowing or just golden. It's raining in the house. [R's mother] puts her tongue out. She says it's sweet. I taste it--it's sweet. Sweet golden rain in the house. I think, Are we really awake? Yes. I go upstairs and it's raining gold there also.

It tastes like honey. I'm thinking manna. [R] comes out of her room (it's 2 AM) and says, "Do you see the rain? God has been born tonight and it's a she." [R's older sister] comes out sleepy eyed and somewhat complaining. "Dad, it's raining sweet stuff in the room." The house is glowing and it's raining milk and honey. I ask [R], "How do you know God is born?" She says, "I saw a blue meteor land." Later, everyone goes to sleep and [R's mother] and I are quietly wondering something strange has landed in the house.

My wife still remembers the golden rain and watching the blue meteor fall. A week later, her mother found out she was pregnant. Sadly, her mother and the unborn baby died eight months later.

Posted Dec 29, 2011, 6:36 AM UTC · edited

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