This strange story took place in the early twentieth century and was published in the Coshocton Daily Age newspaper in the city of Coshocton, Ohio, USA.
It all started on September 7, 1906, about a year before the strange events. A local resident of Coshocton known as Mrs. Finton shot an unknown vagrant with a shotgun who tried to attack her in the territory of her home.
The woman shot the man at close range, but he had enough strength to run away and hide in the nearby forest. Later, Mrs. Finton’s neighbors tried to find him along the bloody trail and came to her aid, but the wanderer’s tracks were lost in the woods and the body was never discovered.
People believed that the wanderer eventually died and lay somewhere in the forest, having apparently lost a lot of blood.
Since then, strange things began to happen in Mrs. Finton’s house, most reminiscent of a phenomenon like a poltergeist.
First of all, stones began to fall on the roof of the house, and there were so many of them that it gave the impression of “stone rain.”
This happened at least three times and many people witnessed this phenomenon. It was said that pebbles “the size of biscuits” fell from somewhere on the roof of the Finton house, as if from the sky. Sometimes pieces of earth and torn turf fell with it.
In one case, a whole group of men gathered in the courtyard of a house saw many stones falling from the sky onto the roof, and they all agreed that it was not visible where the stones came from.
At the same time, the stones flew with such great force that they bounced off the roof and fell into the garden, sometimes hitting people, but without causing them serious injuries.
When the pebbles were collected and examined, they looked quite unusual and did not resemble local pebbles at all.
People from all over the area were scared and very confused by these incidents. And finally someone remembered that all these strange things started shortly after Mrs. Finton shot the tramp.
At the same time, the details of the incident with the drifter became clear. It turns out that an unknown homeless man entered the house without asking and rather rudely started asking Mrs. Finton to give him food.
The woman ordered him away and said she would call her husband, who was in the house. In fact, the man was away for work. The tramp went away and came back in half an hour and told the woman that she had lied to him, that her husband was not there.
Then he said he would kill her, and threw a heavy piece of iron at her, which he had picked up in the shed, and it hit the house. And she took her husband’s shotgun and shot him.
In general, the wanderer was right and the woman only defended herself. But was there really any connection between the angry wanderer and the strange shower of stones that fell on the Finton house? Perhaps the spirit of the wanderer tried to avenge his death in this way?
Unfortunately, the rest of this story was not written in the newspaper and it is unknown whether the stone rains have stopped or have continued for a long time.
