The Day the Sky Rained Spiders in Chattanooga Tennessee (1936).
October 21, 1936, 7:12 a.m. Over Chattanooga, a silver web drifted down—thousands of baby orb-weaver spiders ballooning on silk threads. Farmer Ida Mae Potts ran outside as the sky shimmered like torn lace; spiders landed in her hair, on the mule, across 40 acres of corn. The Chattanooga Times reported: “A living parachute invasion; chickens gorged till they burst.” Entomologist Dr. Willis Gertsch traced the hatch to a Lookout Mountain nursery warmed by early frost. Winds lofted the hatchlings 3,000 feet; they rode 60 miles before descending in a 10-minute blizzard of silk. Children scooped them into Mason jars for fishing bait; a preacher called it “manna with legs.” The silk tangled power lines, shorting streetcars; TVA crews swept it into barrels—later woven into a scarf for Eleanor Roosevelt. Spiders vanished by noon, leaving cornstalks draped like Christmas trees. Gertsch’s preserved vial of 200 specimens, still glistening, sits in the Smithsonian—labeled: “The Morning Tennessee Wore a Wedding Veil.”
God's creation is amazing, the wonders that He designed in nature, they are awesome.
For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,
Romans 1:20 NKJV
October 21, 1936, 7:12 a.m. Over Chattanooga, a silver web drifted down—thousands of baby orb-weaver spiders ballooning on silk threads. Farmer Ida Mae Potts ran outside as the sky shimmered like torn lace; spiders landed in her hair, on the mule, across 40 acres of corn. The Chattanooga Times reported: “A living parachute invasion; chickens gorged till they burst.” Entomologist Dr. Willis Gertsch traced the hatch to a Lookout Mountain nursery warmed by early frost. Winds lofted the hatchlings 3,000 feet; they rode 60 miles before descending in a 10-minute blizzard of silk. Children scooped them into Mason jars for fishing bait; a preacher called it “manna with legs.” The silk tangled power lines, shorting streetcars; TVA crews swept it into barrels—later woven into a scarf for Eleanor Roosevelt. Spiders vanished by noon, leaving cornstalks draped like Christmas trees. Gertsch’s preserved vial of 200 specimens, still glistening, sits in the Smithsonian—labeled: “The Morning Tennessee Wore a Wedding Veil.”
God's creation is amazing, the wonders that He designed in nature, they are awesome.
For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,
Romans 1:20 NKJV
The Day the Sky Rained Spiders in Chattanooga Tennessee (1936).
October 21, 1936, 7:12 a.m. Over Chattanooga, a silver web drifted down—thousands of baby orb-weaver spiders ballooning on silk threads. Farmer Ida Mae Potts ran outside as the sky shimmered like torn lace; spiders landed in her hair, on the mule, across 40 acres of corn. The Chattanooga Times reported: “A living parachute invasion; chickens gorged till they burst.” Entomologist Dr. Willis Gertsch traced the hatch to a Lookout Mountain nursery warmed by early frost. Winds lofted the hatchlings 3,000 feet; they rode 60 miles before descending in a 10-minute blizzard of silk. Children scooped them into Mason jars for fishing bait; a preacher called it “manna with legs.” The silk tangled power lines, shorting streetcars; TVA crews swept it into barrels—later woven into a scarf for Eleanor Roosevelt. Spiders vanished by noon, leaving cornstalks draped like Christmas trees. Gertsch’s preserved vial of 200 specimens, still glistening, sits in the Smithsonian—labeled: “The Morning Tennessee Wore a Wedding Veil.”
God's creation is amazing, the wonders that He designed in nature, they are awesome.
For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,
Romans 1:20 NKJV
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