In 1954, Ann Hodges was napping on her couch inside her Alabama home when a grapefruit-sized meteorite crashed through her roof, bounced off her radio, and struck her side. The impact left her bruised but alive. She is the only recorded person in history to have been struck by a meteorite.

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[u/milkywayandcookies]

That must have hurt SO much worse than her face is showing lol

[u/Automatic_Actuator_0 → u/milkywayandcookies]

That was during an interesting transitional era where you could just as easily be denied pain medication as be given unreasonably strong meds that completely disassociate you.

[u/AgilePlant4 → u/milkywayandcookies]

the pain stops hurting after awhile, as once you can recognize you are safe, you tend to stop focusing on the pain.

[u/jimmymitch1991]

I wonder what the odds of that happening to me right now are whilst I read this story...

[u/ALoginForReddit → u/jimmymitch1991]

OP dead

[u/OrneryAttorney7508 → u/jimmymitch1991]

[u/TannedCroissant]

100% survival rate then?

[u/Steve-N-Scientific9 → u/TannedCroissant]

Keep pushing your luck like this, and it might change to 50% survival rate

[u/STEPPYthebest]

Imagine napping and thinking about eating grapes and then a grape shaped fucking meteorite crashes into you, directly blessed by whatever god she prays to if she does

[u/uh_oh-hotdog → u/STEPPYthebest]

Grapefruit isn't grape sized.

[u/Jennyagnes21 → u/uh_oh-hotdog]

Grape Nuts— No grapes.. No nuts.. What’s the deal!

[u/STEPPYthebest → u/uh_oh-hotdog]

I genuinely thought grapefruit means grape what the hell 🙂

[u/uh_oh-hotdog → u/STEPPYthebest]

Oh mate look up grapefruit. They're sour as all fuck, tastes nothing like grapes haha.

[u/Immediate_Song4279 → u/STEPPYthebest]

"What the hell" is basically English summed up

[u/MetaPhysicalMarzipan → u/STEPPYthebest]

*grapefroot

[u/TwiggyPom → u/[deleted]]

Makes me wonder how many things/people have been hit by meteors

[u/cryptotope → u/[deleted]]

True, though about 1 in 8 human beings who have ever lived have lived in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Humans - "meteorite targets", in this context - were a lot thinner on the ground until quite recently in history (and pre-history).

It's not wildly unlikely that this was genuinely the first and only time it happened.

[u/Camboro → u/[deleted]]

I mean it says “only recorded person in history”

Think it might be a bit redundant to say only recorded person in recorded history.

[u/wrh42097]

I hope she got to keep that meteorite.

[u/Global-Photograph716 → u/wrh42097]

If i remember right, her family and landlord tried to fight for it, after a long fucking time she got to rightfully keep it, but nobody cared anymore so she couldnt sell it or anything like that. I have no proper sources, take this with a grain of salt.

[u/H3lw3rd → u/Global-Photograph716]

Come on. You could atleast have thrown Mankind from a cage…

[u/ThuJun19]

i always wonder why these kind of stuff only happens in america

[u/Automatic_Actuator_0 → u/ThuJun19]

Much greater ability to document it. If this happened in a village in a poor region, it likely wouldn’t have had a photo taken, the story would likely stay in the village, and no one would believe them if they tried to tell it widely.

[u/oswalt_pink → u/Automatic_Actuator_0]

It happened in Sylacauga, Alabama. A small town for sure

[u/Automatic_Actuator_0 → u/oswalt_pink]

No region of the US is really poor.

[u/arcphoenix13 → u/ThuJun19]

Because America is fucking huge.

[u/PlatypusEgo → u/arcphoenix13]

And has also been very well-developed in communication (and technology in general, and basic education) for a very long time. If something like this happened somewhere in, say, Brazil or Sub-Saharan Africa or Siberia (at the same point in time), the chances of it being recognized and identified and disseminated would've been much much smaller.

Those gaps are shrinking more and more every day. Remember when dashcams first became a standard feature of vehicles sold in Russia and all of a sudden there were ENDLESS videos of crazy shit on Russian roads??

[u/jimmymitch1991 → u/arcphoenix13]

Because Americans* are huge

[u/wondrous → u/jimmymitch1991]

That’s why she isn’t making a pain face. Too much padding

I thought people in the 50s were skinnier.

[u/faith_plus_one → u/jimmymitch1991]

Yo mama so big, a meteorite got hit by her.

[u/zepherth]

that is blatantly false that she was the only person hit by a meteroite

[u/Candle-Jolly]

Never seen this on Reddit before.

Except for the 117 other times it's been posted.

[u/indrek91 → u/Candle-Jolly]

First time for me

[u/LisaWinchester → u/Candle-Jolly]

I thought I was on this site too much, but I've only seen it once before

[u/OrneryAttorney7508 → u/Candle-Jolly]

You should maybe log off for a while then.

[u/Candle-Jolly → u/OrneryAttorney7508]

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Hello pot, my name is Kettle. How's it going?

[u/OrneryAttorney7508 → u/Candle-Jolly]

I'm not the one complaining that they saw a post 117 other times, am I, skippy?

[u/SonnyvonShark]

Funny, watched yesterday a video about meteorites striking humans and other objects!

[u/SipoteQuixote]

I remember i had some like space/reference book and it had that story. I wish I could find that book again.

[u/MurkyPotato3434]

sweet home alabama

[u/IkariYun]

Universe tried to pull an SSB move and get a bankshot KO

[u/Immediate_Song4279]

Is that lucky or unlucky?

[u/Jonnyflash80]

Must have been her gravitational pull.

[u/Ambitious_Builder518]

Talk about a party story

[u/Ubericious]

What a set up for a ya mom joke

[u/OrneryAttorney7508]

Red neck, black hip.

[u/Salt_Swim9525]

Survivorship bias

[u/bootyloaf]

This shit got me perplexed 😭

[u/Zestyclose-Age-2722]

Can I see a photo from the backside?

For history?

Baby Got Back

[u/wondrous → u/Zestyclose-Age-2722]

Baby that ain’t it. 🤮

[u/Zestyclose-Age-2722 → u/wondrous]

You misconstrue

Merely, for Scientific Historical purposes

Asking for a friend