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Posted by Maureen K. Fleury Jul 8, 2008 |
History tells us that the people in New England thought Judgment Day had arrived because the day turned as black as night.
There were stories of families eating lunch by candlelight and flowers folding their petals and animals behaving strangely. Based on journals and diaries, there were reports of this darkness occurring along the southern coast of New England plus all of Maine.
The highest intensity was in southern New Hampshire, southwest Maine and northeast Massachusetts. It is interesting to note that George Washington recorded the day of darkness in his diary. The Revolutionary War was still going on when this happened.
Researchers at the University of Missouri have now proven that there was not an eclipse or the sun taking a strange turn or Armageddon. Through studies made on tree rings, it shows that there were wildfires raging in Canada. The rings showed a charcoal formation and then resin where the bark fell off from the tree.
Tree studies were conducted in Algonquin Park in Ontario and at other locations. All the trees revealed the same ring pattern and dating back to the same year. The thick smoke from the wildfires was carried into the upper atmosphere and then emerged in New England.
With no effective means of communication, nobody in New England knew what was happening in Canada.