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A STUNNED pensioner claims she was rocked by a meteor shower after waking up to find six mysterious boulders in her back garden.
The 72-year-old, who hasn’t been named, said she was heading to bed when she heard an “almighty bang” that left her house shaking.
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She dismissed the noise as her chimney breast collapsing after the recent bad weather in Anglesey and went to sleep, Daily Post reports.
But the woman claims she was amazed when she went in the garden the next day to find up six huge rocks just 6ft from her back door.
The great-grandmother said: “The only logical explanation I can think of is a meteor shower.
“That or someone has a huge, old fashioned catapult that they would have used to launch boulders at castles back in the day.
“I waited to check outside until the following morning because at the time it was dark and raining.
“I was puzzled and trying to work out how on earth they came to be there.
“A couple of days later I bumped into my neighbour and they had heard the bang too.”
According to the UK Meteor Network, a meteor was captured 18 different cameras at around 10.40pm on the night the boulders apparently appeared.
The Met Office also confirmed it is “not likely” the weather played a part in the rocky riddle.
The woman said: “There’s nothing around here – I live in an end terrace house with a railway to the side of me and a road to the front, so it’s not as if they could have fallen down from anywhere.
“The biggest one is about two foot wide and would take a few strong men to lift it.
“I did try to move one of them to see if there was a crater underneath but I couldn’t lift it.
“I don’t really know what to do about it now.”
Meteorites are one of the rarest materials so there is a very slim chance any of us will ever see one.
Scientists say there are several properties that can help distinguish a meteorite from a normal rock – including how heavy they are.
The space rocks contain metallic iron and dense minerals so are much heavier than usual boulders.
Meteorites are also magnetic and rarely rounded with most containing a fusion crust where it melted as it passed through the atmosphere.
Most rocks that appear in a garden are formed when the ground freezes – causing them to bubble up from beneath the surface.
There have also been instances of boulders rolling down a hill or mountain near a home and crashing into a garden.
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