Fish fall from heaven once or twice a year on the poor Honduran town of Yoro. They call it The Lluvia de Peces, the rain of fish, and it is widely seen as a miracle.

Scientists suggest it may be caused by water spouts that suck up fish from the ocean. But none of them can explain why for more than a century, the spout has always targeted the small town, at a similar time every year, with fish from the Atlantic Ocean about 45 miles away.

For decades, the event has given residents, who normally live on corn and beans, a rare treat of seafood. People come together at a yearly festival that honors the 19th-century Spanish Catholic missionary whose prayers for relief from a long hunger, are regarded as having started the downpours.