Congress Catfish

In this July 16, 2008, file photo catfish are released into a pond at a Little Rock, Ark. park. One of its distant relatives fell onto the face of a woman in Philadelphia on Monday.

(The Associated Press/file)

We've had our share of strange things fall from the sky in Pennsylvania.

There was the the chunk of ice smashing into the windshield of a Hampden Township auto dealer, and the used toilet paper that rained down on West Pittston in 2015. Then there were the feces that fell onto a birthday party in Levittown.

Now we can add a catfish to that list.

Lisa Lobree of Philadelphia said that on Labor Day, she was walking near the Art Museum in the city when a catfish fell from the sky and hit her in the face.

And there were witnesses.

Lobree immediately buckled to the ground, screaming - the only logical reaction when one is assaulted by a flying fish with whiskers. Her friend started screaming something about a fish. People were asking if she was OK. There may have been some crying involved.

"It definitely hurt me and I didn't know what happened," Lobree said.

At first, she thought there were fish guts on her face, but it turned out to be a cut near her eye. Later, her face started swelling.

Witnesses reported seeing a bird flying away - a vulture or hawk or eagle, maybe. The catfish was about 16 inches long, perhaps five pounds.

The theory is that the catfish fell from the bird's mouth, about 50 feet, and Lobree just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

"It's a crazy, crazy thing," she said.