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Shop NowRuth Hamilton may be either one of the luckiest women on Earth or the almighty has been trying to reach her and is going with some really overt messaging options. (Seriously, this is just short of a booming voice from the sky.) Reports from the ‘Great White North’ of Canada have revealed that Hamilton of Golden, British Columbia was awoken from a sound sleep by her dog barking, and the sound of a loud crash coming from her ceiling, and the feeling of debris landing on her face. As she leaped from her bed to turn on the light, she discovered a hole through her ceiling and a mass of charred rock, a Meteorite on the pillow a matter of centimeters from where her head had been.
“I’ve never been so scared in my life,” she said of the Oct. 3 incident. “I wasn’t sure what to do so I called 911 and, when I was speaking with the operator, I flipped over my pillow and saw that a rock had slipped between two pillows.”
“I was shaking like a leaf,” she continued. “You’re sound asleep, safe, you think, in your bed, and you can get taken out by a meteorite, apparently.” The meteorite weighed 2.8 pounds and was one of two to fall in British Columbia on October 3rd.
“I was in shock and I just sat here for a few hours shaking,” she said. “The odds of that happening are so small so I’m pretty grateful to be alive.”
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Hamilton then contacted police and an officer was dispatched to investigate. She told the press that the officer initially suspected the rock came from nearby construction along the highway. She told CBC News,
“He called up there and they said they had not done any blasting that night. But the workers had seen a meteorite, or a falling star, explode and there was a couple of booms.… Then we knew that it was a meteorite that had crashed through my roof,” Hamilton said.
According to People Magazine, “After the shock of the incident wore off, Hamilton contacted researchers at the University of Western Ontario. “It’s certainly a meteorite,” professor Peter Brown, who will work with researchers to find out more information, told CBC News. “Everything about the story was consistent with a meteorite fall, and the fact that this bright fireball had occurred basically right at the same time made it a pretty overwhelming case.”
Apparently, the odds of being killed by a meteorite strike are just about as long as you’d imagine (about 1 in 700,000), while we’re not sure what the odds are in the Canadian lottery, Ruth may want to grab a ticket.
“My granddaughters can say that their grandmother just almost got killed in her bed by a meteorite,” Hamilton said.
