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A flat burnt shell of a toad. Burnt completely black and stuck to the blacktop outside my garage. All the flesh was gone and the skin and skeleton was all that remained. Only about 6 feet from the garage door. As you can see from the photograph the blacktop has been burnt as well.  Last night there were quite a few dry thunderstorms that blew through. BUT if it had been hit by something electrical surely the house would have felt it as well. The second photo shows the scrape marks I made with a screwdriver.  Foolishly I didn't photograph the toad that had been burnt to a crisp. I threw it into the tall weeds behind my house and when I went back to find it I couldn't find it. |
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Jess from VA
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« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2019, 12:23:47 PM » |
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No clue. But I would refrain from sleeping out there for a few days.  It's not clear from the pic that there was fire (more like oily residue) (or animal scat?). Or like a snake puked up a digesting toad? |
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Chrisj CMA
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« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2019, 12:29:51 PM » |
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I think you ran the poor frog over and the sun did the rest  ???  |
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« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2019, 01:50:49 PM » |
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No clue. But I would refrain from sleeping out there for a few days. It's not clear from the pic that there was fire (more like oily residue) (or animal scat?). Or like a snake puked up a digesting toad? Not oily. The skin / skeleton was laid out pretty flat. |
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Jess from VA
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« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2019, 02:01:55 PM » |
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No clue. But I would refrain from sleeping out there for a few days. It's not clear from the pic that there was fire (more like oily residue) (or animal scat?). Or like a snake puked up a digesting toad? Not oily. The skin / skeleton was laid out pretty flat.Well, I never pooped one out myself, so I have no reference point. I know raccoons eat damn near anything, and leave scat that is always interesting (and disgusting). |
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« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2019, 02:07:39 PM » |
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Spontaneous combustion , but then why would the skin be left behind. As for chupacabras I expect they would devour them completely.  |
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« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2019, 02:23:02 PM » |
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could be there is a fire breathing dragon in your garage !  |
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« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2019, 06:25:34 AM » |
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Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog, Wool of Bat........
Maybe the Three Witches didn't need any more of the critter.
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« Reply #8 on: July 15, 2019, 06:26:46 AM » |
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could be there is a fire breathing dragon in your garage !  That is what I was thinking Mike. The frog got to close to the Dragon!  |
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« Reply #9 on: July 15, 2019, 06:29:05 AM » |
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« Reply #10 on: July 15, 2019, 06:52:55 AM » |
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Rooted around in the undergrowth for about 10 minutes and found the remains. It had rained overnight so the brittle stiffness had relaxed a little. The "burnt" area under the toad had no oily residue. It looked exactly the same as yesterday even after the rain. That's a penny in the second photo.   |
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« Reply #11 on: July 15, 2019, 06:54:37 AM » |
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« Reply #13 on: July 15, 2019, 07:06:57 AM » |
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Have seen such sites numerous times. Whether you ran over the frog on something else squished it, it was smashed by a heavy weight/object. It's guts came out it's mouth. It laid on the hot asphalt baking in the sun. Although, I do like the alien theory. Rams |
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« Reply #14 on: July 15, 2019, 10:24:09 AM » |
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Hey, you could get it mounted for your mantelpiece. Let it dry out some more, then 5 coats of clear coat and done. Also make a nice conversation piece at lunch. The toads and frogs and blue racers at my place are about the only things I don't eradicate. And nice bees. The toads and frogs are often out at night stealthy hunting creepy crawlers in the outdoor low power LED yellow lights around my house. I have to be careful not to step on them. |
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« Reply #15 on: July 15, 2019, 10:37:39 AM » |
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Hey, you could get it mounted for your mantelpiece. Let it dry out some more, then 5 coats of clear coat and done. Also make a nice conversation piece at lunch. The toads and frogs and blue racers at my place are about the only things I don't eradicate. And nice bees. The toads and frogs are often out at night stealthy hunting creepy crawlers in the outdoor low power LED yellow lights around my house. I have to be careful not to step on them. Next to my box turtle shell I found on the top deck rail at my previous house. |
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