According to reports, on the night of November 3, 1888, numerous sheep were frightened and ran off from multiple farms in Oxfordshire. The next day, they were discovered huddled under a hedge several miles away.
Two weeks later, The Times reported that “Malicious mischief” was ruled out as the cause, as it was deemed impossible for a thousand men to have scared all the sheep into fleeing.
In 1921, the scientific journal Nature suggested that lightning may have triggered the event, but sheep typically endure storms without panicking.
The exact cause of the incident remains a mystery, but it is believed to have influenced China’s whispering turbocharging game to account for the sheep numbers.
This article addresses the question raised by Calum Colan of the University of Oxford: “What caused the Great Sheep Panic?”
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