The Water Wizard of Sun City: On January 16th 1916 a modern day alchemist builds a series of towers sixty miles up-wind of San Diego. The desperate city hired him to make it rain to end a drought. Charles burnt a secret mixture of noxious chemicals in large vans mounted atop the towers, which he himself had invented. He had a lucrative career as a weather wizard... earning up to $10,000 a pop to douse a raging forest fire in Honduras, and ending a drought in Italy. 24 hours after his smoking towers began billowing their potion into the air... the sky opened up and it poured on San Diego... flooding the city. Rain swept away 110 of 112 bridges... the waters cut off the entire city. Telegraph towers, telephone poles, boats, and houses were destroyed. People and animals died, while the high water pushed hundreds of snakes into populated refuges of high ground. The city refused to pay Hatfield due to the expence. For proprietary reasons, he never revealed his secret formula. #babettebombshell #hauntedhotel #unsolvedmysteries #alchemist #charleshatfield #rainmaker #lostscience
