{"id":550007,"date":"2026-03-28T07:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T07:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/550007\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T07:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T07:36:13","slug":"cleveland-area-carpenter-finds-big-meteorite-i-knew-where-to-go-from-the-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/550007\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland area carpenter finds big meteorite: &#8216;I knew where to go from the dream&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Middleburg Heights carpenter says a dream told him exactly where to look for one of the biggest Medina County asteroid fragments found yet.<\/p>\n<p>MEDINA, Ohio \u2014 Jeff Makkos of Middleburg Heights was working nearby when a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkyc.com\/article\/news\/local\/northeast-ohio\/meteor-northeast-ohio-loud-boom-national-weather-service-cleveland\/95-1777464c-9f6e-4607-b132-639921e50b95\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">meteor exploded over Medina County<\/a> on St. Patrick&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I heard it and felt it,&#8221; Makkos recalled.<\/p>\n<p>This self-employed construction guy searched each day Wednesday through Sunday, finding only a small meteorite. But then, everything changed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had a dream that Monday night that I would find another piece, and it told me right where to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He had already gotten permission from the property owner on Saturday to search.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I went back on Tuesday and found it immediately,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I knew where to go from the dream. I literally walked 150 yards from my truck, looked down, and there was the crater.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What he found was one of the biggest meteorites so far: a whopping baseball-sized rock weighing 308 grams!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ddad8684-a10c-4bc8-a4b1-a9e6b4ab5579_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>So what will he do with the big meteorite?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would love to see it go to an Ohio museum!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Middleburg Heights carpenter says a dream told him exactly where to look for one of the biggest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-550007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}