Adrienne Van Halem woke up one recent morning to find it had rained soybeans overnight.

The 35-year-old left her home on Burlington Street East in Hamilton on Dec. 29 to walk her dog and found something off-white sprinkled over cars, houses, porches — everything in her North End neighbourhood.

It wasn’t snowfall or the salt that Van Halem mistook it for at first. It was bean husks.

“It struck me as unusual, of course,” she said with a laugh. “It’s just gross and messy and surprising to have beans raining down.”

Van Halem shared the odd occurrence on the website Reddit, asking whether there was anyone she should contact.