Mystery Machine: The Kentucky Meat Shower

Hey gang, I've decided to try my hand at blogging. I've never done this before, so be gentle, kittens. Those of you who hang out in the music room may know that I'm a big fan of all things true crime and unsolved mysteries, and now I'd like to share some of my favorite unsolved mysteries with my darling greenies. I'll provide a brief description of the event followed by links and pictures (if available) to further flesh out the story. Feel free to comment, speculate, present your own theories, or just let your imagination run wild. Have fun with it.

So, without further adieu, I give you the story of the Kentucky Meat Shower.

On March 3rd 1876 Mrs. Allen Crouch of Bath county, Kentucky sat in her yard making soap (like you do). The day was shaping up to be a lovely early spring day with a cloudless blue sky. Sometime between 11am and 12pm, without warning of any kind, hunks of raw flesh rained down on Mrs. Crouch's yard for several minutes. Mr. and Mrs. Crouch watched as pieces ranging in size from a snowflake to nearly the size of Mrs. Crouch's hand fell all around them.

Now, as you can imagine, word of this event spread pretty quickly in the area because holy shit there is meat falling from the sky! Soon neighbors found their way to the Crouch property to examine the heaven sent mystery meat. Most were of the opinion that this flesh was beef, however a local hunter believed the flesh had the unmistakable "greasy" feeling of bear meat. Two unidentified men decided to cook some of this meat and said it tasted of mutton or venison. Just an aside here, if mystery meat falls from the sky, don't eat it, for the love of all things holy don't eat it.

So, what on earth happened here? Do we have a case of an exploding, winged bear-lamb-deer? Did a sheep wander into a volcanic eruption, and become aerosolized mutton? Or was this a hoax?

I'll let Scientific American handle the explanation on this one.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/the-great-kentucky-meat-shower-mystery-unwound-by-projectile-vulture-vomit/