In March of 1876, Rebecca Crouch was making soap outside her home in Bath County, Kentucky, when pieces of flesh began falling from a clear sky. Meat landed across the yard, caught on fences and briers, and soon attracted neighbors, newspaper reporters, doctors, and scientists trying to figure out exactly what had fallen. Some people smelled it. Some put it under a microscope. And for reasons that seemed perfectly reasonable to them at the time, several people actually tasted it.

In this Feral Fragments episode, I’m looking at the strange but well-documented Kentucky Meat Shower, the competing explanations people offered at the time, and the theory that may finally explain how pieces of real animal tissue ended up falling out of a perfectly clear sky.

Feral Fragments are bonus episodes where I share subjects that are short but impressive—odd legends, bizarre incidents, strange creatures, unexplained events, and pieces of weird history worth telling.

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