GFL-017 A SHOWER OF MEAT Anonymous; Scientific American 34:197 March 25, 1876 The Bath County (Ky.) News says: On Friday, March 3, 1876, a shower of meat fell near the house of Allen Crouch, who lives some two or three miles from the Olympian Springs in the southern portion of the country, covering a strip of ground about one hundred yards in length and fifty wide. Mrs. Crouch was out in the yard at the time, engaged in making soap, when meat which looked like beef begain to fall around her. The sky was perfectly clear at the time, and she said it fell like large snow flakes, the pieces as a general thing not being much larger. One piece fell near her which was three or four inches square. Mr. Harrison Gill, whose veracity is unquestionable, and from which we obtain the above facts, hearing of the occurrence, visited the locality the next day, and says he saw particles of meat sticking to the fences and scattered over the ground. The meat when it fell appeared to be perfectly fresh...Two gentlemen, who tasted the meat, expressed the opinion that it was either mutton or venison. -excerpt from Strange Planet, compiled by William Corliss 1974
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