Kentucky Meat Shower Of 1876
Allen crouch and his wife lived few miles outside olympia springs a small town in bath county kentucky.
Kentucky meat shower of 1876. The obvious conclusion is that the kentucky shower of meat was really a meteoric shower wrote alden in a new york times article published on march 11 1876. The mysterious kentucky meat shower to set the stage. Crouch was outside making soap when flakes of red meat started to fall out of the sky.
The slide is labeled kentucky meat shower of 1876 and carries a piece of animal flesh figure 1. The sky was perfectly clear at the time falling like large snowflakes and settling all around the 5000 square foot yard pieces of flesh ranging in size from about two. Scientific american one of the specimens collected after the meat shower.
On 3 march 1876 large hunks of flesh fell from the sky over olympia springs in bath county kentucky. According to the new york times on march 9 of that year a considerable number of pieces of meat fell from the clear sky. It was a clear march morning in bath county kentucky in 1876 when meat started falling from the sky.
During the kentucky meat shower of 1876 cloudy with a chance of meatballs was real life when meat purportedly poured from the heavens. With at least one being 4 by 4 inches 10 cm 10 cm fell from the sky in a 100 by 50 yard 91 by 46 m area near the settlement of rankin in bath. An area of ground 100 by 50 yards was.
One day in early 1876 mrs. The article explains that since. On march 3 1876 one mrs.
Most were the size of the mounted specimen although one was 3 4 inches square.