Welcome back to the rebuttal podcast where we break down case law comedy and of course chaos in the legal field.

I'm your host, Reb Maisel, as always. And today, we are going to get cloudy with a very high chance of meatballs.

My sweatshirt is from our merch shop. It says, shut up, lawyer up. Love it, a classic, a staple. Go check it out if you want

it. But if you don't, or if you do and want to browse while you listen, buckle up and bring an

umbrella. The morning of Friday, March 3, 1876, dawned sunny and cloudless over Olympia

Springs in Bath County, Kentucky. A light breeze tickled the fields

of the Crouch family farm as Mrs. Rebecca Crouch made soap in the yard. Then, shortly before noon,

something unexpected started tumbling from the skies. Why grandma, it's snowing, said Rebecca's

preteen grandson, Alan. But what pummeled the property for the next

few minutes wasn't snowflakes. It was a seemingly endless stream of grisly, oozing chunks of flesh,

some as large as Rebecca Crouch's hand. The shower covered in area roughly 100 yards long and 50 yards wide, about the size of a

football field. It lasted less than two minutes. Rebecca told reporters later, quote, I had a vague

idea that my husband and son, who were away, had been torn to pieces and their remains were being

brought home to me in this way. She grabbed her grandson and ran into the house, closing and locking the door,

and, in fact, she refused to come out until her husband returned home several hours later.

Whatever it was had soaked into the fence posts and scattered across the yard.

By the time, her husband Alan Crouch had come home and walked the property,

the Crouch's hogs, chickens, cat, and dog had all been, quote, eating the meat freely and

seeming to like it well, though the dog did suspiciously fall ill sometime later that month.

The story made the front page of the March 10th 1876 issue of the New York Times.

Flesh descending in a shower, screamed the headline.

Other newspapers described it as the carnal rain, the shower of quivering flesh and the flesh rainfall.

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