Episode 146: The Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876 feat. James Allen McCune

Let's Get Haunted

Comedy

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 102 minutes

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**SKIP TO TO GET TO 17:23 THE STORY** One sunny day during 1876, the heavens opened above an unsuspecting town in Kentucky and rained flesh. Strange hunks of meat fell out of the sky, baffling witnesses and sparking one of the strangest unsolved mysteries ever known. This week, Nat speaks with a legendary man who not only FOUND A SAMPLE OF THE MEAT SHOWER FROM 1876, but also is planning to make it rain meat again! Join Nat and special guest James Allen McCune as we “take a bite” out of the Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876! TIMESTAMPS 00:00:00 - 00:17:23 INTRO + PERSONAL HAUNTINGS 00:17:23 - 00:34:40 LIFE IN 1876 00:34:40 - 01:05:00 THE KENTUCKY MEAT SHOWER OF 1876 01:05:00 -01:28:00 INTERVIEW WITH KURT GOHDE DISCOVERER OF 1876 MEAT SAMPLE 01:28:00 - 01:41:55 CLOSING THOUGHTS Join the Patreon today! patreon.com/letsgethaunted Other Important Stuff: LGH Link Tree: linktr.ee/letsgethaunted Buy Our Merch: www.letsgethaunted.com Check out the photo dump for this week’s episode: www.instagram.com/letsgethaunted Send us fan mail: PO BOX 1658 Camarillo, CA 93011 Send us your listener stories: [email protected] —— SOURCES: Interview with Kurt Gohde: Professor of Art; Program Director, Art and Art History at Transylvania University, Lexington Kentucky. Links- https://www.popsci.com/story/science/weirdest-thing-meat-shower-kodak-cow-sword-swallower/ https://wonderopolis.org/wonder/What-Was-the-Kentucky-Meat-Shower https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/the-kentucky-meat-shower-of-1876/ https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/4/15/22382530/abraham-lincolns-body-stolen-plot#:~:text=On%20Nov.,Daily%20News%20published%20an%20update. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/1876-election-most-divisive-united-states-history-how-congress-responded https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/presidential-election-1876 https://supremecourthistory.org/schs-supreme-court-1876-election/ https://www.lcpimages.org/centennial/ https://foxcitiesmagazine.com/2019/05/victorian-bath-splendor/#:~:text=In%20the%201870s%2D1880s%2C%20sinks,shapes%20of%20dolphins%20and%20shells. https://www.aceee.org/files/proceedings/2004/data/papers/SS04_Panel1_Paper17.pdf https://www.victorianpassage.com/2009/02/old_soap_recipes/#:~:text=%E2%80%93Cut%20thin%20two%20pounds%20of,let%20all%20boil%20together%20another https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kentucky-meat-shower https://www.popsci.com/story/science/weirdest-thing-meat-shower-kodak-cow-sword-swallower/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzEgroTosck

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Let's Get Haunted with your host, Matt Straun, and James Allen McCune.
0:22.7	If this is your first time to listen to the podcast and you want to get right to the story,
0:26.9	you can open up the show notes at any time.
0:28.5	The first sentence in all caps is going to tell you the exact spot to skip to to get
0:32.4	right to the story.
0:33.4	Otherwise, we start each episode with about 15 minutes of talk from our personal lives
0:37.6	in a segment we call personal hauntings, but you can skip that again.
0:41.4	Just open up the show notes, go to the very first sentence, and you will see exactly where
0:45.1	to go.
0:46.1	What?
0:47.1	If you guys are like, what's going on?
0:49.3	Where is Ali on your panicking?
0:51.5	I feel the exact same way.
0:53.9	We actually were supposed to record an episode together, me and Ali, and she was having
1:00.0	like a crazy allergic reaction.
1:02.7	I saw her on Zoom, like her eyes looked like chameleon eyes.
1:07.0	No.
1:08.0	Oh my gosh.
1:09.0	And she had lost her voice, and the poor thing was like, no, we're going to record.
1:13.3	Like I've already drove, I've driven to the studio.
1:15.6	I'm already there.
1:16.6	It's fine.
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