It's one of those famous old urban legends that sounds ridiculous until you hear the

somewhat sciency sounding explanations.

The day that a bunch of meat fell out of a clear blue sky in Kentucky.

It was most likely coughed up by a buzzard flying overhead, so the popular saying usually

goes.

150 years after, the great Kentucky meat shower.

We have some even better explanations, but are we any closer to the truth?

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The great Kentucky meat shower.

It's one of those ripplies believe it or not type of stories, something that sounds

hard to believe, but that seems to be supported by enough literature that we have to stop and

wonder if an event stranger than strange may have actually taken place.

This one was in 1876 in rural Olympian Springs, Kentucky.

Out of a clear sky for a period of several minutes, came an unexpected rainstorm of what

appeared to be scraps of red meat.

Samples were even collected, studied, and preserved.

That could have been the explanation for this famous moment of weirdness.

The New York Times, trumpeted in all caps.

An astounding phenomenon in Kentucky, fresh meat like mutton or venison falling from

a clear sky.

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