The Kentucky meat shower of 1876 baffled witnesses and scientists alike, with pieces of raw meat falling from the sky in Bath County, Kentucky. The vulture theory, which suggests that vultures regurgitated half-digested meat while in flight, is the most widely accepted explanation for this bizarre event. The story has become a fascinating and grotesque chapter in American history, with some of the original mystery meat even surviving to be preserved in museums. [... more]

The Kentucky meat shower of 1876 is a bizarre and fascinating story of raw meat falling from the sky in Bath County, Kentucky. Witnesses described flakes of beef, mutton, and venison, but scientists eventually explained it as a phenomenon caused by vultures regurgitating their stomach contents in flight, leaving behind a trail of half-digested meat. [... more]