Weird things happen in Kentucky…chili buns…distilleries in dry counties…Johnny Depp. But perhaps the strangest was the day it rained meat on a rural farmstead. The event, now known as the Kentucky Meat Shower, is not only 100% real, it’s also yet to be fully explained. What would cause the heavens to open and drop a meaty monsoon on an unsuspecting farmer’s wife? We grab our umbrellas (and grills) and dive in to the Kentucky Meat Shower this week. Plus, Joe Peck returns to the show (it was unexpected), Kyle gets buggy again (less unexpected), and Conspiracy Bot has a new song (we wish we hadn’t expected it). All of that and more on the podcast that’s never been in a shower of meat, but one can dream – Hysteria 51.





Special thanks to this week’s research sources:

Research Assistant - Raymond Walden IV





Books / Journals

The United States of Absurdity: Untold Stories from American History Hardcover | Dave Anthony

The Kentucky Shower of Flesh. The American Journal of Microscopy. 1 Apr. 1876, Volume 1, Number 5: 54.





Videos

Kentucky Meat Shower - The Day It Rained Mystery Meat - https://youtu.be/RzEgroTosck

The Kentucky Meat Shower - https://youtu.be/ue1wmiPvA3E

The Time It Rained Meat – Today I Found Out - https://youtu.be/2Kgr5dGgTFw

What is KENTUCKY MEAT SHOWER? - https://youtu.be/hZ1QV9ECUP8





Websites

Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_meat_shower

All That’s Interesting - https://allthatsinteresting.com/kentucky-meat-shower

Scientific American – https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/the-great-kentucky-meat-shower-mystery-unwound-by-projectile-vulture-vomit/

Vice - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzkmgw/the-mystery-of-the-kentucky-meat-shower

Atlas Obscura - https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kentucky-meat-shower

URBO - https://www.urbo.com/content/the-mystery-of-the-kentucky-meat-shower-is-still-haunting-people-to-this-day/

Kentucky.com - https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/education/article44615769.html





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