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What Really Happened During the Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876

What Really Happened During the Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876

Update: 2025-09-09
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On this episode of Our American Stories, on a March day in 1876, residents of Bath County, Kentucky, looked up to find chunks of raw meat falling from the sky. Some said it was mutton. Others claimed beef or venison. A few even tasted it. Known now as the Kentucky Meat Shower, the event remains one of the strangest and least explained weather phenomena in American history. Was it vultures? A freak storm? Something else entirely? Our regular contributor, Ashley Hlebinsky, shares the story of this bizarre chapter in American lore

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What Really Happened During the Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876

What Really Happened During the Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876

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