Kentucky meat shower, no it's not an annual barbecue, it's a piece of Kentucky history that is still unexplained to date. On March 3, 1876, way before commercial airlines could be established, hundreds of pieces of meat just fell from the sky on an area as big as a football field. Sounds impossible? Wait till you hear the theories posited to explain the mystery.
The Kentucky meat shower occurred way before any of us was born. But it remains one of the biggest mysteries of the 19th centuries. How do you explain meat just falling from the sky, kind of the biblical manna from heaven that kept the Israelites nourished for over forty years in the wilderness.
According to locals at the time, the meat fell from the sky on a 100 by 50 yard area of land in Kentucky. Residents at the place had a chance to gorge at the meat. They reported that the meat tasted like mutton or vension, even though it looked like beef. The Kentucky meat shower incident was reported in the New York Times and many other publications of the time.
Now according to the publishers then, the only thing stranger than the occurrence, was the explanation given to explain the occurrence. The most logical explanation given to date is the buzzards theory. The theory states that hundreds of buzzards were flying over Kentucky after gorging on a dead horse when one of the flying creatures decided to let go of his piece of meat. Suddenly all buzzards let go of their meat, causing the Kentucky meat shower. Seems logical.
The other is that the cosmic meat was floating around in space before it fell on the residents of Kentucky just like a meteor shower would. Or the residents of Kentucky were caught in a whirlwind together with their knives and what came back were lamp chops, the possibilities are endless. Either way, the Kentucky meat shower will be one of the biggest mysteries of our American history.
