This Is The Number One Unsolved Mystery In Kentucky And It Will Leave You Baffled

An unsolved mystery in Kentucky can leave you quite baffled, depending on the mystery. March 3, 1876 was a very strange day for an Olympia Springs farm in Bath County. It still remains a mystery till this day.

A farmer’s wife, Mrs. Crouch, was making soap in her yard. A light wind picked up, and suddenly a strange shower started raining down. Mind you, this was no ordinary spring shower.  It was a sunny day, and the objects pummeling down from the sky were chunks of meat, not raindrops. The biggest piece looked to be the size of Mrs. Crouch’s hand; the smallest, the size of a half dollar. It struck the ground and stuck to the fence, covering an area of around 100 by 50 yards.

Both neighbors and hunters came out to help determine the origin of this unsolved mystery in Kentucky:

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There was some dispute on that, as several gentlemen actually tasted the meat that fell from the sky. Two locals claimed it to be mutton, or venison, but a hunter stated it tasted like bear. A few others thought it to be beef. Turns out… they were all wrong, but the event was so mysterious, it gained recognition by the New York Times.

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Mr. Leopold Brandeis, a writer, presumed the meat to be Nostoc. That was debunked because Nostoc is a cyanobacteria that has filaments in a gelatin sheath. It is found in soil, moist rocks and around the bottom of lakes and springs, not soaring through the air on its own.

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The meat was sent to the Newark Scientific Association for analysis by Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton. A total of seven scientists evalutated the meat and drew the following conclusions; two samples were lung tissue of either a horse or an infant, three were muscle tissue, and two more were simply cartilage.

Still, how did it get there? Not many theories popped up.

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The possibility a plane carrying meat somehow lost its cargo, but left no other debris is a possibility. That theory doesn’t really work because of the small area the meat covered, and the unstable plane designs of the day. There was an illogical lack of debris other then meat. Not to mention, witnesses saw no planes in the sky around the area.

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Some scientist insist vultures ate the meat, and regurgitated it as they flew over the area. The two species of vulture in Kentucky, Turkey and Black, are both known to basically eject their food if panicked. However, this was debunked because the meat was not partially digested. Witnesses also reported no vultures were seen in the sky when the meat fell.

Scientist and individuals have struggled with excuses and theories for decades, but nothing was ever determined to be concrete. The meat shower incident remains an unsolved mystery in Kentucky, unless you want to go with the vulture theory. What do you think about the mystery of the meat shower in Bath County?