Crafted In Kentucky

The Kentucky Meat Shower

On March 3, 1876, something strange fell from a clear sky over Bath County, Kentucky: pieces of flesh.

Newspapers across the country picked up the bizarre story, scientists examined samples, journalists cracked jokes, and theories ranged from amphibian spawn to regurgitating buzzards. 150 years later, the Kentucky Meat Shower remains one of the Commonwealth’s strangest—and most enduring—stories.

Crafted in Kentucky digs into the original reports, the science behind the mystery, and how one very strange afternoon became a piece of Kentucky folklore.