[Scenario Seed] The Day It Rained Meat.

[Catsmate]

It was a cool spring morning in Bath County in Kentucky when chunks of meat started raining out of the sky onto the property of the Crouches near the village of Olympia Springs.

That Friday morning, 03MAR1876, around 11AM, Mrs. Crouch was engaged in the hot and smelly job of making soap, about twenty metres from the farmhouse. The sky was clear and Mrs. Crouch was busy with the task at hand when the meat starting falling, seemingly out of nowhere.

The event, now commoinly reaferred to as the 'Kentucky meat shower', was carried in local and national newspapers, from the Bath County News to the Oakland Tribune, New York Times and Scientific American, and has led to speculation for almost 150 years.

While there were no other human witnesses¹ to the fall of meat several locals did see the ground covered with scattered pieces of meat, most smaller than 5cm x 5cm but some rather larger. An area of around 120 square metres was effected.

One witness, Benjamin Franklin Ellington a hunter, was convinced by the appearance and texture of the meat that it was from a bear or bears.

A few people consumes some of the meat and described it as "gamey", though that oculd be due to the delay.

A sample, preserved in glycerine, was taken by Leopold Brandeis and passed to the Newark Scientific Association for analysis. There two histologists, Dr. A. Mead Edwards and Dr. J.W.S. Arnold, tested the material said that the meaty substance was lung tissue, either from a horse or a human.

The mundane explanaition is that the 'meat' was in fact meat, regurgitated by a flock of vultures.

Both the turkey vulture and black vulture (which are found in Kentucky) engage in projectile vomiting in flight.

They particular do this in the presence of a predator, with the discarded contents of their stomachs simultaneously distracting the predator while also lightening the vulture’s load for flight. When one vomits, this also often induces others nearby to vomit as well.

Of course there are other possibilities.....

Comments? Suggestions? Ideas?

1. The farm cat was present and consumed some of the meat without ill-effect.

[soultaker666212]

I like this one, does fit well into the strange things falling from the sky phenomena that has occurred throughout history. In this case if we go by the Whoniverse explanation of it was aliens I could see this being related to some great alien feast using Earth creatures as well the food, this banquet being in a spaceship above Olympia Springs and well excess meat come flying down from this feast, maybe it was leftovers like how we dump leftovers in a bin they could just dump it back upon the planet.

[Catsmate]

Jul 19, 2022 13:17:43 GMT soultaker666212 said:

I like this one, does fit well into the strange things falling from the sky phenomena that has occurred throughout history. In this case if we go by the Whoniverse explanation of it was aliens I could see this being related to some great alien feast using Earth creatures as well the food, this banquet being in a spaceship above Olympia Springs and well excess meat come flying down from this feast, maybe it was leftovers like how we dump leftovers in a bin they could just dump it back upon the planet.

A passing alien dumping the waste left over from a meal perhaps?

[soultaker666212]

Jul 19, 2022 13:26:56 GMT Catsmate said:

Jul 19, 2022 13:17:43 GMT soultaker666212 said:

I like this one, does fit well into the strange things falling from the sky phenomena that has occurred throughout history. In this case if we go by the Whoniverse explanation of it was aliens I could see this being related to some great alien feast using Earth creatures as well the food, this banquet being in a spaceship above Olympia Springs and well excess meat come flying down from this feast, maybe it was leftovers like how we dump leftovers in a bin they could just dump it back upon the planet.

A passing alien dumping the waste left over from a meal perhaps?

That could work.

Maybe there is a Whoniverse explanation as well that the meat could be alien larvae and that they would grow into large meat like aliens as part of an alien invasion perhaps?