Tuesday 11 March 2014

Olympia Springs meat shower - 1876

At 2 Pm, March 03rd (Friday) Allen Crouch sat in his living room of his Family farm in Kentucky, when screams from his wife arose him to action. His Wife had been busy outside making soup when all of the sudden chunks of fresh meat began to fall on her.

The meat shower continued for 3 to 5 minutes before the sunny, windless afternoon returned to its precious calm state. what was left were chunks of meat and blood splattered all over the ground. The rain had covered the Farm the size of a football field.

People from the town came as soon as they heard of the event to collect the fallen flesh, or what was left of it since the animals of the farm where already in the process of eating it.

The towns people found the situation so intriguing that some of them decided to cook it and eat to figure out what it might be.  those who tasted the meat later told the New York times that it tasted like Venison. One of those adventurous Americans was Benjamin Franklin Allington a bear hunter, and he proclaimed that the meat was most certainly bear meat.

Samples of the meat where shipped to universities to try and figure out what it was, and perhaps how it had come to fall from the sky.

All of the scientific tests where inconclusive, although theories of what the meat actually was range from Horse lungs, Human babies, Human beings, and perhaps regurgitated animal meat from flying buzzards. (I do hope that the poor folks who tasted the meat didn't hear that theory)

Other theories about the cause of the meat rain were that perhaps some one got caught in a tornado holding a knife, cut themselves into tiny little pieces, and when the tornado finished its course the pieces fell from the sky. This theory does not make sense how ever because it was only flesh that fell from the sky, and not bone. 

Another theory is that Buzzards had feasted on horse meat and just as they were passing the farm, they all decided to regurgitate the meat at the same time, which also does not make sense because why would they all decide to regurgitate the meat at the same time? and how many Buzzards would have to vomit to cover the size of a football field? and if there happened to be hundreds of birds flying at the same time, how come no one saw them? 

Another theory states that if fallen stars and rock fall from the stars why not cosmic meat? This theory I don't even have to try to discredit because its just retarded and I cant believe a scientist came up with it. The theory states that just a worlds hundreds of millions of miles away explode and the rock from these worlds fall from time to time on our world, so can the citizens of such world disintegrate into little pieces and fall on our world, except that it happened in a small farm, and only once in the history of human kind. right...


Here is my theory...ready?
Pissed off wive sees her husband drinking lemonade in the cold shade of the house, gets angry that she is outside making meat, fat and bone into soap while he stretches his legs, decides to grab the load and throw it in a fit of madness. She then realizes that everyone will be talking about her, and since its 1876 her husband will probably also give her a good spanking for her trouble. So, she makes up a story that the meat just fell from the sky.  

What about the witnesses you say? well it all happened in the crouch family farm, the only witness was a slave and mrs. Crouch who could have told him that if he speaks he dies. 

What do you think?
  

Bananas with a twist

You're in the store, and as a last item you pop some bananas in your cart. You come home, hang out with the wife and kids and reach for one of those bananas. When all of the sudden you see a swarm of spiders cascade out of the yellow fruit. Sounds like a horror movie?

Well for Jamie and Crystal Roberts from Hednesford, Staffordshire that is exactly what happened. On a day like any other Jamie had purchased a bunch of Bananas from the onestop around the corner, he had noticed a white patch on them before he purchased the Bananas but dismissed as a bit of dirt or moss.

He deposited the Bananas by a window sill, and when he went to get one he noticed hundreds of little spiders swarming the bananas and by this time his window.


He called up the store manager who told him to get out of the house and call pest control. Probably a really good idea since after doing some research on the web Crystal realized that the spiders where Brazilian Wandering Spiders, or if you wish to call them by their scientific name "Phoneutria Nigriventer"
In Greek, phoneutria means the murderess. This name was given due to the highly deadly venon these spiders contain, the bite of one can conduce to heart failure, and even death on a human. 

Thankfully the couple's children Georgina 7 and Joshua 5 were not harmed by the spiders. 

To make matters worse Jamie suffers from arachnophobia, which is the fear of spiders, so I doubt he will be buying any Bananas soon.