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Crime Junkie

AUDIO EXTRA: The Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876

Crime Junkie

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True Crime

4.7358.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

When bits of meat fall from the sky seemingly at random, the citizens of Olympia, Kentucky, don't know what to make of it. Scientists and theorists alike disagree on the source, and to this day, it remains a mystery.

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0:00.0

Hi Crime Junkies. I can't believe we're here. Summer is over which means this is the last

0:06.5

vault episode. Last Crime Junkie Thursday. I've spent the last few weeks kind of laying

0:12.0

out how the fan club works and showing you what kind of content you can expect every month when we say that you get a full episode, a mini episode and bonus content.

0:20.0

Well, the last vault episode I want to share with you is a special one because it comes with a

0:26.4

surprise at the end so make sure you listen all the way through and if you're going to miss our extra time together please go check

0:34.4

out the fan club thank you for all your extra time these last few months and

0:39.0

don't forget stick around all the way to the end.

0:44.0

Hi crime junkies, I'm your host Ashley Flowers.

0:48.0

And I'm Brett.

0:49.0

And today we're switching things up a bit.

0:51.0

So some of you might remember a little show I used to do called

0:55.0

supernatural. Listen, I love mysteries of all varieties and that show let me explore some of the most

1:01.8

mysterious events in history like we did

1:04.1

ghosts we did aliens conspiracies all the things I love talking about and I

1:08.8

got to admit I missed telling those stories so I thought why not like every once in a while tell those stories here but like all a crime junkie style because honestly the thing that I missed when doing supernatural was getting to kind of spiral on so the stuff with you Brit because like doing it by yourself I I want to just like talk about it I would say and I like can spiral on this stuff because I am a skeptic I am a believer I am all the things.

1:35.9

Oh my goodness yeah okay so this episode actually is one that I have been wanting to

1:42.2

talk about forever.

1:44.2

It's about an event that happened almost 150 years ago that briefly brought the attention of the

1:48.5

nation to this small Kentucky town as everyone tried to answer the question, what fell out of the sky and why?

1:59.4

This is the story of the Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876. The So, On March 3rd, 1876 in Olympia, Kentucky, it's a clear sunny day, a slight breeze, one of those early spring

2:46.8

days that carries the promise of warmer weather.

2:49.8

Oh, Midwest Fake Spring, it's my favorite thing. Yes, precisely. And what's tried and true now was tried and true 150 years before and it's that if you give us good weather we are going to flock to the outdoors because

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