Mini: The Meat Really Hit the Ground
May 27, 2026 · 19 min · 11 segments
One delicious day in 1876, a farm in Kansas experienced a meteorological event that we're STILL trying to explain. Support Afternoonified by contributing to their tip jar…
May 27, 2026 · 19 min · 11 segments
One delicious day in 1876, a farm in Kansas experienced a meteorological event that we're STILL trying to explain. Support Afternoonified by contributing to their tip jar…
Um-
Boy
... okay.
I love when there's a festival.
Right.
All right, so on the 3rd of March, 1876, just over 150 years ago, uh, in the town of Olympia Springs, Kentucky, Mrs. Crouch was on her front porch making soap when meat began to fall from the sky.
She said she was 40 steps from her house when the meat began to hit the ground, which is a new saying for me.
[laughs]
You know, the meat really hit the ground.
When the meat begins...
Yeah, the meat really hit the ground.
[laughs] Mrs. Crouch and her husband-
I like that better than shit hits the fan, honestly.
Yes.
[laughs] Uh, Mrs. Crouch and her husband, Arthur, who was named in all of the sources while his wife was just Mrs. Crouch...
Anyway, they believed-
Of course.
Yes.
They believed, completely understandably, that the event was a sign from God.
I honestly-
Yeah
...
I don't believe in God.
If meat started falling from the sky-
In 1876
Um-
Boy
... okay.
I love when there's a festival.
Right.
All right, so on the 3rd of March, 1876, just over 150 years ago, uh, in the town of Olympia Springs, Kentucky, Mrs. Crouch was on her front porch making soap when meat began to fall from the sky.
She said she was 40 steps from her house when the meat began to hit the ground, which is a new saying for me.
[laughs]
You know, the meat really hit the ground.
When the meat begins...
Yeah, the meat really hit the ground.
[laughs] Mrs. Crouch and her husband-
I like that better than shit hits the fan, honestly.
Yes.
[laughs] Uh, Mrs. Crouch and her husband, Arthur, who was named in all of the sources while his wife was just Mrs. Crouch...
Anyway, they believed-
Of course.
Yes.
They believed, completely understandably, that the event was a sign from God.
I honestly-
Yeah
...
I don't believe in God.
If meat started falling from the sky-
In 1876
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