Imagine for a moment, standing outside on a hot day, getting work done on the farm. Sweat drips and you long for a cool rain shower to wash away the salt and dirt from your brow. Nature isn’t always in a giving mood, as you well know. And sometimes, when she gives, it’s in a manner wholly unlike anything you can fathom.

Rain of Blood and Meat that occurred not just once but twice in the regional history of Kentucky and Tennessee.

Tennessee

August 17th, 1841, a little after noon, a tobacco farm in Wilson County, Tennessee, just north-east of Lebanon, experienced a rain of blood. I can only imagine the horror the witnesses experienced as the gore fell upon them that day. The grizzly scene left a sprinkling of congealed blood, tissue, fat, and even a small piece of rotting meat on the green leaves of the tobacco. The scene stretched over six hundred yards.
Speculation went wild, of course, and often lent towards the biblical.

However, rational and sensible Dr. Gerard Troost who was a professor at University of Nashville and Tennessee State Geologist, had more secular reasons for the horror that befell Wilson County. Troost was no stranger to blood. Before coming to America he was a military doctor and sustained injuries to his leg and head. He’d seen fields soaked in the blood of men and, upon investigating what fell on Wilson county, said this was not what it appeared to be.

Lab tests Troost conducted proved that the gore was animal and from our earth, rather than something paranormal or extraterrestrial. He claimed that it was likely the remnants of a desiccated cow or similar beast. As for how it came to fall from the sky in pieces, the blame was placed upon strong wind that carried the remains across a long distance in the atmosphere only to drop from a viscous electric cloud. Now, the witnesses claimed that it was a clear day. I was unable to find any storms or tornadoes recorded in the area on that day in August of 1841 to explain this phenomenon but, according to the American Journal of Science I quote “There is now no room to relate or discuss these statements, and it remains only to give to the conclusion of Dr. Troost.”

Later that year in issue 44, the American Journal of Science issued an apology, stating, the whole matter is, upon newspaper authority, said to have been a hoax by negroes, who had pretended to have seen the shower, for the same of practicing upon the credulity of their masters: that they had scattered the decaying flesh of a dead hog over the tobacco fields. 

Kentucky

A similar occurrence happened over 30 years later in Bath County, Kentucky – 250 plus miles away from Wilson County, Tennessee.  Spring 1876, what appeared to be chunks of red meat measuring about  2 inches, with at least one being 4 inches, fell from the sky over a 100 yard area near the settlement of Olympia Springs. There exist several explanations as to how this occurred and what the “meat” was. The exact type of meat was never identified, although various reports suggested it was beef, lamb, deer, bear, horse, or even human. 

Mrs. Mary Crouch, wife to Allen who was a farmer by trade, was making soap on her porch when she reported seeing the meat fall from the sky. She told the New York Herald the following:

“On Friday morning, March 3rd, between the hours of eleven and twelve o’clock, I was in my yard, not more than forty steps from the door of the room in which we are now sitting. The skies were clear and the sun was shining brightly. There was a slight wind coming from a westerly direction. Without any prelude or warning and exactly under these circumstances the shower commenced. The fall was of not less than one nor more than two minutes duration. I never touched any of the flesh until my husband came home. I noticed little whirlwinds in the mountains during the morning and predicted rain from that fact.

When the flesh began to fall I said to my grandson, who was the only person in the yard with me at the time, “What is that falling, Allan?” 

He looked up and said, “Why grandma, it’s snowing.” 

I then walked around and saw a large piece of it strike the ground right behind me, with a snapping like noise when it struck. A vague idea that my husband and son, who were away, had been torn to pieces and their remains were being brought home to me in this way by the wind flashed through my mind at the moment. I was also impressed with the conviction that it was a miracle of God which as yet we do not understand. It may have been a warning, as ‘coming events’ are sad to ‘cast their shadows before.’”

Unfortunately for Mary, a rumor circulated in Mount Sterling. It was known she and her husband quarrelled over the land. Mary wanting to sell and leave this place and Allen wanting to remain. The rumor swelled on the day of the carnal rain – whispers slipped and slithered. Did Mary cause the gruesome display somehow? Whether she did or not, Mr. Crouch was later found amenable to moving to Indiana where they had family.

Of course, scientists offered their more so-called rational opinions.

Newark Scientific Association analyzed the meat. Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton appearing in the Medical Record stating the meat had been identified as lung tissue from either a horse or a human infant, “the structure of the organ in these two cases being almost identical.” Other meat samples were identified as lung tissue, muscle, and cartilage.

The initial theory related to the past Tennessee case. Wind and rain had brought the desiccated corpse matter to the Crouch farm. However, there had been no rain and the wind had been light. 

Locals favored the explanation that the meat was vomited up by buzzards. Dr. L. D. Kastenbine presented this theory in the Louisville Medical News as the best explanation of the variety of meat Vultures vomit as part of making a quick escape and defensive method when threatened.

But Mary said nothing about seeing birds. On top of that, while vultures do regurgitate to escape dangers and can fly high enough to not be seen with the naked eye, they don’t do so in the air and not in unison enough to cover such a large space. Lastly, wouldn’t this be a more common occurrence if vultures were able to rain carrion on us?

These are Fortean Events

Charles Forte, paranormal researcher and archivist, discusses blood rains in his work The Book of the Damned. He accounts for rains of blood across Europe, Africa, and North America.

“There have been red rains that, in the middle ages, were called “rains of blood.” Such rains terrified many persons, and were so unsettling to large populations, that Scients, in its sociologic relations, has sought, by Mrs. Eddy’s method, to remove an evil –

That “rains of blood” do not exist;”

He points out time and again that scientific rationalization of these rains of blood being sands from the Sahara desert arriving across seas and oceans, or, in the case in KY and TN, via vomiting vultures is more the case of scientists telling themselves bedtime stories to ward off fear of the supernatural world.

Forte mentions the story in Wilson County, TN and Troost’s explanation that a whirlwind caused it. “But, in volume 44, page 216, of the Journal there is an apology. The whole matter is, upon newspaper authority, said to have been a hoax by Negroes…If we don’t accept this datum, at least we see the sociologically necessary determination to have all falls accredited to earthly origins – even when they’re falls that don’t fall.”

Regarding the Kentucky Phenomenon, Forte says, “It seems to me that the exclusionists are still more emphatically conservators. It is not so much that they are inimical to all data of externally derived substances that fall upon this earth, as that they are inimical to all data discordant with a system that does not include such phenomena – 

Or the spirit or hope or ambition of the cosmos, which we call attempted positivism: not to found out the new; not to add to what is called knowledge, but to systemize.”

Further Investigation

Regarding these blood rains, I set out to do the only kind of investigation I could given the distance of time. I researched the papers, which are attached, and then did an investigation that I’m sure the aforementioned scientists would not approve of. I looked into the astrology of the events and I requested my partner to do a remote viewing session of the time and place these rains occurred.

Astrology

Before I deep dive into my astrological research on these events, I should state that I am not a professional astrologer. While I have studied astrology and been mentored at times by professionals, I am always open to other interpretations of charts.

When comparing the charts between the TN and KY blood rains, there were only two similarities. That was that both charts showed squares on Saturn’s and the Sun’s positions. Squares are signs of tension and friction, conflict.

Saturn deals with things like boundaries, hard lessons, time, gravity both literal and regarding situations, dealing with a situation and not ignoring it, etc

Re: Bath county chart
Saturn square the sun is square 2 major “authority” figures in the astrology chart, both patriarchal and representing figures like God, the sun God, the Old Man type god like Chronos, etc. This would be seen as a forceful turning point, pressure escalating to a point of possible explosion. In 12th house Pisces this shows that this point of conflict is subconscious, dream like, spiritual.

Re: Wilson co chart
We see, again, Saturn as patriarchal symbol of the old man squared off with Jupiter, another patriarchal authority figure of a king or ruler – Chronos vs Zeus which in mythology Zeus won and that harkened in a new age.

This time it’s in the 1st house which is gonna be in your face and conscious not subconscious or mystical. It’s in Sagittarius so it will be loud and boisterous.
We also see a square between the Sun and Mercury in Leon 9th house. Information overload, lots of thoughts and ideas which we saw with the conflicting ideas around everything from nostoc to vulture vomit. 
Leo is another in your face conscious and loud sign like sag – lots of talk and lots of arguing over what this is.

It is interesting to see that Bath co was mystical subconscious and the witness claimed it was a sign from god and neighbors rumored she was a witch whereas in Wilson county it was said to be slaves playing a prank to cause issues with their master.

Remote Viewing Wilson County

Damon did a remote viewing session using the ganzfeld method to see what happened in Wilson Co.

He said something happened the night before leading up to this event but could not clarify.
Then that the day of was terribly hot and looking up you could see a refraction of light like something was moving across the sky that you couldn’t really see. There was motion and then the meat and blood fell out of whatever was moving across the sky.
When he tried to look closer it was like he was thrown back and at the 15 minute mark of the session he jumped like he was falling.

If this is the case, whatever was moving across the sky had to be both large and not of human origin of the time. I saw this because in 1876 the only aircraft available to humans was hot air balloons. Whatever this was, was not visible like a balloon and was much faster. Airplanes wouldn’t be flown by the Wright brothers until 1903, 33 years later and even then not to the size and ability that would have been needed to perform this blood rain.