The strangest of all sky falls, and perhaps the one with the darkest implications, are ones where strange creatures or blood and flesh fall from the heavens. I will not conjecture yet on the possible reasons for these strange falls until I have completed presenting cases of oddities which from time to time have rained down upon us from the heavens. I should clarify now that showers of blood are not the same as the phenomenon known as red rain, which I will cover in a miscellanious section towards the end of this chapter. It is difficult to explain these occurrences in the laws of mankind, and when attempts are made to explain them, they are usually made at the expence of ignoring impossible to explain facts, dismissing testimony as hallucinations, hysteria etc.. I have been only able to find a limited number of cases of flesh falls, which include some examples of unidentified creatures which have fallen as well. The only real awakening this whole subject has given me is that I must keep looking at as many clues as possible, as I have learned from experience that seemingly unrelated facts can sometimes lead one to a state of higher awareness, where you realize you have been looking at different pieces of the same jigsaw puzzle, and a picture is finally beginning to develope, showing the universe in a slightly different light....
On May 5, 1786, the last day of a drought that had lasted since the previous November, "a great quantity" of small black eggs fell on Port - au - Prince, Haiti. They hatched the following day, and some of the strange unidentifiable creatures were preserved in a flask of water. The creatures shed their skin several times and resembled tadpoles.
Moreau de Saint-Mer'y, A Naturalists Sojourn in Jamaica)
Please note I could not find any record of how long the creatures survived, although it is apparent most died soon after hatching.
At the Benicia army station near San Francisco, troops on drill were showered with blood and pieces of meat, apparently beef, on July 20, 1851. Specimens " from the size of a pigeons egg up to that of an orange" were given to the army surgeon, who described some slices as being tainted, presumably from disease.
"The San Francisco Herald, July 24, 1851"
Flesh and blood fell for three minutes and covered over 2 acres of Mr. J. Hudsons farm near Los Nitos, California, on August 1, 1869. The day was perfectly clear and windless, and the flesh fell in fine particles as well as strips from an inch to six inches long. Short fine hairs also fell with it. In the article on this story in the San Francisco Evening Bulletin dated August 9, 1869 it was also reported that flesh and blood had fallen in Santa Clara County some two months earlier.
On Friday, March 3, 1876, flakes of meat fell over an area 100 yards long and 50 yards wide near the Kentucky home of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Crouch, not far from the Olympian springs in southern Bath county. The sky was cloudless at the time and windless. The flakes were from 1 to 4 inches square and looked like fresh beef. However, according to the opinion of the "two gentlemen" the substance was either venison or mutton. (Were the two men unwitting cannibles? WOS)
"Scientific American, 34: 197, March 25, 1876 "
But in July, according to a Mr. Leopold Brandeis writing in the Sanitarian, the Kentucky Meat shower was explained : the substance was nothing more than Nostoc "a low form of vegetable matter" (though how this had dropped from the clear blue sky remained a mystery). Unfortunately for the squeamish, this less alarming description did not survive long. Dr. A. Mead Edwards, president of the Network Scientific Association, called on Mr. Brandeis to see if he could obtain a specimen of the original material. Mr. Brandeis kindly gave him the whole sample, with the information that he himself had obtained it from a doctor in Brooklyn, who had in turn been given it by a Proffesor Chandler.
Shortly after this a letter from Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton appeared in Medical Record, stating that he and Dr. J.W.S. Arnold had made a microscopic examination of the material from the Kentucky meat-shower supplied to them by Dr. Chandler. He added that they had identified the substance as lung tissue from a human infant or a horse ("the structure of the organ in these two cases being almost identicle").
After reading this letter, Dr. Edwards called on Dr. Hamilton and was aain rewarded with the sample in question, this time with the information that two samples had been sent from Kentucky to the editor of the Agriculturalist, who gave them to Professor Chandler. The professor had given one sample to Dr. Hamilton and one to the Brooklyn doctor who had passed it on to Mr. Brandeis. Dr. Edwards now had possesion of both samples. He confirmed Dr. Hamiltons identification and identifed the sample given to Mr. Brandeis as also being lung tissue, although it was less well preserved. Soon after, Dr. Edwards was shown a third sample of the Kentucky meat, which had been given Professor J. Phin of the American Journal of Microscopy by a Mr. Walmsley of Philadelphi, who had in turn received it from Kentucky. This slide revealed to the observer that the material was "undoubtably.....muscular fiber".
Subsequently Professor Phin showed Dr. Edwards a fourth specimen, this one sent to him by a Mr A.T. Parker of Lexington, Kentucky This sample also proved to be muscular tissue. Still not satisfied, Dr. Edwards now wrote to Mr. Parker, who sent him three more samples, two in their natural state and one prepared for the microscope. Of these, two proved to be cartilage, and one was muscle tissue with "what appears to be dense connective tissue."
Thus, of the seven samples examined, two were of lung tissue, three were muscle tissue and two were cartilage. As a postscript to the story, Dr. Edwards relayed a theory of the event passed on to him by Mr. Parker: the meat was probably disgorged by buzzards, " who, seeing one of their companions disgorge himself, immediately followed suit."
As to how many buzzards would be required to cover 5,000 square yards with disgorged meat, or at what height they must have been flying so as to be invisible, was not suggested.
"Scientific American Supplement, 2:437, July 22, 1876"
Unidentified creatures apparently in a larval stage (they were encased in a gelatinous substance) fell upon the town of Bath, England, dring a violent rain and hail storm in 1871. They were 1.5 inches long and were described after being examined "under a powerful lens" as "animals with barrel formed bodies, the motion of the viscera in which is perfectly visible, with locust shaped heads and long anntennae, and with pectoral and caudal fins lik feet". Specimens were preserved at the Derby and Midland Tavern, " where scientific men, upon observing the creatures, pronounced them to be marine insects, probably caught up in a cloud by a waterspout in the Bristol Channel". That these are the only known specimens of these creatures ever found seems conveniently overlooked.
Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine, 6:59, May, 1871
During a heavy snowstorm in 1922, "thousands of exotic insects resembling spiders, caterpillars and huge ants" fell on a number of slopes in the Swiss Alps, according to a report.
Charles Fort, The Complete Books of Charles Fort, p. 535
On August 27, 1968, blood and flesh fell on an area of about one-third of a square mile between the Brazillian towns of Cacapava and Sao Jose dos Campos. The fall was reported to have lasted about 5 to 7 minutes...
" J. Michell, Phenomena: A Book of Wonders p. 15"
