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Originally posted by burdman30ott6
When I was a kid, my aunt bought me the Time-Life book series "Mysteries of the Unexplained." While this was the late 80's, so the event the OP is discussing had not happened, it did have a section on strange substances falling from the sky. It dealt with everything from Biblical plagues of frogs "raining" on Egypt, to Manna falling from heaven to feed the Israelites, to numerous reports of something called "angel hair" falling all over the globe. I seem to recall a couple of stories in there about things very similar to this... substances which were lab tested to reveal human and/or animal skin cells and I remember well that in some of the events the substance either left an almost chemical burn on anyone it touched, killed grass and plants where it landed, and made animals very ill.
I will have to look for that book now and return to this topic with some citations.
Originally posted by burdman30ott6
When I was a kid, my aunt bought me the Time-Life book series "Mysteries of the Unexplained." While this was the late 80's, so the event the OP is discussing had not happened, it did have a section on strange substances falling from the sky. It dealt with everything from Biblical plagues of frogs "raining" on Egypt, to Manna falling from heaven to feed the Israelites, to numerous reports of something called "angel hair" falling all over the globe. I seem to recall a couple of stories in there about things very similar to this... substances which were lab tested to reveal human and/or animal skin cells and I remember well that in some of the events the substance either left an almost chemical burn on anyone it touched, killed grass and plants where it landed, and made animals very ill.
I will have to look for that book now and return to this topic with some citations.
American Journal of Science, 1-41-404:
Story of a highly unpleasant substance that had fallen from the sky, in Wilson County, Tennessee. We read that Dr. Troost visited the place and investigated. Later we’re going to investigate some investigations--but never mind that now. Dr. Troost reported that the substance was clear blood and portions of flesh scattered upon tobacco fields. He argued that a whirlwind might have taken an animal up from one place, mauled it around, and have precipitated its remains somewhere else.
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, who had pretended to have seen the shower, for the sake of practicing upon the credulity of their masters: that they had scattered the decaying flesh of a dead hog over the tobacco fields.