File 0028-0029: Hell: Locusts with a Chance of Meat Showers
05/21/2021
In this two-part episode our hosts, Cayla, Nathan and Halli take a look a three cases of intrigue:
- Weird Weather: Some days it's too hot, others it's too cold and sometimes meat falls from the sky. Halli talks about some of the strangest weather phenomenon and the superstition surrounding them!
- The Seven Gates of Hell: Outside of the bustling cities and towns, in a sleepy corner of Pennsylvania you will find the community of Hellam Township and with it one hell of an Urban Legend. The story goes, that in the woods there are seven gates and that if you pass through them in just the right order, they will lead you right to hell
- A Plague of Locusts: Did you ever wonder why North America doesn't get locust swarms anymore? It used to happen quite consistently, but around the 1900s the locusts just disappeared. And this was before the invention of pesticides. This makes North America and Antarctica the only two continents that don't experience the occasional locust swarm, what's up with that?!
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Sources
Additional sources can be found on the individual topic pages
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_meat_shower
- https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/the-great-kentucky-meat-shower-mystery-unwound-by-projectile-vulture-vomit/
- https://www.nytimes.com/1876/03/10/archives/flesh-descending-in-a-shower-an-astounding-phenomenon-in.html?searchResultPosition=1
- https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/history/2019/10/25/kentucky-meat-shower-meat-fell-sky-bath-county-olympian-springs/4082953002/
- https://books.google.ca/books?id=bfaultPxl18C&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Weird+Pennsylvania%22&source=bl&ots=TxkZ8sBZe8&sig=p49NLjNgGZBZoiMfNIIUw2X6kEY&hl=en&ei=OGyITOzTONO74gbevPHjAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=hell&f=false
- https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/hellam-township