In a previous episode of Weird Los Angeles we spoke of strange things such as fish falling from the sky. Even stranger still, there have been accounts of even more bizarre, and grisly 'objects' descending from the zenith. Flesh!

Such sinister showers were recorded by the Los Angeles News during the 1800s, and almost lost to the world if it weren't for the logging skills of author Charles Fort who listed such anomalies in his tremendous work Lo!

Clotted blood rained over Los Angeles, as well as the Californian township of Los Nietos. It was during the hot August of 1869 when all manner of gore plummeted to the ground from no apparent source. The shower lasted three minutes and plastered areas of up to two acres. The rain was mentioned in the San Francisco Evening Bulletin of August 9th, who stated that the flesh was in fine particles and also strips measuring up to six-inches in length. Even more strange was the fact that short, fine hairs were seen protruding from the flesh. Witnesses at the time took samples and rushed them to Los Angeles where they were looked at by the editor of the Los Angeles News who wrote at the time that he had seen but not kept the meat.

He wrote: "That the meat fell, we cannot doubt. Even the parsons of the neighbourhood are willing to vouch for that. Where it came from, we cannot even conjecture."

Weirder still, it was mentioned that two months previous to the bloody fall, Santa Clarita was bombarded also by a brief shower of flesh and blood.

So, when there's a red sky at night...be warned!

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