A thundershower of gore rains down on a Tennessee tobacco field. Biblical stories tell of frogs, eels, blood and more falling from the skies. Raw meat and gristle blanket a South Carolina cotton farm and foretell the end of days.

A collection of true tales from the Gothic South with a single thread running through: the undeniable presence of blood—in unbelievable quantities—where it simply shouldn’t be.

In this episode:

• The tiny town of Coalburg, Alabama, where dark clouds rained down millions of slithering eels on a warm evening in 1892
• The Macon, Georgia, blood fall of 1842 that included chunks of meat, gristle, and organs that weighed up to 25 pounds
• The 1843 blood fall in Laurens, South Carolina, that one popular preacher identified at a deadly omen portending the Book of Revelations
• The infamous Atlanta Blood House that seeped gallons of type O blood from the walls, floorboards and crawl spaces in September 1987
• The Lebanon, Tennessee, blood fall of 1841 that spread gore for more than 800 yards across a field of terrified farm hands

What falls from the sky in the American South? Sometimes it’s rain or snakes or eels. And sometimes it’s blood.

Music courtesy of Geoff Harvey, Pixabay.