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.