This unsettling glass bottle contains a rare and eerie relic: preserved meat from the mysterious Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876. In a bizarre and still-unexplained event, chunks of red flesh suddenly rained down over a 100-by-50-yard area in Bath County, Kentucky. Eyewitnesses described the meat as looking like beef or mutton, falling from a clear sky with no warning.

Scientists and curious minds of the era rushed to investigate. Some speculated it was vulture vomit, others believed it a divine sign, and a few even feared it was a supernatural omen. Samples were collected and preserved—like the one in this bottle—becoming macabre artifacts of one of America’s strangest weather events. The texture and type of the meat still fuel speculation today.

More than just a curiosity, this preserved fragment serves as a chilling reminder of how little we sometimes understand about the natural (or unnatural) world. Whether explained by science or still shrouded in mystery, the Kentucky Meat Shower remains one of the oddest episodes in meteorological history. And this bottle? It’s a piece of the sky’s most unsettling gift