A true Wild West story. Big Nose George was lynched in 1881, and parts of his body were turned into shoes, skull artefacts, and medical specimens. His legacy still raises questions in Wyoming today.

In 1876 chunks of raw meat fell from the sky in rural Kentucky. Eyewitnesses panicked scientists investigated and the explanation turned out to be stranger and more ordinary than expected. The Kentucky Meat Shower explained.

In 1908 an unidentified drifter reportedly died after eating bookbinding paste in Goldfield Nevada. Buried with a blunt epitaph his grave remains one of the town’s strangest and most debated stories.