The Beast of Bladenboro. The Devil’s Tramping Ground. North Carolina’s eerie legends are spine tingling tales that get passed down through generation after generation. But one tale, the story of the day it rained blood here in the Tar Heel State, is one we hear much less often than the others.
According to the legend, it happened in the Piedmont, in eastern Chatham County in the community of New Hope.
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As most of us know, rainstorms are often accompanied by rain clouds. But not this time.
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According to the account of one Mrs. Kit Lassiter, on February 25, 1884, she heard a rain storm move through but when she looked up to the sky… it was sunny, not cloudy.
Leon Justice / Moment Collection via Getty Images Now, anyone living in North Carolina knows the weather can change on a dime, so it would be plausible to think that maybe the storm clouds moved through quickly or the clouds simply cleared up. But, when Mrs. Lassiter looked to the ground what she saw was not consistent with this plausible theory…
What she saw on the ground was a huge pool of freshly fallen blood that spread out about 60 feet in every direction.
Prajeesh Mylapravan / EyeEm Collection via Getty Images When samples of the blood were sent to a professor at UNC, it was determined that what she found on the ground was actual blood. To this day, there’s never been a scientific explanation offered for what Mrs. Lassiter encountered on that 25th day of February in 1884.
However, Chatham County, North Carolina, is not the only place in the Tar Heel State that has ever experienced a blood rain.
Wikipedia/David Benbennick (Public Domain) Some 30 years earlier, in Clinton, North Carolina, about 35 miles east of Fayetteville, a Thomas Clarkson reported a shower of flesh and blood that fell approximately 100 yards from his residence. The swatch of blood and guts was reportedly 50 feet wide and trailed on for up to 300 yards.
Have you ever heard about the weird and creepy blood rain in North Carolina that occurred in the 1800s? What other weird legends have you heard about the Tar Heel State?
Wikipedia/U.S. Census, Ruhrfisch
John Sirlin / EyeEm Collection via Getty Images
Leon Justice / Moment Collection via Getty Images
Now, anyone living in North Carolina knows the weather can change on a dime, so it would be plausible to think that maybe the storm clouds moved through quickly or the clouds simply cleared up. But, when Mrs. Lassiter looked to the ground what she saw was not consistent with this plausible theory…
Prajeesh Mylapravan / EyeEm Collection via Getty Images
When samples of the blood were sent to a professor at UNC, it was determined that what she found on the ground was actual blood. To this day, there’s never been a scientific explanation offered for what Mrs. Lassiter encountered on that 25th day of February in 1884.
Wikipedia/David Benbennick (Public Domain)
Some 30 years earlier, in Clinton, North Carolina, about 35 miles east of Fayetteville, a Thomas Clarkson reported a shower of flesh and blood that fell approximately 100 yards from his residence. The swatch of blood and guts was reportedly 50 feet wide and trailed on for up to 300 yards.
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