- Well folks, it's
officially the spooky season, the time for us to sooth
our ravaged pandemic wounds with a gentle elixir made
of pumpkin spice lattes, fun size candy bars, and
the smug satisfaction that even before you
watched "Lovecraft Country," you already knew that Cthulhu was racist! Let's get right into today's segment that we like to call Everyone's Asking, No One's Asking where I give an answer to a question you won't stop asking me, if you agree to stick
around and listen to a story of my choosing that you
absolutely did not ask for. Deal? Flotsam, Jetsam, now I got them, boys. The boss is, in fact, on a roll. In today's Everyone's Asking, what is going on with that woman who woke up alive at the funeral home? Here's the background, on Sunday, August 23rd Timesha Beauchamp was declared dead by paramedics. Her body was then taken to the James H. Cole Home for Funerals, which is a great trick
name for a funeral home. Home for Funerals, You almost had us there. After spending two hours in a body bag, employees of the funeral home discovered that Beauchamp was not only breathing, but could open and close her eyes. - An internal investigation is underway to find out how paramedics
determined a woman was dead, when she was in fact, very much alive. - [Reporter] When a worker here at the James H. Cole
Funeral Home on Schaefer here in Detroit unzipped the body bag that 20 year old Timesha Beauchamp was in, her beautiful eyes were open, because she was actually alive. - Day one of mortuary
school they teach you dead people should not be blinking, no breathing, no blinking. Imagine being the poor staff
member at the funeral home, trying to convince everyone, that the dead woman they just brought in was still breathing. I'd be like, shut down. It turns out that this
employee was in fact not wrong, and that Tamisha Beauchamp
was in fact not dead. That's right, she Was a
live in a funeral home. Truly PR that James H. Cole
Home For Funerals does not need, although they didn't do anything wrong. They were the only professionals here who knew what a living person looks like. So how did this happen? Early that Sunday morning
paramedics were called to the Beauchamp Southfield
home just outside of Detroit. Paramedics found that
the 20 year old Beauchamp was not breathing, and after administering life
reviving methods like CPR, it was according to the
chief of the Southfield fire department determined at that time that she did not have any signs of life. When Beauchamps mother
Erica Lattimore asked, are you absolutely 100%
sure that she's gone? The paramedics said to
her, yes, ma'am she's gone. Beauchamp was then placed in a body bag and taken to the home for funerals, where she was discovered to be alive. Her mother was notified, and Beauchamp was quickly taken to the hospital where at
the time of this recording, she remains in critical condition. There are quite a few
things to unpack here, first, and this is just
a personal issue I have with the way of stories
like this are reported, and how they play into people's fears. Alive in a funeral home. she didn't wake up alive. The people in these very
rare stories were never dead. They were delivered to
places that dead people go, through medical error and
that's no good, it's horrifying, but there's not supernatural
stuff a foot here. So if Timesha was never actually dead, why were they saying she was dead? My immediate reaction just
from reading the main headlines was why was a 20 year old woman taken directly to a funeral home? Not taken to the coroner
or medical examiners office for an autopsy. That's where a body will typically go, if such a young person dies unexpectedly. The most crucial piece of
information here is that Timesha has cerebral palsy
and received treatments to help her breathe three times a day. When I learned about her cerebral palsy, the medical examiner agreeing to just release her to the funeral home made much more sense to me. Timesha had a lot of people, likely including doctors and
maybe even these paramedics, having the preconceived
notion that this was a woman with health problems, who
could die at any time. She didn't even need an
autopsy, we know why she died, straight to the funeral home. Case in point the paramedic
who resuscitated Beauchamp stopped her six minutes before a doctor over the phone, by the way,
told him it was okay to stop. And he didn't use a stethoscope to double check
circulation or respiration. The health department has
since said that the vital signs and description depicted to
the physician were inaccurate. Yeah, but wait, there's more. - Her breathing was like,
had returned back to normal. - And what did they do? They just, what did they say? They just kind of
dressed you all for what? - Yes - Apparently, that same
paramedic was called back into Beauchamps home, when her family found her to be breathing, they put her on a monitor that
showed electrical activity and breathing which science
tells us dead people do not do, but still nobody did anything. - It was faint, but I felt a pulse. I've been a nurse for like 38 years, and I kind of like know
when there is a pulse or when there's not. - That woman in the video
is Timesha godmother and a registered nurse. The whole family was
ignored and disregarded when they attempted to
advocate for Beauchamps life. The paramedic told Beauchamps family yeah, the meds she was taking will
make her chest move again. If that's true, he was
ascribing her literal breathing to her disorder and
medication, not to being alive. And I'm all for the Beauchamp
family, getting justice here, whatever that can even
mean in this situation. But I will say that their attorney hasn't been totally helpful in quelling the public's fierce. Beauchamp lawyer, Geoffrey Fieiger who fun fact was also
Jack Kevorkian lawyer, immediately started telling the press that had it not been
for Timesha open eyes, the embalmer would have drained her blood and embalmed her without a second thought. - They would have begun draining her blood to be very, very frank about it, and would have begun embalming her. No one would have known that Timesha, was sent to the funeral home alive, alive. - If you've ever seen a dead
person or handled a dead person like funeral home workers
do on a regular basis, there's a distinct difference between the living and the dead. Especially two hours after death, dead people look and feel dead. They don't breathe, they don't blink, dead people also don't bleed. Not that I think it would
have gotten that far. Was to Timesha Beauchamp
ever in any real danger of being embalmed, I personally don't think so. The far greater danger was how long she was kept away from the
care of emergency physicians, just riding around town in a body bag. It seems like the story here, isn't a live in a funeral home. But the more mundane pervasive
well-documented problem of the way black women and disabled women are treated by the medical establishment. And on that note, hopefully
having answered your question. It's my time, time to
talk about something, no one was asking for. And no, it's not my NBA hot takes, although I have many. Coreia is on timeout, no
one is to speak to him. Today you're going to hear
about that Kentucky meat shower, which is not a sex act how dare you? March 9th, 1867 was a bright
clear day at the crouch farm, just a few miles outside of
Olympia Springs, Kentucky. Mrs. Allen Crouch was
in her yard making soap when quote meat which looked like beef began to fall all around her. It was raining meat out of a clear sky. The pieces were three
to four inches square and covered an area of 150 by 50 yards, this was not normal. The meat shower lasted
for only a few minutes and upon examination, a larger piece looked
like it had been torn from the throat of some animal. The meat eaters on the farm descended the cats and dogs and hogs and showered down on the sky meat. They were all quite happy
until the dog got sick. Mr. Crouch put some of the
meat in a bottle with alcohol and took it into town to
the local Irish real worker, Jimmy Welch. Welsh like your cousin
who will do anything for a bag of flaming hot
cheetos and a cannabis gummy, agreed to taste the sky meat for a dollar. Dude these fool's about
to eat those gummy, but Welsh wasn't as
hardcore as he let on to be. After trying unsuccessfully to
choke down the mystery meat, Welsh gave it up because
he remembered, oh yeah, it's blant week bro week. But the local butcher named Frisbee stepped up to sample the sky meat. After chewing it and trying to swallow it, but eventually spitting it out. Frisbee said I've
handled all kinds of meat and I've never tasted
anything like it before. I'm not prepared to say for certain that the taste resembled bad
of either fish, flesh, or foul. It looks more like
mutton than anything else I can compare it to. A week after the meat dropped a Mr. Joe Jordan also tried
to eat some of the meat, but also quickly spat it out. Upon squeezing it, he described a brown mucus oozing from it, and describe the smell quote
as like that of a dead body. Let's recap, some stinky
mystery meat rained down from the sky into Mrs. Crouches yard, and all the dudes in
town were like, oh yeah, no, I'll eat it. Not surprisingly, I'm pretty
sure Mrs. Crouch herself set the meat tasting out. You may be thinking this was a hoax, but Mrs. Crouch was a reliable witness with no reason to lie. So what was up with this guy meat? At first scientists said
that the ham from the heavens was actually a substance called Nozstock , that forms when cyanobacteria
colonies swell up into gelatinous blobs. Supposedly animals will gobble up Nozstock and it tastes like chicken. The only problem with the
Nozstock theory is that when the substance was tested, it was found to be lung muscle
fibers and connective tissue. Theories about where the
meat came from baffled scientific circles with theories ranging from two brothers who
got into a knife fight and were picked up by a twister, that spat their mangled flesh
out over Olympia Springs, to the belief that the
flesh was the remains of alien livestock that
was orbiting the earth after their home planet exploded. I mean, that's my choice,
that's what I choose to believe. And I'll tell you right now, this remains an unsolved mystery, but the most logical theory seems to be good old vulture vomit. Vultures gorging on a carcass
may have gotten startled or frightened and had
to quickly take flight. If the escaping vultures
were too weighed down by the tasty tasty carcass flesh, they might've had to
regurgitate it mid air. Another theory suggests the local vultures may have eaten a poisoned
animal and vomited it because of the poison. Although Mrs. Crouch has always
claimed it was a clear sky, when the meat rain down, she would have noticed hoards
of gagging vultures flying by. So the next time you're in
Olympia Springs Kentucky, take a bite of a Turkey leg, look at the skies and
think of the brave men who ate vulture vomit, because who doesn't love free sky meat. (bell ringing) Kentucky meat shower, special thanks to my friend, Colin Dickey, whose new book, the
unidentified got me hooked on meat showers. Thank you for joining me today. Remember you will die. And this study shows
that if you're a morbidly curious individual, you're more psychologically
resilient during this pandemic. So isn't that lovely for all of us, that's totally me. I'm doing absolutely perfect. Goodbye. - [Narrator] This video was
made with generous donations from death enthusiasts, just like you. - Hello welcome to Caitlin news. Flotsam and jetsam. Flotsam and jetsam flop
flotsam and jetsam. Isn't that hard? Yeah. Shut down, the more mundane pervasive well documented and more pervasive mundane
well documented problem of loud cars outside of my apartment. Weak bro, weak. weak bro, weak. Oh, I gotta do that
again, that was no good. Oh weak bro, weak, right? I think that's ads. Let's check out the old clipper Rooney's, shall we? See how it looks, oh my God. ♪ Kentucky meat shower ♪ ♪ Kentucky meat shower ♪ ♪ Kentucky meat shower ♪ ♪ Kentucky meat shower, ♪ ♪ Kentucky meat shower. ♪ (soft music)
/u/LouiseHung If Caitlin needs someone to talk to for realzie, i'm up for it.