A trio of intriguing UFO photos, a modern-day Kentucky meat shower, and misbehaving mystics in trouble with the law were among the weird and wondrous stories to cross our desk this past week.
Misbehaving mystics found their way into the news this past week by way of two separate cases. First, a TikTok tarot reader was ordered to pay a staggering $10 million in damages to a college professor whom she had repeatedly accused of being behind the 2022 University of Idaho quadruple murder. One can only hope that the judgment will serve as a lesson to online sleuths and true crime content creators, who are often quick to speculate about suspects. Later in the week, a trio of Ukrainian 'clairvoyants' were arrested for a particularly cruel series of schemes wherein they bilked war widows out of thousands of dollars with claims that they could bring back their lost husbands.
Photo: Frogman Festival
A pair of fantastic festivals celebrating strange history made headlines this past week, beginning with a gathering in Kentucky to commemorate the 150th anniversary of a legendary event wherein meat mysteriously rained down from the sky. To mark the momentous occasion, a small plane soared over the event and dropped approximately 1,800 plastic-wrapped beef sticks on the crowd of hundreds of revelers. Meanwhile, a town in Ohio is gearing up for its own unique celebration this weekend as the community of Loveland prepares for the fourth annual Frogman Festival, honoring a legendary creature spotted in the area on several occasions over the years.
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Three peculiar pictures featuring puzzling aerial anomalies caught our eye this past week. First, a British family checking their vacation photos was left scratching their heads when they spotted a bizarre gray shape soaring through the sky behind them in one of the images. Later in the week, NASA's Curiosity Rover got in on the act when it snapped a picture of the Martian horizon and seemingly captured a UFO over the terrain. Finally, a British man revealed a pair of photos of what he claimed was a flying saucer seen hovering over a river before vanishing with a mysterious 'pop' that leaves one to suspect it may have been a balloon.
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