Paranormal vloggers causing a commotion in an Indian community, a commercial pilot reporting a flying saucer near Philadelphia, and what may have been the first Loch Ness Monster sighting of the year were among the weird and wondrous stories to cross our desk this past week.
Sightings of two iconic cryptids made the news this past week, beginning with a possible Sasquatch sighting in South Carolina. Like many encounters with Bigfoot, the incident involved a pair of travelers who spotted an inordinately large, bipedal, hair-covered creature scramble across the road in front of their car as they cruised down the highway. Weirdly, the witness who reported the sighting indicated that a friend driving along the same route saw a similar creature a couple of days later. Meanwhile, in Scotland, a visitor to Loch Ness captured footage of a fast-moving anomaly that some believe was the first 'monster' sighting of 2026.
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A particularly unusual UFO report caught our attention this past week when a commercial pilot landing in Philadelphia told air traffic control that she had just seen a flying saucer zip over the aircraft. During the curious exchange, the witness sounded genuinely baffled by the strange sighting, observing that the odd object did not appear to be a drone nor a balloon. Later in the week, two interesting UFO videos caught our attention. A witness in Argentina filmed a mysterious glowing object that appeared over a city. In Britain, a bewildered observer captured footage of a similarly puzzling ball of light that appeared over the water at a beach before vanishing in an instant.
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By far the wildest story of the week came from India, where a group of paranormal vloggers got into a brawl with angry residents of a community. The bizarre incident came about after the country's content creators found their imaginations captured by a long-abandoned home where a family of seven was mysteriously slain over 25 years ago. Claiming the residence to be haunted, countless cell phone-wielding individuals visited the now-viral home until a trio of trouble-making thrill-seekers took things too far and broke into the house to film a video. Fed up with their village being overrun by content creators, a mob of residents clashed with the three visitors in a fight that left two people badly injured.
For more strange and unusual stories from the past week, check out the Coast to Coast AM website.