This Week's Weird News 2/23/24 – iHeart
Coast to Coast AM deals with UFOs, strange occurrences, life after death, and other unexplained phenomena.Full Bio
A ‘Thundercow’ roaming around Oklahoma, a new effort to celebrate Ogopogo, and a strange swarm of UFOs filmed over a city in China were among the weird and wondrous stories to cross our desk this past week.
A pair of peculiar UFO videos popped up on our radar this past week, starting with a strange piece of footage from China. The eerie scene, which unfolded over the city of Deyang, saw a swarm of illuminated dots that seemingly wafted through the night sky. Some viewers suggested that the weird glowing cloud could have been insects, while others wondered if the event was alien in nature. Later in the week, a resident of Fresno, California captured footage of a truly bizarre object floating over the city and many likened the bug-like anomaly to the alien invaders from films like Arrival and War of the Worlds.
Photo: Getty Images
The legendary Canadian lake monster Ogogpogo was in the news this week thanks to a new effort to create an enormous statue celebrating the creature. The wooden sculpture was proposed for the community of Peachland, which sits on the shore of Okanagan Lake, where the iconic cryptid is said to reside. Behind the effort is a group of residents who say that they will pay for the creation of the envisioned piece, which would measure 25 feet long and around 8 to 10 feet tall, though they need the community to provide a place for the sizeable work of art. Should the proposal come to pass, the hope is that Peachland becomes something of a cryptozoological tourist destination.
Photo: Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium
This past week featured a couple of curious creature stories that wound up making headlines. In Oklahoma, a mysterious cow has been seen wandering around a lake for the better part of a year with no indication of its origin. The weirdly elusive bovine has been likened to Bigfoot by some residents and become such a local legend that it has even been given the fantastic moniker ‘Thundercow.’ Meanwhile, at a zoo in Nebraska, veterinarians removed a staggering 70 coins from the stomach of their resident American alligator. The reptile, named Thibodaux, was fortunately no worse for wear from the procedure which came about due to wish-casting patrons tossing change into its enclosure.
For more strange and unusual stories from the past week, check out the Coast to Coast AM website.
