This Week's Weird News 4/5/24 – iHeart
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A strange string of UFOs filmed in New York State, a ‘Grim Reaper’ at a British woman’s funeral, and a Sato surname singularity poised to overtake Japan in 500 years were among the weird and wondrous stories to cross our desk this week.
A pair of peculiar stories that unfolded at memorial services, of all places, made headlines this past week, beginning with a spooky video from a wake in the Dominican Republic wherein a wreath of flowers was observed eerily rocking back and forth to the astonishment of mourners in attendance. While some viewers of the viral video argued that the movement might have been caused by the wind, many other online observers theorized that the chilling incident was paranormal in nature. Meanwhile, in Britain, a woman with a sharp sense of humor left her loved ones laughing by way of a friend whom she enlisted to attend her funeral dressed as the Grim Reaper.
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This past week featured two tantalizing UFO cases that wound up in the news, beginning with an intriguing video captured by a witness in New York State. The odd footage showed a strange string of lights that briefly illuminated the night sky before disappearing from sight. Besides something alien in nature, theories for what the baffling cluster of orbs could have been including military flares or Starlink satellites, though as of now the mysterious lights remain a mystery. Later in the week, a pilot for the Spanish Air Force shared a remarkable account of being scrambled to intercept a UFO that was detected near his military base, but fled the scene at an incredible speed when his squadron attempted to engage with the curious object.
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Perhaps the weirdest story of the week came by way of Japan, where a professor cautioned that the country’s law requiring married couples to adopt a single surname would ultimately result in everyone having the last name Sato centuries from now. In explaining his weird warning, Hiroshi Yoshida noted that the frequency of the name had increased by 1.0083% in just the period of 2022 to 2023. Projecting this trend to continue, the professor indicated that half the population of Japan would have the surname by 2446 and a proverbial Sato singularity would occur just 85 years later. With that in mind, he advocated for a change in the law, lest the country ultimately wind up with everyone sharing the same last name.
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