This Week's Weird News 5/5/23 – iHeartRadio
By Tim Binnall
May 5, 2023
An albino echidna, 500 pounds of pasta mysteriously dumped next to a creek in New Jersey, and a rideshare driver who may have picked up a ghost were among the strange and unusual stories to cross our desk this week.
While tales of taxi drivers picking up ghosts are often thought of being the stuff of urban legend, this past week saw a rideshare driver in Malaysia come forward with a recent account of just such an eerie experience happening to him. An unsettled Ahsan Ismail claims that he was booked to drive a woman from a hospital to a cemetery in the city Kuching earlier this week and the trip seemingly went without incident until they arrived at their destination. It was then that the driver discovered that there was no one else in the car with him and, to his astonishment, on the backseat were "a few old money notes" that he believes were thoughtfully left behind by the spirit.
The wonders of nature were on full display this past week in the form of two eye-catching occurrences. First, in Florida, a visitor to Miami Beach filmed a mesmerizing meteorological phenomenon known as a ‘crown flash,’ wherein the combination of ice crystals and lighting create the appearance of a light beam flickering in the sky from within the clouds. Then, in Australia, a motorist could not believe his eyes when he encountered a breathtaking albino echidna. The spiny anteater has since become something of a celebrity in the community where it has now been repeatedly seen by residents to the point that’s even been given a name: Raffie.
Perhaps the most perplexing story of the week came by way of New Jersey, where a staggering 500 pounds of pasta were found inexplicably dumped by the side of a creek. Spawning all manner of jokes and puns on social media, the mysterious and massive mounds of spaghetti, noodles, and ziti constituted a whopping 15 wheel barrel loads when workers in the community of Old Bridge were called upon to remove them. Authorities are uncertain as to who left the piles next to the stream, though noted that the food did not appear to have been cooked beforehand, which makes the case all the more perplexing.
For more weird and wondrous stories from the past week, check out the Coast to Coast AM website.
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