This Week's Weird News 1/26/24 – iHeart
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A pair of chilling ghost videos, a possible sighting of a legendary Argentine lake monster, and a mischievous teen busted for taping fish to ATMs were among the weird and wondrous stories to cross our desk this past week.
This past week featured a pair of spooky videos that wound up making headlines. First, a motorist in California captured footage of an eerie anomaly that appeared in front of her car while driving down a road. While some dismissed the ‘apparition’ as merely a meteorological effect or perhaps a reflection, others noted that the incident occurred on a notoriously dangerous road and, as such, theorized that the oddity might have been a ghost. A similarly chilling video later in the week featured a Tesla seemingly detecting a proverbial horde of ghosts that appeared beside the vehicle when it was driven into a graveyard.
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Two different international cryptids popped up in the news this past week, beginning with a legendary snake-like creature from Japan known as the tsuchinoko. The subject of a bonafide craze back in the late 1980s after it was allegedly seen by multiple people, the oddity had made a comeback in the struggling village of Shimokitayama, which has adopted the ‘animal’ as something of a mascot in the hopes of revitalizing the community. Meanwhile, in Argentina, a pair of kayakers captured footage of a puzzling disturbance on a lake that is said to be the home of a mysterious ‘monster’ known as El Nahuelito. While the two witnesses were uncertain of what they filmed, many believe the anomaly to be the creature that captivated the country over a century ago.
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Easily the weirdest story of the week came by way of Utah, where cops busted a teenager who had made something of a name for himself online through a series of pranks in which he allegedly taped fish to ATMs. The self-titled ‘fish bandit’ began his reign of pescatarian terror back in August and, over the course of several months, amassed a rather sizeable following of fans who delighted in watching videos of his handiwork. Alas, also keeping an eye on the mischievous prankster was the police, who managed to eventually identify the individual and subsequently take him into custody. The unmasked ‘bandit’ now faces two counts of property damage for his fishy misadventures.
For more strange and unusual stories from the past week, check out the Coast to Coast AM website.
