This Week's Weird News – foxsports1070.iheart.com
A pair of odd New England mysteries, a historic NASA landing on Mars, and a possible alien skull discovered in China were among the strange and unusual news items to cross our desk this week.
Space enthusiasts rejoiced and NASA officials breathed a sigh of relief on Monday as their InSight Lander successfully touched down on Mars following a dramatic plunge through the atmosphere of the Red Planet. Over the next two years, the craft will study the interior of Mars using an array of sophisticated equipment which will provide a wealth of new data about the mysterious world. Those insights may prove critical should humans finally make the leap to the Red Planet, which is a scenario that seems a lot less fantastic than before thanks to a new plan unveiled by NASA this week to take astronauts back to the moon and beyond.
This past week saw two very different mysteries in New England make headlines. First, there was the sudden and inexplicable appearance of a perfectly intact ATM found near a forest in Maine. Looking like the monolith in the movie 2001, the out-of-place cash dispenser had authorities scratching their heads, especially since the machine was not smashed open. With that in mind, a detective investigating the case theorized that the ATM had been deposited in the wilderness by pranksters.
Meanwhile, on a darker note, the FBI announced a rather hefty reward for information which could help solve the unsettling situation involving an animal sanctuary in New Hampshire that is being tormented by an extortionist. This ne’er-do-well is said to have sent cryptic letters to the ranch written in riddles and demanding a whopping sum of money. Chillingly, the twisted miscreant then proceeded to reign terror upon the owners and their animals when they refused to pay by burning down a barn and attacking the unfortunate creatures.
One of the more bizarre stories to appear in the news this week centered around an alleged ET skull purportedly obtained by a UFO researcher in China. The strange-looking object was reportedly given to the researcher by a man who spotted the oddity among the offerings of a street vendor in Inner Mongolia. Measuring around six inches in diameter, the weird item does look rather alien, although the same could be said about a weird sea creature that recently washed ashore in New Zealand and that turned out to be pretty prosaic. So it would probably be wise to wait for further tests to be done on the alien skull before popping the champagne bottles.
You can find more fascinating stories about the strange and unusual at the Coast to Coast AM website.
