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Scared by Brucie? Come on, he was a lovely bloke.
 
New grocery store offers glass windows in the floor to view of the 11th century house that is beneath it, provide easy access to ghosts who just need a bottle of milk.

They missed a classic prank in the digital age:
 
The Weird Culture War Over Bigfoot as a COVID-19 Icon


https://news.yahoo.com/weird-culture-war-over-bigfoot-090708238.html

"Disotell was not alone in co-opting Bigfoot into (corny) PSAs. In late March, parks officials in Tulsa, Oklahoma, introduced the Social Distancing Sasquatch, a pandemic safety mascot. Signs went up in Idaho claiming Bigfoot had tested negative for the coronavirus, and explaining how social distancing helped him do so. On sites like Amazon, Redbubble, and Sasquatch Outpost, retailers are currently selling countless shirts and masks, pillows and mugs, featuring Bigfoot and promoting pandemic safety. "
 
The Weird Culture War Over Bigfoot as a COVID-19 Icon


https://news.yahoo.com/weird-culture-war-over-bigfoot-090708238.html

"Disotell was not alone in co-opting Bigfoot into (corny) PSAs. In late March, parks officials in Tulsa, Oklahoma, introduced the Social Distancing Sasquatch, a pandemic safety mascot. Signs went up in Idaho claiming Bigfoot had tested negative for the coronavirus, and explaining how social distancing helped him do so. On sites like Amazon, Redbubble, and Sasquatch Outpost, retailers are currently selling countless shirts and masks, pillows and mugs, featuring Bigfoot and promoting pandemic safety. "
The article mentions that many in the diehard Bigfoot believers category reject science. I did notice that at least one Bigfoot conference took place in person.

This was a fairly in-depth article. There is a lot in it that reflects (poorly) on the Bigfoot community and the state of cryptozoology. But it's true. They are moving even farther away from credibility in great big strides.
 
Fraudsters dupe Indian doctor into buying Aladdin-style magical wish-granting lamp for £72,000 - even conjuring up their own GENIE - as two men are arrested over scam

'The wife of one of these men was also involved in the fraud. She is on the run,' Rai added.

In his complaint filed last Sunday, Khan said one of the men pretended to be an occultist and made a 'jinn' - a supernatural figure - appear from the lamp, local media reported.

But when Khan asked if he could touch the genie or take the lamp home, they refused, saying it might cause him harm, the complaint stated.

Eventually they sold the lamp to him, promising it would bring health, wealth and good fortune.

Khan stated that he later realised the 'genie' was actually just one of the men in disguise.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...or-duped-buying-Aladdins-lamp-genie-show.html
 
Whale sculpture catches crashed Dutch metro train

A train driver in the Netherlands has had a lucky escape thanks to a fortuitously placed art installation.
A metro train in Spijkenisse, near the city of Rotterdam, crashed through a barrier at the end of the tracks shortly before midnight on Sunday.
But rather than plummeting 10m (32ft) into the water below, the train was left suspended dramatically in the air.
It ended up being delicately balanced on the large sculpture of a whale's tail at the De Akkers metro station.
 
The big man in the sky was looking out for that driver then.
 
Here's a photo of the how the Dutch metro train came to rest.

Train-Fluke.jpeg

According to this AP dispatch, the whale sculpture is made of 'plastic'. The dispatch also wins the title of the day contest.

What a fluke: Dutch whale tail sculpture catches metro train
https://apnews.com/article/international-news-netherlands-rotterdam-de0577175ba65260b4bd0923bf7b4a08
 
Here's a photo of the how the Dutch metro train came to rest.


According to this AP dispatch, the whale sculpture is made of 'plastic'. The dispatch also wins the title of the day contest.

What a fluke: Dutch whale tail sculpture catches metro train
https://apnews.com/article/international-news-netherlands-rotterdam-de0577175ba65260b4bd0923bf7b4a08
It was obviously in the right place or it could have been a killer, a real case of the blues. And I do wonder whether the sculpture was porpoise-built. Fin.
 
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