Well of course every odd photo, and most stories, can easily be explained if you assume the person who had the experience is lying. There could easily be some personal reason to take pics with the signpost, some sort of family tradition. And now that nobody has to pay for film everybody takes multiple shots to cherrypick the best. It looks weird to me.
The weirdest thing about the issue, though, is that I got it during the same month as y'all! I'm always one or even two issues behind.
Re; Mythbuster question about the nutrients in peel. One nutrient you definitely lose when you peel fruits and vegetables is insoluble fiber, which may be loosely defined as the outsides of plants. The insides of plants are made up of soluble fiber. Insoluble fiber may be processed until it becomes soluble.
These two nutrients affect your digestion. If you're constipated, you want more insoluble fiber in your diet - so, greens and onions (plants which have no insides, only outsides), potatoes in their jackets, fruits with the peel on. If you're having the opposite problem, however, you need soluble fiber - so greens and onions only in purees, peeled fruits and tubers, one of the few times when highly-processed food (grains turned into pasta, instant oatmeal rather than whole oats, whipped potatoes - leave out the butter and gravy, though, as fat goes right through you at such times).
The more you process foods, the more all the nutrients in them break down; however, many items, if you don't process them a little bit (most efficiently, by cooking) are too tough for our human digestive tracts to break down enough to extract all the nutrients. Except for parasite concerns, you can eat liver raw and get all the good of it, because it's already so soft and the nutrients in it have been pre-processed by the animal. You can actually get too much doing this. (Never eat carnivore liver - you'll absorb dangerous amounts of Vitamin A!)