Two legendary lake monsters possibly caught on film, an eerie 'light being' seen in Brazil, and a crow that may have inadvertently alerted police to a murder are among the weird and wondrous stories to cross our desk this past week.
While Nessie may be the world's most famous lake monster, North America boasts a handful of its own mysterious aquatic creatures and two such 'beasts' made headlines this past week by way of tantalizing videos filmed by astounded onlookers. In Idaho, a family visiting the state's Payette Lake captured footage of something rather sizeable swimming in the water and some believe it could have been a legendary lake monster known as 'Sharlie.' Meanwhile, vacationers at British Columbia's Shuswap Lake had their own strange sighting of an unidentified creature that just may have been that location's resident cryptid, dubbed 'Shuswaggi.'
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This past week saw a pair of videos featuring what one might best describe as unidentified glowing objects, beginning with a luminous cigar-shaped UFO that was filmed in Argentina. In the footage, the suspected craft can be seen silently descending in the night sky to the astonishment of witnesses watching the weirdness unfold on the horizon. Later in the week, a similarly strange video emerged out of Brazil wherein an eerie glowing anomaly that some likened to a 'light being' was filmed lingering in a field. Some suggested that the oddity might be an alien or even an angel, while skeptical observers argued that it could simply be a reflection.
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By far the most bizarre story of the week came by way of Turkey, where authorities launched a murder investigation after a crow appeared at a gas station and dropped two severed human fingers on the ground. The dismembered digits were discovered by a security guard who was doing his rounds at a municipal gas station when the bird swooped down in front of him and deposited the unsettling evidence on the ground. Police subsequently took possession of the freshly removed thumb and index finger that had been carried there by the crow and are now attempting to figure out who they once belonged to and how they wound up in the bird's beak.
For more strange and unusual stories from the past week, check out the Coast to Coast AM website.