A fast-moving UFO inadvertently filmed by a man walking his dog, the recovery of a stolen Amelia Earhart statue, and a bizarre mystery creature encountered by a family in Mexico were among the weird and wondrous stories to cross our desk this past week.
Two decidedly different but equally curious creature stories made headlines this past week, beginning with a case from Canada wherein a witness photographed an unusual anomaly that just may have been the country's resident lake monster, Ogopogo. The longtime owner of a home overlooking Okanagan Lake, where the creature is said to reside, marveled that the serpentine-like animal he spotted emerging from the water was unlike anything he had seen in the decades he has lived at the location. Meanwhile, in Mexico, a wild video showed the moment when a family encountered a bizarre-looking animal that spawned an array of theories from the prosaic, such as a dog or jaguar, to the fantastic, including a supernatural being or a chupacabra.
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This past week featured a pair of videos showing peculiar UFOs that left witnesses scratching their heads. First, in Mexico, a group of astonished onlookers captured footage of a bright flickering light that inexplicably appeared on a hillside in broad daylight at a location known for incidents of high strangeness. Some theorized that the illumination was otherworldly, but more skeptical observers argued that it could have been a reflection. Later in the week, a British man who filmed a video of his dog playing fetch was stunned when he later looked at the scene and spotted a fast-moving UFO that had zipped over their unknowing heads.
Photo: Harbour Grace RCMP
A mystery that began a few months ago came to a resolution this past week when an Amelia Earhart statue stolen from a Canadian town was recovered in rather rough shape. The sizeable bronze artwork commemorating the community of Harbour Grace's place as the starting point for the pioneering pilot's historic 1932 transatlantic flight was snatched by some sticky-fingered ne'er-do-wells back in April. Just as the case had seemingly grown cold, a tipster informed police that they could find the statue in a wooded area approximately 30 minutes from the town. Sure enough, cops investigating the call discovered the sculpture cut into pieces that can, thankfully, be reassembled so that the depiction of the iconic aviatrix can stand tall in Harbour Grace once again.
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