This Week's Weird News

A notorious set of fake fairy photos that sold at auction, an unexplained humming sound caught on film, a new wrinkle in the Easter Island mystery, and another Amelia Earhart sighting, were among the weird news items that crossed our desk this past week.

A classic mystery turned up in the news again this week when two senior citizens in Saipan recounted their childhood experiences allegedly seeing Amelia Earhart in the custody of Japanese following her disappearance. Although this theory has been bandied about for years, based on such witness testimony, the first hand accounts of Earhart sightings on Saipon are exceedingly rare nowadays as most of those who reported spotting the aviatrix have, sadly, passed away. This made the appearance in Saipan by two Earhart witnesses particularly noteworthy especially since both individuals were certain that they spotted the lost pilot.

While we're certainly no fans of paranormal hoaxes, we couldn't help but appreciate the news this week that the famed Cottingley Fairy photos fetched a small fortune when put up for auction recently in England. Once something of a sensation in the UK about a century ago, the fabricated fairy photos were almost as iconic as the infamous 'Surgeon's Photo' of Nessie and were seen as equally dubious until the images were outright debunked in the 1980's. Nonetheless, the scandalous pieces of paranormal history wound up selling for ten times their expected price at auction.

Perhaps the most perplexing story of the week came out of Sweden when a man recorded some intriguing audio of a weird hum which seemed to have no source. Described by the witness as unlike anything he had experienced in previous visits to the otherwise quiet mountain where the incident took place, the noise was said to have almost vibrated the air and lingered for an unnerving 45 minutes before slowly moving away. We're still not sure what may have caused the sound, but if it is anything like the noises we've heard tormenting people in other parts of the world in the past, they have our deepest sympathies, since it is rather maddening.

And, finally, a longstanding archaeological enigma may have been upended this week when a researcher who has studied Easter Island for decades published a paper which put forward a radical new theory for the location's famed moai statues. The legendary stone heads have long confounded historians and scientists who are uncertain as to what their purpose may have been. However, it appears that we may now have an answer as a recent study found that the sites where moai are located just so happen to coincide with areas on the island where otherwise-scarce freshwater can be found, suggesting that the statues were more markers than monuments.

You can find more fascinating stories about the strange and unusual at the Coast to Coast AM website.


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