10-Foot Aliens in Vegas, Woman Wakes Up at Her Wake, Nazi Gold Train
Here are this week’s weird headlines:
- Mysterious object in the sky leads to report of a 10-foot creature in the backyard.
- More on the 10-foot Las Vegas aliens with large shiny eyes.
- Then the family put up surveillance cameras.
- Dearly De-Pinted: Ben & Jerry’s ice cream graveyard (h/t Tui Snider)
- Woman wakes up at her own funeral, knocks on coffin lid.
- Man faked his own death, then showed up at the funeral.
- Why does this giant squid have the world’s largest light-producing organs?
- Octopuses can edit the genes in their brains.
- Folk horror and the holy fool: How paganism re-enchanted modern Britain.
- Harvard morgue manager allegedly stole body parts and sold them online.
- Chupacabra attacks in Guatemala.
- Hidden rails found in Poland could lead to the lost Nazi gold train.
- Ohio city tells homeowner to take down her 10-foot werewolf which she dresses up for the seasons and holidays.
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In other news, I made a Wisconsin Travel Guide to the Dark Side which is available over at Wisconsin Frights. The cover features a photo I snapped a few years back of the severed, mummified head of German serial killer Peter Kurten:
Another one of those photos can now be found in the upcoming new book Murderabilia by Harold Schechter.
Both photos were taken during this trip.
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