On This Day in Weird, January 13....
1852: Crewmen aboard the whaling ship Monongahela
allegedly harpoon a sea serpent near Palau, in the West Pacific. In death, they
claim it measures 103 feet 7 inches, with a 10-foot-long head resembling an
alligator's, jaws bristling with 94 curved teeth, each three inches long.
1863: Thomas Crapper unveils a one-piece pedestal
flushing toilet.
1950: Airmen at New Mexico's Holloman Air Force Base log a
UFO sighting. An official report declares: "Observable celestial phenomena
or planets that may account for the sighting: None."
1958: An Australian driver reports that a UFO followed his
car near Casino, New South Wales, causing radio disturbance.
1959: A UFO hovers over a truck near Pymatuning Lake,
Pennsylvania, apparently causing the vehicle's electrical system to fail.
1967: a 9-year-old child reports a UFO landing in Iola,
Kansas, complete with a "strange-looking man" clad in a "crinkly
green suit." Later that day, a Learjet pilot and his passenger sight a UFO
while en route from Houston, Texas, to Las Vegas, Nevada. Radar tracks the
object from Albuquerque, and a commercial pilot confirms the sighting over Casa
Grande, Arizona.
1980: While driving near Edgewood, Iowa, Tim Bushaw and a
passenger see a Sasquatch at roadside, describing it as eight feet tall, with
long hair and a "topknot."
1989: DeepStar Six premieres, pitting underwater
researchers against a monster resembling a prehistoric sea scorpion.
1991: Members of a U.S. Air flight crew report a rectangular
UFO soaring through clouds over Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2007: A " jungle girl" emerges from the jungle in
Cambodia's Ratanakiri province. A local family claims she is their daughter
Rochom P'ngieng, born in 1979 and missing without explanation since 1988 or
1989.
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