Wednesday, 5 March 2014

THIS DAY IN WEIRD


On This Day in Weird, March 5...

1954: Theatrical release of Creature from the Black Lagoon, wherein a prehistoric reptilian "gill man" terrorizes hapless explorers on the Amazon River.

1969: Motorist Don Cox sees a Bigfoot eight to ten feet tall cross a road in Washington's Beacon State Park, leaping up a 40-degree slope.

2001: Thirty-five pilgrims are trampled to death in a stampede during the "Stoning of the Devil" ritual at Mina, Saudi Arabia.

2010: Charles B. Pierce, producer of The Legend of Boggy Creek, dies at age 71 in Dover, Tenn.


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