ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD

On This Day in Weird, December 29...

1974: Multiple witnesses in Lumberton, North Carolina, report seeing bright lights in the sky, at the same time a family of four calls police to describe a humanoid figure dressed in a "silver and black suit with some sort of helmet" prowling around their home in Forest Acres. Deputies search in vain.

1979: Four-year-old Antonita Tamayo vanishes from her home in Arroyo Sujayar, Albacete, Spain, somehow eluding search teams with tracking dogs for three days. On the fourth, officers find her in a wooded area, apparently unfazed by cold or exposure. She tells rescuers that a tall woman dressed in white, carrying a torch, kept her warm and fed her during her absence.