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Old 09-03-2022, 03:42 PM
 
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No, say it is not so!! Do not tell me The National Enquirer would ever do such a thing!!
Don’t get me started. I really really miss the Weekly World News. I’d grab one and pick the longest grocery line so I wouldn’t have to buy it. I miss Bat Boy…

I think there is an online version of it? I’m not gonna check. It’s not the same.
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Old 09-03-2022, 03:48 PM
 
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don’t get me started. I really really miss the weekly world news. I’d grab one and pick the longest grocery line so i wouldn’t have to buy it. I miss bat boy…

i think there is an online version of it? I’m not gonna check. It’s not the same.
Bat boy, eh? (LOL)
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Old 09-03-2022, 06:38 PM
 
Location: Outskirts of Gray Court, and love it!
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Thanks Finn! I really enjoy these!
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Old 09-03-2022, 08:35 PM
 
Location: StlNoco Mo, where the woodbine twineth
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Thanks Finn! I really enjoy these!
Here's a couple more for you.


Lake Monster Races Auto 1926

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9675...g-monster-lake





The Washington Post October 29, 1911

SPOTTED SNAKE WITH WINGS

A whirring sound attracted the notice of Mrs. John Bishop and her children in the yard of their St. Charles, Mo., house one day in September.
They looked up expecting to see an airplane in the distance, only to see to their astonishment and terror, a flying snake passing overhead. It was 3 feet long and had spots, its wings beating so fast that they were barely visible.
After flying over their yard, the snake turned around and approached them. Mrs. Bishop grabbed the children and fled inside the house, locking all the doors. From this vantage they watched the creature fly and maneuver about the yard for half an hour. Eventually, it flew off to the east, in the direction of Alton, Illinois.
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Old 09-04-2022, 05:40 AM
 
Location: StlNoco Mo, where the woodbine twineth
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Portsmouth Herald New Hampshire Nov. 20, 1900

REMAINS OF GIANTS

St. Louis, Nov. 19--- C.W. Beehler, a farmer living near Montesano, Mo., 40 miles south of this city, has discovered the fossil remains of three enormous human beings who apparently existed in a prehistoric age.
The bones were dug up at a depth of 40 feet, in a rock formation, which had preserved them probably many centuries.
The skulls are much larger than those of present generation of men, and it is calculated that if the bodies were in the same proportion, these giants must have been 9 or 10 feet tall.





The Ghost Of Paris Mo 1865

The Ghost of Paris
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Old 09-04-2022, 09:29 AM
 
Location: StlNoco Mo, where the woodbine twineth
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Tombstone Epitaph April 26, 1890

WINGED MONSTER

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5671...aph-tombstone/



https://truewestmagazine.com/tombstone-epitaph/
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Old 09-04-2022, 12:18 PM
 
Location: State of Transition
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Thanks for posting, OP. I love the ghost train story!

Interesting point someone made, questioning how a train could become a ghost. People, maybe, but a train? Still, it kind of makes you wonder...
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Old 09-04-2022, 02:01 PM
 
Location: StlNoco Mo, where the woodbine twineth
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Thanks for posting, OP. I love the ghost train story!

Interesting point someone made, questioning how a train could become a ghost. People, maybe, but a train? Still, it kind of makes you wonder...
I guess it's kind of like the " death coach " in Irish folklore.
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Old 09-04-2022, 03:10 PM
 
Location: StlNoco Mo, where the woodbine twineth
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The New York Times May 10, 1981

NIGHTMARES SUSPECTED IN DEATHS OF 18

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/10/u...-laotians.html





https://www.history.com/news/nightma...on-hmong-death
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Old 09-04-2022, 04:51 PM
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^^^ This one sounds like a poorly composed urban legend. Firstly, what normal, sane person aims a pistol at someone who is not threatening them with some sort of physical harm? It is far more likely that the clerk would have just ignored the man until he went away.

Firstly, this was St Louis in 1860...different times, different standards of behavior. Secondly, crimes like this still happen in the US every day...people get killed because they complained their food was cold, or they honked at another driver, or they did nothing at all.
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