The return of Britain's banana phantom, the first virtual Nessie sighting of the year, and a dispute surrounding a legendary alien abductee's pants were among the weird and wondrous stories to cross our desk this past week.
A pair of legendary lake monsters 'swam' their way into the headlines this past week, beginning with the first virtual Nessie sighting of 2025. Captured by diligent Loch Ness live stream viewer Eoin O’Faodhagain, the strange scene shows two mysterious humps that emerged from the waters of the famed Scottish site. Noting that they dipped below the surface and returned to the same spot on four separate occasions, he argued that they could not have been a log nor, due to their size, a prosaic creature. Then, in Argentina, a man captured footage of a similarly mystifying form that surfaced at a lake that is said to be the home of a legendary monster known as Nahuelito.
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Weird food mysteries from across the pond were in the news this past week. First, in a delightfully strange follow-up to an already peculiar story from January, an individual who has left a plate of peeled bananas on the side of a road in a British town on the second day of every month for the last year avoided being caught by those awaiting February's offering when they surreptitiously deposited the fruit a day early. The curious game of cat and mouse will presumably resume at the start of March. Meanwhile, in another English community, someone dumped a sizeable bunch of shrink-wrapped cucumbers on the side of a road in either an act of littering, a prank, or an homage to the aforementioned banana phantom.
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Perhaps the weirdest story of the week came by way of Scotland, where the country's national museum was slammed by a paranormal researcher after they rebuffed his donation of a pair of pants from a legendary alien abduction. The torn trousers were worn by Bob Taylor during a 1979 incident wherein he was allegedly scooped up by a flying saucer. After being examined by authorities, the pants eventually made their way to paranormal researcher Malcolm Robinson who graciously offered to give the curious artifact to the National Museums of Scotland. To his dismay, however, they passed on taking the trousers citing a general policy about accepting unsolicited donations.
For more strange and unusual stories from the past week, check out the Coast to Coast AM website.
