A couple who say Bigfoot brought them together, a possible video of the ivory-billed woodpecker, and a wallaby wandering around Ohio were among the strange and unusual stories to cross our desk this week.
Besides being a seemingly impossible to catch creature and a pop culture icon, it turns out Bigfoot is also something of a matchmaker as an Arkansas couple revealed this past week how they fell in love after discovering that they had each seen Sasquatch. Remarkably, both Darren and Debbie spotted the legendary cryptid in separate incidents around the same time and location in the state's Nash County. Years later, a chance encounter in a convenience store parking lot led to the two realizing that they each belonged to the rather exclusive club of Bigfoot witnesses. A friendship formed, which turned into love, and the pair wound up getting married with, appropriately, a faux Sasquatch in attendance.
This past week featured a pair of intriguing stories centered around creatures that are or are thought to be extinct. First, a research group released drone footage which, they contend, shows that the famed ivory-billed woodpecker has not died out and, in fact, still exists in parts of the American southeast, though not everyone was convinced by the difficult to decipher video. Meanwhile, the possibility of reviving lost species took a significant step forward when an Australian lab working on bringing back the Tasmanian Tiger announced that they have formed a partnership with a bioscience company looking to de-extinct the woolly mammoth.
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Strange sightings of decidedly out of place animals made the news twice this past week, beginning with a weird case out of an Ohio community where a wayward wallaby was spotted by multiple residents, including one 'lucky' motorist who filmed the creature crossing a highway. As of this writing, the marsupial's misadventure continues as cops have yet to locate the animal. Later in the week, a Hawaiian man caught sight of a mysterious big cat that appeared on the edge of his property and managed to snap a photo of the peculiar feline which wildlife experts have suggested was a Southwestern Lynx that somehow found its way to the Big Island.
For more strange and unusual stories from the past week, check out the Coast to Coast AM website.