By Tim Binnall
Dogman tales and supernatural Bigfoot, highway serial killers, and 19th-century paranormal cases were among the fascinating topics explored this past week on Coast to Coast AM. And, here at the C2C website, we told you about a British village invaded by a massive flock of feral chickens, troubling tarot scheme in Pennsylvania, and an array of UFO sightings from around the world. Check out our round-up of highlights from the past week ... In Coast You Missed It.
In an episode you may want to keep in mind should you be planning a road trip this summer, former FBI special agent Frank Figliuzzi joined the program on Monday night to discuss the unsettling number of unsolved murders that authorities believe are being committed by a small cadre of sinister long haul truckers crisscrossing the country. Revealing that these serial killers are believed to be behind a staggering 850 deaths across America, he lamented that the murderous miscreants take advantage of their mobility to commit their misdeeds across multiple jurisdictions, which allows them to avoid being caught. During his appearance, Figliuzzi detailed some particularly unnerving cases of this particular type of crime and also delved further into the dark side of the trucking industry.
This past week featured a plethora of stories involving UFOs, including two intriguing videos which may show the phenomenon in action. First, in Argentina, an airport worker filmed a curious cluster of lights that appeared over the facility and baffled both witnesses on the ground as well as those flying into the site. Later in the week, an attendee at an airshow in New York City captured footage of a fast-moving object that zipped through the sky during a performance by the famed Blue Angels. In Japan, a group of politicians announced plans to formally request that the government investigate UFOs and a pair of pilots flying over Ireland reported a mysterious orb performing amazing maneuvers before vanishing from sight.
Curious cryptids were explored on C2C this past week from two distinctly different perspectives, beginning with Sunday night's program, wherein researcher Aaron Deese talked about his investigation into reports of Dogmen in the remote wilderness between Tennessee and Kentucky. While these creatures are often likened to werewolves, he argued that they are not supernatural in nature and, instead, are possibly an undiscovered species of bipedal canines. Then, on Wednesday night's show, Jessica Jones recalled her experience with what she believes to have been an invisible Bigfoot and posited that such cryptids are paranormal rather than flesh-and-blood animals.
A pair of odd occult-related stories popped up in the news this week, beginning with an unfortunate incident in Pennsylvania wherein a woman reported to police that she had fallen prey to a particularly pernicious form of fraud. The alleged victim claims that, rather than provide her a glimpse into the future, a tarot card reader threatened to curse her family unless she paid an unspecified ransom. After the worried woman dutifully did what they demanded, she came to her senses shortly thereafter and alerted the authorities as to what had happened. Meanwhile, ahead of a nationwide lottery drawing in Thailand, a group of people visited a haunted house in the hopes that its resident spirit would provide some insight into what the winning numbers might be.
Paranormal cases from the 19th century took center stage on Thursday night's program as author Mike Rothmiller shared an array of curious incidents from the 1800s and early 1900s. He noted that there were several newspaper accounts in the latter half of the century wherein witnesses described seeing airships that moved with an unfathomable speed or simply lingered in the sky. Rothmiller also discussed massive mysterious sea serpents reported by members of the British Admiralty as well as what appear to have been Bigfoot sightings from that century, but the creature was largely described as a "wild hairy man."
By far the weirdest story of the week came by way of England, where residents of a village say that their community has been overrun by a massive flock of feral chickens. The bevy of birds, believed to number around 100, have made the town of Snettisham their home, much to the chagrin of those who live there. Lamenting that the foul fowl tear up lawns and create a cacophony of irritating sounds, fed-up residents recently complained that the problem has been compounded by an influx of tourists who come to the village to see the chickens and, in turn, leave behind trash that is feasted upon by rats. The simmering situation in Snettisham reached a boiling point this week when community members appealed to local officials to put an end to their three-tiered nightmare.
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