This Week's Weird News 5/2/25

The first official Nessie sighting of 2025, footage of what may have been Bigfoot climbing a tree, and an online astrologer arrested for a prediction that sparked a panic in Myanmar were among the weird and wondrous stories to cross our desk this past week.

A pair of peculiar pieces of footage featuring possible otherworldly beings popped up in the news this past week. First, a camper in California captured footage of what appears to be a rather sizeable figure that somehow managed to pull itself up into a tree with remarkable ease. Based on the location of the sighting and the size of the mysterious stranger, the witness believes that the being was Bigfoot. Similarly strange footage out of Mexico showed two diminutive shadow figures manifest on the side of a road before crossing a street in the middle of the night. Theories for the nature of little entities include goblins, ghosts, or some other kind of supernatural 'visitor.' That said, skeptics say the scene was probably either a camera glitch or a clever hoax.

This past week featured a pair of stories involving the legendary Loch Ness Monster, beginning with what has been deemed the first official sighting of the famed cryptid in 2025. The intriguing observation occurred when a couple visiting the site from London spotted a pair of sizeable humps, seemingly from the same long creature, emerge from the water, gracefully move a short distance, and then vanish back into the murky deep. Later in the week, in a testament to the timeless nature of the beloved monster of Loch Ness, a newly unearthed police report from 1938 revealed a constable's consternation over an individual who was determined to capture the creature dead or alive.

Misbehaving 'mystics' made headlines this past week by way of two particularly odd stories. First, in Myanmar, a popular online astrologer was arrested after he posted a video predicting that the country was going to be hit by a massive earthquake. Coming just weeks after a similar disaster devastated the nation, the soothsayer's prognostication spread like wildfire online with many reeling residents understandably frightened by his forecast. When the earthquake never came to fruition, police arrested the astrologer for making "false statements with the intention of causing public panic." Meanwhile, a Korean fortune-telling TV show came under fire after they tried to book the grieving sister of a woman who perished in a tragic sinkhole accident.

For more strange and unusual news from the past week, check out the Coast to Coast AM website.