This Week's Weird News 6/12/26

A possible ghost child filmed at an ATM in Mexico, a suspected Sasquatch sighting at a Michigan beach, and a crook who thought a 'concealment spell' would prevent him from being caught were among the weird and wondrous stories to cross our desk this past week.

A pair of eerie accounts of possible hauntings involving ghost children made headlines, beginning with a spooky video from Mexico. The chilling footage showed a peculiar shadow, which some thought to be the spirit of a youngster, lingering in front of an ATM in Mexico. The chilling footage went viral on social media in the country, spawning considerable debate as to the nature of the odd anomaly. Later in the week, workers at an appliance store in Argentina came forward with a remarkable tale of discovering hand and footprints seemingly left behind by a child overnight after the shop had been cleaned before closing. When the employees checked security footage to see what could have caused the mysterious markings, there was no one to be found in the store.

Bigfoot was back in the news this past week with two stories centered around the elusive cryptid. First, in Michigan, a pair of sisters walking their dog along a beach spotted a sizeable figure that suddenly appeared behind a huge pile of driftwood. Described as having "the build of a very big lumberjack with no neck," the unnerving interloper caused their Doberman to stop in its tracks and sent the witnesses fleeing from the scene. Meanwhile, in a Maine community, residents participating in Tuesday's state primary received 'I Voted' stickers featuring Sasquatch. The brainchild of election officials in the town of Buxton, the cool decal was aimed at encouraging people to perform their civic duty.

Easily, the oddest story of the week came from Thailand, where a sticky-fingered ne'er-do-well's 'foolproof plan' to steal from a temple turned out to be anything but. The curious case saw the miscreant sneak into the site overnight, smash some donation boxes, and slip away with a fairly sizeable sum of money. When cops later tracked down the thief using CCTV footage from the temple, he was weirdly surprised that he had gotten caught because, as the crook explained to police, he had recited a 'concealment spell' before the crime with the belief that the ritual would prevent him from being seen during the burglary.

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