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By Tim Binnall Apr 23, 2021 A phantom lumberjack on a reign of terror in England, an eerie dashcam video from Australia that may show a ghost child, and a bowler who threw a perfect game using a ball containing his late father's ashes were among the strange and unusual stories to cross our desk this week. This past week saw a pair of puzzling videos make news and leave viewers scratching their heads. First, in Florida, a homeowner could not believe her eyes when her home security system captured video of a mysterious creature that seemed to resemble a baby dinosaur dashing through her yard. ...

By Tim Binnall Apr 23, 2021 A phantom lumberjack on a reign of terror in England, an eerie dashcam video from Australia that may show a ghost child, and a bowler who threw a perfect game using a ball containing his late father's ashes were among the strange and unusual stories to cross our desk this week. This past week saw a pair of puzzling videos make news and leave viewers scratching their heads. First, in Florida, a homeowner could not believe her eyes when her home security system captured video of a mysterious creature that seemed to resemble a baby dinosaur dashing through her yard. ...

John Hinkle Sr. never bowled a perfect game while he was alive.  His son changed that last week when he scored a perfect 300 using a bowling ball with John Hinkle Sr.’s ashes inside. "I had tears in my eyes trying to throw the last two balls of that game," John Jr., 38, of Peoria, Illinois, told Fox News.  "It was hard for me to hold it together because I was so close to doing what I set out to do and all my emotions were really hitting me, trying to throw the ball," he said. "That last ball I threw, I had no idea where it went. I just threw it and it struck."

Apr 23, 2021 A good bowling score is between 170 and 190. Most of us are happy just trying to avoid lots of gutter balls! LOL!! But one bowler in Illinois did something that isn't easy to do at all - he bowled a perfect game! And he did this with his father's ashes in the bowling ball. John Hinkle, a 38-year-old who was an NCAA bowling champion at Western Illinois University, wanted to honor his dad who passed away in 2016. It was John's father who introduced him to the sport. John spent years trying to find someone able to fill the thumb hole of a bowling ball with John Sr.'s ashes. After th...

And other stories from the stranger side of life by The Week team 23 Apr 2021 More than 1,200 new German words have been created during the Covid era, among them coronaangst (anxiety about the virus), coronafrisur (corona hairstyle) and maskentrottel (mask idiot who wears a face covering leaving the nose exposed). “I can’t think of anything, at least since the Second World War, that would have changed the vocabulary as drastically, and at the same time as quickly, as the corona pandemic,” said a linguistics professor. Climate change ‘means days could get longer’ Days could last lo...