# Craziest thing you've heard lately **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 9, 2021, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333 "2021-08-09T19:50:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/41 "2021-08-17T16:03:36Z")
Oh my. Watched it. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/42 "2021-08-17T16:18:43Z")
Who wouldn’t believe a “Retired Defense Intelligence Officer known publicly only by the alias Añjali”, with a news release from EIN Presswire, which has very high standards, really.\* “We do not allow opaque clients, and our editors try to be careful about weeding out false and misleading content.” ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/43 "2021-08-17T16:31:23Z")
What the hell am I watching? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/44 "2021-08-17T17:52:12Z")
Just proof that we need better psychotic care in the US. And apparently, more guys with large nets. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/45 "2021-08-17T18:08:54Z")
She is completely bonkers. But what’s amazing is how many people around her seem to be enabling her instead of helping her get the professional attention she needs. > [@garygnu](#): > > What the hell am I watching? But you just can’t look away… right? ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/46 "2021-08-17T19:20:09Z")
My favorite part was when she said they’re not asking for money in the same sentence as saying they’re raising funds for the expedition. The “beings” brought her there already, but now they need money to go find it? What is this, an RPG video game where you start at the end point but get yeeted to a small village to start a quest? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/47 "2021-08-17T19:35:43Z")
I wish someone would have asked her “What do they look like”? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/48 "2021-08-17T20:01:52Z")
She described them in some detail as grey and glowing violet, four to eight feet tall, shaped like praying mantises, communicate in images and emotions that they plant in your mind. They are not all the same species of alien. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/49 "2021-08-17T20:04:04Z")
I’m at work, can someone give me a 100-word condensed summary? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/50 "2021-08-17T20:14:25Z")
Angelia claims to have access to and has met with several species of aliens that are currently living under a mountain in the Mojave. She was brought there through a tunnel from a nearby home owned by someone she has come to know recently. She is planning to return there by the end of the year and bring a team of scientists with various scientific equipment so that they can interact with and study the aliens in their subterranean home. She would like for people to start coming to terms with their consciousness so that they too can accept what these advanced being have to tell us about the future of humankind. I found her LinkedIn profile (won’t post it) and she seems like she’s done some interesting things in her life before this turn of events. She seems like a nice lady and isn’t out to hurt anyone. Though I’ve been having a laugh at her expense, I hope things turn around for her and that she has somebody to look after her. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/51 "2021-08-17T20:16:29Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > Years ago I was outside with a co-worker while it was snowing. I was catching snowflakes on my sleeve to have a look at them because, you know, snowflakes are very cool. She looked at some and exclaimed “that’s what they really look like?!”. When you’ve never seen snow or snowfall before in your life, you reply on film or pictures where you really can’t see the flakes. Although I’d never seen any in the wild, I did know from a fairly young age what snowflakes looked like because we learned that “no two are alike” pretty early in school. I _did_ think drifts of snow would be more like ice cream than snocone ice that is really is like. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/52 "2021-08-17T20:22:22Z")
Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/53 "2021-08-18T00:14:43Z")
“The only reason Trump got elected was because History Channel stopped showing actual history in favor of Ancient Aliens, so an entire generation was trained to not recognize Fascism” ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/54 "2021-08-18T16:47:59Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > The “Moderna vaccine turns you into a magnet and spoons will cling to you” theory. That explains a lot of what I have been experiencing lately! [![](https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2016/12/22/23/32/light-bulb-1926533_960_720.png) ](https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2016/12/22/23/32/light-bulb-1926533_960_720.png) ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/55 "2021-08-18T21:21:44Z")
A new weird one I’m seeing pop up all over the place now. “The Taliban is actually the preferable government because they represent the true will of the Afghan people. In fact they also are more in favor of women’s rights than the previous government, as their only requirement for women is just to put on a head scarf in public.” ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/56 "2021-08-19T00:43:57Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > The “Moderna vaccine turns you into a magnet and spoons will cling to you” theory. How did these people get through childhood without someone at camp or school convincing them to try to [stick a spoon to their nose](http://brianwilliamsscience.com/spoon-on-your-nose/)? Or [a coin on the forehead](https://yguides.ymcatriangle.org/resources/tricks/the-coin-on-the-forehead)? Lot of metal things will cling briefly to your skin even if you’re never been vaccinated for anything. SMH. People need more science as kids. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2021, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/57 "2021-08-20T14:51:04Z")
Big story up on Natural News today: “Australia’s mass vaccination event targeting 24,000 children revealed as a mass child sacrifice Luciferian ritual”. You see, the arena that will host the vaccination event has been used in the past as a venue for “satanic rock groups” that unleash “demonic energy”, and this will benefit the “spike protein death cult”. I would link to the story but it is too graphically disturbing, including the band performer wearing what undoubtedly is a spike protein headdress. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2021, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/58 "2021-08-20T15:30:58Z")
Please tell me West Virginia’s governor is joking with [these incentives to vaccination:](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=west+virginia+governor+vaccine+incentives) ---
**Author:** ![Retzbu\_Tox](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/retzbu_tox/32/11829_2.png) [@Retzbu\_Tox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Retzbu_Tox)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2021, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/59 "2021-08-20T15:39:00Z")
> [@SurrenderDorothy](#): > > And we live in Missouri, so she had never actually seen a shark in person. Bull sharks can survive in freshwater and have been known to travel up the Mississippi River as far as Missouri. Two of them even did it recently. This falls in the “crazy but true” category. > **[Study: 2 bull sharks swam up Mississippi River to St. Louis | WKRC](https://local12.com/news/nation-world/study-2-bull-sharks-swam-up-mississippi-river-to-st-louis)** > > UNDATED (WKRC) —A new study confirmed that two bull sharks swam up the Mississippi River and made it as far as St. Louis on two separate occasions. Cincinnati Museum Center paleontologist Ryan Shell and Nicholas Gardner, a librarian at WVU Potomac... ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2021, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/60 "2021-12-17T02:56:04Z")
Well, Añjali promised she’d have her expedition “by the end of the year.” But ever since her big announcement in August, there’s been a resounding chorus of… crickets. Only a couple weeks left in the year, ma’am, better get cracking. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333.md?page=4)