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Welcome to issue 5 of isle of wéired news – bringing you the weirdest news from around the world.
In this issue: a Dorito-shaped UFO from England; volcanic UFOs from Mexico; a very bad son from Italy; and the best photo of Nessie ever – probably – from Scotland.
The Dudley Dorito returns
Back in 2007, a triangular-shaped UFO began making regular appearances over the West Midlands, England. Dubbed the “Dudley Dorito”, its appearances continued up until a couple of years ago.
However, some are saying the object has returned, following a report of a rectangular-shaped UFO seen over the Merry Hill Shopping Centre – which is near Dudley – by a witness known only as “James.”
Unfortunately, everything that is known about this sighting comes from a Facebook post:
“Thinking that he was seeing a formation of Starlink satellites, he pulled over in a cul-de-sac just before Steven’s Park to get a better look.
“The craft was a huge black rectangle, with lights on each of the corners. After observing this craft for a short while, it silently flew towards the Merry Hill Shopping Centre, and out of his view.
“While this sighting was occurring, James checked on Flight Scanner to see if there was any air traffic in the vicinity that could explain what was witnessing, however there was none.
“James was able to take several photos as this object moved away.”
Source(s): Express & Star, 26 November 2025
Mexican UFOs are volcanic
In the early hours of 21 November, two triangle-shaped UFOs were filmed flying out of Popocatepétl, an active volcano in Mexico.
Popocatépetl is one of the most active volcanoes in Mexico, and in addition to ejecting plumes of ash and steam, it has been hurling fragments of rock high into the sky. So, there could be a perfectly earthly explanation for what was filmed.
However, Mexican ufologist Jaime Maussan believes that Popocatépetl is an “interdimensional portal.” Commenting on a previous incident at the volcano, back in 2024, Maussan said: “The University of Bergen in Norway discovered that under the volcano there are magnetic storms necessary to be able to generate X-points or regions of electron diffusion and be used to create a dimensional portal.”
Source(s): Irish Daily Star, 26 November 2025
He’s not Mrs Doubtfire – he’s a very naughty boy!
For about three years, a 56-year-old Italian man has been dressing as his dead mother so that he could claim her pension.
It’s believed that instead of reporting the death of Graziella Dall’Oglio, her son – who has so far not been named – wrapped her body in a sheet and placed it in a sleeping bag before hiding it in his house, in Mantua, Italy.
The man – we’ll call him Norman – then gave himself a makeover: he cut his hair in the style of his deceased mother’s, wore makeup and his mother’s jewellery.
Norman’s ruse only came to light when he attempted to renew his mother’s expired identity card at his local Town Hall. One of the clerk’s there became suspicious and alerted the police.
“He came into the council offices wearing a long skirt, he was wearing lipstick and nail varnish, a necklace and old-style earrings,” said Francesco Aporti, the mayor of Borgo Virgilio.
“But up close his neck was too thick and his wrinkles were strange, the skin on his hands did not seem to be that of an 85-year-old woman. His voice was feminine but every so often it dipped and sounded masculine.
“But I might not have noticed these strange features had they not been pointed out.”
Norman was lured back to the Town Hall and arrested. Police then searched his house – finding his mother’s body hidden in the laundry room.
“They searched the house and found a mummified body,” said the mayor. “She probably died of natural causes but that will be established by the post-mortem.
“It is a very strange story and very, very sad.”
Source(s): The Fiji Times, 26 November 2025
Loch Ness monster image is either the cat’s whiskers – or the cat’s paw
After many visits to Loch Ness in the early 2000s, Gordon Holmes finally captured the loch’s famous monster on video in 2007.
And following a recent enhancement of an image from the video using some new software, Gordon believes he now has the “most detailed close-up of the Loch Ness monster.”
Gordon began chasing the Loch Ness monster in 2003, but the beast eluded him for years. But his luck changed on 26 May 2007, while he was in a car park near Urquhart Castle, overlooking the loch.
“A rainbow appeared across the loch, which I thought might be a good omen,” he said. “And then, after that, it’s when I got the first sighting of something in the water. I dashed out with my camcorder and for half a minute, I couldn’t see it.
“But then I spotted it and zoomed into it until eventually it got out of range of my viewfinder. It was the most aerodynamic object I had ever seen moving in water.
“For the next two-and-a-half minutes, this strange thing gracefully swam veering slightly left or right at about 6mph.
He took his footage to a TV shop in Inverness, where he was able to view his footage on a large screen. He was shocked by what he saw: “I discovered I had actually filmed two creatures, not one! I think they were both the same size. There were actually two Nessies about 50 yards apart.”
Gordon believes his software has considerably enhanced this original footage: “My original 2007 still image just showed a fuzzy shape with no body detail. Thanks to my latest, more advanced software, the creature’s body is now visible in detail.”
According to Gordon, in his footage Nessie appears to be a 14 feet long eel or snake.
The Press and Journal asked Loch Ness expert Adrian Shine to review the footage. Shine has been studying Loch Ness since 1973, and led Operation Deepscan in 1987. He doesn’t believe there’s a monster in the loch.
“It’s the best example I’ve seen of a cat’s-paw Loch Ness monster, which is a flaw caused by the wind on the water surface. They occur when the wind is blowing across the loch and not along it,” he said.
“Because the hills are irregular, the wind blowing across the loch is disturbed, it becomes turbulent and eddies form and they come down on to the water’s surface, a bit like a cat’s paw striking.
“Gordon’s Nessie is Nessie but is as much Nessie as any other that I’ve seen. There are many different monsters caused by many different phenomena. This is only one.”
Source(s): The Press and Journal, 2 December 2025