WELCOME TO ISSUE 16 of isle of wéired news – bringing you the weirdest news from around the world.
In this issue: another bold claim from Uri Geller; UK cops tell their UFO stories; “Snake the Bigfoot Hunter” announces sasquatch DNA results; Bigfoot goes to camp; ghostly chidren haunt an electrical appliance store; aliens are “fallen angels” says nun; and in old news, a phantom plane crash from 1933.
Enjoy!
Uri Geller: England’s MVP?
Uri Geller has claimed responsibility for getting England into the quarter finals of the football World Cup.
He did this, he says, by using a crystal skull that he found in a Mayan pyramid to break a curse on the England team.
In a post on Facebook ahead of England’s game against Mexico, Geller wrote: “This relic, which could even be of alien origin, was discovered telepathically by me many years ago hidden deep inside a Mayan pyramid. I plan to harness its supernatural energies to see England through to the quarter finals.”
According to Geller, this is not the first time he’s had to help England during this World Cup. He claims he had to step in after the self-styled witch doctor Nana Kwaku Bonsam put a curse on Harry Kane.
“After the witch doctor saga, I am constantly helping England win,” he said. “But psychologically, when something like this comes out, footballers are often very superstitious.
“I was concerned Harry might go onto the pitch with fear in him, so I decided to counter the witch doctor’s curse. I have never used my mental powers to hurt, curse or hex anyone.
“When I try to help a team or individual, I focus only on boosting what is already inside them – their talents, courage, confidence, instinct, and strength.”
Geller says he believes England could possibly go on to win the World Cup.
“I believe that England can gather an invincible power with the fans and go on to win,” he said. “But at the end of the day, I am only a human being with strong psychic powers.”
Source(s): Daily Star, 6 July 2026
Cops & Saucers
“Close Encounters of the Police Kind” was released on International UFO Day, 2 July.
Written by Inspector Roy Teague, a former police officer with 26 years experience, the book features accounts of UFO sightings made by police officers across the UK.
When asked why he found his colleagues’ accounts so believable, Teague said: “The police are seekers of truth, we’re not people prone to flights of fancy. By virtue of our trade, we make good witnesses.
“There is a stigma attached to saying you have an interest in the paranormal so they have nothing to gain and everything to lose.
“I’ve interviewed thousands of people and am a skilled investigator.
“Based on the accumulation of best evidence I’ve gone from being sceptical, to open-minded, to now believing beyond all reasonable doubt that not only are we not alone in the universe but that from time to time we are visited by intelligent life far, far greater than our own.”
Source(s): The Sun, 4 July 2026
Bigfoot DNA
Back in 2024, Charles Stuart – aka “Snake the Bigfoot Hunter” – claimed to have found the remains of a sasquatch in New York’s Adirondack Mountains.
The sasquatch, which he named “Dack,” was eight foot tall and weighed 300 pounds.
Now, Stuart claims that Cornell University have carried out DNA testing on the remains and have identified “Dack” as a Neanderthal-human hybrid.
“After doing a DNA test – we found that this is 58.5% Neanderthal – and this 41.5% remaining, that is human,” Stuart told a TV station.
“What we have is a Neanderthal-human hybrid – and that Neanderthal side that has been evolving over the millennia has remained very aggressive,” he said.
Stuart claims that the creature’s teeth have also been tested, which he says allowed them to determine that the creature was possibly in its late teens or early twenties.
So far, Cornell University has not commented on Stuart’s claims.
Source(s): New York Post, 5 July 2026
Camp Bigfoot
At about 11:00am on 28 June, Linda Dixon-Smith had a Bigfoot sighting while she was driving her grandson to his Boy Scouts camp in Fresno County, California.
Dixon-Smith says the creature was eight-foot tall, was covered in brownish red hair, had a small head and arms that stretched down past its knees.
Her sighting was reported to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organisation (BFRO).
Matthew Moneymaker, an investigator for the BFRO, carried out a follow up interview with Dixon-Smith.
“I spoke with witness Linda Dixon-Smith. She is a very credible witness …” he said.
“Her twenty-something grandson works at Camp Chawanakee now. She was driving him to work at that Boy Scouts (BSA) camp when she had the sighting …
“She was driving very slow because the speed limit is 15 miles per hour there. She looked to the right out the window and got a very good look at the sasquatch. She only saw the right side of it as it was facing south toward Dinkey Creek Road.
“The sasquatch had reddish fur that was thin enough to show the skin under the fur. The skin colour was slightly lighter than the colour of buckskin.
“It was standing in grass that came halfway up to its knees. She estimates the height may have been around eight feet tall.”
According to Moneymaker, there have been a number of Bigfoot sightings in this area over the last few years.
“It’s a very squatchy area,” he says.
Source(s): Female First, 7 July 2026
Ghost Kids
Staff at an electrical appliance store in Mendoza, Argentina, say that child-sized handprints and footprints have been mysteriously appearing on their floors.
Each evening, at the close of business, the floors are “scrubbed spotless.” And each morning, the staff arrive to find clear prints of tiny hands and feet dotted around the shop.
“It gives you a weird feeling like there’s something else here,” said one of the staff.
Seemingly, the handprints and footprints line up in such a way as to suggest that whoever – or whatever – made them was moving low to the ground.
“It’s like they’d been crawling through the shop,” said an employee.
So far, nothing has been captured on CCTV; and the security alarms have yet to be triggered.
Source(s): Daily Mirror, 13 June 2026
Mother Miriam’s Fallen Angels
According to Catholic nun Mother Miriam, aliens may actually be “fallen angels.”
On her Mother Miriam Live podcast, one of her listeners asked if extraterrestrials were real or spiritual. “I think sooner look at the demonic side than the extraterrestrial,” she answered.
“The Catholic position, there is such a thing as extraterrestrial intelligence. These creatures really are from another world, the spiritual world. They’re what we call angels.”
According to Miriam, not all of these angels are good. “Some of these angels are ministers of light. Others are ministers of deception and destruction.”
Miriam says that these “ministers of deception and destruction” use belief in UFOs to steer people away from God. “They do all they can to deceive human beings and draw them into a belief system without God, without faith, and without those necessary graces for their salvation.”
She says that if these forces “can get people wrapped up in theories of alien visitations and extraterrestrial visitors to Earth, if they can get them absorbed and fascinated by any number of paranormal phenomena and distracted from God, they will have succeeded in their diabolical mission to deceive and to destroy.”
Mother Miriam believes we are in the middle of a supernatural battle for the universe.
“These extraterrestrial forces are involved in a great cosmic war. And human beings are a part of a conflict. Once that is understood, all that remains is for you to decide on which side you plan to do battle.”
Source(s): Daily Star, 30 June 2026
Old News: Phantom Plane Crash Mystery
On Saturday, 30 July 1933, bus driver James Wilson saw an aeroplane fall out of the sky and crash into the sea.
“I was driving my ‘bus from Rhyl to Llandudno, and stopped for a time on Penmaen Head. Suddenly, about two miles out to sea, an aeroplane turned in towards the shore and dropped gracefully into the water.
“It had scarcely struck the water when it disappeared in a cloud of foam made by its wake. I was too far away to see its markings, but the colour was dark – probably blue.
“The conductor and I are agreed that no more than 15 seconds elapsed between the aeroplane’s landing and the disappearance. I marked the spot closely and I could easily pick it up again with a range finder.”
Wilson called the police. Llandudno and Rhyl lifeboats were launched; and with the help of a motorboat and an aeroplane, they began a search.
But after six hours, there was still no sign of the aeroplane or its occupants.
The searchers began to believe that Wilson had been the victim of an optical illusion. Particularly when the crew of a steamer said that they had passed over the location where the plane was supposed to have entered the water and saw no evidence of a crash.
However, one of the lifeboats did find a mysterious patch of oil at the location identified by Mr Wilson. And then a Mr Herne came forward. He said that he had been flying in the area at the time and that he had seen a low-flying aeroplane heading towards Rhyl at the time of the incident. According to Herne, the aeroplane appeared to disappear into a rainstorm.
Late on Saturday night, once the authorities had accounted for all of the aircraft that had taken off that day, the search was called off.
Just over a month later, Wilson’s aeroplane crash was explained as a mirage. This was proposed after a separate incident, where an exact replica of an aeroplane flying over Rhyl was seen three miles out at sea, mimicking all of the movements of the aircraft over Rhyl.
It’s a good explanation. And it appears to have been the last word on the incident..
But it doesn’t explain the “cloud of foam” seen by Wilson as the aeroplane entered, the aircraft seen from the air by Herne, or the mysterious patch of oil found by the lifeboat crew.
Source(s): The People, 30 July 1933; Sunday Mirror, 30 July 1933; Reynolds’s Illustrated News, 30 July 1933; The Nottingham Evening Post, 6 September 1933
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