Today, a couple of stories that are more fortean than paranormal. The first occurred in the remote Australian community of Lajamanu, where a recent storm forecast should have included a fish fry recipe. Likely sucked up by a passing waterspout, the fish joined in the rain and fell from the clouds like scaly, smelly raindrops. And now We Finally Know What Japan’s Eerie Mummified Mer-Monkey Really Is. In all seriousness, it’s a work of art. Crafted from paper, cotton and fish skin, fish bones, keratin and plaster, the aquatic simian is truly the work of a strange imagination, and will be kept in the care of the priests of the Enju-in Temple where it will be treated as an antiquity, albeit a very odd one. Unless they wish to donate it to the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine…(CM)
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