Today in Strangeness: June 13th...
On this day in 1927, 750,000 lbs. of confetti showered down on Charles Lindbergh at a ticker tape parade
for him in NYC, celebrating his historic flight across the Atlantic. This was the fateful date in 1922
that Charlie Osborne began the longest recorded attack of hiccups. Osborne hiccuped over 435 million times
until it stopped, just 11 months before his death at age 98 in 1991.
...also...
Our Lady in Ireland:
A strange scene unfolded in Ireland over the weekend as thousands of people flocked to a religious shrine
in the hopes of seeing an appearance by the Virgin Mary. The gathering of more than 2,000 people were drawn
to the village of Knock after a Portuguese teen claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary in the famed town of
Fatima last month. According to the boy's father, he was told by the vision that she would reappear at 3 PM
on June 10th at a shrine to the Virgin Mary in Knock and would bless everyone in attendance.
After word of the teen's experience spread on social media, an enormous amount of people journeyed to Knock
on Saturday hoping to take part in what they thought would be a miraculous moment. Whether they were rewarded for
their faith appears to be a matter of conjecture.