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Weird News on Thursday, October 22, 2026
4 stories, newest first, each credited to the outlet that reported it. Everything BBN aired that day.
- PET OF THE DAY
Thousands of butterflies surprise experts on restored West Sussex…
The South Downs National Park says the farm is renaturing 330 acres and recorded twenty-eight species this year; the wheat declined to comment.
Reported by The Guardian · with a Short - WEIRD NEWS
Mystery of skeleton in Roman coffin at Westminster Abbey solved
Radiocarbon dating placed the bones between nine eighty-seven and one thousand fifty-two, so a Roman coffin was reused in the Middle Ages; the lid had also been smashed in eighteen twenty.
Reported by Live Science · with a Short - UP THERE TONIGHT
Aurora Odds: Brock Braces For A Kp Of Two Point Six Seven
NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center forecasts a K index of at most 2.67, below storm level, so northern lights stay near the Arctic Circle if they show at all.
Reported by ll.thespacedevs.com, Wikipedia · with a Short - EARTH, TODAY
The Americas, Seen From Four Moons Away
NASA's EPIC camera on NOAA's DSCOVR satellite captured the whole sunlit Earth from about 1.54 million kilometres out; the planet declined to comment.
Reported by NASA · with a Short