John Lennon ‘phoned Uri Geller after alien encounter’
And other stories from the stranger side of life

John Lennon had an encounter with an alien that scared him so much he phoned Uri Geller at 3am, reported the Daily Star. The spoon-bender said that the Beatle told him: “I was lying in my bed and suddenly I saw light by my bedside and out of this light an extra terrestrial hand stretches out.” Geller said: “My first question was, ‘What did you smoke?’ But he swore to me that this happened to him.” This was not the only time Lennon claimed to have encountered life from space: in 1974 he said he saw a UFO from his flat in New York.
Cocaine found in wheelchair
Almost £1.2m worth of cocaine was found in a wheelchair at an airport in Italy. The user of the wheelchair was pretending to be disabled and police were assisted by a sniffer dog when they found the drugs stuffed in the upholstery of the wheelchair. The cocaine seized could have made as many as 27,000 individual doses, said Sky News. Officers said when the discovery was made, the user, a Spaniard, got up from the wheelchair and walked unaided.
Monkeys had more sex during pandemic
Olive baboons had more sex while zoos were closed during the Covid pandemic, scientists said. Samantha Ward, a zoo animal welfare expert at Nottingham Trent University’s School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences, said that “primates are some of the most cognitively advanced species in zoos and their interactions with visitors are complex”, so zoo closures provided researchers with a “unique opportunity”. The animals were observed at Twycross Zoo, Leicestershire and Knowsley safari park in Merseyside, said The Times.
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