Column Chronicles: Stranger than strange things

Stranger than strange things

Frank Cotolo
January 18, 2024

Life on Earth is greatly understood and accepted and yet there are things no one knows and few people talk about. Science, for all of its proof of what happens and why is unable to explain that which is stranger than strange things.

Each day on Earth there are people experiencing stranger than strange things and I have been making note of them. There are probably many more stranger than strange things but I cannot keep track of all stranger than strange things. Hopefully there are others on Earth keeping track of stranger than strange things. It would be strange in itself if I were the only person documenting stranger than strange things. It would make life feel futile and make me look stupid. Then again, to whom would I look stupid and why would I care? Not you.

Let me make this clear. Anyone can notice stranger than strange things. We asked Prof. Wilt Hoops of OGH University why.

"Often, but unusually rare," Hoops said, "stranger than strange things are not interesting to the average person."

Exterior Pyschologist Elizabeth Yorkenbond disagreed. "Every moment is stranger than the next. How can that go unnoticed."

Four other professors or doctors of something or other disagreed about agreeing to Hoops and a poll taken in Hoops hometown of Whiskers, Iowa resulted in a 67 percent majority.

Some religions preach stranger than strange things are holy things and demand prayers and holidays. Still, some of the stranger than strange things religions preach are common to others and that challenges the very nature of definitions.

"As things change in the general scope of life on Earth," said Hoops, "each of us will determine differently what are stranger than strange things and the concept of stranger than strange things may alter the very thought of it all, whatever is all in the case of defining stranger than strange things."

With that statement we can refine, not define, stranger than strange things with no specific purpose which makes this essay null and void. Not strange.

Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.