Towards the end of his life comedian Arthur Askey became obsessed with finding the location of the lost city of Atlantis. It is rumoured that he was infact successful in this quest and that he inscribed the coordinates, in code, upon one of Charles Hawtrey’s brass bedsteads, which now have pride of place in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. However, nobody has thus far been able to decode the coordinates and those that have tried have all died under mysterious circumstances, giving rise to the rumour that that particular bedstead carries a curse. Officials at the V&A have kept the cursed bedstead off public display following the messy death of former curator Ernie Bellows, which is too horrific for me to detail here save for the fact that it involved several wayward salmon, a daffodil and a mysterious stranger dressed as Vercingetorix quoting the works T.S. Elliot.
And on that note, here is the latest cryptozoology news:
Aquarium celebrates birth of rare four-eyed fish
Gorilla King Titus dies in Rwanda
Sierra Nevada Birds Move In Response To Warmer, Wetter Climate
New Rasbora named after fish exporter
And now a fish joke:
What fish do you call when your piano is off key?
A tuna fish.
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