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Bizarro Briefs: Fake Cop of the Week

Bizarro Briefs: Fake Cop of the Week

by Advocate Staff | Nov 6, 2019 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, Featured, News

Fake Cop of the Week An eager North Carolina man was arrested for impersonating a cop during a police chase. In October, police pulled over a car in Wilson, N.C., searching for a possible murder suspect, but as police approached the vehicle it took off. A chase ensued...
Ghosts in the Attic: Agawam Paranormal society seeks — and finds — evidence of life beyond

Ghosts in the Attic: Agawam Paranormal society seeks — and finds — evidence of life beyond

by Gena Mangiaratti | Oct 30, 2019 | Articles, Featured, News

Paranormal investigator Liette Casey speaks politely when she thinks she may be in the company of a spiritual presence, as she would if she were meeting a living person for the first time. Standing in the attic of the historical Josiah Day House in West Springfield,...
Bizarro Briefs Podcast: A really scary house, a cautionary tale for hit men, Elf on a Shelf cereal

Bizarro Briefs Podcast: A really scary house, a cautionary tale for hit men, Elf on a Shelf cereal

by Advocate Staff | Oct 30, 2019 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, Featured, Podcast

The Halloween edition of weird news with Dave and Trumpy. Valley Advocate editor Dave Eisenstadter and Hits 94.3 host Trumpy talk about the week’s weird news in a podcast version of the Valley Advocate’s Bizarro Briefs section. Hear about a scary house you don’t...
Youth activists in the Valley make their voices heard

Youth activists in the Valley make their voices heard

by Chris Goudreau | Oct 23, 2019 | Articles, Featured, News

With Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg testifying before the United States Congress in September and teenagers from Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, becoming leaders advocating for more rigid gun control laws following the 2018 shooting in...
Bizarro Briefs: A joke from beyond the grave … or in it

Bizarro Briefs: A joke from beyond the grave … or in it

by Advocate Staff | Oct 23, 2019 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, Featured, News

A joke from beyond the grave … or in it An Irish man raised the spirits of those attending his funeral by requesting a recording be played of him pretending to be alive in his coffin as it was lowered into the ground. “Hello? Hello. Hello? Let me out!” the recording...
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