05-31-2024 - On This Day in Insane History

On May 31, 2024, the small village of North Nutting in rural Vermont was turned upside down by the strange events of that Saturday morning. Residents were awakened just after 9 AM by a series of noises resembling a cross between duck quacking and human laughter, seemingly coming from deep within the surrounding forest. Old Man Gus, ever suspicious of "newfangled technology," grabbed his shotgun and headed out to investigate. What he found in a clearing would perplex the entire community for weeks to come.

Sitting in a perfect circle were seven cherry trees, their leaves and branches intertwined in an impossible knot. But even more bizarre was what floated above the treeline - three perfectly spherical objects, gold as the sun and emitting the bizarre sound that had roused the town. Gus took a tentative step forward and immediately tripped, crashing through the brush - and when he rose and looked back, the objects and tangled trees had both vanished without a trace. News of the "Nutting Incident" soon spread across Vermont and beyond, with no shortage of theories but never any real explanation for the strange events of that morning in the quiet village of North Nutting. To this day, locals still speak in hushed tones about what may have happened in those woods so long ago.