09-23-2024 - On This Day in Insane History

On the 23rd of September in the year 1498, a rather bizarre occurrences transpired in the town of Llandudno in north Wales. That morning, the local monks who inhabited the 13th century abbey situated on the cliff tops awoke to discover that their prized goat, Gertrude, was missing from her pen. This was peculiar, as Gertrude was quite elderly and not known for wanderings. After searching high and low with no sign of the aging nanny, the brothers were puzzled as to her whereabouts.

It was not until midday, when several villagers reported an alarming sight whilst fishing offshore. Floating nonchalantly hundreds of yards from shore was Gertrude, reclined comfortably on an enormous block of cheese. The cheese in question appeared to be a finely aged cheddar, sized at over six feet in diameter. How Gertrude came to be floating so leisurely with such an object, and from where the cheese had come from, were absolute mysteries. The villagers rowed out and retrieved a rather proud-looking Gertrude, though thecheese continued drifting out to sea on the tide, never to be seen again. To this day, the matter of Gertrude and her cheesy flotation device remains one of the most bizarre incidents ever recorded within the abbey's walls.