It’s that time of year. Strangeness in the news?

Start with the priest in Ecuador, Father Patricio Alfredo Sánchez Molinari, 53, who was killed in front of parishioners and those watching a livestream as he celebrated Mass behind an altar. Cause of death: a large Crucifix falling from the wall behind him, landing smack on his head.

Is there a backstory, many wonder? Had he done or said anything wrong? Did the devil do it? Was it sabotage?

Rumors have surfaced alleging financial wrongdoing by the priest, and some social-media users have interpreted his death as Divine punishment.

But there is absolutely no verified evidence supporting those rumors or suggesting the priest’s death was intentionally caused.

Another rumor says the priest had previously experienced an incident in which a wooden Cross mysteriously cracked during Mass. That story, too, remains unverified: very low evidentiary credibility.

At the church in question, Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Guayaquil, the shock remains. Three days after the accident, parishioners have gathered each morning to pray to the Blessed Sacrament for the soul of the priest, for whom they have erected a small altar with his photograph and white roses. Notes El País, “People would see him from early morning until late at night, when he celebrated the last Mass of the day and personally closed the doors. He was also available for those seeking reconciliation with God through confession, regardless of the day. Father Patricio had one purpose: to unite the community, says Rocío, a neighborhood leader who worked closely with him.”

It seems it had been affixed with two big bolts and one loosened. Remarkably, he had just given a sermon about never knowing when one is going to die. His family is calling for an investigation. (Note as an aside that the church’s neighborhood is well-known for gang activity and that the priest had called police because of it.)

Such gangs, when affiliated with cartels, often practice curses.

So far, that’s all we know. As far as implications: it is certainly odd—strange—that the Lord, if sending a message, would do so in such a dramatic, visual way and with a crucifix. But then again, we were redeemed by that Cross and there are many worse ways to die. Let us note also that last week a massive television screen fell at an evangelical mega-church, injuring the evangelist.

Again, that time of year.

Equally strange, as reported by the New York Post: “A man shockingly died after plummeting into his father’s grave while attending his friend’s funeral in Brazil, according to reports.

“Adilson Marsaro, 48, died in the freak accident on Wednesday while he attended a funeral for his acquaintance who died in a road accident at the São José Municipal Cemetery in Linhares, Brazilian outlet O Globo reported. Marsaro wandered off from the service and sat on his father’s concrete gravestone at the cemetery when it suddenly collapsed — causing him to plunge into the grave shaft below, SUR reported.”

Prayer need.

In Washington, as part of an ongoing “disclosure,” the Pentagon last week released a report that includes testimony originating, apparently, with Walter G. Haut, the former public information officer at Roswell Army Air Field, who claimed to have personally witnessed an unusual craft and several small bodies inside a guarded military hangar after that famous “alien” crash.

The alleged spacecraft, described as egg-shaped, measured approximately 12 to 15 feet long and six feet wide. It reportedly lacked conventional wings, windows, a tail, or landing gear. Its metallic exterior was described as “paper thin yet extremely strong.”

Perhaps most startling was the account of bodies reportedly recovered alongside the wreckage. According to the testimony, several figures lay beneath a canvas covering inside a secured facility identified as Building 84, also called Hangar P-3. Their heads appeared unusually large, we are told, while their bodies seemed comparable in size to those of young children.

We remain cautious about such cases. Yes, there can be extraterrestrial races. But for the most part these reports seem to indicate an “interdimensional” (see: spiritual) aspect. And, yes, spirits can assume physicality (note the serpent in the Garden).

Also note that the release also included reports of massive, soundless, mysterious triangular vehicles. Countless are these in UFO lore—including near Area 51. That often causes us to wonder about secret supra-military U.S. and Russian technology. The latest release reportedly includes a recent incident involving two FBI agents who observed a mysterious black triangular object over mountains in the western United States in 2026. Thermal imagery allegedly showed no obvious engine-related heat concentration or exhaust.

But as far as “disclosure”? We wouldn’t call any of it so far that. We’ve known the details disclosed thus far about Roswell, and mysterious triangles are nearly old hat. What everyone is waiting for: actual alien bodies or craft for public view.

Thus far, no such thing.

And “cryptids”?

Yes, we do a bit of the outre here.

Take an alleged such creature reportedly being spotted recently at the Texas-Mexico border.

With A.I. fakery, who knows?

No overt signs of A.I. conjuration (when we ran it by detection), but was it some sort of reptile? Raccoon? Rodent? Rabbit?

This is a part of the globe where legendary “chupacabras” are spotted.

UFO investigator Jaime Maussan, who supposedly gathered witness reports of these attacks, described the being as agile and intelligent, walking on two legs, somewhat human-like in appearance and measuring several feet long, according to the London Mail. “He added that the creature photographed by camera traps this month may not be an extraterrestrial from another world, but some form of intelligence crossing over from another dimension which shares the same space in the universe as earth.”

Ironically, one of the documents released Friday by the Pentagon included a 2010 report about the Utah property known as the “Skinwalker Ranch,” named after supernatural shapeshifting witches in Navajo culture.

“Witnesses have reported unidentified balls of light at close range, daytime sightings of “dog-like” creatures running on two legs, unnatural animalistic howling/screaming, ‘little people,’ prehistoric-like birds and a maggot which measured about 8 feet long and 2- to 3-feet in diameter,” the report said.

The report’s authors present no final conclusions or hard evidence, such as photographs, of the supernatural. DNA tests from one clump of hair from a suspected “Skinwalker” showed it came from a raccoon. Last week also, a documentary was released asserting that a famous “Bigfoot” photo from northern California in October of 1967 was, as we expected, a hoax. (The “Patterson–Gimlin film.”)

Argues a viewer, Catherine Di Matteo of northeastern Italy, getting back to the Mexican border,”This is all from the demonic and can be got rid of by doing rogational processions [ancient, solemn religious walks], and people in the area need to have their homes, farms and lands blessed, and put up large Crosses on their properties; people need to be in God’s Grace and praying the Rosary every day, and going to Mass not just on Sundays, dressing modestly (going to Mass in tank top and flip flops offers little protection from the demonic) living truly in a holy way.

“If priests cannot come to bless lands, homes, and farm animals, people can do so with Holy Water; and it is of immense benefit to place holy images of Our Lady, saints, and angels on the property in prominent places, in barns, on trees in fields or forests, little shrines (the kind that are seen all over Austria, for instance, and southern Tyrol) can be put in fields.

“These are just a few ideas. This is what Catholics have done for 2,000 years all across Europe. All these things started disappearing after World War II in Europe, and by Vatican II, so many traditions (which were for the expelling of demons!) stopped being practiced. And for which reason Europe is experiencing so many troubles and many spooky demonic things (crop circles just to name one).

“But every person can protect his home and his property by doing these things.”