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Scared Woman finds “Human Toe” In Mud, Calls Police: It’s a Potato

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A 26-year-old U.K. woman alerted police to a “human toe” she found sticking out of the ground during an evening stroll. Thankfully it turned out to be something much less gruesome.

According to The Mirror, Katie Wilkinson was taking a walk but decided to stray off her usual path. She noticed something sticking out of the ground and snapped a picture.

Wilkinson shared her snapshot with friends who agreed that it looked like a human toe so she called the police. Within minutes guards showed up to investigate.

Katie Wilkinson via Caters News

With authorities agreeing that her photo looked like a human body part, Wilkinson led the way to where she saw it sticking out of the mud but couldn’t pinpoint its exact location. More investigators showed up; now it was a full-on systematic sweep.

After a thorough search the authorities came up empty-handed and that’s when they called in the sniffer dogs to take over. It wasn’t long before the K9 units found the object, but it wasn’t a decomposing toe—it was just a potato!

One investigator brought the tuber to show Wilkinson.

“He then held out his hand which was holding a potato,” said Wilkinson. “I immediately felt so embarrassed. I couldn’t believe I had wasted all their time for a potato.”

“I was so apologetic. I just kept repeating that I was so sorry for wasting their time. I felt awful. They reassured me that I had done the right thing.”

Wilkinson said the authorities were also fooled: “The detective said ‘I even thought it was a toe, and I am a detective.’ This made me feel better and reassured me that I was not going mad by thinking I had found a toe.”

Katie Wilkinson, 26, from Winlaton, Gateshead.

Credit: Katie Wilkinson via Caters News

But all’s well that ends well.

“Although I was mortified, I was so relieved that it was a potato,” adds Wilkinson. “I don’t know how I would’ve dealt with it if it had been a toe or if it had been attached to a body.”

Despite the confusion, law enforcement said Wilkinson did the right thing calling the police saying the report was in good faith and anyone else seeing something suspicious should also report it.

 

Top image credit: Katie Wilkinson via Caters News 

Source: Mirror News

 

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New ‘MaXXXine’ Image is Pure 80s Costume Core

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A24 has unveiled a captivating new image of Mia Goth in her role as the titular character in “MaXXXine”. This release comes approximately a year and a half after the previous installment in Ti West’s expansive horror saga, which covers more than seven decades.

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His latest continues the story arc of freckle-faced aspiring starlet Maxine Minx from the first film X which took place in Texas in 1979. With stars in her eyes and blood on her hands, Maxine moves into a new decade and a new city, Hollywood, in pursuit of an acting career, “But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.”

The photo below is the latest snapshot released from the film and shows Maxine in full Thunderdome drag amid a crowd of teased hair and rebellious 80s fashion.

MaXXXine is set to open in theaters on July 5.

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Netflix Releases First BTS ‘Fear Street: Prom Queen’ Footage

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It’s been three long years since Netflix unleashed the bloody, but enjoyable Fear Street on its platform. Released in a tryptic fashion, the streamer broke up the story into three episodes, each taking place in a different decade which by the finale were all tied together.

Now, the streamer is in production for its sequel Fear Street: Prom Queen which brings the story into the 80s. Netflix gives a synopsis of what to expect from Prom Queen on their blog site Tudum:

“Welcome back to Shadyside. In this next installment of the blood-soaked Fear Street franchise, prom season at Shadyside High is underway and the school’s wolfpack of It Girls is busy with its usual sweet and vicious campaigns for the crown. But when a gutsy outsider is unexpectedly nominated to the court, and the other girls start mysteriously disappearing, the class of ’88 is suddenly in for one hell of a prom night.” 

Based on R.L. Stine’s massive series of Fear Street novels and spin-offs, this chapter is number 15 in the series and was published in 1992.

Fear Street: Prom Queen features a killer ensemble cast, including India Fowler (The Nevers, Insomnia), Suzanna Son (Red Rocket, The Idol), Fina Strazza (Paper Girls, Above the Shadows), David Iacono (The Summer I Turned Pretty, Cinnamon), Ella Rubin (The Idea of You), Chris Klein (Sweet Magnolias, American Pie), Lili Taylor (Outer Range, Manhunt) and Katherine Waterston (The End We Start From, Perry Mason).

No word on when Netflix will drop the series into its catalog.

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Live Action Scooby-Doo Reboot Series In Works at Netflix

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The ghosthunting Great Dane with an anxiety problem, Scooby-Doo, is getting a reboot and Netflix is picking up the tab. Variety is reporting that the iconic show is becoming an hour-long series for the streamer although no details have been confirmed. In fact, Netflix execs declined to comment.

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!

If the project is a go, this would be the first live-action movie based on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon since 2018’s Daphne & Velma. Before that, there were two theatrical live-action movies, Scooby-Doo (2002) and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), then two sequels that premiered on The Cartoon Network.

Currently, the adult-oriented Velma is streaming on Max.

Scooby-Doo originated in 1969 under the creative team Hanna-Barbera. The cartoon follows a group of teenagers who investigate supernatural happenings. Known as Mystery Inc., the crew consists of Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Shaggy Rogers, and his best friend, a talking dog named Scooby-Doo.

Scooby-Doo

Normally the episodes revealed the hauntings they encountered were hoaxes developed by land-owners or other nefarious characters hoping to scare people away from their properties. The original TV series named Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! ran from 1969 to 1986. It was so successful that movie stars and pop culture icons would make guest appearances as themselves in the series.

Celebrities such as Sonny & Cher, KISS, Don Knotts, and The Harlem Globetrotters made cameos as did Vincent Price who portrayed Vincent Van Ghoul in a few episodes.

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