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COVID-19 Claims 2021 Waverly Hills Haunted House

The Waverly Hills Sanatorium won’t be haunting fans the same way this Halloween season.

The venue announced there will not be a haunted house this year because of COVID-19 concerns. Instead the sanatorium will be adding some more dates for smaller group tours and overnight stays.

In years past, people from all across America walked the hallways of the former tuberculosis hospital during the haunted house.

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19 Tarantulas, 1 Python Left in Maine Apartment

A Maine landlord arranged for the rescue of 15 tarantulas and one python that had been left behind by a tenant.

Animal rescuer Drew Desjardins was called to the apartment Wednesday in Auburn, the Sun Journal reported.

He found that four of 19 tarantulas had died and that the ball python did not have water. Desjardins said Thursday that he took the surviving animals back to his home and that they were doing fine.

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Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Released in Florida Keys

In an effort to fight insect-borne viruses like Zika, dengue fever and malaria, genetically modified mosquitoes are set to be released in the Florida Keys.

U.K.-based biotechnology company Oxitec has partnered with the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District in an effort to control the invasive and disease-spreading female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in the region.

Oxitec’s male mosquitoes — which don’t bite, unlike the recently-discovered yellow fever-carrying Aedes scapularis mosquitoes — will be introduced in small areas in a select number of neighborhoods between mile markers 10 and 93 in the Keys.

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Supposedly, Animals Didn’t Escape New Jersey Zoo Storm

CLAIM: Images show that a variety of wild animals are loose in South Orange, New Jersey after they escaped overnight from the Turtle Back Zoo when the remnants of Hurricane Ida caused flooding at the facility.

AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. These images are old. Turtle Back Zoo tweeted on Thursday that its animals “weathered the storm well and remain safe and secure within the facility.”

THE FACTS: Lions, crocodiles, penguins and gorillas are not roaming the streets of South Orange, New Jersey, despite a hoax that was circulating widely the morning after severe flash flooding in the area.

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Cow Rescued from Tree after Hurricane Ida

A rescue crew in Louisiana came to the aid of a cow found wedged in a tree above the floodwaters left behind by Hurricane Ida.

The St. Bernard Parish government said in a Facebook post that parish employees Tyler Acosta, David Palmer and Roy Ragan Sr. teamed up with private citizen Louis Pomes to rescue a cow found stuck in a tree near the Florissant Highway.

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Michigan Police Chase Emu

Police in Michigan said they ended up in an unusual chase when a call initially thought to be a joke led to finding a loose emu wandering around town.

The Shepherd Police Department said in a Facebook post that officers initially suspected they were being pranked when the call came in from Isabella County Central Dispatch about an “escaped feathered animal” on the loose in the village.

Officers who arrived on the scene were surprised to see the wandering emu, a large, flightless bird native to Australia.

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Naked Man Sang “God Bless the U.S.A.” Floating Down the Nolichucky River

GREENE COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) – A man was arrested after floating naked down the Nolichucky River and refusing help from rescuers, WJHL News reports.

The Greene County Sheriff’s department said Troy Hunt jumped into the river near Ripley Island Road.

Hunt sang “God Bless the U.S.A.” as he made his way down the river, Greene County Sheriff’s Office officials said. Hunt made it almost 10 miles down the river before being brought back to shore, according to the report.

Hunt was charged with indecent exposure and disorderly conduct.

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