Who does not remember the Weekly World News? Or, as we called it at the time, The Weekly World Rag. The Weekly World News was NOT, I repeat, NOT a newspaper. It was sold at checkout counters all over the country along with the National Enquirer, The Star and several other fantacy publications. I remember these papers well and actually bought a few for a good laugh. No one took them seriously. Well, almost no one.

There were a handful of couch potatoes who read them vividly. A few ever swore they were full of the facts. After all, you couldn't believe the government and you sure couldn't believe the main stream media. So all we had left was these joke books.

It was a known fact that the Weekly World News was a bunch of people sitting around a table making up stories and putting them into "news" form. None of it was true but we had fun reading it. This is one of the stories that they ran. An airliner leaves an airport in the early 1950s and disappears until landing in the late 1980s with a bunch of skeletons still strapped into their seats and the pilot's bony hands still on the controls. As if the skeletons after 30+ years would still be all together. They would actually be a heap on the seats. Plus, that plane must have had a hell of a fuel tank to keep it in the air all those decades. And anyway, who would want to stay on that plane after the booze ran out?

But again, it was a fun story to read. So, here it is again. Have fun!