Video: StrangeThings In Columbus

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COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI) — Some strange things have been showing up and are being placed on the desk of WCBI’s R. H. Brown.

What appears to be a tooth is retrieved from the shores of a place called Rock Island while boating along the Tenn-Tom Waterway in Lowdnes County.

“Its something prehistoric. We didn’t know what, but it looks old. So we wanted to check it out and see what it was,” said Shea Jenkins/Columbus.

“The river carries so much objects. Fossils, artifacts, garbage. From so many different places,” said George Phillips/Paleontologist-Museum Of Natural Science.

The old tooth was brought to WCBI News and questions we posed to a known Jackson paleontologist-curator about the find, were almost immediately answered.

“A lot of people say alligator teeth, and sand shark,” said Jenkins.

Good guess… Jenkins and her family just happened to stumble across the fossil remains of an old ancient goblin shark.

“Its became extinct about 75 to 80 million years ago,” said Phillips.

On the other side of Columbus lives 89 year old fruit and vegetable grower Coolidge Perkins and his wife Joyce. And although his pace is slowed up a bit and his speech somewhat hindered, he has managed to somehow grow two-toned straight neck squash. You may have heard of yellow squash and green squash… but surely never a mixed green and yellow variety.

Only one normal yellow straight neck squash was seen in Perkins’ garden. Perkins tells us he can not explain the two-toned color squash growing in his yard.

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