New York Post

Weird BUT true

- Kathianne Boniello with Post Wire Services

It wasn’t snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night that felled this post office.

US Mail Boat Sophie C., which has been delivering mail in New Hampshire during the summer since 1892, was knocked off course of its duties when it hit a rock in Lake Winnipesau­kee on Friday.

The boat escaped serious harm, and three passengers and three crew members were safely evacuated.

Water levels in some parts of New Hampshire are low due to drought.

A grave error is being fixed in Ohio.

The headstone of a Civil War soldier is being replaced after 154 years because the original listed the wrong name and military company.

Augustus Beckmann of the 2nd Texas Infantry, who died in the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862, has a greatgreat-grandnephe­w to thank for uncovering the mistake. He’s the monster. A Japanese truck driver playing Pokémon Go hit two women, killing one.

After his arrest for negligent driving following the accident Wednesday evening, the driver said he had been distracted by the game, according to a spokesman for the Tokushima prefectura­l police.

Dead bodies aren’t supposed to wave.

Thankfully, the moving body spotted at a British cemetery was simply a man sleeping, not trying to greet folks from the great beyond.

What looked like a body under a shroud suddenly raising its arm and gesturing was just someone who picked a bad spot for a nap.

This spirit in the sky looks a lot like a penis.

UFO enthusiast Andrew Burlington insists he caught a glimpse of a phallic-shaped “alien mothership” in the skies above London while out with his family. He doesn’t even mind if his young nephews spotted it, too.

“I’m glad they witnessed it with me even though they’re children,” he said.

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