While exploring a state forest in Massachusetts, a hiker stumbled upon a rather bizarre scene: a tree covered in Elmo dolls. Julie Silvia was hiking with a friend in the Myles Standish State Forest over the weekend when they spotted the weird tree. "Some of them were just regular Elmos," she told radio station Fun 107, "but some of them were the Tickle-Me-Elmo kind, and quite a bit of them still had batteries in them."
Although a tree covered in Elmo dolls is a bit unsettling, Sylvia said that there was no indication that it was some kind of memorial, so they weren't particularly unnerved by the find. In fact, the pair was more concerned with the fact that it was a blistering 90 degrees that day and, as such, they simply snapped a few pictures of the oddity and kept hiking. "We were like, 'whatever, it's just a bunch of Elmos,'" she recalled.
When Sylvia got home, she attempted to determine the origins of the 'Elmo tree,' but soon realized that it was quite the mystery. Find out more about this strange story at the Coast to Coast AM website.