A wire service. In this archive, UPI is the channel that carried local wonders to the whole country. March 1949. A UPI reporter from Fort Wayne put the story of Oscar, the giant turtle of Fulk Lake, on the wire, and about 3,000 people crowded onto the Harris property. In 1980 UPI carried the White Bigfoot of Mason and Fleming Counties nationwide. In 1986 it reported the Marian apparitions at St Demiana's Church in Cairo, seen for periods from a few seconds to 20 minutes, though its account rested on Watani's coverage.
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