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When Bat Boy Escaped The FBI And The Alien Endorsed Bill Clinton: An Oral History Of ‘Weekly World News’

WORDS Posted: August 21, 2020 12:03 pm

“At the height of its popularity in the late 1980s, circulation reached 1.2 million copies per week. Headlines like ‘Bigfoot Kept Lumberjack as Love Slave’ ruled its covers. A team of dedicated journalists filled its pages with satirical fiction. If fact happened to stumble its way inside, it would be adjusted to fit the paper’s mission statement.” Here, from the people who worked there, is the story of everyone’s real favorite supermarket tabloid. – Mental Floss

WORDS Published: 08.07.20

Read the story in Mental Floss Published: 08.07.20

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