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Radiation Rouses Prehistoric Creatures
Date: April Fool's Day, 1979
Categories: Animals, Newspapers, Canada, 1979, Fake Warnings
Frank Jones, a reporter for the Toronto Star, wrote that radiation leaking into Lake Ontario was causing prehistoric creatures to crawl up out of the lake and onto the shores of Ward’s Island.
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