Today the Area 51 thing was on the news and my grandma, unbothered, looks at me and goes, “you know aliens landed [on our local beach] in the 70s. They keep their ship hidden under the sand. That’s why we haven’t had a hurricane since.”

Now listen y’all. My grandma is a very old school, conservative, religious woman we don’t even joke around with. When she said this I thought she was joking but she just went back to watching the news like she hadn’t said anything to me.

*For context my aunt is one of my neighbors.

Later when I went to check my mail I saw my aunt sitting on her lawn and went to tell her what my grandma said. Again, unbothered, my aunt goes yes that’s true. That’s why that part of the beach is sectioned off. ??? I was for sure some kind of elaborate prank was going . But later I saw another neighbor and told them the craziness and they agreed. I looked it up and there’s a bunch of news stories of the town claiming that the reason major storms won’t hit my area even though we are in a high risk zone for hurricanes is because of the aliens protecting their ship.