A mysterious pink glow in the sky confuses Australian town and outs cannabis farm
"I was just being a cool, calm mum, telling the kids: 'There's nothing to worry about,'".
"But in my head, I'm like, what the hell is that?"
It turned out to be light emanating from a cannabis farm outside the town of Mildura in northern Victoria.
But like other stunned locals, Ms Szumowski's mind initially went elsewhere - was it an alien invasion? An asteroid?
"Mum's on the phone, and Dad's in the background going: 'I better hurry up and eat my tea because the world's ending'."
"And Mum's like: 'What's the point of eating your tea if the world's ending.'"
Another local, Nikea Champion, first thought it was a bright red Moon - before realising the light originated from the ground.
"All these end-of-the-world scenarios were going through my head,".
"I was having a big Stranger Things moment - I'm like, Vecna? Is that you?" she said, referencing a villain from the TV series.
Both women - to their amusement - were wildly off base.
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