and now for your surreal moment of the day

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, of Sherlock Holmes fame, is quoted in discussing whether Houdini "was the greatest psychical medium of modern times" (in The Edge of the Unknown (1930)) as stating:

I do not see how it can ever now be finally and definitely proved, but circumstantial evidence may be very strong, as Thoreau said when he found a trout in the milk jug.