No, Lansing, Michigan Almost Certainly Did not Get Buried by a Volcano No Matter What the Weekly World News Reported

The United States has had a cultural disagreement on just what "news" is for over a decade. From cries of "Fake News" and disparagement of journalists it may make one yearn for a simpler time when one could count on the steadfast reporting of supermarket tabloid Weekly World News.

The WWN may not be found in your checkout line any longer but the publication is thriving online. And when they're not covering the infamous Bat Boy, they are hard at work making sense of the world around us.

So when they published on Facebook recently that a giant volcano had struck Lansing, we took notice.

Weekly World News Lansing Volcano Report

If the photo is to be believed, Michigan's capital city is now under a river of lava and perhaps elsewhere around the state we may need to expect an ash cloud of toxic gas.

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Those who saw the posting, which was shared by shook survivors on the Lansing subreddit of Reddit, where quick to comment - after presumably marking themselves 'SAFE' on Facebook:

At least something’s happening downtown

Yeah we're just toasting marshmallows. It's basically like a city-wide bonfire.

We must have forgotten the sacrifice last month

While over on Facebook, some saw the practicality:

Spring is a good time, lava fills in the winter potholes

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And that's a good point. There's a road on Hawaii's Big Island known as the Lava Highway due to the molten rock's encroachment to the pavement.

So while we think Lansing is okay, we should pay heed to the hardworking Weekly World News journalists and make sure our capitol still stands.