People may have also been Trumped? (fooled by fake news :-) ) If you look at eosscan.io you will notice (or may not notice, hence the point of this post) that the site has not updated since 11 April 08:35 UTC. It has the notice at the bottom which reads:

CAUTION!!
The current price displayed may differ from the actual price. Because the latest data has not been updated. (cases : Ethereum RPC Server and etc)
(Last Updated At Apr 11 2018 08:35:40 UTC)

It therefore appears, at time of writing and for the past day or so, that period 297 which just finished several hours ago, was giving you 11,446.95 EOS per 1 eth. I'm thinking there may have been some dumb people who checked out the statistics for that period, but didn't notice the warning box at the bottom of the screen, so start buying hard out. Feasible?