"THE TOP PARANORMAL EVENTS OF 2001" > Page 1, 2, 3
September 2001
• Senior officials of the Catholic Church in Kolkata (previously called Calcutta), India, acknowledge Mother Teresa had an exorcism performed on her in the later years of life.
• During a strange morning devotional message in Congress, Georgia state legislator Rep. Dorothy B. Pelote told her House colleagues that she can communicate with the dead and has been "visited" by missing intern Chandra Levy. She told fellow lawmakers that she has psychic abilities.
• One of the biggest paranormal hoaxes of 2001 started at a practical joke when Simon Garth claimed he has shot a Bigfoot and was storing it in his freezer. The phony story was quickly circulated around the Internet.
• Crop circles were discovered again in a northern B.C. Canada field, almost three years to the day they were first spotted in the area.
• Exorcism, it was revealed, is a thriving phenomenon in 21st Century in America. The practice is most widely seen at evangelical gatherings.
• After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, people turned to the Internet in droves seeking information on whether or not Nostradamus had predicted the event. Several Internet hoaxes circulated false or heavily modified Nostradamus quatrains purporting to describe the attacks. Internet searches for "Nostradamus" even outnumbered those for sex.
• Photos began to circulate, chiefly through the Internet, of the WTC attack that seemed to show the face of a demon in the billowing smoke of the burning towers.
• The ghost of a 17th century nobleman was blamed for 20 attacks on tourists visiting the Covenanters Prison in Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh. They were allegedly scratched, bruised, knocked to the ground, suffered nausea and welt marks.
• Video that was taken during the WTC attacks showed a large mysterious object zooming away from the exploding towers. There were speculations on whether it was debris, a missile or a UFO.
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• Numerologists got into the act following the Sept. 11 attacks, finding significance in many of the numbers surrounding the date and the event.
• Another candidate for the lost continent of Atlantis was suggested by Jacques Collina-Girard of the University of the Mediterranean in Aix-en-Provence. He contends it might have been the now sunken Spartel Island between Spain and Morocco.
• A statue of the Virgin Mary in a church in Ecuador began crying tears of blood just days before the Sept. 11 attacks, said faithful attendants of the church.
• A man in Sydney, Australia won a lottery jackpot 25 years after a psychic predicted the windfall. The 49-year-old won Aus$9 million (£3 million) on Australia's Powerball game.
• A fifth grade boy in a Dallas suburb inexplicably predicted the start of World War III one day before the Sept. 11 attacks.
• Some New Yorkers claimed to see the "ghosts" of the WTC twin towersdays after they were reduced to rubble.
October 2001
• In the hunt for Osama bin Laden, it was reported that America was employing the skills of psychics and remote viewers to pinpoint the location of the fugitive terrorist.
• More and more complex crop circles cropped up in England.
• Flocks of birds in India committed suicide. Their deaths remain unexplained.
• In the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, sales soared for books on prophecy and religion.
• Tony Cornell, of the Society for Psychical Research, said that mobile phones are killing off ghosts. He claimed that reports of ghost sightings had started to decline when mobile phones were introduced 15 years ago.
• Visitors to a Chilean museum's exhibition of objects from the Titanic say it is haunted. They have reported seeing ghosts and hearing strange noises. The display in Santiago includes original objects from the liner.
November 2001
• Chupacabra - the goat sucker - was blamed for killing sheep in Mexico. Farmers in northern Chihuahua said mysterious vampire-like creatures killed and sucked the blood of more than 60 sheep.
• "The X-Files" creator Chris Carterannounced that he is planning a new motion picture based on the TV series. He said David Duchovney and Gillian Anderson are slated to reprise their roles.
• New scientific research by the University of Maryland's School of Medicine found it likely that faith and prayer had a positive effect on recovery from illness.
• Staff of a TV show in the UK demanded an exorcism at the TV studio, which they believe is haunted. The staff claimed to have experienced weird goings on, including unexplained orbs of light backstage, power cuts, jammed doors, ghostly whispering, falling fixtures and cold spots.
• The 16mm film footage from 1936 that launched the modern-day legend of the Loch Ness Monster was found at the Scottish Screen archives.
December 2001
• A group of tourists on a ghost tour said they were locked in a dungeon by an evil spirit. The 30 people were trapped in the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town, South Africa for more than an hour. The tour organizer claimed it must have been the spirit of an evil 17th-century ghost known to become mischievous if he is spoken about.
• A doctor in Southampton UK launched a new investigation into the possibilities of what really happens during a near-death experience.
• Participants from around the world in the Global Consciousness Project reported that they detected a noticeable ripple in what they believe is an interconnected Web of global consciousness after the Sept. 11 attacks. Results from all the project's random number generators appeared to shed their randomness and lean significantly in the same direction.
• In a study of 62 patients who have had a near-death experience (NDE), researchers admitted that while no one is sure exactly what NDEs are or why they occur, they may not be explainable by science alone.
• A new survey revealed that a vast majority of Americans believe in angels. 
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