"THE TOP PARANORMAL EVENTS OF 2002" > Page 1, 2, 3, 4
April, 2002
• Shroud identity. A Scottish professor claimed that the image on the Shroud of Turin is not Jesus Christ, but that of Jacques de Molay, the leader of a monastic order known as the Knights Templar.
• Ball lightning. A New Zealand scientist offered yet another explanation for mysterious ball lightning phenomenon.
• Ghost insurance. A British pub owner took out an insurance policy against ghosts following fears that the resident poltergeist could hurt customers.
• Chupacabra attack. Workers at a mining company in Chile were frightened due to allegations of a presumed Chupacabras attack of an employee during the night shift.
• UFOs. A UFO flap hit Australia's outback.
• Sexy ghosts. Ghosts of prostitutes, it was claimed, haunt a sex shop in Kent, UK.
• Face on Mars. The Mars Odyssey spacecraft reimaged the so-called Face on Mars.
• Wolf Boy went home. The Romanian Wolf Boy returned home to his mother after living for years in the wild.
• Dracula sought heir. Count Ottomar Rudolphe Vlad Dracula Prinz Kretzulesco's family name is in danger of dying out because the current Count is 61 and resigned to having no children. He decided to continue the tradition of European nobility of adopting when there is no suitable blood relation to carry on the family name.
• Haunted radio. A radio station was forced to close after a DJ claimed it was haunted.
• Crop circle. Britain's first crop circle of 2002 appeared.
• Bigfoot. Mysterious footprints that some attributed to Bigfoot were found on a gold course near Seattle (photo).
May, 2002
• Theatrical ghost. Employees at the Tolbooth Theatre in Stirling, UK called in an exorcist, saying that ghostly goings-on have become commonplace since the former jail reopened as a theatre.
• X-Files. It was announced that after nine seasons, "The X-Files" would no longer be produced.
• Creator map. Russian scientists unveiled a stone slab which is 120 million years old covered with a detailed relief map of Ural Region.
• Antigravity. Amazing antigravity devices known as "lifters" made the news.
• Bigfoot. A Ramona, California man found what looks to be a footprint from Bigfoot. The giant fossilized footprint suggests the yeti could have once lived in the nearby mountains.
June, 2002
• Lake monster. The Global Underwater Search Team announced its investigation of sightings of a serpent in the Roemsjoeen lake near the border with Sweden - its own version of the Loch Ness Monster.
• Loch Ness. Nessie hunters failed in an attempt to find the Loch Ness monster - using the Queen's Golden Jubilee baton.
• Animal head mystery. A Texas man found the heads of a bird, beetles and a lizard impaled on the thorns of bushes in his backyard.
• Bigfoot. Three noted anthropologists gathered to examine the cast of a possible Sasquatch imprint, taken in September 2000 by an Edmonds Bigfoot hunter in the Gifford Pinchot National Wilderness near Mount Adams. Their conclusions: "intriguing."
• Monster database. The International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto announced the establishment of a database on Japanese monster and ghost stories.
• Cattle mutilations. Argentine authorities dispatched a special investigative unit to the central provinces of La Pampa and Buenos Aires to investigate the bizarre killings that left the 200 head of cattle, one horse and handful of sheep slain with surgical accuracy.
• Sea serpent. Video footage of a creature swimming in the sea off Scotland's Gerran's Bay was captured.
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