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The TOP Most Unexplained:
1. N.D.E.- life after death
2. Alien Abductions
3. UFO's
4. Extra Sensory Perception
5. Spontaneous Human Combustion
6. Faith Healing
7. Ghosts
8. Monsters
9. Miracles
10. Crop Circles
11. VooDoo- Magic
12. Bermuda Triangle
13. O.B.E.- out of body experiences
14. Premonitions- ESP
15. Vortexes
16. Psychic abilities
17. Disappearances
18. Telepathy
19. Moving things with your mind
20. Pyramids
21. Stonehenge
22. Strange Items- [ Magical ] -Crystal Skulls
- Rocks that move on their own
- Haunted cars, or furniture, etc.
23. Rocks on Easter Island
24. America's Stonehenge
25. The Sea- monsters of the deep
26. Astral Projection
27. Portals
28. Life on Mars <?>
APPARITIONS THROUGH THE YEARS
Chicago AREA SIGHTINGS
In the last 25 years, there have been nearly a dozen reported religious apparitions in the Chicago area, each one of them drawing dozens, sometimes hundreds, of believers. They include statues, paintings and icons that appear to weep or move, and images, shapes or shadows that appear on walls, windows and -- most recently -- the underpass wall of the Kennedy Expressway, at Fullerton.
Some of the best-known include:
2001: A scar on a tree trunk at Rogers Park was thought to be an image of Mary. The tree is gone, neighbors say, but the shrine still sits at Honore and Rogers where fresh flowers and lighted candles are evidence of its perpetual adoration.
1999: In Joliet, a shadowy outline of Mary is seen in the second-story window of a house at 611 Abe St.
1994: In Cicero, drops of moisture that look like tears stream down the cheeks of an icon of Mary at St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church, 1220 S. 60th Ct. The icon becomes famous as Our Lady of Cicero.
1991: At Queen of Heaven Cemetery, 1400 S. Wolf Rd. in Hillside, a retired railroad worker says he saw a large fiberglass crucifix bleed in the veterans section. So many people come to see the crucifix, some of them trampling over or driving on graves, that the cemetery has to move the crucifix and create a special parking lot for it. Today, the crowds are gone, but the icon still draws the faithful, a spokeswoman said.
1986: At Nicholas Albanian Orthodox Churchm 2701 N. Narragansett on Chicago's Northwest Side, a painting of Mary begins to weep on the saint's name day. The church opens its doors for veneration of the icon on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
June 1984: At St. John of God Catholic Church on the Southwest Side, a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary appears to shed tears. The Archdiocese of Chicago investigates the phenomenon for more than a year before announcing it could not positively rule out natural causes for the liquid oozing from the wood.
Source: Sun-Times archives
