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Paranormal, before 1930250 stories · page 10

The Wynyard apparition (Sydney, Cape Breton, 1785)
October 15, 1785 · Officers' quarters, barracks of the 33rd Regiment of Foot, Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Canada
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 26 sources
23Thinly documented
The Ghost of Lord Lyttelton: The Three-Day Warning and the Apparition at Dartford
November 27, 1779 · Pitt Place, Epsom, Surrey (death) and the Dartford powder mills, Kent (apparition)
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 14 sources
15Thinly documented
The Stockwell Ghost (Stockwell poltergeist)
January 6, 1772 · Stockwell village and Rush Common near Brixton Causeway, parish of Lambeth, Surrey (now London Borough of Lambeth)
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 22 sources
23Thinly documented
The Dibbesdorf Rapping Spirit (Klopfgeist zu Dibbesdorf)
December 2, 1767 · Dibbesdorf, near Braunschweig, Lower Saxony
Germany
Paranormal · Other · 16 sources
33Partially documented
The Hinton Ampner Haunting: Mary Ricketts' Narrative
1765 · Old manor house, Hinton Ampner, near New Alresford, Hampshire, England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 28 sources
27Thinly documented
The Cock Lane Ghost ("Scratching Fanny") and the Johnson Committee
January 1762 · Cock Lane, Smithfield, City of London
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 40 sources
22Thinly documented
The Lamb Inn poltergeist: the Giles sisters of Bristol, 1761 to 1762
c. 1761 · The Lamb inn, West Street, Old Market, outside Lawford's Gate, Bristol
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 25 sources
27Thinly documented
Our Lady of Las Lajas: María Mueses de Quiñones and Rosa in the Guáitara Canyon (c. 1754)
c. 1754 · Guáitara River canyon, Ipiales, Nariño
Colombia
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 27 sources
19Thinly documented
The Souther Fell spectral army
c. 1745 · Souther Fell, near Mungrisdale, Cumbria (historically Cumberland), England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 24 sources
25Thinly documented
The Convulsionnaires of Saint-Médard
1731 · Saint-Médard parish cemetery, rue Mouffetard, 5th arrondissement, Paris
France
Paranormal · Other · 35 sources
41Partially documented
The Beaminster Apparitions: John Daniel Returns to His School Desk
June 22, 1728 · St Mary's Church, Beaminster, Dorset
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 14 sources
32Partially documented
The Kisiljevo vampire: Peter Plogojowitz and the first printed vampyri (1725)
1725 · Kisolova (Kisiljevo), near Veliko Gradište, Braničevo District
Serbia
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 30 sources
35Partially documented
The Medveđa Vampire Outbreak and Arnold Paole
c. 1725 · Medveđa, Trstenik municipality, on the West Morava, Serbia
Serbia
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 31 sources
35Partially documented
The finding of Our Lady of Aparecida in the Paraíba do Sul River
October 1717 · Porto Itaguaçu, Paraíba do Sul River, near Guaratinguetá (now Aparecida), São Paulo
Brazil
Paranormal · Other · 25 sources
20Thinly documented
The Epworth Rectory Poltergeist, "Old Jeffrey" (1716-1717)
December 1, 1716 · Epworth Rectory (now Epworth Old Rectory), Epworth, Isle of Axholme, Lincolnshire
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 30 sources
28Thinly documented
The Islandmagee Witch Case: The Haunting of Knowehead House
September 1710 · Knowehead House, Kilcoan More, Islandmagee, County Antrim
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 30 sources
37Partially documented
The Apparition of Mrs. Veal, Canterbury 1705
September 8, 1705 · Mrs. Bargrave's house facing the beast-market, Canterbury, Kent
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 13 sources
18Thinly documented
The Máriapócs weeping icon (Our Lady of Pócs)
November 4, 1696 · Pócs (now Máriapócs), Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county
Hungary
Paranormal · Other · 22 sources
40Partially documented
The Bargarran Impostor: the possession of Christian Shaw and the Paisley witch trial
August 22, 1696 · Bargarran House, Erskine, Renfrewshire, Scotland
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 29 sources
31Partially documented
The Ringcroft of Stocking Poltergeist: Andrew Mackie's Farm, Rerrick, 1695
February 1695 · Ring-Croft of Stocking, Rerrick parish, near Auchencairn, Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, Galloway
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 18 sources
26Thinly documented

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