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The Margaret Rule Possession: Cotton Mather, Robert Calef and the Levitation in Boston's North End
September 10, 1693 · North End, Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony
United States
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 25 sources
30Partially documented
The Spectre Leaguers of Cape Ann, Gloucester, Massachusetts
July 1692 · Gloucester, Cape Ann, Massachusetts (Babson's farm at The Farms and the town garrison house)
United States
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 28 sources
29Thinly documented
The Afflicted Girls of the Salem Village Parsonage: Betty Parris and Abigail Williams (1692)
c. 1692 · Salem Village parsonage, Salem Village (now Danvers), Massachusetts
United States
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 71 sources
44Partially documented
The Goodwin Children's Possession and the Hanging of Goody Glover
1688 · Boston, Massachusetts Bay (Dominion of New England)
United States
Paranormal · Other · 31 sources
30Partially documented
Crossford Boat phantom armies on the River Clyde (1686)
June 1686 · Crossford Boat and the Mains, River Clyde, near Lanark, Carluke parish, Lanarkshire, Scotland
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 19 sources
16Thinly documented
The Demon of Spreyton
c. 1682 · Spreyton, Devon (house of Philip Furze), with episodes on the road from Totnes and at Crediton
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 14 sources
29Thinly documented
Lithobolia: the stone-throwing devil at George Walton's tavern, Great Island, New Hampshire
June 11, 1682 · George Walton's house and tavern, Great Island (New Castle), Province of New Hampshire
United States
Paranormal · Other · 29 sources
26Thinly documented
The Coltheart Haunting of Mary King's Close
c. 1680 · Mary King's Close, Old Town, Edinburgh, Scotland
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 19 sources
19Thinly documented
The Pochaiv apparition: the Mother of God over the besieged monastery, 1675
July 23, 1675 · Holy Dormition Pochaiv Lavra, Pochaiv, Kremenets Raion, Ternopil Oblast
Ukraine
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 25 sources
16Thinly documented
The Sacred Heart apparitions to Margaret Mary Alacoque, Paray-le-Monial
December 27, 1673 · Chapelle de la Visitation (Chapelle des Apparitions), Monastery of the Visitation of Holy Mary, Rue de la Visitation, Paray-le-Monial, Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy
France
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 35 sources
23Thinly documented
Jure Grando, the štrigon of Kringa
1672 · Kringa (Krinck), Tinjan municipality, Istria
Croatia
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 23 sources
28Thinly documented
The Possession of Elizabeth Knapp
October 30, 1671 · Rev. Samuel Willard's household, Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
United States
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 27 sources
25Thinly documented
Our Lady of Laus: the apparitions to Benoîte Rencurel (1664 to 1718)
May 1664 · Le Laus, Saint-Étienne-le-Laus, Hautes-Alpes
France
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 31 sources
19Thinly documented
The Drummer of Tedworth: the Mompesson House Poltergeist (1662)
1662 · John Mompesson's house, North Tedworth (now Tidworth), Wiltshire
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 23 sources
32Partially documented
The Devil of Glenluce: the poltergeist in weaver Gilbert Campbell's house, Glenluce, 1654
October 1654 · House of the weaver Gilbert Campbell, Glenluce (Old Luce parish), Wigtownshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 21 sources
27Thinly documented
Our Lady of Coromoto: the apparition to the Cospes chief near Guanare
September 8, 1652 · Coromoto ravine near Guanare, Portuguesa state (traditional site at Monte de los Negros, National Sanctuary)
Venezuela
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 27 sources
34Partially documented
The Querrien Apparitions: Jeanne Courtel and the Lady in White (Notre-Dame de Toute-Aide)
August 15, 1652 · Champ des Fontenelles, hamlet of Querrien, La Prénessaye, Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany
France
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 23 sources
22Thinly documented
The Ghost Ship of New Haven: the Great Shippe apparition, 1647
c. 1647 · New Haven Harbor, New Haven Colony (now New Haven, Connecticut)
United States
Paranormal · Other · 22 sources
24Thinly documented
The Portadown Bridge Apparition: the Woman in the River Bann
c. 1643 · Portadown bridge, River Bann, Portadown, County Armagh
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 19 sources
37Partially documented
The Phantom Battle of Edgehill and King Charles I's Commission
December 1642 · Edgehill battlefield, between Edge Hill, Radway and Kineton, Warwickshire, England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 32 sources
36Partially documented

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