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Paranormal, before 1930236 stories · page 12

Thomas Darling, the "Boy of Burton" possession

February 1596 · Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire (Winsell Wood, Stapenhill)

Paranormal · Other · 17 sources

33Partially documented

The Seven in Lancashire: the Cleworth Hall Possessions

February 1595 · Cleworth Hall, Tyldesley, Lancashire

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 25 sources

36Partially documented

The North Aston poltergeist: strange and wonderful accidents at Master George Lee's house (1591)

November 19, 1591 · House of Master George Lee, North Aston, Oxfordshire, England

Paranormal · Other · 15 sources

25Thinly documented

The Shoemaker of Breslau: a suicide's ghost torments a Silesian town

September 20, 1591 · Breslau (Wrocław), Silesia; possibly Strzegom (Striegau)

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 18 sources

22Thinly documented

The Witches of Warboys: the Throckmorton Children's Fits

November 1589 · Throckmorton manor house, Warboys, Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire), England

Paranormal · Other · 24 sources

30Partially documented

The Renewal of the Chiquinquirá Painting

December 26, 1586 · Santana family oratory, Chiquinquirá, near Tunja, Boyacá

Paranormal · Other · 24 sources

27Thinly documented

The finding of the Kazan icon (Our Lady of Kazan)

July 8, 1579 · Kazan posad (trading quarter), site of the later Kazan Bogoroditsky Monastery

Paranormal · Other · 27 sources

16Thinly documented

Black Shuck at Bungay and Blythburgh: the "Straunge and Terrible Wunder" of 1577

August 4, 1577 · St Mary's Church, Bungay, and Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh, Suffolk, England

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 31 sources

35Partially documented

The Miracle of Laon: the public exorcisms of Nicole Obry (1565 to 1566)

November 1565 · Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Laon (onset at Vervins, Picardy)

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 24 sources

33Partially documented

Our Lady of Guadalupe: the apparitions to Juan Diego and the tilma image at Tepeyac

December 9, 1531 · Tepeyac hill, Gustavo A. Madero, Mexico City

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 98 sources

39Partially documented

The Spirit of Sister Alix de Télieux and the Exorcism of Antoinette de Grolée, Lyon

1526 · Abbey of Saint-Pierre (Saint-Pierre-les-Nonnains), Place des Terreaux, Lyon

Paranormal · Other · 2 sources

15Thinly documented

The Peterborough Wild Hunt

February 6, 1127 · Peterborough Abbey deer-park and the woods to Stamford, England

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 22 sources

16Thinly documented

The army of saints at the Battle of Antioch

June 28, 1098 · Plain outside Antioch (Antakya), Hatay Province

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 22 sources

20Thinly documented

Our Lady of Walsingham: Richeldis de Faverches's vision and the building of the Holy House

c. 1061 · Little Walsingham (Walsingham Parva), North Norfolk, England

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 34 sources

26Thinly documented

The Luminous Cross over Jerusalem (351)

May 7, 351 · Above Golgotha (Church of the Holy Sepulchre) toward the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem

Paranormal · Other · 16 sources

20Thinly documented

Constantine's vision, the cross of light before the Milvian Bridge

c. 312 · On campaign toward Rome, exact place unknown (map marker at the Milvian Bridge, Rome: battle site, not sighting site)

Paranormal · Other · 74 sources

25Thinly documented

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