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Captain Towns' Apparition in the Wardrobe at Cranbrook, Rose Bay, Sydney, 1873
c. 1873 · Cranbrook (now Rawson House, Cranbrook School), Rose Bay, Sydney, New South Wales
Australia
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 10 sources
23Thinly documented
The Sheffield Park Ghost: Spring-heeled Jack scare and the nightly crowd hunts of 1873
May 1873 · Cholera Monument Grounds and Clay Wood, Park district, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 23 sources
20Thinly documented
The Peckham Ghost scare: a leaping white figure in south London, 1872
November 10, 1872 · Peckham and Dulwich, south London
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 13 sources
20Thinly documented
The Surrency poltergeist
October 1872 · Surrency house, beside the railroad depot, Surrency, Appling County, Georgia
United States
Paranormal · Other · 24 sources
18Thinly documented
Mary Todd Lincoln and the Ghost of Abraham Lincoln: William H. Mumler's Spirit Photograph
c. 1872 · William H. Mumler's studio, 170 West Springfield Street, South End, Boston, Massachusetts
United States
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 39 sources · 3 photos
24Thinly documented
Mrs Guppy's "transit" to 61 Lamb's Conduit Street
June 3, 1871 · 61 Lamb's Conduit Street, Holborn, London
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 21 sources
20Thinly documented
The Pontmain Apparition, "Our Lady of Hope"
January 17, 1871 · Pontmain, Mayenne, France
France
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 28 sources
28Thinly documented
Katie King materialisations: Florence Cook and William Crookes
1871 · 16 Bruce Villas, Hackney, and Crookes's house on Mornington Road, London
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 29 sources
45Partially documented
The Ashley House levitation: Daniel Dunglas Home floats between third-floor windows, London 1868
December 13, 1868 · Ashley Place (also given as Ashley House, Victoria Street), Westminster, London
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 31 sources
18Thinly documented
The Cromwell Terrace "ghost" crowds, Paddington, London (1868)
c. 1868 · Cromwell Terrace, Harrow Road, Paddington, London
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 8 sources
8Thinly documented
The Woburn Square ghost riots, Bloomsbury, London, 1867
May 1867 · Woburn Square garden, Bloomsbury, London
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 7 sources
10Thinly documented
The Filipov Apparition and the Healing of Magdalena Kade
January 13, 1866 · House no. 63, Philippsdorf (now Filipov, Jiříkov), Šluknov hook, northern Bohemia
Czech Republic
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 25 sources
21Thinly documented
The Illfurth Possessions of Theobald and Joseph Burner
September 25, 1865 · Illfurth (Illfurt), Haut-Rhin, Alsace
France
Paranormal · Other · 16 sources
35Partially documented
The Whitechapel Church Ghost Crowd
c. 1864 · A church in Whitechapel, London (unnamed; possibly St Mary Matfelon, Whitechapel Road)
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 13 sources
12Thinly documented
The Rue Neuve-Saint-Paul knockings, Poitiers (1864)
January 1864 · Rue Neuve-Saint-Paul, near the old church of Saint-Paul, Poitiers, Vienne
France
Paranormal · Other · 19 sources
26Thinly documented
The Tower of London sentry who bayoneted a white figure
1864 · Tower Green, Inner Ward, Tower of London, London
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 31 sources
23Thinly documented
The Wilmot Apparition: A Wife Seen Aboard the SS City of Limerick (1863)
October 1863 · Stateroom aboard the steamer City of Limerick, North Atlantic, between Liverpool and New York (Mrs Wilmot at Watertown, Connecticut)
International waters
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 10 sources
20Thinly documented
The Stans Poltergeist: Melchior Joller's Haunted House at Spichermatt
1860 · Spichermatt, Stans, Nidwalden
Switzerland
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 24 sources
37Partially documented
Our Lady of Good Help: the apparitions to Adele Brise at Champion, Wisconsin (1859)
October 1859 · Robinsonville (now Champion), Town of Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin
United States
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 33 sources
21Thinly documented
The Lourdes apparitions: Bernadette Soubirous at the grotto of Massabielle
February 11, 1858 · Grotto of Massabielle, Lourdes, Hautes-Pyrénées
France
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 45 sources
26Thinly documented

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