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Paranormal462 stories · page 22

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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jure Grando, the štrigon of Kringa
1672 · Kringa (Krinck), Tinjan municipality, Istria
Croatia
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 23 sources
28Thinly documented
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 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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The Louviers Possessions: Madeleine Bavent and the Possessed Nuns of Louviers
1642 · Convent of the Hospitaller Sisters of Saint-Louis and Sainte-Élisabeth, Louviers, Eure, Normandy
France
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 28 sources
33Partially documented
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Old Mother Leakey: the Minehead ghost and the Privy Council inquiry
1636 · Alexander Leakey's house, Minehead, Somerset, England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 20 sources
30Partially documented
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The Loudun possessions and the burning of Urbain Grandier
September 22, 1632 · Ursuline convent, Loudun, Poitou
France
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 77 sources
43Partially documented
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The Lady in Blue: the Jumano delegation at Isleta and Sor María de Ágreda
July 1629 · San Antonio de Isleta friary, Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico (visits reported in Jumano country to the east)
United States
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 26 sources
35Partially documented
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The Boy of Bilson: William Perry's Faked Possession, Staffordshire, 1620
1620 · Bilson (modern Bilston), Staffordshire; examined at Eccleshall Castle
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 21 sources
21Thinly documented
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The Devil of Mâcon (L'Antidémon de Mascon)
September 1612 · House of pastor François Perreaud, Mâcon, Burgundy
France
Paranormal · Other · 19 sources
31Partially documented
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The Finding of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre: the Three Juanes at Nipe Bay
c. 1612 · Nipe Bay, off Cayo Francés, Holguín Province
Cuba
Paranormal · Other · 33 sources
24Thinly documented

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