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The Tombstone Thunderbird: the Winged Monster of the Huachuca Desert
April 20, 1890 · Huachuca Desert, between the Whetstone and Huachuca mountains, Cochise County, Arizona Territory
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 27 sources
17Thinly documented
The Euroa bunyip and the Melbourne Zoo monster hunt, Wylonemby swamp
February 1890 · Wylonemby swamp, about fourteen miles from Euroa, north-east Victoria
Australia
Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources
20Thinly documented
The Dagg poltergeist, "the ghost that talked", Clarendon Township, Quebec (1889)
September 15, 1889 · George Dagg's farm, seven miles from Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec
Canada
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 39 sources
25Thinly documented
The Belden Avenue 'Gang of Ghosts': Dr W. C. Rowe's Haunted House, Chicago
July 1889 · Belden Avenue, North Side, Chicago, Illinois
United States
Paranormal · Other · 12 sources
24Thinly documented
The Plaistow Ghost Crowds
May 1889 · Upper Road, beside the East London Cemetery, Plaistow, West Ham, London
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 13 sources
22Thinly documented
Captain James C. Kerr and the steamer U.S. Grant: the first Flathead Lake Monster sighting
1889 · Flathead Lake, on the steamboat run between Polson Bay and Selish, Montana
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 22 sources
25Thinly documented
Laurence Waddell's 'hairy wild men' footprints in northeast Sikkim
1889 · Northeast Sikkim, India
India
Cryptid · Creature · 30 sources
32Partially documented
Our Lady of the Cape: the statue that opened its eyes (1888)
June 22, 1888 · Old stone church (votive chapel), Shrine of Notre-Dame-du-Cap, Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Trois-Rivières, Quebec
Canada
Paranormal · Other · 25 sources
22Thinly documented
The Castelpetroso apparitions of Our Lady of Sorrows
March 22, 1888 · Cesa tra Santi, Monte Patalecchia, Castelpetroso, Isernia, Molise
Italy
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 23 sources
24Thinly documented
The ghost of Frederick Federici, Princess Theatre, Melbourne
March 3, 1888 · Princess Theatre, Spring Street, Melbourne, Victoria
Australia
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 23 sources
23Thinly documented
The Resau Poltergeist (Der Spuk von Resau)
1888 · Resau, near Werder (Havel), Brandenburg
Germany
Paranormal · Other · 17 sources
22Thinly documented
The Lake Koshkonong sea serpent: A. I. Sherman and Charles Bartlett's rowboat chase (1887)
November 1887 · Northeast bay, Lake Koshkonong, near Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 15 sources
18Thinly documented
The Deerness Mermaid, Newark Bay, Orkney
c. 1887 · Newark Bay, Deerness, East Mainland, Orkney, Scotland
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources
25Thinly documented
The Maracaibo Humming Light Injuries, 1886
October 24, 1886 · A hut a few leagues from Maracaibo, Zulia State
Venezuela
UAP · Unknown · 18 sources
24Thinly documented
The Charleston pebble showers
September 4, 1886 · News and Courier office, 19 Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina
United States
Paranormal · Other · 17 sources
26Thinly documented
The Fiery Dragon of Elizabeth Lake: Peter R. Simpson's Midnight Encounter (1886)
July 15, 1886 · Elizabeth Lake, Sierra Pelona Mountains, Los Angeles County, California
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 26 sources
12Thinly documented
The Phantom War Canoe of Lake Tarawera
May 31, 1886 · Lake Tarawera, near Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, North Island
New Zealand
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 27 sources
23Thinly documented
The Hutchins Ringdocus, Montana's Shunka Warak'in (Madison Valley, 1886)
1886 · Hutchins ranch (now part of the Sun Ranch), Madison Valley, near Ennis, Montana
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 25 sources · 6 photos
38Partially documented
The Prospector's Skiff: First Report of the Wallowa Lake Monster
c. 1885 · Wallowa Lake, near Joseph, Oregon
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources
2Thinly documented
The Lady in White on the Church Roof at Trà Kiệu
c. 1885 · Trà Kiệu, Duy Xuyên district, Quảng Nam
Vietnam
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 25 sources
14Thinly documented

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