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Spring-heeled Jack shot at by a mob at Newport Arch, Lincoln (1877)
c. 1877 · Newport Arch, Lincoln, Lincolnshire
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 20 sources
16Thinly documented
The Watseka Wonder: Lurancy Vennum and the Return of Mary Roff
July 11, 1877 · Watseka, Iroquois County, Illinois (Roff house, 300 E. Sheridan Street; Vennum house, 135 S. Belmont Avenue)
United States
Paranormal · Other · 31 sources
35Partially documented
Our Lady of Gietrzwałd: the Dietrichswalde apparitions in Warmia
June 27, 1877 · Gietrzwałd (Dietrichswalde), Warmia
Poland
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 37 sources
28Thinly documented
The Royal Yacht Osborne Sea Monster off Sicily
June 2, 1877 · Off the north coast of Sicily, toward Cape Vito (Capo San Vito)
Italy
Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources
21Thinly documented
Spring-heeled Jack at the Aldershot Sentry Posts
March 1877 · Aldershot Camp (North Camp and South Camp), Aldershot, Hampshire, England
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 12 sources
21Thinly documented
The Aldershot Sentry "Ghost": Spring-heeled Jack at North Camp, 1877
March 1877 · North Camp, Aldershot Camp, Hampshire, England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 16 sources
18Thinly documented
The Derrygonnelly Poltergeist: The Demons of Derrygonelly, 1877
1877 · Farmer's cottage near Derrygonnelly, County Fermanagh
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 25 sources
30Partially documented
The Mettenbuch apparitions and pilgrimage
December 1, 1876 · Forest gorge (Waldschlucht) below the hamlet of Mettenbuch, near Metten Abbey, Deggendorf district, Lower Bavaria
Germany
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 22 sources
28Thinly documented
The SS Nestor sea serpent
September 11, 1876 · Strait of Malacca, fifteen miles north-west of North Sand Lighthouse, off Selangor
Malaysia
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
19Thinly documented
The Amphibious Lake Demon of Browns Lake
August 1876 · Browns Lake, near Burlington, Racine County, Wisconsin
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
18Thinly documented
The Marpingen Apparitions and the Prussian Army in the Härtelwald
July 3, 1876 · Härtelwald, Marpingen, Landkreis Sankt Wendel, Saarland
Germany
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 23 sources
31Partially documented
Our Lady of Pellevoisin: the fifteen apparitions to Estelle Faguette
February 15, 1876 · Pellevoisin, Indre, Centre-Val de Loire
France
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 24 sources
19Thinly documented
The Calvados Castle Poltergeist at the Château des Noyers, Le Tourneur
October 12, 1875 · Château des Noyers, Les Noyers, Le Tourneur (Souleuvre-en-Bocage), Calvados, Normandy
France
Paranormal · Other · 19 sources
28Thinly documented
The Barque Pauline Sea Serpent Off Cape Roque
July 8, 1875 · Off Cape Roque (Cabo de São Roque), north-east Brazil, South Atlantic
Brazil
Cryptid · Creature · 22 sources
22Thinly documented
The Hornby Apparition
c. 1875 · Hornby's residence, British settlement, Shanghai
China
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 10 sources
14Thinly documented
The Schooner Pearl and the Giant Squid, Bay of Bengal 1874
May 10, 1874 · Bay of Bengal, about 170 miles east of Vandeloos Bay, off Trincomalee, Ceylon
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
14Thinly documented
The Hammersmith Haunted-House Crowd and Mrs M'Carthy
April 1874 · Hammersmith, London
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 10 sources
19Thinly documented
The Eddy Brothers' Materialisation Séances at Spirit Vale, Chittenden
1874 · Eddy homestead (Green Tavern, 'Spirit Vale'), Chittenden, Rutland County, Vermont
United States
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 24 sources
32Partially documented
The Portugal Cove Devil-Fish: A Giant Squid Attacks a Fishing Boat
October 26, 1873 · Off Portugal Cove, near Bell Island, Conception Bay, Newfoundland
Canada
Cryptid · Creature · 32 sources
30Partially documented
Champ, the 1873 railroad crew sighting and the W. B. Eddy collision, Lake Champlain
July 1873 · Lake Champlain shore near Dresden, Washington County, New York
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 26 sources
12Thinly documented

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