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The Cromwell Terrace "ghost" crowds, Paddington, London (1868)

c. 1868 · Cromwell Terrace, Harrow Road, Paddington, London

Paranormal · Other · 8 sources

8Thinly documented

Frederick William Birmingham's Parramatta Park Ark

July 25, 1868 · Parramatta Park, Parramatta, New South Wales

UAP · Other · 19 sources

13Thinly documented

The Bear Lake Monster: Joseph C. Rich's settler sightings

c. 1868 · Bear Lake, west shore road between Fish Haven and St. Charles, Idaho, and South Eden, Utah

Cryptid · Creature · 32 sources

19Thinly documented

The Metallic Flying Creature of Copiapó

March 17, 1868 · Mine near La Ternera, Copiapó, Atacama region

UAP · Creature · 11 sources

8Thinly documented

The Wild Man on the Manitous, Lake Michigan (1868)

1868 · One of the Manitou Islands, Lake Michigan, Michigan

Cryptid · Creature · 24 sources

24Thinly documented

Giant bird carries off Jemmie Kenney, Tippah County, Mississippi

1868 · A school in Tippah County, Mississippi

Cryptid · Creature · 10 sources

14Thinly documented

Giglioli's Whale: the Two-Finned Whale Seen from the Corvette Magenta

September 4, 1867 · South Pacific Ocean, about 1,200 miles (1,930 km) off the coast of Chile

International waters

Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources

22Thinly documented

The Lake Utopia Monster at the Ludgates' Sawmill

July 24, 1867 · Lake Utopia, St. George Parish, Charlotte County, New Brunswick

Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources

24Thinly documented

The Woburn Square ghost riots, Bloomsbury, London, 1867

May 1867 · Woburn Square garden, Bloomsbury, London

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

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 25 sources

21Thinly documented

The Illfurth Possessions of Theobald and Joseph Burner

September 25, 1865 · Illfurth (Illfurt), Haut-Rhin, Alsace

Paranormal · Other · 16 sources

35Partially documented

James Lumley's Cadotte Pass "meteor with hieroglyphics"

c. 1865 · Near Cadotte Pass, upstream of the Great Falls of the Upper Missouri, Montana Territory

UAP · Other · 20 sources

16Thinly documented

MacFarlane's Bear: the ancient unexpected bear of Rendezvous Lake (1864)

June 24, 1864 · Rendezvous Lake, northeast of Fort Anderson, Barren Grounds, Northwest Territories

Cryptid · Creature · 31 sources

39Partially documented

The Whitechapel Church Ghost Crowd

c. 1864 · A church in Whitechapel, London (unnamed; possibly St Mary Matfelon, Whitechapel Road)

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

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

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 Alecton Giant Squid Encounter off Tenerife (the "Bouyer Kraken")

November 30, 1861 · Atlantic Ocean, about forty leagues from Tenerife, between Madeira and Tenerife (Canary Islands)

International waters

Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources

41Partially documented

Waitoreke tracks and sighting, upper Ashburton River and Lake Heron, Canterbury (1861)

1861 · Lake Heron and the upper Ashburton River (Hakatere), Canterbury, South Island

Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources

37Partially documented

The Stans Poltergeist: Melchior Joller's Haunted House at Spichermatt

1860 · Spichermatt, Stans, Nidwalden

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 24 sources

37Partially documented

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