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The Cock Lane Ghost ("Scratching Fanny") and the Johnson Committee
January 1762 · Cock Lane, Smithfield, City of London
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 40 sources
22Thinly documented
The Lamb Inn poltergeist: the Giles sisters of Bristol, 1761 to 1762
c. 1761 · The Lamb inn, West Street, Old Market, outside Lawford's Gate, Bristol
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 25 sources
27Thinly documented
The Beast of the Lyonnais (Bête du Lyonnais)
June 1754 · Savigny and L'Arbresle, Monts du Lyonnais, with attacks across the Lyonnais and Dauphiné on both banks of the Rhône
France
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
19Thinly documented
Our Lady of Las Lajas: María Mueses de Quiñones and Rosa in the Guáitara Canyon (c. 1754)
c. 1754 · Guáitara River canyon, Ipiales, Nariño
Colombia
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 27 sources
19Thinly documented
The Seljord serpent overturns Gunleik Andersson Verpe's boat on Seljordsvatnet
1750 · Seljordsvatnet (Lake Seljord), between Ulvenes and Nes, Seljord, Telemark
Norway
Cryptid · Creature · 21 sources
16Thinly documented
The Beast of Primarette
May 23, 1747 · Primarette, Dauphiné (Isère)
France
Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources
25Thinly documented
Captain Lorenz von Ferry's sea serpent off Molde, 1746
August 1746 · Jule-Naess (very probably Julneset), near Molde, Møre og Romsdal
Norway
Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources
24Thinly documented
The Souther Fell spectral army
c. 1745 · Souther Fell, near Mungrisdale, Cumbria (historically Cumberland), England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 24 sources
25Thinly documented
Steller's Sea Ape in the Gulf of Alaska
August 10, 1741 · Gulf of Alaska, on the approach to the Shumagin Islands (aboard the St. Peter)
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 25 sources
22Thinly documented
Hans and Poul Egede's "most dreadful monster": the Davis Strait sea serpent of 1734
July 6, 1734 · Davis Strait, off the west coast of Greenland, near the 64th degree of latitude
Greenland
Cryptid · Creature · 24 sources
20Thinly documented
The Bête de l'Auxerrois: the man-eating beast of Trucy-sur-Yonne
November 1731 · Trucy-sur-Yonne and surrounding villages, Auxerrois, Yonne, Burgundy
France
Cryptid · Creature · 15 sources
24Thinly documented
The Convulsionnaires of Saint-Médard
1731 · Saint-Médard parish cemetery, rue Mouffetard, 5th arrondissement, Paris
France
Paranormal · Other · 35 sources
41Partially documented
The Beaminster Apparitions: John Daniel Returns to His School Desk
June 22, 1728 · St Mary's Church, Beaminster, Dorset
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 14 sources
32Partially documented
The Kisiljevo vampire: Peter Plogojowitz and the first printed vampyri (1725)
1725 · Kisolova (Kisiljevo), near Veliko Gradište, Braničevo District
Serbia
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 30 sources
35Partially documented
The Medveđa Vampire Outbreak and Arnold Paole
c. 1725 · Medveđa, Trstenik municipality, on the West Morava, Serbia
Serbia
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 31 sources
35Partially documented
The Dobhar-chú of Glenade Lough and the death of Grace Connolly
September 24, 1722 · Glenade Lough, Creevelea, County Leitrim
Ireland
Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources
20Thinly documented
The finding of Our Lady of Aparecida in the Paraíba do Sul River
October 1717 · Porto Itaguaçu, Paraíba do Sul River, near Guaratinguetá (now Aparecida), São Paulo
Brazil
Paranormal · Other · 25 sources
20Thinly documented
The Epworth Rectory Poltergeist, "Old Jeffrey" (1716-1717)
December 1, 1716 · Epworth Rectory (now Epworth Old Rectory), Epworth, Isle of Axholme, Lincolnshire
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 30 sources
28Thinly documented
The Islandmagee Witch Case: The Haunting of Knowehead House
September 1710 · Knowehead House, Kilcoan More, Islandmagee, County Antrim
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 30 sources
37Partially documented
The Apparition of Mrs. Veal, Canterbury 1705
September 8, 1705 · Mrs. Bargrave's house facing the beast-market, Canterbury, Kent
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 13 sources
18Thinly documented

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