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The Máriapócs weeping icon (Our Lady of Pócs)
November 4, 1696 · Pócs (now Máriapócs), Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county
Hungary
Paranormal · Other · 22 sources
40Partially documented
The Bargarran Impostor: the possession of Christian Shaw and the Paisley witch trial
August 22, 1696 · Bargarran House, Erskine, Renfrewshire, Scotland
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 29 sources
31Partially documented
The Ringcroft of Stocking Poltergeist: Andrew Mackie's Farm, Rerrick, 1695
February 1695 · Ring-Croft of Stocking, Rerrick parish, near Auchencairn, Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, Galloway
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 18 sources
26Thinly documented
The Margaret Rule Possession: Cotton Mather, Robert Calef and the Levitation in Boston's North End
September 10, 1693 · North End, Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony
United States
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 25 sources
30Partially documented
The Beast of Benais: the man-eating beasts of Touraine, 1693-1694
February 19, 1693 · Benais and surrounding parishes, north-west Touraine (Indre-et-Loire)
France
Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources
18Thinly documented
The Spectre Leaguers of Cape Ann, Gloucester, Massachusetts
July 1692 · Gloucester, Cape Ann, Massachusetts (Babson's farm at The Farms and the town garrison house)
United States
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 28 sources
29Thinly documented
The Afflicted Girls of the Salem Village Parsonage: Betty Parris and Abigail Williams (1692)
c. 1692 · Salem Village parsonage, Salem Village (now Danvers), Massachusetts
United States
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 71 sources
44Partially documented
The Goodwin Children's Possession and the Hanging of Goody Glover
1688 · Boston, Massachusetts Bay (Dominion of New England)
United States
Paranormal · Other · 31 sources
30Partially documented
Crossford Boat phantom armies on the River Clyde (1686)
June 1686 · Crossford Boat and the Mains, River Clyde, near Lanark, Carluke parish, Lanarkshire, Scotland
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 19 sources
16Thinly documented
The Wolf of Ansbach, the hanged Werewolf of Neuses (1685)
October 1685 · Neuses near Windsbach, Principality of Ansbach (Onolzbach), Franconia
Germany
Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources
16Thinly documented
The Demon of Spreyton
c. 1682 · Spreyton, Devon (house of Philip Furze), with episodes on the road from Totnes and at Crediton
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 14 sources
29Thinly documented
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
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
Poinstown phantom ship and chariot
March 2, 1679 · Poinstown (Poyntstown), barony of Slievardagh, Co. Tipperary
Ireland
UAP · Other · 23 sources
33Partially documented
The Fish-man of Liérganes (El Hombre Pez de Liérganes)
1679 · Bay of Cádiz, Andalusia (home village: Liérganes, Cantabria)
Spain
Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources
18Thinly documented
The Mowing-Devil: Strange News out of Hartford-shire (1678)
c. 1678 · Hertfordshire ("Hartford-shire"), England; no parish or farm named, map pin at Hertford is symbolic
United Kingdom
UAP · Being / humanoid · 23 sources
20Thinly documented
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
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
The Dingle "wonderful fish or beast": a giant squid stranded in County Kerry, 1673
October 1673 · Harbour mouth, Dingle (Daingean Uí Chúis), County Kerry
Ireland
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
27Thinly documented
Jure Grando, the štrigon of Kringa
1672 · Kringa (Krinck), Tinjan municipality, Istria
Croatia
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 23 sources
28Thinly documented

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