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The Hot Springs Airship Encounter
c. 1897 · Outside Hot Springs, toward Jessieville, Garland County, Arkansas
United States
UAP · Cigar · 17 sources
16Thinly documented
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The Merkel Airship Anchor
April 25, 1897 · Merkel, Taylor County, Texas
United States
UAP · Unknown · 12 sources
9Thinly documented
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Captain Jim Hooton's airship landing near Homan, Arkansas
April 20, 1897 · Homan, near Texarkana, Miller County, Arkansas
United States
UAP · Other · 24 sources
18Thinly documented
Alexander Hamilton's Airship Calf-Napping, Le Roy, Kansas (1897)
April 19, 1897 · Hamilton farm near Le Roy, Coffey County, Kansas
United States
UAP · Cigar · 21 sources
9Thinly documented
Aurora, Texas Airship Crash
April 17, 1897 · Aurora, Wise County, Texas
United States
UAP · Cigar · 70 sources
33Partially documented
Ballechin House haunting and the Society for Psychical Research inquiry
February 1897 · Ballechin House, near Grandtully, Strathtay, Perthshire, Scotland
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 23 sources
32Partially documented
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The Gowrow: William Miller's Posse and the Searcy County Monster
c. 1897 · Blanco, Calf Creek Township, Searcy County, Arkansas
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources
18Thinly documented
The Greenbrier Ghost: Zona Heaster Shue, 1897
c. 1897 · Greenbrier County, West Virginia (Shue log house and Heaster home; grave at Soule Chapel near Sam Black Church / Smoot)
United States
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 23 sources
27Thinly documented
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The Grand Crossing Police Station Ghost, Chicago's Thirteenth Precinct, 1897 to 1898
c. 1897 · Thirteenth Precinct Police Station and nearby beats, Grand Crossing, Chicago, Illinois
United States
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 10 sources
20Thinly documented
The St. Augustine Monster (Octopus giganteus), Anastasia Island, 1896
November 30, 1896 · Anastasia Island, St. Augustine, St. Johns County, Florida
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources · 1 photos
44Partially documented
Mystery Airship Wave of 1896 and 1897
November 17, 1896 · Sacramento, California, then Northern California, the Midwest and Texas
United States
UAP · Cigar · 45 sources
41Partially documented
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The Tilly-sur-Seulles apparitions: the Virgin over M. Lepetit's field (1896)
March 18, 1896 · M. Lepetit's field opposite the girls' school, Tilly-sur-Seulles, Calvados, Normandy
France
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 27 sources
28Thinly documented
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The Winsted Wild Man
c. 1895 · Between Winsted and Colebrook, Litchfield County, Connecticut
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 12 sources
35Partially documented
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The Hackney Ghost Hunt, St John-at-Hackney Churchyard (1895)
August 20, 1895 · St John's Churchyard Gardens (churchyard of St John-at-Hackney), Lower Clapton Road / Mare Street, Hackney, London
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 15 sources
14Thinly documented
The Tantanoola Tiger: the wolf shot at Tantanoola, South Australia (1895)
August 1895 · Tantanoola, South Australia (shot near Mt Salt Station, about 20 km south of the township)
Australia
Cryptid · Creature · 25 sources
27Thinly documented
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The Durweston Poltergeist
December 13, 1894 · Durweston, near Blandford Forum, Dorset, England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 16 sources
30Partially documented
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The Twenty-seventh Ward Ghost Hunt
November 1894 · Vacant lots near Irving and Knickerbocker Avenues, Twenty-seventh Ward (Bushwick), Brooklyn, New York
United States
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 13 sources
17Thinly documented
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The SS Umfuli Sea Serpent
December 4, 1893 · Atlantic Ocean off the coast of West Africa, south of the Canary Islands (about 21°40′N, 17°30′W)
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources
16Thinly documented
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Storsjöodjuret, the Great Lake Monster of Jämtland: the 1893 sighting and the 1894 capture company
October 13, 1893 · Storsjön (or Åssjön near Ås), near Östersund, Jämtland
Sweden
Cryptid · Creature · 26 sources
19Thinly documented
The Hodag of Rhinelander
October 1893 · Rhinelander, Wisconsin
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources
17Thinly documented

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